Stay ConnectedThe NonFunGerbils Podcast explores the world of NFTs and the decentralised economy.
Each week Luke, George & Rudemoose host a fantastic founder / creator / wizard deeply involved in the NFT space.
They cover all things NFT related with a focus on the tech and fundamentals.
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Watch the video episode here: https://youtu.be/oGK6yK8tYgs
We are mixing it up this episode bringing back our previous guest Hueviews to and transforming her from interviewee to interviewer to speak to OONA.
We thought this concept would bring a different perspective and make for a really interesting conversation, we were right 😂🤭 Huge thanks to both Hueviews and OONA for this one.
OONA explores various themes around art, identity, performance, and challenges in the crypto art space, as well as societal and gender issues.
Key Topics 1) OONA's Identity 2) Origins and Inspiration 3) OONA’s Symbolism and Performance Art 4) Performance Pieces 5) Themes of Consent and Feminine Agency 6) Tech and Blockchain Integration 7) Upcoming Projects and Collaborations 8) Social Impact and Advocacy
Key Points of Interest Unique Performance Methods: OONA employs unconventional approaches like masking, live interactions, and unexpected venues (e.g., basketball courts, art fairs) to challenge traditional art norms and provoke reactions from audiences.
Gender and Power Dynamics: OONA’s interactions with men in the crypto space often unveil underlying power struggles and societal biases, which she critiques through humour and bold actions.
Artistic Process and Philosophy: OONA’s work reflects a blend of raw improvisation and carefully crafted themes, with each performance designed to create spontaneous, real interactions that challenge societal norms.
Innovative Use of NFT and Blockchain: By integrating blockchain with art, OONA’s projects often include audience participation that’s documented and “tokenised,” which allows each performance to exist as a collectible piece, further pushing the boundaries of what art and interaction can mean in the Web3 era.
This conversation presents a thought-provoking conversation on how performance art can act as a powerful medium for social critique and explores the complexities of identity and body politics in contemporary art and crypto spaces. OONA's performances and her unfiltered storytelling reveal the provocative, often humorous, and always insightful nature of her work.
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Watch the video episode here https://youtu.be/Gh-skb_Q7Yg Welcome to Episode 50 of NonFunGerbils, featuring the exceptionally creative Hueviews, a tactile artist known for her diverse body of work. Celebrating a milestone with her 1200th consecutive day of creativity, Hueviews shares her journey from photography and paper collages to embracing the digital world while maintaining her love for hands-on art. In this episode, we dive into her unique artistic process, the significance of tactile art, and her adventures in both the physical and digital realms of creation.
Hue Views also opens up about her discovery of the NFT space, her collaborative projects, and the impact of community on her work. Through a blend of personal anecdotes and insights into her artistic evolution, this episode explores the intersections of traditional art forms with digital innovation, the challenges and rewards of daily creativity, and the importance of community and collaboration in the evolving art landscape.
We also uncensor the #CensoredGerbil revealing the gerbil and the writer.
Key Discussion Points:
Tactile Art and Digital Creativity: Hue Views' exploration of physical art forms alongside digital projects, marking her 1200th consecutive day of art.
Collaborative Projects: Insights into her collaborative works, including notable projects with Josie and La Pan Mignon, highlighting the power of community in the NFT space.
Journey into NFTs: The transition from skepticism to embracing NFTs, influenced by her husband and the inspirational work of female artists.
Building Community: The role of art and collaboration in fostering a supportive community within the Web3 space.
Physical vs. Digital Art: Discussion on the significance of physical art in a predominantly digital era and Hue Views' approach to blending these mediums.
Daily Art Commitment: The impact of committing to daily art creation on personal growth and creative expression.
Future Endeavors: Hue Views shares her aspirations and plans for integrating more elements into her art, reflecting on the possibilities ahead.
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Watch the video on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ud2PVP4FMY
Welcome to Episode 49 of NonFunGerbils, featuring Anjali Young, a pivotal figure in the realm of online community engagement. Anjali's impressive trajectory in the crypto world spans from moderating a massive 60,000-member Facebook community to establishing Collab.Land, a vital platform in Telegram & Discord, engaging over 3 million unique users.
A true pioneer, Anjali recognized the potential of Web3 communities early on. Her innovative work with Collab.Land has revolutionized the way crypto communities interact, especially through token gating.
This episode is an open conversation that dives into various engaging topics, including the importance of human connection, digital identity, and the significance of maintaining anonymity in the digital space.
Discussion Highlights:
Collabland's Role and Functionality: Detailed discussion about Collabland, its purpose, functionality, and impact on the crypto community.
Web3 and Crypto Discussions: Broader discussions about various aspects of Web3 and cryptocurrency, including their implications and future prospects.
