In this episode, I'm joined by four exceptional guests. Jiran Z is a blockchain sleuth and nft mev brain, Andrew Thurman is a journalist who has worked at CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, and now Nansen.ai. Nodar Janashia is the creator of DeFi Zaps and co-founder of crypto dashboard Zapper. He and Igor Yuzo, the host of the Web3 Frontier podcast, are co-founders of DeFragFinance, a new NFT loan protocol.

In this episode, Jiran, Andrew, Nodar, Igor and I jam on EthDenver, NFT burnout, and DeFragFinance's approach to NFT lending.

A small note: This episode was recorded in March 2022. I'm working through a backlog of episodes, so please keep in mind that any comments made about the state of the market might be a little bit unawares of what's happened since.

Host: @nnnnicholas Producer: @filipv_

Timestamps

0:00:00 Intro

0:00:11 What is Smol Brains?

0:05:21 What is Treasure DAO?

0:10:19 Nuclear war and NFT burnout

0:14:02 A deep dive into state of the NFT market

0:43:27 DeFrag Finance overview: collaterizing with NFTs

1:08:38 NFT Analytics and Tooling

1:20:22 ETH Denver and conferences

1:27:23 Audience comments and questions

1:30:19 PrimitiveFi, the NFT <-> DeFi connection

1:33:18 NFT Market Cap

1:35:28 Crypto vs Traditional Institutions

1:55:53 Long-term, "real world" value of NFTs

2:05:33 Public Education and Investment

2:09:29 Outro 

In this episode, I'm joined by Sean McCaffery of the gamified governance DAO JokeDAO, and Zeugh from community management DAO CanuDAO.

In the first hour of today's show, Sean explains the origins of JokeDAO, a joke writing contest whose winner is decided by $JOKE token voting. We get into the project's origins using Mirror Write Race, and the DAO's transition to building their own multichain voting-as-entertainment dapp.

In the second half of the show, Zeugh and members of the Slice community tell us all about EthRio and the EthRio hackathon winning project Mosaico, a NFT art sale designed to onboard local artists into Web3.

This episode was a lot of fun. The JokeDAO conversation at the top of the show taught me that governance doesn't need to be a dry process, but can instead be the very basis of entertaining community building competitions. I hope you enjoy the show!

Hosted by @nnnnicholas

Produced by @filipv_

In today's episode, I'm joined by XR dev Avaer, and XR philosopher and community builder Jin for an exciting conversation all about their dream of an open and composable metaverse.

This conversation is a behind the scenes look at the most exciting projects at the intersection of NFTs and XR. Avaer and Jin teach me all about Webaverse, an in-development web-based open source 3D social experience that stands as a counterpoint to the centralizing tech conglomerate's vision of the Metaverse future. The guests teach me all about the many open technologies that enable Webaverse to be a responsive and highly accessible 3D social environment.

In the show's final act, we're joined by DAO Engineer MetaDreamer for an insightful interlude about MetaFactory, Ceramic Protocol, and MetaDreamer's new Web3 credentialing project, MetaCred.

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In this special Monday-night episode, I'm joined by TimShel, Shahruz, Fabian, and Scotato to talk all about Dom Hoffman's Corruption(*s).

The Corruptions crew explains the project's origin story, from its original discovery on Context.app, to their decision to band together and communicate as one with the mysterious figure on the other side of the collection. This conversation taught me a lot about the intriguing participatory performance art that sets Corruptions apart.

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Nicholas is joined by Dennison Bertram (Tally), Danny Aranda (PartyDAO), John C. Palmer (PartyDAO), and Jango (Juicebox) for a wide ranging conversation about DAO governance. In the first half of the show, we discuss the history of DAOs and Tally, the origins story of Dennison's Loot derivative Dope Wars and the DAO that sprung up around it. Danny and Dennison are surprised to learn they both joined the famed Park Slope co-op to study the cooperative roots of collective governance. John Palmer shares details about Uniswap governance, Uniswap Grants, and fish.vote, a Uni Grant-funded collaboration he created with Anish Agnihotri. Jango joins in the fun in the second half of the show to jam with the audience about the interesection of DAOs and college education.

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Web3 Galaxy Brain is a series of casual conversations with the people building Web3, recorded on Friday afternoons. For the inaugural episode, @nnnnicholas is joined by Ellie Day, programmer, decentralized thinker, and partner at SeedClubVentures. We talk about about Ellie’s new project, Always Online, and Ellie teaches Nicholas all about Decentralized Joint Ventures (DJV).

Later in this episode, Nicholas is joined by Danny Aranda, of PartyDAO, Stefen Delev of Carribean Blockchain Alliance, and a handful of Web3 builders who ask questions and share their comments on DAOs, onboarding musicians, and more.

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