UFO

Matthew Chaim is a founder of Songcamp which is an artist collective and creative studio experimenting with songwriting camps and emergent technology to unlock new ways of creating and releasing music on the internet. Started in 2021, Songcamp has run three online songwriting camps with over 50 emerging musicians from around the world. The music they created was released via compilation projects a...

Jesse Pollak is contributor #1 at Base. A new Ethereum L2, incubated by Coinbase and built on the open-source OP Stack. We talk about Jesse’s origin stories in tech and being early to join Coinbase. Where he served as lead for all Retail engineering, including building Coinbase, Coinbase Pro, and Coinbase Wallet. What does it mean to bring the world onchain? We go behind the scenes to discover ‘ho...

Zeneca is the founder of Zen Academy , a space designed to be a helpful community to learn about about web3 and NFTs. Former professional poker player. Speaker and content creator, writing about crypto, web3, NFTs, and the future of the internet. A catalyst for a community which spun up during the 2021 NFT mania. Zeneca first appeared on Twitter back in those days, initially posting daily NFT stat...

Matt Alston and Melissa Zhang are co-founders of Bonfire. The no-code website builder for web3 creators, brands and communities. A place for artists to connect with their fans and design exclusive experiences. A nexus point for all your releases across onchain media, NFTs and creative works. It looks to be a sign of where things are headed as we evolve out of the web2 social media paradigm. These...

Paff is a co-founder of Take Up Space. A community, creator collective and media company for culture-makers. Writer, creator and speaker based in Scotland, previously from Australia. Who created Take Up Space with their wife, Hannah Peacock. Emerging from the covid lockdown experiences of 2020 into 2021. Through community, events and media, their goals are to create opportunities for POC & queer v...

Robin Schmidt aka SuperMassive is the founder and CEO of BasedAF. Multi-award winning film director and creative. That dude what ran an ULTRAmarathon in VR Chat. Sponsored by FRAZ, the No1 beverage in the Metaverse. He's also that dude what produced killer YouTube videos with The Defiant all through DeFi summer and the NFT run from 2021. I travelled out from Amsterdam to the BasedAF offices just o...

Thomas Scaria is the co-founder and CEO of Lore. Where communities turn social energy into collective power. Thomas worked right around the edges of crypto adoption at Wyre, leading expansion to the defi and NFT ecosystem. Before then was a Sr Investment Associate at Citi. Since April 2020 his focus has been on Lore. They are about to launch their V2 with an app for collective crowdfunding for ini...

LGHT is a creator, artist and writer who explores across web3, art, NFTs, DAOs, memetic icons, hypercultures and more at lght.mirror.xyz. Publishing imaginative concepts, research, insights and models. Gami is our first ever returning guest, a member of Nouns and founder of Gnars DAO. This recording session was actually the first time these two have met each other “in person” for a conversation. O...

Fancy is an instigator at RADAR and previous founding team at Protein. RADAR is a decentralised global collective of more than 300 researchers, early adopters and innovators accelerating better futures. They discover and validate emerging trends powered by collective intelligence. Building a foundational set of imagination platforms for a better future. We catch RADAR as they launch Cycle 3. Over...

wijuwiju.eth is an initial contributor at Interface. Their app is a companion for exploring the realms of Ethereum. A tool that makes sense of onchain data, context and meaning that is all over the place. Gathering it together in ways that are understandable, enjoyable, surprisingly social, and actionable in terms of being on top of signals in the crypto space. We talk about how their team came to...

Jayden Windle is a developer from Future Primitive. Isaac is a product manager from Zora working on Nouns Builder. Neokry is a resident engineer from BuilderDAO and Nouns Builder. We join for a group conversation about the new NFT standard ERC-6551 which Jayden is working on with Future Primitive, including our friend Benny Giang. Any NFT that has previously existed or will in the future has now b...

Ivano Salonia is the creative director of UFO, based in Amsterdam. An artist, musician and creator in extended realities and virtual worlds. He is the artist behind the UFO poster art and NFTs. Since July 2022, Ivano and Nick Hollins have been creating the visual identity, art and brand of UFO. We went to ETH Tokyo in April and hacked on a UFO project with Lens Protocol and Livepeer. And we just b...

Kabuki is a producer, musician and artist based in Germany. Manipulating frequencies since ‘96. Building audio installations and exploring the realms of web3, NFTs and onchain music. We talk about Kabuki’s music and his inspirations that came through electronic music and jungle in the 90s. About his creative process and philosophy. Learning how things work. How music technology is always changing...

