Podcast appearances and mentions of alex salnikov

The Vault is a morning show that is hosted Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays at 11:30AM EST on Twitter Spaces and Youtube Live. The show focuses on the multi-chain communities, emerging protocols, NFTFi, DeFi, Gaming, and most importantly, collecting digital assets.Adam McBride: https://twitter.com/adamamcbrideJake Gallen: https://twitter.com/jakegallen_Chris Devitte: https://twitter.com/chris_devvEmblem Vault: https://twitter.com/EmblemVault

The Vault is a morning show that is hosted Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays at 11:30AM EST on Twitter Spaces and Youtube Live. The show focuses on the multi-chain communities, emerging protocols, NFTFi, DeFi, Gaming, and most importantly, collecting digital assets.Adam McBride: https://twitter.com/adamamcbrideJake Gallen: https://twitter.com/jakegallen_Chris Devitte: https://twitter.com/chris_devvEmblem Vault: https://twitter.com/EmblemVault

In this sponsored episode of Edge of NFT, we dive into the world of digital assets with Jana Bertram, Head of Strategy at the Rari Foundation, and Alex Salnikov, Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder of Rarible. Learn about the evolution of NFTs and how Rarible has made its marketplace more inclusive and creator-centric. Gain a deeper understanding of the challenges of Web3 technology and the importance of community engagement and sustainable compensation for creators. Support us through our Sponsors! ☕

Rob interviews the Co-Founder of Rarible, Alex Salnikov, to discuss RaribleX: a brand-new solution for brands to launch custom web3 marketplaces. What impact could this venture - and others in the Rarible team - make on the industry as a whole? RaribleX: https://x.rarible.com/ | Alex's Twitter: https://twitter.com/insider0x Produced by John Nichols and Robert Baggs. Watch The Mint One Podcast on YouTube: ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mint1pod⁠⁠ Follow The Mint One Podcast on Twitter: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/Mint1Pod⁠⁠ Music: "Voxel Revolution" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License ⁠⁠http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In our latest Benzinga Exclusive Interview, we sit down with Alex Salnikov, the brilliant mind behind Rarible! Dive deep as Salnikov unveils: The next big waves in the NFT space.Insights on Layer 2 tech and its impact.Sneak peek of Rarible's groundbreaking plans.A teaser about his talk at Benzinga's Future of Digital Asset Event on Nov 14th! From tech trends to personal insights, this chat promises a front-row seat to the digital future!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-raz-report/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Alex Salnikov, the Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder of Rarible, joins Randi Zuckerberg in the Crypto Café to talk about how NFTs are changing the future of ownership!

The Vault is a biweekly show that is hosted on Tuesdays & Thursdays at 11:30AM EST on Twitter Spaces and Youtube Live. The show focuses on the multi-chain communities, emerging protocols, NFTFi, DeFi, Gaming, and most importantly, collecting digital assets.Adam McBride: https://twitter.com/adamamcbrideJake Gallen: https://twitter.com/jakegallen_Emblem Vault: https://twitter.com/EmblemVault

We interview Alex Salnikov from the NFT marketplace Rarible about creator royalties and the future of zero-fee marketplaces. Follow Alex on X: https://twitter.com/insider0x Follow us to get all the information on Historical NFTs and the future of web3: Adam - https://twitter.com/adamamcbride Jake - https://twitter.com/jakegallen_ Emblem - https://twitter.com/EmblemVault Recorded on September 5, 2023

In this episode we asked Alex from Rarible everything you need to know about the current situation of royalties and marketplaces.

EP.120 In this episode of the Girl In The Verse podcast, Melina is joined by Alex Salnikov, the Chief Strategy Officer and co-founder of Rarible, one of the leading NFT marketplaces in the industry. Rarible has been making waves with its innovative approach, and one of the most fascinating features it offers is lazy minting. Melina and Alex discuss how Rarible ensures that creators receive their fair share of royalties when their NFTs are sold and how this benefits both creators and buyers on the platform. Alex also sheds light on how $RARI fits into the larger Rarible ecosystem, enabling token holders to actively participate in shaping the platform's direction and future development. TOPICS: What separates Rarible's NFT marketplace from everyone else? What is your take on creator royalties? What is the significance of the $RARI governance token in the larger Rarible ecosystem? FOR MORE ON RARIBLE: Marketplace ▶ https://rarible.com/ 

Alex Salnikov is the Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Rarible (https://rarible.com/). Backed by Coinbase Ventures, CoinFund, & more, Rarible is a leading blue-chip NFT company that powers both established and emerging brands and creators. Through a multi-chain, aggregated marketplace for NFTs, a self-serve marketplace builder tool, and a white-glove service for custom marketplaces, their products help brands and creators achieve success at every stage of their NFT journey. In this episode, we cover the verticalization of NFT marketplaces, their experience decentralizing Rarible, the NFT royalties debate, & much, much more.Recorded Tuesday May 9th, 2023.

My guest on today's podcast is Alex Salnikov, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Rarible, a creator-centric, multichain NFT marketplace, empowering creators to have their own marketplace with complete control over their sales, royalties and branding. What's even more exciting is that this feature is currently free as Rarible has recently rolled it out. In this conversation, Alex and I dive deep into Web3 business models and the future of the space.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Welcome to the Crypto Sapiens podcast! In this episode, we explore the origins and stories of some of the most innovative and visionary Web3 founders including Chris Castig of Console, Evin of Disco, Dan Romero of Farcaster, Perchy of Chippi NFT, Alex Salnikov of Rarible and Frogmonkee. In this episode, we'll take a deep dive into the personal and professional backgrounds of these trailblazers, and discover how their experiences shaped their journey towards building decentralized technologies. As the saying goes, "every giant has beginnings," and the Web3 movement is no exception. The founders of Web3 are a diverse group of individuals who come from different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. However, what they all share is a vision for a decentralized future that empowers individuals, rather than centralized institutions. Before diving into the world of Web3, many of these founders had already made significant contributions to various industries, such as finance, technology, and academia. Their experiences and expertise in these fields helped shape their understanding of the limitations of centralized systems, and the potential of decentralized technology. Through their stories, we'll discover the pivotal moments that led these founders to explore decentralized technology, and how they began to envision a future that was built on Web3 principles. We'll explore their personal and professional journeys, and how their backgrounds and experiences have helped shape their vision for a more decentralized world. —--------- This episode features the following founders: Chris Castig https://twitter.com/castig  - Console https://twitter.com/consoledao  Evin https://twitter.com/provenauthority  -  Disco https://twitter.com/discoxyz  Dan Romero https://twitter.com/dwr  -  Farcaster https://twitter.com/farcaster_xyz  Perchy https://twitter.com/TheFutureisDAO1  -  Chippi NFT https://twitter.com/chippinft  Alex Salnikov https://twitter.com/insider0x  -  Rarible  https://twitter.com/rarible  Frogmonkee https://twitter.com/frogmonkee  —-------   Whatever platform you listen to Crypto Sapiens on, please make sure you like, subscribe and give us a review. Doing this helps our content reach more people like you. Find ALL of our previous episodes on our website:

In this episode, Jay and Kyle talked with Alex Salnikov from Rarible about the origin story of this NFT marketplace and their experience navigating and surviving the space.

