PoolTogether Community Podcast

Atlantis World is building the Web3 social metaverse by connecting Web3 with social, gaming and education in one lightweight virtual world that’s accessible to everybody.

Rev, Atlantis World Builder, dropped by to talk about how their 2D retro world helps make crypto accessible to normies, familiar to gamers, and an inviting space for degens everywhere.

In this episode, we discuss:

* Spatial Audio

* Skeumorphism

* How to get started with Atlantis World

* How to rifle through your friend’s backpack without offending them

* Wrench Attacks

* Mobile Web3

BTW, deposit that Polygon USDC into PoolTogether and win some prizes!

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Repeat of a previous podcast episode

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OMG, IT’S KRIS KAY! WE HAVE KRIS KAY ON THE PODCAST!

PoolTogether OG Influencer Kris Kay chops it up on the podcast this week. It was 🔥. You definitely need to hop into the PoolTogether Discord for these podcasts recordings. Lives are changed. Plans are hatched. And this podcast was one for the books!

In this episode we discuss:

* Haters and Hypers on Twitter

* ETH V2

* Decentral Games Ice Poker

* The Soul Sucking Black Hole of Content Generation

* Defi Wealth Bible

* And PoolTogether of course!

Follow Kris on Twitter and YouTube

And, please remember to visit PoolTogether to deposit into v4!

Important Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast and related content is financial advice. Please do your own research. The podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. Crypto and digital assets are unregulated, risky and you could lose some or all of your money if you choose to invest.

Next Week: Matthew Wright, Head of Strategy from Argent!

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Talking to Richard is always a treat. This podcast is no exception. Richard’s passion for crypto is contagious, and if you’ve been in the space for a month or two you’ve probably run into him.

In this episode Richard gives us the following goods (NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE obvs):

* Credit Card Arbitrage

* Creating wallets from Etherscan????

* His top plays in coins

* Fund management with Enzyme.Finance

* Why he loves PoolTogether

* Who Richard thinks is the Michael Jordan of Crypto

Tune in next week for the Defi Donut himself, Kris Kay!

And while you’re listening, go check for prizes or deposit some of that USDC into PoolTogether rn!

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Brendan, Co-founder of PoolTogether, joins us on the podcast this week. PoolTogether started over conversations at ETHDenver 2019, and the first version was up in one week. It’s been a fun ride ever since!

In this podcast we discussed:

* PoolTogether’s effort to support Ukraine with no-loss delegation

* PoolTogether’s Values and how they’re crucial to the protocol’s success

* Pool Tokenomics

* Institutional adoption of the PoolTogether protocol

* How flat organizations won’t make it

* The future of DAOs

Next week, we talk to Richard for 1.5 hours. It’s a doozy!

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Ivy Quinn, UX at Coordinape, spent a good hour with PoolTogether giving us all of the hot takes, spilled tea, and great advice to advance the protocol.

I met Ivy doing user testing for Coordinape, and PoolTogether is one of their DAO super users. Ivy is passionate about making web3 accessible to all, and we discuss how to think about the experience of users with product, protocol, and DAOs.

We Discuss:

* Whimsy Sisters (mints March 17th)

* Paper-handing Crypto Coven

* All things Coordinape

* The Future of Sushiswap

* The all-important roll of a community manager

* ETHDenver COVID POAP

Look out for next week’s episode with Brendan, co-founder of PoolTogether.

To jump in the Discord and deposit into PoolTogether, please visit pooltogether.com

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We got 30 minutes of Luigi D'Onorio DeMeo’s time AND WE MADE THE MOST OF IT!

Luigi is the Head of DeFi for Ava Labs, left Citigroup to build Avalanche, and probably lives on Long Island, NY based on his fancy sweatsuits.

Today we expand our focus at the PoolTogether Community Podcast to explore and learn more about the ever developing crypto/blockchain landscape and investigate Avalanche and the value this Layer 1 Blockchain brings to the blockchain space.

Avalanche is a fast growing Layer 1 Blockchain which is seeing a lot of investment and new projects launching including our new favorite, Wrestling Metaverse which did a $3m NFT launch in February 2022 on Avalanche.

In this fast paced conversation, we discuss:

* How to explain to my mother what Avalanche is

* Crypto’s onboarding problem

* How to pronounce everything related to the Avalanche ecosystem.

* The PoolTogether Avalanche Song

* The power of Avalanche subnets

* A lucrative crab game

Tune in next week for a killer convo with Ivy Quinn from Coordinape on UX and DAOs.

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PoolTogether co-creator Chuck joins us for the podcast this week.

Chuck takes us through the first conversations about PoolTogether at ETHDenver 2019, coaches me on how to start my own protocol, including outfit choices, and takes us through his picks for projects to back in 2022. In this wide varying conversation we cover Chuck's origin story, skill-set and his fascination with NFTs including some interesting projects he is invested in.

We discuss:

* The Chubbiverse

* haus

* exodia

* MURI

* Modular Synthesis

* Brian NFTs

* Cyber

Join us next week for our interview with Luigi D'Onorio DeMeo from Ava Labs.

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PoolTogether Contributor Anne Well joins us for the podcast!

Anne is leading PoolTogether’s Valentine’s Day NFT project. And it’s not too late to join!

PoolTogether’s Cupid is out spreading the love with his loaded Valentine's Day NFTs.

The NFTs are claimable by all Poolers who deposited & retweeted the Valentines-tweet in the week leading up to Valentines Day.

If that's not enough: 16 lucky Valentines Day NFT holders will be delegated a $25,000 PoolTogether deposit for the duration of one week. That's 4 winners a week for 4 weeks!

In addition to that there will be 9 more winners selected to receive a prepaid account with 50 $USDC already deposited into PoolTogether.

We discuss various topics, including:

* IRL events such as ETHDenver, ETHMontreal, NFT.NYC

* PoolTogether Experiential Marketing

* NFT Designer and Discord Expert Oops

Anne’s favorite Twitter Profiles

* Boss Beauties NFT

* Alpha Girl Club

* Stoner Cats TV

* Soggy Apple Pie

Anne’s upcoming NFT projects with two incredible artists:

* Gabriel Laporte

* Eli Montreuil

Catch next week’s episode where we talk to PoolTogether Co-Creator Chuck!

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Crypto Texan stopped by the PoolTogether Discord to dish on the current trends in the crypto space while contributing to Index Coop.

Warning: Please note that nothing in this podcast is financial advice and is for informational and educational purposes only. Crypto and digital assets are unregulated, risky and you could lose some or all of your investment.

We discussed all of the indexes: DeFi Pulse, Metaverse, Data Economy, the upcoming JPEG index, and of course the Bankless DeFi Innovation Index (GMI).

Crypto Texan shared what’s ahead in 2022, the celebrity he wants to onboard into crypto, and that you can’t just index whatever you want (but Index Coop will get you close!).

Other Topics Discussed:

* Decentral Games ICE Poker

* Stablecoins

* Joe Rogan

* How to join a DAO and contribute immediately

* Crypto Texan as a Twitter Influencer

Next week we’ll speak with PoolTogether Community Member Anne_Well.

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