Karma and Violetta are music artists, travellers in the crypto space, exploring onchain music and art and creative collectives. Based from Miami, USA. They are founders of wavWRLD. Seeking to create unique musical experiences that connect artists with their true fans. wavWRLD is a creative collective and music community that has been a shared space for many web3 music artists, and web3 builders fo...

pet3rpan is a partner from 1kx. Investing in autonomous worlds, NFT IP, metalabels, generative consumer and DAOs. Summoner at Hydra Ventures, a fund backing investment DAOs. Early founding member at MetaCartel from 2018, the web3 community of creators and developers focused on building blockchain applications, using crypto in interesting ways, exploring new ideas and experiments with DAOs. I first...

Chris Carella is a founding DAO member from Purple. He’s an artist, contributor across Nouns and Product Lead at the DAO tooling platform Charmverse. Phil Mohun is an early member of Purple and a founding DAO member of the arts community at Bright Moments. Working with generative and AI artists to produce iconic, real world experiences of their art. To join Bright Moments DAO, you collect a Crypto...

Steph Alinsug is a brand builder, storyteller, community organiser, and media creative. Founder of VESSEL . An emergent startup designing for the onchain media ecosystem. Until recently she was the Media Steward at Seed Club . Internet native accelerator with a growing network of alumni projects including ALLSHIPS, Cabin, Forefront, Metalabel, Poolsuite, Protein, Refraction, Songcamp, Take Up Spac...

Natasha Hoskins is a creator, brand builder and Co-Founder of Boys Club. A social collective bringing a new voice to the new internet. Product studio and media company. Best known for their parties, community, podcasts, interviews with crypto builders, memes, merch and a newsletter. In this episode we talk about the Boys Club origins from Natasha getting intro’d into crypto by her co-founder Deana...

Marcus AM is a creator, researcher, builder and artist. Fellow of the Ethereum Foundation and co-creator of Ethereum Guatemala . Author of the Last Mile Defi Report on crypto adoption in Latin America. Host and producer of the Odisea Podcast and recently the Last Mile DeFi Podcast. Very much a global traveller and was a part of Europe’s leading start-up incubator Entrepreneur First. Contributing a...

Clare Farrell is a founding member of Extinction Rebellion . She’s an activist, artist, designer, communicator and organiser. If you’ve ever seen the Adam McKay movie ~ Don’t Look Up ~ with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, in which an asteroid is found to be on a collision course with Earth, and the protagonists go on national tv news in America to try and raise the alarm, only to be met b...

Gami is a founder at Gnars and member at Nouns. His team at Omega just dropped an NFT project called Forgeries. An open edition minting NFT copies of Noun 401 ~ and one of those tokens unlocked ownership of the real Noun. Gami has a background in skateboarding, growing up in rural Australia. Before becoming a sponsored skater and other adventures. In this episode we talk origin stories in crypto a...

Evin McMullen is the co-founder and CEO at Disco. A company building tools to make it easy to carry your data from web2 to web3, under your ownership and control. Your identity for the metaverse. Using Decentralized Identifiers and Verifiable credentials. In this episode we talk about Evin’s origin stories before web3 and crypto, how the Disco team came together, and the community design superpowe...

Yuri Rybak is a musician and producer. Partnerships at ZORA. Member at Friends With Benefits, including as a producer at NFT Pirate Radio with Chuck Anderson. In this episode we talk about writing and producing music, the music industry, and what we see as emergent for music NFTs and artist collectives. We get into Yuri’s musical path through life, leading to early involvement with FWB, where he w...

Sirsu is the co-founder of BLVKHVND. He’s an artist, designer, brand creator, gamer. BLVKHVND is creating an emerging ecosystem for onchain esports organizations. Their mission is to be the center of competition no matter where it lives. After breaking history as the first DAO to win a professional world championship they are driven to make the HVND fully owned and stewarded by everyone on the int...

Nir Kabessa is the Co-Founder and CEO of Yup, along with Co-Founder Vernon Johnson. Yup is the best of web3, all in one feed. Aggregating the best content of Lens, Farcaster, Mirror, NFTs, and Crypto Twitter. A new way to curate your own feed and post across platforms. Nir was President of Blockchain at Columbia from 2018 to 2020. Since 2020 he’s been a Mentor at the Columbia IBM Blockchain Accele...