Zima Red

My guest today is Arif Khan. Arif is the founder of Alethea AI which is a platform to create, share and monetize synthetic media. They are creating this synthetic media with the help of AI and GPT3 - What this means is that we are now able to create totally artificial characters and we can have regular conversation with these virtual beings. This conversation was amazing because Arif is able to ef...

My guest today is Nick Emmons. Nick is the founder of the question and answer protocol UpShot. UpShot incentivizes people to answer subjective questions. The implications of a product like this are incredibly profound. UpShot can be used to receive answers on NFT valuations, determine if a piece of news is fake and even help solve issues around decentralized governance. The applications for this t...

My guest today is Nadia from Snark dot art Snark dot art is part technology studio and part art gallery. They work with artists of all types and act as the bridge into the digital realm. With an amazing team stacked with people from the art and tech world, snark dot art is positioned to be an important player. Nadia has incredible perspective on the art world as she has been immersed in the indust...

My guests today are Leandro and Nahuel from the VoxelArchitects, CryptoMotors, Pixelchain and more. These guys are true builders having been creating different NFT projects and companies for the past few years. Voxelarchitects are some of the best builders in the metaverse, Pixelchain is a series of incredible onchain collectible art and Cryptomotors are collectible, interopable vehicles for the m...

My guest today is Ben Lakoff. Ben is one of the founders of Charged Particles which is a protocol for creating interest-generating NFTs. Ben and I had an awesome and wide ranging conversation - discussing everything from Ben's experience overseas, his own podcast and  how configurable interest works within Charged Particles. I can really tell that Ben is passionate about his work and Charged...

My guest today is Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee. Emma-jane is the founder of Digitalax, which is an NFT protocol focused on digital fashion. She is also the founder of Monaville which helps fashion designers create realistic looking digital clothing and materials. Combined she is creating the complete end-to-end infrastructure for the burgeoning digital fashion industry. Emma-jane is extremely well vers...

My guest today is Brian O’Hagan, who leads growth at the football (or soccer for us Americans) collectible game Sorare. I had a blast learning all about Brians background and his entrance into the cryptosphere but what was really exciting was learning all about Sorare. If you are in the NFT ecosystem you know Sorare, they have been dominating the top sales charts on OpenSea for many months now and...

My guest today is Metakovan. Metakovan is the largest NFT collector in the world and recently spent $2.2m dollars on acquiring twenty 1/1 Beeple art pieces. All of his NFT-related endeavors are through an entity called Metapurse which is half NFT fund and half production company. We hit it all in our conversation, his background, his thesis, his goals, we could have talked for hours and hours. I l...

My guest today is Kayvon. Kayvon is the founder of the crypto creator platform Foundation. Foundation is a platform for artists, animators, and creatives of all types to tokenize their work and a marketplace where collectors can see a curated selection of amazing NFTs. It was a pleasure to have Kayvon come on the podcast because we have been friends for over half a year, which as you know in crypt...

My guest today is Alex Russman, the director of business development at Enjin. Enjin is a multifaceted platform that essentially acts as a one-stop-shop for all things blockchain goods. They not only provide the technology for traditional games, or NFT native games to utilize NFTs but they provide all sorts of other addons like marketplaces, wallets and more. It was amazing to get to speak with Al...

My guest today is Yat Siu. Yat is the founder of Animoca Brands which is a behemoth in the NFT industry. They are investors in Axie Infinity, owners of The Sandbox, F1 Delta Time and much more. Yat is easily one of the smartest people i've ever had the chance to chat with. He has an incredible background from launching the first internet service provider in Hong Kong to creating games with million...

My guest today is Swiss Crypto Cat. Swiss is the creator of La Citadel VR which is a community of crypto enthusiasts that meet in a virtual environment that Swiss designed. Swiss first learned about NFTs in the very early days of their creation. Discovering Rare Pepes on the counterparty blockchain which were around all the way back in late 2016. What I loved about our conversation is that Swiss b...

My guest today is Miles from Decentral Games. Miles is a boss, in a literal sense and figuratively as his metaverse name is “Baus”. If you haven't listened to our first episode go back and check it out. We discussed how he was busy building the world's first Community-owned metaverse casino. A few short months later. he has not only built working casinos inside the virtual world of Decentralized b...

