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Ven Gist is a philosopher of networks, designer of worlds. Researcher at The Open Machine which is a publication for the generation of experimental cultural and conceptual compliments to the decentralized web. He's an early member of MetaCartel, an org which funded many projects to develop open source technology and experiment with DAOs. Now working on Guild Guild. A locus of coordination for Crea...

Sean Bradford is an artist, musician and creative technologist. Founder of ORIGIN STØRIES, a creative tech studio producing custom AI-powered tools for co-created experiences. He's lived many lives. As a vocalist and recording artist signed to a major label. Performing on Broadway. A DJ who spent a lot of time in Berlin, before moving to Stockholm and now Amsterdam. A crypto native, deeply immerse...

Lucas is the Founder of Pods. A new way to publish, discover, and own your favourite podcasts. The place for bringing your podcast onchain. He's also Co-Founder of Fire Eyes DAO, a collective of crypto-natives who designed token economic and governance systems for projects including Optimism, ENS and Gitcoin. And was also an early employee at Bankless. We talk about what we've learned from a few y...

JAKE is a pseudo anonymous internet creator. Going with the classic blue, colour code #0000FF as his pfp. Host at POD OF JAKE where he’s interviewed almost 200 guests over 4 years. Most recently Jacob from Zora and others such as Vitalik Buterin, pplpleasr and Mark Cuban. Writer at BLOG OF JAKE, where he’s published about creativity and writing, documenting his experiences as a podcaster, observin...

Jamie Reddington is an electronic music producer, consultant and lecturer from London who recently released his debut album Scenes. His music is shaped by hiphop, UK dance music and soul. Leaning into telling stories, with textures and samples captured from his phone, featuring the sound of his daughter’s heartbeat. The record was released as a co-creation. ‘Over 350 memories were submitted and tu...

Gami and Clouted are core contributors from International Meme Fund (IMF) and $MONEY. Their team believes it is now crucial to have native liquidity and financial infrastructure for the meme sector. They're both from Sydney and have shared interests in defi financial engineering, game theory and the memecoin phenomonen. We talk about financial nihilism. Memes as emergent properties of the internet...

Nadia Piet is Founder and Creative Lead of AIxDESIGN, a global community conducting critical AI research for the benefit of people, not profits. She's a designer, researcher, organiser and faculty member at ELISAVA's Design for Responsible AI. We talk about AlphaGO and Move 37. AI models being trained on creative assets without permission. And what's causing the rapid improvement of generative AI...

Dave Bachinsky is a professional skateboarder, woodworker, and visual artist based in Carlsbad, California. In 2020, he launched a visual collection called Roll Forever featuring videos filmed with a drone from a bird's-eye view, observing a skaters' line in a pool or skate spot and edited to loop indefinitely, as if the line never ends. His new project Changing Tides was minted on Highlight. Dave...

Simona Pop is joyfully subverting the status quo. Host of /therapy on Farcaster. Writing and giving talks around building with intention and how existing trauma and socio-economic conditioning can hinder our ability to build something different. She's an advisor at Optimism helping to build the Superchain. Public Goods Steward at ENS DAO and one of the first people we met in crypto attending Ether...

Malcolm Levy, Raf Katigbak and Greg Liburd are co-founders of Refraction. An artist-owned community leading the next wave of digital art, music and culture — online, onchain and IRL. They all have extensive backgrounds in media, culture, festivals, films, brands. As artists, designers, writers, producers and creative people. Raf was early at VICE. Greg did a bunch with Jordan. Malcolm was the Dire...

Carlos Gomes is the Founder of Forefront. Early contributor at Seed Club and Mint Fund. Currently building Farcaster Index as a place to discover farcaster tokens and mints. On the other side, they shipped Terminal as the fastest way to create a channel token on Farcaster. Carlos and Nick met IRL for the first time at FarCon in California, and then again during ETH Berlin. Current topic of convers...

Toadyhawk and Benbodhi are contributors in the Nouns ecosystem. Founders of The Noun Square, an onchain media collective funded by Nouns, which is home to the Zero Rights Reserved Podcast. The project has evolved into The Yellow Collective on Base. Supporting artists and creativity onchain and exploring nounish culture. We talk about memes, DAOs, the vanishing media business, hanging out at FarCon...

