Mint Podcast by Adam Levy

Anatoly Yakovenko, Co-founder of Solana, explains why Apple and Google, the top dogs in web2 haven't joined the web3 wave yet. Full episode Season 6 Episode 2 About Mint Shorts Enjoy the best moments from the podcast in bite-size segments. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletter https://levychain.substack.com --------...

Cooper Turley aka Coopahtroopa, founder of Coop Records, shares his thought process on how creators should value ownership in web3, and some ways we can teach them how valuable owning your audience really is. Full Episode Season 6 Episode 10 About Mint Shorts Enjoy the best moments from the podcast in bite-size segments. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- S...

Mint Season 6 episode 10 welcomes Cooper Turley aka Coopahtroopa who rejoins Mint to debut his new venture Coop Records backed by a $10 million funding round to double on his love for supporting music artists and early-stage crypto startups. I feel like we’re gonna look back at this episode as an iconic moment in his career as he sets the example for what he calls an Artist Seed Round. Additional...

Natalia Murillo aka Nati, who’s the founder of Koop, shares her view on monetary access to communities in web3 and how she sees this model playing out in the future. Full episode Season 6 Episode 9 About Mint Shorts Enjoy the best moments from the podcast in bite-size segments. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletter https...

Mint Season 6 episode 9 welcomes Natalia Murillo aka Nati, who’s the founder of Koop, a new home for communities to become more personal and collaborative. In this episode, we discuss Koop’s product vision, Nati’s plan for turning consumers into contributors, on-chain data, her vision for a new social media, the evolution of creator governance, and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation....

Gary Vaynerchuk shares his thought process on how to go about building a community as a creator in web3. Full episode Season 4 Episode 6 About Mint Shorts Enjoy the best moments from the podcast in bite-size segments. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletter https://levychain.substack.com -----------------------------------...

Tyson Battistella, CTO and Co-Founder of Zora.co, breaks down the meaning of a hyperstructure and explains why its valuable. Full episode Season 6 Episode 8 About Mint Shorts Enjoy the best moments from the podcast in bite-size segments. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletter https://levychain.substack.com ---------------...

Mint Season 6 episode 8 welcomes Tyson Battistella, CTO and Co-Founder of Zora.co the NFT marketplace protocol. Throughout the hour, we discuss how he got his start in web3, the early days at Coinbase, lessons learned along the years while building their marketplace protocol, hyperstructures, his thesis on the web3 creator economy, web3’s data problems, and so much more.  Additional Resources Epis...

Aaron McDonald, crypto OG and founder and contributor to Altered State Machine, FLUF World, Futureverse, Sylo, Centrality and D64 Ventures, explains how to build stickiness in web3. Full episode Season 6 Episode 7 About Mint Shorts Enjoy the best moments from the podcast in bite-size segments. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for Adam Levy's...

Mint Season 6 episode 7 welcomes Aaron McDonald, crypto OG and founder and contributor to Altered State Machine, FLUF World, Futureverse, Sylo, Centrality and D64 Ventures. Time Stamps 01:37 - Intro 05:14 - Crypto in 2015-2016 14:09 - How Do We Build a More Positive Metaverse 22:16 - Creating Stickiness in the Metaverse 30:06 - What Does Ownership Really Mean In Web3? 30:39 - Strategies for Using...

Michael Blau, the magician, mentalist, web3 software creator and engineering partner at a16z, shares his way of applying the psychological skills he learned as a magician to current web3 markets. Full episode Season 5 Episode 11 About Mint Shorts Enjoy the best moments from the podcast in bite-size segments. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for Ad...

Erick Calderon, founder, and CEO of Art Blocks, breaks down the project's curation strategy Full Episode Season 6 Episode 6 About Mint Shorts Enjoy the best moments from the podcast in bite-size segments. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletter https://levychain.substack.com -------------------------------------------...

Mint Season 6 episode 6 welcomes Erick Calderon, founder and CEO of Artblocks. In this episode we talk about his transition from importing tiles for 19 years to starting art blocks, putting together the platform’s curation board, his favorite NFTs, how he utilizes on-chain data, NFTs on Tezos, music NFTs and more. I had some microphone issues with the software i use to record, so apologies for the...

