Vaulted by PROOF

Generative audiovisual artist DEAFBEEF joins Kevin to discuss how a childhood love of computer programming and the need to stay busy during the pandemic gave rise to his unique creative vision. DEAFBEEF addresses how the community has allowed him to evolve, why he created a series of NFTs that degrades with each wallet address change, and the plans to bring his work to the analog world.

Links can be found here.

Pioneering generative artist Tyler Hobbs talks to Kevin about his history, how he mixes his hand drawings with algorithms, the tools he uses, the rare attributes his collectors are excited about, and the other NFT artists he most respects.

Full show notes and links here.

Tyler Ward joins Kevin to discuss the Universe Protocol and its xyzDAO, which seek to design an NFT "system that doesn’t live off the backs of artists and creates a sustainable ecosystem for artists and fans alike."

Full show notes and links here.

Kevin sits down with fellow Flamingo DAO collaborators Priyanka Desai and Aaron Wright to discuss favorite NFT projects, what DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) are, how they operate, and how you can get involved with new and up-and-coming DAOs.

BIOs

Priyanka Desai is currently leading operations for OpenLaw, the project behind Flamingo and The LAO. Aaron Wright is a co-founder of OpenLaw, and a professor at Cardozo Law School.

Full show notes and links are found here.

Kevin sits down with serial entrepreneur and social media personality Gary Vaynerchuck to discuss his new NFT project, VeeFriends. VeeFriends ties curated real-world experiences to NFT collectibles.

Art Blocks mastermind Erick (aka Snowfro) joins Kevin to discuss the ins and outs of generative art, the innovations that make it so exciting and accessible, and why NFTs that can be recreated from their fingerprints on the blockchain are poised to be the most resilient art in human history.

Erick (aka Snowfro @artonblockchain) is a Houston-based artist who works in various media, including projection-mapped installations, LED light art, cut vinyl, and 3-D blocks. He is also the founder of Art Blocks, the world's first platform dedicated to decentralized generative art.

LINKS:

Connect with Erick (aka Snowfro): Twitter (Business)

Modern Finance Newsletter

Art Blocks

Bitcoin vs. Ethereum: What’s the Difference? | Investopedia

Smart Contracts | Simply Explained

Ethereum Price Prediction: 2021-2030 | Coin Price Forecast

NFTs: Blockchain-Powered Art, Trading Cards, Music, and More with Aftab Hossain | Modern Finance Podcast 001

CryptoPunks: The NFTs That Started It All, Their Origin Story, and Future Plans | Modern Finance Podcast 005

Ethereum Virtual World | Cryptovoxels

The Front Page of the Internet | Reddit

What Is DeFi? | CoinDesk

ERC-721 Non-Fungible Token Standard | Ethereum

CryptoPunks: All Attributes | Larva Labs

CryptoKitties

The Leading Annual Non-Fungible Token Event | NFT.NYC

Larva Labs | Discord

Ultra-Rare Alien CryptoPunk NFT Sells for 605 ETH, or $750,000 | Cointelegraph

MoonCatRescue

Fabergé Egg | Wikipedia

Generative Art | Wikipedia

Generative Art and NFTs | ARTnews

Amon Tobin: ISAM Live @ Coachella 2012 | We Saw Them

Touchdesigner | Derivative

Authentic Digital Art Marketplace | SuperRare

Discover and Collect Rare Digital Artwork | KnownOrigin

The Largest NFT Marketplace | OpenSea

Marvel Hologram Trading Card Singles | eBay

Art Blocks Platform: Cryptographically Generated Outputs for Dynamic Projects by Erick Calderon | Medium

Chromie Squiggle by Snowfro | Art Blocks

Genesis by DCA | Art Blocks

Construction Token by Jeff Davis | Art Blocks

Galaxiss by Xenoliss | Art Blocks

CryptoSlam!

Ringers by Dmitri Cherniak | Art Blocks

Interview Series 001: Dmitri Cherniak | ARTXCODE

Unigrids by Zeblocks | Art Blocks

Singularity by Hideki Tsukamoto | Art Blocks

The Best Emulators for Playing Retro Games on Modern Devices | PCMag

The Legend of Zelda

Avastars | Teleporter

Algobots by Stina Jones | Art Blocks

720 Minutes by Alexis André | Art Blocks

Void by Alexis André | Art Blocks

Apparitions by Aaron Penne | Art Blocks

Ignition by ge1doot | Art Blocks

Synapses by Chaosconstruct | Art Blocks

KRO | OpenSea

The Sandbox's Sebastien Borget joins Kevin to discuss the practical use of blockchains and NFTs for securing digital property and rewarding creators in virtual gaming worlds.

