Podcasts about artblocks

Pour ce 856eme épisode nous accueillons trois invités autour d'un projet à la croisée de l'art numérique, de l'anthropologie et de l'impact social. Grégoire de Laage, fondateur de la plateforme Supergood, l'artiste d'art génératif Beervangeer et l'anthropologue Jérémy Narby, spécialiste des peuples indigènes d'Amazonie.1. Contexte du projet : Art & impact socialSupergood, fondé par Grégoire de Laage, est une plateforme Web3 à but non lucratif qui soutient des projets humanitaires via la vente d'œuvres numériques.Pour son premier projet, Supergood s'associe à l'ONG Nouvelle Planète pour soutenir des jardins de plantes médicinales portés par des femmes Shipibo au Pérou. 2. L'artiste : Beervangeer et le projet "Maze Flipper"Beervangeer, artiste génératif actif sur Art Blocks, a conçu une œuvre inspirée des motifs "Kene" traditionnels Shipibo.La collection s'intitule "Maze Flipper", et évoque les chemins de la vie, de la conscience, et les structures invisibles qui relient le vivant.Il s'agit de 96 œuvres NFT qui seront disponibles à 0,03 ETH sur Artblocks.io 3. L'anthropologue : Jeremy Narby et la transmission des savoirs ShipiboJeremy Narby travaille avec les peuples indigènes de l'Amazonie depuis plus de 30 ans.Il accompagne des projets de protection des savoirs, de santé communautaire, et de revalorisation culturelle.Il explique l'importance des Kene comme système de communication visuelle et vibratoire, au cœur de la culture Shipibo.4. NFT physiques : quand la broderie dialogue avec le codeChaque œuvre digitale peut être reproduite en broderie par les femmes Shipibo.6 œuvres sont proposées directement sous forme d'art textile au prix de 1800 dollars, avec plusieurs semaines de travail par pièce.Une partie des revenus servira à soutenir la mise en place de jardins médicinaux dans les villages Shipibo.5. Une collaboration interculturelle profondeLe projet dépasse l'initiative artistique : il crée un échange égalitaire où chacun (artiste, artisan, ONG) apporte sa voix et sa vision.C'est aussi une démarche de reconnaissance pour une culture trop longtemps ignorée ou exotisée.Une démarche humble, mais ambitieuse, qui pourrait inspirer d'autres collaborations de ce type.Liens utiles pour les auditeurs:*

In this interview episode of Waiting to be Signed, hosts chat with artist Steve Pikelny, also known as Stevie P. They delve into his interactive web projects like FinSexy and his time as an Artblocks artist, balancing artistic expression with financialization. Steve also touches on the potential and perils of AI, the complexities of online dating, and his thoughts on the future of digital interactions in the art world. 00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome 01:12 Steve's Journey to NFTs 02:27 Skepticism and Optimism in NFTs 08:13 Artistic Expression and User Manipulation 18:59 Balancing Art and Revenue 23:28 Interactive Projects and Community Engagement 27:28 Exploring Game Design 31:40 Exploring Alternative Platforms 33:09 The NFT Journey Begins 34:15 Success and Community in Artblocks 35:48 Shifting Focus and New Projects 38:18 Reflections on the Crypto Space 41:05 The Role of Financialization in Art 45:33 Medium and Themes in Art 49:38 Rapid Fire Questions Follow Steve on Twitter @steviepxyz and learn more about his work at steviep.xyz Follow us on twitter @waitingtosign and on Farcaster @wtbs Episode art: Dopamine Machines #32 by Steve Pikelny Intro & Outro tracks by PixelWank

Pionnier de l'art génératif depuis 25 ans, Rvig est notre invité ce matin. Pour cet épisode il partage avec nous les moments clés de sa carrière, des premières oeuvres NFT sur HicEtNunc à la collection Flowers lancée début août 2021, lors du NFT Summer sur Artblocks à évidemment son chef-d'œuvre, Les Fleurs du Mal récemment récompensé par le prix Arab Bank 2024, qu'il s'est vu décerné lors de la dernière NFC Lisbonne.Rvig nous révèle enfin les détails de son prochain drop Alchimie qui sera lancé le 26 juin prochain sur ArtBlocks Studio.Pour notre plus grand plaisir l'artiste Nahiko nous a accompagné pour cet épisode, ainsi que Greweb, un autre artiste de gen art, et la discussion qui en est ressortie passionnera certainement bon nombre d'entre vous…Bon écoute.Pour aller plus loin:* Site web officiel de Rvig (Linktr.ee)* Compte Twitter de Rvig* La collection Flowers sur Opensea* Site web officiel de la collection Alchimie* Site web officiel du Prix Arab Bank* Compte Twitter de Nahiko * Compte Twitter de Greweb This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nftmorning.com

Susanne Päch, spouse of the late Herbert W. Franke, is a journalist and media specialist who collaborated with Franke, oversees his archives, curates exhibitions of his work, and is founder of the Art Meets Science - Foundation Herbert W. Franke dedicated to preserving his legacy. Franke led a multi-faceted life that included work as an artist, writer, and scientist. He was a pioneer of machine-generated art, authored nearly 50 books that included science fiction and utopian literature, and explored the connections between perceptual processes and art.Recorded on June 11, 2024 as a Space on X.Follow the guest:https://twitter.com/HerbertWFrankeFollow the host:https://twitter.com/0x_ScooterFollow Particle:https://twitter.com/Collectparticlehttps://www.particlecollection.comhttps://www.instagram.com/particlecollectionTimestamps:(00:00) Introduction(02:17) Susanne's Connection with Herbert(03:51) Memorable Life Moments(06:46) Legacy of Herbert W. Franke(08:46) Intersection of Art & Science (12:26) Popularity within the NFT & Web3 Space(14:35) Taking a Rational Approach to Art(18:14) Exploring the Creative Potential of Technology(19:57) View on Collaborating with Machines(21:36) Predicting the Rise of Computer Art(22:52) Assuming the Title of "The Dinosaur of Computer Art"(25:02) The Importance of Play in Artistic Experiments(26:07) Exploring Generative Photography through the Light Forms Series(26:55) Experimenting with Picture Processing through the Einstein Series(32:04) Math Art: a Study of the Aesthetics of Mathematics(35:06) Creating Perpetual Moving Images with Zentrum Program(37:05) Collaborating with Expanded.Art, Artblocks & PROOF for Zentrum(39:28) 2024 Generative Art Summit (42:14) Uniting Generative Art Pioneers with New Generation of Artists(43:57) Creating Algorithmic Art with the Tools at Hand(47:24) Insights on Artificial Intelligence from The Orchid Cage(52:02) Significant Contributions from Herbert W. Franke(55:14) Outro

A conversation with digital artist and author diewiththemostlikes, whose work consists of short creative prose and digital graphics which examine the human condition through an absurdist lens. Die's work is filled with scenes of consumption and excess by figures oblivious of the death and decay around them. I encourage listeners to follow the links in the episode description to understand more clearly the nature of his work, especially on the platform formerly known as Twitter. Previous guest Derek Edward Schloss also joins the conversation to talk about his new gallery Glitch Marfa and the artist residency “30 Days in Marfa'' which diewiththemostlikes is currently concluding. That conclusion will culminate with an NFT drop on Art Blocks titled “Nameless Dread”.https://www.artblocks.io/marketplace/collections/nameless-dread-by-diewiththemostlikeshttps://x.com/toadswibackhttps://onetie-alltie.com/about/https://www.glitchmarfa.com/30dm/https://www.glitchmarfa.com/https://x.com/glitchmarfa

Max and Colborn are joined by the OG crypto art collage artist George Boya for a podcast about collaborations, free artistic spirits, and creative processes. Inspired by George's recent series of collaborative pieces, Partners in Crime, the three go in depth on the importance of collaborations in crypto art culture, why the collabs suddenly ended (Artblocks, we're looking at you), what the process of creating collaborative artwork is like, how AI and derivatives factor into the collaborative ecosystem, and much more! George Boya: https://twitter.com/BoyaGeorge Partners in Crime: https://foundation.app/gallery/cultishnya Through Time and Space (artwork mentioned during the Pod): https://superrare.com/artwork-v2/through-time-and-space-15473  

https://www.instagram.com/pharroks/ nous parle de sa progression en dessin. Parsemée d'obstacles et de doutes. Je suis certaine que son parcours vous motivera et vous fera vous sentir moins seul dans votre apprentissage du dessin. ► PODCAST DISPO SUR TOUTES LES PLATEFORMES Le podcast est disponible sur toutes les plateformes : https://lecarnetdigital.com/podcast/ Les podcasts seront maintenant enregistrés en live sur YouTube et https://www.twitch.tv/scendre ! Alors n'hésitez pas à venir me voir en live et poser vos questions, afin que j'y réponde peut-être sous la forme d'un podcast ! Et pour écouter les épisodes précédents : https://lecarnetdigital.com/podcast/

https://www.instagram.com/pharroks/ nous parle de sa progression en dessin. Parsemée d'obstacles et de doutes. Je suis certaine que son parcours vous motivera et vous fera vous sentir moins seul dans votre apprentissage du dessin. ► PODCAST DISPO SUR TOUTES LES PLATEFORMES Le podcast est disponible sur toutes les plateformes : https://lecarnetdigital.com/podcast/ Les podcasts seront maintenant enregistrés en live sur YouTube et https://www.twitch.tv/scendre ! Alors n'hésitez pas à venir me voir en live et poser vos questions, afin que j'y réponde peut-être sous la forme d'un podcast ! Et pour écouter les épisodes précédents : https://lecarnetdigital.com/podcast/

In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom podcast, Stewart Alsop interviews Jonas Lamis about his journey from early computer programming to becoming a partner at Medicaid and a notable collector of JPEGs and NFTs. Lamis shares stories about his father's transition from physical to computer art in the 1980s, detailing the influence it had on his own interests in digital art and collectibles. The conversation also explores Lamis' involvement with NFTs through Ethereum and Flamingo DAO, highlighting the evolution of digital art from generative projects like CryptoPunks and ArtBlocks to emerging AI art. Lamis unveils his work on digital 3D assets and the future of digital ownership, emphasizing the significance of blockchain technology in ensuring self-sovereign digital experiences. Lastly, Lamis introduces StoryBank, an AI-driven project aimed at preserving personal memories and stories, suggesting the potential for creating a digital twin as a form of digital immortality. The discussion also touches on the technical aspects of integrating digital collectibles with real-world items and the transformative potential of generative AI in various domains. Timestamps 00:07 Exploring Jonas Lamis' Fascination with NFTs and His Father's Artistic Legacy 02:56 The Evolution of Personal Computing: A Nostalgic Journey 05:45 Diving Deep into the World of NFTs and Crypto 10:29 The Impact of AI on Art and the Future of Digital Creation 22:01 The Future of NFTs, Gaming, and 3D Digital Worlds 28:20 Exploring the Intersection of Blockchain, Fashion, and Digital Identity 43:40 StoryBank: Preserving Personal Histories Through AI 49:08 Envisioning Digital Immortality and the Future of AI Key Insights Legacy of Art and Technology Intersection: Jonas Lamis shared the story of his father, a noted artist who transitioned from physical sculptures to computer-generated art in the early 1980s. This narrative highlights the profound impact of technology on art, demonstrating how the advent of computers with graphic capabilities inspired traditional artists to explore new forms of digital expression. This early blend of art and technology in Lamis's family background laid the foundation for his interest in digital art and NFTs, illustrating the generational influence of technological innovation on artistic practice. Evolution of Computing and Programming: Jonas recounted his early experiences with computing, specifically with the IBM PC Junior, and learning to program in BASIC without the resources like the internet or YouTube, relying instead on programming manuals and magazines. This insight provides a glimpse into the nascent days of personal computing, where learning to code was a more manual and discovery-based endeavor, emphasizing the significant advancements in accessibility and resources for learning technology over the years. The Rise of NFTs and Crypto Art: Jonas Lamis's journey into the world of NFTs began with his exposure to the cryptocurrency scene in San Francisco around 2013-2014 and eventually led to his active participation in the NFT market, particularly with Flamingo DAO. This trajectory showcases the evolution of NFTs from a niche interest to a significant cultural and economic phenomenon within the art and technology communities, highlighting the growing appreciation and market for digital art. Community and Innovation in Digital Art: The conversation touched on the importance of community in the NFT and digital art space, as exemplified by Lamis's involvement with Flamingo DAO. This insight stresses the role of communal efforts in curating, collecting, and valuing digital art, pointing to the collaborative nature of the digital art ecosystem and how it fosters innovation and discovery in the art world. Impact of AI on Art and Creativity: Lamis discussed the transformative effect of AI on the art world, particularly through AI-generated art and its integration into platforms like Flamingo DAO. This reflection highlights the ongoing revolution in creativity and artistic production, where AI tools are not only creating new art forms but also challenging traditional notions of authorship and artistic value. Digital Legacy and Personal History: Jonas Lamis's project, StoryBank, was inspired by the desire to capture and preserve personal histories through AI, sparked by the loss of his mother and the realization of the unrecorded stories. This insight underscores the growing significance of digital legacy and the potential of AI to capture and immortalize personal narratives, reflecting broader themes of memory, history, and the human desire to be remembered. The Future of Digital Identity and Immortality: The discussion ventured into the concept of digital twins and the potential for digital versions of individuals to exist independently, serving as repositories of personal memories and experiences. This idea opens up philosophical and ethical considerations about identity, consciousness, and the nature of existence in a digital age, suggesting a future where the boundaries between the physical and digital selves become increasingly blurred, and digital immortality becomes a tangible possibility.

In episode 128, we're excited to welcome Liam Scully, Co-Founder of Maya Spirits, an organization synergizing blockchain technology, science, and art, to build a brighter future in Calakmul, Mexico. We discuss how they are leveraging Web3 tools to help preserve Mexico's largest biosphere, the role of NFTs to empower social change, creating locally-driven circular economies, their partnership with Artblocks, and more.--Three Key Takeaways--For projects looking to create impact in the Global South, it's important for the projects to be locally-driven and supported by organizations that have been working on the ground for years, and have a strong understanding of local cultures and customs.In an NFT space that has been fueled by FOMO and dopamine rushes, it's important to help shift the narrative and show the world that NFTs are more that just a ‘casino' and can be a valuable way to build community and create engagement around important causes.For any Web3 project supporting traditionally underserved communities, it's important to ensure that these communities are in the driver's seat. Circular and regenerative economies aren't truly so unless they are owned and led by the community.--Full shownotes available at--https://www.cryptoaltruism.org/blog/crypto-altruism-podcast-episode-128-maya-spirits-leveraging-blockchain-and-art-to-support-sustainable-development-in-mexicos-largest-biosphere--Support us with a Crypto Contribution--ETH(ERC20) - cryptoaltruism.eth (0xac5C0105914F3afb363699996C9914f193aeDD4A)Other tokens: cryptoaltruism.org/supportus--Buy us a coffee!--Help us out by buying us a coffee:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/cryptoaltruism--DISCLAIMER --While we may discuss specific web3 projects or cryptocurrencies on this podcast, please do not take any of this as investment advice, and please make sure to do your own research on potential investment opportunities, or any opportunity, before making an investment. We host a variety of guests on this podcast with the sole purpose of highlighting the social impact use cases of this technology. That being said, Crypto Altruism does not endorse any of these projects, and we recognize that, since this is an emerging sector, some may be operating in regulatory grey areas, and as such, we cannot confirm their legality in the jurisdictions in which they operate, especially as it pertains to decentralized finance protocols. So, before getting involved with any project, it's important that you do your own research and confirm the legality of the project. More on the disclaimer at cryptoaltruism.org.Please note: we make use of affiliate marketing to provide readers with referrals to high quality and relevant products and services.

