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For Ep. 15 of W3G, we had the pleasure of conversing with the remarkable team behind Seed Club, a leading accelerator in the web3 space. During our insightful chat, we explored the journey of Seed Club as it has evolved into a prominent accelerator, nurturing and propelling innovative projects in the web3 ecosystem. We discussed the pivotal role of Seed Club's media organization, expertly built by Steph, Head of Media, over the past two years. If you're eager to delve into the exciting world of web3 products and platforms, this episode is an absolute must-listen. Timestamps: 01:34: April 21, came on full-time with Seed Club. There wasn't a media or social strategy at the time. So many stories to be told, and how can we convey those in the best way? 05:30: when she came in as head of media, bull market vibes were just starting to turn around. Hockey stick growth slowing down. Most successful podcast season was Season 3 07:14: Inaugural episode with Marty was a rocket! Proper prep sessions with guests was really helpful. 09:10: Went wild on Notion, created a bespoke CMS there, etc. Always ended up creating her own in Google Docs. Booking as many guests as possible in a block of time 12:32: Was using a monthly listener count as the primary KPI, total downloads, etc. Very clear response in those numbers as they grew the follow on content for each episode.... 13:30: CTA was brand awareness and depending on accelerator cycle, optimizing for different elements. Had a successful application period for the 5th Cohort, ran Twitter Spaces and brought on their teammates to raise awareness for the team! Twitter is a diff space from last summer, but lesson is to give people a place to engage with the brand on a regular basis... 15:36: Would run accelerator cohorts like campaigns (applications, selection, accelerator, demo day 20:00: What ISN'T different - getting 1st party data is still really important. In Web 2, you're looking for people to take very simple actions. A bit more passive, pulling people along, A/B testing words and getting people to click. 21:10: In web3, there's a distinction between audience and community. Exploring this with Broadcast right now. What are you trying to design for here? A lot more co:creation and taking on-chain actions. 24:56: In Web 2, we have tooling that aggregates channels like HootSuite, would post natively on the apps themselves. Even more chaotic to build an onchain media strategy, spread across so many touchpoints and have to post natively 26:17: Still no way to go and interact with any brands full on-chain media presence. With Lens & Farcaster, they're all the same, only diff is the content and bios. Want to make people feel like they're truly immersed in the ecosystem 27:07: Vessel will be distribution, allow any brand to build fully branded on chain experience. Social network, can on chain follow everyone there 31:30: Onchain distribution won't outpace Web 2 for a while. We'll still have Twitter for now. Onchain media presence will be to build out the community and true believers. Big difference between audience and community 34:38: Thoughts on on-chain media platforms. Watching different communities coalesce around different social networks. 36:37: Vessel is the place for people to plug in and get build quick 37:12: Onchain video is exciting! 40:05: 2021 was big for NFTs, 2022 was big for DAOs, 2023 was for consumer. What we're moving towards is a move from full unbundle to slow rebundling 46:00: Boys Club 54:05: Leadership is hard and messy 57:52: Buy physical spaces for all the web3 homies: Cabin is building this 58:30: Year of the L2, FWB Fest will be wild. Zora will be great

Before the Renaissance, people never see the other side of the world, the church controls the the economy. In Renaissance, Artists and scientists accelerated art and technology. Black Death was a pandemic that changed human history. We have a similar situation. In Web 3, we see the revolution of science, art, blockchain, Defi, and architecture. When I want to find a new idea to create art, I find the Renaissance public domain images from the Metropolitan Museum of Arts. I reinvented the old image and coined the Trance Utopia series. ---------- Reference: The Renaissance - The Age of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci (1/2) | DW Documentary https://youtu.be/BmHTQsxxkPk Design for a Stage Set Depicting a Perspectival View of an Ideal Renaissance City ca. 1550–60 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/752033 Interior Design with a Large Renaissance Style Cabinet against a Green Wall late 19th century (?) Anonymous, British, 19th century British https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/386573 Ancient Rome 1757 Giovanni Paolo Panini Italian On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 620 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437244

In this week's show I touch on something all of us struggle with at one point or another. Finding our WHY. That why, that one thing, that motivation that keeps us showing up time and time again to our jobs, our businesses, ourselves and our relationships.In Web 3 it's easy to get that overwhelming feeling of ‘wanting to be good at everything', wanting to know everything, wanting to jump on all the trends, but then you end up kind of stretched, not feeling like you know anything at all. If that sounds like you, you have to listen to this episode. I take you through my journey of finding my one true WHY and how that's constantly evolving, how that makes me feel every day and how that helps me not give a  F*UCK what anyone else thinks about what I am or aren't doing- or even how much I know- because here's a secret…NOBODY is an expert in Web 3.Listen in to hear more tips and insights that have helped me and many others become successful leaders in this industry over the last 7 years. Support the show⭐️ Help us reach more leaders like you: Subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and share your fave episodes with friends & colleagues.

