Kevin Lin is a crypto and DeFi enthusiast. We chat about magic internet money, yield farming, "degen" strategies, and the research and mechanics to get onto a protocol. Not investment advice!

Kevin found yield farming in March of 2021 and has been hooked since then. We discuss his first investment, getting rug pulled, base yield farming concepts, researching new protocols, create a check list of how to get on a protocol, and tracking your investments.

In this episode we discuss:

• Magic internet money
• Iron finance (the first rug pull):
• MIT course on crypto
• In yield farming, you are typically earning interest on your collateral because the protocol founder is paying you to:
  • Stake
  • Lend
  • Provide market liquidity
  • Use the protocol
• The mechanics of getting onto a new protocol
  • Read the white paper, evaluate the developers, check for social proof, etc.
  • Understand what protocol and coins are required to get onto the protocol
  • Working backwards from the required protocol and coin to understand how you can obtain said coin on said protocol.
  • Getting on a centralized exchange so you can convert fiat into a crypto currency
  • Setting up a crypto wallet
  • Transferring currency from an exchange to a wallet
  • Finding the appropriate "Off ramp" or "Bridge" or "Swap" to get the coin you need
  • Getting onto the protocol
  • Monitoring your investment(s) via services like:
    • https://zapper.fi
    • https://apeboard.finance
• Different yield protocols (You must do your own research and consider if the risk is worth the reward before investing. Not investment advice).
  • Anchor protocol
  • Aave on Avalanche
  • Wonderland
  • Abracadabra money

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Aaron Barr is the founder of Atrbute, a creative management agency. Atrbute represents many famous artists and studios such as Shepard Fairey’s (OBEY & Obama’s “hope” poster) Number One Studio, photographer Pari Dukovic (Time cover: Prince Harry & Meghan), and Tristan Eaton (Kid Robot & many famous murals). We discuss his career, how he’s transitioning artists into NFT’s, how he helps artists partner with companies, and how companies are utilizing NFT’s.

In this episode we discuss:

• What Aaron and Atrbute offer through creative management
• What types of artists are most interested in NFT's
• Onboarding digital artists to NFT’s:
  • How important it is to understand why his artists are interested in NFT’s and what it is they hope to create, before starting to tailor a solution.
  • Ensuring artists create unique, thoughtful contracts which protect them
  • What tools to use to publish an NFT:
    • If the art is a 1 of 1: Superare - https://superrare.com
    • If the art is a collection of 1:1's: Foundation - https://foundation.app
    • If the art is a programatically generated NFT: OpenSea - https://opensea.io/assets
• The difference between generating art and minting an NFT
• Programmable on-demand generative art through Art Blocks - https://www.artblocks.
• How Aaron helps launch new digital art projects
• How Aaron meets artists and networks with buyers and corporations
• How Aaron started his creative agency
• How artists might be the vanguards defining which neighborhoods will be the most desirable
• How curating your wallet will be like curating your music collection times 10
• What makes art valuable?
• How being part of the street art wave has prepared him for the NFT wave
• What different contract types between artists and corporations look like
• How has Art Basel changed in 2021?

More About Aaron and Atrbute

• Twitter: @aaronlbarr
• ENS: agentaaron.eth
• BAYC #5650, Cool Cat #427
• Tristan Eaton tweet thread on why NFTs
• Shantell Martin on remapping the old art world with NFTs.
• Atrbute: https://www.atrbute.com
• Atrbute IG: @atrbute

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Mike Wen is the founder and CEO of Gallery. Hundreds of the largest NFT collectors use Gallery to curate and display their NFTs. Mike’s first NFT was a piece by Beeple, and when it netted him 100x profit, he became obsessed with collecting more NFT’s. When he couldn’t find a good way to curate & display his collection, he taught himself to code and created Gallery. Investors took notice and Gallery has now raised $2.69M from Collab+Currency, Coinbase Ventures, Dapper Labs and angel investments from 20+ collectors in the NFT space. Today, Mike is focused on making Gallery the go to place for curating, managing, and displaying NFT's.