Big week for "breaking" news on the show. E90 was recorded 10/27/23 and released 10/30/23. In this episode we discuss: Trinity visits Artmatr in Brooklyn to check out the the Reflections exhibition, curated by Tender's very own ajberni. fx(hash) announces their fx(hackathon) winners, 10 projects using fx(params) winning 1,000tz each! Rumors & Speculation: we discuss Artblocks moving to a 30% platform fee in 2024. What does this mean for AB and the the field of generative art platforms? Sketchbook A by William Mapan mints out near $11k a pass! the reGen project series on Art Blocks release in support of Alzheimer's research Another short-ish episode, we hope you all enjoy! You can follow us on Twitter @waitingtosign or Instagram @waitingtobesigned. Support the show by subscribing to our Patreon. Patrons that donate $25 or more a month will be shouted out at the end of each episode! You can also donate direct to wtbs.tez or wtbs.eth. Episode Art: Sketchbook A #24 by William Mapan (minted by unclepennybags.eth) Intro & outro music by Pixelwank

E89, shorter than usual but still great! Recorded 10/20/23 and released 10/23/23. In this episode we discuss: fx(hash) releases ONCHFS starting with Tezos (on-chain projects now possible!) fx(hash) re-launches Instagram with our curated collection of early grail projects Node To Node at the Kate Vass gallery in Paris looks very cool Will gets another Contra More Sketchbook A discussion, the crazy engagement and guesses on the auction Apophenies by Cory Haber Shoutouts and looking ahead to the reGen releases on Artblocks this week. Thanks as always for listening. You can follow us on Twitter @waitingtosign and on Instagram @waitingtobesigned If you would like to support the show you can support us on Patreon or donate directly to wtbs.tez or wtbs.eth Episode Art: Dust #15 by itsGalo Intro and Outro music by Pixelwank

Kevin (CEO, PROOF) is joined by Derek (Collab+Currency), Sam (PROOF Director of Research), and Amanda (PROOF Culture and Community) for an amazing show. Sam dives into an NFT market overview for the week before the crew discusses Pace's collaboration with Peter Saville on the CP1919 project, Blur Season 2 Ending, Refik Anadol enters MoMA's permanent collection, and Blackdot.tattoo: generative art tattoos. --------- EPISODE CHAPTERS --------- 0:00:00 Intro 0:00:05 - NFTs and Collaboration With Peter Saville 0:07:46 - NFT Market Update and Blur Season 2 0:18:13 - Community Proposal for Token Governance 0:25:39 - NFTs in Museums and Art Tattoos 0:36:18 - The Experience of NFTs in Art 0:49:54 - Creative Expression Without Approval 0:58:01 - Artistic Influences and Semiotics --------- EPISODE CHAPTERS WITH SHORT KEY POINTS --------- (0:00:05) - NFTs and Collaboration With Peter Saville On 100 Proof Live, we discuss NFTs, bear markets, Japanese streetwear, Moonbird, CP1919, Joy Division Unknown Pleasures. (0:07:46) - NFT Market Update and Blur Season We discuss NFTs, Moonbirds holders, PFPs, Artblocks, Ringers, Winds of Yalanawa, Opepen, Subscape, one-of-one sales, and Gabe Weis's 'The Blame Game'. (0:25:39) - NFTs in Museums and Art Tattoos NFTs, MoMA, generative art tattoos, tokenizing real world assets, Scott Campbell's Glory Hold discussed. (0:36:18) - The Experience of NFTs in Art NFTs authenticate digital art, generative art contributes to art history, and data maps create a virtual landscape. (0:49:54) - Creative Expression Without Approval Peter Saville created Joy Division's iconic Unknown Pleasures album cover without commercial objectives, inspiring global appreciation. (0:58:01) - Artistic Influences and Semiotics Peter Saville shares his journey into NFTs, reflecting on Warhol, Kraftwerk, symbols, semiotics, European canon, and art, music, fashion, photography, architecture, and film.

“The Beautiful Fidenza Bride” created by Rem with Midjourney Pour ce 564ème épisode du NFT Morning, nous avons le grand plaisir de retrouver notre ami Konohime venu nous présenter son nouveau rapport intitulé “NFT, Art et Royalties” qu'il a écrit pour Nonfungible.com. Les royalties étaient un des arguments majeurs dans l'adoption des NFT par les artistes, où en est t-on aujourd'hui?Les promesses du début ont t-elles été tenues, ou bien l'espoir a fait place à la désillusion?C'est ce que nous avons essayé d'analyser avec ce précieux rapport de Konohime, qui pour l'occasion à analyser les datas 398 projets et marketplaces (Artblocks, SuperRare, KnownOrigin, Makersplace, Foundation…) et 393 smartcontract "individuels”, en se focalisant sur la partie artistique des NFT, au sens large.Evoqués aujourd'hui:* Historique des Royalties :En 2018, une plateforme (certainement Dada.art avant SuperRare comme souvent énoncé) a révolutionné l'art digital en instaurant d'accorder 5% de royalties aux artistes, sur le marché secondaire, en plus des ventes primaires. Cependant, ce système de royalties qui semblait irréversible est devenu ajustable, variant selon les politiques de chaque plateforme. Aujourd'hui ce taux varie entre 0 et 7.5% * Promesses et Réalités :Les promesses initiales des NFT dans ce domaine étaient immenses, pour bon nombre d'artistes, mais la plupart n'ont pas abouti aux résultats financiers tant espérés , influençant peut être la perception actuelle.* Volume et Répartition des Royalties :Concernant l'art, les royalties ont totalisé environ 39 millions de dollars sur 450 000 ventes en 2021, contre 14 millions de dollars sur 478 000 ventes en 2022. Quant au premier semestre de 2023, les royalties sont jusqu'à présent d'environ 1,5 million de dollars.* Evolution des Royalties :La transition vers des royalties optionnelles a conduit à une baisse des paiements, sans toutefois les annihiler complètement puisque ce rapport démontre que la plupart des collectionneurs optent pour en reverser dès qu'ils achètent une nouvelle oeuvre.* Perspectives et Enjeux :La question se pose de savoir si le modèle actuel de royalties est viable et si, au vu des éléments qui ressortent de ce rapport, il ne serait pas opportun de réfléchir dès aujourd'hui à un nouveau système de répartition, peut être un peu plus égalitaire… * Responsabilité des Plateformes :Sans parler du cas Blur, et en se basant uniquement sur Opensea, on se rend compte que le délai pour intégrer des nouveaux standards de Royalties sur les ventes de NFT dans le marché, questionne quant à leur politique en la matière.Conclusion :Au vu de ce rapport il semble nécessaire de mener une réflexion approfondie sur la gestion des NFTs et des royalties en mettant en avant les défis actuels et les enjeux pour les artistes et les plateformes. Ces discussions remettent en question la viabilité du modèle de royalties à vie et soulignent l'importance d'une répartition plus équitable des revenus.Des enjeux essentiels pour assurer la pérennité de marché…Pour aller plus loin:* Rapport NFT, Art et Royalties écrit par Konohime pour Nonfungible.com* Profil Twitter de Konohime* Profil Twitter de Nonfungible.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nftmorning.com

Join us for a special episode of The Dankness, recorded back in June, featuring the enigmatic Deeze, a self-described degenerate art collector and renowned figure in the cryptoart scene. Known for an impressive NFT collection ranging from Cryptopunks to Artblocks and Rare Pepes to Killer Acid, Deeze is more than a tastemaker; he's celebrated as "one of the real ones" by artists and critical collectors alike. In this episode, we delve into Deeze's life, discussing his broad taste, unmatchable vibes, and his thoughts on the ever evolving NFT market. Find out why he's earned a seat at any table in the University of Cryptoart's metaphorical cafeteria. Get to know Deeze more by following him on Twitter @Deeze, where you can explore his galleries, Degen Diaries, Dabbing Guide, and his podcast, WE DO A LITTLE. Don't miss out on this engaging conversation with a cryptoart scene stalwart! But wait, there's more! Every episode comes with a free collectible audio/visual NFT created through a collaboration of our cohost and audio wizard Asa Stella (@stellaphonic) and visionary digital artist FFFFlood (@fffflood) on Async art. We call them “Danktones” and they will be available as an open edition for a limited time after each episode.

We have the pleasure of talking with the one and only VonMises. He started his career in traditional finance, was early to crypto, early to NFTs, and was able to see the potential of technology in advance of most.For NFTs, he was early punks, early ArtBlocks and relevant to today's discussions, early to Squiggles. He is a steward of the space, mentor to many, and generous beyond comprehension with his time time.VonMiseshttps://twitter.com/VonMises14https://deca.art/VonMisesNifty Fiftyhttps://twitter.com/NiftyFiftyETHJared Pozhttps://twitter.com/jared_pozSquiggleDAOhttps://linktr.ee/squiggledao

Prepare for an extraordinary journey as we engage in a fascinating conversation with the creative genius, Snowfro, also known as Erick, the brilliant mind behind Artblocks and the Squiggle. Get a glimpse into Erick's intriguing journey from tweeting about crypto punks in 2018 to his current deep involvement with NFTs and the innovative concept of "phygitals". We'll wander through his thoughts on the "digital optional, physical optional" model, his ideal living place, and his approach to raising a family.Join us as Erick unpacks his passion for amassing various items like art, comics, lighters, and playing cards. He shares his experience of trading and purchasing items using blockchain technology, shedding light on NBA Top Shot, and the transformative impact of digital object interconnectivity. You can't afford to miss as he discusses how this revolution in technology is reshaping expressions of kindness and support in ways unimaginable.Get a forward-thinking perspective on the dawn of emerging technologies and their implications on digital art and assets. Erick gives insight into the 'ephemeral physical' concept, consumer adoption trends, and CRM 2.0. We'll touch on his experiences in the digital art market, including his self-proclaimed 'dumbest' purchases and his view on the emergence of the archetype cube. You cannot miss his vision for the future of digital art, ongoing projects, and his views on how digital art could potentially become a currency with its own rules. Stay tuned for an enlightening episode!

Scaly speaks to legendary NFT investor @VonMises14 about his story of conviction, Crypto Punks, Artblocks, and the best Chromie Squiggle in existence. Visit Von Mises on X – https://twitter.com/VonMises14 and check out his galleries at deca.art/VonMises

Rizzle takes the mic while Matt is on break to interview the famous metaverse videographer and longtime WIP crew member Paradoxx about his upcoming fully onchain generative art project with developer NineoverZero. In an effort years in the making, we learn how CodeTrip has blended videography and software engineering to push the limits of onchain generative art with an immersive, interactive, and cinematic experience. We also learn what kind of snacks were consumed at Paradoxx's dining room to fuel their creative energy. CodeTrip will be launched soon on the upcoming ProhibitionArt platform powered by Artblocks. Shout-outs & Shots-fired: @paradoxx @NineOverZero @artblocks @nineoverzero @AssetScape @CodeTripNFT @ProhibitionArt @ArtBlocksEngine @arbitrum @wolfenstein @j1mmyeth @dragonateyt

Jeff is an artist who has been experimenting with tech for more than a decade. For him, exploring and getting into NFTs was a natural progression. He dived in, learned, and eventually got invited to join Artblocks to shape the boundaries and concepts of art and generative art in the blockchain and the world.Time Stamps00:00 to 08:00 - Who's Jeff08:00 to 13:46 - Generative Art14:30 to 17:00 - ArtBlocks17:00 to 19:23 - Rarity19:23 to 24:50 - Plan24:50 to 28:10 - Being Artblock's CCO28:10 to 30:37 - Artblocks Mission30:37 to 35:07 - Memes35:07 to 37:55 - Is AI Art?37:55 to 41:50 - Future of NFTs41:50 to 52:32 - Provenance for Physical Goods52:32 to 55:27 - The Human Role55:27 to 56:27 - Rounding OffGuest LinksWebsite: https://www.artblocks.io/Twitter: https://twitter.com/artblocks_ioJeff's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffgdavisDiscord: discord.gg/artblocksUseful Links Based On ConversationSuperRare: https://superrare.com/Known Origin: https://knownorigin.io/Coinbase: https://www.coinbase.com/Midjourney: midjourney.com/Fidenza: https://opensea.io/collection/fidenza-by-tyler-hobbsJack Butcher: https://twitter.com/jackbutcherPodcast Host: BunzyTwitter: https://twitter.com/0xBunzyBlockTalk || Pineapple WorkshopWebsite: https://pineappleworkshop.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/poweredby_pwDiscord: https://discord.gg/geNCbMYsZY

Big topic this week inspired by fx(params) and the various release mechanics that have been popularized in 2023. This episode we discuss: Diablo 4 & Wildfires Alba's successful launch 625E Fidenza sale & ArtBlocks latest Neural Sediments by Eko33 Big Topic: Artist Curated vs Collector Curated vs Longform release strategies Kriller.com Axiomata by Vazk0 Upcoming Generative Architecture show on Verse NFC Lisbon projects: Before the Storm by Leonardo Solaas, Rooted by M.J. Lindow, Slice of Life by elsif & Rosarium by ella Twitter: @WaitingToSign Instagram: @waitingtobesigned Donations: wtbs.tez && wtbs.eth Intro music by The Gas Station, as heard in *Sunset Dancers* by Laurean0 Outro music "Always Be Listed" by Pixelwank

Traditional markets are not off to a great start today. The 21 day treasury auction ended yesterday at a yield of 6.2%, due to a lack of resolution about the debt ceiling talks. The auctioned bills are set to reach maturity around the "X-date", when the Treasury expects the government to no longer be able to pay its debts if Congress doesn't reach a deal. As the end of the month approaches the fear is escalating and the talk is getting louder. Bitcoin is down to $26.8k and the ETH is down to $1,741. It seems like the natural progression considering the state of the traditional markets. This looks like an appetizing dip, but be cautious as we are not in a stable environment. The dollar has been showing some strength which is actually dragging down the value of other things, like crypto. Whether or not the US actually runs out of cash remains to be seen, but our hosts agree that this is an unlikely event and the same people have been on the soap box saying these things for a while. If we come out on the other side of this properly, the rebound will be significant. Not really much to report over right with NFTs. We saw some more movement in the Artblocks ecosystem, which all started with the big Fidenza sales; we also saw some decent ape sales including a crown and gold grin. Miladys is still bringing decent volume since the Elon tweet but the floor has fallen to the 3 eth range.RarePass genesis' were swept and the floor is up to 15 eth.Captainz and the 9gag ecosystem are making waves and talks of the $MEME coin are still in the air. Legality, hype, untapped market and huge following are the perfect formula for a successful launch. @punk9059 thinks PFPs are in a rough state. Miladys have been dominating via BLEND volume. The current trend is a floor price pump after a BLEND announcement and then once its live a huge dump of supply from big holders. Events like a massive mutant ape dump in the hundreds or the looming holder who has ~400 CLoneX are keeping the market shaky. There are roughly 30 big farmers controlling the big bids and dumping. There are currently 24k ETH worth of bids on mutants meaning the liquidity is still there despite the feeling of a shrinking market. @k2_nft is a great account to follow to get informed on the BLEND bid/dump world.@Ledger recover has been delayed and put on the back burner. They have responded to the market's reaction about the recovery system. They are starting with a white paper on the recovery protocol and slowly making the OS open source. @cz_binance posted a video of China Central Television (CCTV) covering crypto topics that went viral. Starting from June 1st, the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong will be implementing a mandatory licensing regime for virtual asset trading platforms. @Alicia_MEXC thinks this is bullish news as it will bring in new participants and create a safer way for the public to interact.GM Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A big episode recapping a big week for WTBS. We released an amazing interview with Rudxane, sold out or collab project with Thomas Noya, and minted some Zancan tickets! In this episode we talk long form AI, Artblocks, Verse, and the drops of the week on fx(hash). Twitter: @WaitingToSign Instagram: @waitingtobesigned Donations: wtbs.tez && wtbs.eth Episode Art: WTBS.TXT #49 by Thomas Noya & Waiting To Be Signed Projects of the Week: Cosmic Signs, Mark Webster WTBS.TXT, Thomas Noya x Waiting To Be Signed Charcoal Seed, Zancan Shoutouts: Coalescence, ella Intro music by The Gas Station, as heard in *Sunset Dancers* by Laurean0 Outro music "always be listed" by Pixelwank

A conversation with generative artist Tyler Hobbs. Hobbs has combined his computer programming and art backgrounds to become one of the biggest names at the nexus of digital and physical art. On the heels of his amazingly popular Fidenza series of generative artworks, he has released the ambitious QQL series which redefines the role of the art collector as that of collaborator. Pace Gallery is currently featuring a series of physical works that Hobbs created by hand based on his own use of the QQL algorithm. The conversation touches on a number of topics, including Hobbs' unique journey, his place in the history of digital art, his love of music and the artists that have inspired him.https://tylerxhobbs.com/https://twitter.com/tylerxhobbs?s=20https://qql.art/https://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/tyler-hobbs-qql-analogs/https://www.pacegallery.com/online-exhibitions/qql-parametric-expression/https://www.artblocks.io/

In this episode, we discuss the current state of traditional markets, which are strong and expected to close well. Interest rates are selling off, with 2yr treasuries seeing a slight increase. Crypto saw a dip in gains from yesterday, and altcoins are selling off, with $ARB outperforming most of crypto. BTC dominance continues to hold strong.We also cover the latest news in NFTs, including Yugalabs' reveal for the Meta Apes, which was a big hit. Volumes across collections have slowed down, and Doodles 2 genesis boxes are set to open on the 31st. ArtBlocks.io opened a marketplace and is enforcing royalties, and Nakamigos are off their highs.Coolcats had a town hall meeting where they discussed their struggles, their deal with Macy's, and future plans, but sell pressure continues.Ledger is close to completing a 108 million euro raise, following a 300 million dollar raise last year, indicating that they have kept their market valuation throughout the market fallout.We also discuss Frank degods' recent buying spree, where he tapped into his favorite ETH communities to celebrate the migration. He bought a Bored Ape over CryptoPunks, citing the airdrops and claims associated with the apes.Lastly, we were joined by PIXELYNX, who has worked with major brands in the past and has a passion for music before getting into blockchain technology. Their aim is to join music and gaming together and were recently acquired by @animocabrands. They envision something similar to Pokemon but for music.PIXELYNX on @ 59:50GM! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How was ArtBlocks founded? Who are the first generative artists who started out there? What did the Auto Glyphs project change for them?During NFT Paris, in a room full of some of the best generative artists in the world, we recorded this one hour conversation between Ledger VP of Comms Ariel Wengroff and prominent figures in the ArtBlocks community (with Erick Calderon a.k.a. Snowfro, Sofia Garcia from ArtXCode, Glenn a.k.a. BlockBird, Matt a.k.a. Balon_art and Jeremy a.k.a. DeFiStaker), to discuss everything about generative art, from the moment where usual collectors could no longer afford to buy their own art to their “late night scrolling for new art” routine.Is it okay to come as a flipper if you stay as a collector? How do creators approach pricing? Why is it important to see your digital art in real life and not just on a thumbnail on OpenSea? And yes, you know us, what's their biggest security fail? This new episode answers all of these questions, and many more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today's show, I'm joined by Munam Wasi, COO at Delegate Cash. Delegate Cash's first product is an immutable NFT delegation registry. Users can delegate access rights to NFTs in their possession to other public addresses on the various EVM chains where Delegate Cash is deployed. Future airdrops and offchain token gating software can integrate delegate cash's contracts, to allow people to interact with minting contracts and verify on Discord, all from delegated hotwallet without ever touching the wallet that holds their precious NFT. Munam and I discuss the current product and ERC-5639 Delegation Registry, co-authored by Delegate Cash founder 0xfoobar, Wilkins Chung from Manifold, Ryley-o and Jake Rockland from Artblocks, and Andy from Tessera. We also discuss their new liquid staking project. This episode is the third interview I've done with wallet security software providers. If you're interested in the subject, check out my interviews with Harpie and Fire. It was great chatting with Munam about Delegate Cash. I hope you enjoy the show.

