Mint Season 2 episode 12 welcomes Founder & Builder of Shenanigan, Victor Ginelli. Shenanigan or SHE for short, is a social token issuance platform for athletes.

In this episode, we talk about:

• 2:30 - Getting Into Crypto
• 6:02 - Building a Career Beyond Sports
• 10:26 - Shenanigan DAO
• 12:07 - Working for an Algorithm
• 16:42 - Earning Through Participation
• 20:15 - Social Tokenomics
• 26:16 - Post-Mortem Social Tokens - Retroactive Earning
• 32:17 - Integrating Token Models
• 35:40 - Outro - Closing Out

I hope you enjoy our conversation.

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Mint Season 2 episode 11 welcomes pet3rpan, a DAO and NFT thought-leader whose work is widely known across the early-stage token investment firm 1kx. He’s also a Community organizer and summoner at MetaCartel, as well as the Co-founder & blood mage at MetaCartel Ventures.

In this episode, we talk about:

• 1kx’s investment thesis
• Understanding the role of leadership in DAOs
• How to eliminate or prevent bad actors
• Strategies for growing decentralized communities
• His POV on JPEG Summer
• His NFT investment strategy
• What will eat Web 3?

...and so much more.

I hope you enjoy our conversation.

Links: How To Grow Decentralized Communities https://medium.com/1kxnetwork/how-to-grow-decentralized-communities-1bf1044924f8

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Mint Season 2 episode 10 welcomes Erikan Obotetukudo, Founding and Managing Partner at Audacity Fund, who’s investing in Black and African-led crypto startups targeting trillion dollar markets worldwide. I wanted to bring her on because she’s extremely vocal of how NFTs will change Africa forever - a new perspective that sparked my attention.

I genuinely had so much recording this episode as Erikan’s high energy and incredible spirit made sharing her story enjoyable.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Audacity Fund’s investment thesis
• Understanding JPEG Summer
• Erikan’s love for the intersection of DeFi and NFTs
• How NFTs will Revolutionize Africa
• What will eat Web 3?

...and so much more.

I hope you enjoy our conversation.

Shoutout to Etiwanda High School!

Links

How NFTs will Revolutionize Africa –– Forever (pt 1)

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Mint Season 2 episode 9 welcomes Andy Artz who's on a mission to advance humanity by solving the world’s hardest problems by investing capital across early-stage startups at Social Capital.  

He’s also a major proponent of the decentralized social media platform BitClout following his own creator coin $ARTZ.  

In this episode, we talk about: 

• Understanding BitClout
• Weighing the risks of creator coins
• Curation on the blockchain
• Launching $ARTZ coin
• Trading social capital
• What will eat Web 3?

...and so much more.  

I hope you enjoy our conversation.   

Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

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Support Season 2's NFT sponsors  

1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/ 
2. POAP - https://poap.xyz/ 
3. Socialstack - https://socialstack.co/ 
4. Celo - https://celo.org/ 
5. PrimeDAO - https://www.prime.xyz/

Mint Season 2 episode 8 welcomes Maria Shen who’s a partner at Electric Capital. Prior to Electric, Maria was CTO and co-founder of a startup that helped SMBs easily create their supply chains with manufacturers around the world. Prior to that, she worked on search technology at Microsoft, with her features shipped to more than 1 billion devices.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Her NFT collection strategy
• undercollateralized social lending in NFT communities
• Favorite NFT use cases
• The intersection of DeFi and NFTs
• How creators should be thinking about the metaverse
• The frenzy behind Bored Ape Yacht Club
• Lessons learned working in this space
• What will eat web3

...and so much more.

I hope you enjoy our conversation.

Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 2 episode 7 welcomes Jonathan Dunlap, Founder and CEO at MintGate. He and his team are building tools for creators to experiment with token-gated content via NFT access passes and generative secret links for events, videos, music, websites, and blogs, to name a few.

I’m a big believer in the power of token-gated content and how it will upgrade your communities - so this session is a special listen.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Why should creators care about token-gated content?
• Excited token-gating use cases
• How you the creator can start integrating token-gated access into your community
• The biggest challenges stifling token-gated content

...and so much more.

I hope you enjoy our conversation.

Mint Season 2 episode 6 welcomes Reuben Bramanathan, an expert on all things crypto law, product management, fund management, and more. Having worked at Coinbase from 2015 to 2017, Reuben has seen the industry evolve at a rate in which many don’t have purview. Now, he’s helping build IDEO CoLab for collaborative impact where he and his team connect organizations to shape technology's impact on the world.

In this episode, we talk about JPEG summer, securities laws regarding fractional NFTs, what opportunities in the space most excite him, how NFTs are introducing the mainstream into crypto, NFT consumer applications, what will eat web3 and so much more.

I hope you enjoy our conversation.

Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 2 episode 5 welcomes Jess Sloss, the instigator at Seed Club, an incubator for the crypto space helping creators and communities launch and grow successful social tokens.

In this episode, we talk about finding and aligning your community with a universal purpose, the ownership economy, frameworks used to derive liquidity for early-stage social token projects, DAO management roles, the importance behind on-chain revenue, the rise of a human stock market, and so much more.

I hope you enjoy our conversation.

Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 2 episode 4 welcomes CEO and Co-founder of Socialstack Andrew Berkowitz. He’s building a protocol to power mission-driven social token economies on the blockchain that is driven by gratitude and abundance.

In this episode, we talk about what determines the success of social communities, debunking social token myths, how to derive initial liquidity, Andrew shares predictions for where the space will be in 5 to 10 years, Socialstack's vision and so much more.

I hope you enjoy our conversation.

Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Disclosure: Socialstack is an NFT sponsor for Mint Season 2.

Mint Season 2 episode 3 welcomes Jeff Kauffman Jr, who’s building Parachute, a social token-driven consultancy firm focused on web3 solutions for brands and agencies. Jeff has made it his responsibility to provide entry-level social token exposure to many mainstream marketing and advertising executives via the community’s currency, $JUMP.

In this episode, we talk about the vision behind Parachute and $JUMP, how social tokens will change advertising forever, why he’s building an advertising and marketing network native to Web3, the early days of the internet and mobile adoption, launching creator coins, and so much more.

I hope you enjoy our conversation.

Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint