The Matthew and Rizzle Show

Rizzle had a solo chat with Amir from Bomani Digital. The duo discuss Oddballs, the project Amir is building out at Bomani and shares some super relevant takes on where the web3 space is from a builder's perspective, using ai art, and how people generally think about building experiences around their projects.   Amir Twitter: https://twitter.com/Amir_dbab Bomani Digital Twitter: https://twitt...

This week Matthew & Rizzle spoke with Pointshark, and OG meta architect and virtual builder.  Pointshark's day job is in the IRL construction industry, so his perspective as a virtual builder is intimately informed by his real life building expertise. Pointshark talk about how he found crypto and NFT land while working construction and the community that immediately embraced him early on...

This week Matthew & Rizzle spoke with the loudest voice in the metaverse, host of the Afties on the WIP Meetup, and wearer of many other hats, Sho. If you're a fan of the Afties, then sit back, crack open a cold one, and get ready for a fun one. Sho starts off with a potted history up to his joining the WIP Crew before giving a spicy take of the current state of the metaverse. Sho doesn't hold...

This week, Matthew & Rizzle spoke with the OG crypto artist and provocateur par excellence Stellabelle (note the spelling y'all - all one word, no capital 'b' and an 'e' at the end).  Stellabelle has an epic drop of 23 works from her legendary CryptoStellas collection scheduled to go live on Nifty Gateway on Monday August 8th at 6:30 pm ET. There is A LOT of history and criticism to unpac...

This week Matthew & Rizzle spoke with Bryce Anderson about his latest project Omega Runner. Bryce hails from Hollywood and the movie and entertainment industry, and is pulling on all that experience with Omega Runner, a project that Bryce describes as Media3 (to differentiate it from the monolithic catch-all that web3 currently is). There is a lot of potential for content creators to leverage...

For the next installment of the WIP Crew Series where Matthew & Rizzle sit down and chat with each member of the WIP Crew, the boys speak with POAP Master ItsCarolinaDuhh. Based on rough, back-of-the-envelope math, Carolina has minted and distributed over 200,000 NFTs as POAPs across 2,000+ events. But Carolina is more than a POAP Master. Much more.  The boys chat with Carolina about her...

This week Matthew & Rizzle spoke with long-time Centians and builders George & Terence, creators of Olta. Art. The focus of this episode is on finding the best way to conceptualize the Olta project and what it's aiming to do for interactive and dynamic art. George & Terence have plans to add multi-editions to their project to help expand the addressable market of collectors. After that...

This week Matthew & Rizzle spoke with the one, the only, the indefatigable Sandy Meows, leader of the Power WIP Girls on the WIP Crew as well as community builder & manager at OG projects like Token Smart.  Last Thursday at the WIP Meetup, Sandy emerged out of an extended break from crypto. The conversation kicks off digging into the background behind her choice to unplug from the met...

This week Matthew & Rizzle spoke with Foxyoga, the chillest soul in the metaverse, host of the MARS Podcast listening party in the Token Smart discord, and creator of Meta Break. The conversation kicks off digging into Foxy's pre-crypto background growing up in Venezuela before diving down the crypto rabbit hole that brought her together with Matthew & Rizzle, Token Smart, The WIP and all...

This week Matthew & Rizzle spoke with Johan & Mattias, co-founders of Marble Cards and MEME Explorers and partners to the weekly WIP Meetup.  The conversation kicks off with a brief look back into both Johan's and Mattias' pre-crypto entrepreneurial origin stories before diving into their early foray into web3 creating Marble Cards, a project that let's you mint bookmarks of the inter...

This week Matthew & Rizzle spoke with Bitpixi of Voxels (formerly known as Cryptovoxels).  Bitpixi leads UX at Voxels, but like everyone in the space, she wears many more hats. She is a community champion and event leader amongst other roles. The conversation begins with Bitpixi digging into her web2 past where she worked at Meitu and Gfycat before falling for the creative allure of the E...

This week Rizzle spoke with the team behind Ocean Defenders about what they are doing to help defend the oceans and how you can help.  The Ocean Defenders' Twitter: https://twitter.com/Defenders_ocean Love Handlz Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheLoveHandlz _______________________ The Matthew & Rizzle Show is proudly sponsored by Proof of Beauty Studios , a lab that has been running a serie...