Coming from Australia .....This episode represents a slight pivot.Being the first podcast from wonderful amazing Australia, I thought it a perfect time to explain some of this shift.I am going to lay some basics about Web 3.0Don't freak. Just consider my heart from the last episode where I explained a part of this leading based on the verse in Proverbs 13:22 "A good man leaves and inheritance for his children's children,but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous."I share much of that verse in episode 198So the following notes here go with what I am sharing with the shift being Web 3.0Not complete but a start as I share more with my special guests in coming episodes.WEB 3.0- In Web 1, people can host their site on the early internet. It's a read and write only platform,- In Web 2,  We can read and write. Think of Facebook or Instagram. I'm creating and connecting with people  on platforms that they  own. - In Web 3, we have the ability to read stuff, data(like Web 1) and the ability to write our own creations (like Web 2),but we now own the platforms we interact on because our data is now owned by us. on the immutable blockchain.More on Blockchain (but briefly explained)Get your digital wallet metamask.ioGet some ETHEREUM...(Coinbase.com)And begin the search on opensea.ioComing soon...more about this amazing world.AND I'll give you a free NFT with #theVinedresserNFT

Change log The second Code quiz has a bunch of JavaScript questions. Join in on Twitter (https://twitter.com/howtocodewell) or Instagram (https://instagram.com/howtocodewell) The first of the code quiz answer video is out (https://youtu.be/Qmz0TvPLgpQ) Fixed the issue with the Kubernetes assets paths. This required a nginx snippet that creates a proxy pass back to Object storage We can now move to Pre - Production My talk 'Code with confidence with PHPCS' from PHP Minds is available YouTube (https://youtu.be/s-94hf_DQ9A) What does Pre-Production mean in Web Development? In Film or TV Pre-Production means work done before full-scale production begins. So what does this mean in the context for Web Development. In Web development Pre-Production is a term used for define anything that happens before deploying to production. During Pre-Production many environments could be created such as Development environments Build environments Staging environments Demo environments Shared environments My web development courses ➡️ Learn How to build a JavaScript Tip Calculator ➡️ Learn JavaScript arrays ➡️ Learn PHP arrays ➡️ Learn Python ✉️ Get my weekly newsletter ⏰ My current live coding schedule (Times are BST) Tuesdays 18:00 = Live Podcast YouTube Sundays 15:00 - Live coding on Twitch

Like to get to know what happens behind the scenes at Frontier of the Metaverse?  This episode is an intro to Howard Kingston, interviewed by Special guest Stephanie Kingston.  You'll learn how we got started in Web 3.0, NFT's and the Metaverse, how we make our investment decisions and why we think Web 3.0 is such a big opportunity. We all know that the internet has changed our lives, but what is Web 3.0 and how will it change things for the better?  Right now, we're living in Web 2.0. This is the era of social media, where people are interacting with each other on websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. But this is just the beginning - we're moving into a new era called Web 3.0. In Web 3.0, people will be interacting with websites in a whole new way. Instead of just reading articles or watching videos, you'll be able to interact with them directly - by buying things, playing games, or even investing in cryptocurrencies.  In today's podcast, join Howard and Stephanie Kingston as they share their Web 3.0 knowledge and experience, along with advice and suggestions for people who are just starting out. The 3 things you will learn:  Learn from Howard and Stephanie's Web 3.0 journey, how it impacted them, and how it can change things for you too! Useful resources to help you get started with Web 3 and Metaverse. How to better approach your finances and start investing in the Web 3 RESOURCES DISCUSSED GQ Magazine | https://www.gq.com/story/escape-to-zoom-island (Escape to Zoom Island) Kevin Rose | https://twitter.com/kevinrose?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor (Podcast) | https://twitter.com/kevinrose?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor (Twitter) Mr money moustache | https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/ (Blog) Tim Ferris | https://tim.blog/podcast/ (Podcast) Rich dad poor dad | https://www.amazon.com/Rich-Dad-Poor-Teach-Middle/dp/1612680194 (Amazon) The Simple Path to Wealth | https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Path-Wealth-financial-independence/dp/1737724103/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= (Amazon) The Psychology of Money | https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Money-hardback-Timeless-happiness/dp/0857199099/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1659385926&sr=1-1 (Amazon) Moonbirds | https://www.moonbirds.xyz/ (Website) Admit One | https://g.money/ (Website) Cpg pop | https://market.cryptopackagedgoods.com/collections/0x7eaa96d48380802a75ed6d74b91e2b30c3d474c1 (Website) Artblocks | https://www.artblocks.io/ (Website) | https://www.artblocks.io/project/0 (The cromy sqeekle) Crypto punks | https://v1punks.io/ (Website) PEOPLE: Howard Kingston | https://twitter.com/howardvk (Twitter) Stephanie Kingston | https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-kingston-23a20036 (Linkedin) 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) 