In this clip we asked Alex Salnikov from Rarible about how NFT Marketplaces can be sustainable, how they make money, and what is Rarible's business model.

This episode features snippets of inspiration as we explore what inspired today's builders and leaders of web3 and web3 communities during their crypto journey and what motivates these pioneers to build innovative products and services in the rapidly evolving world of decentralized technology. Dan Romero reflects on his journey and how the internet provided an ungated space to create and publish content while growing an audience for minimal money or effort.  Lukas shares how the vibrant and dynamic community on Crypto Twitter, where ideas are shared and debated in real time, inspired how this leads to new collaborations and innovations.  Mike McGuiness, Chris Castig, and David Phelps are all inspired by the social visionary Balaji Srinivasan's transparent work on the Network State. Along with his revolutionary ideas of the impact crypto will have in the future of society.  Vikram shares his vision of not living with regrets and how hearing years previously from Jeff Bezos has motivated him in everything that he has done.  Zach Anderson shared being inspired by thinkers that work to open up different paradigms and systems. Alex Salnikov shares the powerful impact Vitalik Buterin had on his journey and how reading Ethereum Whitepaper and the revolutionary foundation it set for decentralized finance and web3 technology.  Perchy shares how friends have directly influenced his journey, leading him to where he is today.  David Phelps also shares how creating community relationships impacted his journey, noting how deep dives into economics, economic theory, and macroeconomics not only inspired a realization of the decline of US Power and the decline in the US dollar but built the foundation for friendship. Friendships flourished over debates on the next global order, paving the path down the rabbit hole. This particular trip down the rabbit hole not only provoked higher level questions like, What if the next global empire isn't a psychical nation-state? What if the internet is the next Global state? But it also formed a lifelong friendship in the process.  Alex Poon reflects on his experience with the alliance accelerator and the generosity and understanding within his network. Erin McMullen reflects on women that she has met while creating a welcoming space for female and those that identify as non-binary. Philip Silva notes Bitcoin and our very own Humpty Calderon as inspiration throughout his journey. Visit the Crypto Sapiens website to download these inspirational and all of our other episodes episodes with these inspiring creators.     This episode features the following founders: Charmverse - Alex Poon Noox - Henry Lee Disco -  Erin McMullen Perchy- Chippi Coordinape - Zach Anderson Gm .xyz - Mike McGuiness Ens - Kori Farcaster- Dan Romero Safe (Gnosis Safe) - Lukas Console- Chris Castig DAO lens- Vikram Rarible- Alex Salnikov Joke DAO- David Phelps Bright ID- Philip Silva   Whatever platform you listen to Crypto Sapiens on, please make sure you like, subscribe and give us a review. Doing this helps our content reach more people like you.   You can also find all of our previous episodes on our website Crypto Sapiens Website Crypto Sapiens Community Discord Twitter YouTube Instagram Facebook   Connect with Humpty Calderon -Produced by The Crypto Sapiens Production Team with love  OrnellaWeb3(@OrnellaWeb3)- Design Lead InfiniteHomie (@infinitehomie)- Ops Lead  Latsan (@ogalat04)- Pre-Production Lead  Yofi (@lyknoada99)- Marketing & Distribution Lead  Kenichi (@yfr_spxce) - Marketing & AV contributor SprinklesForWinners (@BanklessWinners)- Finance Lead  Studio07 (@Daoproductions) - Tech Lead EurekaJohn (@EurekaJohn1) - Audio-Visual Lead Humpty (@humptycalderon) - Founder & Host Crypto Sapiens - Crypto Sapiens is Produced in partnership with BanklessDAO.   Mint a Publication Lenstube Mirror   Subscribe to our Newsletter https://cryptosapiens.substack.com/   Not financial or tax advice. The content of this podcast is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.

