The WLD Show

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.

If you liked this episode, you can find more episodes at wld.show!

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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Shalin is the design manager for Coinbase Wallet. Early in her career, she worked on search at Google. Prior to Coinbase, she worked on Augmented Reality at Facebook. To prepare for her new role at Coinbase, she deep-dived into Web3 and found a playground for creative builders that are working together to shape an optimistic future.

In this episode we discuss:

• ENS (Ethereum Name Service) (https://ens.domains/)
• ENS Airdrop (https://cointelegraph.com/news/early-ethereum-name-service-ens-adopters-rewarded-with-a-hefty-five-figure-airdrop)
• The list of things Shalin did to onboard into Web3
  • https://www.coinbase.com/earn
  • https://rabbithole.gg/
• Bored Ape Yacht Club
  • Bored Ape Mutant and Kennel Club NFT Airdrop (https://blogs.airdropalert.com/serum-for-mutant-ape-airdrop/)
  • Bored Ape Yacht Club Interview (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/bayc-bored-ape-yacht-club-nft-interview-1250461)
  • The Biggest Celebrity NFT Owners in the Bored Ape Yacht Club (https://decrypt.co/86135/biggest-celebrity-nft-owners-bored-ape-yacht-club)
  • Bored Ape Yacht Club at NFT.NYC (https://www.inputmag.com/culture/bored-ape-yacht-club-nft-nyc-ape-fest)
  • Bored Ape Yacht Club: The Case for Licensed Commercial Use Rights (https://medium.com/@deconomist/bored-ape-yacht-club-the-case-for-licensed-commercial-use-rights-b1bbd463d189)
• How DAOs and tokens is the future of work and replace equity (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/25/what-are-daos-what-to-know-about-the-next-big-trend-in-crypto.html)
• Constitution DAO
  • @ConstitutionDAO ( 📜,📜 ) https://twitter.com/ConstitutionDAO
  • Constitution DAO, as told through memes: https://trungphan.substack.com/p/constitutiondao
  • What it felt like for a participant: https://twitter.com/SinaKian1/status/1461537685177311235
  • Packy McCormick - Not Boring - Let's Buy the US Constitution (https://www.notboring.co/p/lets-buy-the-us-constitution)
  • Video of Brooke Vs David Sotherby's Auction for Constitution (https://youtu.be/1TBa-9Lx3vc?t=4056)
  • GameStop Meme Stock Villain Buys Copy Of The Constitution For $43 Million (https://kotaku.com/gamestop-meme-stock-villain-buys-copy-of-the-constituti-1848093896)
  • GameStop short squeeze and Citadel's Involvement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameStop_short_squeeze)
  • Boaty McBoatface: What You Get When You Let the Internet Decide (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/world/europe/boaty-mcboatface-what-you-get-when-you-let-the-internet-decide.html)
  • What Is a Multisig Wallet? (https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/what-is-a-multisig-wallet)
• Interesting DAO's: https://twitter.com/alexmasmej/status/1461788282258345998?s=21
  • SeaWorld DAO to buy SeaWorld and release all the whales
  • DAO to buy land and return to the native people
  • DAO to buy land to preserve natural spaces
  • Cyclist DAO to support eco-friendly cycling infrastructure
  • DAO trying to buy an NBA team
• CityCoins
  • NYC City Wallet: https://mining.nyc/wallet
  • The Crypto Ambitions of New York’s Next Mayor — and What Could Stop Him (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-13/can-eric-adams-new-york-crypto-dreams-become-reality)
  • Miami to give BTC wallets to all citizens: https://twitter.com/FrancisSuarez/status/1458861523678412810
  • Crypto tax: ‘MiamiCoin’ has made the city $7 million so far, a potential game-changer for revenue collection (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/30/crypto-miamicoin/)
• What Metaverse means as someone who worked at Facebook and now at Coinbase
  • Packy McCormick - Not Boring - Minimally Extractive Meta https://www.notboring.co/p/minimally-extractive-meta
• Why designers are quitting cushy FAANG jobs
• Founders Fund backs Royal, a music marketplace planning to sell song rights as NFTs (https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/26/founders-fund-backs-royal-a-music-marketplace-planning-to-sell-song-rights-as-nfts/)
• Investment-backed crypto publishing platform Mirror.xyz aims to change the way writers connect with their audience (https://gen.xyz/blog/mirrorxyz)
• How to get into Web3 culture
  • People are nice! https://twitter.com/lay2000lbs/status/1436454169351790593?s=21
• Web3 and Crypto jargon breakdown
• Zed Run: https://zed.run/home
  • How to play: https://guide.zed.run/zed-run-guide/
  • Digital Horses Are the Talk of the Crypto World (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/01/style/zed-run-horse-racing.html)
• Axie Infinity
  • Packy McCormick - Not Boring - Infinity Revenue, Infinity Possibilities https://www.notboring.co/p/infinity-revenue-infinity-possibilities
  • Scholarship Philippines: The new play-to-earn craze (https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/axie-infinity-scholarship-philippines-play-201212740.html)

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Jay Chang is the co-Founder of Genopets. The first Move-To-Earn NFT Game on Solana. It started out as a side project that gained a ton of traction and an engaged community. Based on the traction they raised $8MM. Prior to Genopets, Jay was a Product Marketing Manager at Google, working on Flutter. Jay started working in the crypto industry as a Product Marketer for Block.One, the organization behind EOS. A layer one protocol that raised $4B during its ICO in 2018.