Chris Osborn is the Founder and CEO of Dialect, a smart messaging protocol that powers seamless, on-chain messaging experiences, starting with wallet-to-wallet chat and dapp notifications. Joe McCann guest hosts. 00:49 - Origin Story02:06 - What is Dialect?05:59 - What are the blockers in Web 3.0?07:46 - Why Solana?11:11 - Looked into other ecosystems?13:52 - What is the process to use Dialect?22:31 - Using Solana Pay with Dialect27:22 - In-game messaging28:36 - Dialect's operations and current projects31:03 - Exciting projects in web 3.034:53 - NFTs and Messaging DISCLAIMERThe information on this podcast is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, without any express or implied warranty of any kind, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, or fitness for any particular purpose.The information contained in or provided from or through this podcast is not intended to be and does not constitute financial advice, investment advice, trading advice, or any other advice.The information on this podcast is general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented on this podcast without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional broker or financial advisor. Joe (00:10):Hey everybody. Welcome back to the Solana Podcast. It is Joe McCann here again as your guest host, and today we have a very special guest, founder and CEO of Dialect, Chris Osborn.Chris (00:23):Hey Joe, it's great to be here.Joe (00:25):It's great to have you. So I'm really excited about today's episode because what you are doing at Dialect, I think, unlocks a lot of really interesting use cases in the Solana ecosystem, but first I think it might be useful for the listeners to kind of get a sense of who you are, your background and frankly, how you even got started with Dialect.Chris (00:49):So my background is actually in physics. I did my PhD in Atomic Physics at Columbia University. So this WAs like laser cooling and trapping of atoms, precision time measurements and quantum computing stuff. I learned pretty quickly that what I really loved to do is write software and build technology, so I knew after graduating that I wanted to move to the West Coast and work on some cool technology problems. I actually had an opportunity to split the difference and I worked at Rigetti Computing. I don't know if you're familiar, they're a quantum computing startup and got to work on almost every part of their stack, including a lot of software and technology.I helped lead one of the three teams that launched quantum cloud services, which was like AWS for quantum computing, and that helped me realize that I really love kind of like bridging the gap between hard tech and consumer problems and how do users interact with hard tech, and got the itch to build a startup. So actually I started this company outside of crypto and participated in YC. We were building a consumer investing product and pivoted the company actually last fall or early last fall full force induced Solana and started building Dialect.Joe (02:01):Yeah, that's great. I mean, can you maybe just in a few words, like what is Dialect?Chris (02:07):Yeah, so with Dialect what we're doing is we're building what we're calling a smart messaging protocol for DApp notifications and wallet-to-wallet chat. Those are the first two use cases that we're working on. And the best way to think about it is kind of like a decentralized inbox, a way to enable the messaging primitive between wallets. I personally like to think about kind of like hair on fire burning use cases, the things that people need today, and one of the major use cases here is giving DApps a way to connect directly with their users. And that's through the main mechanism that users identify themselves on the blockchain, which is with wallets.Joe (02:46):So cool. So, I mean, I remember meeting you many, many months ago last year and was really blown away because one of the kind of gaps that I was seeing in a lot of Web 3.0 Applications, irrespective of the underlying chain, was the ability to have like native notifications that are genuinely on chain and not using a service like Twilio or a Web 2.0 or cloud computing context. So the users kind of better understand what Dialect is and can enable, you can kind of walk through maybe some canonical use cases of Dialect?Chris (03:22):Yeah, absolutely. So the use case that got me into it right away like that first just really compelling use case is if you're using a collateralized lending protocol. You lend in token A and you borrow out token B and as prices move, if you become under collateral, the protocol or many protocols will end up liquidating your collateral on an underlying