Mint Podcast by Adam Levy

Mint Season 2 episode 12 welcomes Founder & Builder of Shenanigan, Victor Ginelli. Shenanigan or SHE for short, is a social token issuance platform for athletes. In this episode, we talk about: 2:30 - Getting Into Crypto 6:02 - Building a Career Beyond Sports 10:26 - Shenanigan DAO 12:07 - Working for an Algorithm 16:42 - Earning Through Participation 20:15 - Social Tokenomics 26:16 - Post-Mor...

Mint Season 2 episode 11 welcomes pet3rpan, a DAO and NFT thought-leader whose work is widely known across the early-stage token investment firm 1kx. He’s also a Community organizer and summoner at MetaCartel, as well as the Co-founder & blood mage at MetaCartel Ventures. In this episode, we talk about: 1kx’s investment thesis Understanding the role of leadership in DAOs How to eliminate or pr...

Mint Season 2 episode 10 welcomes Erikan Obotetukudo, Founding and Managing Partner at Audacity Fund, who’s investing in Black and African-led crypto startups targeting trillion dollar markets worldwide. I wanted to bring her on because she’s extremely vocal of how NFTs will change Africa forever - a new perspective that sparked my attention. I genuinely had so much recording this episode as Erika...

Mint Season 2 episode 9 welcomes Andy Artz who's on a mission to advance humanity by solving the world’s hardest problems by investing capital across early-stage startups at Social Capital.   He’s also a major proponent of the decentralized social media platform BitClout following his own creator coin $ARTZ.   In this episode, we talk about:  Understanding BitClout Weighing the risks of creat...

Mint Season 2 episode 8 welcomes Maria Shen who’s a partner at Electric Capital. Prior to Electric, Maria was CTO and co-founder of a startup that helped SMBs easily create their supply chains with manufacturers around the world. Prior to that, she worked on search technology at Microsoft, with her features shipped to more than 1 billion devices. In this episode, we talk about: Her NFT collection...

Mint Season 2 episode 7 welcomes Jonathan Dunlap, Founder and CEO at MintGate. He and his team are building tools for creators to experiment with token-gated content via NFT access passes and generative secret links for events, videos, music, websites, and blogs, to name a few. I’m a big believer in the power of token-gated content and how it will upgrade your communities - so this session is a sp...

Mint Season 2 episode 6 welcomes Reuben Bramanathan, an expert on all things crypto law, product management, fund management, and more. Having worked at Coinbase from 2015 to 2017, Reuben has seen the industry evolve at a rate in which many don’t have purview. Now, he’s helping build IDEO CoLab for collaborative impact where he and his team connect organizations to shape technology's impact o...

Mint Season 2 episode 5 welcomes Jess Sloss, the instigator at Seed Club, an incubator for the crypto space helping creators and communities launch and grow successful social tokens. In this episode, we talk about finding and aligning your community with a universal purpose, the ownership economy, frameworks used to derive liquidity for early-stage social token projects, DAO management roles, the...

Mint Season 2 episode 4 welcomes CEO and Co-founder of Socialstack Andrew Berkowitz. He’s building a protocol to power mission-driven social token economies on the blockchain that is driven by gratitude and abundance. In this episode, we talk about what determines the success of social communities, debunking social token myths, how to derive initial liquidity, Andrew shares predictions for where t...

Mint Season 2 episode 3 welcomes Jeff Kauffman Jr, who’s building Parachute, a social token-driven consultancy firm focused on web3 solutions for brands and agencies. Jeff has made it his responsibility to provide entry-level social token exposure to many mainstream marketing and advertising executives via the community’s currency, $JUMP. In this episode, we talk about the vision behind Parachute...

Mint Season 2 episode 2 welcomes Neil Harbisson and Pol Lombarte, two biohacking artists leveraging NFTs to remotely alter their bodies. Cyborg-artist Neil Harbisson was born color blind but he can ‘feel’ and ‘hear’ colors, thanks to a WiFi-enabled bone-conduction antenna that is permanently implanted into his skull.  Together, Neil and Pol experimented with a new state of NFTs where the buyer can...

Don Diablo is an industry-defining NFT artist, Dutch DJ, record producer, musician, and songwriter of electronic dance music who is known for his electronic style of production and vocalizing in most of his songs. He led a multi-industry career ranking sixth in the 2020’s top 100 DJs by DJ Mag, as well as amassed millions of dollars in sales for his crypto-inspired fine art. In this episode we tal...

