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Sean Bradford is an artist, musician and creative technologist. Founder of ORIGIN STØRIES, a creative tech studio producing custom AI-powered tools for co-created experiences. He's lived many lives. As a vocalist and recording artist signed to a major label. Performing on Broadway. A DJ who spent a lot of time in Berlin, before moving to Stockholm and now Amsterdam. A crypto native, deeply immersed in AI and generative systems.

Lucas is the Founder of Pods. A new way to publish, discover, and own your favourite podcasts. The place for bringing your podcast onchain. He's also Co-Founder of Fire Eyes DAO, a collective of crypto-natives who designed token economic and governance systems for projects including Optimism, ENS and Gitcoin. And was also an early employee at Bankless.

JAKE is a pseudo anonymous internet creator. Going with the classic blue, colour code #0000FF as his pfp. Host at POD OF JAKE where he’s interviewed almost 200 guests over 4 years. Most recently Jacob from Zora and others such as Vitalik Buterin, pplpleasr and Mark Cuban. He's also the founder of Base Colors, a new onchain collection where you can mint unique colour codes on Base and give them a name.

Jamie Reddington is an electronic music producer, consultant and lecturer from London who recently released his debut album Scenes. His music is shaped by hiphop, UK dance music and soul. Leaning into telling stories, with textures and samples captured from his phone, featuring the sound of his daughter’s heartbeat.

Gami and Clouted are core contributors from International Meme Fund (IMF) and $MONEY. Their team believes it is now crucial to have native liquidity and financial infrastructure for the meme sector. They're both from Sydney and have shared interests in defi financial engineering, game theory and the memecoin phenomonen.

Nadia Piet is Founder and Creative Lead of AIxDESIGN, a global community conducting critical AI research for the benefit of people, not profits. She's a designer, researcher, organiser and faculty member at ELISAVA's Design for Responsible AI.

Dave Bachinsky is a professional skateboarder, woodworker, and visual artist based in Carlsbad, California. In 2020, he launched a visual collection called Roll Forever featuring videos filmed with a drone from a bird's-eye view, observing a skaters' line in a pool or skate spot and edited to loop indefinitely, as if the line never ends.

Simona Pop is joyfully subverting the status quo. Host of /therapy on Farcaster. Writing and giving talks around building with intention and how existing trauma and socio-economic conditioning can hinder our ability to build something different. She's an advisor at Optimism helping to build the Superchain. Public Goods Steward at ENS DAO and one of the first people we met in crypto attending Ethereal Summit in Brooklyn in 2018.

Malcolm Levy, Raf Katigbak and Greg Liburd are co-founders of Refraction. An artist-owned community leading the next wave of digital art, music and culture — online, onchain and IRL.

Carlos Gomes is the Founder of Forefront. Early contributor at Seed Club and Mint Fund. Currently building Farcaster Index as a place to discover farcaster tokens and mints. On the other side, they shipped Terminal as the fastest way to create a channel token on Farcaster.

Toadyhawk and Benbodhi are contributors in the Nouns ecosystem. Founders of The Yellow Collective on Base. Supporting artists and creativity onchain and exploring nounish culture.

Derek Taylor is a musician and founding member of the park. A band with many of the largest onchain music mints of all time. Based in Los Angeles, originally from San Francisco. They stage Fridays at the Park, bringing artists together in the room to write and record music. In-person experiences that also help onboard into the onchain and crypto world.

Martin, Six and Kugusha are all early members of higher. A new creative collective with its own native currency, built with a token on Base, publishing on Zora, and accelerating out of sight as one of the all-time fastest growing Farcaster channels. Higher is a lifestyle, an optimistic mindset, a brand being built in real time by hundreds of people on the internet. The word itself was used in crypto for some time, but the idea that “Higher” could be something bigger was kickstarted by LGHT.