NFTs and Digital Identity: The role of NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) in digital identity and community building, as well as personal stories related to NFT experiences.
Importance of Anonymity and Privacy: The significance of anonymity and privacy in the crypto space, and how these principles are upheld or challenged.
Technical Aspects of Blockchain and Crypto: Discussions on more technical aspects of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency, including token gating, DAOs, and other related concepts.
Future Plans and Developments: Conversation about future plans, developments, and potential innovations in the crypto and blockchain industry.
User Onboarding and Activation: Strategies and challenges related to onboarding new users into the crypto space and activating them within communities.
Challenges and Risks in Crypto: Discussing the challenges, risks, and downsides of involvement in the crypto space, including scams and financial risks.
Personal Reflections and Opinions: Anjali shares her personal reflections, opinions, and predictions about the current state and future of the crypto industry.
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We are thrilled to host GiselXFlorez - Artist in Light - with a lifetime of experience exploring a broad spectrum of mediums to create and connect with ART, which is in itself is many things. In this episode, we dive deep into the heart of art, discovering its profound connections to life, technology, and the human soul.
Gisel's Background and Art Philosophy: Gisel shares her journey as an artist, discussing her early interests in traditional art forms like painting and later transitioning to digital art. She defines art as an expression of life and a product of the human soul, emphasising the emotional and experiential aspects of art over technical skill alone.
Physical Art and NFTs: Gisel recounts her experiences in giving away physical pieces of her art at events, linking these to her digital artworks and NFTs. This bridges the gap between traditional and digital art forms.
The Role of AI in Art: The conversation delves into how AI is shaping art. Gisel views AI as a tool that regurgitates past human experiences and emphasizes the importance of human intent and the 'soul' in differentiating AI-generated art from human-created art.
Gisel's Projects and Collaborations: She discusses various projects, including her 'Moon Language' project, which involves photography of the moon paired with music to create a new form of expression. She also touches on other collaborative projects and her approach to integrating different art forms.
The Intersection of Art and Technology: The discussion explores how technology, particularly blockchain and NFTs, is creating new platforms and opportunities for artists. Gisel talks about how these technologies allow for more direct and varied expressions of creativity.
Art, Privacy, and Data Security: There's a segment of the conversation about the importance of privacy and data security in the digital age. Gisel expresses concerns about how personal data is harvested and the implications for artists and the general public.
The Future of Art and Society: The podcast touches upon broader themes of how art relates to societal changes, the role of artists in society, and how technology is reshaping both art creation and consumption.
Quantum Light Gerbil: The episode concludes with a discussion about involving the community in art creation, specifically mentioning a project called "Quantum Light Gerbil," where community members contribute ideas for a piece that Gisel will create.
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Summary:
We welcome Joe Wait to discusses his thesis on censorship resistance within Ethereum and its broader implications for the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The conversation delves into the value of decentralisation, the Tornado Cash incident, and the challenges and debates within the blockchain space. Joe exposes some thought provoking issues with Power and Incentivisation on Ethereum and Bitcoin. This is a must listen Episode!
Key Talking Points:Introduction and Background of Joe Wait:
Joe Wait's introduction, his role at Superchain, and his journey into blockchain and cryptocurrency.
His academic background in philosophy and transition to software project management.
Initial skepticism about Ethereum and eventual belief in its potential.
Focus on Censorship Resistance in Ethereum:
Discussion on Joe's thesis, "Towards an Evaluation of Ethereum’s Censorship Resistance."
Exploration of the value and importance of decentralisation in blockchain technology.
Comparison of decentralisation to insurance or cybersecurity, emphasising preparation for low probability, high impact events.
Tornado Cash Incident:
Explanation of Tornado Cash as an obfuscation tool on the Ethereum network.
Discussion on legitimate uses of Tornado Cash for privacy and security.
Examination of potential misuse of Tornado Cash for illicit activities.
Analysis of the unprecedented nature of sanctioning a smart contract by OFAC.
Discussion on the severe penalties associated with violating sanctions and the extended reach of U.S. jurisdiction.
Implications and Concerns:
Exploration of the broader implications of the Tornado Cash incident on the decentralized autonomous code community.
Concerns about the chilling effect on innovation and development within the blockchain space.
Discussion on the arrest of individuals associated with Tornado Cash, highlighting issues related to jurisdiction and legal proceedings.
Ethereum Censorship Resistance and MEV Relays:
Discussion on the centralisation risks associated with Ethereum, particularly in the context of MEV relays.
The lucrative nature of MEV relays and the trend of vertical integration as centralising and potentially corrosive trends.
USDC and Real World Assets:
Impact of non-duplicable assets, particularly stablecoins like USDC, on the blockchain ecosystem.
Potential for regulatory capture and centralisation when real-world assets are involved.