Slow Ventures' Megan Lightcap, interviews me this time and has me share my take on social tokens in todays market. Full episode Season 6 Episode 5 About Mint Shorts Enjoy the best moments from the podcast in bite-size segments. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletter https://levychain.substack.com --------------------...

Mint Season 6 episode 5 welcomes a fun conversation between Slow Ventures’ Creator Principal Megan Lightcap and Mint host Adam Levy on the pseudonymous creator economy, why on-chain data is the most exciting opportunity for creators,  Time Stamps 00:12 - Intro 04:17 - Recapping NFT NYC 08:39 - How Does Web3 Empower Creators? 15:12 - The Divide Between Web2 Creators and Web3 Creators 24:29 - Though...

David Greenstein of Sound.xyz, shares his point of view on what makes an artist more valuable in web3. Full episode Season 5 Episode 3 About Mint Shorts Enjoy the best moments from the podcast in bite-size segments. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletter https://levychain.substack.com -------------------------------------...

Alex Svanevik of Nansen.ai, shares his thoughts on the current state of AI in web3. Full episode Season 6 Episode 4 About Mint Shorts Enjoy the best moments from the podcast in bite-size segments. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletter https://levychain.substack.com --------------------------------------------------------...

Mint Season 6 episode 4 welcomes Alex Svanevik, CEO of Nasen.ai, the leading blockchain analytics tool for crypto traders. Time Stamps 00:12 - Intro 02:58 - Labeling a Wallet 11:55 - Are You Bullish or Bearish on Artists Tokenizing Music? 18:36 - What is the Current State of AI in Web3? 25:36 - Overall Thoughts on the Cross Between NFTs and Defi 30:45 - Predicting Trends in Web3 35:04 - The Acquis...

Miguel Peidrafita, the purple hair developer at Worldcoin, shares how he expresses his creativity using web3 primitives. Full episode Season 6 Episode 3 About Mint Shorts Enjoy the best moments from the podcast in bite-size segments. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletter https://levychain.substack.com -------------------...

Mint Season 6 episode 3 welcomes Miguel Peidrafita, the purple hair developer at Worldcoin. We discuss the future of web3 social, fan interoperability, creativity, where he’s spending his energy in the bear market, and more. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Time Stamps 01:38 - Intro 07:28 - The Purpose of Purple 08:49 - How Miguel Expresses His Creativity in Web3 11:52 - The Web3 Creator Economy...

Mirror’s Growth Engineer, Patrick Rivera, shares how he's thinking about publishing blog posts through Mirror. Full episode Season 5 Episode 13 About Mint Shorts Enjoy the best moments from the podcast in bite-size segments. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletter https://levychain.substack.com -----------------------...

Anatoly Yakovenko, Co-founder of Solana, shares how he thinks about on-chain data from the point of view of a creator. Full episode Season 6 Episode 2 About Mint Shorts Enjoy the best moments from the podcast in bite-size segments. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletter https://levychain.substack.com ---------------------...

Mint Season 6 episode 2 welcomes Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana. We spent nearly an hour exploring the current landscape of the creator economy on the Solana blockchain and why he believes Solana is well equipped to meet the needs of a crypto-native creator. We also discuss how creators should use on-chain data to build communities, his vision for web3 mobile, crypto retail stores, and so...

MP, Co-founder of JPEG, joins mint to explain the value of decentralized search results. Full episode Season 6 Episode 1 About Mint Shorts Enjoy the best moments from the podcast in bite-size segments. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletter https://levychain.substack.com ---------------------------------------------------...

Mint Season 6 episode 1 welcomes MP, co-founder of JPEG, the NFT curation layer of web3. She’s been working in the blockchain space since June 2017 and has consulted or worked for projects such as Polkadot, Gnosis, Melonport, Ethereum Community Fund, Golem, Akropolis, Concourse Open, Avalanche, and other grassroots and established projects on the Ethereum ecosystem. In this episode, we talk about...