In this episode we discuss:

• What NFT's are: https://ethereum.org/en/nft/
• What Gallery is:
  • A space for NFT collectors to display their collections.
  • A set of tools for collectors to manage and curate their NFT's.
  • A place to add meaning and context to NFT's
• How Gallery protects wallet holders from their NFT's being shown without authorization.
• Mike’s first NFT: Beeple
• Some of Mike’s favorite galleries:
  • https://gallery.so/mikey
  • https://gallery.so/jo7
  • https://gallery.so/pleasrdao
  • Pleasrdao is the owner of “The Doge that started it all”:
• How Mike evaluates NFT's and collections
• Securing an investment from Flamingo DAO - - through an interview with a set of black screens.
• How Gallery got the top NFT collectors as users such as FlamingoDAO, DCInvestor, and Kevin Rose
• How to get Gallery membership via OpenSea
• The difference in mind set when building a Web3 company vs. a Web2 company
• How Gallery is growing and the roles it’s hiring for: Gallery's Careers
• If Mike was to do this over again, whether he would’ve done anything differently
• How NFT's will create the texture of who you are online and what you love
• How NFT's will represent more and more items such as tickets, music, and experiences:
  • Books, movies, music
  • Collecting your experiences! For example utilizing PoAp’s, which are badges that represent you were somewhere - https://app.poap.xyz
  • Games - Assets and skills
• Using https://www.artblocks.io as a vending machine to generate your own art
• What Gallery is focused on next
• Taking your gallery anywhere and using it as a jumping off point into any 3D world

Learn More About Gallery

• Gallery's Twitter: @useGALLERY
• Mikey's Twitter: @mikeybitcoin
• Gallery's Open Positions

Gallery Angel Investors Include:

@santiagoroel, @Cooopahtroopa, @gabusch, @DeezeFi, @gregisenberg, @pplpleasr1, @_jamiis, @whatdotcd, @andy8052, @dandelion_eth, @seth, @thattallguy

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Rick Porter is the CEO and Founder of DSCVR. DSCVR’s mission is to create a decentralized social content aggregation platform where users not only control the content, but also the platform itself. Think Reddit, if Reddit’s development was run by its most dedicated community members. Prior to DSCVR worked at Google and Boston Consulting Group Digital Ventures, where he built blockchain projects for Fortune 500 companies. Including a project for DeBeers using the Ethereum blockchain to track its diamond supply chain.

In this episode we discuss:

• His previous experience at Boston Consulting Group building blockchain projects for enterprise customers
• Why Rick learned Rust and WASM (web assembly)
• What is Decentralized Social (DeSo) and why is it important for today’s society?
• What are the building blocks within each DSCVR portal?
• What is DFINITY? Containerized, decentralized computing.
• Civil resistance / establishing personhood - how do you establish persons or persons?
• The multi-level altitudes that NFT's can exist at.
  • NFT's can represent your identity and contain more NFTs!
• The tokens and DAO's on DSCVR
  • Social token - earned via participation on the platform (not trade-able, not purchase-able) - helps make decisions on the platform
  • Governance token - Purchase-able, trade-able, used for powering the platform.
• How each portal on DSCVR is like a subreddit. Rick's belief that each portal (subreddit) should be a DAO. Thinking about whether each portal should have their own token / NFT / governance.
• Rick's goal is to create the rails people can build on to create communities. Creating the tools for a community to grow itself. Truly decentralized and governed by the community.
• Requirements for a community to successfully govern itself.

We're introducing a new series where Will, Lee, and Andrew Learn about Web3. This is a pivotal moment in time where Web3 has exploded and a lot of smart people we know are dropping their careers to transition into Web3. This is a series where we bring friends on to learn about what's happening.