TylerD, Ghost and Emily are joined by legendary NFT trader and collector DeezeFi for a longer discussion to talk about the overall crypto and NFT market, if we're due for a pullback and why he faded Checks. Then Andy8052 (founder of Tessera) joins the crew to talk about the open edition meta, the launch of Escher and how Escher solves the legacy issues in the art edition market. The group then chats generative art and Memes before closing out.

TylerD is joined by Ghost and Emily to recap the open edition madness from Vincent Van Dough and the $1.6M he raised selling over 200,000 Pepe Checks, along with the role Jack Butcher played. The crew then chatted about Art Blocks resurgence led by The Harvest, soaring BTC NFTs, and a new ATH sale on SoRare.

Comme vous le savez John est passionné d'art génératif, alors quel plus beau cadeau d'anniversaire pouvait t-il recevoir, que celui d'interview notre invité du jour: Alexis André?En effet Alexis André est un artiste génératif, figure emblématique de la plateforme référence en la matière Artblocks et ce n'est donc pas un hasard, si Erick Calderon alias Snowfro, lui-même artiste et créateur de la plateur, ait choisi Alexis pour une collection très particulière, Friendship Bracelets.Cette collection qui représente des bracelets, a pour particularité d'avoir été airdroppé '(en 2 exemplaires) en cadeau à tous les détenteurs d'oeuvres Artblocks…Au final, il y a plus de 38000 bracelets qui ont été mintés et le floor n'a cessé de monter, faisant des Friendship Bracelets une des collections déjà iconique de cette plateforme…Alexis André, revient également dans cette room sur son parcours, ses premières collections, la manière dont il appréhende ce nouvel espace de création et ses futurs projets… sans oublier le Japon, pays dans lequel il vit désormais…Pour aller plus loin:* Alexis André sur SuperRare* Alexis André sur Artblocks* Compte Twitter d'Alexis André* Compte Instagram d'Alexis André* La collection Friendships Bracelet sur OpenseaEt puis bien sûr… This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nftmorning.com

A conversation with Web3 art collector, investor and DAO co-founder Derek Edward Schloss. Derek was an early advocate for the economy that has grown around the collecting of digital art. He is the co-founder of Collab+Currency, a crypto-focused venture fund that made early investments in companies like SuperRare, Art Blocks, Async Art, Metaversal, Rarible and PROOF. He is also a founding member of the ultra-exclusive crypto-art-collecting Flamingo DAO, which boasts the world's most valuable collection of NFTs. In the conversation, Derek discusses the assessment of value, his love of generative art and the inner workings of an art-collecting DAO.https://www.collabcurrency.com/https://flamingodao.xyz/https://twitter.com/derekedws

Braced for crypto winter, Scaly Nelson, 0xinc and Pep return to talk Artblocks, NBA Top Shot, bear market bargain hunting and relative strength in the NFT market.

Braced for crypto winter, Scaly Nelson, 0xinc and Pep return to talk Artblocks, NBA Top Shot, bear market bargain hunting and relative strength in the NFT market.

We catch up with Kaigani, famous decompiler of the CryptoKitty genome, and chat PFPs, Meebits DAO, his ArtBlocks projects, artist sustainability, Hollywood and of course his current project, Mxtter.

RIP Cryptovoxels. With the passing of time, it's inevitable that we'll see many crypto projects fail and fold. While projects fail for myriad reasons, in the crypto space an unfortunately increasingly common reason why crypto projects fail is from deviating too far away from their original mission & community. This is usually not an overnight phenomenon, but instead occurs as a result of a million individual small decisions that compound over time. Luckily there are many crypto projects that are keeping it 100 with their mission & community. Projects like AsyncArt, ArtBlocks, Manifold, NG, POAP and Monaverse exemplify the ways you can create a successful crypto project: have founders that use their project, passionately; build in public; listen to the community; bias for quality over quantity. Every decision matters though. One major mis-step can sink a community and in turn an entire crypto business. Rizzle and I chat about the response to the SuperRare RarePass their released last week and the divided response from their community and the space at large. We also discuss the slow-motion train wreck that is Cryptovoxels as an example of pretty much all the things a project can do to ensure it fails. Shout-outs & Shots-fired: @supahmarbler @Tyrberg @Flynnjamm @0xSteady @fabianospeziari @monaverse @SteadyBreaks @cryptovoxels @bitpixi @bnolan @cent @artblocks_io @MattKaneArtist @niftygateway @maxosirisart @missalsimpson @poapxyz @worthalter @KnownOrigin_io @rarible @AsyncArt @ArtOnBlockchain @conlan @n0shot1 @OnChainChain @dfinzer @xanderatallahh @rareperkins @SuperRareRoses @SuperRareJohn @justinmmelillo @dccockfoster @gcockfoster @manifoldxyz @richerd @NonFungibleLuke @discord @Twitter @SuperRare @opensea

On today's episode we get passed the SBF/FTX drama and talk about the fine art side of things, discussing the SuperRare pass and curated ArtBlocks. We talk a bit of Genesis and its impact its had on Gemini earn and some other domino's that are starting to fall due to the FTX collapse. Today's show is sponsored by SoRare, the digital platform for collecting officially licensed sports collectibles. Check it out at thenifty.com/sorare Tune in live every weekday Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM Eastern to 10:30 AM Buy our NFT Join our Discord Check out our Twitter Check out our YouTube Give us your thoughts on the show by leaving a rating. -- DISCLAIMER: You should never treat any opinion expressed by the hosts of this content as a recommendation to make a particular investment, or to follow a particular strategy. The thoughts and commentary on this show are an expression of the hosts' opinions and are for entertainment and informational purposes only. This show is never financial advice

On today's episode of Node Mode, we are joined by Chris Bennett. He's an angel investor, entrepreneur and an art collector. We discuss Grifters by XCOPY, Grant Yun, Meridians and other ArtBlocks collections along with 1/1 Solana artists. We also touch on how to obtain pieces you really want using collection wide offers and connecting directly with the artists. Tune in live every Thursday from 4:00 - 5:00 PM Eastern Buy our NFT Join our Discord Check out our Twitter Check out our YouTube Give us your thoughts on the show by leaving a rating. -- DISCLAIMER: You should never treat any opinion expressed by the hosts of this content as a recommendation to make a particular investment, or to follow a particular strategy. The thoughts and commentary on this show are an expression of the hosts' opinions and are for entertainment and informational purposes only. This show is never financial advice

✨ SUBSCRIBE TO THE OVERPRICED JPEGS CHANNEL ✨ https://bankless.cc/jpegs  On this episode of the Overpriced JPEGs Weekly Recap, Carly welcomes a new badass guest to the show, Madi Lieber, COO of Crypto.Chicks! Carly and Madi quite literally almost cover everything that happened in crypto and NFTs this week. They kept up with it all so you didn't have to. Some of which include the DeGods/y00ts mania, the massive Avalanche scandal, ArtBlocks' fascinating new release, FuturePROOF's major announcements, Ticketmaster/Flow's (Dapper Labs) gaming changing partnership, and SO much more. As always, we hope you enjoy this week's Overpriced JPEGs Weekly Recap :) #nftnews #nfts #degods #y00ts #ethereum #solana ------

✨ SUBSCRIBE TO THE OVERPRICED JPEGS CHANNEL ✨ https://bankless.cc/jpegs  On this episode of the Overpriced JPEGs Weekly Recap, Carly welcomes a new badass guest to the show, Madi Lieber, COO of Crypto.Chicks! Carly and Madi quite literally almost cover everything that happened in crypto and NFTs this week. They kept up with it all so you didn't have to. Some of which include the DeGods/y00ts mania, the massive Avalanche scandal, ArtBlocks' fascinating new release, FuturePROOF's major announcements, Ticketmaster/Flow's (Dapper Labs) gaming changing partnership, and SO much more. As always, we hope you enjoy this week's Overpriced JPEGs Weekly Recap :) #nftnews #nfts #degods #y00ts #ethereum #solana ------

Meta expands support for NFTs on Instagram and Facebook, Art Blocks launches Art Blocks Engine, Rocket Pool upgrades to Redstone, and Specular reveals its EVM-native Optimistic Rollup. Newsletter: https://ethdaily.link/substack

Mint Season 6 episode 6 welcomes Erick Calderon, founder and CEO of Artblocks. In this episode we talk about his transition from importing tiles for 19 years to starting art blocks, putting together the platform's curation board, his favorite NFTs, how he utilizes on-chain data, NFTs on Tezos, music NFTs and more.I had some microphone issues with the software i use to record, so apologies for the airpods like quality on this episode.I hope you enjoy our conversation. Time Stamps02:27 - Intro13:17 - Learning How to Code and Starting Art Blocks17:25 - Reflecting On Your Journey21:17 - Actions That Made Art Blocks The Brand it is Today33:57 - Creating the Curation Board40:46 - How Often Will the Curation Board Be Changed?44:10 - Understanding Your Creators and Collectors Using On-Chain Data46:58 - What is Your Favorite Curated Collection?48:15 - How Do You Feel About NFT Flippers?51:15 - Thoughts on FXhash and Tezos NFTs54:27 - How Important is Having NFTs Fully On-Chain?57:38 - How Do You Feel About Auto-Generated Music?59:39 - OutroAdditional ResourcesEpisode Timestamps and TranscriptsErick's TwitterArt Blocks Website---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim Season 6 NFThttps://adamlevy.io/nft/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 6's NFT Sponsors

Do you have a passion for the arts? Then you'll want to listen to this episode of Frontier of the Metaverse.  Our guest is Sofia Garcia, who is leading the way in bridging the traditional art world with the NFT art world. She's launched some of the world's leading NFT artists and is part of the curation committee for Artblocks – the number one generative art platform. So if you're curious about generative art, or just want to learn more about it, then this episode is for you. The 3 things you will learn:  What is generative art The best way to choose pieces of generative art for beginners Tips for artists who want to get into NFT art RESOURCES DISCUSSED Cryptopunks | https://v1punks.io/ (Website) Dmitri Cherniak | https://twitter.com/dmitricherniak?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor (Twitter) Artxcode | https://www.artxcode.io/ (Website) ArtBlocks | https://www.artblocks.io/ (Website) John Maeda | https://twitter.com/johnmaeda?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor (Twitter) Emily Xie's Memories of Qilin NFT Drop – ArtBlocks | https://nftevening.com/event/emily-xies-memories-of-qilin-nft-drop-artblocks/ (Website) Chromie Squiggle | https://opensea.io/collection/chromie-squiggle-by-snowfro (Website) Decentraland | https://decentraland.org/ (Website) Damien Hirst - The Currency | https://opensea.io/collection/thecurrency (Website) The coding train | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw (Youtube) Khan Academy | https://www.khanacademy.org/ (Website) Tezos | https://tezos.com/ (Website) Discord | https://discord.com/ (Website) Deca | https://twitter.com/0xDecaArt (Twitter) Oncyber | https://oncyber.io/ (Website) PEOPLE: Howard Kingston | https://twitter.com/howardvk (Twitter) Sofia Garcia | https://twitter.com/sofiagarcia_io?lang=en (Twitter) P.S. Whenever you are ready, here are 3 ways we can help you become a Metaverse Expert Follow Howard on Twitter for daily tips: https://twitter.com/howardvk (https://twitter.com/howardvk)  Be sure to subscribe so that you never miss an episode! https://frontierofthemetaverse.com/listen (https://frontierofthemetaverse.com/listen)  Subscribe to our Newsletter for weekly insights: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/howardvk (https://www.getrevue.co/profile/howardvk)

Theme: I think WGMI based on the Data!? TXN vs Volume Deep dive into TXNs vs volume   https://cryptoslam.io/nftglobal Diving into volume vs txns  Unique buyers?  What do Aug levels compare to? Checking the activity of a project: https://www.rantum.xyz/nft-collections-data-analytics Artist: https://www.fxhash.xyz/u/ippsketch https://www.rantum.xyz/nft/data-analytics https://www.rantum.xyz/nft/data-analytics Affordable project: Sketch D by ippsketch (artist behind Bent, a curated ArtBlocks collection) NFT NewsUS Treasury sanctions Tornado Cash, accused of laundering stolen crypto | TechCrunch NFT media management platform Pinata raises $21.5 million in combined seed and Series A funding  Mailchimp Is Banning Crypto Companies Again - Blockworks  Vitalik Buterin On Stealth NFTs: Could These See Adoption?  

Although generative art existed way before Blockchain technology, last year has seen NFTs enable groundbreaking artists and their innovative expressions to gain access to whole new audience groups and monetisation mechanics, beyond the conventional boundaries of the art world. A symbiotic experience between artist, code and collectors.One cannot talk about generative art without mentioning Art Blocks. Art Blocks is leading a new generation of art through its platform. The project created by Erick Calderon aka Snowfro in early 2021 has generated 100s of millions of dollars and gave birth to collections that you probably already know such as Squiggles, Fidenzas or Ringers who've already marked crypto culture and expanded its boundaries.So today, we are more than thrilled to receive a pioneer, Snowfro, in a discussion with our CXO Ian Rogers on how generative art is different from AI, why ArtBlocks came to life, on how artists in the NFT space have to be willing to give up control of the next 9.999 outputs that will be their bodywork. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Erick Calderon is the founder and CEO of Artblocks, a generative art platform that produces NFTs. Generative digital art projects rely on a set of rules defining variables and parameters that control the visual characteristics of the iterative works. As Snowfro, Calderon's crypto-name, he is the creator of the Chromie Squiggles, a generative art project capped at 10,000 unique iterations. To date, Calderon has minted more than 9,000 of the Chromie Squiggles and retains the remainder. An early collector of Crypto-punks, Calderon is an influential figure in the NFT community. He and Artblocks have been one of the most successful NFT platforms. In this podcast, we discuss his recent trip to Basel, Switzerland and his views on the current state of the NFT market as well as its future prospects. I hope you find it interesting.

In this episode, we sit down with Steve Klebanoff. Steve is a developer. He's worked at 0x protocol. He's been involved with several NFT experiments in the generative artspace and is an advisor to Artblocks and, most recently, a core contributor at Party DAO. We talked about his early days getting in the space and what he found so appealing about Ethereum. About what enamored him with generative art, we finished talking about Party DAO, the genesis story there, and what we can expect from Party DAO v.2.