My guests today are Jesse and Dan. They are the founders of a new NFT project called Aavegtochi. These things have it all. To sum it up simply, Aavegotchi’s are: Defi-staked, on-chain, crypto-collectibles with wearables, dynamic rarity, kinship and even their own virtual world to inhabit and build on. It's really refreshing to see an extremely high quality NFT project launch and by a team that has...

My guest today is Eric Elliot. Eric is an internet OG who has been coding since he was a child and is an extremely deep thinker on all things metaverse. We discuss a lot, from his views on crypto, why the metaverse is inevitable and even how AI will eventually be one of the most common lifeforms within the metaverse. It was awesome getting to chat with Eric because he is not only extremely intelli...

My guest today is WhaleShark. This is my second episode with WhaleShark, the first being a Hotseat episode which was where I grilled him with questions about his project. He passed that episode with flying colors but we never had the chance to sit down and have a regular conversation. This is that episode. We get to learn about WhaleSharks background, his business interests, thoughts and theses su...

My guest today is Colborn Bell. Colborn is a cofounder of the Museum of crypto art, commonly called the MoCA. Colborn runs the MoCA with his business partner and friend Pablo. Together they have amassed an incredible collection of crypto art and show no signs of slowing down. Speaking with Colborn really makes me understand the potential and power of blockchain for creators of all types. They are...

My guest today is Carlos Gomes. Carlos is a man of many talents. He works as a software developer at the crypto exchange Huobi, is the founder of social of the token website ForeFront and even launched his own social token called $SWAGG. His background and story is extremely interesting and took him from the Cape Verde islands all the way to China and Silicon Valley. Our conversation focuses on so...

My guest today Piers Kicks. Piers is a partner at the legendary Delphi Digital, which is part crypto research firm, part consulting firm and to top it all off they recently launched their venture capital arm. If that is not impressive enough Piers also has his own incredible podcast focused solely on the metaverse called Metaverse Musings. Piers and I hit it all in our conversation. His long histo...

My guest today is Matty, also known as DCL Blogger. Matty is one of the most successful NFT traders and earliest NFT content creators in the ecosystem. Our conversation touches upon all of Matty’s best techniques for NFT trading and we also discuss his process for creating NFT content. Matty oozes experience and knows the space like the back of his hand. He knows who is who, what is trading where...

My guest today is Fanny Lakoubay She is the COO of CADAF - Contemporary & Digital Art Fair, and a curator at the MoCDA: Museum of Contemporary Digital Art. She has involvement with Radical Exchange and ETHlocal. Before going full crypto she worked at the intersection of art and tech for 10 years and also at the legendary art auction house Christies. Luckily for us, she caught the bug and has b...

My guest today is Chris Chapman. Chris is an advisor to Blockade Games and deeply involved in the crypto gaming ecosystem. He has an incredible background that starts in the early days of the web before the internet was the internet. We discussed his journey through the pre.com era of the web, building platforms for virtual worlds, the blockchain game movement and the metaverse. What I loved about...

My guests today are Stephen and Mads. Stephen is the founder of the newly launched NFT loan platform, NFTfi. Mads is the founder of a tech startup called Bibblio but his nights and weekends are spent in the NFT ecosystem. He is an advisor to NFTfi and has been involved since its inception. We discuss it all, from their backgrounds, to cyber physical systems, token engineering, and bringing DeFi in...

My guest today is Aleks Larsen, a senior associate at the $300m dollar venture fund, Blockchain Capital. Blockchain Capital is one of the oldest, most reputable and largest venture funds in the crypto space. It was a blast getting to speak with Aleks, thoughtful, eloquent and insatiably curious, Aleks and I touched upon all parts of the NFT ecosystem. I peppered him with questions ranging from his...

My guests today are Nate and Carolin. They are the founders of the NFT minting platform, Mintbase. Mintbase allows anyone to set up a shop and start minting all types of NFTs, from tickets, to art, game items and now, even music! We discuss everything. Nate's tech background, Carolin’s experience working in the German parliament and of course we dive really deep into Mintbase. What I really loved...