In this episode we chat with Ben.ZZZ, onchain gaming aficionado & founder of Cambria. We dive into Cambria’s origin story, “risk-to-earn” & unique game modes, the nostalgia of the Runescape Era, how to think about retention for games, designing in-game economies, the challenges of building onchain games & much more!

In this episode we are joined once again by friends of the pod, Smac - partner @ Compound VC and Jon Moore - advisor @ TCG Crypto. We dive into the crazy year of 2024, recapping the highest highs and lowest lows, before making predictions for 2025.  

In this episode we chat with Leighton Cusack, who currently leads Ecosystem development at Tools For Humanity, more commonly known as World (aka “Worldcoin). We dive into Leighton’s early fascinating with social entrepreneurship, discovering crypto & founding PoolTogether, joining World, the importance of privacy & identity in a world of AI, launching World’s developer ecosystem & much more.

In this episode we chat with Achilleas Sarantaris, who leads ecosystem efforts around Art, Games & Worlds at Celestia. We dive into his time pursuing a professional music career, discovering crypto & NFTs during the pandemic, early experiments and lessons from Async Art, why he joined Celestia, his thesis around Artchains, and much more.

In this episode we chat with Joey Iny, founder of onchain music trading platform, Crate. We dive into Joey’s background as a successful music producer, royalties and the brokenness of the music business, discovering crypto but not aligning with “collector culture,” the original idea for Crate, learnings & feedback from artists, Crate’s V2 launch & more. 

In this episode we chat with Martin Antequil, the creator behind onchain brand HIGHER as well as the onchain agent Aether. We dive into Martin’s early work on NBA Top Shot at Dapper Labs, his thoughts on the evolution of the NFT market, his time building within the Nouns DAO community, “headless brands” and the emergence of HIGHER, building Aether, personality design & much more.

In this episode we chat with Brandon Tory, co-founder & CEO of Formless. We dive into his early passions for engineering and music, managing the duality of corporate life & creative life, discovering crypto & the original vision for SHARE Protocol, tradeoffs between PMF and decentralization, self-funding media & much more. 

In this episode we chat with Brian Flynn, founder of Boost Protocol, and Jon Moore, investor at TCG Crypto and longtime friend of the pod. We dive into the origins of Rabbithole and its evolution into Boost Protocol, how token distribution mechanisms have changed over time, the emerging concept of “onchain virality,” patterns in how users are leveraging Boost today, identify & sybil resistance challenges, experiments around AI agents, and more. 

In this episode we chat with Chris Osborn, founder of Dialect. We dive into his background in physics & quantum computing, how he discovered and transitioned into crypto, the original vision for Dialect and “smart messaging,” Blinks & Solana Actions, crypto as a novel UX paradigm, reflections on crypto’s superpowers, and more.

In this special episode, Nat interviews Liquid Culture co-host Ben Roy. We dive into Ben background in politics & international relations, pivoting into crypto, reflections on being a prolific community builder, working with the Seed Club, early ideas for Liquid Culture, Canada’s tech talent exodus, and much more.