In Episode 14 beschäftigen sich Tom und Bene mit dem Luna Crash und den Auswirkungen. Dabei wird das Thema Stablecoins noch einmal aufgerollt und etwaige Konsequenzen für LUNA und den Terra CEO Do Kwon besprichen. Schlussendlich besprech Tom und Bene noch ein paar interessante NFT Projekte. (00:00) Intro: Bene's Workation, Erfahrungen mit Luna (02:40) Luna Meltdown: Hype & Intro (08:36) Stablecoin Recap & Probleme mit UST und LUNA (23:50) Konsequenzen aus dem Terra Meltdown (30:40) NFT Projekte: Logan Pauls Originals, Österreich Werbung, ArtBlocks (40:45) Outro Ressourcen: ** Ressourcen zum LUNA Crash (Twitterthread) ** https://twitter.com/mariogabriele/status/1524024461162389510?s=20&t=VB7fb1uuAg9ZlWpi3heoaQ ** Luna 2.0 - Proposal zum Neulaunch ** https://twitter.com/terra_money/status/1529451631263174656?s=20&t=VB7fb1uuAg9ZlWpi3heoaQ ** Nifty NFT's zum Thema Stablecoins ** https://youtu.be/Osu8OypLaHg ** Wie Luna funktioniert (hat) ** https://www.coindesk.com/learn/what-is-luna-and-ust-a-guide-to-the-terra-ecosystem/ ** Wie unterschiedliche Stablecoins unterschiedliche Qualität ** https://www.coinbase.com/institutional/research-insights/research/weekly-market-commentary/weekly-market-commentary-may-13-2022 ** Terras Offizielles Twitter ** https://twitter.com/terra_money https://twitter.com/stablekwon ** Do Kwon (LUNA CEO) muss vor Gericht ** https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/20/terra-creator-do-kwon-faces-prosecutions-in-south-korea/ ** Paul Logan NFT Project ** https://www.metagaming.com/2022/04/16/logan-paul-launches-an-nft-collection-and-dao-99-originals/ ** ArtBlocks: generative Kunst auf Ethereum ** https://www.artblocks.io/ ** Österreich Werbung ** https://www.austriatourism.com/ ***************** Kontakt: Twitter: https://twitter.com/bbleimschein, https://twitter.com/thomsen85 Email: benedict.bleimschein@gmail.com, thomas.auinger@silverback-content.com *****************

In this episode, I'm joined by @remnynt, creator of onchain NFT collections vibes.art and the reliquary. We chat about remnynt's background as a mobile game dev, his transition into generative NFT art, and the influence of Artblocks, Terraforms, and Corruptions on his practice. We dive into vibes.art, his first on-chain Javascript based collection, and the reliquary his latest creation, which combines his interest in on-chain generative art and fantasy RPGs. I've never seen anyone use source code to tell a story in the way today's guest has. It was great chatting with remnynt about games, art, life, and code. I hope you enjoy the show. Hosted by @nnnnicholas Produced by @0xmatthewb and @0xbrileigh Topics Discussed Square Enix Etherians Loot Artblocks vibes.art, remnynt's first contract on mainnet (contract) Tyler Hobbs - Fidenza Hahnemühle archival paper Schrodingerpepe (aka Schroepepe) vibes deploy transaction terraforms by mathcastles Earthbound Jolteon Relics transmutation interface Corruptions by Dom Hoffman Chapters 00:01:40 remnynt's past experience 00:05:00 Facebook games audience? 00:06:20 remnynt's entry to NFTs 00:07:53 Vibes.art contract 00:11:30 Vibes.art process and colour theory 00:13:18 Prints in genesis collection 00:14:28 Open Vibes 00:15:40 Math for creating gradients and textures 00:17:43 Vibes contract deploy 00:19:00 [the reliquary] 00:22:10 remnynt's connection with Earthbound 00:24:18 Built-in controls in [the reliquary] 00:25:43 Save your drawing permanently 00:27:09 Transmuting your Relic 00:29:00 Jolteon 00:30:21 Contact lore and growing the project 00:33:49 Imagine colours & upgrading 00:37:00 integrating randomness on-chain 00:38:52 Relic updates 00:41:50 Playing to earn and playing for pleasure

Theme: Is the shine off ethereum-based NFTs? Solana surpassed OpenSea in daily trading Ok bears?  Okay Bears atop volume charts, inspired knock-off project Fxhash (tezos) surpassed ArtBlocks in sales volume of GenArt   Affordable project: Metroverse Genesis Mini - Collection | OpenSea  Metroverse price, MET chart, and market cap | CoinGecko  NFT NewsRantum NFT Market Data,  Cryptoslam.io NFT Headlines: Magic Eden Tops OpenSea in Daily Trading Volume as Solana NFTs Heat Up  Struggling Artist Makes 4X His Yearly Wage In His 1st 12 Hours Selling NFTs  Okay Bears NFT Clone Comes to Ethereum  https://twitter.com/9x9x9eth/status/1526215809453916160?s=20&t=mzOzoah_7CWZ9pStS9gX3w 

In today's video, we are going to talk about Generative Art and tell you why we think it's going to be the next BIG market for NFTs. FOLLOW US // https://twitter.com/goatmetaverse https://twitter.com/yossihasson https://twitter.com/stanleymeytin https://instagram.com/goats0nly https://instagram.com/stanleymeytin/ DISCLAIMER: This is not financial advice. We are not financial advisors. This channel is for entertainment and expressing our opinions. Our goal is to provide as much information as we can. Please don't forget to do your own research and make your own decisions.

Sit down with Snowfro the founder of Artblocks, creator of the Squiggle and respected innovator in the space. Introduced at 0:36:44. This conversation is packed with valuable information for anybody involved or interested in the space. A must listen!

We are happy to be back after Mat's COVID trip, discussing art prepping, Sterling's upcoming ArtBlocks piece, and his expert opinions on the state of ML, AR, VR and what is worth watching (and ignoring) about the impending metaverse.Sterling's upcoming ArtBlocks reveal: https://www.artblocks.io/project/279Sterling's art: http://www.sterlingcrispin.com/Sterling's great blog: https://sterlingcrispin.blogspot.com/Sterling's twitter: https://twitter.com/sterlingcrispin

L’été dernier, pendant ce qu’on appelle aujourd’hui le “NFT Summer”, une espèce de paranthèse enchantée pour le marché des NFT, tous les regards étaient tournés vers l’art génératif et principalement sur la plateforme ArtBlocks.En effet, on ne peut parler d’art génératif sans parler d’ArtBlocks qui a lancé en quelques mois les grands noms de ce courant, désormais indissociablement lié au Crypto-Art. Dmitri Cherniak avec la collection “Ringers”, Tyler Hobbs avec “Findenza” ou encore Snowfro et la collection emblématique d’Artblocks les “Chromie Squiggle”, tous sont aujourd’hui mise en vente dans les plus grandes ventes aux enchères comme ça a été le cas il y a quelques jours avec la vente Natively Digital 1.3 de chez Sotheby’s…Et pourtant… et pourtant l’euphorie a été de courte durée, puisque depuis quelques mois nous voyons le cours de ces collections baissées peu à peu, mais jusqu’où? Nous nous sommes même demandés, nous qui sommes passionnés par cette forme d’art si finalement “l’art génératif n’était t-il pas déjà mort?”.. Pour répondre à cette question nous avons fait appel au collectionneur Scapeshift que vous connaissez déjà (room #253 sur Step’n), spécialiste d’Artblocks et de l’art génératif…Pour aller plus loin:site web officiel d’ArtBlocksLes collections Art Blocks Curated sur OpenseaSite de la vente Natively Digital 1.3 de Sotheby’sCompte Twitter de ScapeshiftSite d’art génératif fxhash sur Tezos This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nftmorning.com

This week we asked Erick Calderon, founder of ArtBlocks.io: How do NFTs fit into the art world? And have you ever wondered: What exactly is an NFT? What is generative art? How has this alternate mode of expression and investment interacted with the more longstanding institutions and traditions of the art world? What opportunities for inclusion and diversity do they create in the space? Get bona fide answers and advice from Erick on Episode 5 of Declassified. About Erick: Erick Calderon is a leader in the exploding field of digital art and NFTs and the founder of ArtBlocks.io, a decentralized marketplace for generative art. Under a year since its founding in 2020, Art Blocks has become one of the most respected, reliable, and cutting edge marketplaces of its kind. Business is booming - an ArtNews article reported that on August 23, Art Blocks had a peak selling day where $69 million in transactions occurred. In a series of smart moves, Art Blocks has settled into its role as an accessible, inclusive, reasonable platform for exchange. Erick and his team have fostered a healthy and strong community of buyers, sellers, and artists who share the same vision and continue to innovate and launch projects that bring people of all backgrounds and interests into this rapidly evolving space. Find ArtBlocks.io on IG: @artblocks_io Definitions and more resources on www.declassified-pod.com/episodes/calderon & IG @declassified.pod. See you next week!

NFTYQ sits down w/ Rizzle to talk about the history of the Metaverse, building Avatars, the WIP and NFT42, his new NFT release and much more!

L'actualité c'est une nouvelle fois le grand artiste Damien Hirst qui revient avec une nouvelle collection de NFT sur le thème de ses papillons rouges mais cette fois l'acheteur·se du NFT pourra attendre 4 ans avant de réclamer son œuvre physique promise avec le NFT afin de spéculer et tenter de le revendre avant le terme de la vente. Une façon pour Hirst d'interroger le monde de l'art et celui des NFT en général. Nous recevons l'incontournable Niwin qui travaille dans la technologie le jour et imagine des œuvres informatiques la nuit. Il cumule ses deux grandes passions qui sont le codage et la réalisation d'œuvres génératives. Enfant il démontait les ordinateurs comme pour explorer le mystère du calcul algorithmique qui permet aujourd'hui de créer des œuvres inspirantes et multiples. Depuis toujours les artistes se nourrissent de la science pour comprendre les équations secrètes de l'univers et retranscrire ce mystère dans des œuvres d'art.Niwin nous parle de sa « collectionnite » aiguë, qui lui a fait comprendre le sens d'une accumulation d'objets selon leur rareté et leur impact sur l'appartenance à une communauté de passionné·es.La rencontre avec l'entreprise Ledger en 2017 le fait basculer dans le monde de la crypto et de la blockchain. C'est tout naturellement qu'il rencontre les NFT en 2020 et imagine ses premières œuvres génératives toujours réalisées en collaboration et sous l'égide de la plateforme Artblocks très célèbre aujourd'hui dans l'univers NFT.Niwin va toujours plus loin dans l'exploration de nouvelles innovations technologiques pour créer et interroger le monde qui vient : très bientôt il sortira avec un collectif de chercheurs italiens une collection à partir de la physique quantique ! Suivez son compte de près ;) Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Jaime and Roy are discussing the recent OpenSea exploit - A lot of disinformation, FUD, and the fear of the possiblity of losing all of their NFTs. In addition, they discuss the recent doxing of the Bored Ape Yacht Club founders, as well as Yuga Labs' big ambitions for the future of the brand and the BAYC. Roy and Jaime talk about the latest Artblocks news with a collection of Marcelo Soria Rodriguez and other NFT Artists with their aestethics and approaches. Jaime comments on adding a piece of XCOPY to his art collection, and Roy is reflecting on his recent trip to Dubai to film a course with Nasacademy - definitely stay tuned for that! Show Notes: Revoke your ETH Token allowances Revoke token approvals on Etherscan Buzzfeed article doxing BAYC foundersYuga Labs CEO  Interview Artblocks: Entretiempos by Marcelo Soria RodriguezArt by Riven Ribbon Art by Thales MachadoStory Emporium by SarahScript Where to find us:Two Bored Apes TwitterJaime's TwitterRoy's TwitterZenacademy TwitterZenAcademy DiscordAbstract of the DayRoy's YouTubeRoy's Newsletter

Comme dans la finance de marché, on utilise de plus en plus, dans le monde des NFT, le terme “Blue Chip” pour qualifier des artistes, des projets ou des collections “premium”, qu’on imagine avoir encore plus de valeur dans 20 ou 30 ans…Ce terme est à ne pas confondre avec celui d’OG (pour Original Gangsta) qui qualifie tout ce qui est arrivé au tout début du mouvement: les premiers artistes ayant été mintés sur SuperRare, les premières collections etc…En raison de la précocité du marché des NFT, il est très difficile de déterminer il est très difficile de déterminer ce qui est “blue chip” de ce qui ne l’est pas…C’est pourtant ce que nous avons essayé de faire dans cette room.Pour aller plus loin:La collection Chromie Squiggle sur Artblocks.ioCollection Cool Cats sur OpenSeaCompte Twitter des Bored Apes Yacht ClubL’artiste Osinachi sur Nifty GatewaySite officiel de l’artiste Kevin Abosch This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nftmorning.com

Zach Lieberman is an artist, researcher, and educator with a simple goal: he wants you surprised. He's been listed as one of Fast Company's Most Creative People and has won several recognitions: like the Golden Nica from Ars Electronica. The Interactive Design of the Year from The Design Museum of London, as well as being listed in Time Magazine's Best Inventions of the Year. He's also the co-founder of the School for Poetic Computation and professor of MIT Media Lab, where he leads the Future Sketches group. Show Notes: 2:45 - Zach's artistic coding background 4:57 - Intro into NFTs and perceptions on the space 11:28 - The idea of co-creation and co-ownership for the Adidas and Prada NFT project 15:00 - The technical process of how Zach composed the project 16:31 - Zach's expectations before and after 18:08 - Students' and younger generation's interest in NFTs 20:07 - How to bring more women in the space 23:42 - Details of the Adidas/Prada drop 29:29 - How to get started into NFTs if you're an artist 31:21 - What Zach thinks is missing the space 32:52 - Zach's experience with ArtBlocks and their community 39:03 - Where do you see the future of art going? 42:40 - What is School of Poetic Computations and how it got started 44:42 - Fave NFTs MATT DESLAURIERS https://www.mattdesl.com/

2211 和 0x128 是 Eyesfi 和 SphinxUp 的核心贡献者，这是一套旨在更好地满足 NFT 鉴赏家和艺术家需求的工具套件。这一集真的很令人兴奋，因为从这个对话中我第一次了解到为什么人们对生成艺术产生浓厚的兴趣。我们首先谈到了他们是如何开始对收藏产生兴趣的。然后深入探讨了生成艺术。作为收藏家，他们解释了迄今为止艺术家和鉴赏家尚未满足的需求，以及 Eyesfi 和 SphinxUp 如何努力更好地满足这些需求。我们还讨论了NFT交易和收藏市场的现状。 推特: @SphinxUp /  @eyesfi_com网站: https://www.eyesfi.com/ 更多信息，请移步官网https://multicoin.capital/zh重要声明：Mable Jiang或嘉宾在播客中的观点仅代表他们的个人看法，并不代表Multicoin Capital官方的观点。此播客仅用于提供信息，不作为投资参考。Multicoin Capital有时可能会在此节目中讨论的某些代币或公司中持有头寸。 2211 and 0x128 are the core contributors of Eyesfi and SphinxUP, a suite of toolkits that aims to better serve the need of NFT connoisseurs and artists. This episode is a truly exciting one because for the first time I learned about why people are intrigued by the generative arts. We first talked about how they started their interest in collecting the arts. Then took a deep dive into the generative arts. As collectors, they explained the unmet demand of the artists and connoisseurs as of today, and how Eyesfi and SphinxUP are working to better serve these demands. We also covered discussions around the conditions of the existing marketplaces. Twitter: @SphinxUp /  @eyesfi_comWebsite: https://www.eyesfi.com/ For more information about Multicoin Capital, please visit https://multicoin.capital/. Important Disclaimers: All opinions expressed by Mable Jiang, or other podcast guests, are solely their opinion and do not represent the opinions of Multicoin Capital in any way. This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as investment advice. Multicoin Capital may hold positions in some of the tokens and/or companies discussed on this show. 

אופיר ליברמן - מעצב,  מרצה, אמן, הגיע לפודקאסט בשביל להסביר לנו שהNFT זה מדיום אומנותי, זאת אומרת שבעזרת קוד וחוקיות ניתן לייצר דימויים שונים וייחודיים שנוצרים בתוך מערכת של שיקולים ואפשרויות בין היוצר לבין הרוכש.אופיר השיקר מספר קולקציות מוצלחות ב-ARTBLOCKS והוא עובד על פרוייקטים נוספים בתחום.

Today, we are re-sharing our conversation with Devin Finzer, CEO and co-founder of OpenSea, from October this year. OpenSea is the world's largest NFT marketplace. In a journey that started like many other founders in the space, Devin went deep down the crypto rabbit hole in 2017 and became particularly fascinated with the potential behind digital assets. During our conversation, we touch on the origin story of OpenSea, how Devin differentiates between the spectrum of NFTs in the market, and what he sees as the opportunity in the future for the industry. We also talk about the various risks within a blockchain, from security dynamics to market speculation. I hope you enjoy this great conversation with Devin Finzer.   For the full show notes, transcript, and links to mentioned content, check out the episode page here.   -----   This episode is brought to you by Canalyst. Canalyst is the leading destination for public company data and analysis. If you've been scrambling to keep up with the deluge of IPOs and SPACs these days, Canalyst has models on Robinhood, Marqeta, Grab, and everything in between. Learn more and try Canalyst for yourself at canalyst.com/patrick.   -----   This episode is brought to you by Eight Sleep. Eight Sleep's new Pod Pro Cover is the easiest and fastest way to sleep at your perfect temperature. Simply add the Pod Pro Cover to your current mattress and start sleeping as cool as 55°F or as hot as 110°F. To embrace the future of sleep and get $150 off your new mattress go to eightsleep.com/patrick or use code "Patrick".   -----   Web3 Breakdowns is a property of Colossus, LLC. For more episodes of Web3 Breakdowns, visit joincolossus.com/episodes.   Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week. Sign up here.   Follow us on Twitter: @Web3Breakdowns | @ericgoldenx | @patrick_oshag    Show Notes [00:02:56] - [First question] - When he first thought up the genesis of OpenSea [00:06:00] - What is listed on OpenSea, assets and volume, and the scope of the platform [00:07:26] - Thoughts on potentially becoming the current era “everything store” [00:09:22] - How they managed to become the main NFT trading platform [00:12:28] - What NFTs are, their various classes, and ways they're stored on the blockchain [00:15:25] - How much transaction and auction volume happens on-chain [00:17:07] - Profile picture style NFTs and what's exciting about them [00:19:24] - ArtBlocks and the mass interest in AI-generated art [00:21:22] - What he's learned and seen about the emerging crypto gaming space [00:24:38] - The user experience of buying an NFT on OpenSea [00:26:45] - How the ownership transfer works between wallets [00:28:04] - Whether or not they have plans to partner with other companies [00:30:32] - How they think about what gets placed on OpenSea and why [00:32:09] - Thoughts on take rate and their 2.5% take rate of transactions [00:33:22] - Why their take rate is so low compared to other sale platforms online [00:34:47] - OpenSea's relationship with the Ethereum blockchain and other integrations [00:36:50] - Perspective on wallets both as businesses and products [00:39:16] - Potential risks and the dark side of the unregulated NFT space [00:40:48] - The massive boom and bust cycles of crypto and the high prices of NFTs [00:41:59] - Interesting areas of Web3 that are in development today [00:44:19] - The project he's enjoyed watching grow the most in the crypto world [00:46:42] - What OpenSea might look like in the future if the best-case proves true [00:48:59] - The kindest thing that anyone has ever done for him

Punk4156 verkauft den berühmtesten Cryptopunk wegen eines Copyright Diskurses mit Larvalabs und Adidas kollaboriert mit BAYC und PunksComics und startet jetzt das eigene Metaverse....oder ist es nur ein smarter Publicity-Stunt?! Dabei wollte ich in dieser Folge eigentlich nur über Generative Kunst auf der Blockchain sprechen, also über Artblocks & FxHash.

