Rehash: A Web3 Podcast

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Queen Wartooth about designing airdrops, strategies for acquiring new users in crypto, and she reveals for the first time the project she’s been working on in stealth, Dragon Academy, which will launch next month.

Queen Wartooth has done a lot of work around designing airdrops and thinking about how best to incentivize users, and we spend the first half or so of the conversation talking about airdrop design, anti-Sybil strategies, and problems around user acquisition in general.

Then, for the second half of the conversation, Wartooth opens up about Dragon Academy, which aims to fundamentally change how airdrops are architected and executed to the benefit of both long term aligned products and new users.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:16 Stated purpose of airdrops vs actual impact of airdrops

6:36 Are airdrops better for user acquisition or retention?

8:04 Best ways to incentivize users long term

10:17 How to create a community in crypto that feels safe

13:42 Is it better to build infrastructure or consumer apps first?

15:22 How to prevent Sybil attacks

17:12 Strategies for restructuring airdrops to be more effective

20:53 What is Dragon Academy? [EXCLUSIVE]

24:29 How does proof of humanity play into Dragon Academy?

45:06 Can You Not

48:20 Follow Queen Wartooth

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On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Zoe Weinberg, Founder and Managing Partner at ex/ante, the first venture fund dedicated to agentic tech.

We start our conversation by getting a little insight into Zoe’s background, which is quite unique and unusual but also lends itself quite well to the work she’s doing today in privacy and human agency. 

She shares the ways in which her past humanitarian work in conflict zones and developing nations opened her eyes to issues around surveillance capitalism and how she had her first big realization of how crypto can change individuals’ lives in meaningful ways when she met a group of Bitcoin miners in Iraq during the Mosul conflict when Iraq successfully took back the city of Mosul from the Islamic State.

We then dive into some big topics around agentic tech, including user control, consent, privacy, and online (and onchain) data sharing. Zoe envisions a world where humans have full agency over how their information and data are used and we talk about what it might take for us to get there.

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LINKS

• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff: https://www.amazon.com/Age-Surveillance-Capitalism-Future-Frontier/dp/1610395697
• Privacy Party (prev: Block Party): https://www.blockpartyapp.com/#privacyparty/
• ex/ante Substack: https://buildexante.substack.com/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:35 Zoe’s background

5:52 When crypto saves lives

10:24 How surveillance capitalism has developed over time

15:31 State vs corporate surveillance capitalism

18:02 Will online privacy regulations improve over time?

23:07 What is agentic tech?

29:14 What impact can agentic tech have in our lives?

34:40 How do user control and consent fit into a public blockchain?

36:46 Examples of agentic tech solutions

45:14 Ideal end state if agentic tech succeeds

48:00 Can You Not

49:40 Follow Zoe and ex/ante

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On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Sean McCaffery, co-founder of JokeRace, about new developments in smart contract design, how onchain data can drive consumer adoption of crypto, and new and novel use cases for tokens.

We’ve had Sean’s co-founder, David Phelps, on the podcast a couple of times, back in S6 E10 where he talked about crypto use cases for mass adoption and even earlier on in S3 E2 which aired in August 2022 when he talked about non-financial use cases for tokens.

JokeRace is a contests platform for communities to run, grow, and monetize. In our specific case, Rehash holders are able to submit proposals on JokeRace, nominating their favorite people to be guests on the podcast, and our guest lineup for the following season of Rehash is determined through a voting process every quarter. 

For a full primer and history on how JokeRace started and developed, check out David Phelps’ episodes from S3 E2 and S6 E10 so you have full context on the project and are able to appreciate some of the alpha Sean drops about upcoming feature launches.

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LINKS

• Containerized contracts thesis: https://github.com/seanmc9/containerized-contracts-thesis?tab=readme-ov-file
• Sean’s Github: https://github.com/seanmc9
• Rehash S3 E2 | Non-Financial Use Cases for Tokens w/David Phelps: https://youtu.be/v-huDdPaG1c?si=E1InDEp_hJllgWaS
• Rehash S6 E10 | Crypto Use Cases for Mass Adoption w/David Phelps: https://youtu.be/_04bodYKG-k?si=d2xlIpFfRLflAwOP

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

5:27 Containerized contracts thesis

15:42 Onchain data and consumer adoption

19:00 Obstacles to creating superapps

20:55 Benefits of onchain, open source data

29:26 Ideal onchain data dashboard for Rehash

33:13 What does post-token mean?

35:50 How can people use tokens in a post-token paradigm?

38:05 How to prevent whales and sybil

41:14 Can crypto really create wealth redistribution?

44:04 New JokeRace features

48:44 Can you not

50:18 Follow Sean

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On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Jon Wu about marketing and investing in crypto.

Last season you heard from Jon’s other half, Maggie Love, from SheFi in S7 E9 about onboarding women into crypto, and now we have the opportunity to speak with the other half of this dynamic duo and power couple, Jon.

Jon recently became an early stage investor after a decade of building in crypto and in tech more broadly, and in our conversation today he shares lots of great insights on what he believes to be the most effective marketing strategies in crypto, how he comes up with his unpopular beliefs and hot takes, and where he believes the crypto space currently stands from an investor perspective. 