Learn More About DSCVR

• Website http://dscvr.one
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/DscvrO
• Introducing DSCVR: A platform that belongs to its community
• DSCVR Portal Governance

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We welcome the all women founding team: Nyx, Xuannü, Aletheia, Aradia, and Keridwen behind Crypto Coven to the show! Crypto Coven is a unique set of witch NFT’s which will give holders access to an immersive, narrative-driven digital-world. We discuss the origin of CryptoCoven and geek on how every aspect of the project, from witch silhouettes to colors to astrological signs, and the minting process itself were customized to be as diverse, inclusive, and accessible possible.

Find CryptoCoven at:

• Website: https://www.cryptocoven.xyz
• NFT’s: https://opensea.io/collection/cryptocoven
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/crypto_coven
• IG: https://www.instagram.com/crypto_coven
• How to mint: https://www.cryptocoven.xyz/guide

In this episode, we discuss:

• The story behind choosing witches and the Crypto Coven name
• The lore behind each high witch’s name
• Community building: How the high witches asked the community for mood boards and articulations (witch descriptions) and used these to weave custom styles and items into each witch archetype so the community would see their fingerprints throughout the collection. How they found the mood boards to be "Asking for proof of humanity through proof of taste"
• How Savage x Fenty inspired the High Witches to create as diverse and distinct a set of NFT’s as possible. How they wanted to enable people to see as wide a range of women as possible, so that it resonates and people can find art that looks like them.
• Why they created such a detailed minting guide and why they think they were so successful onboarding people new to NFT’s to CryptoCoven.
• “Enjoying seeing femininity become part of the default assumption versus an exception”
• Why the High Witches have a purposefully vague road map and prefer "showing rather than telling"
• How Neopets - https://www.neopets.com was a big inspiration from the High Witches’ past
• The process and story behind how they landed on their minting process:
  • How they researched and decided on their specific mint process
    • https://www.paradigm.xyz/2021/10/a-guide-to-designing-effective-nft-launches
    • Dutch auction - https://medium.com/geekculture/what-is-a-dutch-auction-and-why-it-matters-in-the-nft-space-59d5d26369f9
  • Methods used to prevent people from buying witches just based on rarity
  • How the community reacted and discussions they had when people learned about the minting process.
  • How they dealt with and felt about different community expectations.
• How they customized every aspect each witch and the roll out process
  • The thought process behind creating witch archetypes and building their divination quiz: https://www.cryptocoven.xyz/divination
  • How they used code to make witch silhouettes, colors, items, and attributes as diverse and distinct as possible.
  • How they generated unique names, articulations and lore by sourcing turns of phrase from their community and plugging it into AI in batches until they created unique, amusing names like “mint mint”
• What the future of Crypto Coven could bring

We're introducing a new series where Will, Lee, and Andrew Learn about Web3. This is a pivotal moment in time where Web3 has exploded and a lot of smart people we know are dropping their careers to transition into Web3. This is a series where we bring friends on to learn about what's happening.

Previous Will, Lee, and Andrew Learn about Web3 Episodes:

• Will, Lee & Andrew Recap After 25 Episodes and Starting a Learning Web3 Series
• #27 Yoshi Luk: Exploring DeFi (Decentralized Finance)
• #28 Evan Lai: How to Get Started Learning About Web3
• #31 Jay Chang: Cofounding Genopets. A Play-to-Earn NFT Game on Solana.
• #32 Shalin Pei: Coinbase Designer. Unlocking a Playground for Creativity.
• #33 Howie Zhang: Designing an NFT Game Economy as a Quant Analyst
• #34 Li Ouyang: Discovering an NFT Community She's Passionate About
• #36 Peter Ng: Designing Spatial. The Airbnb for NFTS
• #37 Katherine Liu: Onboarding the Next Million Artists into Web3

Resources to learn more:

• Read Chris Dixon: Why Web3 Matters
• Listen to Tim Ferriss' episode with Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant on Web3
• Listen to #14 Elliot Chun: Making the World a Better Place with Blockchain

Katherine Liu is a designer and illustrator building in Web3. She is a co-creator of the Mycoverse, a collection of 3,333 mushroom-inspired NFTs on the Solana blockchain.  The Mycoverse's mission is to onboard the next 1 million artists into web3. She is also the co-creator Nifty Generator, a simple, no-code way to generate NFT collections for Solana or Ethereum.