market. And in a world without messages and notifications, basically up until today, a lot of early DeFi users relied on just like a poll mechanism. Like I got to constantly come back to this product and refresh the browser and see how are my positions doing? And there've actually been some like kind of remarkable situations where when there were dramatic price movements, people could see that there was a wallet address on chain that was at risk of a very large liquidation and folks were like, "How do we get in touch with this user? How do we actually contact them and let them know that there's a problem?"And so there's no question that there's like a huge need here. Liquidations were the start, we're now working with projects across DeFi in various capacities, DAOs is another really big use case we can talk about in a little bit and NFTs. So alerts about really important situations, obviously those are kind of like that first use case, but the holy grail with messaging is user retention and engagement. So even if you get beyond emergency situations across whether it's like NFTs and more social, or whether it's DAOs and collaboration, there's just like infinite use cases for technology like this.Joe (04:58):That's really cool. I mean, I agree. It feels like almost every Web 3.0 project or protocol is going to need notifications in some capacity. I mean, I know myself I've been in those positions where I need to add more collateral to a position and I have to keep going back to it, or more recently using some of the structured product vaults that are out there where you can... if you want to say redeem some of your investment, maybe the interest that you've earned, you have to just kind of set a calendar invite.Chris (05:27):That's exactly right. That's right.Joe (05:28):Yeah. So to me that's some friction for end users, but it seems like a solvable problem and it sounds like that's what Dialect is doing. But I'm curious because today in like a Web 2.0 Kind of cloudy world, push notifications, email notifications, in-browser notifications, they just seem so commonplace to implement. So why is it that you think that this hasn't really been a thing yet in Web 3.0 ? What's been kind of the blocker and maybe then we can talk about why you chose Solana?Chris (06:01):Yeah, this is actually a really... This is a super cool problem. The blocker is the following, and obviously nothing's ever truly a strict blocker, it's really just a question of sort of like what are your priorities and what are you working on? So in Web 2.0if you're like a typical startup, you're already running some backend service that's got a database and it's got some synchronous and asynchronous processes. And if you're building in Web 2.0, there's tons of Web 2.0 tooling to support you. And so right into one of those backend services, you can sign up for Twilio, get your authentication keys, store them as environment variables and then anytime there's a specific process where you want to send a user a text message, you just fire it off. Same exact kind of Web 2.0 SaaS system exists for Apple push notifications, Android, SendGrid email, all that. Where things get interesting in Web 3.0 is typically, and especially with like the more really Web 3.0 native projects, whether that's in DeFi, NFTs, wherever, your backend is the blockchain.And there's some basic things that are different with most blockchains like Solana or Ethereum, and that's that most information is public. So you can't store sort of like secret credentials on chain and then in addition, you can't make HTTP requests to some other SaaS. So like the SaaS model breaks down when you start building in blockchain, so if you want to support these use cases for your users, you basically have to like expand your engineering footprint, spin up some Web 2.0 services that perform two processes. One is monitor the blockchain for the events that you care about and then number two is decide that you're going to send messages accordingly, whether that's like Twilio, email or push notifications. So that's part one and then part two, to answer your question about why Solana, and this comes back to my personal journey in crypto.So a friend told me about Bitcoin way back in like 2011. Around that time, I was first exposed to the proof of work concept. It's like easily top five most incredible things that I've learned in my life. I didn't start working in crypto until now, but that had a huge impact on me and I've been following along with everything that's been happening in crypto since then. So heard about Ethereum in 2016 when it... I think it launched in 2016. And what Bitcoin did with proof of work decentralization and then Ethereum did for generalizing compute on-chain and in a decentralized fashion, I discovered Solana in late 2020, I think early October, 2020. For me what Bitcoin and Ethereum did, Solana's proof of history and how it scales technology for ultra fast transaction settlement times, ultra low transaction fee costs, that to me was as impactful. So I see that in the direct lineage of technology.So, that was like late 2020, and DeFi Summer was in full force. I was starting