How To Buy NFTs What is a Non-Fungible Token NFT How To Make Your Own NFT Best NFT InvestmentsEpisode SummaryJoining us today! Erick aka Snowfro, Founder of ArtBlocks. Creator of the Squiggle.Follow ArtBlocks on Twitter:Erick/Snowfro: https://twitter.com/ArtOnBlockchainArtblocks: https://twitter.com/artblocks_ioArt Blocks is a first of its kind platform focused on genuinely programmable on demand generative content that is stored immutably on the Ethereum Blockchain. You pick a style that you like, pay for the work, and a randomly generated version of the content is created by an algorithm and sent to your Ethereum account. The resulting piece might be a static image, 3D model, or an interactive experience. Each output is different and there are endless possibilities for the types of content that can be created on the platform.https://www.artblocks.io/Hosts:Chris KatjeMazhttps://bitclout.com/u/mazFollow The Roadmap on Twitter!Disclaimer: All of the information, material, and/or content contained in this program is for informational purposes only. Investing in stocks, options, and futures is risky and not suitable for all investors. Please consult your own independent financial adviser before making any investment decisions.Unedited Transcript:What's up everyone. It's Chris we're live Benzing as new NFT show the roadmap. We've had some great projects already on our episodes. We've talked to the teams behind the Vogue collective robotics, the dos pound Oni force. Oh, dads, dizzy dragons, sub doc, pixel vault, and also an NFT giveaway. Stay tuned. We got more NFTE giveaways coming up soon, and we've got a big, exciting show today.Uh, following up our interview with G funk from pixel vault on Tuesday, we are, we'll be joined today by another huge, uh, you know, well-known project. We are talking art blocks with the founder. Project. Uh, let me go ahead and bring on mass. My cohost mass. What's going on, buddy? How you doing today? Yo, what's up Chris?I'm so excited for this episode, man. I'm glad to be here. I know you've been looking forward to this one. We've been trying to get the team on. We've had some, you know, scheduling issues on Benzinga and, and we were able to finally nail down, you know, a date and again, mass talk about a big week, right? We had pixel vault, G funk on Tuesday.And now Eric, from art blacks today, two of the most well-known projects out there in the same week on the roadmap. Exactly. Yeah. And one of the first projects that I was into when I got into NFTs has been art blogs. I've been a big fan ever since, and I love the work that they put out. So I'm super excited for this episode.So yeah, without further ado, man, let's play the trailer. Let's get.Love that love those trailers, our creative team. You know, we, we had a cool one earlier this week and now another specific trailer for this interview, mass. I think it's time. Let's go ahead and bring on Eric. AKA snow fro the founder of art, blacks. How we doing Eric? I'm good. Thank you guys for having me.That trailer was like, it made me blush. That's awesome. Well, we're glad, we're glad you like it. Yeah. Our creative team has been doing these trailers and we love it. Brings some great personality for our show here. Um, you know, So I think we're going to have math kick off the questions here. If you're ready to go, Eric, super excited.You guys are. Yeah, let's do it. So, Eric, first question for you, man. So how did you get involved, you know, into the NFT world? You know, tell us a little bit about the backstory. Um, you know, we know crypto punks have something to do with that. So for people that may not know, just tell us a little bit about how that started.Uh, uh, okay. Yeah. So dinner of art 10 years ago, I started coding, creating art with code. I was using projectors and writing really weird scripts in a software platform called touch designer. Um, it's just something that kind of blew my mind when I saw it live at Coachella. And I was like, oh, I want to do something like that.So that's kind of how I got into generative art. Um, fast forward, like six years, uh, I was reading Reddit and I ran across a link that the creators of larva labs posted, I assume it was them that posted and said, Hey, come check out our project. It might've just been another Redditor, uh, to the, to the claiming of the crypto.Uh, what I thought was really cool was that it was a generative art project. Um, and also for the first time being able to prove ownership of a digital asset felt really special, uh, as well. And, uh, I think something kind of interesting is that I, by no means had come up with the concept of an NFT or even like the formation of it.But I had spoken to friends and be like, man, there's something here where like, maybe you could have like a magic together in card on like the blockchain or some way of proving something that has rarities. And, uh, but of course it was all kind of speculative. Uh, and then I got that link to claim the punks and I was like, holy crap, this is it.Like, they nailed it. This is exactly what the world needs. And I got real excited about claiming crypto punks. Um, I attribute 95% of everything that's happening now to the Matt and John from our larval labs. They, they lived the fuse. Uh, we wouldn't be here today without them. And that's kinda like where things where things were.That's awesome. And how much was it to claim a crypto punk when you claim them? In my mind, it was 35 cents or the gas, but I also was feeling kind of foolish for spending money. And I don't know that I would've felt foolish spending 35 cents. So maybe it was like 35 bucks or $3 50 cents. In fact, I guess I can just check ether, scan.I know exactly how much it was, but I did claim 30 for crypto punks. And during that process, um, you know, I, I realized I was being incredibly selfish cause I claimed all the zombies that were left. And of course, if I didn't like the next person would have, but, uh, it was actually during that process that I thought, man, like the Ethereum blockchain can actually decide for me whether I get a super rare zombie or maybe even an alien or an ape or just to a floor crypto punk.Right. And so that, that was actually one of the very first moments where I was like, oh, I want to, I think it'd be fun to build a platform that presents you with rarities instead of you getting to. That's awesome. And you said you claimed 34 crypto punks. Do you still hold them all to this day? Or tell us a little bit more about what happened today?Yeah, so early on, um, a couple other things happened that that kind of gave me more inspiration for our blocks. And then eventually I was like, okay, let's do this. And when I did finally pull the trigger, uh, I, I've never really kind of been in a financial position to just like spend 10, 15, $20,000 on development.And so people were starting to place bids on my zombies and I was in utter shock. The first time someone offered to pay me $200 for this digital thing that I had, you know, especially because in the early days of NFTs, you know, like the true, some of the, some of the innovators beyond that were like no origin, for example, that, that had marketplaces.Things felt expensive. If they were 200, 300 bucks back then it felt very expensive actually, compared to like, you know, a lot of pieces were like 20 bucks and 30 bucks. And so the fact someone was willing to pay me 200 bucks was significant. And so I, um, decided to hire a team of really brilliant developers, a company called block rocket tech, uh, to help me ideate the original version of our products, our box version one, which is very, very different than what our blocks looks like today.Uh, and I was selling crypto punt zombies to pay that habit, uh, the developer habit. So, you know, I remember on at least one occasion, I was like, okay, I'm going to have to accept this offer for, for 300 bucks or 200 bucks. I will give you this zombie for $200 with the credit, but like, trust me, like. I don't want to, like, I shouldn't have to accept this offer.Like it's worth way more than 200 bucks, but like, they're like, I mean, we don't want, we want to be being in zombies. We just totally respectable. Um, but I just remember thinking, man, like I wasn't, you know, I didn't want to do it the other way around. So I ended up selling Ms. Obvious for like 200, 300, 400 bucks a pop to pay for their developer fees, um, at the beginning.Wow. That's awesome. So, you know, tell us a little bit more about, you know, we know that crypto punks help to launch art blogs. When did art blogs launch and how has it changed over time? You know, looking back at it, you know, from when it first began the F the first version of our blocks in 2018, that first smart contract, I mean, there's, first of all, every art project had its own smart contract, which was a complete cluster in and of itself.Um, Probably the biggest innovation since then was that we put everything on the same contract. Um, but yeah, it was basically, it was called an art node and an artist would create a generative script that would listen to the most recent block hash of the Ethereum blockchain. And so the generative script would just change every block and there was slightly more complicated ways for people to intervene and inject their own hash into the script and generate a specific output kind of similar to what happens with our box today.But it was through a very different mechanism where there was a token that stored a hash that you just kind of permanently owned that hash. And you would interact with other projects with that token. It was, it was so many more layers of complication than what we have today. Um, it evolved to what we see now, which launched in November of 2020, just last year, almost a year ago, uh, where the artist.Deploys, uh, uh, our project on the same contract and the user comes and purchases a minted token, and that minted token, uh, contains a pseudo, random generated, uh, string of characters. And that's what controls the randomness of the token itself. So today when you purchase an AR buck piece, it's being purchased on demand, it didn't exist before you purchased it, which is kind of one of our key things that I think is really kind of special.You're creating the body of work that the artist intended, but has never seen before at the moment of minting. Uh, and at the end, your takeaway is ERC 7 21 and NFT, uh, that represents that experience of printing. That's awesome fun fact, man. I actually bought a squiggle because it came out on my birthday last year and you know, I saw the date and I was like, oh, you know, I need to have this piece and I've had it ever since.So I'm excited for that. No, wait a minute. That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Um, tell us a little bit more about how you guys transitioned to like a Dutch Dutch auction. Oh man. The emphasis, the infamous attractions. Uh, so th there was a lot of things involved and, uh, you know, I'd like to state that we don't think Dutch auctions are like the solution for everything in the world, but, um, we think we still think they are like the best approach to this.A couple of things were happening. Number one, we were having, we were having gas wars and we still have gas wars and, uh, gas wars, or, you know, when more people want something, then the amount of there is. And so they paid, uh, increase their place in line to get there faster. And some people were paying more than the price of the art.In fact, uh, when we kind of like drew the line and said, that's it to gas. Uh, we had a drop or 80% of the money that was sent to the smart contract or 80% of the money that was spent on the drop, went to minors. And 20% of it went to the artists and we felt like that was just kind of egregious and weird.And like, it just wasn't very art forward, which is kind of our intent. Um, now with Dutch auctions, you still have gas wars, but those gas wars usually end up at a higher price point to where yes, a significant amount of money is going to the miner, but never more than half. And in fact, most of the time, like significantly less than half of the drop list of minors.And so it just feels less kind of anti artists and like more artists forward. The other thing was that we weren't having any price discovery at all. And so, you know, we were kind of controlling artists to keep their prices between point, well, we never really set a low price. I always had the lowest price at 0.035 E for a squiggle.I mean, when schools came out, they were 40 bucks. Um, but you know, we kind of, we kind of had this like 0.2, five, eight. You know, and that was kind of her curate. We reserve that even more for curated. I mean, if an artist and the fact that you want it to drop at 0.25, they could. But you know, it was very hard to justify a 0.2, five eats like as a selling price at, or in the early days of our blocks.And sometimes those projects wouldn't really sell too quickly, which again, we don't mind because we liked the art to kind of sit there on a platform for a little bit, but there was no price discovery. So part of this gas war was that people knew that the moment that a drop happened, if the price was low enough, artificially set to 0.1 Eve and the least expensive price in the curated section on open seat was one eith that there was an instant kind of arbitrage opportunity there.Like it, this is completely separate for any subjective appreciation of art. It was this completely financial instrument of something generically designated as art box curated is for sale an open seat for one week. And that's the cheapest, that's the floor and something. Arbitrarily designated as art books, it is about to sell for 0.1, Ethan.So even if I add point for Ethan gas, it's still 0.5 each and there's that margin to be made on the secondary market. So to us, that means that there was no price discovery. We were essentially creating a, a, um, environment for wholesalers to come in and buy the product from us and then resell it on the secondary market for what kind of would eventually become the going rate after the drop for that piece.Of course, what happens a day, five days and five weeks after that is actually more in line with price discovery in terms of people's appreciation of the art. Um, and we have kind of grown to let that market handle itself, but yeah, the Dutch auction was just there to help with gas wars, but also to like divert more funds to the artist.Um, and so that art box wasn't artificially setting prices for something on the market. Perfect. So, you know, we have art blocks, uh, factory curated and playground. Can you talk a little bit about, you know, the differences in these different art blacks and how artists are selected for curated? Yeah. So, you know, in the end, the factory is this beautiful place for people to just kind of drop awesome generative art and something that I think is really important to note that's changed with our box is that originally our box was meant to be this place for anybody that can write an algorithm.Like if you were going to create a script that drew a circle on the screen, we were going to let you, because I was just so excited and geeking out about the potential for this type of work to exist. Also, I had spent so many years at this 0.2 and a half years. Basically kind of like begging artists to participate in was not very successful, partly because it was a pretty complicated process to participate early on.Um, that I was like, okay, crazy. Like, like let's just create somewhere where anybody that knows how to write an algorithm can deploy an art piece on bucks. Well, that's changed now. Uh, we have, we always seem to have like hundreds of people in the application queue and, um, we now have such brilliant works of art on the platform that we think that allowing low, like something that it's not even that it has to be low effort, but something that might be deemed low effort or something that's already appeared on, uh, on the platform like three or four times as a kind of like a trope, no matter how good it might be or how like generic, it might be.Uh, we feel like eventually it becomes a little bit of a disservice to like the truly exceptionally brilliant projects that have come up in the platform. And those projects exist in the factory, in the playground. And then curated the difference is that a project that ends up getting selected for curated, which admittedly.The bar has been raised over the course of the platform for curated as well, um, is a project that demonstrates something new or fresh, or like an incredible technical proficiency. It can be really, really simple, but if it's really, really simple, it has to be perfectly executed and defined it. Can't already exist on our blocks.Curated, no matter how well it's executed, we don't want to projects that are using the same exact kind of algorithm or technology or not even the same exact, but something that could be confused between the two. Um, and there's also like a little element there of projects that have that come from people that have participated in the generative art world for a long time.So, uh, what we have in the curated section or originally was projects where we were a little bit more protective of price. We were a little bit more, uh, you know, we would tell an artist, Hey, And this was well above what the factory was commanding, but we would say, Hey, okay, like you can set your price and iterations to whatever you want, but we want the max that this project would draw from it, from the ecosystem to be like a hundred thousand dollars or $200,000, which is significantly more than the artist might've ever made before using generative algorithms.Not always but often. Um, and, uh, so we were controlling on price. We were controlling on, um, features and we were just a little bit more strict. Um, and so what that leads to is the third category, which is the playground, which is more of a badge than anything. And what that is, is a designation. Artist has previously participated as a curated artist on their own.So, you know, we have a couple outliers, for example, if somebody was doing a collaboration in the playground and they presented as a single, a solo artist and curated, then that still has to go to the factory. Like, but you know, if you have two artists that have previously been curated and they want to collaborate on the playground, we would allow them to collaborate playground.It's just a badge that says, Hey, like this artist really stepped it up and pushed really, really hard, uh, to present something to a board of 25, uh, relatively neutral curators. And I say relatively, because some of them are very passionate about generative art and like advancing the medium forward. Uh, and those curators decided, Hey, like this meets the expectation and the criteria for something that we would want to set aside as like a flagship project for our.Awesome. I want to talk about Cromey squiggles. Um, you know, so that is the, you know, one of the most well-known art Black's projects, right? Uh, you know, when people talk about art, blacks, you know, a lot are familiar with that. We also see, you know, these huge sales for them. So can you just talk to us, you know, about, you know, Cromey squiggles, uh, how this came to be and why you think there's so much interest in, uh, this art Black's project.Okay. So the squiggle was originally a proof of concept. It was never meant to be an art project. It was meant to prove how much variation you could get from the hash string with stored in a token. And to do that, I said, okay, well, let's find point data, because if you can have seemingly unlimited number of points along an access axis, and then, you know, Another limited unlimited.There's actually more of a controlled range on the y-axis on the x-axis like the number of points on the x-axis. And then I can come up with like trillions of possible combinations of crummy, squiggles, and yeah, some of them might start to look very similar to each other. When you get into the billions and trillions, they would start like you would have that same squiggle, but like the green point in the middle might go down two notches, but everything else might be very similar, but in an edition of 10,000, it's actually.Kind of uncanny how differentiated they look, if you don't know the collection well, and you just look at a squiggle, they all kind of look like squiggles, but when you start to explore them, you realize that they're all very different from each other. Um, that proof of concept was in 2018. In fact, my brother, so I originally wrote the chromic school in three JS.My brother helped me convert the squiggle to processing, uh, dot, JS, uh, not just processing, um, because of a project where I, uh, gave a 2000 interior designers and architects in Houston, the opportunity to claim a chromium, Google of which 14 claimed them, uh, and were awarded with a real Promius squiggle in November of last year.Um, and that was kind of version two of our blocks where, uh, it used the processing language, uh, on a local computer and just stored the hash of that script as proof of this. Um, the two years after that, I found myself kind of like. I don't know when you're a generative artist, you just like to tinker and iterate.And I found myself kind of shaping the squiggle and tweaking it and modifying it. And also noticing that it kind of stood out from a lot of the things, not just in the NFP space, but just in the traditional world. Like I never, in two years ran across something and thought, man, that looks like a crummy squiggle.In fact, I started doing Google image, image searches of squiggles, and didn't really find much that felt like it represented a crummy squiggle. So then I found this beauty in like the, the discernible nature of the squiggle and how it actually can represent something that people can relate to. And then in the end, I started adding all the extra features like the, like the pipe in the rib, and those didn't happen until right before, um, our box launched.But that was kind of where I got excited and really inspired about the fact that our box was actually going to happen and decided to implement some extra little. Awesome. And then, you know, the other, uh, big art blacks, not that they're not all big, but the one that, you know, people talk about a lot. Cause again, the big sales is cadenzas.Uh, so give us a little bit of the background and you know, the artists behind Fidessa is, and you know what, maybe draws people to this art box project. Well, and this one here isn't Meridian, but similar in level of beauty. So the Bonanza project by Tyler Hobbs is pretty special to me just cause Tyler is someone that I've been following for a long time.So like there's a very clear distinction, um, of artists that I've been following and inspired by over the course of the last, let's say 10 years of being kind of in the space of creative coding. Um, and he's one of them. And so it's, it was really special to see. To have him agree to put something on the platform.Uh, he's in Austin. And, uh, I've actually seen his physical murals before, because I live in Houston, so I'm down the street. And so I always kind of felt that it was even more special because he was in Texas. Um, and just his style is so special. He did something with Fidessa that demonstrated the depth of what can happen in the generation of a, a body of work using an algorithm where the artist gives up curation, sets the rules to where they're satisfied with anything that's going to come out of that mentor.And, uh, just sets it free to the world and lets the world kind of tinker with it. Uh, he, he amongst like, just like any other architects, artists, they, they take these huge risks, like in the generative space prior to our blocks, you, you had the script living on your computer and you, you could generate thousands of outputs and then pick the one that you wanted to supply.So the gallery, or if you were just going to post it on Instagram, whatever it might be, you, you had this. Built in curation. And I think what makes our books special is that that curation is out the window. That curation has to be done all on the front end. And the artist has to really tweak and massage their piece to where their, their algorithm to where every single piece that comes out of the Minter Minter represents them as an artist and that they're digitally signing something before they've even seen what comes out and, um, our blocks.Um, uh, Tyler has really, I think, demonstrated that, uh, like as a, as a top project on our blocks. Perfect. Yeah. Love that. So to people that may not be familiar with generative art that are listening, um, can you tell us a little bit more of how the art is actually minted on our blocks when people meant it?Yeah. So, um, generative art is a form of algorithmic art algorithm. The garden basically means that it instructions. Are given to a computer and the computer spits out an output, uh, algorithmic art might be that you were never intending to have more than one output, right? So you just write code and it produces something different than using a brush, even brush on like a tablet.So generative artists, where you take that code that produces that thing and you assign a bunch of variables. So the background color, instead of just being blue is actually set to a variable so that every time that you generate a new one, it could be a blue or red or green or whatever. And when you assign various variables to an algorithmic work to where every time that it generates it sort of at random generate something fresh and different, that's where it crosses the line.At least in my opinion of what would be considered a degenerative project. And I think something really beautiful to look at is that a generative project in my mind doesn't have to be algorithmic. Uh, one of my favorite pieces of art of all time is a piece in Marfa, Texas, by Donald Jonah, it's called a hundred boxes, a hundred untitled boxes and milled aluminum.And it's. You know, Donald Judd, drew architectural drawings for a hundred sculptures and they were created, but there was rules. They all have the same length within height, and then he just modified the internals of them. So when you walk around them, you see these blocks, they're all the same size. And like the site modifications to me, that's a generative project, but made by hand and then generative art on our blocks is a generative project that's generated by code generated.Algorithmically. The end results are very similar. So, you know, the, whereas a generative project, like the a hundred, uh, on a named boxes, uh, in milled aluminum, if you just have one piece, it looks really cool. It's like a beautiful sculpture. Um, but without exploring the entire collection of a hundred, it actually just doesn't feel the same.Like you need to see all of the other iterations to really appreciate that one that you're standing right in front of. Otherwise, it just looks like a metal box. And I think a lot of that kind of happens on our blocks where, you know, Can you can become attached and really fall in love with a specific output or iteration, but then when you see the entire, um, uh, output, when you see the entire body of work, that's when it really sinks in.The time and effort that the artists went into into creating this like beautiful piece. Uh, so what happens is the algorithmic artist, the artists creates an algorithm that algorithm is, is stored on the blockchain immutably. So like on the Ethereum blockchain, and that algorithm is missing the variability component.So like, when I talk about the background being red or blue or green, the algorithm is waiting for you to tell it whether it's going to be a blue background or a red background by providing it inputs that are stored on the token itself. So the NFT, the non-refundable Dugan, all it stores is a bunch of strings of characters.The algorithm that's stored in the blockchain without the information stored on the token is useless. And the information stored on the token without the information stored on the blockchain is also useless. It's those two things combined that create a visual output. So when a user. So the project, all they have to look at besides maybe some tweets from some artists that they might've kind of teased their work.All they have to look at is all of the previously generated additions of that artwork. And that is the information that they have to decide whether they like those outputs and then want to mint another one. So when you go and you look at the beginning of a project and all you see is met number zero, you actually have very limited information.To me, it's usually enough information to know whether I like this artist's style in case I wasn't familiar with them before. Uh, but then after that, you know, after 50 of them are minted, now you have this body of work and you can start to see the nuances between the different pieces. And that slowly builds until the edition sells out at whatever the cap that the artists set for the, for the artwork is.And once that edition sells out, no more iterations can be purchased. And that's when you get the final body of work, the entirety of the, uh, Love that. And like how you mentioned earlier, right? So the artist doesn't know what the final body work's gonna look like until it's minted, which makes it pretty quick.Correct. And one of, well, I'll just kinda touch on this here too. Cause I mean, we, we get really excited about we get, we get really nerdy about the blockchain component, right? So generative artists, like I mentioned, could have pressed the space bar before our bucks existed and generated unlimited number of iterations for a generative piece.And so what the blockchain does is it kind of creates a finite amount of iterations to something that has historically been unlimited. Uh, and that's kind of something that couldn't happen without the blockchain. I mean, yeah. You could trust an artist to generate a hundred outputs generatively and then drag the algorithm to the recycle bin on their computer.But for some reason that feels really weird, like to destroy code like that, like, you know, artists also iterate on the code and they kind of build on it, but it's not that different than like a screen printer taking and saying, this is in addition to 10. And then destroying the screens after 10 and kind of proving that no more are going to be created unless you go back and recreate the screens.Got it. Uh, where do you see generative art going from here? Well, we're enjoying generative art, um, as kind of generative art fans here. And I think we're introducing a lot of people to not just generative art, but art in general. We're really enjoying the fact that people, you know, in our, in our discord, we have this need and that's, I came for the flip state for the art.And I think that, I mean, people laugh about that, but I really think that genuinely has happened if that has happened with a hundred people in the last 11 months, I consider that like a major victory, right? Like what else in this world is so, uh, intentionally introducing people to art, um, then, then that kind of experience.So, uh, I think that art in the generative world will kind of get, you know, it's been around since the sixties. Uh, but might get a new level of recognition, not just because of our box, but because of other generative art projects, uh, on, uh, um, in the space. In fact, I always like to joke that like I've been watching people buy generative NFTs on super rare known origin for years, but the word generative wasn't part of the equation.Cause it just wasn't part of the equation. The artists was creating it, algorithmically, minting it and putting it on the platform. Um, and it's really nice to now see the word generative is part of the equation to the degree, maybe overdone in a couple cases, but that's okay. Like that's an, that's an indication that people are kind of drawn to that beyond generative art.I think there's a lot of opportunities for generative. So a lot of the time that I spent ideated art blocks was not just for art. Although art has always kind of been our forward and our first kind of step, but also for the concept of generative design and generative content. In fact, you know, um, early versions of our website said, you know, generative content, regenerative design hosted immediately on the Ethereum, blockchain.The idea here, being that just like, so art is the easiest implementation of generative, uh, content, uh, because it's, it's digital, it's flat. It's, uh, it's a file. Start on a computer or an algorithm stored on a computer. I think there's opportunities similar to the a hundred, uh, untitled boxes of in milled aluminum, where like you might have a really talented, uh, furniture designer, uh, industrial designer that creates an algorithm that creates a coffee table.And, you know, you're going to be happy with anything that that algorithm produces because you've seen this designers work and you will go and you'll spend 2000. On a coffee table, which is actually a lot of money for a copy stable, but somehow not a lot of money in the NFT space. So I think we're eventually going to reach this kind of homeostasis, where we realized that, you know, you could spend half an Eve and actually maybe have somebody manufacturer a coffee table and have it delivered to your door that uses CNCS to follow some features that an algorithm dictated that was created by, by an industrial designer or a graphic designer.So I think we're going to see generative applications in industry, uh, furniture, manufacturing, and then also gaming. I think that, you know, if, if every time I went and bought my, my sword on Zelda, if it was just a slightly different pixel configuration, I think that would be pretty cool. Uh, but then on top of that, if I could level up that sword and then it's available and open sea and, you know, it's unique from the start, but then on top of that, it can be built on, um, and you know, you can sell it and then go mint another sword.Uh, I think there's a really beautiful opportunity for video game companies to have. The entire catalog of objects in a game existing on a single smart contract, kind of like the Bible of that project. So like, you know, every sort, every suit, every character exists as a generatively created piece. And no matter what happens to that game, that that catalog exists immutably because of the way our box works.We store the scripts on chain. It has more longevity than your traditional NFT or the traditional video game that was hosted in 1995 on a server that no longer exists. There's that immutability that I could go back to in 20 years and be like, oh man, I remember when I got that character and know, play that game, and it's not dependent on the success of that video game, even though I might've dedicated 40 or 50 hours of my life to that video game.And now that video game doesn't exist anymore, or that company went out of business. I can still go have the memory of that experience and maybe even own those pieces. So I think there's opportunities in the video game space as well. And we will definitely want to explore those with our blocks. Once we kind of get our inner stuff together and get to explore outside of.That's awesome. So are you teasing out of art blocks, video games coming soon? Um, you know, we have one developer already Hindu, uh, dropped a piece on our box that, uh, is a game. It's a little game of pong and it's super, super sweet. It's like super smooth, clean 3d. Um, and you know, when, when he created that, I kind of hinted at him creating our blocks arcade and kind of creating like a standardized output for these games where another website could actually listen to outputs from the algorithm that would post scores and kind of create a home for people to like, kind of all play the games together, these like blockchain mini games.Uh, we are absolutely going to focus on art for the foreseeable future. There's there's, you know, there's so much bandwidth that can be dedicated just to improving the art part of the platform. And that is our roots and that's where we started. And it's so easy to get excited about all these other opportunities and we'll we'll approach them, but.For now you're going to have to live with like, you know, a couple, a couple of games hosted in the outbox factory. And, you know, I'd love to see like a putt putt golf thing, or like a generates a golf course, like a tiny little golf course with a hole in a random location and rocks and random locations.And maybe you can't even beat that because the algorithm created an impossible level. I think there's a lot of fun to be had there. Uh, we're just, uh, we, we really are just wanting to take a step back with the exploration and focus strongly on just making sure that our product is as user-friendly and, um, buildable as possible.Love that. So we've seen those become a hot topic in the NFT world lately. Uh, what are your thoughts on Dow's? Um, I hated the idea of Dow's, uh, early on. Uh, in fact it took two very smart humans reaching out to me and, uh, Proving that, that there was humanity in the concept of a Dow. So I, you know, I I've always been so grossed out by like the incredibly speculative nature of everything in the crypto space.I shouldn't say grossed out, but that's not the right word. I just, uh, I really discouraged, I guess, by just how everything has to be associated with the valuation. Um, there's a market. I mean, there's market cap on squiggles, right? Like it's a work of art, but like they're, you know, schools are referred to as having a market cabin.I'm not offended by that. I just, you know, like everything has that like dollar value associated with it. And to me, um, in my early days of crypto, which is 2017 and participating in new coins and startups and, uh, master nodes and, you know, trusting other people to dedicate time to a project. And people really like, I just, I think enough times I would be participating in some kind of like all coin project and the value would spike and like half the team would go away because it would just sell their shit.They made it, like they made a bunch of money and I, and I felt like Dow's were just going to be an automatic perpetuation of that. Uh, and then I met the beautiful people of the Flamingo Dow and, um, I just remember, uh, pre reached out early because she's like, Hey, I just wanna let you know, we're the ones who've been getting all these squiggles.Cause there was somebody that was just minting them up to squiggles. There was a few different people that were minting squiggles. And I was like, man, I hope these people, uh, realize like there's no guaranteed value of these things. Like this is just like, you know, um, my little art project, but she reached out and she was like, Hey, I just wanna let you know, we're really excited about our blocks and we really love your squiggles.And I was very cordial and I was very excited. And then, and this is before I knew she was even part of a doubt. And I, I specifically remember she was like, have you ever heard of Flamingo Dow? And my response was like, oh, I'm not into douse. And we kept talking and. I mean, I love my fellow degenerates in the space.I've spent four years, like on discord and the crypto punch discord, literally like meeting everybody as they stumbled into crypto because, or in the NFTs. Cause that was kind of like the, the home, uh, you know, the birthplace of all the projects. And I just, you know, I love all my degenerates, but I definitely felt alongside them, like very degenerate in the empty space.And so little by little talking to Priyanka, I just kind of started feeling like I was talking to a human, like someone from the outside world, uh, someone that understands law and uh, just not just normal procedures. And so I. Decided to kind of consider working with Flamingo Dao. And I did, and I joined and I just remember joining and being like, this is, this is like pure magic.Like there's dozens of people inside the Flamingo Dow talking about all the projects that are coming out, giving opinions, voting, thumbs up, thumbs down. And there's 50 something members and maybe only 13 active members. And like, I was maybe more than 13, but you know, I was originally an active member and I felt like I was contributing now.I feel like a just useless number just because of the box has completely taken over my life. But, you know, I have this dream that I would one day get to a point where I can wake up in the morning, uh, open up like the philosophical newspaper, which is like the Flamingo discord with a cup of coffee. And just look at all the comments from the day before and participate in all of these things.The exploratory, uh, nature of Dallas, I think is an incredible by having that many people from that many different backgrounds, all contributing to a project. I think that there's just like just, I, I just think it's a beautiful thing and I don't think. Our operate the same way. And I don't think all Dallas will be successful longterm, but I, my, I definitely did 180 degree pivot when I met Flamingo and realized that there actually was a humanity behind these dials and like their way of collecting art.I mean, yeah, I think there is a financial long-term horizon, just like there is with just about anybody in this space, but they seem to respect the NFTs and the value and the artists, um, a lot more than others. And so I have like, there's a special place in my heart for, for Flamingo down, love that honesty I on Dows and also, you know, admitting to the 180 there.So, uh, uh, thanks for that, Eric. Uh, you know, I know you mentioned, uh, you know, the market cap of art blocks. We talk about floor price on the show and, you know, putting the, the east value aside, how do you measure, you know, the success of art blocks? What makes it a successful project in your eyes? And that you're most proud of.Uh, after w w what I consider a successful art work is when you drop the word crypto, and when you drop the word generative and you just call it art. And, um, you know, w if you go back to like Tyler House for Danza, all of those pieces, they look really great in the body of work, but they actually look pretty awesome independently too.Like, even if it was just a, one-on-one like, that's a really delicate, beautiful piece. And so the success of it, of an artwork for me is a, like my interest in mentoring, a bunch of them, which obviously, since our box has gone through like a growth mode that has significantly reduced, like I mentioned, seven mentored in purchased $1,700 bucks pieces between November and may, and then subsequently minted in purchase, maybe like 50 from, uh, June or July to today.So obviously, like my fund has dropped significantly on that and in the process, but. To me, the sign of success is like how degenerative early. I decided that I wanted to mint that piece. Like whether I wanted one or 10 or 20 or in some cases like, like poor, uh, Alexis, Andre, uh, he dropped it. He did a piece called messengers and I, I mean, I went deep.I think I bought 40 of them. Cause I wonder one of every color that to me is like success. Uh, in terms of like an art piece, but that's just me as like a curator of my art collection. Um, the other sign of success is like really watching people from the outside world coming in and purchasing. These are box pieces.Some of them have very significant valuations and people that have zero short-term horizon, like, you know, that the person that's buying these pieces of this price point is not expecting to turn around and sell it for like 10 X next week. Like at those prices, there is a fundamental ceiling. Like we talked about floors all the time, but there must also be a ceiling.Right. And so whether that fundamental ceiling is the total sum of all of the dollars in the world, or whether it's some other factor of, you know, um, you know, wealth, uh, we, I do think that as you, as you sell pieces for higher, you're getting closer to that fundamental ceiling. And so watching people buy pieces at that kind of fundamental, I mean, that's not the ceiling, but as close to the ceiling, as we've seen, uh, that has zero intention of moving those pieces for the next few years.Uh, I think is really a pretty solid sign of success as well, because that long-term, these are being recognized as like isolated individual, um, successful works of just generative and not just crypto, but just art. They stand on their own. And the, like the goose ringer is a really good example of that.Like, it became a very well-known piece, uh, within our box, you know, um, you know, Dimitri showed a lot of favor to it, but then it also kind of looked like a goose and like people recognize it. And, you know, the owner of it was just so proud of that piece and it became world famous, I guess, maybe just in the NFT space, but it's a pretty big space these days.And then watching the. Expand to end up in a collection of someone else collecting just like the finest pieces of not just our plots, but like all, uh, appease, uh, really I think solidified the, the long-term, uh, success of, of our box. Perfect. So one of our favorite things to ask on the show, um, you know, when we have the creators of projects on is to talk about their favorite traits, right?So art blocks obviously has so many different projects. So I know you probably can't pick, you know, your favorite ones, but maybe give us some favorite traits for Cromey squiggles or some of the other big names. What do you think, uh, what are some of your favorite traits out there? It's easy with the squiggles.Um, I really liked the closed terminal ribbed, um, as the community has so nicely dubbed it. I just love the words that the community can use to describe these pieces. And so like, ultimately. They've, uh, they've named it and it's just the rib squiggle, um, that doesn't have an open end on the end that you don't see color on the end.You just see like the same color of the squiggle, uh, that I, there was a time where any of them that were for sale under five, under 0.5 each on open. See, I was snagging them and I built up a little extra padding on the, on those. I love those pieces a lot, uh, outside of the squiggle, I think I remember, um, you know, early on in our blocks traits were important, but they weren't like this intensity like they are now.And I remember, uh, the archetype drop shuttle created this trait called the cube and the corner. And then, you know, like the rest of them were just the archetypes and there was something to me that just felt really special about like zooming out. Otherwise flat field and seeing the corner and that special, and then having the whole Cuban, making that extra special, uh, that really stood out to me as a really special trait.And when I say that it's like, I ended up chasing those traits and then spending more money on that than I've ever spent on anything else in my life. And to date the most expensive things I've ever purchased in my life other than a house is an archetype cube. Uh, and, um, two sub scape star falls. So the Starfall was another trait that just, it just struck me and yellow and black and my favorite colors.Uh, and so there was just something, when I first saw it, I didn't even know, you know, that was when our box was starting to kind of move faster and I stopped getting to literally nerd out and dive into every single Testnet. I mean, there was a time when our bus was getting started. I knew every single test in that piece from every drop, Dimitri mentioned a thousand tests that visas, I probably explored like 300 or 400 of them.And then I got consumed by our box and I didn't really get to appreciate. Fun stuff that was happening. And I just remember seeing the Starfall piece, uh, from subscribes, from that Deloitte piece and after the mint and being like, I have to have that. And so I went in and I bought one and then I bought a second one.And, um, just, you know, those two really stood out to me as like, like more in a sentimental way than just like, oh, these are rare. Like they touch the cord and I really, I really appreciate them. And there's many, many more, but those in particular, like stand up. That's awesome. I mean, I know it's hard to pick on some of these, uh, so, you know, I hate to ask that question, but we always like to try to get it out there.So, um, Eric talking, uh, you know, broadly about the NFT market, right? You mentioned, uh, uh, I think rebel earlier, you mentioned open sea. We obviously have this, this overhanging elephant in the room of Coinbase getting into an NFT marketplace. Um, you know, what are you thoughts on, you know, a big crypto name, like.Getting into NFTs and, you know, well, art blocks have a place in that. I say, bring it on. I mean, their, their user base is significantly bigger than the existing NFT space. Um, you know, and, uh, you know, I'm, I'm having some early conversations with them and like just learning about their integrations and kind of how they're going to, uh, deploy their project and like their MVP.And I really think that they have an approach that's, that's different than your standard kind of NMT marketplace. And I think that it'll find a lot of love and a lot of success. Uh, I think if they act as a, as a ex like introduction to NFTs to 1% of their many, many millions of user bases user base, uh, I think we will all enjoy, um, uh, just a new generation of people entering the space.And I think that's, that's pretty cool. Um, Marketplaces are hard. They're very hard, you know, and, and, and as, as, as I spoke to, for example, uh, Coinbase the other day, and I was like, look guys, like a lot of people, like to kind of shit on open seat, but like, can you imagine being in the position that open C was in like in August where not only do you have like a massive amount of sales and a massive amount of activity, but then you also have a new influx of people trying to deploy projects.And everybody has their own little special case and their own little customer service requests. And yeah, you can try to grow your company, but like I experienced the same thing in our books. No matter how fast you try to grow, like you can't just pick people off the street and stick it behind a computer and started coding.And so I think that there's just so much there that, uh, it's so easy, I think, uh, for the general public and that might've been me before I started our box, right. Like kind of come complaining and like, you know, yelling about the inefficiencies of, of, of open sea. But, you know, I remember open sea at NYC in 2019, you know, with a very humble table and, you know, three, four dudes that literally just were huge NFT nerds and that conviction that they had that early on, uh, I think, you know, they, they get all of the love and the market share that they deserve.And I think it's going to be up to everybody else to either develop a better product or a different direction, um, a different environment, a different experience altogether for NFTs in order to kind of capture some of that market. But I do caution people. Like when you, you know, it's like, I feel like projects could come out, um, to compete with our box right now.It'd be like, well, you know, we're not going to tell you how many additions do you have to do? Like they can, they can basically like pick all the things that our blogs is, has struggling with and say, we're going to create this new marketplace. That's going to fix all that. But like that basically is saying that, you know, our blocks is just naive and or dense and not understanding those conditions and just plowing through things.When in reality, there's a very specific reason why the things that are deficient on our pots are actually deficient on our parts and they have to do with scaling and they have to do with like, Supply and demand. And, um, I think what I, what I appreciate about Coinbase is that they're not coming out and saying, okay, like we're going to do everything.You know, we're going to pick all the things that open C's doing and do them a completely different way. They're just going to do their own thing. And I think that's how healthy competition happens in the crypto space. It's just do your thing, bring to the table, bring to market, whatever you are passionate about, whatever you feel strongly about.And if it fits people will come to you. And if it doesn't then, um, you know, that that's part of like startups and entrepreneurship love that. Eric, one of my favorite things that come out of NFTs are the communities. Uh, you know, how do you communicate with, uh, our blocks community, you know, right now is that their discord Twitter.And if so, are you active on a daily basis in those communities? Our discord community? I think if it hasn't hit 40,000, cause there's is about two, which is just like bonkers. It was a thousand during the archetype drop. In fact, we kind of. W when we were first panicking about oversubscribed drops, we did like a white list and the, our bucks discord, just like we did a user, why not a white list, but like a user list of all the users.So that in case we needed to implement a white list, we had a way of doing it. That couldn't necessarily be cheated too easily. And then we did that a few weeks later and it was 4,000 I can remember was after some other drop. And then we eventually just gave up like there's 40,000 people that have joined.Um, I. I spent a little bit less time in the discord than I used to because now there's, uh, 14, 15 of us at our box. And, uh, I spend a significant amount of time on like one-on-ones with the team to make sure that, you know, we can kind of keep her stuff together and continue building and growing the platform.But, um, as a result of growing the team, cause you know, I got to a point where, I mean, I, I was on the, I was on the verge of breaking myself. I mean, you know, I was easily 80, 90, maybe sometimes more hours a week, you know, I'd wake up, I'd spend the entire time on our blocks and I'd put my kids to sleep and then I'd stay up until three on our blocks.And it got to this point where it was just like so overwhelming and excessive. And a lot of that time was, you know, uh, you know, one-on-ones with people in the discord, like trying to defend what we're doing and, you know, standing up for what our blocks believed in and not trying to like get swept into like this whole crypto speculative madness and, um, the, the cool thing about growing the team, uh, where right now, I spent a lot of time with the team is that I'm hoping that by growing the team and being able to kind of offload a lot of the responsibilities that I had on a day-to-day basis, I can go back into the discord and fight it out with people again.And I love fighting it out with people, as long as they're respectful. I don't like talking to people that are accusing us of being money grabby. And like, no, that's just not a fun conversation. Like, I don't think we've indicated in anything but Goodwill for the community. Like we really want the community to thrive and we want the artists to thrive and we want the platform to thrive.So it sticks around how many platforms existed in 2008 at the peak of like the crypto cycle. And then that's when they were thriving and it, you know, everything fell apart and they went with it, you know, so it's good to be thriving in good times and also be very conservative so that we can vent exist during the slow times.And that's when we can build. And right now things are cooling off a little bit. And so it's giving me some time to get back into the discord and have some nice little bouts with people which I can kind of miss. I mean, I don't, I don't miss the one. We were having an August, uh, but I missed the ones that we're having today.Um, and, and it's going to give us time to take a step back and build and, and, and, and literally just continue trying to build like the best NLP platform that can exist, like the most crypto native piece. So, um, you know, that's, that's kinda where we're at, but I love my community. Uh, we're very lucky that I could not be more grateful for the team on our blocks.They are the community, they all came. And majority of the art blogs team came from the community, which is just completely mind blowing as well. Um, and, and together, you know, uh, I think, I think we, I think we're going to do some fun stuff, love that. And you actually talked about, you know, how Adam teas can be mentally straining, which they can absolutely be that, you know, how do you balance your work and personal life?You know, now. Th there there's a, there's a story I'll tell you. So we, we actually engaged with a mental health expert, um, because we started feeling like the quality, the mental health quality, and our discord was actually starting to be strained. Like people were saying things that just made us nervous.I could just, you know, it just felt weird. Like there was the emotions that were, there were being really worn, um, in public and, and more importantly, the way the public was reacting to them maybe felt immature and felt troubling to us. And so we started working with this mental health expert, um, who we started explaining this is discord, and this is the madness that we shared discord.And it was like, these are the examples of the things that make us really nervous. Um, and during that conversation, he's like, Hey, can, can we just step back a little bit and talk about your team? And like, I remember specifically hearing that and like, just like I was in complete shock because he was like, you're worried about like the mental health of your community.But like, how has your team's mental health, like you guys are on here 24 7, duking it out with people and worrying about the artists. Cause I mean, you, you have, I mean the amount of time that goes into deploying projects now artists are becoming veterans because they've already deployed before. So it's a little smoother, but there's so much time that goes, especially early on into auditing scripts and vetting the artists and like just the entire process.Everything was 24, 7 hands-on. Um, and it hit me pretty hard to be questioned about my mental health when we were there to like find out and help the mental health of our community and people were questioning our mental health and we took a step back and I'm like, yeah, this is, this is actually a problem.And we are all suffering from this, not just the community, there's an addiction. Mentality like in discord and if Ts there's this speculative nature, there's the instant customer service on demand, or I'm going to tweet about how your platform is terrible thing, you know, which I mean, we definitely do not appreciate when people threaten us like that.Like, I think it's completely unreasonable considering how transparent we are and how public we are about our mistakes and our issues. Like it's just completely unreasonable. Um, so yeah, so mental health is so it's so important in this space and everybody should take a step back every now and then. Um, and you know, we've, we've implemented no drops on the weekends.Uh, that's been, that's probably been like the number one, like biggest mental health, uh, positive for me, uh, because I can actually kind of, I mean, I'll still LORIC I always learn like you can't not work in this course, but like, I'll take a step back and. And, uh, and not feel like I have to participate every single day of the week.And so my, my kids are experiencing more of me, which, you know, there was a time there where like, I just really wasn't, it wasn't there. It wasn't very present as a dad. So things have come a long way. I'm hoping that things, uh, continue to get better. Uh, for the team. My target would be 60 hours a week. Like I'm not even looking for 40.I would just be perfectly happy with 60. Uh, and you know, w we have a lot of team members that have joined, uh, one of them in particular, Jake Rockland is our CTO that came in and was like, okay, no more drops on weekends. Like we, you know, you, you need to set a good example. Like how many days off have you taken Eric?Because if you're, if you're trying to set an example, You know, mental health, like if you don't do it, then no one else is going to do it too. Or they might take that as like the lead. And I was like, well, I haven't taken any days off. I literally haven't been off discord and 270 days. So, you know, um, we, we, I, like I said, our team is just really special and, um, everybody's looking out for everybody and, uh, we're, we're just really lucky.And, um, if, if, if in the next five years, our blocks can get to a point where it can even be considered for like the top 100 companies to work for in the United States. Like that would be my next goal, um, because if we can have like the best artists and the best artworks and the best team, and on top of that, be recognized for like having internal, like positive company culture, um, and, uh, and just like a wonderful place to work.Like there's really nothing else that I'm looking for in life at this point, uh, in terms of, uh, like business or entrepreneurial achievement, like I, I, at that point will have reached, reached my goals and, um, and, uh, I can't wait for that. That's awesome. Erica, thank you so much for your honesty. Right? We talk about these NFTs all the time.And so many times we probably forget that there is real people, right? Real people behind these projects that have, have real lives. Um, so, uh, I love your honesty. W we kept you along. Uh, this was a great interview, a long one. So Eric, uh, that's going to do it for questions. We appreciate you, you know, joining us on the roadmap.We look forward to talking to you soon and hearing more about, you know, art blacks in the future. Thank you so much for having me. Thank you to everybody out there, listening our community or our team and our artists. Like, you know, couldn't be here without y'all and thanks for taking the time to chat. I think.Awesome. Well guys, another great interview here on the roadmap. I mean, mass a huge week, right? We had G funk from pixel and now Eric, from art blocks, two of the biggest projects out there and, you know, mass, I gotta repeat it. Right. I love the honesty from Eric, you know, whether it was the conversation about Dows and, you know, having the 180 there to the mental health aspects, right.That was something G funk touched on on Tuesday, right. Was the mental health aspect and the needing to take breaks. And I just love the honesty there. Uh, you know, behind this project. Yeah. You know, in two things that I've noticed from the last two episodes that we've done is you can see the passion in the way these guys talk about their projects, you know, and they see it more than just, you know, just a cash grab or just, you know, putting a price on it, which I love, you know, seeing that aspect of NFTs because we get lost in the floor prices and, you know, and you know, is it gonna pump?Is it not? Why is it dumping? You know, why is there no new news? So I love seeing these two projects that have been around for awhile, you know, provide that insight that we often forget in this fast moving environment. And then if two world perfect, well mass, uh, before we head out today, what do you think if we get to some headlines and talk about some of the big stories out there, let's break it down now, let's go.What do we have? All right. So last, this actually happened last week, but we haven't had a chance to digest this news yet. So mass, there was a crypto punk record purchase that was turned down. So a $9.49 million bid, um, turned down by pun