BlackRock Bitcoin ETF and Forks:
Concerns about the influence of financial instruments like ETFs on the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
The potential for entities in control of these financial instruments to influence the network's direction.
Tweet us your stories for #CensoredGerbil - we’ll make our favourite story into art, mint and send to everyone who sent in an entry This Gerbil is a collaboration with HueViews who will be creating the gerbil through embroidery. There will also be a single edition NFT available to buy which comes with the original physical work! #NonFunGerbils #CensoredGerbil
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We spent the week in Lisbon at the NonFungibleConference and collected interviews with the following amazing people:
5.40 Trevor Jones Castle Party Gerbil announcement 8.47 Lapin Mignon & Fanny Lakoubay 12.19 Toxsam - VIPE 16.01 Orlando - NFTees.com 18.47 Eleonora Brizi 20.30 Violet Jones 24.42 George Boya, Eclectic Method, Arthr & Skeenee 31.06 Carlos Marcial - Causality 36.03 Natalia Grunberg 38.07 Rose croft 41.17 Metageist 43.55 Gabe Weis (& Efdot) 50.27 Sturec 53.26 Jonathan Button 59.29 Ogar & Sebastien Borget (Sandbox) 1.02.57 Jessica Young - Permian 1.05.38 Quinn Button 1.12.02 Carla
To submit an entry for Castle Party Gerbil post your story here
To claim a 2023 Lisbon Gerbils NFT post your non-dapper flow address here
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We welcome John Karp of NFT Factory, NFT morning and the Non Fungible Conference in Lisbon.
John is a delight to chat with and a fountain of knowledge. We covered so much about the NFT space, the Art space, What is ownership, Royalty wars and much more. He also gave us a peek into the upcoming Non Fungible Conference thats happening at the beginning of June. Stick around at the end for an extraordinary #BraveNewGerbil reading.
Apologies for some ground loop hum in my mic due to a faulty cable but it doesn’t continue for the too long.
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We welcome Eirik Ulversøy AKA Kitten Mittens OG Cryptokitty breeder and whale with over 200,000 kitties Founder of TradFiLines and Ordinal flairs. We delve into Ordinals on Bitcoin, what they are, the experience and what it’s like to have the value of your project rocket overnight We announce the winner from our competition for #TheOrdinalGerbil https://magiceden.io/ordinals/marketplace/tog NonFunGerbils NFT Security guide https://github.com/NonFunGerbils/Gerbils-Security-Guide-for-Crypto-and-NFTs https://twitter.com/UlversY https://twitter.com/TradFiLinesNFT https://twitter.com/OrdinalFlares https://nonfungerbils.com https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.com/invite/4F4Wenj9s3 https://nonfungerbils.com/theordinalgerbil
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Introducing Season 2 of the NonFunGerbils Podcast
We open up the competition to author and win #BraveNewGerbil Submit your entries to https://twitter.com/nonfungerbils with the tag #BraveNewGerbil or reply to our announcement tweet.
Security GuideThe Gerbils Security Guide for Crypto and NFTs is ready... go get a security checkup and feel free to commit updates and changes. The point is to keep a living guide that changes with the times to keep you safe with best practices. https://github.com/NonFunGerbils/Gerbils-Security-Guide-for-Crypto-and-NFTs https://nonfungerbils.com https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.com/invite/4F4Wenj9s3
George was called away last minute for this one so Dr Dion W stepped in to help. Also known as @DionwNFT on Twitter, he is a data scientist and works for MyNFT.
Today we focus on security with Jonathan Wilkins, previous CSO of Blockstream and currently founder of Cloaked Wireless.
Cloaked focuses on solving sim swapping attacks in the space by creating a secure intermediary away from traditional telecom companies using Bitcoin message signing for authentication. We cover:
how big the sim swapping problem is
some major vulnerabilities out there
seed storage procedures.
poetry for error correction in passwords
generally explore the topic of security
It was quite shocking how much of a problem and how easy swapping still is.
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We speak to Tagachi, a Solidity developer and security researcher with decades of experience as a Coder for 27 years, Involved in SecOps and Intel for 22 years and has worked on projects acquired by the likes of Google, Facebook and CISCO.
We focus on Security and in particular wallet security covering what tagachi deems as best practice from a hyper secure standpoint.This is the first in what will be a series of episodes focussed around security in the space. We are also working on a security guide that will be hosted on github very soon and will be open to add to and edit by everyone as an evolving resource for the community. https://twitter.com/TagachiStudio https://nonfungerbils.com https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.com/invite/4F4Wenj9s3
George wasn’t able to make it to this episode so we bought in guest interviewer Christian Miles who has worked in and out of the tech industry since 2000 in sectors such as banking, logistics, e-commerce and now web3 where he is building infrastructure on the FLOW Blockchain with his company Find.xyz. Christian has also run therapeutic children’s homes and semi independent services for individuals with a history of trauma. So he is well placed to join me today along with our guest Hazel Gale from Betwixt.Hazel is an artist; she is author of The Mind Monster Solution; she is a former therapist; and she is also an ex boxer and kickboxer having won multiple world titles.Hazel joins us to talk about her project Betwixt which is a fantasy choose-your-own-adventure game that takes you on a journey of self discovery and broadly fits into my made up category of therapeutic game with generative NFT art which customises to you around your self-discovery adventure.