LINKS

The Sandbox

The Sandbox Socials | Linktree

The Blockchain Game Alliance

The Blockchain Game Alliance | Twitter

Decentraland

Cryptovoxels

Somnium Space

The Sandbox’s NFTs Gain Momentum with Marketplace, New Partners, and Investors | VentureBeat

BitTorrent

Pixowl

Animoca Brands

CryptoKitties

CryptoPunks

Meet the Voxel, the Tiny 3D Building Blocks That Will Transform Our World | Garage HP

LEGO

OpenSea

Ultimate List of Different Types of Video Games | iD Tech

How to Get $SAND by The Sandbox | Medium

The Sandbox Game Jam — “A Glitch in the Metaverse” (300,000 SAND + LANDS in Prizes)! by The Sandbox | Medium

The Game Maker Academy | The Sandbox

Game Maker Alpha | The Sandbox

VoxEdit Beta | The Sandbox

Avatar Creator | The Sandbox

The Smurfs

Care Bears

NFT mania is in full swing, but where did it really start to gain momentum? CryptoPunks, 10,000 unique, algorithmically generated pixel art characters were sent to the Ethereum blockchain by Matt Hall and John Watkinson of Larva Labs in 2017, where they soon became a sensation. Kevin talks to Matt and John about the CryptoPunks origin story, their current chapter, and what we can expect from them in the future.

LINKS

Larva Labs

CryptoPunks

CryptoPunks Explained: 10 Things About the First NFTs | Christie’s

ERC-721 Non-Fungible Token Standard | Ethereum.org

Hockey Trading Cards | Upper Deck Hockey Cards

Card Set Archive | Magic: The Gathering

Ethereum History in 5 Charts | CoinDesk

Cryptocurrencies, Explained: How Blockchain Technology Could Solve 3 Big Problems Plaguing the Art Industry | Artnet News

What is Hashing on the Blockchain? | Blockgeeks

Crypto Pepes: What Does the Frog Meme? | Cointelegraph Magazine

Rip It to Shreds: A History of Punk and Style | Pitchfork

Pipe-Smoking Alien CryptoPunk NFT Sells For $7.5 Million | Forbes

CryptoPunks: All Attributes | Larva Labs

CryptoPunks: Details for Punk #8348 | Larva Labs

This Ethereum-Based Project Could Change How We Think about Digital Art | Mashable

CryptoPunks: Details for Punk #0 | Larva Labs

Autoglyphs | Larva Labs

Why Are Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings So Influential? | Public Delivery

An Introduction to Generative Art: What It Is, and How You Make It | freeCodeCamp

OpenSea

The Blockchain for Open Worlds | Flow

The Worldwide Asset eXchange | WAX

Art Blocks

Ringers | Art Blocks

How CryptoPunks’ Creators Charmed the Art World and Paved the Way for Blockchain Art | BreakerMag

Colorglyphs

NFT Copycats Exploding on Binance Smart Chain | Play to Earn

About Trademark Infringement | USPTO

‘Kleenex Is a Registered Trademark’ (and Other Desperate Appeals) | The Atlantic

Remix Culture and Amateur Creativity: A Copyright Dilemma | WIPO

CryptoKitties

Beeple (@beeple, aka Mike Winkelmann) is a graphic designer who has worked on concert visuals for Justin Bieber, One Direction, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Eminem, Zedd, deadmau5, and many more. He recently made headlines when he sold a collage of his first 5,0000 "everyday" pieces of art as an NFT for $69,346,250 -- making it the third most expensive artwork by a living artist.

LINKS

Connect with Beeple: Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Tumblr | Behance

Beeple: A Visionary Digital Artist at the Forefront of NFTs | Christie’s

Watch Beeple React to the Historic $69.3m Sale of His Digital Work | Christie’s

Charleston, SC

Appleton, WI

Green Bay Packers | NFL

The Art Basel Banana, Explained | Vogue

From Basel to Beeple: How Will the Art World Fare Post-Pandemic? | Al Jazeera

Macromedia Fireworks 1.0 | Web Design Museum

Everydays | Beeple

Cinema 4D | Wikipedia

C++ The Core Language: A Foundation for C Programmers by Doug Brown and Gregory Satir

Learning Java: A Bestselling Hands-On Java Tutorial by Patrick Niemeyer and Daniel Leuck

