Digitized | Spotlight

In this Digitized Spotlight, Winnie (Strobe) and Amanda (Collab+Currency) explore the emerging infrastructure behind distributed AI inference and the untapped compute sitting in people's homes. They chat with Tom, founder of Actual Computer, who's reimagining how AI runs by turning consumer hardware into a global inference network. They cover how Bittensor powers the Actual Computer netw...

In this Digitized Spotlight , Amanda (Collab+Currency) and Winnie (Strobe) dive into the speculative consumer behaviors emerging around collectibles and prediction markets. They chat with Upshot founder Wayne, who’s reimagining prediction markets from the ground up in the form of trading cards. They cover how to play and win prizes on Upshot, what’s driving momentum in prediction markets, building...

In this Digitized Spotlight, Winnie (Strobe) and Amanda (Collab+Currency) explore how Baxus is unbundling Sotheby’s for the spirits market. Baxus cofounders Tzvi and Carrie cover how Baxus enables onchain liquidity for whiskey, unlocks barrel intelligence for distilleries, powers customer data for brands, and more! ----- Resources: Explore Baxus | https://www.baxus.co/ Follow Tzvi | https://x.com/...

In this Digitized Spotlight, Winnie (Strobe) unpacks the world’s open robotics lab BitRobot. Amanda (Collab+Currency / BitRobot) and BitRobot cofounder Michael break down current bottlenecks and emerging research trends in embodied AI, how crypto incentives uniquely unlock real-world data collection and evaluation, ways to contribute to the network today, and more! ----- Resources: Learn more abou...

Digitized Spotlight hosts Amanda (Collab+Currency) and Winnie (Strobe) interview River, co-founder of open health network Pulse. We explore why today’s wearables fall short in democratizing data ownership, Pulse’s debut wearable Series One, where the health & wellness space is heading, and more! ----- Resources: Buy a Pulse Series One | https://pulse.site/ Follow Pulse | https://x.com/PulseNoL...

Digitized Spotlight hosts Amanda (Collab+Currency) and Winnie (Strobe) interview Pete, co-founder of Winston Artory Group (WAG). WAG is the result of a merger of The Winston Art Group, the leading independent art appraisal and advisory firm, and Artory, a global Web3 pioneer in secure and data-driven collection management. The merger creates a full-suite platform for art and collectibles stewardsh...

Digitized Spotlight hosts Amanda (Collab+Currency) and Winnie (Strobe) interview Ryne, co-founder of Eco - a stablecoin liquidity layer for onchain apps and protocols. We discuss the emerging “stablecoin stack,” the implications of recent regulatory and legal developments, why capital is pouring into the stablecoin category, trends to watch in the coming years, and more! ----- Resources: Check out...

Digitized Spotlight hosts Amanda (Collab+Currency) and Winnie (Strobe) interview Jonathan, co-founder of Dripster - a design-to-product token launchpad that empowers creators to transform innovative concepts into tangible products. We cover how tokens can fuel physical product development, the next evolution of memecoins, the changing landscape for intellectual property and product design in a wor...

Digitized Spotlight hosts Amanda (Collab+Currency) and Winnie (Strobe) interview NPC Labs co-founders Daryl and Viktoriya, core contributors to the first horizontally scaled, hyper-operable, gaming ecosystem B3. We cover the case for onchain games, what's worked and hasn't worked in Web3 gaming, games and gamechains launching on B3, and more.  ----- Resources: Check out B3 | https://base...

Digitized Spotlight hosts Amanda (Collab+Currency) and Winnie (Strobe) interview Shuyao, co-founder of MegaLabs, the developer of an EVM-compatible "real-time" blockchain MegaETH. We also bring on the founders of ecosystem apps Noise, a platform for trading trends, and Pump Party, an upcoming live, interactive gameshow. We discuss MegaETH's value prop, apps building on MegaETH, appr...

Digitized Spotlight hosts Amanda (Collab+Currency) and Winnie (BlockTower Capital) interview Alex and Jack, who co-founded Clanker - an autonomous agent for deploying tokens. We also bring on the founders of ecosystem apps Clank.fun, a marketplace and launchpad for Clanker tokens, and Native, a digital city and social network powered by Clanker. We discuss trends in creator tokens, social behavior...

Digitized Spotlight hosts Amanda (Collab+Currency) and Winnie (BlockTower Capital) interview Jansen, co-founder of Virtuals Protocol, which enables the creation, ownership, and growth of tokenized AI Agents. We discuss Virtuals Protocol's product offering and upcoming roadmap, what’s next for AI agents, and more! ----- Resources: Check out Virtuals Protocol | https://app.virtuals.io/ Follow V...

