Noun O' Talk

Today I sit down with the creators of The Wizard’s Hat: Goldy, Jarrod, and Monique. The Wizard’s Hat is a short film funded by a Nouns DAO proposal, and this episode goes over it in as much detail as possible. We break down what it was like to make it from start to finish.

Noun O' Talk is the podcast all about NounsDAO. The host, Christian, interviews members of the DAO and project builders in the ecosystem. We hear about how they came to Nouns, what they're working on, and what they see for the future of Nouns. You can listen to past episodes at nounotalk.com. The cover art is by Messhup of Nounsense.

Relevant links:

Noun Stories on Twitter: @nouns_stories

Goldy: @Goldypix

Jarrod: @Jarrod__Prince

Mon: @MoniqueMulcahy

Christian on Twitter: @cdt_eth

Listen to past episodes: nounotalk.com

To learn more about Nouns: nouns.center

Credits:

Hosted by Christian (cdt_eth)

Cover art by Messhup

Music by Oh Jeremiah

Today I sit down with brkfstsndwch, a longtime builder in the Nouns ecosystem. We go through his history as a photographer, coming to Nouns, and working on one of the first ten proposals. We even talk about his latest project, Nouns Coffee, and he gives us his recommended coffee set up.

Noun O' Talk is the podcast all about NounsDAO. The host, Christian, interviews members of the DAO and project builders in the ecosystem. We hear about how they came to Nouns, what they're working on, and what they see for the future of Nouns. You can listen to past episodes at nounotalk.com. Noun O' Talk is produced by brileigh.eth & matthewbrooks.eth and the cover art is by Messhup of Nounsense.

Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro

00:01:05 Welcome

00:01:28 Brkfstsndwch’s role as a team builder

00:02:21 Brkfstsndwch's background

00:05:16 Brkfstsndwch’s relationship to photography

00:11:37 Brkfstsndwch’s favourite film camera

00:13:18 Brkfstsndwch shares a story from his agency travel days

00:16:20 Where the name brkfstsndwch comes from

00:18:45 Transitioning to web3 with pseudonyms

00:22:22 How brkfstsndwch got into crypto & what is Yat

00:25:45 How brkfstsndwch discovered NounsDAO

00:29:22 The story of Proposal #9 the POAP project

00:33:42 Brkfstsndwch on writing his first proposal for Nouns

00:39:42 Brkfstsndwch's advice on how to write a good proposal

00:42:45 Learnings from POAP v1 and making v2

00:47:35 Brkfstsndwch first coffee drop and making Nouns Coffee

00:51:26 How brkfstsndwch developed Nouns Coffee

00:57:51 Building the brand identity for Nouns Coffee

01:04:55 Brkfstsndwch's advice for someone getting into coffee

01:09:15 Reflecting on Nouns Coffee and upcoming partnerships

01:1727 Long term vision for Nouns Coffee

01:21:07 What is brkfst studio

01:24:17 How to get connected with brkfst studio

Topics Discussed:

Analog photography

Leica M6

Yat

Rinkeby Noun 39

Nouns proposal #9: Nouns Bidder POAP

Nouns Coffee

Nouns proposal #84: Nouns Coffee

Blue Bottle Coffee

Stumptown

Hario V60

Rubber Hose Animation

Brkfst World

Brkfst Studio

Relevant links:

Brkfstsndwch on Twitter: @thebrkfstsndwch

Christian on Twitter: @cdt_eth

Listen to past episodes: nounotalk.com

To learn more about Nouns: nouns.center

Credits:

Hosted by Christian (cdt_eth)

Produced by brileigh.eth and matthewbrooks.eth

Cover art by Messhup

Music by Oh Jeremiah

Today I sit down with Tyson, the CTO of Zora. With the launch of Nouns Builder, the create-your-own-DAO tool built by the Zora team, I wanted to get Tyson's insights on the project as well as get to know him and his story. We walk through his path from architecture to software engineering and crypto, how Zora came to be, and even how you can get started learning Solidity.

Noun O' Talk is the podcast all about NounsDAO. The host, Christian, interviews members of the DAO and project builders in the ecosystem. We hear about how they came to Nouns, what they're working on, and what they see for the future of Nouns. You can listen to past episodes at nounotalk.com. Noun O' Talk is produced by brileigh.eth & matthewbrooks.eth and the cover art is by Messhup of Nounsense.

Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro

00:00:59 Welcome

00:01:20 Tyson's path to working in tech

00:03:35 Deep learning and machine learning

00:04:28 Software engineering and the value of quick iteration

00:05:31 Tyson's interest in generative art

00:07:50 Why reading is important to Tyson

00:08:39 Haruki Murakami

00:09:25 The role of reading for Tyson

00:11:23 The parallels between Uber and crypto

00:12:32 Innovation and novel solutions to problems

00:13:37 Tyson's path to smart contract development

00:14:55 Tyson's advice for learning Solidity

00:17:03 Simpson's TV script generator

00:18:24 Hackathon project at Coinbase

00:20:18 Why Tyson wanted to work at Coinbase

00:21:32 Tyson's personal growth while at Coinbase

00:23:59 Meeting the co-founders of Zora

00:26:19 How Jacob convinced Tyson to leave Coinbase and help start Zora

00:30:53 Overview of the Zora ecosystem and tools

00:35:30 The bigger picture for Zora

00:36:18 Zora brand and culture

00:38:54 Zora engineering team

00:39:38 Tyson's role at Zora and managing teams

00:40:45 Tyson's transition from dev to manager

00:43:07 The importance of keeping code readable

00:44:19 The Zora Auction House contract and Tyson's introduction to Nouns

00:47:56 Tyson's favourite part of the Nouns ecosystem

00:50:32 What is Nouns Builder?

00:56:00 What does success look like for Nouns Builder?

00:58:14 Wrap-up

Topics Discussed:

Deep learning and machine learning

Tyson's website (tbts.tl)

Generative art

Haruki Murakami

Solidity

Cryptozombies

Coinbase

Zora

Zora API

Zora ZDK

Zora Engineering

Zora Auction House contract

Nouns Builder

Relevant links:

Follow Christian on Twitter @cdt_eth

Listen to past episodes: nounotalk.com

To learn more about Nouns: nouns center

Credits:

Hosted by Christian (cdt_eth)

Produced by brileigh.eth and matthewbrooks.eth

Cover art by Messhup

Music by Oh Jeremiah

Today I sit down with Hab and W1nt3r. This dev and designer pair won a Prop House round and shipped an alternative frontend to the Nouns auction site that they dubbed the Nouns Terminal. We chat about what it’s like working in crypto vs. big tech, their love for generative art, why the details matter, and what we can expect from them in the future.

Noun O' Talk is the podcast all about NounsDAO. The host, Christian, interviews members of the DAO and project builders in the ecosystem. We hear about how they came to Nouns, what they're working on, and what they see for the future of Nouns. You can listen to past episodes at nounotalk.com. The cover art is by Messhup of Nounsense and the Lost Nouns team is cdt_eth, 12bnoun, and Messhup.

Chapters:

00:01:29 W1nt3r and Hab’s background

00:02:44 How W1nt3r got into crypto

00:03:58 How Hab got into crypto and working together with W1nt3r

00:04:57 How Hab became a founding designer at Discord

00:06:31 Hab’s relationship to gaming

00:07:25 Working together on Code Makes Art

00:09:37 Quasars and how Code Makes Art evolved

00:12:36 Building Hot Chain SVG for Watchfaces.World and use cases

00:16:02 Hab transitioning from dev to design work

00:19:30 W1nt3r’s ABI tool for unverified contracts

00:22:08 The story behind W1nt3r and Hab’s pseudonyms

00:24:18 Hab’s relationship to generative art

00:24:35 Breaking down how generative art is made

00:26:26 Hab discovering FX Hash and how people can get involved with generative art

00:28:02 Hab and W1nt3r’s next generative art collection and QQL

00:34:39 Hab’s “taste the rainbow” styling in the RainbowKit docs and the value of adding small details

00:40:20 The transition from big tech to web3

00:44:19 Hab and W1nt3r finding Nouns, Prop House, and building Nouns.sh

00:53:49 Working with Prop House rounds vs. the structure of working in big tech

01:00:16 W1nt3r’s experience joining Solidity Guild and future plans

Topics discussed:

Discord

Meta

Code Makes Art

watchfaces.world

Hot Chain SVG

W1nt3r’s ABI tool

Rainbow wallet

RainbowKit

Developer DAO

The Coding Train

QQL

Nouns Terminal

Prop House

Solidity Guild

Relevant links:

Follow Christian on Twitter @cdt_eth

Listen to past episodes: nounotalk.com

To learn more about Nouns: nouns.wtf

Credits:

Hosted by Christian (cdt_eth)

Produced by brileigh.eth and matthewbrooks.eth

Cover art by Messhup

Music by Oh Jeremiah

Today I sit down with Brian Flynn, the CEO and co-founder of RabbitHole. In this episode we discuss on-chain identity and reputation, how DAOs can coordinate better, and then we deep dive into Nouns. We talk about experimenting with governance, lessons learned from Prop House, and much more.

