The Matthew and Rizzle Show

This week Matthew & Rizzle spoke with Brian, creator and lead steward of CherubsDAO. CherubsDAO is an impact fund that will be targeting ROI returning brain health focused research and initiatives with a particular focus on dementia and Alzheimer's disease. We cover a lot of ground including the genesis inspiration behind the project, a deep dive into how CherubsDAO is structured (hint: there...

This week Matthew & Rizzle speak with Micol, creator and steward of VerticalCrypto Art, a web3 curatorial studio. Micol's entrance into the space, her passion working with creators and artists, the genesis and rapid growth of the VerticalCrypto Art business and brand are all discussed in this episode in addition to thinking through the future of the cryptoart and NFT space. Some notable shout-...

This week Matthew & Rizzle spoke with the one and only Nate Alex . Nate is the man. He's an OG NFT degen who cut his collecting teeth with CryptoKitties before creating and co-founding projects like Chain Faces, NFT42, Chain Faces Arena, and his latest project hilariously called Secret Project. We retrace his journey, talk some shit, take a peek into Secret Project, and talk about what he has...

This week Matthew & Rizzle spoke with Latashá , musician, force, and head of community programming at ZORA . We dive into Latashá's background as a musician, her journey into the web3 space and what she's doing at ZORA as their head of community programming. Of course the duo deep dives in NFT Music and Latashá provides a bevy of fire recommendations of artists and musicians to keep an eye and...

This week Matthew & Rizzle spoke with Sky Mavis & Axie Infinity co-founder, head of growth, community guru Jiho about... a lot. The duo dives into the upcoming mega update at Axie Inifinity, recounted the monumental growth over the past year in particular, and spent a lot of time talking about all-things community: starting an early community, the three C's of community (communication, cad...

This week Matthew & Rizzle spoke with the fine digital artist and crypto art historian @MLOdotArt aka Martin Lukas Ostachowski. Martin takes us back into time and traces his creative journey that brought him into the world of crypto art where, in addition to being an artist, he has been logging the epic history of this burgeoning space on his site mlo.art/history . This was an insanely fun con...

Note: This episode was originally recorded on April 4th 2020. Re-releasing since it's a holiday week, but also to preface the new chat we'll be recording soon with Jiho that we'll release early in 2022. This week Rizzle and Matthew spoke with Jiho, co-founder and Head of Growth at Axie Infinity. Major topics discussed include: the easiest way to start playing Axie Infinity, the amazing Axie commun...

This week Matthew & Rizzle held space with artist, builder, and metaverse inspirer Trippyogi to talk about their latest project MetaTravelers. We dig into the larger ambitions the pfp project has and have time left over to take a pulse check on the current state of the metaverse. _______________________ The Matthew & Rizzle Show is proudly sponsored by Proof of Beauty Studios , a lab that...

Matthew & Rizzle speak with the multi-hyphenate actor, filmmaker, poet, artist David about...everything. After talking about his intense youth David walks us through his creative journey that involves the creation of a new art form David calls Spinema (Spoken Word + Cinema) as well as NFTs including series like the Modern Day Minstrel and much more. David is a FORCE and it was a pleasure to ch...

This week Matthew & Rizzle spoke with Lawson from RARA about their next experiment at the innovation of social and crypto. Building off of their first product, a social auction bot integration for discord, they are back with their next experiment: The NFT Race. If you're looking for a fresh take on NFTs and crypto along with novel approaches, RARA and this episode are for you. ________________...

Matthew & Rizzle spoke with Josh & Molly about their ~ ribbit ~ PFP project called FlyFrogs. Full disclosure: Matthew owns a few FlyFrogs and Rizzle is Overlord of the Frogs or something super serious. We talk about the wild and crazy transition from their IRL gigs where Josh is a toy developer to launching and selling out an NFT PFP project in 2021. Of course we dig into the FlyFrogs road...

Matthew & Rizzle spoke with Joe & Josh, co-creators of the pre-launch NFT PFP project Society of the Hourglass. The boys dove into what led Joe & Josh down the NFT rabbit hole, the genesis of Society of the Hourglass, pre-launch plans and ambitions and more. They also had a fun chat about what NFTs everyone (including Matthew & Rizzle) is collecting and why.  _________________...

