Matthew and Brileigh are joined by Gabriel Haines. Gabriel is a crypto content creator known for his shirtless videos in which he yells at the camera while waving a machete. After a recent crowdfund on Juicebox, Gabriel went to the Bahamas to investigate SBF in the wake of the collapse of FTX.

In this conversation, he tells us about the hummus to crypto pipeline and his journey as a content creator from making DeFi tutorials to his more recent yelling videos. He also tells us about the early days of DeFi, his reflections on what has changed, and what it’s like hanging around in Crypto Twitter during the bear of 2022.

Chapters:

00:01:00 Welcome

00:01:09 Gabriel's hummus to crypto pipeline

00:06:59 Gabriel's Juicebox project and his investigation in the bahamas

00:11:15 Juicy security incident in The Bahamas

00:18:39 The Haines family and Lee's background in creating content

00:20:30 The old days of DeFi when Gabriel first got involved

00:23:49 Building up a following as a content creator

00:25:20 The story of how Gabriel started yelling shirtless with a machete

00:28:32 NFTs vs web2 models of funding content creators

00:31:49 Explaining what your job is to people outside of web3

00:32:59 Being on crypto Twitter during the bear market

00:34:33 Fatigue of the "10 ways you can do X" giga-chad Twitter thread poster

00:36:55 Wrapping up

Topics Discussed:

Juicebox

Content creators in web3

Hot Dog Finance

Yearn Finance

Lee Eller

Follow Gabriel on Twitter @gabrielhaines

Follow Juicebox on Twitter: @juiceboxETH

Juicebox Protocol's website: juicebox.money

Follow Matthew on Twitter: @0xmatthewb

Follow Brileigh on Twitter: @0xbrileigh

Credits:

Hosts: Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle

Production: Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle

Engineering: Matthew Brooks

Music by Darby Trash (Fruit Gushers)

Matthew and Brileigh sit down with DarbyTrash from FORMING. FORMING is a metaverse concert series hosted by Lexicon Devils. Each monthly event features a curated lineup of web3 musicians with pre-recorded performances (including juicy skits from Darby and other contributors) at a virtual party in the Juicebox Voxels parcel. In this episode, Darby tells us about how FORMING got started, his roots as a punk musician, and the parallels between punk culture and decentralized communities.

Chapters:

00:00:54 Welcome

00:01:21 Darby’s background

00:02:39 How Darby got involved with Lexicon Devils and FORMING

00:04:43 The crossovers of DAOs, co-ops and punk bands

00:06:14 What is FORMING

00:08:23 Darby's thoughts on the value of curating music events in the metaverse vs IRL

00:10:53 Viewing crypto in a punk, leftist, or anarchist lens

00:13:13 Media portrayal of crypto as a scam & the challenges of onboarding friends into crypto

00:13:48 MTV styled skits and the process

00:15:26 Voxels as a lo-fi, alternative, punk platform

00:17:25 The challenges of running FORMING

00:18:22 FORMING x ALLSTARZ

00:20:06 Wearbles, RVSP and other experiments

00:21:02 FORMING as a new model for how musicians should be paid

00:23:48 Songcamp and other future collabs

00:26:16 How to support FORMING

Topics Discussed:

FORMING

Lexicon Devils

Songcamp

ALLSTARZ

Punk culture

Decentralized communities

Follow Juicebox on Twitter: @juiceboxETH

Juicebox Protocol's website: juicebox.money

Follow Matthew on Twitter: @0xmatthewb

Follow Brileigh on Twitter: @0xbrileigh

Credits:

Hosts: matthewbrooks.eth and brileigh.eth

Production: matthewbrooks.eth and brileigh.eth

Engineering: matthewbrooks.eth

Music: Fruit Gushers by DarbyTrash

Brileigh and Matthew sit down with Ser En Low and LC from The Shiba and the Whale. The Shiba and the Whale is the world’s first Doge anime produced by BAFTA winner Ser En in partnership with the Doge NFT and Dogecoin Foundation. In a world where climate change has forced everyone to go to the moon, a Shiba is struck and meets a lonely whale who agrees to get her across the open sea to the last rocket leaving the blue planet. In this episode, we talk about LC and Ser En’s background and discovering crypto, what the Doge community is all about, and how they’re using Juicebox’s latest NFT feature to fund their film, the Shiba and the Whale.

