The NonFunGerbils Podcast

Today we welcome Adam B Levine of 330ai, a true original gangster of Bitcoin education having founded Speaking of Bitcoin (formerly Lets Talk Bitcoin) along with a number of other projects. We also welcome Freya Stevens of Likvidi who are connecting the world of carbon credits to the NFT space. This was a really fascinating conversation around carbon credits, how they work, how they can add value...

George and I recently got back from the Non-fungible Conference in Lisbon. What a fantastic week it was, we met wonderful people, had amazing dinners and stimulating conversations. It was quite something to have such a broad range of people with the unified focus of NFTs all in one place. I kept a dictaphone with me and caught up with some key figures and friends and gained insight into their expe...

We are delighted to be here and joined today by Conlan Rios of the revolutionary platform ASYNC.ART. where you can design your own programmable and interactive art, generative collections and music. We have a fantastic chat exploring the following topics: The early Cryptovoxels days Hybrid metaverse platforms NFT culture and how it has changed Conlan Pitches Pomplamoose on ASYNC Audio Blueprintsta...

We chat to David Lucatch of Liquid Avatar and Oasis Digital Studios. We learn about David's approach to digital identity and how he is pairing real life identity with online identity along with the implications of identity verification in the Metaverse. https://oasisdigitalstudios.com/   https://liquidavatartechnologies.com/   https://ca.linkedin.com/in/david-lucatch-06806a5   https://nonfungerbil...

Today we welcome Bruno from RMRK which is NFT LEGO on the Kusama Blockchain that gives infinite extensibility to it's NFTS Bruno is deeply rooted within the Web3 and Polkadot ecosystem and runs dotleap.com with it's fortnightly newsletter on everything Polkadot, Substrate and Kusama We cover so much mind bending NFT brain food in this episode, you'd better find somewhere safe to sit down! https://...

Welcome to the NonFunGerbils and the Digitally Rare Podcasts We have come together to have a good old chin wag about the wider NFT space with a focus on art and the recent PFP project craze Digitally Rare was the first NFT podcast with their original episode airing July 2018. Jonathan and Matt are super fun and insightful, we hope you enjoy this as much as we did. At the end we read out entries fo...

Sillytuna has had recent notoriety after selling his Covid Alien Cryptopunk for $11.7m at Sothebys, he is a developer, founder and a serious OG in the crypto space. We have an insightful chat about NFTs discussing: The road to mainstream for NFTs The problems to be resolved before the next hype wave The Future problem of Malicious SPAM NFTs The need for Native Ethereum contract wallets Iteration a...

We are joined by one of the highest profile supporters of the NFT community and serial entrepreneur - Paris Hilton. The self described 'undercover nerd', one time collector of POGs, Pokemon and beanie babies, and successful business woman with 19 product lines, Paris Hilton discovered the world of crypto in 2016 and as she delved deeper into NFTs, has found a welcoming community. We hear more abou...

We are joined by Matt and Kyle from Piñata which is essentially the core IPFS pinning service in the space. We take an awesome dive into what IPFS actually is, how it works and why it's an important tool for storage and distribution of data on the web. We then cover NFT metadata, where are the images and descriptions and all the data associated with your tokens stored. Why it is important and pote...

We are joined by Jonathan Levine, an entrepreneur in the daily fantasy sports industry and representative of a small group of investors including Jonathan Bales and Peter Jennings and Adam Lefkoe who have entered the NFT space with a bang buying a number of high value NBA Topshots amongst other collectibles and art. We get an insight in to their investment thesis coming into the space, speculate o...

Today we welcome back Alan Carr, game designer for Dapper Labs and legend of the NFT space. We deep dive into NBA Topshot, what it is and everything that has happened around the phenomenal growth it has seen this year. At the end we read out some NonFunGerbil stories written by you, announce the winner for Baller Gerbil. We also layout our next competition and artist collaboration. https://twitter...

Today we are joined by an OG investor in the space and the founder of Proof of Attendance Protocol Patricio Worthalter. Patricio tells us the fascinating story of how he originally got in to the space after sorting out a ransomware payment in Bitcoin and finding the whole process so enjoyable! he speaks of the building of POAP, the difficulties and the successes, interoperability, competing blockc...

