Horacio sat down with John Caldwell, also known as VegSurfer, the NFT Principal at Wave Financial. Before his current role, John was a successful NFT collector and Layer 1 business developer. His expertise in the space has made him a critical member of the Wave Financial NFT Fund and a big reason for its current success.

Discussion topics include:

• Journey toward working with Wave Financial as the NFT Principal at Wave Financial

• Living in the CryptoPunk server with others as a “hivemind” for seeking alpha

• Similarities between NFT communities and World of Warcraft guilds

• What it means to be immersed in a space when finding arbitrage opportunities

• $AGOLD airdrop from the Loot Project

• Working with traditional financial analysts who don’t fully understand NFTs

• The importance of open communities when gauging an NFT project

• VegSurfer, as he is also known, as a quick way to describe himself

• Taking a chance on potentially life-changing opportunities

• Educating oneself in order to make the best possible decisions

• NFTs in its proper context within art history

• Strategies for conducting research on NFT projects and the pros and cons of Twitter

• The PFP as a status symbol

• Defining the metaverse, its future, and our present state

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