She has been a designer at Instagram, IDEO, and Facebook. In parallel, she's launched multiple front page Product hunt projects and many of her own art works. Today, she's learning by exploring projects with her partner, founded a Web3 community, and dreaming up her next project. In this show we discuss:

• Launching a new NFT generator - NiftyGenerator - on product hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/nifty-generator
  • How NiftyGenerator works - https://niftygenerator.xyz
  • Upload images that are static or animated
  • Upload meta data - ETH or Solana
• How to think about an NFT and the roles it takes to create one: engineer, marketer, community manager, and designer.
• Mycoverse - https://mycoverse.xyz/ and its goal to onboard the next million developers onto the Metaverse
• Porta Penguin - Pooping on penguin - https://www.katherineliu.me/portapenguin
• Using NiftyPixels to mint your own NFT's - Polygon - https://www.niftypixels.io
  • Choosing Polygon to reduce the cost of minting and sharing
• How to realize if you have enough conviction about your project: "Do we have 5 to 10 years of commitment?"
• What Katherine's learned from her projects?
  • The community required to be successful
• What minting is
  • OpenSea - "Lazy minting" - They don't mint it until someone buys it. (no gas fees until someone actually purchases it)
  • Foundation - You mint your NFT when you upload your artwork - giving name and description
    • Once minted - it's uploaded to the blockchain and then you can't change the information
• How does Nifty Pixel mint?
  • Transaction happens when you press mint
  • Pressing mint - should open a MetaMask (wallet) window
    • After you confirm the transaction, you're confirming that your wallet is the creator
• Shared ownership
  • Royal - https://royal.io/
• How to join the Mycoverse
  1. Join the Discord - https://discord.com/invite/j8hczUtZcr
  2. You can mint this month if you're lucky
• Electronic mushroom music
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-nIBA0V_No
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2t-xGAg7-w
• Katherine's favorite mushroom
  • Favorite to eat - Black trumpet mushroom
  • Favorite aesthetic - Coral
• What Katherine is excited about, that she's not working on: DAO's

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Peter Ng graduated from UCLA in Design Media Arts, helped shape the early mobile experience at Google, completely redesigned the mobile app for Uber, and has now landed at Spatial where he heads the design team.

Wired: Spatial: The Airbnb for NFTs

• The spatial virtual reality experience
  • Hardware
    • Oculus Rift - https://www.oculus.com/rift
    • https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens
    • Magic Leap - https://www.magicleap.com/en-us
  • Platform being built on Unity
  • How they create a presence layer for people to collaborate and mingle
  • 3D environments to showcase art and portfolios
• How to think about making a unique 3D NFT and how it's related to sculpture
• Taking virtual hikes
• People are minting whole environments!
  • https://www.dezeen.com/2021/03/22/mars-house-krista-kim-nft-news
  • Sold on SuperRare: https://superrare.com
• Why it's important to display art in the right lighting, context, and setting. How Peter and spatial are working to create appealing digital architecture to show art in.
• How spatial partnered with OpenSea and SuperRare.
• How Peter transitioned from 3D artist to Mobile designer and how learning art as a baseline enabled him to jump mediums
• How hard it is to be a digital artist
• Peter's excitement about DAO's and De-centralization
  • https://ethereum.org/en/dao
  • Why DAO's creating ownerships automatically pushes people to share
  • Lack of approval requirement
  • "The world wide web becoming the world wide web again"
• The no code movement : https://medium.com/@McBain/build-a-no-code-ethereum-app-in-under-2-minutes-e1834d131685
• How do you actually view or interact with NFT's?
• Uploading, selling, and buying through Spatial
• Buying land via Decentral land - https://decentraland.org
• The easiest onboard to VR: Spatial + Oculus Quest 2
• NReal, one of the most inspiring new VR hardware developments
  • https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/10/nreal-light-ar-glasses-add-vr-lenses-launch-august-21-in-south-korea