Launched in 2019, Rarible is one of the leading community-centric multichain NFT marketplaces. As an aggregated multichain marketplace, Rarible is unique in that it supports NFTs on Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Tezos, and Immutable X. Rarible also offers users the ability to create their own marketplaces in just a couple of clicks.Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Alex Salnikov sits down with Brian Friel to talk about Rarible's rich suite of products and services, his current views on NFTs, and where NFTs are headed next.About Alex:Alex Salnikov is the Chief Strategy Officer and co-founder of Rarible, a top-ranked community-centric NFT marketplace. A blockchain trailblazer and an active developer in the crypto space since 2012, Alex previously served as the Chief Technology Officer of CoinOffering, the first company to offer its shares in the form of blockchain assets. With a BA in Computer Science and an MA in Data Science, Alex's specialties span a variety of sectors including market analysis, decentralized finance, NFTs, and tokenomics. Show Notes:01:06 -  Who he is and how Rarible started04:38 - How Rarible differentiated itself from othe marketplaces06:30 - Community marketplace products10:20 - RARI foundation. What is that? Can you dive a little into what that's all about?13:39- Rarible DAO and the RARI token 16:10 - Multichain NFT marketplace vs single chain22:17 - His current view on NFTs. What is exciting?25:39 -  What is limiting NFTs?  27:42 -  A builder he admires in the ecosystem Full Transcript:Brian Friel (00:05):Hey everyone and welcome to The Zeitgeist, the show where we highlight the founders, developers, and designers who are pushing the Web 3.0 space forward. I'm Brian Friel, Developer Relations at Phantom, and I'm super excited to introduce our guest, Alex Salnikov, the Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Rarible, one of the leading top ranked community centric NFT marketplaces. Alex, welcome to the show.Alex Salnikov (00:28):Hello. Hey Brian. Thank you so much for having me today. It's going to be an exciting talk. Thank you to our listeners for connecting and to hearing our chat. I'm excited.Brian Friel (00:41):I'm excited as well. This is a great time to be having this conversation. Right about this time, Phantom is gearing up to launch its multi-chain beta out to the public and you guys are super well positioned for this being one of the first NFT marketplaces to take a very multi-chain approach. I want to get into all that today with you, but maybe before we go into all that, let's start with a little bit about you. Who are you and how did you start building Rarible?Alex Salnikov (01:06):I have a computer science background. I've been getting my degree in one of the best economic universities in my country before moving to the United States, and that was the most pro-Western liberal part of university. And I guess that laid a big foundation for me to be predisposed to crypto because the crypto is very openness, pro-liberal environment. And even before that, during high school I was trying to earn money online and I had a lot of troubles with just accepting payments. Everybody was like, Hey, give us your passport and KYC," and, "Oh, you're not 18 yet. We can't really work with you." That doesn't make sense at all to me.(01:49):So in the first or second year in my university, I discovered crypto, never left the space. It was 2012. I can say that I'm born crypto, never done anything else. Fell down the rabbit hole as soon as I read Bitcoin white paper because of the very fruitful background that I've been growing in. And yeah, started doing startups with my college partner. We did a lot of cool stuff that eventually grow into Rarible. I mean not exactly grown into Rarible, but our experience of doing projects led us to do Rarible because of the following of the natural progression. There was exchanges like DeFi stuff and NFTs. So we tried all of that and NFTs were the most consumer native out of all that. DeFi is for nerds.(02:42):And NFTs are for people. We always had been doing something for nerds and we wanted to do something for people. And I'm joking. It's not that I'm disrespectful. We wanted to do something for people and it was just so much fun. We traded a little NFTs and my experience of facing obstacles with online ownership, it made so much sense when you have an item and you can change the wallet. You enter the same 12 words into another wallet and you have all the same NFTs with you, you don't like the marketplace, you connect your wallet to another marketplace. So it feels maybe not that important. Many projects saying, "Okay, we'll do email and password." But this idea when you can change your tools and have all the same environment, this is what sells you that vision because you feel like you are the owner, not someone else is the owner. You feel control and ownership and that is the key part of all the NFT market.Brian Friel (03:45):Yeah. No, I totally agree. It's that ability to exit anytime and not requiring the permission of somebody else. That's really cool too your experience early on with online businesses, especially in a foreign country. Where did you grow up, by the way? What country did you grow up in?Alex Salnikov (03:59):Russia. One of the most restricted.Brian Friel (04:02):Yeah, trying to operate an online business as a teenager in Russia, it's probably one of the best educations for the value of this kind of stuff. That's awesome to hear. So you mentioned you're in university, you start 2012 in crypto, you're going through iterations with your co-founders on DeFi, then you get to NFTs. And I agree, NFTs was really one of the first mainstream consumer applications of crypto that it kind of clicked for everybody. Let's talk a little bit about Rarible. So when you guys started Rarible, what was different about Rarible that you guys decided to do at the time from some of the other marketplaces that were out there?Alex Salnikov (04:38):Rarible was probably one of the first five NFT companies that went out there and back then, OpenSea was around, SuperRare was around, a couple other platforms were around and there weren't almost any NFTs. So you had all the wallets, you had all the collectibles, tabs on your wallets, all the infrastructure, on ramp marketplace, but it was almost none NFT. There was a couple copies of CryptoKitties basically. And even if you wanted to create an NFT, you needed to either deploy a smart contract yourself or you needed to go to SuperRare, submit an application to get accepted, wait several weeks and then to create something.(05:26):And for us, after spending that much time in the crypto, it was a little contrarian to the openness and all the values that you bring. You're the owner. You don't want to ask anyone before creating an NFT. So we just did a simple experiment. We created a page that allowed you to create an NFT, no verification, no questions, upload your picture, upload your name, description, royalties, and connect the wallet, deploy your own smart contract and deploy your own token and all that just direct access to the chain without any intermediary. This just blew up. Apparently the crypto people resonated with that vision.Brian Friel (06:10):That's awesome. I love that. I think that's a good segue into some of the features that you guys have going now as well. So you started that kind of self-serve, create your own NFT marketplace. You guys have continued that same sort of spirit with your community marketplace products. What are some of those? Can you give us an overview of those products that you guys are building for the community?Alex Salnikov (06:30):The whole story goes more or less like this. Just a year after Rarible is life, we are taking a look at the market and we understand that the potential of NFTs is just so much more and so much wider than art market, than PFP market. We are very early at this point of even discover of the market what's possible with NFTs. And we understand that the more the market develops, we will need different verticals, like best for gaming, best for tickets, best for art, best for music, best for everything. And just naturally I feel like a big part of our team, the big part of the company DNA is technical. Both our co-founders are technical by background, our CTO, head of product, a lot of technical experience, a lot of just even math and physics background. So when we were deciding, "Oh, let's build a marketplace," without even realizing that we created an indexer that reads all data on chain, stores all NFTs in our database. Because it felt like, "Okay, let's do it."(07:41):And turns out that's a big strength that we have as a marketplace and that's one of the hardest part for other marketplaces to go and actually to use. That's why we created product, which is called Rarible Protocol. We wanted to go down the layer of infrastructure and power the next generation of NFT products, be it this platform that you want to build a wallet, like Phantom for example, and you need to have API to access, "Oh, what are even the current users NFTs that he owns? Or what's the market data for these current NFTs? What is the floor prices for the current NFTs that they own? What is the metadata for them?" So this product is called Rarible Protocol and it exists for two years now.(08:26):The next thing that we learned is that there's still pretty heavy stack to build on top of that protocol. If you want to create a marketplace, you need that API and moreover, you need to have a great UI on top of this. And a great UI still takes a lot of time to build. That's why we went ahead and created the UI offering too. Here is your protocol, here is your API, and here is your UI to create your own marketplace.Brian Friel (08:53):These are all tools that are being used by creators essentially to have their own community centric marketplace that's powered by Rarible in the background.Alex Salnikov (09:01):Yes. At this point, we have almost 2,000 marketplaces created with this infrastructure, both UI and protocol. There is not much, maybe 10 projects that is using Protocol directly without the UI, but quite extensively. I think like Coinbase Wallet hits us pretty hard with some API calls and several others. So all this is just all this shared vision that we want to power the next generation of apps, of marketplaces, of protocols. The community marketplace today is a no code tool. A creator can come if they have their own collection and create a marketplace using our UI and UX without actually even writing any code. You can deploy your own marketplace in minutes tomorrow.Brian Friel (09:48):That's awesome. I love that. So you have all these tools which for most people who are interested in maybe creating their own NFTs, the infrastructure set up and the software side of things is usually the biggest hurdle. So you guys are eliminating that from people's stack. You guys also have this white glove service. I know that's being used by a number of NFT projects, some even on Solana that shout out to Degenerate Ape Academy who has built their own marketplace with you guys there. And then you guys have this thing called RARI Foundation. What is that? Can you dive into a little bit about what that's all about?Alex Salnikov (10:20):Yes. Yes, of course. Wow, we have a lot of things. Shout out to Degenerate Ape Academy, a great partner. They've been actually maybe the second or third project to use our white glove solution, the first on Solana and the biggest on Solana. So we love the partner. The very foundation, so as many of you know the Rarible issued this thing called RARI governance token quite early in the days. And the idea is that this is the governance token for the Protocol. It is fairly standard, as we know, route for the projects to gain security and credibility and neutrality. So why Curve is great, because it is fully on chain, you don't need to trust anyone and it is community owned. You have an exposure to the activity that happens on Curve with Siri.(11:25):Usually the companies that do that in order to prevent the conflict of interest, you want these companies to be separate. You want to have a lapse company that is doing software and you want to have a foundation that is overseeing the actual governance and the token, and this is what RARI Foundation is. If you would go to RARI.foundation, you would see everything regarding the token incentives, the fully on chain governance. It's a cutting edge governance that we created. I don't know if our listeners are familiar with the VeToken model. It's vote escrow token. In order to vote in the foundation, you need to log your area for the certain amount of time, and the longer you log them, the more Ve RARI you get because you are committed to be with the project long term you're looking for two years. The votes of people who are known to be committed for two years are much more valuable than votes from people who will not be here tomorrow. I think Curve pioneered with this model and we at RARI Foundation actually created the first solid implementation of the VeToken model.Brian Friel (12:36):Oh, no way. I didn't know that. That's awesome.Alex Salnikov (12:37):So if you want to launch the VeToken model, you can come to us and we would help you to set up DAO. And it's not easy today. A bunch of projects sit on the tokens that cannot be even used in voting because they don't have the snapshotting mechanism. I know we're getting into the weeds, but if you created your project several years ago and didn't think that you will use it in Adel, it might not be possible. And by adding VeToken, using OpenZeppelin Governor and using Tally as the interface, you can have a full featured, very robust DAO that is fully on chain that can operate budget, that can operate treasury, and that will weigh much more committed votes in favor of those that are not committed. It's great.Brian Friel (13:24):That's awesome. So the purpose of the Rarible DAO and the RARI token, as I understand, is that you guys have plans for this over time to take ownership of this Rarible Protocol that we talked about earlier. Can you talk a little bit about the current state of that?Alex Salnikov (13:39):It's all started kind of blended together. There is Rarible, there is Rarible Marketplace, there is Rarible Protocol and the governance and ownership of that is blended. So the end state is there is RARI Foundation that has fully robust on chain governance that overtook the Rarible Protocol and governance of the Rarible Protocol. The Rarible is doing laps, it develops the protocol, it develops the code. It submits the proposals to the foundation sometimes like, "Oh there is a new version. Can you please approve that?" And today the RARI Foundation has full control over the undistributed supply of RARI, something like around 40% of the network, and the full control over the governance processes and the branding and IP of the token. That's the step one.(14:31):The step two would be establishing participation requirements. There are certain activity requirements at which we can say, "Oh, now the foundation is ready to overtake the Rarible Protocol." And then RARI Foundation will overtake it and Rarible will just operate the front end on top of that. So that's the end state and end goal where we're going. Yeah.Brian Friel (14:52):That's super cool. Well, it seems like you guys have been on this track from day one with your community minded perspective here, so it's really cool to see that being laid out in front of everything.Alex Salnikov (15:03):Yeah, it is not easy. We had all this community spirits, but this is more or less the duration of the DAO. Even the first was signaling DAO and it was signaling, but there was not much execution done. The second was an onboarding DAO. We've been doing grants to work on protocol and there was a lot of participation, there was a lot of people working at the DAO, but the effectiveness was quite low, just too much coordination. This is the third version. Yeah.Brian Friel (15:32):So I want to take a little step back here and talk about how you guys have been multi-chained basically from day one. This has been something that wasn't always the norm, especially coming from Ethereum very much focusing on Ethereum and maybe other EVM chains. You guys were one of the first to recognize Solana, integrating there, then taking a step further, adding Tezos, Immutable X, and this comes at a really interesting time because as we're recording this show, Phantom is gearing up for its multi-chain launch. I want to hear from you, how has it been building a multi-chain NFT marketplace, and what insights have you found in building that that might inform you what you think the future of this multi-chain versus single-chain narrative will play out?Alex Salnikov (16:11):Yeah, this is a great question. We started with adding the second chain that was flow as early as Autumn 2021, so quite early. And of course, the narrative behind multi-chain is always easier. There is Ethereum. There is a lot of artists that are unhappy with paying a hundred dollars of gas prices to create their NFT. So what do we do? We adopt a faster chain and the future is going to be bright. Not that fast.(16:45):I guess the biggest learning of multi-chain development is that it's quite easy to buy that narrative that we will abstract away the blockchain from the user and the user doesn't even need to know, the same way the user doesn't know that we use HTTP when we run a website or HTTPS, but we're not there yet in terms of the community. A lot of these chains, they are networks. They're networks of communities and these communities have values and these values are sometimes even opposed to each other. Somebody compromised decentralization in favor of speed. Somebody compromised speed in favor of decentralization and it gets even political. There is not much intersection between these blockchains, at least yet.(17:31):We're seeing more and more of conformity. Say at some point Ethereum and maybe Cosmos and maybe Arbitrum and maybe Polygon and Solana at this point are almost equal chains in the sense they're commonly accepted as being cool. The more the subset of okay chains are growing, the more we can grow towards the multi-chain vision. But before that, it was like you support the chains, but users of one chain, thinks that the users of other chain is almost like political enemies to you. So this is the biggest learning, bootstrapping the network on the new chain is much more hard than we could have expected. We tried going that route and multiple projects followed that route. I think OpenSea followed that route and struggled to get a meaningful market share from Magic Eden on Solana. Magic Eden added Ethereum and struggled to get meaningful market share from OpenSea on Ethereum. Now everybody's going to Polygon. We'll see how it gets there. It's much more interesting.(18:43):But yeah, we're seeing convergence obviously, but it happened two years after we added the first chain. Doodles migrated to Flow. We're seeing some convergence between ease in Flow. But again, this happened two years after we added that. We were a little ahead of time to get there.Brian Friel (19:03):Yeah. You guys were early to all that. I am curious though, you mentioned there's this narrative that some people have, definitely not everyone in crypto, but it's like, "Oh, in the future we're going to abstract away what chain you're using." And it's just like you're using a normal website and it doesn't notice anything. Do you buy that narrative? Do you think that is still coming despite all the differences between chains that we have today?Alex Salnikov (19:27):I don't know. Honestly and truly, I don't know. It feels like at this point at least EVM chains are all getting abstracted away. If you connect Ethereum Wallet or Rainbow Wallet, they would display the balance across all the chains just like a single shared (wallet). And you'll see, "Oh, here's my Optimism balance, here's my Polygon balance, here is my Ethereum balance." And then the next point would be bridges. MetaMask just added bridges so you can move things across these chains. This is definitely happening among the EVM chains. We haven't seen this happen among... I guess you are very well positioned to make that true for Solana and Polygon and ETH. So that is great. We're seeing this happening for sure. And even OKX Wallet. If you connect OKX Wallet, I loved that innovation and I'm dying to see that innovation among every other wallet. They don't ask you to change the network. I don't know why we need to ask people to change the network. Please don't ask people to change the network. It's impossible for a newcomer to understand.Brian Friel (20:32):Well, Alex, you'll be very happy to know that you'll never be asked to change your network in Phantom's multi-chain version. It all happens behind the scene. You just connect once it's considered connected on all chains. So we'll make it happen for Rarible. It will be a great showcase for all of that as well.Alex Salnikov (20:48):Thank you. Thank you so much. Let's collectively push MetaMask or the whole market.Brian Friel (20:54):Yeah, absolutely. A lot of this stuff is not intuitive. You're already getting people who are maybe coming to crypto because they like an NFT, they have a lot of questions about crypto, they're not sure. And then showing them these network change popups in their face, it's probably the last thing they need. And it's all about making this a safe and intuitive and familiar experience so that we can grow this thing.Alex Salnikov (21:17):There are two things that are almost impossible for the newcomer to overcome. It is the stuck or failing transaction. A failing transaction is okay, you can just resubmit it. But a stuck transaction, you need to wait until it goes so you can submit the next one. I've seen countless people just drop on that and this change of the next one.Brian Friel (21:40):I couldn't agree more.Alex Salnikov (21:41):It's so bad.Brian Friel (21:41):Yeah. That's something that we all have to fix, I think, as an industry. And we definitely have our take on those two problems. So we'll share you a beta code after this is done so you can play around and get your feedback on it. But yeah, I'm excited.(21:54):I want to switch gears a little bit to talk about how you see the NFT market evolving. You sit in a really interesting spot because as we said, you were very early, not only to NFTs, but to crypto. You're starting this in playing around in crypto in 2012. You've been early to the NFT marketplace scene. What is your current view on the NFT meta per se? What excites you about NFTs today?Alex Salnikov (22:17):It's a great question. More or less the whole story of NFT, we had CryptoKitties, which I actually believe is a way more advanced NFT than all that we currently have. It's living things that have DNA that can breed on chain and you can own them. Wow. After that, we take the giant step back. Okay, it's too hard for people to understand. Let it be just pictures. Let it be just art, and that went out. Art has a product market fit, very clear generative art, plain art, one-on-one, open additions. The current meta of open additions is through the roof, but it is all the same category of art. Quite clear. The simplest use case to make you get the idea of NFT.(23:10):The second biggest use case is PFP profile picture. Again, great one. It's virtual clothes for your digital identity. I find that the biggest cool thing about NFTs is that your digital you can own digital things that are directly owned by your digital you. And Twitter integrated that. Amazing. Instagram integrated art. I think Reddit integrated but not fully yet. So a PFP digital avatar. Great. And sadly, this is the only two use cases that work for NFT today. Maybe the third small one is memberships. You can have NFT membership. And that's it. Nothing else has yet worked. There are a lot of discussion. People usually think, "Okay, what's next? Or let's connect phygital. Let's do physical and digital at the same time."Brian Friel (24:05):I haven't heard that, phygital. That's funny.Alex Salnikov (24:07):For me, this is not as exciting. It is definitely what's needed. But the digital world evolves much faster than the physical. And by the time we have this, "Oh, digital, let's do an NFT for the house." So you need to have laws and it would take 10 years to get laws in place and during that 10 years, we'll have metaverses that are far more advanced than it is now. So it's just this part of the market, it's growing. It's faster. So to me, something that excites me a lot is something like CloneX is doing. You have a 3D avatar that you can import into the different metaverses and that would be you. So digital and native virtual use cases that have not been possible before. PFP have not been possible before, the interoperable between platforms PFP. The digital art have not been possible before. So some new use cases that have not been possible before that will utilize NFTs is what excites me. Games makes a lot of sense. But I don't know, CryptoKitties was such a cool project. There have got to be more to NFTs.Brian Friel (25:21):We got to get back to that same spirit for sure. I'm curious, do you think there's any one thing, like one bottleneck that's holding the NFT sector back? Is it something on the wallet side? Is it something just on the user education front, technology, or do you think this just takes time to iterate on?Alex Salnikov (25:40):I think the main value prop of NFTs is the standard. It is looked at everywhere as the same item. And this is the biggest bottleneck as well. We're coming up with the smart NFTs, so the smart NFT, every wallet should adopt it, every marketplace should adopt it, and some projects ideally should adopt it. So just the cooperation, the intersection of projects to adopt the same idea. I've subscribed to the newsletter that's called This Week in Ethereum, and I think that's one of the best newsletters out there. I read about new developments of NFT standards. Almost every week, there is something. Composable NFT, rentable NFT, this NFT, that NFT. And when I look at this proposal, I understand that several years need to pass before we will actually see any of these new NFT standards adopted.(26:39):So we will all need to come up with some addition to NFT standard that we all love and that we will all adopt and that will not be as hard as composable NFT of like ERC 998, or 988. That is very complicated, and very complicated standards do not get adoption. So some small increment, some better standard and a wider adoption of that standard. So complexity. Getting back to your question. Complexity. Yeah, complexity and coordination. Yeah.Brian Friel (27:10):Yeah. Complexity and coordination. Coordination across a lot of different people. Yeah. That's awesome. Well, that's a great insight, especially for us as we're gearing up to go multi-chain and supporting NFTs. So we're going to have to take a deep look at a lot of those different standards that are coming online and continue to iterate. So Alex, I just want to thank you. This has been a really great conversation. Thanks so much for coming on the show. One last question that we ask all our guests, and I want to hear this from you as well is who is a builder that you admire in the Web 3.0 Ecosystem?Alex Salnikov (27:42):Vitalik. I might come to some better answer, but-Brian Friel (27:48):You are the first person to say Vitalik on this show. So the spotlight's yours, you can take it.Alex Salnikov (27:52):I'll take Vitalik. He's built so much and his article... I've been recently diving into the article that explains how ZK works. I recommend it to everyone. They say that, "Oh, the next decade is going to be ZK decade." So just try to digest it, understand how it works. It's going to change a lot of lives.Brian Friel (28:11):That's a great answer. Well, we all have our homework assignment after this. Alex, thanks so much for coming on. Where can people go to learn more about Rarible?Alex Salnikov (28:19):It's always on twitter.com/rarible or twitter.com/insider0x. That's my personal Twitter, if you want to follow me. Rari.foundation is the biggest and exciting part that just started. So there's going to be a lot of development on that end. We're going to be East Denver. Let's meet. It's a great place to catch up.Brian Friel (28:41):I love it.Alex Salnikov (28:44):Yeah. And I feel like the second part of our talk is better than the first. Let's skip to the second part, guys. Maybe we can put that into-Brian Friel (28:52):Yeah, we'll get that in the show notes for sure. Awesome. Alex Salnikov, the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Rarible. Thanks so much for coming on.Alex Salnikov (29:00):Thank you for having me, Brian. You are a part of an amazing team that built an amazing product that actually have chances to compete with the giants that we all know are really hard to move. Good luck with that. Let's not change networks, please.Brian Friel (29:15):Yeah, let's not change networks. I love it. That's all. Awesome. Thanks so much.Alex Salnikov (29:20):You're welcome.