Scene Infrastructure Company is a software business building better instruments for socialization. We recorded with the founding team, Jose Mejia, Ethan Daya and Neesh, and what we got down on tape is super valuable context, experiences and thoughts around founding a new company. For design, product, community building and technology choices. Coming from earlier founding experiences at organizations like FWB and Zora. On designing a brand, and finding inspirations from retro spots like computer magazines, playstation games and lore, to create something fresh. We talk about their vision for the future and what they’d like to build, as they’re figuring it out in real time.

LATASHÁ is the founder of Topia. The evolution will not be televised. It will be onchain. She’s an artist, musician, producer, world builder. An original from the onchain music scene who was minting works on Zora back in 2021 kinda time. She had one of the earliest websites with onchain music videos and tracks. In this period she became Community Lead at Zora and produced ZORATOPIA. An events series and community which helped to educate and onboard artists into new internet ways of releasing music and working together.

July is a founder of Faust. Developing Roc: a reality oracle computer that notarizes reality, onchain. He’s an engineer who built flying cars and autonomous vehicles with Kittyhawk, a startup backed by Google. He’s an early Farcaster user and creator of the /july channel with 6.5K members. A place where anyone is invited to post musings, thoughts & dreams.

Nat Emodi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Highlight. Their product is being used for generative releases by leading artists, organizations, and platforms. Helping creators to release any type of collection, from tightly curated series to generative open editions.

Alvaro Delgado is a musician, artist, and co-founder of Oval — A newborn creative community from Barcelona. Starting in 2024, Oval is putting together a series of concert and club nights, community events, suppers, and writing camps — designed to foster cross-pollination among individuals who have come to the city in search of something more: a spotlight, a sense of belonging.

On today’s show, Alex Guy, aiio and LGHT. We are the hosts of the first shows on the UFO network. Alex is head of Growth at Zerion and in December launched Still Here. aiio is a researcher, community builder and writer bridging across web3 and the underground electronic music and arts communities in Copenhagen. LGHT is a pseudo anon artist, designer, writer, and technologist who created the Hypercultures essay series as well as co-founding Based Management.

Leo Pastel is a musician, songwriter, multi-sensory artist and active builder in web3 music from Cincinnati, Ohio. He started releasing music in 2018 and has been involved from early days in the crypto music scene. His first single Woah was a hit with almost 750,000 streams. He's produced as part of Songcamp and Camp CHAOS, and performed at FWB Fest in 2023.

Nick Smith is a designer from Melbourne, Australia. Founder of Fam, a space for music communities to grow, collaborate and collectively fund creative projects. He's an early member from FWB and helped to organise Soulquest, a music project featuring Iman Europe, V.C.R, illcamille, and Swarvy, along with visual artists Jamee Cornelia and Shawntel Johnson, who performed and recorded at FWB Fest.

Hexorcismos aka Moisés Horta Valenzuela is an artist, musician and technologist working with generative artificial neural networks over the past 7 years. aiio is a researcher, community builder and writer bridging across web3 and the underground electronic music and arts communities in Copenhagen.

Adam Levy is the creator and host of Mint Podcast. Exploring the web3 creator economy, discovering how the creators of today are building the communities of tomorrow. Genuinely of the best podcasts in the space. He is also a founder of Bello, where you can discover actionable insights about your collectors from their wallets and onchain activity through a simple search.

Rafa is the founder of Folklore, a community crafting knowledge of connection, lorecraft, and digital realms. An amazing place to discover ideas and pieces of writing thanks to collective curation. Jihad Esmail is a writer, researcher and builder. A media dealer at Forefront proliferating onchain collective creation. Active contributor in the Nouns ecosystem, and various onchain experiments.

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. Their new release C4 is an imaginative collection with 15 contributing artists producing 5 songs. Audiences are invited to mint blank CD NFTs which can be used to write music to disc.

Jesse Pollak is contributor #1 at Base. A new Ethereum L2, incubated by Coinbase and built on the open-source OP Stack. What does it mean to bring the world onchain? We go behind the scenes to discover ‘how did this get made?’ in relation to Coinbase and Base. How the idea to do something radical like decentralise Coinbase and bring the whole org onchain set things in motion. And how things work behind the scenes for players in this onchain movement including Base, Zora and Optimism.