Betwixt are doing something really interesting and we have a fantastic conversation. We hope you enjoy.
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Today we welcome Adam B Levine of 330ai, a true original gangster of Bitcoin education having founded Speaking of Bitcoin (formerly Lets Talk Bitcoin) along with a number of other projects. We also welcome Freya Stevens of Likvidi who are connecting the world of carbon credits to the NFT space.
This was a really fascinating conversation around carbon credits, how they work, how they can add value to NFTs and vice versa. We discuss AI, its impact on art and how it can be used for collaboration and much much more.
At the end we announce the winner of REKT Gerbil and read out some entries.
We hope you enjoy the episode.
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George and I recently got back from the Non-fungible Conference in Lisbon.
What a fantastic week it was, we met wonderful people, had amazing dinners and stimulating conversations. It was quite something to have such a broad range of people with the unified focus of NFTs all in one place.
I kept a dictaphone with me and caught up with some key figures and friends and gained insight into their experiences of the event and their take on various NFT developments.
Please enjoy - in chronological order - our interviews with:
Artur Sychov
Hugo McDonaugh
Jivinci
Whaleshark
Natural Warp
Sebastien Borget
Benji Kandler
Sandie
George Boya
Conlan
Carla_muc_j
The next NonFunGerbil creation is open for submission, send us your best back story for REKT Gerbil. We will will take one story, make the artwork around it and send a gerbil (for free) to everyone who submits an entry.
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We are delighted to be here and joined today by Conlan Rios of the revolutionary platform ASYNC.ART. where you can design your own programmable and interactive art, generative collections and music. We have a fantastic chat exploring the following topics:
The early Cryptovoxels days
Hybrid metaverse platforms
NFT culture and how it has changed
Conlan Pitches Pomplamoose on ASYNC Audio Blueprintsta
Bringing together artists to collaborate
Music experiences in the Metaverse
Community building and value creation
Conlan & ASYNC ART https://twitter.com/conlan https://async.art/
Non Fungible Conference Lisbon https://www.nonfungibleconference.com/
Virtual Worlds Mentioned https://www.cryptovoxels.com/ https://decentraland.org/ https://www.mona.gallery/ https://oncyber.io/ NonFunGerbils https://nonfungerbils.com https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.com/invite/4F4Wenj9s3
We chat to David Lucatch of Liquid Avatar and Oasis Digital Studios.
We learn about David's approach to digital identity and how he is pairing real life identity with online identity along with the implications of identity verification in the Metaverse.
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Today we welcome Bruno from RMRK which is NFT LEGO on the Kusama Blockchain that gives infinite extensibility to it's NFTS
Bruno is deeply rooted within the Web3 and Polkadot ecosystem and runs dotleap.com with it's fortnightly newsletter on everything Polkadot, Substrate and Kusama
We cover so much mind bending NFT brain food in this episode, you'd better find somewhere safe to sit down!
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Welcome to the NonFunGerbils and the Digitally Rare Podcasts
We have come together to have a good old chin wag about the wider NFT space with a focus on art and the recent PFP project craze
Digitally Rare was the first NFT podcast with their original episode airing July 2018.
Jonathan and Matt are super fun and insightful, we hope you enjoy this as much as we did.
At the end we read out entries for BearGerbil and announce the winner, whose entry was chosen and bought to life by the wonderful Stina Jones
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Sillytuna has had recent notoriety after selling his Covid Alien Cryptopunk for $11.7m at Sothebys, he is a developer, founder and a serious OG in the crypto space. We have an insightful chat about NFTs discussing:
The road to mainstream for NFTs
The problems to be resolved before the next hype wave
The Future problem of Malicious SPAM NFTs
The need for Native Ethereum contract wallets
Iteration and improvement on the ERC721 standard
and much more!
At the end we announce the winner of ThatsHot Gerbil and announce our next gerbil collaboration with Stina Jones, one of our favourite artists in the space. To submit a competition entry tag us @NonFunGerbils @stina_jones and include #BearGerbil along with your backstory about Bear Gerbil on Twitter Huge thank you to Paris Hilton for her help with this episode! https://twitter.com/sillytuna https://sillytuna.medium.com/ https://discord.com/invite/claymatic https://nonfungerbils.com https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.com/invite/4F4Wenj9s3
We are joined by one of the highest profile supporters of the NFT community and serial entrepreneur - Paris Hilton.