Matthew & Rizzle had a fun chat with Azeem from Pollinate.io and how to create a crypto-powered ecosystem to help give creatives from emerging parts of the world the funds to kickstart their creative dreams. _______________________ The Matthew & Rizzle Show is proudly sponsored by Proof of Beauty Studios , a lab that has been running a series of beautiful and thought-provoking generative a...

NFT.NYC is officially over so Matthew & Rizzle are back with a new episode of the MARS Podcast. This week the boys spoke with Steke K., one of the most important NFT whisperers in the space having worked on hugely innovative projects like Solvency by Ezra Miller, $ZOO Token, and most recently PartyDAO which is the main focus of the conversation.  Steve is such an amazingly prescient indiv...

Jusup from West Coast Customs jumped on MARS to explain why one of the premier custom auto outfits is jumping into NFTs. Our conversation touched on physical & digital collectibles, the collector mindset and much more. _______________________ The Matthew & Rizzle Show is proudly sponsored by Proof of Beauty Studios , a lab that has been running a series of beautiful and thought-provoking g...

Two old friends, Twobadour & Brooke from Metapurse, jumped onto a call with Matthew & Rizzle to unpack everything they are planning with the Dreamverse *experience* set to launch in NYC coinciding with NFT.NYC on Thursday, November 4th (12 pm ET start time for the gallery portion and 8 pm ET start time for the PARTY).  You have to listen in to grok just how far-reaching the plans are,...

This week Joseph from the Solana-based 3D Lion NFT project Jungle Cats jumped on MARS this week to speak with Matthew & Rizzle. The duo digs into the Solana project and also into the Solana ecosystem. Oh, and Rizzle got a pretty dope 3D lion too.  _______________________ The Matthew & Rizzle Show is proudly sponsored by Proof of Beauty Studios , a lab that has been running a series of...

This week Matthew & Rizzle spoke with Jason, head of marketing at Bitlectro Labs (and professional magician).  Of course, we touch on Jason's relationship with magic and the connection to crypto, but we also unpack some of the exciting web3 experiments that Bitlectro Labs is running at the intersection of NFT PFPs, creative commons licensed music, digital art, and gaming. Jason explains t...

This week Matthew & Rizzle jumped on a call with Don to discuss The Superstar Fam , or TFS for short. This project has a lot going on as you'll hear, and a lot of the project remains to be developed. They are aiming to create a non-binary PFP series of 10102 avatars initially that will help power a recurring loop of metaverse events utilizing a +1 pass that TFS holders will have priority acces...

Matthew & Rizzle spoke with Dave from Proof of Beauty Studios (POB) this week. At first glance, and probably second and third glances too, POB may appear complicated, and you'd be correct. There is a lot going on under the hood with this project. Dave helps clarify what the heck POB is actually doing, which is amazingly fascinating once you unpack it a little. Over the course of our conversati...

This week Matthew & Rizzle speak with Denny of the Artobotics project. Originally a series of old school physical vending machines filled with ubique stamp sized art by some of the most notable living artists of the past few decades, Denny is in the early stages of trying to take Artobotics into the metaverse. If you'd like to work on turning this vjsion into a reality please feel free to reach ou...

This week, Matthew & Rizzle speak with Gregg P about the SquiggleDAO he has been leading the charge on since the beginning of the year. We talk about the historical significance and promise of DAOs, the background behind the SquiggleDAO specifically, creating a community around collecting Chromie Squiggles, DAO tooling, and more!

This week Matthew & Rizzle speak with Al Morris, founder and chief architect of Koii Network, a blockchain that aims to make it easier for creators to own and earn the value of their content, permanently. We unpack the current status of Koii Network, the long-term vision of a world where creators (and the world, really) have open access to the entire corpus of shared creations and information, som...

This week Matthew & Rizzle spoke with Simon Heterington, creator of the soon-to-launch Graf Giraffe Gang NFT project. GGG has the trappings of a dank pfp project - vibey animal, dope hand-drawn art - but the background behind this project is very human, and the cause supported by sales is very noble. Sales will help support disabled artists, so in a way, GGG is a sort of project-powered crypto nat...

Welcome back to the Matthew & Rizzle Show after a one-week break. This week the boys chop it up with a long-time friend and repeat guest, Johan Unger of MarbleCards and Meme.com. Johan unpacks the background behind Meme.com and the cultural economy of meme remixing and curating it aims to foster, challenges the concept of traditional copyright in the cryptoart space, waxes poetic about cryptov...