We speak to Jigsaw of Seen Haus, a very new project taking on the task of pairing the digital and physical with their auction house. We get down into the details and explore the whole concept. We thought this was a really interesting chat and would love to know what you thought. Tweet us @NonFunGerbils https://seen.haus/   https://nonfungerbils.com   https://twitter.com/NonFunGerbils   https://dis...

We are joined by John Linden and Rudy Koch of Mythical Games John and Rudy are part of the super star team that setup Mythical and have bought us the game Blankos Block Party This interview was great fun and at the end we read out a couple of the entries for Elf Gerbil and announce the next NonFunGerbil giveaway and competition. Please excuse some variable audio quality in this episode due to tech...

We are joined by Jesse and Dan of Aavegotchi. An ambitious project bringing collectibles, gaming, art, metaverse, DAOs and DeFi and maybe even hardware all together in one cohesive system. At the end we unveil RugPullGerbil and read out some of the fantastic entries you sent us as well as set the next NonFunGerbil challenge ready for the holiday season. https://aavegotchi.com/ https://twitter.com/...

We are joined for a second time by Zach Burks, founder of Mintable the token minting platform. Zach is here to tell us about the long awaited Mintable 2.0 which brings a whole new kind of Platform and Marketplace to the NFT world and introduces some unique features and approaches such as their DAO, whose governance tokens are NFTs. https://twitter.com/mintable_app   https://mintable.app/   https:/...

We are joined by Aleksander Larsen, co-founder and COO of Sky Mavis and Axie Infinity. This turned out to be an epic 2 part conversation. In part one we go over everything Axie Infinity past present and future, NFTs, Gaming, play-2-earn, crypto, incentives, adoption, virtual worlds, scaling, DAOs, Art, and all the things The second part, which follows straight on was recorded today, we have added...

We are joined by legendary artist and all round creative Alotta Money. In this inspirational episodes we get an insight into Alotta Money's journey into and through the space, we take a dive into the NFT art scene and get some great advice for upcoming and established artists looking to tokenise their art. At the end we read out some amazing Farmer Gerbil entries and announce the next NonFunGerbil...

We are joined by the artist known as Robert Alice, who has spent 3 years creating the epic set of paintings known as 'Portraits of a mind'. These contain within the original Bitcoin codebase which has been distributed between the 40 works. Next week we see work number 21 go on auction along with its accompanying NFT at the renowned auction house Christies'   This was a very exciting episode, we ho...

Today we are joined by Ben Nolan, the founder and lead developer Cryptovoxels. We dive into: - the long-term vision for virtual world - upcoming features and development - the funding model - VR - sharding - scaling and much more. We really enjoyed this conversation, we hope you do too. #ForkingGerbil #FarmerGerbil https://twitter.com/bnolan https://www.cryptovoxels.com/ https://nonfungerbils.com/...

We welcome Hackatao and their official speaker Eleonora Brizi. We have been working together with Hackatao and you our listeners to come up with a very unique creation, Pending Gerbil. Hackatao came up with the Name, you, came up with the back stories and we announce the winner at the end of the show. We took this opportunity to discover more about the duo Sergio and Nadia, their story, their proc...

https://youtu.be/aErrChG5oAs https://nonfungerbils.com/podcast/18-artur-sychov-immersed-in-vr In our first video episode we enter Somnium Space for an interview in Virtual Reality with Somnium's founder and CEO Artur Sychov. We find out: - how Somnium started - what you can do in the virtual world - what's in development - the future of Social VR worlds and much much more. https://www.somniumspace...

We are joined by Joseph Delong, Senior developer at Consensys with the TXRX team researching and implementing Ethereum 2.0. We delve into the plan for ETH 2.0, how it's going to work and what the implications are for NFTs and composiblity. At the end we read out some of your brilliant Liberty Gerbil entries and then have an extra special announcement regarding the next NonFunGerbil. We hope you en...

This is an exciting episode is because we've got an exclusive first look at a project that's been in stealth mode for the last 2 and a half years. Cryptographs are one-off creations, made by icons and artists that are immutable, and generate ongoing revenue for charity. Immutable in this case mean that they've bought a new kind of immutability to ERC 721s in that the tokens are unburnable. There i...

Today we welcome the renowned NFT collector known as Whaleshark This was an epic conversation where we hear about Whalesharks story, $WHALE token and take a deep dive into the vision behind it. We also cover many other topics including community impacts of the socialisation of collections, why scarce digital art is the medium for this generation of collectors and much more. At the end we read out...