Whether you agree with all of his takes or not, you’ll definitely learn something new and walk away with not only some new perspectives but also tangible action steps you can take to help you formulate your own perspectives.

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LINKS

• Fortyiq: https://www.fortyiq.com/
• S7 E9 | Onboarding Women to Crypto w/Maggie Love: https://youtu.be/LfqCSxj6Uqg?si=IMcQySc7l_4WxwHQ

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:30 Developing a GTM strategy in web2 vs web3

5:45 Headless brands vs founder-led brands

7:18 Perfecting human-led brands with AI

12:27 What is crypto-native marketing?

17:14 Jon’s content strategy

20:16 Why Jon pivoted from building to investing

23:16 How to filter through all the content and form individual thought process

26:07 Jon’s biggest hot take in crypto

28:06 Jon’s investment thesis

33:27 How Jon predicts the future

36:05 How Jon’s experience as a builder has helped him as an investor

46:15 What Jon is most bullish on right now

50:49 Jon’s biggest can-you-not

52:06 Follow Jon

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On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Winny about all things consumer crypto and wearable tech, onboarding the masses to crypto, and her new company, Chipped, which offers NFC embedded press-on nails that link people to your socials.

What’s really inspiring about the work Winny’s doing is that she’s found a way to make consumer crypto really fun and digestible to people outside of crypto by leveraging social rather than gamified experiences. 

She shares some interesting takes about why consumer crypto hasn’t been super successful to date and what we need to do differently in order to make crypto products resonate with a mainstream audience.

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• Chipped: https://www.chipped.social/
• Gossip Protocol: https://twitter.com/gossipprotocol

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:31 Winny’s background

9:35 How to make crypto and blockchain more fun for the mainstream

11:15 Winny’s definition of consumer crypto

13:55 Why Winny is bullish on wearable tech

16:23 Pros and cons to gamifying crypto

17:56 Mental models for building wearable tech

21:48 Onboarding non-crypto users to Chipped

23:48 Backstory of Chipped (NFC press-on nails)

29:37 Privacy concerns with Chipped

30:49 Brand partnerships strategy and goals with Chipped

34:40 Quantifying vibes and identifying bad vibes in brands

36:54 Long term vision for Chipped

38:19 Winny’s biggest Can-You-Not

39:30 Follow Winny and Chipped

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On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Kat from ethevacuations, a project that’s helping fund evacuations from Gaza with ETH.

Many of you might know Kat from her previous role as Head of Product at Zora, but since December 2023, she has been focusing her efforts on providing humanitarian aid to Palestine through crypto rails.

In this episode we talk about some of the unique behaviors and impacts crypto enables, such as increased speed and ease of international remittances, as well as some of the challenges crypto introduces.

Kat also shares her thoughts on how crypto can be used for international aid more broadly, how she handles tough conversations with friends and colleagues about the crisis that’s been going on in Palestine since October of last year, and what she wishes the mainstream knew about crypto beyond memecoins and scams.

Kat has raised over a quarter million dollars and helped safely evacuate 40 people through ethevacuations so far, and you can support her by donating directly to the wallet address listed on ethevacuations.xyz, by collecting this episode at pods.media/rehash, by tipping on Farcaster or Zora (links below), or by building ethevacuations into a split for an NFT project you’re managing.

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• Ethevacuations: https://ethevacuations.xyz/
• Farcaster $DEGEN tips: https://warpcast.com/katalunia
• Zora $ENJOY tips: https://zora.co/collect/zora:0xa4c5b777ed34a924c83a3a8b9e29b484dc1da654/3

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:05 Kat’s background

5:25 Why fundraise with crypto?

8:03 Would Kat’s work have been possible without crypto?

8:31 Challenges around off ramping with crypto

9:40 Converting crypto to fiat for humanitarian aid

10:24 How much money has Kat raised through ethevacuations?

12:39 Reaction from crypto community to support humanitarian aid

13:24 Kat’s recommendations for handling sensitive conversations about Palestine

21:35 Is it easier to send crypto or fiat overseas?

22:55 Good use cases for crypto in international humanitarian aid

25:20 What Kat wished the mainstream knew about crypto and the positive impact it can have on the world

27:20 How can people support Kat’s work?

29:44 Follow Kat

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On this special bonus episode of Rehash, we’re recapping Season 2 of Crypto The Game (CTG) with CTG founders and getting some juicy confessions from some of the finalists and players.

We start by chatting with Dylan Abruscato, Tyler Cagle, and Bryan Lee from the CTG team about their thoughts on what went well this season and what they might change for future seasons. We get a behind the scenes look into their decision making around some of the changes in gameplay this season and whether they were able to predict the outcomes from the season.

We then speak with Eva Beylin, representing CTG Season 2 winner, Player #733, Will Hunter and Nico Valencia, who were finalists in Season 2, and Katy Jeremko, who almost made it to the finals and had a fiery and controversial gameplay with boyfriend, Nico. All four players share their strategy and gameplay and reveal some shocking confessions.

