Mint Season 4 episode 25 welcomes Richerd Chan, Co-Founder at Manifold, Punk #6046, Professional NFT Degen, and smart contract artist. 

Manifold enables web3 creators to have true creative ownership, preserve on-chain provenance, and interoperate with all major NFT marketplaces. The company is known for building some of the top creator drops in the early NFT days alongside leading figures like Mad Dog Jones, Jay Z, pplpleasr, Steve Aoki, and FVCKRENDER, to name a few.

In this episode, we talk about:

• 00:00 - Intro
• 00:20 - How Do Creators Get Started in Crypto
• 08:51 - Richerd’s Thoughts On Why NFTs Took Crypto Mainstream
• 10:51 - Richerd’s Inspiration Behind Starting Manifold
• 15:02 - Are There Benefits That Come With a Self-Sovereign Contract?
• 19:46 - Richerd’s Thoughts About the Creator’s Class That Has Yet to be Impacted by the Web3 Primitives
• 21:28 - Richerd’s Point of View On Music NFTs
• 23:43 - How Collector Stats Can Enable Creators to Build Their Audience
• 28:23 - $9.5 Million Crypto Punk Offer
• 37:06 - The Future of NFTs and Crypto
• 40:28 - Outro

I hope you enjoy our conversation.

richerd: https://twitter.com/richerd

Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

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