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Chris Teng Balmaseda is a Venture Partner at Infinio Capital - as an Early Stage SpaceTech Investor - with the goal of sending the first Taiwanese astronaut into space.  Chris is very involved in nonprofits, including his roles as:

• President-elect of the Alhambra Chamber of Commerce.
• Board member of the Taiwan Center Foundation of Greater Los Angeles.
• Board member of the Taiwan United Fund
• Board member of the Taiwanese American Film Festival
• President of the Taiwanese American Professionals Los Angeles
• Associate Advisor of the Overseas Community Affairs Council of the Republic of China.

In this episode we discuss:

• Taiwan Quarantine and what Taiwan was like during COVID
• Why Taiwan is well-positioned for space technology
• What drew Chris to Taiwan
• Growing up in a high-achiever Filipino-Chinese  household in Ohio
• What it was like going to boarding school
• His relationship with his father when he got  cancer
• Chris' involvement with Taiwan  nonprofits
• Why and how to get involved with nonprofits

Li Ouyang is a mother, salsa dancer, former VP at Chase, and engineer at Coinbase. You can learn more about her from episode #15 of the show. In this show we discuss:

• Li's favorite new NFT! Crypto Coven
  • https://www.cryptocoven.xyz/witches/546
  • https://www.cryptocoven.xyz/witches/547
  • https://www.cryptocoven.xyz/witches/548
  • How to get involved with NFT communities and participate in first mints
  • How NFT's are made unique
  • How NFT's are expanding using games, drops, and more
• Will buying a Bored Ape
  • How Will thinks about it as an investment
  • Bored Ape Yacht Club: https://opensea.io/collection/boredapeyachtclub
  • Rarity tools: https://rarity.tools/boredapeyachtclub/traits/view/9058?trait=Hat
  • How to purchase an NFT off of an exchange like OpenSea: https://opensea.io/
    • Buying an NFT immediately
    • Minimum bid
    • Bidding
    • Floor prices
  • Derivatives on Bored Ape
  • NFT road maps
• Utilizing https://gallery.so/ to curate and show NFT's
• How the Solana protocol is fueling games since it's cheaper to transact
  • Phantom - Solana - wallet https://phantom.app/
  • https://www.guildofguardians.com/
• POTENTIAL investment avenues
  • Blue chips like ETH and BTC
  • Genesis Block - https://genesisblock.com/
• How early Will got into Crypto, what happened, and the lessons he learned

We're introducing a new series where Will, Lee, and Andrew Learn about Web3. This is a pivotal moment in time where Web3 has exploded and a lot of smart people we know are dropping their careers to transition into Web3. This is a series where we bring friends on to learn about what's happening.

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Howie Zhang is the Game Economy Designer for Guild of Guardians, a mobile RPG built on Immutable X - The first Layer 2 for NFTs on Ethereum. Prior to that, Howie worked at Chi X, an Australian Stock Exchange. First, as PHD Research Analyst on Pricing Mechanics and Governance. Then, as a Quant in Market Microstructure, Analytics, Strategy.

In this episode we discuss:

• Being a game economy designer of an NFT mobile-action RPG with play-to-earn mechanics
• The relevancy of his experience as a Quant for a stock exchange
• The differences between finance and Web3 industries.
• Going down endless crypto rabbit holes.
• Missed opportunities on his crypto journey
• His childhood trauma getting scammed in Diablo II
• Why the Diablo III auction house failed
• How to make games fun while incorporating the market
• Immutable X as a gaming platform and as a game studio
• Iterating past the freemium model with economic experiments
• How Web3 monetary policy can add a layer of fun gameplay
• Adding a decentralized economic component going to be quite powerful
• Gaming has needed the features that Web3 provides for a long time
• Despite the high barrier-to-entry, the excitement shows long term potential.
• Sign up for Howie's substack: https://yowitzer.substack.com/

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