Alle in der Cryptowelt reden von NFTs und keiner möchte die Gelegenheit verpassen. In dieser Folge geben wir eine Übersicht darüber, was NFTs eigentlich sind, welche Projekt es bislang gab und aktuell gibt und wie ein Investment funktioniert. Ressourcen, um über NFTs auf dem Laufenden zu bleiben: https://www.delta.pm/krypto https://ethereum.org/en/nft/#gatsby-focus-wrapper https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/how-to-make-a-cryptocurrency-or-nft-wallet/ https://open.spotify.com/episode/4LlGDsUSrsi3CSYBpnDEyL?si=O7c_ir19SnSYGDhKHSvIsA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4se4_ZqkcKw Vokabeln, die man beherrschen sollte: Ethereum Blockchain, Smart Contracts, NFTs, DAO (Decentralised Autonomous Organisation), Creator economy, Metaverse, Generative Art, Fractional art, Mint, Stake, Burn, Floor Price, Wrapped ETH, Cold Wallet, Metamask, Gas Fee, Node, Validator, Mining, Proof of Stake, Proof of Work, Opensea, Veve, Rarible, Dutch Auction Aktuelle Projekte: CryptoPunks, Beeple, Bored ape yacht club, Artblocks (ist eine Plattform. Wichtige Projekte sind: Fidenza, chromie squiggle etc), Veefriends, Punks Comic & Metahero, Autoglyphs, Meebits, CyberKongz, Curio Cards, Cool Cats Twitter-Accounts für Updates: @punk6529 @beaniemaxi @croissantEth @DCLBlogger @peruggia_v @garyvee @cozomoMedici @iamDCinvestor @kevinrose @hunterorrell @futureproofxyz

