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India's leading beatboxer and NFT artist Abhishek Bhaskar, aka ABVERSE, discusses transforming his voice into visuals through the Metavoice project, his foray into beatboxing, and creating the world's first ever beatboxing generated digital art NFT series.

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Aaron "MING" Albano is a Grammy-nominated remixer, producer, writer, & international DJ who discusses the quick consumption of art versus intellectualism and the future of music and art as it pertains to crypto contracts.

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Digital creator and artist Danny Casale, aka Coolman Coffeedan, is a Forbes 30 Under 30 winner who discusses his overnight leap into animation, his ensuing journey into the world of NFTs, and creating the Coolman's Universe.

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Celebrity jewelry-turned-entrepreneur Alex Todd was originally known for curating high-end jewelry for power players like Jay-Z, Rhianna and Kevin Hart. Alex crossed over into the cannabis space to create a brand for the culture with fellow New York native and rap artist Jim Jones. He's joined by Brandon Howard, founder and CEO of Higher Life CBD Dispensary, who, in partnership with Alex, has helped grow one of the first digital dispensaries in the metaverse.

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After attending art school in Philadelphia, Bryan Brinkman set out to New York City to find his fortune as a graphic artist and animator. In a fascinating story of how he came to be one of the most well-known NFT artists working today, we have to travel through Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Saturday Night Live and the wacky and always interesting world of blockchain-based art and animation. The market value of Brinkman's work is around $3 million and we talk about pushing the boundaries with what animated NFTs can achieve. 

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An insider look at creating digital effects at SNL

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Griff Green has been a leader in the Ethereum community for many years and played a pivotal role in how the community fought back against the DAO attack in 2016. He's also a world traveler, a Burning Man diehard and dedicated NBA basketball fan. He talks about the cultural shifts going on in crypto and how local coin-centric economies can take over some government services for the better. 

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In this week's episode of the DeCent People podcast, Stephen talks with wildly talented concept artist Robbie Trevino about his start in the art world, how he merged his storytelling abilities with his art, and how everything culminated with his foray into cryptocurrency and the world of non-fungible tokens.

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Kristin Smith grew up in Los Angeles before attending college in Washington D.C. and she never looked back. A previous staffer in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, Smith knows her way around Capitol Hill. She became the executive director at the Blockchain Association in 2018 where she's been helping to educate members of Congress and regulatory agencies as well as steer potential legislation related to web3 and blockchain. 

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Christian Hardy is the Content Lead for MomentRanks where he oversees a team of creators who help users track, analyze and engage in non-fungible token communities. Christian discusses his sports journalism background and how it led him into the world of NBA Top Shot and NFTs.

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Jeff Dorman is chief investment officer at Arca, where he leads the investment committee and is responsible for portfolio sizing and risk management. Jeff has over 17 years of trading and asset management experience at world renowned firms including Merrill Lynch and Citadel Securities, where he oversaw trading of over $100 million in proprietary capital. An avid baseball collector as a kid, Jeff quickly understood the appeal of non-fungible tokens and would scalp tickets to his high school's football games, so how to turn a buck has always been clear to him. He's one of the smartest and on-point people in digital assets and sees a world not far away where companies like Disney, universities and even municipalities are using digital tokens to offer holders perks that aren't possible today.

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