Wild User Interviews Podcast (Wuipod)

Some of the topics we cover:

* NEARCON 2022 - wild experience. 
* Jordan's Origins - from Art + Tech nonprofit to NEAR Protocol
* NFTs - origins and evolution. Digital gentrification?
* Challenges and new approaches to DAOs:
* Putting the human back in the equation - applying Design Thinking to DAOs
* Onboarding and off boarding - quadratic quorum!?
* NDC - origins and road ahead
* Progressive payouts for Hackathons
* Basement dwellers and the joys of on-chain espionage
* ...and more!

Resources and Mentions

TENK - https://tenk.dev 
NEAR Misfits - https://twitter.com/NEARMisfits
Deep Skills - https://www.deepskills.io 
AstroDAO - https://astrodao.com
[NDC] Illia @ ETHCC - Designing DAOs for Ecosystem Governance - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h5Jy4EVFMs
[NDC] Twitter Thread summarising Illia's ETHCC Talk - https://twitter.com/AlejandroVBeta1/status/1566712177037574144
Stader Labs NEARX exploit - what happened - https://youtu.be/1PRNaZBzR4Q
Pizza Maker - https://twitter.com/AlejandroVBeta1/status/1561123876465102848?s=20&t=YuEngYH_r9tjYtV-jt77aw

This podcast is shorter than usual - time in the Podcast Booth was precious - we explore several topics -

* The State of Content Creation on NEAR
* Current Challenges and Opportunities
* Explore the Idea of Decentralising Content Creation (User-generated content)
* and more!

If you want to contact Chad... just DM any of the NEAR Protocol main accounts on Twitter or Youtube ;)

On this amazing conversation Sandi draws from his experience as a three-time startup founder and Big Tech (Google and Facebook) as well as personal experience growing up in Croatia and Yugoslavia to cover many topics such as:

* Mass adoption requires a combination of Technology AND Business Models
* Privacy is the missing component in the tech stack for viable business models. Blockchains must be secure, scalable, affordable AND private.
* Why Privacy matters from a regulatory and business perspective.
* What is the meaning of Trust?
* How can we use web3 technology to fight corruption?
* Focus on User Experience
* Calimero Tech Stack - one-click deployment of customisable private shards
* And much more...!

Mentions & Resources
* Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires - 1996 documentary that tells the story of the birth of the personal computer, with the candid recollections of PC pioneers, like Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
* Cyberpunks Documentary
* The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You To Tomorrow's Profit

https://www.calimero.network
https://twitter.com/CalimeroNetwork
https://twitter.com/chefsale

Some of the topics we cover:

• State of Marketing in Web3
• Branding 101: What does the customer want?
• Crafting Products & User Experiences Grandma can use
• Migrant experience: Washington DC to Denmark
• How to survive bear market: marketing and funding strategy
• And more!

Some of the topics we cover include:

* What is Big Brain Holdings? How to invest and nurture in multiple blockchain ecosystems
* Layer One (L1) Investment Thesis
* What he looks out for on potential investments
* Thoughts on NFT, Onboarding, Growth and more!

References & Resources

•  Big Brain Holdings
• Blunt DAO - The decentralized autonomous sesh & biggest IRL Web3 onboarding movement of all time. Get onboarded IRL through Proof of Sesh with a confirmed Blunt validator.
• NEAR Future - GameFi NFT RPG, built natively on Discord, livin in the $NEAR Future
• BeeXperience - The HUB of education and recruitment within web3. We provide services to hiring entities, as well as individuals seeking employment.
• Mara - the High-end NFT on NEAR
• Nightly - cutting edge crypto wallet available on NEAR, Solana, Aptos
• Meteor Wallet - The simple and secure wallet to manage your crypto, access DeFi and explore built by NEAR Tinker Union
• Pagoda - The first-ever Web3 startup platform – building on NEAR Protocol
• NEAR Wallet Selector
• NEAR Tinker Union - On NEAR, a union of tinkers has formed to tink extraordinary tools and products.
• JUMP Defi - One-stop platform lowering the barrier of entry to DeFi on NEAR for users and developers
• Vest - A crypto research firm based in New York. Democratizing the landscape through permissionless perpetual futures.

