Josh Doner is one of the first people in the world to buy an NFT and a CryptoPunk OG from June 2017. He's a growth leader working on a DAO called Tracer, a decentralized Perpetual Contracts Protocol on Ethereum used to hedge risk to both digital and real world assets. Josh is a regular speaker on NFTs, Defi and Blockchain related topics.
In this conversation, we spoke about 🚀 how Josh started his NFT journey through buying a CryptoPunk, 📈 growth and change in the NFT market, ⚡️ creating NFT derivatives, NFT loan collateral and other DeFi applications, 🌎 the environmental benefits of Ethereum for governments and businesses, and 👀 the evolution of NFTs for entertainment franchises .