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. We talk opportunities in onchain media. Adapting when your business model disappears along with NFT royalties. Highlights from the blur that was the NFT boom. About Zeneca’s interest in stoicism, and well founded concerns about mental health and burnout from being maxed out when you are extremely online. The need to have balance in our lives, physical fitness, sleep and touching grass when dealing with the drug feed which can be the internet signal.

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. We talk about the origins of Bonfire and the opportunities to be found in new models for artists on the internet.

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. Through community, events and media, their goals are to create opportunities for POC & queer voices to take up space as their most authentic selves.

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 outside of The Hague. Where I had the opportunity to have a look at the volume where they produce live action content in virtual reality and game engines with a motion capture suit. Doing wild things with facial capture and live streaming, and amazingly short production time thanks to a custom built camera which films the VR space in real time.

Thomas Scaria is the co-founder and CEO of Lore. Where communities turn social energy into collective power. They are about to launch their V2 with an app for collective crowdfunding for initiatives, media, and missions. We talk about social fi and Thomas’ thoughts about friend.tech. How Robinwood paved the way for what we’re seeing today in crypto and NFT markets. Crypto as a counterculture movement. Internet subcultures and group chats. Building collectives to take action together.

LGHT is a creator, artist and writer who explores 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. On June 21, Gami minted “HYPERCOMMONS” A Manifesto for a Positive-Sum World

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 10 weeks and beyond, they’ll be researching and cultivating — Our Centaur Future.

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.

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 talk about ERC-6551, everything happening at Nouns Builder and BuilderDAO, and what it all means for discovering a new lifestyle for the internet.

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. We went to ETH Tokyo in April and hacked on a UFO project with Lens Protocol and Livepeer. And we just built a website at ufo.fm ~ an onchain radio station and club for music, arts and ideas. We talk about how he became interested in making art in virtual reality, and experiments with AI and generative tools such as Midjourney. About the creative scene in Amsterdam with many artists and musicians, technology projects, extended realities and VR. And the creation of the UFO art style and drops including UFO Genesis Pass and the Frequency Modulation release on Zora, remixing a retro MTV ad from the 1980s.

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 in format and concepts. And about his creative projects in web3, experimenting with ideas for music NFTs, beat tapes, live performances, videos and installations.

Karma and Violetta are music artists, travellers in the crypto space, exploring onchain music and art and creative collectives. Founders of wavWRLD. Seeking to create unique musical experiences that connect artists with their true fans. They are also both a part of Songcamp and CHAOs, the headless band. We talk about their latest project wavGAME. A collective release involving artists who performed at their first wavWRLD live showcases in New York, featuring TK, Tarot, AbJo, Cam Murdoch, Jadyn Violet, Fred Riko, KarmaVioletta, and Black Dave who was the guest for UFO 11.

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. We talk about his experiences in the web3 space. About the early internet and how it works. About the cypherpunks from the 70s, 80s and 90s who pioneered these ideas about digital freedoms and rights, and cryptography. And we talk about collective lore and canon, like a shared belief in the Star Wars universe that is held in a shared imagination.

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. We talk about experiences behind the scenes at Purple. Contentious votes and ideas about DAO governance. The urgent need and opportunity to build out the web3 social ecosystem. What they like about the properties of Farcaster. And the potential for DAOs like Purple to fund public goods and open source projects in ways that don’t always require a profit incentive.

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 Space and Water & Music. In this episode we talk about Broadcast, an inaugural web3 media event held in Brooklyn May 2023. We talk with Steph about her learnings from experiences joining the crypto space, how she became involved with the team at Seed Club and collaborating across the network as it’s grown over the past years.

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. I ask Natasha about their experiences building a social collective brand in crypto, how they designed their DAO, how they are thinking about audiences, and making collaborative releases like printing a physical zine.

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. In this episode we talk about Marcus’ origin stories growing up in rural Guatemala, observing corruption and fraught financial infrastructure leading to his early interest in Bitcoin. Through to verging into the Ethereum and crypto builder space and being accepted as a fellow of the Ethereum Foundation to research opportunities and use cases for crypto adoption in Latin America. We also talk about crypto as a counterculture movement, Marcus’ interests in podcasting, supporting young developers and teams in the Latin American ecosystem, and the impact created by Devcon and ETH Global events in the region.