Follow on Social Media
NEAR Big Brain Twitter- https://twitter.com/nearbigbrain
AVB Twitter - https://twitter.com/AlejandroVBeta1

Some of the topics covered include:

• Magic Powered Organisation Structure (Collective v Agency)
• Styles of Work (Unstructured v Process Driven)
• The current state of Product and UX in Web 3: challenges, opportunities
• Basic principles of Design & UX
• Experience building on NEAR
• And more...!

Resources

https://magicpowered.io

https://twitter.com/MagicPowrd 

https://www.behance.net/magicpowered_io
https://astrodao.com 

We cover:

• The origins: getting involved with Bitcoin, introduction to Libertarianism, Austrian Economics, hyperinflation.
• Conspiracy Theories: What, Why, How? (They are all true)
• Challenges for Web 3 Mass Adoption
• Tackling misconceptions around DAOs, NFTs (pushing back against common, bad practices in ecosystem)
• Introduction to Layer Zero: an omni-chain protocol
• How Real Birds is bringing Layer Zero to NEAR, unleashing unlimited opportunities for the rest of ecosystem
• More...!

Resources

https://twitter.com/RealBirdsGOV

https://therealbirds.com

https://medium.com/@RealBirds/realbirds-white-paper-a8adb05a85dd 

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ 

https://twitter.com/hasufl/status/1455823216765804547?s=21&t=mybCq61w4UO3RZmo2U5ESw 

https://twitter.com/LayerZero_Labs

https://layerzero.network 

Resources & References
NEAR.ai to Near Protocol
Gaming on NEAR Twitter Space w ZARA, June 30

Two Games on top 15 Smart Contracts on NEAR, June 29

Richard Stallman & the Future of Software Innovation by A. Hudzilin

“Why Software Should be Free” by Richard Stallman

“What Comes After Open Source?” by Denis Nazarov

Aggregation Theory by Ben Thompson

The Meaning of Decentralisation by Vitalik Buterin

NEAR Whiteboard Series - Technical Deep Dive (Youtube)

NEAR Wallet Selector (Github)
NEAR Link Drop (Github)
Neardrop.io - link drop mass adoption tool

Meteor Wallet

Metayield - fundraise with stNEAR (Meta Pool)

Kevin Owocki, leader at Gitcoin

Game Jams - https://itch.io

Storage on NEAR:
- Arweave
- IPFS
- Ceramic
- Machina

Follow Sasha
https://twitter.com/AliaksandrH

https://twitter.com/humanguild 

https://humanguild.io 

https://www.youtube.com/c/HumanGuild 

https://pod.link/nextcreators 

On this wide ranging conversation with David, we cover wide range go issues including:
* how blockchain technology and crypto empowers people to build an alternative to some of the world's problems, including 'conspiracy theories'
* Marketing Challenges and Opportunities
* Evolution of Ecosystem and Role of the NEAR Foundation

References
David's TikTok

David's Recommendations

1. Ten Percent Happier by Dan Harris
2. Punk6529's Twitter

Social Links

1. David's Twitter
2. David's LinkedIn
3. The NEAR Foundation

References & Resources

• Website - https://www.mintbase.io
• Documentation - https://docs.mintbase.io
• Mintbase <> Arweave integration - https://blog.mintbase.io/mintbase-arweave-9459f3889c79
• Mintbase Series A fundraise - https://medium.com/mintbase/mintbase-raises-7-5m-series-a-5m-grants-pool-to-pioneer-utility-nft-infrastructure-850c9b2bd476
• How to apply for Mintbase Grant - https://github.com/Mintbase/Grants-Program
• Gorilla Shops - https://blog.mintbase.io/store-s-of-the-week-gorilla-shops-cb0f07bd933
• Figment Learn, NEAR Track - https://learn.figment.io/protocols/near 
• Building Subgraphs on NEAR (The Graph) - https://thegraph.com/docs/en/supported-networks/near/
• Internet Archive, Wayback Machine - http://web.archive.org

Books

• Factfulness, Hans Rosling - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34890015-factfulness
• The Holographic Universe, Michael Talbot - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/319014.The_Holographic_Universe?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=9NH1Nzdevj&rank=1 

Podcasts

• https://epicenter.tv
• NEAR Protocol: Scaling Blockchain to a Billion Users w Ilia Polosukhin & Alex Skidanov https://epicenter.tv/episodes/431

Follow on Socials
Nate Twitter - https://twitter.com/nategeier
Mintbase Twitter - https://twitter.com/mintbase
Mintbase Medium - https://medium.com/mintbase