Alex has been building Rarible since 2019, when most people haven't even heard about NFTs. What were the industry's early days? Why slick design helped them to acquire the first users? How did issuing a token change how they operate (and why they weren't ready for that)? How do they plan to compete in a market dominated by OpenSea, Blur & LooksRare? Relax and listen to our in-depth conversation. *** If you want to buy tickets for the EpicWeb3 conference in Lisbon, check out: https://www.epicweb3.com/ and use the WEB3TALKS promo code to get a 15% discount. *** Follow the pod: https://twitter.com/web3talks Follow Alex & Mac: https://twitter.com/insider0x https://twitter.com/MacBudkowski *** 0:40 EpicWeb3 promo code 1:48 What's Rarible and what role they plan in the NFT space 2:46 How trading experiences & building exchange products inspired Alex to start Rarible with his Co-Founders in 2019 7:47 What were the early days of Rarible & how being specific helped them to design the first MVP - NFT form 10:42 How having a slick website & curating the best content helped them to acquire their first users back when NFTs were much less popular 14:00 Why from November 2019 to Summer 2020, growing Rarible was a smooth sailing 16:10 How NFT & DeFi summer resulted in 30X volume growth in 3 months 17:50 How issuing a $RARI token opened the company to a community and why they were not ready to operate that way 20:14 How they reorganized their community-centric operations in 3 iterations to focus and work more efficiently 23:34 How they plan to compete in an NFT market dominated by OpenSea, LooksRare & Blur 28:47 How Rarible acquires NFT marketplace users 29:47 Why Rarible is a strong promoter of creators' royalties 33:42 What metrics do they follow in trading & protocol businesses 34:55 How communities provide liquidity to their own NFT marketplaces 36:33 What are Alex's favorite NFT collections 38:24 Why the web3 UX might be a feature, not a bug 41:57 Why having to learn something new can be fun! 42:52 Why would Alex build social apps if he wasn't buildwasn'trible 46:33 Why Alex would fix coordination 47:20 Where to learn more about Rarible 48:05 Guests ideas from Alex