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Tyler Cagle: https://twitter.com/tjcages

Bryan Lee: https://twitter.com/junmobius

Eva Beylin: https://twitter.com/evabeylin

Will Hunter: https://twitter.com/wlhunter25

Nico Valencia: https://twitter.com/nico_valencia

Katy Jeremko: https://twitter.com/0xKaty

LINKS

• Crypto The Game: https://www.cryptothegame.com/
• CTG Season 1 Recap on Rehash: https://youtu.be/vwEmkO10K1o?si=pKfa7YXM0doaybS6

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

4:08 CTG S2 Recap

5:51 How many players were doxxed vs anon?

6:41 What was the NFT based mechanic used in Season 2 of CTG?

11:22 CTG founders’ thoughts on finale and winner

15:25 How Season 2 was different from Season 1

23:19 Most and least successful parts of Season 2 of CTG

30:17 Final thoughts from founders of CTG

33:52 Recap of finalists’ campaigns

41:14 Players share their strategies and gameplay

44:20 Will’s big confession

46:57 Diana’s confession

48:02 How the players would change the game in future seasons

52:19 How players would play the game differently in future seasons

56:26 More player confessions

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On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Jonah Erlich about what a multisignature wallet is, how it’s different from MPC (multiparty computation), best security practices for managing a multisig, and how to be a good multisig signer.

Jonah experienced many of the common challenges multisig signers face when he was operating as a core team member of ConstitutionDAO back in late 2022, which is what inspired him to build Den, a tool that helps teams operate more quickly, safely, and effectively onchain through things like human readable descriptions, notifications, recurring transactions, and much more which Jonah shares more about in this episode. 

We wrap up with a few “can you nots” where we share some of our biggest pet peeves about things multisig signers or people operating in crypto in general like to do, and Jonah overdelivers on his campaign promise to tell an embarrassing childhood story about Diana by telling not one but two embarrassing childhood stories about her.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:10 How Jonah campaigned for his spot on Rehash

6:17 What is a multisgnature wallet?

10:42 Multisig vs MPC

14:40 How to be a good multisig signer and best practices

29:55 What is Den?

32:44 How Den makes multisig ops easier

38:31 How does Den make money?

39:38 How does the Den team ship so fast?

44:50 What Jonah would improve about the Safe ecosystem

47:38 Long term vision for Den

49:55 Can You Not

54:48 Jonah’s embarrassing story about Diana

59:57 Follow Jonah

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On our final special bonus episode of Rehash recorded live in Denver on March 1, 2024, we’re holding our first ever debate between three major L2 chains: Polygon, Arbitrum, and Optimism. The representatives from each chain are Hudson Jameson (Polygon), Disruption Joe (Arbitrum), and Binji (Optimism). 

Each representative gives opening and closing statements about why the layer 2 chain they’re working on is the best one, shares some popular use cases for projects building on their chain, and some even attack other chains in an attempt to win the L2 wars.

This debate is all in good fun, as we all believe in a multichain future and are rooting for the success of all three chains, but we do wrap up the episode by asking our live studio audience to vote on which chain they’re most bullish on after hearing the debates.

At the end of the day, we all want each other to win, and we all want Ethereum to win.

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LINKS

• Polygon: https://polygon.technology/
• Arbitrum: https://arbitrum.foundation/
• Optimism: https://optimism.io/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

4:02 Arbitrum opening statement

6:34 Polygon opening statement

8:57 Optimism opening statement

12:11 Optimism use cases

14:42 Polygon use cases

18:54 Arbitrum use cases

22:20 Polygon closing statement

25:30 Optimism closing statement

29:26 Arbitrum closing statement

32:49 Which L2 is the winner?

33:37 Follow Hudson, Joe, and Binji

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On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Caitlin Cook, Head of Communications and Marketing at Hxro Labs, a distributed liquidity layer for derivatives trading and betting on Solana.

Caitlin is the first guest from the Solana ecosystem that we’ve had on the podcast, so we had to take advantage of this time to ask her all the questions about Solana. Caitlin talks about some trends she’s seeing on Solana that are unique to the ecosystem, why she believes Solana has grown so much, and what role she sees Solana playing in our multichain world moving forward.

Prior to joining Hxro Labs, where she works now, Caitlin was a DeFi educator for about 18 months, primarily educating TradFi institutions about DeFi but also creating educational content for the general public as well, so we chatted about her experiences with that and what she found to be the most convincing narratives for both the general public as well as TradFi institutions to pique their curiosity about DeFi and begin to onboard them.

Finally, Caitlin shared some great insights on the best ways to onboard the next billion users to crypto.

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LINKS

• XP Ticket: https://xp.xyz/
• Moonwalk: https://moonwalk.fit/
• Hxro Network: https://hxro.com/
• Solana: https://solana.com/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

4:16 Solana overview

12:11 Best projects being built on Solana

23:27 Solana’s role in the multichain world

27:15 Vibes/culture in Solana

30:06 Why has Solana seen so much growth lately?

31:39 DeFi education for consumers

43:33 DeFi education for institutions

51:03 Caitlin’s thoughts on memecoins

54:48 Caitlin’s price predictions for Bitcoin/Ethereum/Solana ATH

57:32 Follow Caitlin

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