The Matthew and Rizzle Show

This week Rizzle and I use the recent announcement that Instagram will sunset their NFT project to take a look at the current relatively placid/borderline stagnant state of NFTland, the bright spots that continue to get brighter, and surprisingly, the early and promising moves that Starbucks is making with their NFT-powered Rewards program. Shout-outs & Shots-fired: @iArtSometimes @superbowl @...

Rizzle is fresh off the plane from ETH Denver last week so we dive right into talking about the good, the bad, and the dank of ETH Denver. The conversation zooms out to compare ETH Denver with other conferences in the space (e.g. NFT NYC, Non NFT Summit) before zooming in on the upcoming Rizzlefest that's set to take place in April 2023. Shout-outs & Shots-fired:  @EthereumDenver @NFT_NYC...

First off, our community is the best. Mikko Lyytenen shot Rizzle and I (plus the good folks at AsyncArt) an edition of their latest bear market-inspired work " Golden Apple of the Forest " which is just such a dope gesture. Much love Mikko. Outside of our amazing community, we discuss the recent NFT archeology expedition I went on digging into the "Lost XCOPY NFTweets" that were minted back in lat...

Celebrate the good shit when it happens. Over the last week Bryan Brinkman and Pindar Van Arman both released and sold out on-chain projects and they're glorious. Bryan put out an on-chain game " Cloud Poppers " and Pindar a 100% on-chain AI generated collection entitled " byteGANs ."  Check those projects out if you haven't yet.  On the other hand, the last week has seen the beginnings(...

On this week's MARS episode Matthew & Rizzle start by looking back at last week's WIP that featured an illuminating, raw conversation between Godfrey Meyer aka Boomboxhead and Jin about the biggest hurdles facing the buildout of a truly open and interoperable metaverse. That is followed by talking about how bad we are at marketing and the technical issues involved with trying to get better. So...

On this week's episode of the Matthew & Rizzle Show, Rizzle updates us on his on-going saga of larping as an artist. Rizzle managed to finagle an invite into an on-going drop curated by Corpega featuring heavy hitters like Robness, Empress Trash, WGMeets, Jaen, Moxarra and many more by dropping a work titled " Frog-sileus " which is kinda dank ngl.  Then the conversation shifts to the all...

The latest OE meta continues to dominate the crypto tweetosphere, so Rizzle and I decided to recount a bit of an oral history on Open Editions beginning with the first OE drop by Pak all the back in August 2020. From there we dive into the new world for collectors (and by extension creators) now that A.I. powered tools have made it trivially easy for literally anyone to create. Shout-outs & Sh...

Rizzle is back from touching grass with la familia so we spend the first half catching him up on the decade of events that transpired over the last week: namely the breakout success of a couple low-/no-cost OE mints like Jake Butcher's Checks - VV and Lucréce's Defy - Proceed with Caution. Depending on your perspective these new projects are either the coolest new thing under the sun, or a distrac...

SOLO EPISODE WITH RIZZLE Rizzle recorded a solo episode this week (my kiddo has put me through the ringer over the past few days) talking about the ethos that used to/should still be core to this space of our ours: Decentralization & Interoperability.  He covers the three year history of the WIP Meetup which has tried to embody the best of these two pillars and contrasts it against other...

Happy New Year everyone, The Matthew & Rizzle Show is back! Hopefully you were able to touch grass and catch some extra zzz's over the holidays.  Rizzle and I are back in the saddle and kick off 2023 chatting about:  - all the no-/low-cost mints artists are launching on their Manifold contracts + on Nifty Gateway - the key differences and trade offs of 1155 vs 721 mints - Rizzle's ho...

Happy holidays yall! A massive thank you to everyone who has listened to the Matthew & Rizzle show this year. Your support and listenership are everything.  In the spirit of the season, Rizzle and I kicked off the last MARS episode of 2022 talking about *drumroll, please* paying crypto taxes. We're not accountants, but we have been through crypto tax season a few times so offered a few ti...

Happy bday Rizzle!  Yesterday was the hypemaster of the metaverse's bday, and as per tradition, crazy ass avatars gathered in Rizzle's CV apartment (originally gifted to him by Twobadour) where the Rizzle Block was born and still lives (currently hidden beneath the bar there). It's a silly tradition if you think about it, but it's our silly tradition that's been going on three years strong in...