My guest today is Devin Finzer, co-founder and CEO of OpenSea, the world's largest NFT marketplace. In a journey that started like many other founders in the space, Devin went deep down the crypto rabbit hole in 2017 and became particularly fascinated with the potential behind digital assets. During our conversation, we touch on the origin story of OpenSea, how Devin differentiates between the spectrum of NFTs in the market, and what he sees as the opportunity in the future for the industry. We also talk about the various risks within a blockchain, from security dynamics to market speculation. I hope you enjoy this great conversation with Devin Finzer. For the full show notes, transcript, and links to mentioned content, check out the episode page here.   -----   This episode is brought to you by Canalyst. Canalyst is the leading destination for public company data and analysis. If you've been scrambling to keep up with the deluge of IPOs and SPACs these days, Canalyst has models on Robinhood, Marqeta, Grab, and everything in between. Learn more and try Canalyst for yourself at canalyst.com/patrick.   -----   This episode is brought to you by Eight Sleep. Eight Sleep's new Pod Pro Cover is the easiest and fastest way to sleep at your perfect temperature. Simply add the Pod Pro Cover to your current mattress and start sleeping as cool as 55°F or as hot as 110°F. To embrace the future of sleep and get $150 off your new mattress go to eightsleep.com/patrick or use code "Patrick".   -----   Founder's Field Guide is a property of Colossus, Inc. For more episodes of Founder's Field Guide, visit joincolossus.com/episodes.   Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week. Sign up here.   Follow us on Twitter: @patrick_oshag | @JoinColossus   Show Notes [00:02:56] - [First question] - When he first thought up the genesis of OpenSea [00:06:00] - What is listed on OpenSea, assets and volume, and the scope of the platform [00:07:26] - Thoughts on potentially becoming the current era “everything store” [00:09:22] - How they managed to become the main NFT trading platform [00:12:28] - What NFTs are, their various classes, and ways they're stored on the blockchain [00:15:25] - How much transaction and auction volume happens on-chain [00:17:07] - Profile picture style NFTs and what's exciting about them [00:19:24] - ArtBlocks and the mass interest in AI-generated art [00:21:22] - What he's learned and seen about the emerging crypto gaming space [00:24:38] - The user experience of buying an NFT on OpenSea [00:26:45] - How the ownership transfer works between wallets [00:28:04] - Whether or not they have plans to partner with other companies [00:30:32] - How they think about what gets placed on OpenSea and why [00:32:09] - Thoughts on take rate and their 2.5% take rate of transactions [00:33:22] - Why their take rate is so low compared to other sale platforms online [00:34:47] - OpenSea's relationship with the Ethereum blockchain and other integrations [00:36:50] - Perspective on wallets both as businesses and products [00:39:16] - Potential risks and the dark side of the unregulated NFT space [00:40:48] - The massive boom and bust cycles of crypto and the high prices of NFTs [00:41:59] - Interesting areas of Web3 that are in development today [00:44:19] - The project he's enjoyed watching grow the most in the crypto world [00:46:42] - What OpenSea might look like in the future if the best-case proves true [00:48:59] - The kindest thing that anyone has ever done for him