Mint Season 1 episode 11 features Dave Young - a serial entrepreneur and an indie game developer with over 15 years of experience. Using game tech combined with complex full-stack backends, Dave has founded and created teams to build complex products, like ScreenBlazer, Magnus Rush, and Announcr. On this episode, we discuss how he’s helping fund school supplies for the youth through his social tok...

Mint Season 1 episode 10 features American entrepreneur and author Peter Shankman. He is best known for founding HARO, an online service for journalists to gather feedback from the public. His fight for creating more positive awareness around ADHD has led him down the rabbit hole of monetizing his community through $SHANK coin. We talk about the launch of his new book and how he's incentivizi...

Mint Season 1 episode 9 features Matt Mcdonald who is the lead vocalist and guitarist for The Classic Crime - a rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 2004. After leaving a record label in 2011, TCC pioneered the use of crowdfunding and other middle-men bypassing tools, continuing to make music, content, and community experiences for supporters a decade later. Their latest experiment with crow...

Mint Season 1 episode 8 features Cooper Turley is actively shaping the Creator Economy through projects like Audius, Friends with Benefits, and PleasrDAO. He advises Variant as an operator and investor and works with teams on token launches and governance through Fire Eyes DAO. On this episode, we talk about his recent article mapping out the current DAO landscape. With 100s of DAOs in existence,...

Mint Season 1 episode 7 features Harrison First is an American songwriter and producer. He works producing for other artists in addition to his own solo works through his independent label JNRY FIRST. He is one of Ängie's best friends and a frequent collaborator. He’s also the creator of $FIRST coin. On this episode, we talk about his methodology for creating a token-gated audio library aimed...

Mint Season 1 episode 6 features Jeremiah Owyang who is an advisor to Rally.io, an active angel investor, and is well recognized by both the tech and media industry for his grounded approach to deriving insights through rigorous research. He’s also the creator of the social token $JOW has achieved dominant placement on the social token charts. On this episode, we talk about his early insights into...

Mint Season 1 episode 5 features WhaleShark, a social entrepreneur and investor with a focus on disrupting the status quo, whose work is widely known for the successful $WHALE community. He's a prolific advocate of NFTs, social tokens, DAOs and much more with an impressive track record of managing 3 different social token communities. On this episode, WhaleShark and I discuss his latest proje...

Mint Season 1 episode 4 features Bomani X, A Black guitarist, singer-songwriter, and celebrity digital strategist who has worked with Jill Scott, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Wyclef, and more. He’s also the founder of Lit. Spins and was selected as Clubhouses’ icon for the longest time. More recently, he’s known for his social token $BOO and in this episode, we talk about how social tokens will revolut...

Mint Season 1 episode 3 features Jenil Thakker, CEO and Founder of Coinvise, who focuses on helping creators launch personal or community-owned social tokens on Ethereum. Coinvise is also Season 1’s sponsor and is helping make this podcast a reality. On this episode, Jenil and I discuss how to improve the UX/UI around minting, his mission for Coinvise on it becoming a decentralized Reddit for comm...

Mint Season 1 episode 2 features Jack Johnson, who’s artist name is JVCKJ. He’s widely known as one half of the multi-platinum pop duo Jack & Jack. He’s a creative force whose earned a billion-plus streams, achieved multi-platinum records, and countless sold-out tours. He’s also the founder of PSTL aka Pastel coin - a gateway to building his vision for his creator economy. On this episode we t...

Mint Season 1 episode 1 features Allie Mcpherson and Mason Geysir - the duo behind $ALLIE coin. Allie Mcpherson is a popular gaming streamer making headwinds across YouTube and Twitch where she primarily streams card games like Hearthstone & MTGA. Mason Geysir is the backend behind $ALLIE coin - he helps manage the day-to-day or ALLIE’s brand and all that Allie coin entails. Together, they are...

Yo 👋  I’m Adam Levy and this is Mint – an exclusive look into how the creators of today are building the communities of tomorrow using web3 primitives like social tokens, DAOs, and NFTs, to name a few.   On the 1st of every month, I'll be releasing a series of episodes and articles on how to leverage the power of these web3 tools and technologies into your creator economy and across your com...