Mint Podcast by Adam Levy

Mint Season 4 episode 27 welcomes Ben Lakoff, co-founder of Charged Particles, which is new protocol that lets you put digital assets inside your NFTs. Now, ordinary NFTs (think neutral molecules) can contain a digital "charge" inside — ERC20, ERC721 or ERC1155 — giving you the unprecedented power to create nested NFTs. In this episode, we discuss how creators can tap into the variety of...

Mint Season 4 episode 26 welcomes Yury Liftshits, Founder and CEO of SuperDAO, an all-in-one DAO formation platform that recently raised $11.5M in seed and pressed funding. Before Superdao, Yury has started four companies with one major exit, is a YCombinator alum, Ph. D. in Computer Science, and was teaching grad-level cryptography courses even before Bitcoin was invented. A long time ago he also...

Mint Season 4 episode 25 welcomes Richerd Chan, Co-Founder at Manifold, Punk #6046, Professional NFT Degen, and smart contract artist.  Manifold enables web3 creators to have true creative ownership, preserve on-chain provenance, and interoperate with all major NFT marketplaces. The company is known for building some of the top creator drops in the early NFT days alongside leading figures like Mad...

Mint Season 4 episode 24 welcomes Alec King, an independent artist from Denver, CO and resides in Los Angeles, CA. Following his EP's, "Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2" he released his debut album "Everything's Backwards." Alec is gearing up to release a single every other week until a meteor takes us all out. Since leaving his label, he's taken a dive into the musi...

Mint Season 4 episode 24 welcomes the two co-founders of Catalog.works, Mike Mckain and Jeremy Stern. We had fun recording this one in person during Eth Denver where we got to explore how they’re enabling a new era of valuing music for what it’s worth. They’re legends and the music NFT movement wouldn’t have been possible without them and their hard work. In this episode, we discuss: 00:00 - Intro...

Mint Season 4 episode 23 welcomes two-time Grammy award-winning producer !llmind who shares his motivation for launching Squad of Knights and argues why beats, loops, and sample packs need to be on-chain. In this episode, we discuss: 00:00 - Intro 09:24 - Understanding IP On Chain 12:23 - How to Eliminate People Sending Files to One Another; Sending the NFT and Integration 15:56 - !llmind’s Point...

Mint Season 4 episode 22 welcomes music NFT collector and crypto OG Cooper Turley (aka Coopahtroopa). He rationalizes his conviction for spending 100 ETH on music NFTs to date. He came by my hotel during Eth Denver for our first in-person conversation, making this session the longest episode in Season 4. There’s just too much alpha in one sitting, I hope you can handle it. In this episode, we disc...

Mint Season 4 episode 21 welcomes Queen George, the modern jazz-pop artist who’s been publicly, yet thoughtfully experimenting with web3 primitives since April 2021 in an effort to find and build a collector base. We explore a new funnel and interesting case study on how she growth hacked *120* collectors by minting tickets as NFTs for her live concert at Eth Denver. In this episode, we discuss: 0...

Mint Season 4 episode 20 welcomes Mark Dawson, co-founder of Quixotic, the largest NFT marketplace on Optimism, and MusicFund, a community that finds, funds, and supports up-and-coming artists. This conversation took place during Eth Denver so there’s a lot to unpack from the week itself, let alone all the cool stuff he and his co-founder are building, so let’s just dive right in. In this episode,...

Mint Season 4 episode 19 welcomes Dwight Torculas and Garrett Hughes, co-founders of the music NFT marketplace, Mint Songs. In this episode, we discuss: 01:53 - Intro  05:38 - Mint Songs 13:59 - Data-first Community 18:17 - Can NFTs help define the future of music? 36:05 - Collection and Ownership 38:54 - How to Convert fans into Collectors? 43:23 - The On Chain Revenue Model 47:43 - What is Metad...

Mint Season 4 episode 18 welcomes Jermey Vaughn, founder and CEO of Remark - the soon to be social token issuance platform on Solana. The main premise behind this conversation revolves around the current state of social tokens on Solana blockchain and why he believes ESG tokens are a better framework for understanding brands and creators. In this episode, we discuss: 00:25 - Intro 05:21 - Rimark-a...

Mint Season 4 episode 17 welcomes Kevin Owocki, a technology entrepreneur based in Boulder, Colorado, and the Founder of Gitcoin. In this episode, we discuss:  00:31 -  intro 05:19 - Gitcoin 14:00 - What’s the Incentive to Build for Open Source? 17:09 - What’s Your Plan to Capture More Market Value? 21:24 - Intersection Between Creators and Gitcoin 24:45 - Synergies Between Journalists and Softwar...

Mint Season 4 episode 16 welcomes Steve Aoki, the world-renowned DJ, entrepreneur, artist, fashionista, collector, culinary entrepreneur - there aren’t enough titles we can attribute to him. I had the pleasure of chatting with him on all things music NFTs and his latest project titled the Aokiverse! What an epic conversation, there’s a lot to unpack.  In this episode, we discuss:  03:10 - Intro 07...