​​​​​Amanda (Collab+Currency) and Winnie (BlockTower Capital) bring a few of their investor friends (Shayon of Multicoin, Alex of Sfermion) back on the podcast to recap the U.S. election, AI agent trends, and more. We also highlight consumer crypto apps we’ve been trying as of late. ----- Resources: Check out Hype | https://x.com/gethype_hq (invite code: 262632) Check out Tribe | https://x.com/tri...

​Amanda (Collab+Currency) and Winnie (BlockTower Capital) bring on a few of their investor friends (Regan of Lattice, Mark of M13) to recap Token 2049 and Solana Breakpoint. We also chat through new apps we're trying and trends we’re watching for the rest of 2024. ----- Resources: Follow Regan | https://x.com/reganbozman Follow Mark | https://x.com/markwgrace ----- Stay connected with Spotlig...

Amanda (Collab+Currency) and Winnie (BlockTower Capital) bring on a few of their investor friends (Sanat of Dragonfly Capital, Sterling of Blockchain Capital) to chat about all of the interesting things that have been happening in consumer crypto as of late: stablecoin growth, crypto casinos and prediction markets, emerging ecosystems (e.g., Monad, MegaETH, Berachain), and more. The episode was or...

Digitized Spotlight hosts Amanda (Collab+Currency) and Winnie (BlockTower Capital) interview Jai Prasad, co-founder of Definitive, an institutional-grade trading and yield platform used by both retail traders and hedge funds. We discuss how retail is finding trading opportunities on-chain, the rise of memecoins, the growing complexity of the DeFi space, the increasing fragmentation of liquidity, a...

Amanda (Collab+Currency) and Winnie (BlockTower Capital) bring on a few of their investor friends (Mason from Variant, Brian from Sfermion) to chat about all of the interesting things that have been happening in consumer crypto as of late: ​Telegram bots and apps, memecoin culture, prediction markets, normies returning to crypto, and more. The episode was originally recorded live on Mar. 26, 2024....

​Amanda (Collab+Currency) and Winnie (BlockTower Capital) bring on a few of their investor friends (Shayon of Multicoin Capital, Mark of M13) to chat about all of the interesting things that have been happening in consumer crypto as of late: ​Farcaster Frames and Channels, memecoins, ephemeral apps, ERC-404, trends for 2024, and more. The episode was originally recorded live on Feb. 20, 2024.  ---...

Digitized Spotlight hosts Amanda (Collab+Currency) and Winnie (BlockTower Capital) interview Anton Kraminkin, the founder of Sleepagotchi, a mobile app that helps gamify sleep via digital collectibles. We chat about building casual social games, designing sustainable token economies, catering to mainstream users, and more! ----- Resources: Download Sleepagotchi | https://www.sleepagotchi.com/ Foll...

Digitized Spotlight hosts Amanda (Collab+Currency) and Winnie (BlockTower Capital) chat with David Greenstein – Co-Founder and CEO of Sound, an on-chain music startup that has attracted over 2.5k artists including Snoop Dogg and Pussy Riot. We dive into the benefits of releasing music NFTs vs. publishing to traditional streaming platforms, the role of curators in driving community and growth, the...

Digitized Spotlight hosts Amanda (Collab+Currency) and Winnie (BlockTower Capital) chat with Chris Lee and Ryan Ouyang, founders of IYK – a platform enabling brands and creators, from adidas to Atlantic Records, to create digi-physical experiences. We dive into the tech stack for digi-physicals, use cases for tokenizing physical items and IRL experiences, the future of identity and social media, a...

Digitized Spotlight hosts Amanda (Collab+Currency) and Winnie (BlockTower Capital) interview Ty Haney, Co-founder & CEO of TYB – a Web3-enabled community and brand management platform. We discuss the future of community engagement and co-creation, building for mainstream audiences with blockchain under the hood, the role of venture capital in funding brands, the appetite for brands to enter We...

On the first episode of Spotlight, hosts Amanda (Collab+Currency) and Winnie (BlockTower Capital) interview Chris Maddern and Christine Hall, co-founders of Floor - your everything app for NFTs. We discuss the current state of the NFT market and where we are going from here, launching crypto mobile apps in App Stores vs. as Progressive Web Apps, barriers to Web3 adoption, and more! ----- Resources...