The self described ‘undercover nerd’, one time collector of POGs, Pokemon and beanie babies, and successful business woman with 19 product lines, Paris Hilton discovered the world of crypto in 2016 and as she delved deeper into NFTs, has found a welcoming community.
We hear more about her journey, the importance she places on empowering a diverse set of artists, and her recent collaboration with the talented digital artist Blake Kathryn dropping on Nifty Gateway on Saturday.
Of course, as always, we end with the announcing of the winner of our #ElonGerbil backstory competition this time being read out by a surprise guest - which was so hot. We also announce the next NonFunGerbils competition where you send us your amazing stories and we turn them into Gerbil NFTs we give away for free!
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We are joined by Matt and Kyle from Piñata which is essentially the core IPFS pinning service in the space.
We take an awesome dive into what IPFS actually is, how it works and why it’s an important tool for storage and distribution of data on the web.
We then cover NFT metadata, where are the images and descriptions and all the data associated with your tokens stored. Why it is important and potentially who is responsible for it.
At the end we are joined by Lapin Mignon to read out some fantastic gerbil stories that came in for our collaboration and announce the winner
Super interesting and fun discussions. We hope you enjoy them https://pinata.cloud https://twitter.com/IPFSPinata https://www.lapinmignon.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/Lelapinmignon https://nonfungerbils.com https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.gg/yQbuZ9j
We are joined by Jonathan Levine, an entrepreneur in the daily fantasy sports industry and representative of a small group of investors including Jonathan Bales and Peter Jennings and Adam Lefkoe who have entered the NFT space with a bang buying a number of high value NBA Topshots amongst other collectibles and art.
We get an insight in to their investment thesis coming into the space, speculate over a number of things and generally have a really interesting chat. Nothing in this conversation should be taken as financial advice Jonathan Bales blog post: https://luckymaverick.substack.com/p/nft Podcast network mentioned: https://podcastindex.org/ https://twitter.com/JerLevine https://underdogfantasy.com/ https://nonfungerbils.com https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.gg/yQbuZ9j
Today we welcome back Alan Carr, game designer for Dapper Labs and legend of the NFT space.
We deep dive into NBA Topshot, what it is and everything that has happened around the phenomenal growth it has seen this year.
At the end we read out some NonFunGerbil stories written by you, announce the winner for Baller Gerbil. We also layout our next competition and artist collaboration.
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Today we are joined by an OG investor in the space and the founder of Proof of Attendance Protocol Patricio Worthalter.
Patricio tells us the fascinating story of how he originally got in to the space after sorting out a ransomware payment in Bitcoin and finding the whole process so enjoyable!
he speaks of the building of POAP, the difficulties and the successes, interoperability, competing blockchains, tribalism and why the whole space is so exciting right now.
At the end we announce the winning entry for #TheGerbilofWallStreet and announce the next NonFunGerbil competition for #BallerGerbil https://twitter.com/worthalter https://www.poap.xyz https://nonfungerbils.com https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.gg/yQbuZ9j
We speak to Jigsaw of Seen Haus, a very new project taking on the task of pairing the digital and physical with their auction house.
We get down into the details and explore the whole concept. We thought this was a really interesting chat and would love to know what you thought. Tweet us @NonFunGerbils https://seen.haus/ https://nonfungerbils.com https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.gg/yQbuZ9j
We are joined by John Linden and Rudy Koch of Mythical Games
John and Rudy are part of the super star team that setup Mythical and have bought us the game Blankos Block Party
This interview was great fun and at the end we read out a couple of the entries for Elf Gerbil and announce the next NonFunGerbil giveaway and competition.
Please excuse some variable audio quality in this episode due to technical hitches
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We are joined by Jesse and Dan of Aavegotchi. An ambitious project bringing collectibles, gaming, art, metaverse, DAOs and DeFi and maybe even hardware all together in one cohesive system.
At the end we unveil RugPullGerbil and read out some of the fantastic entries you sent us as well as set the next NonFunGerbil challenge ready for the holiday season.
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We are joined for a second time by Zach Burks, founder of Mintable the token minting platform.
Zach is here to tell us about the long awaited Mintable 2.0 which brings a whole new kind of Platform and Marketplace to the NFT world and introduces some unique features and approaches such as their DAO, whose governance tokens are NFTs.
https://twitter.com/mintable_app https://mintable.app/ https://nonfungerbils.com https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.gg/yQbuZ9j
We are joined by Aleksander Larsen, co-founder and COO of Sky Mavis and Axie Infinity.