The people have spoken and 2022's most popular MARS episode was this classic MARS episode originally released in January 2022 (which seems sooo long ago) when Matthew & Rizzle spoke with Sky Mavis & Axie Infinity co-founder, head of growth, community guru Jiho about... a lot.  Topics discussed include: the (then) upcoming mega update at Axie Inifinity, recounting the monumental growth...

MONAVERSE ADVENT CALENDAR EVENT FTW!!! After a string of critique heavy episodes, Rizzle and I decided to shift focus to the more positive side of crypto: namely having fun. Crypto has always been fun, if you knew where to look, especially around the end of the year holidays. Way back in 2019 and 2020 the NFT marketplace Mintbase threw legendary, month-long Advent Calendar events deep in the heart...

RIP Cryptovoxels. With the passing of time, it's inevitable that we'll see many crypto projects fail and fold. While projects fail for myriad reasons, in the crypto space an unfortunately increasingly common reason why crypto projects fail is from deviating too far away from their original mission & community. This is usually not an overnight phenomenon, but instead occurs as a result of a mil...

The mainstream media is once again (literally, for like the 400th time) jumping on the grave of crypto pronouncing it dead in the wake of the FTX/Alameda implosion and Genesis shit shows. Unlike the previous 400 times crypto died, however, the MSM seems to believe that big tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and their ilk are approaching death's front door as well in light of the recent wave of...

Jfc another decade happened over the last week. Hope yall are staying safe out there.  Before touching on the FTX fiasco and the state of CEXs in general, Rizzle and I chat about the NonNFT Summit, the best cryptoart gathering ever organized by the incredible Neurocolor & Moxarra, touch on some of the early plans for Rizzlefest, and debate ebay's $45M acquisition of the cryptoart marketpl...

Some episodes just name themselves. If you listen to the first half of this episode you'll literally hear Rizzle shouting at the new influencooors to get off his metaverse lawn lmfao. The rest of our chat strolls around the neighborhood of 'being early' and the good and bad that comes with that. We also touch on the Art Gobblers drop and ensuing bi-polar reaction on twitter and tease out a topic f...

This week Rizzle and & talked about the history on-chain based on this recent tweet and how every collector and new community in this space is playing a hand at adding value to the immutable history being written into the blockchain. From there we segue into the Reddit's "digital collectible" experiment and what that may portend for the future of NFT Land and the future of onboarding folks int...

This week Rizzle and I talked shit on the state of metaverse meetups. Most of them are boring. Straight up. We gotta figure out ways to regularly make highly engaging and more importantly FUN in-world activities. Simply jumping in-world to look around at a gallery won't cut it. And simply throwing money at the problem ~cough~ Meta ~cough~ won't work either. We talked about the evolution of the WIP...

Rizzle and I are taking MARS private.  For the foreseeable future MARS episodes are just going to Rizzle and I (Matthew aka @niftytime ) running our mouths like back in the day when we started recording in 2019. On this episode we talk about a few different things, but what are mainly talking about is the evolution of crypto communities in NFT Land since roughly around 2018 until present day:...

To round out the WIP Crew Series interviews, Matthew & Rizzle chopped it up the very first videographer of the metaverse himself, Paradoxx. We talked about how Paradoxx created a whole new category of creator: the metaverse videographer, and some seminal moments along the way from early Cent days, to working with HiveMuse, joining the WIP Crew, working on the B20 metaverse event launch party,...

This week Matthew & Rizzle spoke with with Esther, founder of the instructional platform Hundo.xyz that's currently in beta.  Hundo aims to be a platform where 1 billion people and learning and earning in the metaverse in ways that open up opportunities for paid jobs and gigs in the emerging web3 powered future.  Shout-outs and shots-fired: @hundo_xyz @spatialxr @CrystalLight @tiktok...

This week Matthew & Rizzle take a walk down WIP memory lane with WIP Crew member #1, Dragonate. Dragonate was the very first member of the WIP Crew dating back to April 2020. He emerged after one particularly trying WIP where audio issue nearly killed the show with a readymade audio solution. The rest is history.  But Dragonate's metaverse adventure began before the WIP back on Cent. Sinc...

Matthew & Rizzle talk about what it's been like talking shit and recording podcasts together for the last three years. The duo cover everything from Cent days on forward to present day. Dragonate also makes a cameo towards the end.  It's good times and foreshadows what the Matthew & Rizzle show will become (again): a show focused on two friends who became full-time builders and creato...