The NonFunGerbils Podcast

Today we are Joined by Rizzle and Nate of NFT42 to discuss their upcoming iminent launch of InfinFT, A platform for minting fully onchain NFTs that's pushing the space forward with new options for artists to mint their works. We discuss this in detail and also cover many topics including the recent Cryptovoxels meetups or WIP's that are organised by Rizzle and Matthew from Cent Enjoy the episode  ...

Alan is a general legend in the space, he was co-founder of Kittycalc, product lead for Cryptokitties and is now focussed on the design and implementation for NBA Topshot. The NBA's official digital collectibles and game coming out soon on Flow. Topics we dive into: The backstory of Alan NBA Topshot overview Game mechanics Surprise and Delight Recreating collectability of playing cards digitally B...

Peter Siemens is a Software Engineer and leads on clientside software and development tools for Flow - Dapper's new blockchain solution. We cover details about Flow, it's structure and how it's doing things differently.  New NonFunGerbil coming next episode https://www.onflow.org/ https://medium.com/dapperlabs/introducing-flow-a-new-blockchain-from-the-creators-of-cryptokitties-d291282732f5 https:...

We are Joined by Jesse Johnson of Bullionix. Jesse is creating NFTs that are backed by gold bullion via Digix Gold. This is a new and exciting use case of NFTs and we have a great conversation finding out all about it. Please excuse the technical issues that we ran in to during this episode, there are a couple of 2 second gaps in the first half of the episode. #UnicornGerbil #PrepperGerbil https:/...

Today is the very long awaited launch day of Decentraland so we're joined by Matty of dclblogger.com to get us up to speed on whats happening in the Decentraland space. Matty is an investor, land flipper, and well known community member within Decentraland. He runs a blog surverying the NFT trading markets and helps people understand the landscape. #CounterfeitGerbil #UnicornGerbil https://nonfung...

Welcome Nate Hart, creator of Chainfaces. A Generative art project on Ethereum that launched last week and went viral within the NFT community. We chat to Nate about who he is, how this project came about and why randomly generated immutable ASCII faces are so compelling. Stay tuned at the end, we give away DeFi Gerbil and announce the Next NonFunGerbil. #CounterfeitGerbil #DeFiGerbil Nates Twitte...

Julien Genestoux the founder and CEO of Unlock is deeply rooted in content delivery having founded Notifixious the company behind SuperFeedr, then moving on to become lead engineer at Medium. Now with Unlock Julien is offering a new way for creators to monetise their content using NFTs for access control.   Unlock - https://unlock-protocol.com/ Julien's blog - https://www.ouvre-boite.com/ The Defi...

Happy New Year everyone. Today our guest is Angela Dalton, CEO and co-founder of Signum Growth Capital. Angela has 20 years experience in global capital markets, she served as managing director at three investment banking firms (UBS, Evercore and Guggenheim) before working as a senior partner at Signum Global Advisors where she spends her time at the intersection between policy and emerging techno...

Welcome to Episode 6 of the NonFunGerbils podcast Today Zach Burks joins us for a chat. Zach is the co-founder and CEO of Mintable - a platform that we use to batch mint our Gerbil NFTs. Zach gives us an insight into what it's like building a platform like this and gives us some teasers of the big changes that are coming in the new year with their new platform along with his vision for the future...

This is our first inter-month episode We are very pleased to present to you our conversation with John Crain of SuperRare. John is a software engineer and previously worked at Consensys and went on to found Pixura and build SuperRare, a market for art NFTs. John gives us his insights into: The crypto art market Branching out into the wider art world Growth in the area Where it moves to next What i...

Today we're joined by John Watkinson of LarvaLabs, John is the co-creator of the Cryptopunks, which was the first NFT project on Ethereum and the inspiration for the ERC721 standard. He also created Autoglyphs which is the first fully on-chain generative Art NFT project as well as many other varied and creative non-blockchain applications.   In our chat we cover: The fascinating story of the Crypt...

Today we're delighted to bring you our conversation with Vinay Gupta. Vinay has a varied background as a futurologist, advising on disaster planning and state failure solutions, he designed the open source disaster relief shelter the Hexayurt, he was a first generation cypher punks, release coordinator for the launch Ethereum. Now he brings all of that together in Mattereum to index the world, red...

We are joined by Jake Brukhman of Coinfund. Jake has an extensive and varied background coming from a base of Mathematics and Computer Science, He's deeply embedded in the crypto space and is an investor, artist and curator in the NFT Art world. We had brilliant conversation about many aspects of non-fungible tokens and art including: How NFTs make it easier for artists to monetise their talents....

Today we've got Owen Barnes joining us. Owen has been involved in the crypto space since 2012 and is a full stack developer, speaker and independent advisor to blockchain startups. We have a fascinating conversation covering the state of crypto today and the outlook for the future. We cover where non-fungible tokens fit in and why they're so interesting. We also cover decentralisation, signalling,...

NonFunGerbils The NonFunGerbils are digitally scarce gerbils represented by non-fungible NonFunGerbil tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. They are given away on the NonFunGerbils podcast. Heres how it works: The name of the next gerbil is given at the end of each podcast Descriptions for the gerbil are submitted by the listeners via Twitter The funniest / most entertaining entry becomes the officia...