This week Matthew & Rizzle are back with a new episode featuring the one and only EZinCrypto. The boys go way back in time to discuss the good old days on Cent focusing on the "share, learn, and collaborate" ethos that became the rocket fuel for many in NFT land before digging into EZ's latest music-focusing project Cipher. For everyone curious about what the real old days of the space were li...

Rizzle will finally get back from Europe tomorrow just in time for the WIP (at 12 pm PT in the MEME Explorers discord ), so we would like to uncork one more vintage MARS episode for everyone. Last March, we had the good fortune of speaking with Patricio, the founder of the Proof of Attendance Protocol, otherwise known by its epic acronym POAP. POAPs have become an essential fixture for WIP attende...

Rizzle is off in Europe doing big European NFT conference things, so this week we will share another classic episode from the MARS vault.  Two years back we spoke with Seb and Nathan about the crypto-powered virtual world called The Sandbox that they were (and still are) building. Listen back on the vision these two had for The Sandbox then and afterwards download The Sandbox client and hop i...

In honor of the 2 year anniversary since the mainnet launch of the fully on-chain PFP project Avastars, we are brining back a conversation that was recording in January of 2020 BEFORE the launch of Avastars with the creator of Avastars himself, Jim McNelis aka j1mmy.eth.  Twitter: https://twitter.com/j1mmyeth _______________________ The Matthew & Rizzle Show is proudly sponsored by ...

This week Matthew & Rizzle spoke with Abram, co-founder of 0xSplits, builders of a public and open split protocol. While regular ETH addresses like your MM or Trust wallet address link one address to one recipient, crypto split addresses that you can create using 0xSplits link a single address to many recipients. The implications of this seemingly simple development could have far reaching imp...

This week Rizzle jumped on his own damn show as a guest to talk about his upcoming Art Blocks drop #OnChainChain.  As the name of the project implies, Rizzle and co-creators Sebi and Miguel Garest have created a fully on-chain digital wearable chain that owners will be able to use (or rather wear) across different metaverse worlds like CryptoVoxels and The Sandbox with more support to come.&n...

This week Matthew & Rizzle spoke with Cent Mafia member turned crypto artist and web3 builder RoganX. The duo dove in to Rogan's latest venture adding his wisdom to tech support and developer relations at the dev-focused figment.io, and discussed the good, the bad and the ugly of the latest boom in DAO interest in addition to reflecting on the good old days on Cent before the whole space blew...

This week Matthew & Rizzle spoke with the inspiring crypto artist Cryptoyuna. Cryptoyuna represents the best of the NFT and cryptoart spaces. Everything she does helps shine a light on all that is possible in the space. As a parent she has shown how NFTs have allowed her to pursue art full-time instead of putting it on hold. As an artist and builder in the space her can-do attitude and ability...

This week Matthew & Rizzle spoke with the generative artist YRDGZ (big shout out to @abysms11 for the recommendation!). NFTs, and more specifically cryptoart, changed the entire life trajectory of YRDGZ beginning way back in 2019 when she joined the Editional community where she eventually made her first sale to the legendary Jake Brukhman. From there the trio discuss the blowup of the space t...

This week Matthew & Rizzle caught up with the #2 metaverse influencer and all around amazing human being and artist Bryan Brinkman. The trio talked about a lot including the intersection of digital and physical art and where it's heading, the pros and cons of the burgeoning irl NFT event circuit, comparing minting art in the past versus present, Bryan's upcoming Nifty Gateway drop this Friday,...

This week Matthew & Rizzle spoke with artist and web3 dominatrix, Cryptonatrix. The trio dove into the complicated and supremely frustrating current state of sex workers in the web3 space. While the tools and tech provisioned by blockchain would appear to be a perfect fit for sex workers to use to take power back from exploitative platforms and people, unfortunately that's not the current real...

Matthew & Rizzle spoke with photographer Marshall Scheuttle this week about the NFT-photo books he will be helping to create at KGPNFT (Kris Graves Projects NFT) once the project launches in just a few weeks time. KGPNFT is aiming to cater towards the newly NFT photography curious by presenting folks with both an approachable entry point into the scene along with some much needed context and t...

Matthew & Rizzle spoke with Jan & David from the new NFT project MovieShots that's working on a clever way to integrate NFTs with movies. As Jan & David explain it, MovieShots will release NFTs that feature select stills of every segment of a movie separated by hard-cuts. The first movie they have acquired the global rights to apply this approach to is the 1998 hit Run Lola Run. Introd...