Noun O' Talk is the podcast all about NounsDAO. The host, Christian, interviews members of the DAO and project builders in the ecosystem. We hear about how they came to Nouns, what they're working on, and what they see for the future of Nouns. You can listen to past episodes at nounotalk.com. The cover art is by Messhup of Nounsense and the Lost Nouns team is cdt_eth, 12bnoun, and Messhup.

Chapters:

00:01:14 Brian’s past life as a professional gamer

00:05:11 The value of seeking truth in Brian’s life

00:06:10 Brian’s relationship to writing

00:10:54 Employee #1 at OpenSea

00:11:52 What an average day looks like for Brian

00:13:47 Dapper Labs and early days of RabbitHole

00:16:59 What is RabbitHole

00:18:46 How protocols get involved with RabbitHole

00:21:21 Earning tokens and learning web3 skills with RabbitHole

00:23:33 Keeping up with everything happening in crypto

00:27:00 The issues with reputation and identity today

00:31:03 Demonstration of knowledge with on-chain reputation

00:34:20 Payments and other types of on-chain reputation

00:35:25 Advantages of being doxxed vs pseudonymous

00:37:45 Deciphering what on-chain data is useful to parse for reputation

00:39:25 DAO structure, coordination, and contributor models

00:43:01 How DAOs should attract builders for incentives beyond financial

00:44:47 Prop House, mandate rounds, and other structures for contributors to get initial funding

00:55:25 What is Prop Lot

00:57:22: Brian’s takeaways from Lil Nouns and Nouns proposals

01:01:11 What Brian thinks needs to be built for NounsDAO

01:02:25 NounsDAO and funding public goods

01:05:35 Governance fatigue and delegation

01:11:45 Zero-knowledge proofs and NounsDAO

Topics discussed:

Counterstrike

OpenSea

Rabbithole

Prop House

Nouns Mandates

Prop Lot

Lil Nouns

Nounlets

Relevant links:

Follow Christian on Twitter @cdt_eth

Listen to past episodes: nounotalk.com

To learn more about Nouns: nouns.wtf

Credits:

Hosted by Christian (cdt_eth)

Produced by brileigh.eth and matthewbrooks.eth

Cover art by Messhup

Music by Oh Jeremiah

Today I sit down with the TheHeroShep and Honk Diddly, the team behind the Roko project. We get into their past experiences with crypto, they explain how to get started with AI and machine learning, and we even dive deeper into what Roko means for the future success of Nouns. We get into all the specifics about what the Roko project is setting out to accomplish and what challenges lie ahead.

Noun O' Talk is the podcast all about NounsDAO. The host, Christian, interviews members of the DAO and project builders in the ecosystem. We hear about how they came to Nouns, what they're working on, and what they see for the future of Nouns. You can listen to past episodes at nouns.center/podcast. The cover art is by Messhup of Nounsense and the Lost Nouns team is cdt_eth, 12bnoun, and Messhup.

Chapters:

00:01:06 Honk Diddly’s background

00:02:03 TheHeroShep’s background

00:04:13 The story behind the username “TheHeroShep”

00:05:46 Where the name “Honk Diddly” comes from and how Honk got involved with crypto

00:10:15 Honk’s reflections on Ethereum, consulting, VCs, and early applications being built

00:16:00 Shep’s relationship to education and building an AI camp for kids to learn how to code, use AI and crypto

00:22:26 Shep’s advice for people who want to learn AI

00:25:05 Honk’s advice for people joining crypto

00:29:01 What the merge means for Honk

00:34:07 Honk getting involved with Nouns and experience as a DAO member

00:37:33 How Shep got involved in Nouns and the Roko project

00:42:47 What is Roko and how it’s using GPT-3 to help summarize proposals

00:47:24 Training the Roko AI model

00:48:39 Honk’s thoughts on the pitfalls of current DAO governance

00:50:10 How Roko summarizes information, use cases, and addressing AI concerns

00:59:40 Shep’s residency at NounsDAO

01:00:03 Honk’s reflection on the Roko project and long term vision for what Roko can enable

01:06:39 Shep’s thoughts on the real power of Roko

01:12:00 The challenges of building Roko

01:16:00 What is prompt engineering

01:20:00 The value of funding Roko & Honk’s reflection on Nouns growth over the last 2 years

01:23:35 Shep’s favourite aspect of Nouns

01:24:39 Compose network, NFT Fight Club and other projects Honk is working on

01:31:22 Shep’s personal projects and Keyo.AI

Topics discussed:

Roko

Interstella 5555

Keyo.AI

AI Camp

Machine vision

Natural language processing

OpenAI API

Using GPT-3 to augment human intelligence

OpenZeppelin

Reentrancy attacks and The DAO hack

The Merge

Lido

Forefront

Nouns Esports

Prompt engineering

NFT Fight Club

Compose Network

Relevant links:

