UFO

Rafa is a web3 creator, writer, and operations specialist. Crafting lore and exploring web3 collectives, combining org design theory with digital community building. Most recently he worked at Mirror as their Community and Growth Lead. He's the founder of Folklore, a community exploring long-form articles related to belonging, lorecraft, human relationships, and digital realms. He’s the Co-Founder...

Dutchtide is an independent artist, designer and founder based in the Netherlands. Creator of the NFT collection ~ Midnight Breeze, released in late 2021. Illustrations inspired by 90s vaporwave and the Japanese word Ma ~ which translates to "space" but can be interpreted many different ways. In this case to space in-between spaces.  Midnight Breeze is a project about a lonely road. A road where y...

losingmyego , 0xTranqui and Salief Lewis are founding members from Public Assembly . A collective of web3 developers building dev tools and educational materials ~ libraries and repositories of information. Public Assembly launched on Nouns Builder on December 3, 2022 ~ leveraging the unique physics of the internet to create what’s missing as fast as possible. Bread crumbs to leave in the dark for...

Jihad Esmail is a core contributor at Forefront - proliferating collective creation. He’s a researcher at Other Internet, an applied research organisation studying social technology. Key author for Tokenized Communities Year In Review ~ the third edition was just released. Forefront has arguably the single best crypto newsletter in the game. Their products including Pulse and Terminal are geared t...

Scott Moore is the Co-Founder of Gitcoin, the community of builders, creators, and protocols at the centre of open web ecosystems.  He's also the Co-Founder of Kernel which is an 8-week, invite-only program for people looking to build relationships, products, and companies in web3. Its core intention is about learning together and many of the brightest builders in crypto have joined Kernel since i...

María Paula is the retired founder of the Department of Decentralization which organised the ETH Berlin hackathon events. Trent Elmore was working in DeFi before teaming up with María and Sam Spike as co-founders of JPG . A platform and infrastructure to promote and preserve the NFT ecosystem's cultural objects via exhibitions and canons. JPG's Exhibitions allow users to curate online NFT exhibiti...

Matto is a generative artist, audio, code, and visual. Managing Director of Thousand Ant, creative studio based in New York. Lead for Hypercastles in mid-2022, a community project to build a Unity game engine based 2D and 3D explorer of the Terraforms on-chain NFT megastructure by Mathcastles. His latest Night Run is a conceptual art project with three parts: A motorcycle game where you look at ar...

Benny Giang is a product marketer and creative thinker in UX design, growth and community. Co-founder at Future Primitive where they work on experimental creative projects involving NFTs and DAOs such as the Stapleverse with Jeff Staples. Team member #13 at Dapper Labs and a co-founder of the iconic CryptoKitties early NFTs project in 2017. Later working on NBA Top Shot before departing from Dappe...

Black Dave aka Dave Curry is a music artist, producer, rapper, photographer, and innovator in the realms of web3 music and NFTs. He’s a contributor at leading music DAOs such as Water & Music, and shares ideas about crypto and music at blackdave.mirror.xyz. He helped to found a collaborative music project Amethyst from his hometown in Charleston, South Carolina. His latest release Black Dave Token...

Anna Bulbrook is a musician, multi-disciplinary cultural curator, creative producer, and director. She is the Music Curator at TED and has played violin for artists like Perfume Genius, Beyoncé, Vampire Weekend and Spiritualized. Yancey Strickler is a writer and entrepreneur. He’s the cofounder and director of Metalabel, cofounder of Kickstarter, and cofounder of the artist resource The Creative I...

Nicolas Sassoon is a Franco-Canadian artist using early computer graphics to create a wide array of pixelated forms, patterns & architectural structures. His works are published on SuperRare, Foundation, and Objkt, having been collected by some of the most notable NFT collectors in the space. Sam Mason de Caires is an engineer who’s into generative art. Presently at Syndicate DAO, and previously a...

Martí Ruids is a musician and sound artist. Professor and researcher in the sculpture department at the Universitat de Barcelona. With more than a decade of experience with sound sculptures and working with masters in Japan. Member of Híbrida, Nen i Cavall. Part of a duet band RIUH with Raquel Cruces performing traditional folk music from the Iberian Peninsula. Member of Pangalmelan, exploring gam...

ATARA, aka Johannes Saam, is an Academy Award-winning creative technologist, futurist, and web3 artist. With two decades innovating in visual effects and film, raised by 80s and 90s movies and video games, he's an explorative creator of generative art, and most recently as co-founder of a new NFT collection ~ DALL-E Punks. Reimagining the iconic CryptoPunks through a visual AI engine stack to crea...

Peacenode is a designer and graphic artist at Seed Club and Songcamp. Seed Club is the leading network for DAO builders and operators, with an alumni of DAO projects including Cabin, Poolsuite, Water and Music, Metalabel, Krause House and many others. Songcamp is a music community focused on collective creation, who recently staged CHAOS ~ an experiment with 77 collaborators forming a headless ban...

Reka is a co-founder at Guild , the ultimate tool for platformless memberships and quests for internet communities. Guild expands the creative possibilities for assembling as a group. Helping to drive the web3 space forwards with tools which allow DAOs to evolve beyond financialised token communities as the only available option for managing access and participation in projects. Reka writes about...

Alexander Guy is head of marketing and growth at Zerion, a Smart, Social Web3 Wallet. This is a place to manage your crypto, DeFi and NFT portfolios. Trade across multichain and connect to any decentralized application. In this episode we get into the crypto lifestyle. Why we think it’s a compelling space to be potentially looking to join a company or create a project. We talk about common pitfall...

Austin Robey is a member of the founding squad at Metalabel. An assembly of founders, creators and producers emerging from the web2 economy, now helping to amplify the meme of the metalabel. Imagined as a release club where groups of people with shared interests create and release work together. Sometimes it’s more fun to create things as part of a collective, and often you can have a stronger cul...

Nyx is a co-founder of Crypto Coven, focusing mostly on art, code and lore for an NFT collection of 9999 witches created by five friends. A compelling force of storytelling which sparked a community to  expand upon their world. In 2021, Nyx and her friend Alethia, both artists, had been in lockdown together and decided they wanted to create a pfp NFT collection. One that was female forward. They w...

Charlie Waterhouse is a co-founder of the Art Group and Media team at Extinction Rebellion based in London. He’s Creative director of This Ain’t Rock ’n’ Roll, and a director of the Brixton Pound. In this episode, we talk about the origins of Extinction Rebellion, a global movement using non-violent direct action to persuade governments to take action on climate, and inspire public consciousness t...