Chapters:

00:01:09 Welcome

00:01:51 LC’s background

00:03:22 Ser EN’s background

00:04:24 The Dogecoin community and what makes it special

00:07:25 Internet subcultures and the power of memes

00:09:20 The Shiba and the Whale

00:11:27 Themes and symbolism

00:13:57 Animation style and references

00:15:41 Building during the bear market

00:16:38 The two main characters

00:17:40 Partnership with The Doge NFT and Dogecoin Foundation

00:19:34 The relationship between creator and audience in web3

00:20:27 Using Juicebox to raise funds

00:22:19 Previous crowdfunding experience

00:23:33 Rewards for contributing to the project

00:25:17 Sustainable revenue models for creators

00:27:07 StudioDAO, the decentralized movie studio

00:27:52 Building IP and brands in tokenized communities

00:29:36 What's coming next for The Shiba and the Whale

00:30:30 How to get involved with The Shiba and the Whale

00:30:53 The ultimate goal of The Shiba and the Whale

00:32:08 Closing thoughts

00:32:43 Outro and disclaimers

Topics Discussed:

Doge

Dogecoin community

The Shiba and the Whale

Dogecoin Foundation

Crowdfunding films

StudioDAO

Follow Shiba and the Whale on Twitter: @shibaandwhale

Follow Ser En on Twitter @serenlow

Follow LC on Twitter @lclim_

Follow Juicebox on Twitter: @juiceboxETH

Juicebox Protocol's website: juicebox.money

Follow Matthew on Twitter: @0xmatthewb

Follow Brileigh on Twitter: @0xbrileigh

Credits:

Hosts: Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle

Production: Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle

Engineering: Matthew Brooks

cc0 music by Daniel Allan (Collage 0069)

In part 3 of the ConstitutionDAO retrospective series, Matthew and Brileigh are joined by members of PeopleDAO including AA, MatterTurbulent, and Matt Wyatt from Nucleo.After the ConstitutionDAO core team decided to wind down the project, a new community formed around the $PEOPLE token: PeopleDAO.

In this episode, Matthew and Brileigh trace the chronology of the events that took place after the Sotheby’s auction on November 18, 2021 and how PeopleDAO was formed as a metaDAO to incubate other subDAOs including PandaDAO and LanguageDAO. Almost exactly a year later, Sotheby’s is auctioning off the last privately owned original copy of the U.S. Constitution on December 13th, 2022. UnumDAO (ConstitutionDAO2) will fundraise for the auction both in public using Juicebox and privately through a ZK tech stack that utilizes Aztec Network, Nucleo and Sismo. The core team tells us why they’re launching another campaign and what it means in the middle of the bear market.

Chapters:

00:01:05 The $PEOPLE token after the auction and significance to Chinese community

00:04:01 How PeopleDAO was created

00:6:16 PeopleDAO's first two projects: PandaDAO and LanguageDAO

00:09:21 Sotheby’s announces another copy of the Constitution up for auction Dec 13

00:11:15 UnumDAO (ConstitutionDAO2)

00:13:22 High level overview of ZK proofs

00:15:03 Aztec

00:16:29 Ken Griffin on funding North Korea via crypto

00:17:30 Nucleo

00:18:21 Sismo

00:19:52 Why do a second campaign for the Constitution?

00: Final reflections on ConstitutionDAO from Matthew & Brileigh

Topics discussed:

ConstitutionDAO2

PeopleDAO

LanguageDAO

PandaDAO

ConstitutionDAO

Sothebys

The US Constitution

Three Arrows Capitol

FTX

Follow Juicebox on Twitter: @juiceboxETH

Juicebox Protocol's website: juicebox.money

Follow Matthew on Twitter: @0xmatthewb

Follow Brileigh on Twitter: @0xbrileigh

Credits:

Hosts: Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle

Production: Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle

Engineering: Matthew Brooks

Music by ShortRecord

In this special series of the Juicecast in celebration of the 1-year anniversary of ConstitutionDAO, Matthew and Brileigh are joined by several former core members including Anisha Sunkerneni, Miguel Piedrafita, Graham Novak, Alice Ma, Jonah Erlich, Ittai Svidler, Jon Hillis as well as Pablo Moncada-Larrotiz. ConstitutionDAO was a single purpose acquisition DAO that raised over $40M in an attempt to buy one of the last thirteen remaining copies of the U.S. Constitution at Sotheby’s on November 18th, 2021. What started as a joke in a group chat onboarding thousands into crypto and gave the world a glimpse of the power of blockchain technology, decentralization, and new forms of governance.