Should You Stop VJing With Beeple Clips? | Zero To VJ

The Largest Online Art Gallery and Community | DeviantArt

The Story Behind Beeple’s Louis Vuitton Fashion Line | School of Motion

Ethereum

Generative Art and NFTs | ARTnews.com

The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 1 | Wired

The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 2: The Fall | Wired

CryptoPunks | Larva Labs

CryptoKitties

Nifty Gateway

‘President’ Biden? Not Yet, According to Election-Themed NFT that Fetched $66,666.60 | Decrypt

Beeple: The First Drop | Nifty Gateway

Beeple Is Selling Ethereum NFT Art You Can Hang on Your Wall | Decrypt

Status Symbol | Investopedia

An Introduction to Smart Contracts and Their Potential and Inherent Limitations | Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance

Mark Cuban on Bitcoin, NFTs and What Comes Next: ‘The Upside Is Truly Unlimited’ | CoinDesk

George Floyd | Beeple

Listen | Beeple

Milking Factory | Beeple

RE: Hot Pockets | Beeple, Instagram

Would You Rather Fight One Horse-Sized @LilNasX or One Hundred Panini-Sized Paninis? | Beeple, Twitter

$350k Offer for Beeple | Corrosive, Twitter

Beeple’s Store | Society6

Beeple Immediately Converted His $53 Million NFT Earnings from ETH to USD | Decrypt

Joshua Davis Studios

Adobe Shockwave | Wikipedia

Art Blocks

Aftab Hossain (Twitter: @iamDCinvestor) is a strategic advisor and private investor to projects in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space, with a special focus on decentralized finance ("DeFi"). He specializes in technologies related to the Ethereum public blockchain -- the world's largest decentralized blockchain for programmable financial activity.

LINKS

Connect with Aftab Hossain: Twitter | Reddit

What Are NFTs and How Do They Work? | CoinDesk

Fungible vs. Non-Fungible Tokens: What is the Difference? | Blockgeeks

Smart Contracts | Investopedia

How to Create, Buy, and Sell the Crypto Art Selling For Millions | Esquire

The Gray Market: Why Selling the Mona Lisa Would Be a Ridiculous Way to Try to Dig France Out of Massive Debt (and Other Insights) | Artnet News

Most Valuable Beanie Babies | Mental Floss

The Role of Freeports in the Global Art Market | Artsy

Wolverine Comics: What Are Your Vintage Comics Worth? | Sell My Comic Books

Magic: The Gathering: How to Spot a Fake Card from a Distance | Bleeding Cool

What Is DeFi? | CoinDesk

CryptoPunks | Larva Labs

People Are Paying Thousands of Dollars to Own Pictures of Pepe the Frog | FiveThirtyEight

NBA Top Shot

JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as ‘NFT Mania’ Gathers Pace | The New York Times

What do NFTs Mean for the Art World? | ARTnews

Grimes Sold $6 Million Worth of Digital Art as NFTs | The Verge

Mark Cuban Mints First Ethereum NFT on Rarible, Buyer Spends $81,000 | Crypto Briefing

Burned Banksy NFT Sale Captures Close to $400K, Critics Claim Buyers Are ‘Morons’ | Featured Bitcoin News

People Are Buying and Selling Crypto Collectibles in a $250 Million Market — Check Out the Sites Where You Can Browse and Bid on Them | Insider

NFT Marketplaces | ConsenSys

SuperRare

Nifty Gateway

Rarible

OpenSea

Foundation

Generative Art: Origins, Artists, and Exemplary Works | Invaluable

Art Blocks: One of the Most Unique Platforms in NFTs | ONE37pm

Talking Ringers with Dmitri Cherniak | Metaversal

Generative Art — An Analysis of Archetype | NFT Conaisseur the Future of French Art, Medium

Larva Labs (CryptoPunks) | Discord

Art Blocks | Discord

Pathfinders #28: Art Blocks Playground | OpenSea

Autoglyphs | Larva Labs

Colorglyphs Marketplace | OpenSea

Hashmasks

EulerBeats

Token 17465084160 (#10) | EulerBeats

Token 13371638787 (#17) | EulerBeats

Bonding Curve Offering Explained | DeFi Prime

Unisocks Exchange

Uniswap

DCinvestor’s Account | OpenSea

EtherCards

NFTs: The Next Gaming Revolution? | Ledger

NFT Game Axie Infinity Raises $860K in Governance Token Sale | CoinDesk

Gods Unchained

The Future of Virtual Assets: Introducing the Fractional NFT | Hacker Noon