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 direct collision course with earth, and the protagonists go on national tv news in America to try and raise the alarm, only to be met by the banal absurdity of how mainstream news works. Well, Clare has that role in real life. In this episode we talk about Clare’s origins in fashion and design and creative activism, up to being part of the originating group of Extinction Rebellion in 2018. We discuss the demands of Extinction Rebellion: for net zero carbon emissions by 2025, citizens assemblies and direct democracy, and reparatory justice for nations and people around the world most impacted by the climate crisis.

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 and NFTs, his early interest and involvement in Nouns, and the founding of Gnars, a community owned (and run) extreme sports club with over 1000 members. They are responsible for the grind box on the streets of Rio, Brazil which was a bright red pair of Nouns noggles, some iconic early Nouns images. Now they’re teaming up with skateboarding hall of famer Bob Burnquist for community projects in Brazil.

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 superpowers unlocked by combining Disco with tools from Guild.

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 was on the scene for many experiments in NFT releases from artists including Glassface, Pussy Riot, and Eric Hu.

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. In this episode we talk about Sirsu’s journey from earlier days in gaming, art and crypto. You’ll hear stories from the origins of Zora, Rarible and Foundation. And what it’s been like for him behind the scenes, having extraordinary experiences, like raising $1 million in one day on a Mirror crowd fund, and booting up an eSports organization with multiple teams competing around the world.

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. In this episode we talk about the EVM as a social network. The rapid evolution, growth and experimentation we’re seeing in web3 social. What it means for DAOs and media networks like UFO. Nir’s early origins in the crypto space, starting way back in 2014 and ramping up from 2017.

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.

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. In this episode we go into the inspirations of Japanese art and culture and its influence for his art practice coming from a Dutch style of colour, light, composition and architecture. His earlier days in NFTs including the life altering sale of a Beeple work which funded his own projects and secured a CryptoPunk.

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 forest of crypto.

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. Jihad is highly active in the Nouns DAO community, one of the most fascinating things happening in the crypto space as its evolved since launch in 2021. In this episode we go into all things governance, memes, NFT memberships, onchain media and trends seen over recent years for web3 communities from ERC20s and social tokens to PFP NFT collections, web3 social and the emergence of nounish projects.

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 it began in 2020. Scott is a steward for core infrastructure projects like ENS, Gnosis Safe, and Optimism. Through his work with Gitcoin and their DAO, they have been thinking a lot about regenerative structures, and are keenly focused on funding public goods.

María Paula is the retired founder of the Department of Decentralization which organises 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.

Matto is a generative artist, audio, code, and visual. 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 art in a generated city space; an NFT collection with imaginary fashion houses; a series of videos with commentary.

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.

Black Dave aka Dave Curry is a music artist, producer, rapper, photographer, and innovator in the realms of web3 music and NFTs. His latest release Black Dave Token is an audacious project which aims to support his musical journey raising 250 ETH with 1 million NFTs.

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 Independent. Together with the squad at Metalabel, their ideas are collectively coming into focus with their latest release, After The Creator Economy.

Nicolas Sassoon is a Franco-Canadian artist using early computer graphics to create a wide array of pixelated forms, patterns & architectural structures. Sam Mason de Caires is an engineer who’s into generative art. Presently at Syndicate, and previously at Foundation and Rainbow.

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 gamelan music from Indonesia, using pots and pans to create unique instruments, rhythm, pitch and percussion, achieving trance like states.

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 through coding and mathematics, and most recently as co-founder of a new NFT collection ~ DALL-E Punks.

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 released CHAOS.

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.

Alexander Guy is head of 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.

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 cultural impact by working as a group under a collective banner or label. A metalabel allows groups of people to join together, and pool their skills and resources and audiences in support of a larger vision or purpose. Creativity in multiplayer mode …

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.

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 to the cause.