to use more and more technology like more and more Web 3.0 native apps. Over the course of that year I mentioned I was working on a separate project, I saw the Solana ecosystem just absolutely explode. It was like a literal Cambrian explosion. So by the time it was like late summer of 2021, I was taking a hard look at what I was currently working on and then I was looking at Solana and saying every extra week that I'm not working on solana is just a huge missed opportunity. And pulled the trigger and moved full force into Solana. Solana's transaction costs and speed opened up an enormous new design space that is really not feasible if you want to build a truly on-chain messaging system on some other blockchains.So if you're looking at fractions of a tenth of a penny in terms of the transaction costs and then subsecond, you know 400 millisecond block times, that enables a very large new design space. So what I saw at the time was this opportunity to build a whole new SaaS layers. So with Dialect we're building developer tooling, we want to provide this end user experience for developers to build into their own DApps. And when you have any orders of magnitude improvement in performance, it just opens up a very large new space to build in, so to me it was a no brainer. There was no question in my mind. So I've been a blockchain enthusiast for over 10 years, but Solana was that threshold. That was sort of that Rubicon where I just knew this is this, it's now time to build.Joe (10:22):Yeah. I mean, I feel like in other ecosystems, something like this... I don't want to say it's not possible, it just seems like it's impractical. And I think Solana's design where it has this incredibly cheap transaction fee and speed is perfectly suited for something like Dialect and on-chain messaging, if you will. But have you dug into say other chains like maybe something in the Cosmos Ecosystem or even just Ethereum? And did you evaluate whether or not this could be done or was it just kind of like at the baseline look, Ethereum is like pretty expensive for transaction and relatively slow block times, this is just going to work for say push notifications or wallet-to-wallet messaging?Chris (11:12):Yeah, so that's a great question. I would say the following: there are some wallet-to-wallet chat and communication tools on Ethereum and with many of them, what you do is you authenticate with your wallet, but the messages may be stored off-chain somewhere else. And that's not obviously a total deal breaker. In general, I think the authentication problem... I know it's not specific to messaging, but it obviously takes really like a front seat in messaging of who's sending these messages, and the general problem of authenticating with your wallet is just a fun design space. So we're personally really excited to see messaging come online on some other blockchains. If you really want to run a fully on-chain experience where the message source of truth is on-chain, Solana really has several orders of magnitude on a lot of these competing chains.Not that that's necessarily the future that exists long term, it may actually make sense for there to be more of a data centric L1 that stores these messages. And so the choice for us coming full circle on this question is Solana presented an opportunity for us to build relatively small architectural footprint. That means let's just keep as much on Solana as possible. We're decentralized first, we're not storing any messages in say fire base or any other Web2 services, and really provide that great experience, and it's really just a question now of where go.Messaging between wallet is such an important and compelling use case, and I think we're seeing a lot more projects come online now that this problem's inevitably going to be solved in a cross chain manner. We are excited about that future, but we're a hundred percent focused on Solana for now. We also say, I didn't necessarily explicitly say this earlier, but Solana's proof of history concept and the way that it works, some of the first podcasts I listened to about that in summer and fall of 2020, just really blew my mind. So another big piece of it is go where there's just exciting technology, where the developers are extremely talented and everybody's really enthusiastic. For us, there's just a no brainer, we a blast on Solana.Joe (13:15):I hear that very, very often these days, there's been quite a bit of interest from developers; in a lot of cases, developers who have never written an Ethereum app or any sort of other Web 3.0 app or just diving into Solana and loving it. So speaking of developers, as a developer, how do I use Dialect? Can you kind of walk us through the scenario? Is there an SDK? Is there a token I need to have? What is the kind of process if I'm a protocol or a project today that wants or needs on-chain messaging or notifications for my protocol or project? How do I get started?Chris (13:54):Let me answer in two parts. Number one is what you do today. Our messaging protocol is live and audited on the Solana main net, and we have open sourced our protocol and Web 3.0 client we build with Anchor. I really