Today we are chatting with Alex Salnikov, Co-founder of Rarible. We learn about the early days of Rarible, starting with the launch of their easy-to-use NFT minting platform that allowed anyone to create them. Alex says, at that time, you either had to be a developer or be vetted by the marketplace to mint NFTs. Throughout my conversation with Alex, I realize this consideration for accessibility drives a lot of their innovations. This has inspired it to become a first-of-its-kind aggregated marketplace for Ethereum NFTs and, more recently, to launch community marketplaces. This last one seems to have resonated with many popular collections and creators who launched marketplaces powered by Rarible. As always, there are lots to unpack here, so let's get started.   -   - - And please remember to like and subscribe wherever you listen to this podcast. And give us a 5 star review.  This helps our content reach more people like you. You can also find our entire podcast archive on our website  cryptosapiens.xyz.  Until next time, stay brainy. Follow Alex here https://twitter.com/insider0x Follow Rarible https://twitter.com/rarible https://rarible.com/ Crypto Sapiens is produced in partnership with Bankless DAO. https://bankless.community --- Crypto Sapiens hosts lively discussions with innovative Web3 builders to help everyone learn about decentralized money systems, including Ethereum, Bitcoin and DeFi. https://www.cryptosapiens.xyz/ Join our community https://discord.gg/kzKA9RQTb4 __ Mint a Publication https://lenstube.xyz/cryptosapiens.lens https://mirror.xyz/cryptosapiens.eth --- Subscribe to our Newsletter https://cryptosapiens.substack.com/ ------------- --- https://twitter.com/CryptoSapiens https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC26aOc_4vSGiQATW1V4e9Tw https://www.instagram.com/cryptosapiensofficial/ https://www.facebook.com/CryptoSapiens-Podcast-107678875061018 Connect with Humpty Calderon https://twitter.com/humptycalderon --- --- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.

