BuildBetter - interviews with tech founders

Summary In this episode I talk with Antoni Isaacson, co-founder of Nimble as he shares his journey into crypto world (btw: very recent) and evolution of their project and its focus on decentralized AI.  Nimble aims to glue together all the building blocks of decentralized AI, providing an aggregation layer over the different components of the AI stack. The project is building a standalone L1 block...

Summary In this conversation with Viacheslav Smirnov, CEO and founder of The Old Castle Defense, we talk about his journey into the blockchain space and mainly the inspiration behind the TOCD game. We dive into the importance of sustainable economics for play-to-earn games and how most games lack it. Viacheslav also explains how the integration with Farcaster and the Degen token has helped the pro...

Summary In this episode, BFG interviews Patrick Workman from Co:Create Ink, a venture that aims to bring the artistry of tattoos into the digital age. Patrick shares his journey into the crypto space and explains how Co:Create Ink is creating a platform that connects collectors and enthusiasts with world-renowned tattoo artists.  Apart from (obvious) NFTs, the platform offers priority booking and...

In this episode, I talk with Paddy (aka Spartacusrex), and he introduces my long-time favorite blockchain called Minima Network. Blockchain that runs on your phone or any edge device. Of course, we also talk about his journey into crypto/blockchain world, the early adoption of Bitcoin, and the appeal of decentralization. Paddy explains how Minima Network was started and the importance of decentral...

In this episode, I chat with Manos, the co-founder of WeatherXM, who shares their hardware project's fascinating journey from building the first LoRaWAN network in Greece to its pivot into blockchain-enabled weather data management.  The team initially started in 2012 with the idea of building a crowd-sourced weather observation network. However, it wasn't until 2019 that they combined their hardw...

Summary Cynthia Huang, co-founder of Dtravel, shares her journey into Web3 and the creation of a decentralized travel platform. She discusses the challenges in the short-term rental industry and the need for direct connections between travelers and hosts.  Cynthia explains the role of smart contracts and blockchain in ensuring secure and transparent transactions. She also highlights the importance...

Have you ever found yourself drowning in the sea of crypto information, struggling to stay afloat with the latest trends and updates? Well, so did I and apparently many others. Summary Deniz, the founder of Alpha Day, joins the Web3 Magic podcast conversation to discuss his journey in crypto and the motivation behind creating Alpha Day. Alpha Day is a crypto dashboard that provides users with a co...

Summary Imagine stitching together the worlds of fashion, technology, and blockchain. For the story of a former fashion intern turned crypto advocate, I think it's fair to say that Winny's story is almost one of academic defiance, a near-failed thesis. In this conversation with Winnie, we discuss her journey into crypto and her involvement in various projects. She shares her interest in blockchain...

Summary Steffen Kux discusses the DM3 Network, a decentralized messaging protocol that aims to connect various messaging solutions in the Web3 ecosystem. He explains the journey that led to the development of DM3 and highlights the importance of a central but decentralized registry for communication information. Steffen also discusses the need for a decentralized system of nodes to deliver message...

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David Phelps discusses his journey into crypto and the inspiration behind his project, Jokerace. He highlights the benefits of building on blockchain rails, such as the ability to create internet-native contests and avoid fees.  Phelps explains that Jokerace is a fintech product that allows anyone to create and participate in contests on the blockchain. He shares the current status of Jokerace and...

Summary In this episode of Web3Magic, I talk with Simon Brown as he shares his experiences and insights from his time at Devconnect-Istanbul and his involvement in the crypto space.  He discusses the value of spending time in hacker houses and the importance of meeting and collaborating with people in the industry.   Fair warning - this is a bit more tech-heavy episode, and you may feel like you n...

Ready to have your mind blown? Imagine a world where money flows through blockchains to you like a stream, continuously transferring second by second without the need for gas fees. That's exactly what I am talking about with my guest 0xFran from Superfluid this week.  He's sharing his journey into the crypto world and how he and his co-founder came up with a revolutionary protocol that could trans...