love anchor, it's one of our favorite toolkits we've worked with. So you can import that Web 3.0 client directly into your web app or some other process, some other service that you're running and you can get started sending messages right away. As I mentioned, even for DApp notifications, the primitive is wallet-to-wallet messaging. So in the same way that you might receive an email from a business, some kind of notification they're sending from an email address that they manages the business, the same thing goes here; you manage a key pair that you do your messaging with. So you can import our protocol and just start sending and receiving messages.The main way that most projects interact with our tooling is two-part though, two layers on top of that core protocol. Number one is if you're a DApp and you need to send a notification to a user or a message saying that they're at risk of liquidation, let's come back to this liquidation example. You need to be monitoring the blockchain to detect that there's this event where you then programmatically send the messages. The same thing goes historically with Twilio or SendGrid, you incorporate this code into your services. So like we talked about earlier, you need to be running these off-chain services that help determine that events are happening and to write messages. And we offer open source tooling around this, it's called our monitor framework and our monitoring service, which is our opinionated way about how to host that. And you can then basically spin this up yourself, or you can host with us and you use that to write the very minimal code that's specific to your protocol.So let's say you have some way to query for the users or the wallets obligations, which is a term that lending protocols use, and you can get your collateral health or your risk of liquidation directly from that data. Our monitoring service allows you to fetch that data, basically write the code that's specific to your protocol and then that gets piped into kind of like a reactive framework that we use to determine whether or not to send messages. So this is monitoring tooling that's specifically custom built for figuring out to send a message and it can work very flexibly with other kinds of tooling. Maybe it's like you've got a Kafka messaging queue, or some other kinds of... Some projects actually have fairly sophisticated Web 2.0 infrastructure, but they're still interested in working with us because we handle the hard problem to just making sure at most one and just at least one message get fired off to a user.The second half is how do you surface these messages to users? So today what we're solving, what we're live with are what we're calling in-app notifications. So think about your favorite Web 2.0 product; you sign in, and maybe somewhere in the nav bar you see a little notification bell and it's a button and you can click to see that there are messages or something you need to know about from that product. Today, we offer basically like a single React component. We're prioritizing React, most projects, web apps are built in React, where you can drop that single component into the nav bar of your DApp and right out of the box if a user clicks that notification, they have the opportunity to fully onboard to the notification experience all within that single component. So it's like a model that pops up that allows you to say yes, I'd like to enable notifications for this app.And then once you've done that, you can kind of see what are you going to get notifications around. So it might be warnings about pending liquidations, it might be liquidations themselves, it might be actually more receipt style messages. So it might be an order filled if you're using a DEX where orders fill asynchronously, it can be things around DAO collaborations. So one of the major use cases that DAOs we've been speaking to have been interested in is engagement and retention on voting. So you might receive notifications from a DAO telling you that you have six hours left to vote on a proposal, or that there's a new proposal, or that maybe you're near a quorum on the voting threshold needed to pass or reject a proposal. So there's all these different use cases and really you get that right out of the box directly in your nav bar with this single React component. So that's in-app notifications.What's coming soon and coming back to this question of just the broader messaging thesis, we're launching support soon for email, Telegram, possibly text message, other kinds of Web 2.0 means because the reality is even if the thesis and the vision is fully on-chain messaging, we live in a world where many users rely on and really appreciate getting messages via Web 2.0. So email's a no-brainer, and a lot of projects have asked us to support that so that's coming online very soon. And then Telegram is a little more of like a Web 3.0 native messaging solution that's still off-chain, and a lot of projects have asked us for support on that. So you can think of the Dialect standard as both the on-chain messaging standard, as well as a suite of really out of the box tooling to allow DApps to reach their