Web3 Galaxy Brain 🌌🧠

On this episode, I’m joined by Luke (aka @worm_emoji ) and Adam Ludwin , co-founders of Context . Our conversation focuses on mint.fun, their nft mint aggregator. Mint.fun is the best place to see what’s minting right now. The site prominently features a list of the NFT collections that have been minted on the most in the last hour on Ethereum. The site generates mint buttons at every popular pric...

On this episode I’m joined by Jasper and Thomas, the co-founder developers of Arcadia Finance. Arcadia is a forthcoming lending protocol whose modular contract architecture will allow users to deposit any onchain asset into a user-controlled vault, and withdraw a credit line against it. Arcadia lets users combine several types of collateral into a single basket, and for loans to be borrowed agains...

On today’s episode, I’m joined by Wijuwiju and Anna who are building Interface , a human readable social web3 feed. At the time of recording, Interface is an iOS and Android app that lets you follow wallets and scroll through an infinite feed of their recent activity. It’s a great way to see recent swaps, mints, and transfers, and over time the team is developing richer indexing and transaction pa...

In this throwback episode, I’m joined by Oliver Zerhusen , Decentralized Governance coordinator at Graph Advocates (previously Graph Protocol), and Ross Campbell , legal engineer at LexDAO and KaliDAO. In this episode, Oliver explains how The Graph’s $GRT tokenomics incentivize subgraph indexing and how The Graph’s 4 core teams are organized. Ross explains why it’s so hard to work with lawyers, an...

In this episode, I’m joined by three voices in the ETH liquid staking space. WalshyNFG works on business development at Lido, Crews works on product and growth at Index Coop, and Leo Glisic is a blockchain watcher who is active on Twitter. This episode is all about Lido Staked ETH, Index Coop’s leveraged icETH, and more. Topics discussed: -   Lido Staked ETH -   Rocket Pool ETH -  ...

On today's episode I'm joined by Peter Kieltyka, CEO of Horizon Games, creators of blockchain trading card game Skyweaver, Jamal Raees, Blockchain Strategy Head at Wyre, and Craig Lou, Project Manager at Wyre. This episode is all about Smartramp, Wyre's new fast fiat onramp, and how its enabling more players to get started playing Skyweaver. Smartramp is an API that lets people interact with EVM s...

The conversation opens with a recap of the Curve wars and the fascinating relationship between yield emission governance tokens and staking aggregators like Convex. The conversation then turns to veBanny, the work-in-progress staked Juicebox ($JBX) token and the many intriguing designs active contributors are considering. Topics Discussed · @Mr__Goldstein - Juicebox Contributor · Juicebox - A prog...

In this episode, I'm joined by Devan Non , Ape Dev , and Jiran for a fascinating discussion all about NFT MEV. MEV, or Maximum Extractable Value, is the value that can be extracted from block production in excess of block rewards and transaction fees. Two of today's guests, Devan Non and Ape Dev , are a professional MEV searcher team. They observe the mempool to find arbitrage opportunities that t...

In this episode, I'm joined by @remnynt , creator of onchain NFT collections vibes.art and the reliquary . We chat about remnynt’s background as a mobile game dev, his transition into generative NFT art, and the influence of Artblocks, Terraforms, and Corruptions on his practice. We dive into vibes.art, his first on-chain Javascript based collection, and the reliquary his latest creation, which co...

In this episode, I’m joined by solidity devs w1nt3r and Tyler Angert to talk about button.lol, watchfaces.world, and onchain SVG. Button.lol is a website with a single button that holders on the optimism network can click once every 6 hours to collect points. watchfaces.world is an on-chain SVG time piece NFT collection. Each NFT is customizable at mint time and will forever display the current ti...

In this episode, I'm joined by four exceptional guests. Jiran Z is a blockchain sleuth and nft mev brain, Andrew Thurman is a journalist who has worked at CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, and now Nansen.ai. Nodar Janashia is the creator of DeFi Zaps and co-founder of crypto dashboard Zapper . He and Igor Yuzo , the host of the Web3 Frontier podcast, are co-founders of DeFragFinance , a new NFT loan protoc...

In this episode, I'm joined by Sean McCaffery of the gamified governance DAO JokeDAO , and Zeugh from community management DAO CanuDAO . In the first hour of today's show, Sean explains the origins of JokeDAO, a joke writing contest whose winner is decided by $JOKE token voting. We get into the project's origins using Mirror Write Race, and the DAO's transition to building their own multichain vot...

In today's episode, I'm joined by XR dev Avaer , and XR philosopher and community builder Jin for an exciting conversation all about their dream of an open and composable metaverse. This conversation is a behind the scenes look at the most exciting projects at the intersection of NFTs and XR. Avaer and Jin teach me all about Webaverse, an in-development web-based open source 3D social expe...

In this special Monday-night episode, I'm joined by TimShel , Shahruz , Fabian , and Scotato to talk all about Dom Hoffman 's Corruption(*s) . The Corruptions crew explains the project's origin story, from its original discovery on Context.app , to their decision to band together and communicate as one with the mysterious figure on the other side of the collection. This conversation taught me a lo...

Nicholas is joined by Dennison Bertram ( Tally ), Danny Aranda ( PartyDAO ), John C. Palmer ( PartyDAO ), and Jango ( Juicebox ) for a wide ranging conversation about DAO governance. In the first half of the show, we discuss the history of DAOs and Tally , the origins story of Dennison's Loot derivative Dope Wars and the DAO that sprung up around it. Danny and Dennison are surprised to learn they...

Web3 Galaxy Brain is a series of casual conversations with the people building Web3, recorded on Friday afternoons. For the inaugural episode, @nnnnicholas is joined by Ellie Day , programmer, decentralized thinker, and partner at SeedClubVentures. We talk about about Ellie’s new project, Always Online, and Ellie teaches Nicholas all about Decentralized Joint Ventures (DJV). Later in this episode,...