In this episode, Matthew and Brileigh follow the events that took place after the auction at Sotheby’s. They discuss the criticisms of ConstitutionDAO, the role of the media, and Ken Griffin’s involvement as the winning bidder. They also reflect on the big picture of ConstitutionDAO as a mental model for the public to learn about DAOs and what this story represents for crypto more broadly.

Chapters:

00:00:21 Result of the auction

00:03:24 Why ConstitutionDAO lost the bid

00:05:19 Discovering Ken Griffin as the winner of the auction

00:10:12 Ken Griffin’s comments on crypto and its threat to traditional finance

00:16:04 Choosing to wind down ConstitutionDAO

00:18:30 The rise of $PEOPLE and PeopleDAO

00:21:02 Reflecting on the big picture of ConstitutionDAO

00:23:54 Miguel the “purple haired dev” & the importance of web3 projects not about speculation

00:26:55 Jonah & Ittai on ConstitutionDAO as a model for DAOs to the public and early internet use cases

00:29:07 Anisha’s thoughts on the role of media and working with the press

00:30:49 Common criticisms of ConstitutionDAO

00:32:27 Pablo’s on leaving ConstitutionDAO

00:35:39 Jon’s thoughts on the future of DAOs & the value of the Constitution being owned by the people

00:37:43 Graham on what the story of ConstitutionDAO represents to him

00:38:34 The last privately owned Constitution going on auction at Sotheby’s on December 13

Topics discussed:

ConstitutionDAO

Ken Griffin

Sothebys

Early internet use and mental models for DAOs

American history

The upcoming auction at Sothebys

In this special series of the Juicecast in celebration of the 1-year anniversary of ConstitutionDAO, Matthew and Brileigh are joined by several former core members including Graham Novak, Alice Ma, Jonah Erlich, Ittai Svidler, and Jon Hillis. ConstitutionDAO was a single purpose acquisition DAO that raised over $40M in an attempt to buy one of the last thirteen remaining copies of the U.S. Constitution at Sotheby’s on November 18th, 2021. What started as a joke in a group chat onboarding thousands into crypto and gave the world a glimpse of the power of blockchain technology, decentralization, and new forms of governance.

In this episode, Matthew and Brileigh trace the chronology of the events that took place from conception up until the auction at Sotheby’s. They also cover the history and significance of the Constitution itself, suggestions for where the document could have been displayed, as well as a last minute request from Sotheby’s that almost prevented the DAO from being able to bid at the auction.

Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro

00:00:44 History of the U.S. Constitution

00:01:49 What is the Constitution

00:03:46 1988 auction of the same copy of the Constitution

00:04:38 How ConstitutionDAO got started

00:09:21 End of Day 1, a true heist for public goods at the kickoff call

00:12:05 Communicating with Sotheby's and requirements for bidding

0013:25 Who would “own” the Constitution?

00:14:01 Federal Hall as a bastion of American History & venue for displaying the document

00:15:21 Choosing a fundraising platform

00:17:34 Days 4-6: Money starting to snowball, interviews with CNBC & NYT

0021:20 The power of deadly serious memes

00:22:27 Overcoming stagnant growth and finding a whale

00:24:50 ETH and FTX tank, and overcoming the last hurdle hours before the auction

00:28:12 Introducing Sotheby's Lot 1787: The Constitution, teaser for episode 2

Topics discussed:

ConstitutionDAO

Sotheby's

The U.S. Constitution

American history

FTX

Follow Juicebox on Twitter: @juiceboxETH

Juicebox Protocol's website: juicebox.money

Follow Matthew on Twitter: @0xmatthewb

Follow Brileigh on Twitter: @0xbrileigh

Credits:

Hosts: matthewbrooks.eth and brileigh.eth

Production: matthewbrooks.eth and brileigh.eth

Engineering: matthewbrooks.eth

In this episode, Matthew and Brileigh sit down with Jacopo from Slice. Slice is a decentralized commerce protocol that lets you sell anything on-chain and dynamically split payments between different addresses. In this episode, we talk about Jacopo’s background and how Slice got started, the synergy between Juicebox and Slice, as well as a glimpse into how Blunt Finance is disrupting the VC funding model.