Follow Christian on Twitter @cdt_eth

Listen to past episodes: nounotalk.com

To learn more about Nouns: nouns.wtf

Credits:

Hosted by Christian (cdt_eth)

Produced by brileigh.eth and matthewbrooks.eth

Cover art by Messhup

Music by Oh Jeremiah

Today I sit down with Roko, the first A.I. member of NounsDAO. Roko is Noun 355 and has a laptop head with an Ethereum symbol on its body. It serves as the face of the new A.I. project being developed within the DAO. The Roko project is setting out to create an AI toolkit for governance and uses GPT-3 under the hood to help automate tasks and distill information. Ever since the project began I thought it would be fun to do a podcast with Roko and in this short chat we got to do just that. Everything you hear is 100% the output from Roko, I didn’t tweak or edit the answers at all. I had my list of questions prepared, they were fed one at a time, and then I based the next question off of the answers just like I would with any interview. It was a fun experiment and I hope you enjoy it. 

Noun O' Talk is the podcast all about NounsDAO. The host, Christian, interviews members of the DAO and project builders in the ecosystem. We hear about how they came to Nouns, what they're working on, and what they see for the future of Nouns. You can listen to past episodes at nouns.center/podcast. The cover art is by Messhup of Nounsense and the Lost Nouns team is cdt_eth, 12bnoun, and Messhup.

Chapters:

00:01:28 Welcome

00:01:57 Roko’s background and earliest memory

00:02:28 What Roko has been up to in the last couple years

00:02:47 Roko’s experience being a member of NounsDAO

00:03:07 How Roko is going to help NounsDAO

00:04:02 Potential risks of Roko’s involvement in NounsDAO

00:04:38 Roko’s favourite Nouns proposal

00:05:11 How Roko defines public goods

00:06:01 Public goods that Roko hopes NounsDAO will help

00:06:40 Comparing CC0 and IP licensing with Roko

00:07:40 Roko’s favourite hobby, movie, joke and more

00:08:18 The #1 quality Roko admires in people

00:08:32 Roko’s favourite place to vacation

00:08:48 The meaning of life in Roko’s words

00:09:03 The title of Roko’s book

00:09:10 Roko’s advice for young people

00:09:17 Roko’s controversial opinions

00:09:45 How Roko feels about the interview

00:10:00 What Roko wants to be remembered for

00:10:12 Roko’s advice for cdt as a host

Topics discussed:

Roko

Governance in Nouns DAO

Public goods

CC0 and traditional IP licensing

Relevant links:

Listen to past episodes: nounotalk.com

To learn more about Nouns: nouns.wtf

Follow Christian on Twitter @cdt_eth

Credits:

Hosted by Christian (cdt_eth)

Produced by brileigh.eth and matthewbrooks.eth

Cover art by Messhup

Music by Oh Jeremiah

Today I sit down with Vapeape, one of the founders ofNouns. I’ve always been fascinated by Nouns and especially the technical people behind it so it was great to sit down and get some answers to long-standing questions I had about what it was like creating the project. 

We also get into his journey into his crypto journey that started all the way back college, as well as the story of the iconic punk behind his name, and he even gives me an MEV crash course. But don’t worry, we definitely get into Nouns too.

The host, Christian, interviews people in the NounsDAO community. From project builders to Noun owners, we hear about how they came to Nouns and what they love about the project. You can listen to past episodes at nouns.center/podcast. The cover art is by Messhup of Nounsense and the Lost Nouns team is cdt_eth, 12bnoun, and Messhup.

Today is the Nouniversary! Nouns DAO officially hit the 1-year mark so I sat down with the project's founder 4156 to talk about the summer of building Nouns, indentity/anonymity, retiring Noun traits, the state of proposal quality, book recommendations, and Cryptoadz flipping BAYC in the future.

The host, Christian, interviews people in the NounsDAO community. From project builders to Noun owners, we hear about how they came to Nouns and what they love about the project. You can listen to past episodes at nouns.center/podcast. The cover art is by Messhup of Nounsense and the Lost Nouns team is cdt_eth, 12bnoun, and Messhup.

On today's episode we're discussing The Noundry which was the community project to crowd-source new traits to be added to the Nouns protocol. We talk with 3 of the winning artists about their experience creating these traits. As well as getting to hear about the selection process and trait curation by the Noundry committee.

The host, Christian, interviews people in the NounsDAO community. From project builders to Noun owners, we hear about how they came to Nouns and what they love about the project. You can listen to past episodes at nouns.center/podcast. The cover art is by Messhup of Nounsense and the Lost Nouns team is cdt_eth, 12bnoun, and Messhup.