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#62 OBJKT, Where Artists Are Collectors, And Vice Versa Feb 07, 2023

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OBJKT is a marketplace that truly feels like a community – with 20,000 monthly active users and 6 millions tokens available, artists are also collectors, and, quite often, the other way around.

It's a place that is 100% organic, that feels like the indie-rock scene in the overall NFT ecosystem.

How can we build it so it becomes “bigger than we could ever imagine”? How can we make it well-known without giving even two cents to marketing? How can we ensure it remains accessible for everyone?

As OBJKT is now integrated on the Discover section of our Ledger Live app, we are very pleased to meet with its three founders Viktor Felder, Brian and Timothy McAlister for an insightful conversation with Ledger's Chief Experience Officer Ian Rogers on its creation, how many lives it has changed since then, and what's coming up for OBJKT in 2023.

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#61 From Record Labels to Metalabels, with Yancey Strickler (Founder @ Metalabel) Jan 19, 2023

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On the Ledger today, we are glad to receive a man who has changed the content creation industry. Yancey Strickler is one of the crowdfunding pioneers who co-founded Kickstarter 17 years ago, who now turned into a NFT degen in the last months and founded Metalabel, a release club where groups of people who share the same interests collaborate to drop and support work together.

In an one-on-one discussion with our Chief Experience Officer, he discusses inventing the coolest magazine of tomorrow, how on-chain art is and will be changing the music industry and the life of creators (even if a large majority of them still do not want to have anything to do with crypto), how floor price does not reflect the order of magnitude of a piece of art, the importance of carefully choosing who you’re squadding with, and how to resist mediocrity when building your new project.

Oh, and also: what if it’s not about rarity, but about love?

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#60 What’s new here? Web3 in the eyes of Tim Ferriss Jan 10, 2023

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When you are a creator, how do you shake up the cobwebs and keep taking creative risks?

This is the question our guest for this episode asked himself after becoming a successful angel investor in tech, publishing a long list of best-sellers (check his 4-Hour series) and a podcaster came to ask himself recently.

His answer was: deep diving into web3, and creating “an emergent long fiction project” in the form of an NFT project: CockPunch. And you should be aware that this one is not for flippers.

Listen to this one and one conversation between Tim Ferriss and our Chief Experience Officer Ian Rogers and find out while there is no failed experiment, what’s really new about web3, how to keep getting of your comfort zone, how the CockPunch project helped funding the research on psychedelic medicine and (totally unrelated) where Ian used to keep his weed in high school.

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#59 Ledger Stax... Explained by Tony Fadell Jan 05, 2023

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Curious about our new device, Ledger Stax?

Want to know how we first thought of this new generation of hardware wallets, and what it took to bring it to life?

Then listen to this discussion between our Chief Experience Officer Ian Rogers and Tony Fadell.

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#58 What do you know about Web3? With Zeneca & Mo El-Sayed Dec 27, 2022

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How to understand the crypto ecosystem after the falls of FTX, Celsius and more? Where and how to educate yourself in an ever-changing crypto space? Looking back at 2022, it is fair to say that this will probably be a year that’ll forever be remembered in Web3. It had its ups and major downs but all in all we can see the future of this industry being built before our eyes day by day by passionate creators, entrepreneurs and educators.

In this new episode of On the Ledger, Mo El-Sayed, head of Community and Education at Ledger, leads a 1-1 conversation with Zeneca, a former poker player, who also happens to be an entrepreneur, NFT trader and most importantly, a key Web3 educator. He writes amazing daily and weekly substacks and is also a huge generative art collector.

They’ll discuss how to improve your crypto knowledge, our brand new product: Ledger Quest, how to value an AI piece of art and also the importance of being patient.

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#57 Ledger Op3n through the eyes of Yoon (Ambush) Dec 22, 2022

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After starting out in jewelry, Yoon co-founded Ambush with Verbal. She's behind some of the brand's most successful collabs over the past few years with Off-White, Louis Vuitton, Nike, Starbucks and… Reese’s. And, guess what - she's also big in crypto.

Our VP of Communications Ariel Wengroff took advantage of her presence at our bi-yearly event Ledger Op3n to sit with her and discuss how she fell in love with Web3, as well as the need for less “toxic positivity” and more honest criticism in the ecosystem, how the Paris of crypto differs from the Paris of fashion, and why sometimes it's okay to be niche.

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#56 Ledger Stax... Explained by Charles Guillemet Dec 14, 2022

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Curious about our new device, Ledger Stax?

Want to know how we first thought of this new generation of hardware wallets, and what it took to bring it to life?

Then listen to this discussion between our Chief Experience Officer Ian Rogers and our Chief Technology Officer Charles Guillemet.

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#55 Ledger Stax... Explained by Ian Rogers Dec 12, 2022

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Curious about our new device, Ledger Stax?

Want to know how we first thought of this new generation of hardware wallets, and what it took to bring it to life?

Then listen to this discussion between our Chief Experience Officer Ian Rogers and our VP of Communications Ariel Wengroff.

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#54 Ledger Stax... Explained by Pascal Gauthier Dec 06, 2022

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Want to know how our brand new device, Ledger Stax, was brought to the world? Listen to our CEO Pascal Gauthier explain its origins, conception and evolution, from day 1 to this very moment.

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#53 Ian meets with Kevin Rose (Proof, Moonbirds) Nov 30, 2022

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In the last episode before we hit Ledger Op3n, we are very pleased to meet with a serial Web entrepreneur and early stage investor in companies such as Twitter, Facebook & Square to name a few. Today he’s considered to be one of the leading voices in Web3, Co-founder and CEO of Proof and a partner at True Ventures, you might’ve guessed it already, this time we have Kevin Rose on the show, in discussion with a man you surely know by now, Ian Rogers, Ledger’s Chief Experience officer.

In less than an hour, they will cover how to shift from NFT curiosity to a podcast, from a podcast to a rock solid collective built with communities rather than VC funds, what will drive the new wave of adoption and how big Internet companies will soon try to become your next NFT wallet provider, why Bored Apes and Richard Mille are the same thing (?), and also why Proof is such a cool and relevant name.

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