Chapters:

00:01:06 Jacopo’s background

00:02:03 Transitioning from materials to software engineering and discovering crypto

00:03:11 Jacopo’s interest in the Bitcoin white paper

00:04:00 What is Slice

00:05:03 Origin story of Slice

00:06:01 Jacopo’s interest in finding an objective value in NFTs

00:08:32 How Slice works

00:09:39 What are Superowners and Superowner Slices

00:11:05 How on-chain transactions can be linked to physical goods

00:14:44 Use cases for Slice

00:16:30 The long-term vision for Slice

00:17:31 The value of d-stores & why we should make purchases on-chain

00:19:19 The challenges of building Slice

00:21:44 Merge-to-earn

00:23:04 ERC-20 support for products and Slicers

00:23:52 Why Slice is a DAO

00:25:04 Why Jacopo started a project on Juicebox

00:27:16 What is Blunt Finance

00:31:23 How Slice and Juicebox contracts work together on Blunt Finance

00:32:54 How Blunt Finance is solving issues in the VC model

00:34:49 What's coming next for Slice and Blunt Finance

Topics discussed:

Bitcoin Whitepaper

Slice

Juicebox

Merge to Earn

Villa Penelope

Blunt Finance

Follow Slice on Twitter: @slice_so

Follow Jacopo on Twitter @jj_ranalli

Follow Juicebox on Twitter: @juiceboxETH

Juicebox Protocol's website: juicebox.money

Follow Matthew on Twitter: @0xmatthewb

Follow Brileigh on Twitter: @0xbrileigh

Credits:

Hosts: Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle

Production: Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle

Engineering: Matthew Brooks

cc0 music by Daniel Allan (Collage 0069)

In this episode, Brileigh and Matthew sit down with Robin Schmidt, also known as Supermassive. Robin is a multimedia beast, creating high quality video content formerly at The Defiant and now at Based AF. In this conversation, Robin tells us about the pitfalls of the creator economy, and how web3 is falling short. He also explains why he’s leaving the Defiant to take on his most ambitious venture yet at BasedAF where he plans to explore his interest in the metaverse somewhere between web2 and web3.

Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro

00:00:58 Welcome

00:01:40 The meaning behind “Supermassive”

00:04:39 What is the creator economy

00:07:30 Web3 and the creator economy

00:13:33 Robin’s thoughts on solutions for monetization, and discovery for creators

00:21:51 The lack of sustainable profit models for crypto organizations

00:25:54 Why Robin is leaving the Defiant and what is BasedAF

00:33:38 Benevolent Supervillain Juicebox project for dialysis machines

00:36:40 Sudoswap and artist royalties

00:37:29 Challenging the relationship between creators & their audience and Robin’s new PFP collection

00:41:08 Takeaways from experiments in web3 that try to solve complex problems

00:44:43 Why Robin is crowdfunding Benevolent Supervillain on Juicebox

00:45:40 What Robin hopes to achieve with BasedAF

00:49:43 FORMING, a hyperverse concert by Lexicon Devils to crowdfund for web3 musicians

00:53:08 Audience As A Service (AAAS)

00:58:34 50 mile marathon and the vomit comet

00:59:23 Outro and disclaimers

Topics discussed:

The Defiant

BasedAF

Juicebox

Youtube

The creator economy

Metaverse

Lexicon Devils FORMING

Relevant links:

Follow Robin on Twitter: @IamSuperMassive

BasedAF website: based-af.com

Follow BasedAF on Twitter: @we_are_BasedAF

Follow Juicebox on Twitter: @juiceboxETH

Juicebox Protocol's website: juicebox.money

Follow Matthew on Twitter: @0xmatthewb

Follow Brileigh on Twitter: @0xbrileigh

Credits:

Hosts: Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle

Production: Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle

Engineering: Matthew Brooks

cc0 music by Daniel Allen (Collage #0069)

In this episode, Brileigh and Matthew sit down with David Phelps from JokeDAO. David wears many hats: he's a web2 founder, an investor at cowfund, co-creator of JokeDAO and EcoDAO, and a writer on Substack. David tells us why long-form writing is important to him, his elevator pitch for JokeDAO, and the power of the Guild + JokeDAO + Juicebox modular stack. We also learn about internet subcultures and David’s background as a film writer, the differences between JokeDAO and Snapshot, and how contests can help DAOs achieve consensus while building community in the process.

Chapters:

00:00:59 Welcome

00:01:17 The story behind David’s handle “divine_economy”

00:02:41 Why long-form writing is important to David

00:05:54 David’s background as an arts writer

00:09:32 Overview of David’s current projects

00:12:48 David’s elevator pitch for JokeDAO

00:16:27 The Guild + JokeDAO + Juicebox modular stack

00:20:21 David’s interest in history and governance

00:23:31 The differences between JokeDAO and Snapshot

00:25:20 David’s failed grant interview and favourite joke

00:28:18 JokeDAO’s MakerDAO proposal

00:28:57 JokeDAO alpha

00:29:21 Wrap-up

Topics discussed:

David’s Substack

JokeDAO

cowfund

EcoDAO

Guild

Juicebox

Coinvise

Otterspace

Wonderverse

Station

Snapshot

MakerDAO

Relevant links:

Follow David on Twitter: @divine_economy

JokeDAO’s website: jokedao.io

Follow JokeDAO on Twitter: @jokedao_

Follow Juicebox on Twitter: @juiceboxETH

Juicebox Protocol's website: juicebox.money

Follow Matthew on Twitter: @0xmatthewb

Follow Brileigh on Twitter: @0xbrileigh

Credits:

Hosts: Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle

Production: Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle

Engineering: Matthew Brooks

cc0 music by Daniel Allen (Collage #0069)

Marin County Swim Association is a 501(c) non-profit raising funds to make aquatics more accessible in Marin County, CA. Historically, residents have had to travel out-of-county to participate in high-level competitions, creating financial barriers for underrepresented youth to participate. MCSA aims to bring these opportunities back to the community by providing access to tournaments, equipment, and lessons at low or no cost.

In this episode, we discuss the current barriers to access aquatics in Marin County, Steve’s background as a water polo coach, and how he discovered crypto before becoming a JuiceboxDAO contributor. He also tells us about his experience fundraising for MCSA on Juicebox and how it can enable greater transparency for non-profit organizations.

Chapters:

00:02:22 Steve’s background and becoming a water polo coach

00:06:58 How Steve got involved with crypto

00:09:36 Becoming a contributor at Juicebox

00:12:10 Hustling to maintain coaching, Juicebox

00:13:31 What is Marin County Swim Association

00:15:40 History of MCSA, and fighting for equity and inclusion in community college

00:17:39 Why Steve created a Juicebox project for MCSA

00:19:02 MCSA Annual Kickoff and running tournaments

00:22:13 What Steve has learned while being a coach

0027:00 Marin County’s reaction to crypto crowdfunding

00:29:19 Using Juicebox to manage your own non-profit organization

00:31:19 Transparency, accounting and other things Steve has learned about non-profits

00:34:11 Onboarding and explaining Juicebox to newcomers

00:37:41 Parallels between Juicebox and Angel investing and running your start up on Juicebox

00:40:41 How to get involved with MCSA

Topics discussed:

MCSA

Marin County

Water polo

Coaching

Non profit organizations running on Juicebox

Angel Investing

Follow MCSA on Twitter: @marincountyswim

Follow Steve on Twitter @0xSTVG

Follow Juicebox on Twitter: @juiceboxETH

Juicebox Protocol's website: juicebox.money

Follow Matthew on Twitter: @0xmatthewb

Follow Brileigh on Twitter: @0xbrileigh

Credits:

Hosts: Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle

Production: Matthew Brooks and Brileigh Hardcastle

Engineering: Matthew Brooks

Music by Daniel Allen (Collage #0069)