Mint Season 4 episode 15 welcomes Matt Alston and Melissa Zhang, the power duo behind Bonfire, who aims to be the front page for web3 communities.  In this episode, we discuss:  01:27 - Intro 06:37 - How Did You Guys Meet? 09:59 - How Did the idea move from Events to Creators? 18:27 - Are Creators Good Community Builders? 22:25 - Is Web Three the Perfect Medium for Creators? 33:32 - DeFi meets the...

Mint Season 4 episode 14 welcomes Mark de Clive-Lowe, an American-based Japanese-New Zealand DJ, musician, composer, and producer who’s making headwinds in web3. I wanted to have Mark on because he’s attempting to do something very unique; he's in the process of raising funds to buy back his music catalog from the labels he initially signed with early on in his career. Not only does he share...

Mint Season 4 episode 13 welcomes Benny Conn, who’s a developer at Gallery.so and co-founder of Beat Foundry, an NFT platform for entirely on-chain generative and curated music. Benny dropped out of college to pursue his love for where crypto meets music and Beat Foundry was his first stab at this passion. Congrats to him and his team for a widely successful drop and I’m glad I was able to lead th...

Mint Season 4 episode 12 welcomes William Bailey, Founder and CEO of Bolero Music, a platform that brings artists & fans closer together by investing in music through Social Tokens and NFTs. In this episode, we discuss:  00:57 - Intro 06:15 - What does Bolero look for in an artist? 08:23 - Current state of music NFTs 16:03 - Understanding the value behind social tokens 23:07 - Monetizing socia...

Mint Season 4 episode 11 welcomes VÉRITÉ, an American singer and songwriter based in Brooklyn, New York. She’s also a music NFT pioneer, who played a huge role in setting the minting models and trends for what we know as music NFTs today.  In this episode, we discuss:  00:36 - Intro 03:13 - Has Crypto Changed Your Style of Music? 08:16 - Music Ownership in the NFT Space 18:05 - How Do You Generate...

Mint Season 4 episode 10 welcomes Charlie Crown, the Miami-based, Colombian DJ & producer who has released tracks through Sony Music, Dim Mak, and PRMD; and garnered over 25+ million streams in the process. He’s received nods from some of dance music’s biggest names including The Chainsmokers, Steve Aoki, Martin Garrix, and Illenium; and shared stages with other incredible artists like Zomboy,...

Mint Season 4 episode 9 welcomes Spartan Daggenhurst, an award-winning Anglo-Greek filmmaker, composer, pianist, and poet. He grew up between England, Greece, and France before moving to Los Angeles at the age of 9. In 2016, he graduated from Bard College in New York with a degree in Piano Performance and Music Composition. He works actively in various artistic mediums, including film, opera, and...

Mint Season 4 episode 8 welcomes Grady, the la-based singer-songwriter and producer who’s been making a lot of noise in web3. From starting a decentralized record label called Good Karma DAO, selling music NFTs online, and even crowdfunding his next album on-chain - there’s a lot to learn from this guy. In this episode, we discuss:  02:04 - Intro 13:19 - Good Karma DAO 18:42 - Good Karma DAO’s Fir...

Mint Season 4 episode 7 welcomes the Overstimulated duo Daniel Allan and Henry Chatfield who are setting the example for how a music creator DAO should look and feel. Here’s an end-to-end recap of their journey, analyzing the last 3 months of their work where we break down October's crowdfund as showcased in a previous episode and the day-to-day of bringing this on-chain EP to life. In this e...

Mint Season 4 episode 6 welcomes serial entrepreneur and social media mogul Gary Vaynerchuk, who’s the founder of VaynerMedia, VaynerX, VeeFriends FlyFish and so much more. It was a pleasure hearing his POV on the evolving landscape of web3 and all that it brings.  In this episode, we discuss:  00:39 - Current state of NFTs in 2022 06:14 - Will record labels evolve into hedge funds? 11:34 - Why bu...

Mint Season 4 episode 5 welcomes Spencer Graham, who is a core contributor at DAOhaus, where he helps with product development, internal operations, communications, and tokenomics. He’s been contributing full-time to DAOs since 2020, and introduces a solid foundation around product development in web3. In this episode, we discuss:  00:43 Intro 07:15 DAOs and DAOhaus 16:03 CCOs: Community Contribut...

Mint Season 4 episode 4 welcomes Xcelencia, a Puerto Rican songwriter and musician who growth hacked his way through Spotify playlists and now has landed in the world of web3. He’s the creator of the social token $EQUIS and more recently launched a crowdfunding campaign on mirror to bootstrap the birth of Infinite, an immersive multimedia album and digital art experience that will grow in real-tim...