What if your tiny team with a grand vision for a blockchain-based application could simply and effectively build it without the need to develop all the extra services and maintenance packages and without worries about counterparty risks?  I get up close and personal with Johannes, the co-founder of Nerif Network, a project designed to make that happen. Johannes shares how a project in South Africa...

Get ready to unravel the world of NFTs as I chat with Bruno Skvorc, Web3 hacker and educator with a long blockchain history. Hear how Bruno moved from his early days in web development through the land of Ethereum, Polkadot and Kusama, into multichain future of modular NFTs. Bruno will talk about his current venture, RMRK, an innovative project aimed at creating smarter and more efficient NFTs. Br...

In this episode, I meet with Francesca. A digital nomad lady with founder and community-building experience. She's take us on very cool journey, from founding her own project to leading the EU market for a privacy-focused Web3 project, zkPass. Join us as we discover how her curiosity and commitment have been instrumental in her success in this tech-driven sector. I like ZK technologies in general,...

Get ready to unravel the complexities of a multi-chain blockchain world with Max, the growth leader at Connext. Connext is an interoperability protocol that is bridging the gap between different blockchain networks.  Max is here to guide us through the vision and plans of Connext, its innovative approach to simplifying user experiences, and how it's allowing any smart contract to interact with any...

Today I talk about Techie Club - a club which you may want to join if you are thinking about improving your chances to score a job in web2 or web3. Founders have experience from big tech and big tech recruiting and want to demystify the hiring process and prepare you for interviews. Over the past months it formed pretty active community, lots of good partnerships so it seems they are progressing t...

Today I'm talking about one of a few new fully on-chain projects called Onchain Block Invaders (OBIs) OBIs are 5400 evolvable NFTs which are sitting fully on chain. Just one OBI has 1024 variants of skins and colour palettes. They are starting with the lore of light and dark side where initial mint was light side and now the dark side is coming TODAY! (Aug 5). The team plans to constantly release...

Hello hello, today's episode is about a project I'm super excited about called NEMUS.  What the team at Nemus aims to do is to save Amazonian rain forests through NFTs and by on-the-ground action with local communities. They are minting now and I highly recommend you go check their cool minting experience where you are choosing from the map a physical piece of land you'll buy as NFT. There are dif...

In this episode, I talk about a project by Punk6529 called MEMEs by 6529.  It's his side project (apart from his open-metaverse OM) making MEMEs front and center of our current #web3 and #NFTs culture. I guess I can say that his tweets "Seize the memes of production" are iconic and with help of different artists he's transforming this ethos into awesome NFTs where some are just scary doom AI scene...

Today I'm talking about the project called Betwixt NFT; It's a project with evolving generative art which I've been watching for several months. It has very cool headline: Playable, immersive NFTs that help you befriend the voice in your head.  The whole idea behind Betwixt is to build human mental resilience, both in the metaverse and IRL. It's based on long term research and created as a play-to...

Today I’m talking about the project called Duhverse;  This is project which started as an experiment of a bunch of college friends about a year ago. It turned into great spring board and the initial team went on to create other cool projects while still keeping Duhverse alive while turning it into good starting point for Web3 newcomers.  You can join their Duhcademy and level up your web3 skill. T...

Today I'm talking about the project called Fringe Drifters; Fringe is one of the "movie NFTs" projects, but this has larger ambitions - it's not only about funding sci-fi movie but about (hopefully) developing and funding the whole franchise around the movie which would be owned by the community. Their plan is to first create a movie and then building it out from there hopefully mostly financed by...

Today I'm talking about project called True After Life:  After Life is kind of dark themed project which revolves around themes like death, horror, revenge, afterlife, souls, etc.  It is a 3D NFT project which plans to artistically explore together with a community, the questions about what happens to us after life ends. 3D NFTs are rendered with great attention to detail where different traits af...