The WLD Show

Continuing our series of exploration of Crypto Coven’s extraordinary community, we bring on two core contributors of Coven Cats: Adrianne and Mensa the Literate. Coven Cats is a collection of hand-drawn, meticulously generated CATS. A community-driven extension - born out of love and appreciation for Crypto Coven. In this episode, Adrianne and Mensa the Literate shares the process behind creating...

After listening to one of our episodes on Punk6259's Open Metaverse, Phil Huang (DeFiCon) sent us a crazy diagram of Fluf World's decentralized metaverse ecosystem. We couldn't make sense of it, so we asked Phil to come on the podcast to explain it to us. NFT Layer Fluf World - https://www.fluf.world Party bears - https://partybear.xyz AIFA football - https://aifa.football Altered state machine -...

Will brings on Evan Lai to chat about what we learned in Web3 this week. We discuss the de-pegging of UST, fall of Luna, and Zagabond's abandoned projects prior to Azuki. Links @jonwu.eth: The $UST Depeg Thread @4484: $luna $ust attack was coordinated & executed UST’s Do Kwon Was Behind Earlier Failed Stablecoin Terra blockchain is halted after token crash increases threat of governance attacks US...

As the show’s listenership has grown, WLD has begun getting inbound interest to be guests on the pod - John is the first guest we have decided to bring on. In this episode, John describes his crypto journey from being a self-described OG game forum lurker way back in the early 2010’s, to how he lead blockchain initiatives both internally and externally at Google, to how his obsession with pokemon...

Will brings on Evan Lai to chat about what we learned in Web3 this week. We discuss the Bored Ape Otherside minting mess, a16z's centralized metaverse, Will’s NFT blue chip scorecard, and building an NFT house of cards. Links Cobie: Apecoin new blockchain suggestion Yuga Labs response on minting mess CPG Grey: Rules for Rulers Youtube Video Bored Ape Yacht Club Owner Yuga Labs Raises $450M Led by...

Continuing our series of exploration of Crypto Coven’s extraordinary community, we bring on Kagami, Crypto Coven Head Librarian. In this episode, Kagami dishes on how Crypo Coven’s exceptional creative lore and unique community kickstarted his journey into Web3. We learn how Kagami initiated and volunteered to craft Crypto Coven’s open source informational library, how he sees the library evolving...

Will brings on Evan Lai to chat about what we learned in Web3 this week. We discuss how Bored Ape Otherside mint will work, Moonbirds COO Ryan Carson stepping down, Azuki Beans reveal disappointment, and Balaji's article on Elondrop. Links Cobie: ApeCoin & the death of staking Otherside: Dutch auctions are actually bullshit Moonbird COO Ryan Carson on leaving Moonbird What Happened to Treehouse? C...

Jason Yeh and Brian Cho are the cofounders and general partners of Patron. Patron is an early-stage venture firm investing in the convergence of games, consumer, and Web3. Patron calls it the Spectrum of Play. Jason began his VC career in 2007 as a founding investor at FirstMark, where he led due diligence for the Series A of Riot Games - the company behind League of Legends. Brian Cho has been in...

Will brings on Evan Lai to chat about what we learned in Web3 this week. We discuss Punk6529's OM project, Beanstalk and Ronin hacks, Tristan Eaton GEMMA NFT burn, VBA game NFT card reveals, and more. Links Punk6529 tweet thread introducing OM Beanstalk hack explained Ronin hack explained Tristan Eaton GEMMA NFT VBA Game If you liked this episode, you can find more episodes at  wld.show !

Phil Huang is the founder of DeFiCon. DeFiCon is a nonprofit conference with a mission to elevate the ethos of peer-to-peer crypto. Speakers from DeFiCon 2021 include NFT journalist Andrew Wang, Bored Ape Yacht Club artist All Seeing Seneca, Congress Legislative Director Conor Carney, and Axie Infinity Esports Program Lead Zyori. In this episode we discuss: How Phil became a board member of Karate...

Astrea is Crypto Coven’s Coven Cultivator (Community Manager). We discuss how Astrea helped cultivate such a strong community unlike any other NFT project. A big theme we’ve heard from all of our Web3 guests is that community is the key to success. Crypto Coven, one of the top NFT collections, has a community that I believe is unparalleled in the space. This episode is hopefully the beginning of a...

Will brings on Evan Lai to chat about what we learned in Web3 this week. We discuss where NFT value comes from. We use Bored Apes, Azuki, Doodles, and Crypto Covens as examples. We also talk about the difference between EthDenver and Bitcoin Miami. Will's Twitter thread on where NFT value comes from: https://twitter.com/wiiichang/status/1510825521008951299 If you liked this episode, you can find m...