This turned out to be an epic 2 part conversation. In part one we go over everything Axie Infinity past present and future, NFTs, Gaming, play-2-earn, crypto, incentives, adoption, virtual worlds, scaling, DAOs, Art, and all the things
The second part, which follows straight on was recorded today, we have added it as an addendum to cover the announcement this morning about the Axie Infinity IEO on the Binance Launchpad along with the retroactive airdrop to all Axie players
https://axie.substack.com/p/bb806e64-7692-4643-9aa2-b1bb86922248
https://axieinfinity.com https://twitter.com/AxieInfinity https://twitter.com/Psycheout86
https://nonfungerbils.com https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils http://discord.com/invite/7CNqwjZ
We are joined by legendary artist and all round creative Alotta Money.
In this inspirational episodes we get an insight into Alotta Money’s journey into and through the space, we take a dive into the NFT art scene and get some great advice for upcoming and established artists looking to tokenise their art.
At the end we read out some amazing Farmer Gerbil entries and announce the next NonFunGerbil.Also we announce a special collaboration of NonFunGerbils and Alotta Money for 1 of 1 Gerbil. #1of1Gerbil #FarmerGerbil #RugPullGerbil https://opensea.io/assets/0xd7431870ada2f9f0053180610974f63bf8e9f504/311 http://alottamoney.com/ https://twitter.com/money_alotta https://nonfungerbils.com/ https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.com/invite/7CNqwjZ
We are joined by the artist known as Robert Alice, who has spent 3 years creating the epic set of paintings known as ‘Portraits of a mind’. These contain within the original Bitcoin codebase which has been distributed between the 40 works. Next week we see work number 21 go on auction along with its accompanying NFT at the renowned auction house Christies’
This was a very exciting episode, we hope you enjoy it. https://www.robertalice.com/ https://twitter.com/robertalice_21 https://nonfungerbils.com/ https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.com/invite/7CNqwjZ
Today we are joined by Ben Nolan, the founder and lead developer Cryptovoxels. We dive into: - the long-term vision for virtual world - upcoming features and development - the funding model - VR - sharding - scaling and much more.We really enjoyed this conversation, we hope you do too.
#ForkingGerbil #FarmerGerbil
https://twitter.com/bnolanhttps://www.cryptovoxels.com/
https://nonfungerbils.com/ https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.com/invite/7CNqwjZ
NonFunGerbils HQ - https://www.cryptovoxels.com/parcels/1086
We welcome Hackatao and their official speaker Eleonora Brizi.
We have been working together with Hackatao and you our listeners to come up with a very unique creation, Pending Gerbil. Hackatao came up with the Name, you, came up with the back stories and we announce the winner at the end of the show. We took this opportunity to discover more about the duo Sergio and Nadia, their story, their process, their ethos and we even put some of your questions to them.
This was a great fun, and very special episode. We hope you enjoy it. https://twitter.com/hackatao https://podmork.com/blogmork/ https://nonfungerbils.com/ https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.com/invite/7CNqwjZ
https://youtu.be/aErrChG5oAs https://nonfungerbils.com/podcast/18-artur-sychov-immersed-in-vr In our first video episode we enter Somnium Space for an interview in Virtual Reality with Somnium's founder and CEO Artur Sychov.
We find out:
- how Somnium started - what you can do in the virtual world - what's in development - the future of Social VR worlds and much much more.
https://www.somniumspace.com/ https://twitter.com/SomniumSpace https://twitter.com/ASychov https://nonfungerbils.com/ https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://discord.com/invite/7CNqwjZ
We are joined by Joseph Delong, Senior developer at Consensys with the TXRX team researching and implementing Ethereum 2.0.
We delve into the plan for ETH 2.0, how it’s going to work and what the implications are for NFTs and composiblity.
At the end we read out some of your brilliant Liberty Gerbil entries and then have an extra special announcement regarding the next NonFunGerbil.
We hope you enjoy the episode!
#LibertyGerbil #PendingGerbil
https://twitter.com/josephdelong https://twitter.com/TXRXResearch
https://nonfungerbils.com https://twitter.com/nonfungerbils https://discord.com/invite/7CNqwjZ
This is an exciting episode is because we’ve got an exclusive first look at a project that’s been in stealth mode for the last 2 and a half years.
Cryptographs are one-off creations, made by icons and artists that are immutable, and generate ongoing revenue for charity.
Immutable in this case mean that they’ve bought a new kind of immutability to ERC 721s in that the tokens are unburnable.
There is so much great stuff we cover here, we hope you enjoy the conversation. https://cryptograph.co/ https://twitter.com/cryptograph https://discord.gg/ZtnZWMk
The NonFunGerbils
https://nonfungerbils.com https://twitter.com/nonfungerbils https://discord.gg/7CNqwjZ
Today we welcome the renowned NFT collector known as Whaleshark
This was an epic conversation where we hear about Whalesharks story, $WHALE token and take a deep dive into the vision behind it.