Alex Salnikov is the Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder of Rarible, a community-centric NFT marketplace. Alex was born in the Causus region of Russia and attended university in Moscow. Once there he discovered crypto and tried to create an exchange with the goal of making $1 million. While that early effort didn't pan out, a few years later he hit upon creating Rarible which has gone on to be a top NFT market. Alex previously served as the chief technology officer of CoinOffering, the first company to offer its shares in the form of blockchain assets. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Alex Salnikov is the Chief Strategy Officer and co-founder of Rarible, a community-centric NFT marketplace. Rarible has just launched a suite of new features including aggregated listings from more marketplaces and new token rewards for traders. Why you should listen Rarible, a decentralized community-centric NFT marketplace and protocol, has introduced Rarible 2. Rarible 2 brings about new changes for Rarible.com and the distribution of the $RARI token. The establishment of RARI Foundation also pushes the Rarible protocol another step towards decentralization. Under the new update, Rarible.com has become a first-of-its-kind aggregated marketplace for NFTs, showcasing the best prices for listings from the top NFT marketplaces hosting Ethereum NFTs. The RARI DAO has approved a new locking and rewards program for $RARI token, offering sustainable token incentives for both buying and listing Supporting links Rarible Andy on Twitter  Brave New Coin on Twitter Brave New Coin If you enjoyed the show please subscribe to the Crypto Conversation and give us a 5-star rating and a positive review in whatever podcast app you are using.

Alex Salnikov is the Chief Strategy Officer and co-founder of Rarible. A blockchain trailblazer and an active developer in the crypto space since 2012, Alex previously served as the chief technology officer of CoinOffering, the first company to offer its shares in the form of blockchain assets. Rarible is a leading community-centric, aggregated marketplace for NFTs. The marketplace also hosts multi-chain NFTs for those directly listed on Rarible.com. Rarible offers a platform to artists and collectors looking to create, collect, and trade digital collectibles from multiple chains.In this podcast, we cover:Why Alex left the finance side of crypto to dive into NFTsWhat the average Rarible use profile looks likeWhere new user growth comes from BUILDING in a bear marketHow Alex & Rarible think about their competitionRarible's new products: The Aggregator + The Locking & Rewards ProgramTo follow Alex on Twitter go to: https://twitter.com/insider0xTo follow Rarible on Twitter go to: https://twitter.com/rarible

On this week's CoinMarketRecap podcast, Connor Sephton and Molly Jane Zuckerman bring you more interviews from the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami. "The Wolf of All Streets" Scott Melker says he'll be surprised if BTC doesn't hit a new all-time high this year… but Bitcoin Magazine editor Pete Rizzo is a little more cautious, and things challenging times lie ahead. We also talk to XBTO CEO Philippe Bekhazi about Bitcoin-backed mortgages, Bitcoin author Jimmy Song tells us why you shouldn't buy altcoins, and Rarible's co-founder Alex Salnikov gives his perspective on where the NFT market is right now. You can find us on Twitter — @ConnorSephton, @MollyJZuckerman and @CoinMarketCap. 

Will NFTs be a trillion-dollar market by 2030? Or will they vanish in a blazing explosion of hate from all the naysayers? (I might give even odds on each side, actually!) In this episode of TechFirst I chat with Rarible chief product officer Alex Salnikov. And yes, he's aware that there's way too many bored apes, yacht apes, space apes, technicolor apes, and all other kinds of crypto mishmash digital art that are vying for the stupid money that is out there chasing NFTs. But, he says, half of all digital commerce doesn't need to have a physical component at all. And that would transform the future of commerce. Using, of course, the foundation built by today's NFTs. But we're early. In fact, we're just now in the “Cambrian explosion,” Salnikov says, which will birth a massive amount of innovation and completely change the face of commerce, crypto, and how we buy, own, and share the things we want. Links: Rarible: https://rarible.com/ Support TechFirst with $SMRT coins: https://rally.io/creator/SMRT/ Buy $SMRT to join a community focused on tech for good: the emerging world of smart matter. Access my private Slack, get your name in my book, suggest speakers for TechFirst ... and support my work. TechFirst transcripts: https://johnkoetsier.com/category/tech-first/ Forbes columns: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/ Full videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/johnkoetsier?sub_confirmation=1 Keep in touch: https://twitter.com/johnkoetsier

In this episode, Ben, research analyst at CoinGecko is joined by Alex Salnikov, Co-founder of Rarible. Alex gives us an insight into the world of Rarible and how it uniquely differentiates itself from other NFT marketplaces in this booming NFT space![00:00:00] Intro[00:01:44] Alex's background and his favourite NFT(s)[00:03:47] What is Rarible?[00:12:10] Rarible's differentiation to other NFT marketplaces [00:14:25] The motive behind decentralizing Rarible through governance tokens[00:18:47] How is the Rarible community different from other communities?  [00:20:42] Minting directly from marketplace contracts vs self-created contracts[00:22:38] Thoughts on the current state of infrastructure for buying and selling NFTs[00:24:45] What's the most essential feature that's missing from the NFT marketplace?[00:26:00] Rarible's plans for 2022 onwardsQuotes from the episode:“The state of the industry is quite peculiar these days. I think the industry grown very, very fast.” [00:22:50]“So we'll see how this NFTs penetrate, like basically every part of the media industry I would say.” [00:24:32]Watch the Podcast on YouTubeWebsiteRarible - https://www.rarible.com/CoinGecko - https://www.coingecko.com/Social MediaRarible:https://twitter.com/raribleCoinGecko:https://twitter.com/coingeckohttps://www.youtube.com/c/CoinGeckoTV/https://www.instagram.com/coingecko/https://www.tiktok.com/@coingeckotvhttps://t.me/coingecko

Rarible is a creator-centric, community-governed NFT issuance and marketplace platform that empowers users to buy, sell, or create digital art and collectibles secured within the blockchain. Today's guest is its co-founder and Head of Product, Alex Salnikov. Alex chats with Jeff Kelley, Eathan Janney, and Josh Kriger on how they're creating a space that will make NFT more sustainable and more accessible to more people. Easy buttons and lazy minting are ushering in the next generation of NFT users, and Rarible is a major part of this wave. Plus, Alex discusses an exciting partnership with Adobe that makes it easier for creators to create and verify ownership of NFTs. The group also touches upon what's hot, including Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction NFTs and possible intel regarding Logan Paul and Gary Vee.