In this episode we learn about:

• How Genopets started
• Genopets' vision and goals
• How web3 companies are structured and fundraise
• How to create a successful token launch
• What is Genopets and how do you play?
• Move-to-earn NFT game mechanics
• Why Web3 gaming?
• The benefits of Solana over Ethereum
• How the Genopets Genesis NFT Drop works.

Links

• https://www.genopets.me/
• Twitter: @genopets
• Introducing Genopets
• Genesis Genopet Sale LIVE on Cyber Monday

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.

If you liked this episode, you can find more episodes at wld.show!

Will, Lee, and Andrew talk about the crypto series, the show's slack community growing, if Will is going to buy a Bored Ape, starting a fashion series, Andrew's job, VC investing, Cowboy Bebop, how fashion is a microcosm of humanity, and social engineering.

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Dan Chan, has been called the “Millionaires’ Mentalist" and the "Billionaire's magician" by Business Insider. He's  Silicon Valley’s Favorite Magician and his client list is literally an A to Z of the world’s most recognizable companies from Amazon to Zillow. He's performed for Tim Ferriss, Biz Stone, Ev Williams, and many tech founders & billionaires. We talk about growing up in San Francisco, evolving his show, teaching his son magic, crafting your own PR story, and much more.

In this episode we discuss:

• How Dan set and achieved the goal of performing for every Fortune 500 company, "starting with letters from A to Z"
• Magic and mentalism
• Tactics to create and refine your story
• How to create a PR/marketing program
• When to sell and when to just keep people engaged
• Leaning into your own personality when creating a product
• How Dan tailored his shows for digital distribution so he could perform globally
• How Dan creates distinct products and finds new markets
• What Dan asks himself when deciding if he'll take a low paying or new job
• The best place to go to see the most world class magicians

Learn more about Dan and book his shows at:

• https://www.danchanmagic.com/
• https://millionairesmentalist.com/

Read more about Dan:

• Meet Daniel Chan
• I was an early PayPal employee who missed out on becoming a millionaire because I sold my stock too soon after I left
• A day in the life of a 'billionaire's magician,' who's hired to fly around the world and entertain the elite
• Silicon Valley businesses who made their living from tech industry events are suddenly staring at blank calendars and layoffs
• Silicon Valley’s favorite magician reimagines his act in the age of Zoom
• These Airbnb hosts earned more than $15,000 on Thursday after the company let them buy IPO shares

Evan Lai has been deep diving into Web3 and shares how he got started.

Resources Evan has used to learn Web3

• a16z Web3 Youtube Series (https://a16z.com/crypto-startup-school/)
• a16z Future Blog (https://future.a16z.com/)
• Web3 Youtube Channels
  • Coin Bureau (https://www.youtube.com/c/CoinBureau/)
  • Bankless (https://www.youtube.com/c/Bankless)
  • Real Vision Crypto with Raoul Pal (https://www.youtube.com/c/realvisioncrypto)
  • Defiant (https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDefiant)
  • DeFi Dad (http://defidad.com/)
• Mind-blowing Web3 Topics
  • Bored Ape Yacht Club Interview (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/bayc-bored-ape-yacht-club-nft-interview-1250461/)
  • Bored Ape Yacht Club: The Case for Licensed Commercial Use Rights (https://medium.com/@deconomist/bored-ape-yacht-club-the-case-for-licensed-commercial-use-rights-b1bbd463d189)
  • The Biggest Celebrity NFT Owners in the Bored Ape Yacht Club (https://decrypt.co/86135/biggest-celebrity-nft-owners-bored-ape-yacht-club)
  • DAOs and Friends With Benefits (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/whats-a-dao-why-your-group-chat-could-be-worth-millions.html)
  • Loot Project: the first community owned NFT gaming platform (https://blog.coinbase.com/loot-project-the-first-community-owned-nft-gaming-platform-125fa1d5ffa8)
  • ConstitutionDAO Raises $27M on Eve of Sotheby’s Auction (https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/11/17/constitutiondao-raises-27m-on-eve-of-sothebys-auction-people-could-be-the-reason)
  • Alchemix - The Future Yield Tokenization Protocol (https://alchemix.fi/)
  • Shaan Puri: Metaverse is Not a Thing but a Point in Time (https://twitter.com/shaanvp/status/1454151237650112512)
  • The Metaverse Has Already Arrived. Here’s What That Actually Means (https://time.com/6116826/what-is-the-metaverse/)

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.

If you liked this episode, you can find more episodes at wld.show!

Since 2013, Yoshi Luk has been involved in crypto in one way or another. In 2020, Yoshi left his full-time job to explore DeFi. In this episode we learn about:

• What is Web3
• What is DeFi (Decentralized Finance)
  • Compound Protocol (https://compound.finance/)
• What is Yield Farming
• Browser extension wallets
  • Coinbase Wallet Extension (https://wallet.coinbase.com/)
  • Metamask (https://metamask.io/)
• Layer 1 vs Layer 2 blockchain protocols
  • Arbitrum (https://bridge.arbitrum.io/)
  • Optimism (https://www.optimism.io/)
  • Polygon (https://polygon.technology/)
• Machine learning with On Chain Analysis
  • Glassnode (https://glassnode.com/)
• The future of crypto gaming

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