We also cover many other topics including community impacts of the socialisation of collections, why scarce digital art is the medium for this generation of collectors and much more.
At the end we read out the winners of Moon Gerbil and announce the next NonFunGerbil
We hope you enjoy the conversation as much we did.
#MoonGerbil #LibertyGerbil
https://whale.me https://discord.gg/whale
https://nonfungerbils.com
Today we are Joined by Rizzle and Nate of NFT42 to discuss their upcoming iminent launch of InfinFT, A platform for minting fully onchain NFTs that’s pushing the space forward with new options for artists to mint their works.
We discuss this in detail and also cover many topics including the recent Cryptovoxels meetups or WIP’s that are organised by Rizzle and Matthew from Cent
Enjoy the episode
https://www.infinft.com/ https://discord.gg/nft
Alan is a general legend in the space, he was co-founder of Kittycalc, product lead for Cryptokitties and is now focussed on the design and implementation for NBA Topshot. The NBA’s official digital collectibles and game coming out soon on Flow.
Topics we dive into:
The backstory of Alan
NBA Topshot overview
Game mechanics
Surprise and Delight
Recreating collectability of playing cards digitally
Bringing collectors and gamers together
Importance of composability
NFTs and Ethereum 2.0
This was such a fun episode, we hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
We also read out some Prepper Gerbil entries from our competition and announce the winnner.
#PrepperGerbil #MoonGerbil
https://twitter.com/Alanfalcon https://www.dapperlabs.com/ https://www.nbatopshot.com/ https://kittycalc.co/
Peter Siemens is a Software Engineer and leads on clientside software and development tools for Flow - Dapper’s new blockchain solution.
We cover details about Flow, it's structure and how it’s doing things differently.
New NonFunGerbil coming next episode
We are Joined by Jesse Johnson of Bullionix.
Jesse is creating NFTs that are backed by gold bullion via Digix Gold.
This is a new and exciting use case of NFTs and we have a great conversation finding out all about it.
Please excuse the technical issues that we ran in to during this episode, there are a couple of 2 second gaps in the first half of the episode.
#UnicornGerbil #PrepperGerbil https://nonfungerbils.com/ https://bullionix.io/ https://twitter.com/gldnXross https://digix.global/dgx#/
Today is the very long awaited launch day of Decentraland so we’re joined by Matty of dclblogger.com to get us up to speed on whats happening in the Decentraland space.
Matty is an investor, land flipper, and well known community member within Decentraland. He runs a blog surverying the NFT trading markets and helps people understand the landscape.
#CounterfeitGerbil #UnicornGerbil
Welcome Nate Hart, creator of Chainfaces.
A Generative art project on Ethereum that launched last week and went viral within the NFT community.
We chat to Nate about who he is, how this project came about and why randomly generated immutable ASCII faces are so compelling.
Stay tuned at the end, we give away DeFi Gerbil and announce the Next NonFunGerbil.
#CounterfeitGerbil #DeFiGerbil
Nates Twitter - https://twitter.com/NateAlex6677 Chainfaces on Opensea - https://opensea.io/assets/chainfaces
NonFunGerbils - https://nonfungerbils.com NonFunGerbils Twitter - https://twitter.com/nonfungerbils
Julien Genestoux the founder and CEO of Unlock is deeply rooted in content delivery having founded Notifixious the company behind SuperFeedr, then moving on to become lead engineer at Medium.
Now with Unlock Julien is offering a new way for creators to monetise their content using NFTs for access control.
Unlock - https://unlock-protocol.com/
Julien's blog - https://www.ouvre-boite.com/ The Defiant - https://thedefiant.substack.com/
Happy New Year everyone.
Today our guest is Angela Dalton, CEO and co-founder of Signum Growth Capital.
Angela has 20 years experience in global capital markets, she served as managing director at three investment banking firms (UBS, Evercore and Guggenheim) before working as a senior partner at Signum Global Advisors where she spends her time at the intersection between policy and emerging technology with a focus on gaming, disruptive entertainment models and blockchain.
We discuss what to expect with the adoption of NFTs in the gaming industry and how Mythical Games is charging in to that area with a war chest talent, experience and proven track records.
Enjoy the episode.
Welcome to Episode 6 of the NonFunGerbils podcast
Today Zach Burks joins us for a chat.
Zach is the co-founder and CEO of Mintable - a platform that we use to batch mint our Gerbil NFTs.
Zach gives us an insight into what it’s like building a platform like this and gives us some teasers of the big changes that are coming in the new year with their new platform along with his vision for the future of Non-fungible tokens.
We also cover the topical discussion at the moment around intellectual property and fakes.
If you enjoy this episode and would like to help us grow, leave us a review wherever you downloaded it from and/or share it on social media.