Rarible is a creator-centric, community-governed NFT issuance and marketplace platform that empowers users to buy, sell, or create digital art and collectibles secured within the blockchain. Today's guest is its co-founder and Head of Product, Alex Salnikov. Alex chats with Jeff Kelley, Eathan Janney, and Josh Kriger on how they're creating a space that will make NFT more sustainable and more accessible to more people. Easy buttons and lazy minting are ushering in the next generation of NFT users, and Rarible is a major part of this wave. Plus, Alex discusses an exciting partnership with Adobe that makes it easier for creators to create and verify ownership of NFTs. The group also touches upon what's hot, including Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction NFTs and possible intel regarding Logan Paul and Gary Vee.More from Edge of NFT:

This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) chat with MP (https://twitter.com/mptherealmvp), Trent (https://twitter.com/_trente_) and Sam (https://twitter.com/_samspike_) from JPG about this on-chain NFT curation protocol. They walk through what the JPG team wanted out of this decentralized curation protocol and how to bring in voices that aren't always heard in the traditional art world. They also explore the idea of rethinking the mechanism of curation, indexing and permissionless access in order to bring a crypto native approach to NFT art culture. Lastly, they look at JPG's focus on on-chain records can preserve longterm value of NFTs with an eye on how to bridge the various ecosystems in the future and brainstorm around the idea of ZK NFTs. Here are some links for the episode: * JPG (https://jpg.space/) * JPG on Twitter (https://twitter.com/______jpg______) * Episode 150: NFTs & Rarible with Alex Salnikov (https://zeroknowledge.fm/150-2/) * Episode 198: NFT Creation, Curation and Governance with Luiz from FingerprintsDAO (https://zeroknowledge.fm/episode-198-nft-creation-curation-and-governance-with-luiz-from-fingerprintsdao/) * Museum of Crypto Art (https://museumofcryptoart.com/) * On Cyber (https://oncyber.io/) Learn ->> ZK Hack (https://www.zkhack.dev/) - learn - now until December 7th, attend ZK workshops & solve ZK puzzles Build ->> ZK Jobs Board (https://jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm/) - find new opportunities in the ZK space! Meet ->> ZK Jobs Fair (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/zk-jobs-fair-5-with-zk-hack-party-tickets-207833293977) - December 2nd, meet top zk projects that are hiring. Thank you to this week's sponsor, Anoma (https://anoma.network/). Anoma is a multivariate & multivariable bartering protocol that enables bartering among N-parties of arbitrary assets, including NFTs, all with zero-knowledge privacy. Check out Awa's twitter thread (https://twitter.com/awasunyin/status/1422508932635967489?s=20) to learn more about this project: . Be sure to stay tuned for Anoma's first public testnet, in which you'll be able to play with Anoma's Proof-of-Stake, intent gossip/matchmaking layer, and custom validity predicates. Check Anoma's codebase on GitHub (https://github.com/anoma) and the team building Anoma is hiring. Find their jobs HERE (https://heliax.dev/jobs) If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) Join us on Telegram (https://t.me/joinchat/TORo7aknkYNLHmCM) Catch us on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWsYz5cKw4wZ9Mpe4kuM_g) Read up on the r/ZKPodcast subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/zkpodcast) Give us feedback! -https://forms.gle/iKMSrVtcAn6BByH6A Support our Gitcoin Grant (https://gitcoin.co/grants/329/zero-knowledge-podcast-2) Support us on the ZKPatreon (https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge) Donate through coinbase.commerce (https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/f1e56274-c92b-4a99-802f-50727d651b38)

NFTYQ sits down w/ Alex Salnikov Head of Product & co-founder at Rarible discuss the growth of NFTs, the Rarible marketplace and protocol, Rarible NFTs, NFT adoption, and much more!

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Alex Salnikov, co-founder and CPO at Rarible, the first community-owned NFT marketplace. The two discuss open-sourcing the Rarible Protocol stack, the benefits of having marketplace features on-chain, the $RARI token distribution and much more! We would like to thank our sponsors for making this podcast possible. Kava: Kava connects the world's largest cryptocurrencies on DeFi's most trusted platform. Mint stablecoins, lend, borrow, earn and swap safely across the top crypto assets with a simple user experience and the confidence of institutional-grade security. To learn more visit kava.io Celo: Celo is a mobile-first platform that makes financial dApps and crypto payments accessible to anyone with a mobile phone. Celo supports over 1000 projects who are everyday building applications and issuing digital currencies from 100+ countries around the world. Learn more at Celo.org.  Every Delphi Podcast is dropped first as a video interview for Delphi Digital Subscribers. Our members also have access to full interview transcripts. Join today to get our interviews, first. Show Notes: (00:00:00) – Introduction. (00:02:30) – Alex's journey in crypto. (00:05:05) – Rarible's storefront vs. competitors. (00:07:37) – The focus of Rarible's design. (00:09:12) – Rarible on multiple chains. (00:10:04) – Overview of Rarible Protocol.  (00:13:59) – Rarible's on-chain features.  (00:16:39) –The benefits of having features on-chain.  (00:20:32) – The risks for developers on closed APIs.  (00:24:53) – The reason other teams close off their indexer. (00:25:55) – How royalties are handled on Rarible.  (00:28:17) – Alex's thoughts on scaling Rarible.  (00:31:53) – NFTs and security on layer-2s.  (00:34:08) – Projects using Rarible Protocol to build.  (00:38:28) – The $RARI token.  (00:41:11) – Alex's thoughts on Rarible being completely decentralized. (00:42:45) – What the team did well/poorly with the $RARI token drop. (00:45:00) – NFT projects that Alex is excited about.  (00:45:51) – What Alex would say to NFT bears. Resources: Alex's Twitter Alex's Linkedin Rarible Twitter Rarible Website Rarible Protocol Website More Our Video interviews Can Be Viewed Here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Yy99ZlQIX9-PdG_xHj43Q Access Delphi's Research Here: https://www.delphidigital.io/ Disclosures: This podcast is strictly informational and educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any tokens or securities or to make any financial decisions. Do not trade or invest in any project, tokens, or securities based upon this podcast episode. The host and members at Delphi Digital may personally own tokens or art that are mentioned on the podcast. Our current show features paid sponsorships which may be featured at the start, middle, and/or the end of the episode. These sponsorships are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to use any product, service or token. Delphi's transparency page can be viewed here.  Music Attribution: Cosmos by From The Dust | https://soundcloud.com/ftdmusic Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