Derek Taylor is a musician and founding member of the park. A band with many of the largest onchain music mints of all time. Based in Los Angeles, originally from San Francisco. They stage Fridays at the Park, bringing artists together in the room to write and record music. In-person experiences that also help onboard into the onchain and crypto world. Derek is a coffee enthusiast and raconteur. O...

Martin, Six and Kugusha are all early members of higher. A new creative collective with its own native currency, built with a token on Base, publishing on Zora, and accelerating out of sight as one of the all-time fastest growing Farcaster channels. Higher is a lifestyle, an optimistic mindset, a brand being built in real time by hundreds of people on the internet. The word itself was used in cryp...

Scene Infrastructure Company is a software business building better instruments for socialization. We recorded with the founding team, Jose Mejia, Ethan Daya and Neesh and what we got down on tape is super valuable context, experiences and thoughts around founding a new company. For design, product, community building and technology choices. Coming from earlier founding experiences at organization...

LATASHÁ is the founder of Topia . The evolution will not be televised. It will be onchain. She’s an artist, musician, producer, world builder. An original from the onchain music scene who was minting works on Zora back in 2021 kinda time. She had one of the earliest websites with onchain music videos and tracks. In this period she became Community Lead at Zora and produced ZORATOPIA. An events ser...

July is a founder of Faust. Developing Roc: a reality oracle computer that notarizes reality, onchain. He’s an engineer who built flying cars and autonomous vehicles with Kittyhawk, a startup backed by Google. He’s an early Farcaster user and creator of the /july channel with 6.5K members. A place where anyone is invited to post musings, thoughts & dreams. July is based in the Bay Area and we met...

Nat Emodi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Highlight. Their product is being used for generative releases by leading artists, organizations, and platforms. Helping creators to release any type of collection, from tightly curated series to generative open editions. Opening the space for experimentation as more people can explore their ideas and make generative art. Nat is based in the Bay Area. We met...

Alvaro Delgado is a musician, artist, and co-founder of Oval — A newborn creative community from Barcelona. Starting in 2024, Oval is putting together a series of concert and club nights, community events, suppers, and writing camps — designed to foster cross-pollination among individuals who have come to the city in search of something more: a spotlight, a sense of belonging. They believe they ca...

On today’s show, Alex Guy, aiio and LGHT. We are the hosts of the first shows on the UFO network. Alex is head of Growth at Zerion and in December launched Still Here. A show to explore his curiosity. Talking with people who are active web3 citizens, through all the ups and downs of crypto, answering the question of what inspires and motivates them. Why they’re still here. aiio is a researcher, co...

Leo Pastel is a musician, songwriter, multi-sensory artist and active builder in web3 music from Cincinnati, Ohio. He started releasing music in 2018 and has been involved from early days in the crypto music scene. His first single Woah was a hit with almost 750,000 streams on Spotify. He's produced as part of Songcamp and Camp CHAOS, and performed at FWB Fest in 2023. Leo tells stories about expe...

Nick Smith is a designer from Melbourne, Australia. Founder of Fam, a space for music communities to grow, collaborate and collectively fund creative projects. He’s an OG early member from FWB and helped to organise Soulquest, a collaborative music project featuring Iman Europe, V.C.R, illcamille, and Swarvy, along with visual artists Jamee Cornelia and Shawntel Johnson. The group performed and re...

Welcome to 2024. We talk about music. Artificial intelligence. Creative practice, processes and collaborative formats. Nascent space. Onchain collectives. Minting works. Experimental music. What it all means. Hexorcismos aka Moisés Horta Valenzuela is an artist, musician and technologist working with generative artificial neural networks over the past 7 years. Based in Berlin, originally from Mexi...

Adam Levy is the creator and host of Mint Podcast . Exploring the web3 creator economy, discovering how the creators of today are building the communities of tomorrow. Genuinely of the best podcasts in the space. He is also a founder of Bello , where you can discover actionable insights about your collectors from their wallets and onchain activity through a simple search. We met in November 2022 w...

Rafa is the founder of Folklore, a community crafting knowledge of connection, lorecraft, and digital realms. An amazing place to discover ideas and pieces of writing thanks to collective curation. Jihad Esmail is a writer, researcher and builder. A media dealer at Forefront proliferating onchain collective creation. Active contributor in the Nouns ecosystem, and various onchain experiments. Our c...