Listen out at the end for some of the brilliant 100xLeverage gerbil stories that were submitted in the last month as well as the next Gerbil needing a backstory.
Enjoy the episode.
Mintable (Twitter) - https://twitter.com/MintableApp
Mintable - https://www.mintable.app/
Trevor’s thread on Twitter - https://twitter.com/trevorjonesart/status/1198615318043725825
#100xLeverageGerbil
#Zkgerbil
This is our first inter-month episode
We are very pleased to present to you our conversation with John Crain of SuperRare.
John is a software engineer and previously worked at Consensys and went on to found Pixura and build SuperRare, a market for art NFTs.
John gives us his insights into:
We hope you enjoy the show.
#100xLeverageGerbilhttps://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://nonfungerbils.com
Links:
John Crain (Twitter) - https://twitter.com/gnarzly
SuperRare - https://www.superrare.co/
Pixura - https://pixura.io/
Today we’re joined by John Watkinson of LarvaLabs, John is the co-creator of the Cryptopunks, which was the first NFT project on Ethereum and the inspiration for the ERC721 standard. He also created Autoglyphs which is the first fully on-chain generative Art NFT project as well as many other varied and creative non-blockchain applications.
In our chat we cover:
The fascinating story of the Cryptopunks.
How the NFT space has taken off since then.
The Autoglyphs project.
How NFTs solve key problems with Ownership and Art.
At the end we announce the Winner and design of our HODL Gerbil NFTs and give you the next NonFunGerbil in desperate need of a backstory
On with the show, we hope you enjoy it.
#100xLeverageGerbil #HODLgerbil
https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://nonfungerbils.com
Links:
John Watkinson (Twitter) - https://twitter.com/pents90
Larva Labs - https://larvalabs.com/
Cryptopunks - https://thecryptopunks.com/
Autoglyphs - https://www.larvalabs.com/autoglyphs
Today we’re delighted to bring you our conversation with Vinay Gupta.
Vinay has a varied background as a futurologist, advising on disaster planning and state failure solutions, he designed the open source disaster relief shelter the Hexayurt, he was a first generation cypher punks, release coordinator for the launch Ethereum. Now he brings all of that together in Mattereum to index the world, reduce global waste and increase efficiency.
We have a very wide ranging discussion covering:
As well as looking at our current state of affairs in society.
Stick around at the end we go through some of the funniest entries for ICO gerbil and announce the winner plus give the name of next episodes NonFunGerbil.
If you’re new to this, we, along with the community create fun characters based on themes and ideas within crypto crossed with gerbils.
We give you the name, you send us hilarious backstories on Twitter, and then we create an illustration based on the most entertaining story and mint a set of tokens that we send to everyone who participated in that round. It’s a lot of fun and our way of playing with the tech and building a community.
We hope you enjoy the episode.
#HODLgerbil #ICOerbil
https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils https://nonfungerbils.com
Links:Mattereum - https://mattereum.com/
Vinay on Medium - https://medium.com/@leashless
Vinay on Twitter - https://twitter.com/leashless
Hexayurt - http://hexayurt.com/
We are joined by Jake Brukhman of Coinfund.
Jake has an extensive and varied background coming from a base of Mathematics and Computer Science, He’s deeply embedded in the crypto space and is an investor, artist and curator in the NFT Art world.
We had brilliant conversation about many aspects of non-fungible tokens and art including:
How NFTs make it easier for artists to monetise their talents.
How they can be an investment asset for retail investors.
Platforms that make it easy to Tokenise work.
Virtual 3D worlds that allow you to find and buy art.
The role of Instagram.
NFT’s as one of the few areas of crypto creating revenue.
Stick around at the end where we read out some of our favourite entries into the very first NonFunGerbil token giveaway and announce the winner who will be the blueprint for the final artwork.
#ICOgerbil #GenesisGerbil
https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils
Links:Jake’s Website - http://www.brukhman.com/
FIrst Edition - https://firstedition.art/
Editional - https://editional.com/
Coinfund - https://coinfund.io/
Cryptovoxels - https://www.cryptovoxels.com/
Decentraland - https://decentraland.org/
Blockcities - https://www.blockcities.co/
Clovers - https://clovers.network/
Today we’ve got Owen Barnes joining us. Owen has been involved in the crypto space since 2012 and is a full stack developer, speaker and independent advisor to blockchain startups.
We have a fascinating conversation covering the state of crypto today and the outlook for the future.
We cover where non-fungible tokens fit in and why they’re so interesting.
We also cover decentralisation, signalling, scarcity, non-transferable tokens and much more.
Then we layout the guidelines for our very first Gerbil giveaway, so if you want your own NonFunGerbil, stay tuned at the end and get involved.
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