Ed Chang is Head of Gaming of Ava Labs. Ava Labs is the team behind Avalanche. An L1 that is the fastest smart contract platform in the blockchain industry. Prior to Ava Labs, Ed was the Senior Director of Partnerships at the gaming company Electronic Arts. Prior to EA Games, he was the Entrepreneur in Residence at The Chernin Group, a media company that invests in, owns, and operates other media...

Dan Robinson is a Research Partner and the Head of Research at the VC firm, Paradigm. Paradigm was founded in 2018 by Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam and former Sequoia Capital partner Matt Huang. Today with a $2.5 billion fund, Paradigm is one the most high profile and active crypto native venture firms. Some of Paradigm’s investments include FTX, Coinbase, BlockFi, Maker, Uniswap, and Sky Mavis....

Orion Parrott is a cofounder of Orange DAO and General Partner of Orange Fund. Orange DAO is a collective of founders of Y Combinator-backed companies dedicated to backing the most promising web3 startups. In this episode, Orion discusses the story behind Orange DAO & Orange Fund, the process of managing a DAO, and how Orange DAO helps Web3 founders. Episode notes In this episode, Orion discusses...

Jacky (TaipeiCity.eth) is the cofounder of Shibuya. Shibuya is NFT artist PplPlsr’s project bringing long-form animation to Web3. At the age of 30, Jacky quit his job as a software engineer at Instagram. During Covid, Jacky spent a year in Taiwan. It was Taiwan where he experienced DeFi Summer and began creating animated NFTs of his oil paintings. Jacky is also the host of the Chinese-language pod...

Yang You is the Lead Product Designer at Syndicate. Syndicate’s Web3 Investment Club product allows friends, angel investors, and web3 communities to create and run investment clubs as a DAO Yang is also a member of VectorDAO, a collective of top tier Web3 product designers. In this episode, we discuss Yang’s journey into Web3 design, what good Web3 design looks like, and the human side of Web3. L...

Imran Khan is the cofounder of AllianceDAO. AllianceDAO the world's first digital startup nation, accelerating the top 1% of Web3 founders. In the last two years, they’ve accelerated more than 210 startups including 15% of the top 100 DeFi projects by market capitalization. Their companies include 0x, dYdX, Kyber, Olympus DAO, Paraswap, Ribbon Finance. In this episode we discuss the origin story o...

Charles Du is the CEO and cofounder of Fast Break Labs. Fast Break Labs is building VBA, a Web3 game that allows basketball fans to strategize as general managers of their own virtual basketball teams. They just raised $6M with Patron and Pantera Capital leading the round. Angel investors include Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai’s Family Office, Sacramento Kings co-owner Aneel Ranadive, and Marc Merri...

Kevin Jiang is a design researcher at Medium and the cofounder of CafeteriaDAO. A curated community and digital platform for people passionate about food. We talk about creating Coffee Omakase, building CafeteriaDAO, and how he crafted his own Web3 University with Crypto Coven, Seed Club, and Kernel. Learn more about Kevin and CafeteriaDAO: Kevin’s Twitter: @caffeinatedkev_ Cafeteria DAO Twitter:...

Bitter Rivals. A Dream of Glory. Betrayal. Redemption. What happened this past round of Dark Forest has to be the most epic space saga of all time. dfdao’s Lindsay Presswell and Tony (ChaosGod) take us through the history of dfdao and orden_gg’s rivalry.  And the epic battle that took place in Dark Forest v0.6 Round 5. Learn more about dfdao and Dark Forest: Past WLD episode which explains the Dar...

Dan runs Product at Orca Protocol. Orca Protocol makes governance accessible by creating tools around a DAO’s most basic primitive: people. Will and Dan met up at ETH Denver, and we catch up on Dan getting a photo with Andrew Yang, the evolution of DAO voting, how Orca protocol is helping drive meta-governance, the risks of token weighted voting, and Dan’s favorite articles. Dan and Orca protocols...

Will Chang gives Andrew Hsu a breakdown of his experience at EthDenver 2022. We also discuss the future of the podcast. If you liked this episode, you can find more episodes at wld.show !

Will Robinson runs the Alliance web3 accelerator program and is the founder of dfda0, one of the top gaming guilds playing the Web3 game, Dark Forest. Prior to this, Will was a Forensic Crypto Auditor and obtained a PHD in Game Studies and Game Design. In this episode, we discuss the Dark Forest game, dark forest DAO, web3 games, incentives, the Alliance incubator program and what it offers, and t...

Melissa Zhang is the co-founder of Bonfire. Bonfire is a platform that aims to unlock the power of ownership for online communities. Many are observing a shift from a world where creators monetize individually  from  their fans, to one where they build wealth  with  their communities. Bonfire is building infrastructure to enable creators to take advantage of this shift.  Its tools enable creators...