In this week's episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) and Tarun (https://twitter.com/tarunchitra) dive back into the NFT space with their guest Luiz (https://twitter.com/dgntec) from FingerprintsDAO (https://www.fingerprintsdao.xyz/). FingerprintsDAO is a collector organization for artists, curators and producers. Luiz takes us through new paradigms of NFT creation, its governance and the wild world of on-chain art where it's the smart contract that is the art and wherein the value lies. Here are some links mentioned this episode: * Episode 150: NFTs & Rarible with Alex Salnikov (https://zeroknowledge.fm/150-2/) * FingerprintsDAO (https://www.fingerprintsdao.xyz) * Autoglyphs (https://www.larvalabs.com/autoglyphs) * DEAFBEEF (https://deafbeef.com/) * 0xmons (https://0xmons.xyz/#/) * CryptoPunks (https://opensea.io/collection/cryptopunks) * Sarah Meyohas (https://sarahmeyohas.com/) * Sarah Meyohas' Cloud of Petals (https://sarahmeyohas.com/cloud-of-petals) * tuba (https://twitter.com/0xtuba) * Loot (https://lootnft.io) * PleasrDAO (https://pleasr.org) * Hypebeast (https://hypebeast.com) * Sol LeWitt (http://www.artnet.com/artists/sol-lewitt/) * ArtBlocks (https://www.artblocks.io/) * Fidenza (https://tylerxhobbs.com/fidenza) * Framergence (https://framergence.art/) * Pulsquares (https://pulsquares.art/) * Chromie Squiggle (https://artblocks.io/project/0) * Twin Flames (https://www.justinaversano.com/twinflames) * pplpleasr (https://pplplsr.com/) * Cryptovoxels (https://www.cryptovoxels.com/) * Mitchell F Chan (https://medium.com/@mitchellfchan) * NFTs, Generative Art, and Sol LeWitt by Mitchell F Chan (https://medium.com/@mitchellfchan/nfts-generative-art-and-sol-lewitt-e99a5fa2b0cb) * Bitchcoin (https://bitchcoin.tech/) * Tarun's art project (https://www.instagram.com/p/BxzyLBeICAV/?igshid=498rkr8g9mi2) . Be sure to register for the next ZK Jobs Fair (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/zk-jobs-fair-4-tickets-167586621095) on September 30th if you're looking for opportunities in crypto. For potential hiring teams, we still have booths available, so do get in touch by emailing sponsorships@zeroknowledge.fm. Thank you to this week's sponsor Aleo! Aleo (http://aleo.org/) a new public Layer-1 blockchain tailor-made for building private applications. Check out the website (http://aleo.org/), or roll up your sleeves and visit leo-lang.org (https://leo-lang.org/) to start building. Aleo also invites the community to participate in an ongoing setup ceremony for trustlessly generating the system parameters at setup.aleo.org (http://setup.aleo.org/). And be sure check out the generative NFTs that you get if you participate! If you like what we do: Subscribe to our announcement newsletter (https://zeroknowledge.substack.com/) to not miss any event! Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) Join us on Telegram (https://t.me/joinchat/TORo7aknkYNLHmCM) Catch us on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWsYz5cKw4wZ9Mpe4kuM_g) Read up on the r/ZKPodcast subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/zkpodcast) Give us feedback! -https://forms.gle/iKMSrVtcAn6BByH6A Support our Gitcoin Grant (https://gitcoin.co/grants/329/zero-knowledge-podcast-2) Support us on the ZKPatreon (https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge) Donate through coinbase.commerce (https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/f1e56274-c92b-4a99-802f-50727d651b38)

Alex Salnikov Head of Product & co-founder at Rarible discuss the growth of NFTs, the Rarible marketplace and protocol, ethereum gas fees, NFT adoption, Visa buying a CryptoPunk NFT , the crypto market and much more.https://rarible.com/https://rarible.org/https://twitter.com/rariblehttps://twitter.com/insider0x

FOLLOW RARIBLE:

When the NFT boom took off at the end of 2020, there were a few companies that powered this explosion. Rarible was one of these companies. While NFT marketplaces are an increasingly crowded space, Rarible was early, well designed, and had the unique aspect of their own governance token. In this episode I spoke with Alex Salnikov, the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of the company to learn about the founding and the future of the organization.

A few weeks ago, the non-fungible token (NFT) world saw one of the first blockchain art heists, with several users seeing their marketplace accounts taken over and their valuables stolen. In this special episode of “CoinDesk Reports,” Managing Editor Adam B. Levine digs into the thorny issue of not just what can but what should be done in these situations.This episode is sponsored by Interpop.ioThis time we speak with Marguerite deCourcelle, CEO of Blockade Games, the creator of Neon District; and William Quigley, CEO of WAX, a blockchain designed specifically for NFTs. They help us understand the ground truth about blockchain collectibles and how that both helps and hurts when things go wrong. Later, we hear from Alex Salnikov, a co-founder of Rarible, for a different perspective on where mass adoption is pushing the still-nascent technology. Oh, and there's at least a sort-of happy ending, too, for the victims in our tale. As always, we'd love to hear what you think. Have something to say? Send us an email at podcasts@coindesk.com.--InterPop is building the architecture of an entirely new landscape of fandom using technology built on the Tezos blockchain to drive their vision. Visit hellointerpop.io to learn more.--Photo credit: Bermix Studio/Unsplash modified by CoinDesk

In this episode I talk to Alex Salnikov, who is the founder of Rarible.com one of the largest NFT marketplaces in the crypto space. We discuss how he got into NFTs, why he thinks that what we're currently seeing with NFT art is just the tip of the iceberg and why there could be much larger technological disruption ahead, as well as the challenges that Rarible faces and how it intends to tackle them. Thanks to Bitwala and Indexed Finance for sponsoring our podcast! Bitwala: Get €20 as welcome bonus if you sign-up to their crypto wallet app using our exclusive link: https://bitwala.x89scb.net/1xYMd Indexed: allows you to buy passively managed indices for Crypto and DeFi's hottest markets, passive portfolios at your fingertips.

Where do you go to create and sell your NFT artworks or insurance? What is the process for transforming traditional paintings to collectibles on blockchain? How do you program a unique unlockable feature for your NFT item? Who are the biggest selling artists in NFT space? Enter Rarible. Backed by Coinfund, Rarible has been busy building an art focused NFT marketplace. In this episode I spoke with Alex Salnikov to look at the origin, progress and future plans of the project.

Alex Salnikov, co-founder and product manager at Rarible, found his way to the Crypto Campfire for a really fun conversation about NFTs and some incredible use cases, tokenizing physical assets, and a bit of what the future looks like for Rarible. We also touch on the issues with wash trading, mathematics, our early days of programming, and even the northern lights. Enjoy! Hosts: Mitch & The Perfesser Guest: Alex Salnikov Intro: HippieN3rd News: The Crypto Gent This podcast is available on the following platforms: iTunes / Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts iHeartRadio Radio Public Stitcher Breaker Pocket Cast Overcast Anchor