users however they want.Joe (19:13):What's really interesting about how you're thinking about building out your company and the protocol and kind of the suite of products is that it reminds me of kind of like early days of Twilio. So I wrote a blog post many years ago, probably 10 years ago now about how over-the-top messaging was really kind of this new platform play. We've seen through the myriad messaging apps and then kind of the power of iMessage on Apple and the blue bubble versus the green bubble. I think there's now a regulation coming out of the EU that all these messaging apps have to inter-op with each other. But that took many, many years and I think Twilio really captured a lot of the developer mind share around creating these kind of suites of messaging products and it started with SMS. And so you mentioned something like Telegram, which I think everybody in crypto lives and dies in Telegram. I can barely keep up with myself.Chris (20:17):That's right.Joe (20:17):I've written some Telegram bots and they're pretty easy if you have a fundamental understanding of how webhooks work. Is that something that Dialects will enable? Is that like maybe some arbitrary webhook could fire? Or is it something that needs to be actually he baked into the on-chain program itself?Chris (20:34):Yeah, so it's not actually for support. We want to keep the part on-chain as light and simple as possible and so you can think of these web two channels such as Telegram as really just parallel rails. So you have the detection of an event that a user wants to hear about and that's monitoring data on-chain, and then you have various channels which may purely be in one user's case, "Oh, I just want to get an email, or I just want to get a Telegram message from a bot that's managed by the project." The developer experience around Twilio and Telegram and whatnot are excellent, but what Dialect provides here, if a DApp is interested in reaching their users by these means is you just get it all out of the box right away. You write a little snippet of code that fetches the data that determines if a message needs to be sent, and then you say how you want each message to look and that's really all you have to think about.The user will choose how they want to be gotten in touch with directly through the front end tooling that we provide. I think it was actually you, Joe, who mentioned this to us, that one of the key metrics is time to success. Crypto is moving at just an absolute lightning pace and while every project that we've talked to really wants this tooling, it's never quite the first priority that they have. So what we're trying to do is really make that as simple as possible for these projects to integrate us.Joe (21:53):So let's talk about some of the categories that exist, not just broadly in Web 3.0, but I would argue is probably more suited towards Solana, particularly the payment space. So Solana Pay has launched, there's lot of people building a lot of really interesting stuff with Solana Pay from point of sale solutions to web apps and mobile apps, et cetera. Can you kind of walk me through an example of how say someone that wants to build something with Solana Pay would utilize Dialect. Chris (22:26):Yeah, this is actually a really fun topic. Ever since Solana Pay got launched, the team and I have just been super excited about the messaging use cases there. This is also a good template for talking about our smart messaging thesis, so I'm going to segue from Solana Pay into a broader discussion here, but I would start by saying the following: Solana Pay is a standard for being able to perform transactions, being able to perform transfers between wallets on-chain and there is a very compelling messaging use case here. If you think about some of the standards in Web 2.0 , whether it's Apple Pay for transferring, or Venmo or Square Cash, that kind of dynamic experience of being able to message between users and actually take action on the message. One of our key insights with Dialect is this smart messaging standard we're building toward, and you can think of that kind of like an interactive link preview.In every DApp that you use where you connect your wallet, you have signing privileges everywhere. And so where we're building and this... A few minutes ago I said, "Here's where Dialect is today and the question is where we're going." In this smart messaging future, we're allowing users to send basically interactive link previews and you can think of a transfer request as one of the simplest use cases there. So for example, if you want to send a transfer request by a Dialect message to one of your friends directly at their wallet address, you can send that and then they can take action right in the message, whether that's scanning a QR code that's rendered for them, or it's clicking a send payment message. Coming back to some of the use cases we talked a little while ago about such as liquidation, warnings or DAO proposals and voting prompts, the holy grail in user retention and engagement is being able to reach them and have them be able to take action right where you're messaging with them.In Web 2.0 