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)

On Episode 6 of Two Bored Apes, Jaime and Roy talk about Darien Brito's recently published write-up about his Curated drop "Pigments", how excited they are for the Curated drop "Fragments of an Infinite Field", Blitnaut minting going live, the results of the Sotheby's BAYC (Bored Ape Yacht Club) and BAKC (Bored Ape Kennel Club) auctions, and more!Show Notes:Darien Brito's Pigments Write-Up: https://darienbrito.com/2021/09/08/pigments/William Tan's Scribbled Boundaries Write-up:https://medium.com/@williamsutantotan/generative-scribbling-a4362b14e4fFragments of an Infinite Field:https://artblocks.io/project/159Blitnauts:https://opensea.io/collection/the-blitnautsBAYC Treasure Hunt Tweet:https://twitter.com/BoredApeYC/status/1437580836099006465?s=19Steph Curry Interview:https://twitter.com/mariasonlyson/status/1436805916041662471?s=21Jaime's 720 Minutes:https://artblocks.io/token/27000409https://artblocks.io/token/27000159Roy's Discord (1 ETH Challenge): https://discord.gg/AqgrZS9pm4

Quick Take Christie's will conduct Art Blocks NFT bidding in ETH. Arbitrum will open token bridging for all tokens on October 22nd. Ethereum gas fees fall as the NFT boom settles down. DAOMaker suffers a $4 million hack amid questionable practices. Newsletter: https://todayinethereum.substack.com

Quick Take Christie's will conduct Art Blocks NFT bidding in ETH. Arbitrum will open token bridging for all tokens on October 22nd. Ethereum gas fees fall as the NFT boom settles down. DAOMaker suffers a $4 million hack amid questionable practices. Read more: https://ether.fm/010

In this conversation, we chat with Erick Calderon is the founder and CEO at Art Blocks, a platform for creating on-demand, generative art pieces. Since its launch a year ago, Art Blocks has garnered the attention of many, including auction house Sotheby's, which recently sold 19 of the platform's pieces in a deal totaling $81,000. Calderon, a native Houstonian, uses the online handle Snowfro, which stems from a snow cone stand he used to own. More specifically, we touch on projection mapping, generative vs. algorithmic art, machine learning, smart contracts, the constructivist art movement, Artblocks' unique approach to NFT algorithms and minting, NFT flipping vs. scalping, gas price wars, flashbots, dutch auctions, and the massive demand for anything Artblocks in the world today and the justifcations behind such demand.

【來賓：葛如鈞寶博士】 錄音時間2021.09.06 新聽眾老朋友，寶博朋友說邁向100集了！一百集以來聽了這麼多虛擬貨幣、NFT的大小事情，還沒有開始加入嗎？本集邀請到寶博士本人，為各位親自講解，虛擬貨幣、NFT，你最好奇也最想知道的所有事情！ 你加入虛擬貨幣世界的第一個選擇，就是購買寶博朋友說的NFT！ EP100 紀念 NFT

On this episode of "NFTGURU TALK AND CHILL 028" we bring back the GANG as we dissect the market. Star atlas token sale, Parallel galaxy key snapshot, ON1, SuperRare Speculation, BAYC MUTANTS, ARTBLOCKS, MetaHeroes and just the entire landscape of NFTs. Enjoy the show. Live the Dream and Eat Icecream and above all stay content. Follow the Sensei https://twitter.com/YungShow Follow DeadStock https://twitter.com/TheDeadstockOG Follow Walshy https://twitter.com/Walshy_Eth Follow Jeremy StormSky https://twitter.com/Jeremystormsky Follow MetaMori https://twitter.com/metaMori_eth

This is an 6 episode series on generative artists who we found interesting. 6 artists in total who we found contributes something unique in the current generative art landscape, they span different blockchains/platforms/aesthetics/personal histories. Show Notes; Kjetil's Archetypes was Fidenza before Fidenza, his paper armadas drop sat for weeks without selling out. Kizu says his favourite Kjetil work is his self-curated "Dual" 1/1s, explores the difference between random curation ala art blocks and artist curation, old school vs new school generative art. Kjetil Golid Twitter; https://twitter.com/kGolid https://generated.space/ Paper Armadas; https://opensea.io/assets/art-blocks-playground?search[stringTraits][0][name]=Paper%20Armada&search[stringTraits][0][values][0]=All%20Paper%20Armadas Archetype; https://opensea.io/assets/art-blocks?search[stringTraits][0][name]=Archetype&search[stringTraits][0][values][0]=All%20Archetypes

Kevin Rose and Feyyaz discuss ArtBlocks, The sale of a Fidenza for 777 ETH, Avalanche Yield Farming, and the Luna Anchor protocol. ArtBlocks controversy Hen NFT's Solana NFTs NFT Artist PAK OG NFT artist XCopy Avalanche yeild farming Kevin's Fidenza Sale Tyler Hobbs interview Luna and Anchor Protocol

This is an 6 episode series on generative artists who we found interesting. 6 artists in total who we found contributes something unique in the current generative art landscape, they span different blockchains/platforms/aesthetics/personal histories. Show notes; Matt's drops Subscapes on Artblocks, but also drops companion pieces on HEN at the same time, one of the first instances of multi-platform drops. How Matt is a new breed of coders who come into NFTs not from a "maxi" tech background but more platform/chain agnostic. Matt Deslauriers website; https://www.mattdesl.com/ (https://www.mattdesl.com/) Subscapes on Opensea https://opensea.io/collection/art-blocks?search[sortAscending]=true&search[sortBy]=PRICE&search[stringTraits][0][name]=Subscapes&search[stringTraits][0][values][0]=All%20Subscapes (https://opensea.io/collection/art-blocks?search[sortAscending]=true&search[sortBy]=PRICE&search[stringTraits][0][name]=Subscapes&search[stringTraits][0][values][0]=All%20Subscapes) Matt's HEN site https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/tz/tz1XHADaUcMSkTN9gdmtRqcnrrZfs4tNkCPg (https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/tz/tz1XHADaUcMSkTN9gdmtRqcnrrZfs4tNkCPg) Subscapes companion pieces on HEN; https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/72424 (https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/72424) https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/72420

【來賓：台灣藝術家 王新仁 Aluan】 錄音時間2021.08.20 這集訪談科技藝術家王新仁.阿亂，他同時也是從 84 集開始協助寶博朋友說每集製作紀念 NFT 的藝術家。內容大聊他臥底進入以太坊菁英創作者高級小圈圈的經驗，以及製作 Good Vibrations 作品發售於 ArtBlocks（一小時內完售千張，銷售千萬等值數位幣）的甘苦談。 EP98 紀念 NFT

François Majean (@soliton_) & Jeddi Mees (@antinertia) te présentent le 40ième épisode The Farmspot Podcast dans lequel nous discutons des business & opportunités intéressantes que nous découvrons. Dans cet épisode, on parle : - L'Art Génératif et les NFT avec Artblocks.io (Reportage The Defiant : https://youtu.be/vsQQWjaqnBA) - LexDAO, une des premières DAO d'avocats spécialisés (qui utilisent des smart contracts pour certains de leurs services) - RabbitHole.gg, une boite de marketing crypto qui gamifie + reward l'utilisation des protocoles-clients auprès de sa base d'utilisateurs (une des premières solutions de PAID acquisition dans le monde de la crypto) - Hillsmade.com, un e-comm qui fabrique des accessoires premium pour personnaliser sa Tesla Pour nous suivre : https://twitter.com/soliton_ & https://twitter.com/antinertia Abonne-toi à notre newsletter : https://farmspot.co/ N'hésitez pas à nous DM directement sur twitter, linkedin ou instagram. Tu veux qu'on te conseille pour de la croissance ? https://farmspot.co/#work-with-us

【來賓：台灣藝術家 王新仁 Aluan】 錄音時間2021.08.20 本單集為精華板，8/25（三）將上架完整版。 邀請到首位登上 NFT 藝術殿堂 Art Blocks 的藝術家 王新仁 Aluan， 就在8/22（日）將販售他首個在 Art Blocks 的藝術作品《Good Vibrations》， 請趕快準備好你的以太幣，支持阿亂吧！ ⭐王新仁 https://aluanwang.com/ ⭐《Good Vibrations》 台灣時間 8/22（日）凌晨 0 點 開賣（也就是週六深夜） 購買連結：https://artblocks.io/project/140 起價： 1.559 ETH （荷蘭拍賣） 價格曲線：每十分鐘降價一次，依序為 1.559Ξ, 1.259Ξ, 0.959Ξ, 0.659Ξ, 0.359Ξ, 0.159Ξ 限量 1024 張，售完即止

This is an 6 episode series on generative artists who we found interesting. 6 artists in total who we found contributes something unique in the current generative art landscape, they span different blockchains/platforms/aesthetics/personal histories. Episode Notes; Rafaël's Artblocks drop was the first one where Artblocks moved from a gas war drop to a dutch auction drop. Kizu talks about Rafaël's net art OG status and what he talked about in interviews way back. Sabretooth talks about the trend of net art OGs coming to NFTs including the genesis episode John Karel Comparing the visuals of Endless Nameless to Tyler Hobbs Fidenza drop and how it's not a classically generative art aesthetic. Rafaël Rozendaal's Endless Nameless Arblocks series; https://opensea.io/assets/art-blocks?search[stringTraits][0][name]=Endless%20Nameless&search[stringTraits][0][values][0]=All%20Endless%20Nameless (https://opensea.io/assets/art-blocks?search[stringTraits][0][name]=Endless%20Nameless&search[stringTraits][0][values][0]=All%20Endless%20Nameless) Rafaël Rozendaal's Twitter; https://twitter.com/newrafael (https://twitter.com/newrafael) Rafaël Rozendaal's Net Art: http://papertoilet.com/ (http://papertoilet.com/) https://trashloop.com (https://trashloop.com)

We break down our tactics and strategies around NFT HOT DROPS. 1. ARTBLOCKS 2. CURIO CARDS 3. MONSTER STACK 4.VEEFRIENDS 5. FAME LADY SQUAD 6. MAYWETHER NFT 7. PENGUIN PROJECTS We are using Opensea.io , Cryptoslam, Discord, Twitter, and Coinbase as our tools this week to understand the activity from the development teams and commmunity, unique ownership, amount traded in 7 days and overall, as well as interactions on their discord i.e. announcements. THESTARSPODCAST.COM NFTCATCHER.IO

Bryan Brinkman has been working with people in the spotlight, and now is taking the spotlight in his own right. From starting his career working at the likes of Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to now going full time into paving his own path in the NFT space, this artist is quickly becoming known as a trailblazer in the space. He has been featured in NFT drops on Artblocks, SuperRare, Nifty Gateway, and Async Music while simultaneously finding new ways to connect with his fans through things like custom wearables in the metaverse.

Hans talks blockchain with Jamie Burke and his entry into NFTs.  He was one of the early creators of 3D NFTs.  He has been successful in this space and comments on the current limitations of NFT technology with an eye on the future possibilities.

Colin Frangicetto joins Origin Stories to discuss: 00:00​ - Introduction 00:44​ - What is your origin story? 05:30​ - Fostering early stage creativity 15:05​ - How a bitter teacher altered his career path to music 22:59​ - Picking up drawing again years later 32:55​ - Landing his first art gallery solo show 37:20​ - The pivotal moment when his art career clicked 46:00​ - Realizing that there is always a next summit to climb 49:24​ - Tokenizing his first NFT 1:01:07​ - Subsequent NFT releases on Rarible, Bitski, and Foundation 1:08:20​ - The Lightning Round Episode mentions: Circa Survive, Anthony Green, Arch Enemy Arts, Gavin Shapiro, Sarah Zucker, Rarible, Bitski, Parrott_ism, Foundation, Patreon, SamJ Studios, The Cosmic Nod, Fvckrender, Edgar Fabian Frias, Sean Williams, James Jean, KnownOrigin, Big Cartel, ArtBlocks, and AsyncArt

There are few people who have had as significant an impact on the world of NFTs as Erick, the founder of Artblocks. Through his Cryptopunk Zombie sacrifices (by selling multiple of them below market value) he was able to fund the creation of generative art platform Artblocks. That site is now at the center of the generative art NFT movement. We dove into the world of generative art as well as Erick's take on the future of NFT blockchains.

Listen now (29 min) | Des collections d'art NFT entièrement créées par algorithmes? Ecoutez ce replay pour découvrir l'art génératif avec le site artblocks.io Get on the email list at www.nftmorning.com

Análisis fundamental semanal de los principales protocolos de Finanzas Descentralizadas (DeFi) del ecosistema Ethereum, Cosmos, Polkadot y otros. Noticias, novedades, upgrades, rediseño de "tokenomics" y colaboraciones entre proyectos. Todo aquello que el inversor de fundamentales necesita saber para gestionar su portafolio de manera eficiente. Contenido: • 00:00 | Introducción. Análisis general del estado del mercado. • 03:31 | PowerPool Finance ($CVP): protocolo que permite agrupar ("pooling") tokens de gobernanza del ecosistema DeFi de Ethereum, para que los holders incrementen sus beneficios. Power Index lanza el index token $ASSY. • 11:00 | Fei Protocol ($FEI $TRIBE): un diseño revolucionario para una nueva stablecoin en el mercado. • 18:55 | HydraDX ($HDX): protocolo de liquidez cross-chain creado en Substrate (framework para el desarrollo de DApps en que se basa la blockchain de Polkadot). • 24:51 | Kyber Network ($KNC): Anuncio del lanzamiento de Kyber 3.0, un hub de protocolos de liquidez, así como un potencial rediseño de las funciones del token $KNC. • 32:20 | Stake DAO ($SDT): multiagregador DeFi que permite automatizar numerosas estrategias de inversión. • 38:10 | Art Blocks: plataforma de arte generativo bajo demanda y en formato NFT. FlamigoDAO. CONTACTO Email: defistandard@gmail.com AVISO Todo lo expresado en nuestros vídeos son opiniones personales y en ningún caso deben tomarse como consejo financiero. Gracias por ver este video :) Si te ha gustado, dale al botón de LIKE, SUSCRIBIRSE y COMPARTIR. ¡Muchas Gracias!