beyond these app specific use cases, whether it's a Venmo transfer request or similar, most of the time if you get an email, there's a link in the email and you have to click that and go out to another app. And maybe you're not logged in on your phone so you say, "Okay, in five hours when I'm back at my computer I'll take care of this." Or similar with a text message. What's really unique about messaging in Web 3.0 is that we can build a standard where you can take action right in the message. So whether it's Solana Pay, whether it's a vote yes or a vote no on a proposal, or it's a quick deposit to top up your collateral to avoid liquidation, any of those things with Dialect and our smart messaging standard, what we're building toward is that kind of Web 3.0 native future. So the last thing I would say about this is, yes, it's true that messaging and notifications are this really critical missing piece of Web 3.0 and it's just a really known hair on fire problem. When we got started on Dialect, the question we asked ourselves is not just how we fill in that missing piece, but also how we take Web 3.0to a place that Web 2.0 can't as easily go. And this is because our thesis is Web 3.0 is going to reach mass adoption because of exciting and really compelling delightful new use cases that products are going to start to come online, whether they take advantage of universal authentication like we're talking about now, whether they take advantage of composability of sort of the global shared state of all the data existing on a single blockchain, those are the use cases that are going to make it really compelling for the first billion users to onboard to Web 3.0. This is our thesis with smart messaging and Solana Pay is a really key and interesting part of that picture.Joe (26:18):I'll be honest, that is fascinating because one of the cool things about what you're mentioning is that push notifications or in-app notifications become actionable. You can actually do something right there-Chris (26:33):That's right.Joe (26:34):... versus it being this sort of delayed or async process. And so the use cases really open up pretty dramatically because of the fact that these messages are now interactive and you can do things with them.Chris (26:50):That's right.Joe (26:50):And have you guys thought through maybe where this could potentially work in like the context of a video game or even like the metaverse? There's a lot of Web 3.0 games/metaverse type environments being created and I'm curious if sort of in-game messaging makes sense or if it's something that is slightly different?Chris (27:18):Yeah, in-game messaging I think is a fantastic use case, and we've spent a little less time talking to gaming projects. I think just because that's a little early on, as we have say, talking to DeFi, NFT, DAO projects. But one of the things I'm most excited about is sort of the universality of NFTs as assets and all of the infrastructure that's being built around the things that you achieve and the assets that you acquire in-game end up having a life and a value beyond that game. It's really compelling to us that there be interactive sort of like smart message experiences around that content, at the very least. So I think gaming is an incredibly exciting in use case.Joe (28:05):Awesome. Yeah, I could see a lot of really cool integrations being utilized there and they just kind of don't exist today. I mean, frankly, there aren't a lot of Web 3.0 games period, but I know a lot of them are coming online later this year. What about like the traction of the company and folks that you're working with today? I know since you pivoted Dialect into this smart messaging protocol business things have really started to heat up. Can you talk about maybe how many people you're kind of signing up or any projects that are currently utilizing your product today?Chris (28:38):Yeah, that's right. We're talking to a few dozen projects right now across a lot of the verticals that I mentioned earlier. We're going live with a handful of our first projects that we've publicly announced so far. So that includes Squads and meaning on the DAO tooling side, Jet Protocol on the lending side, Bridgesplit on the NFT and NFT fractionalization space. Oh, on protocol Friktion is another project, you mentioned structured products earlier and it's been a real joy working with them. One of the things that we believe is it's best to like dog food your own tooling to make it better. So we've just straight up been rolling our sleeves up to help build out with them, and that helps us get better and better at our developer tooling.Then there's just this other wave, as I mentioned, a few dozen other projects that we can't talk about quite yet, but are extremely excited to support. And to support all these projects, we've also been growing the team pretty quickly as well. So there's a lot going on right now and as we talked about earlier, it's an incredibly compelling use case. This technology has to exist, at the very least receiving an email or a text message or a Telegram message. But where things really catch and where we really have a great time with our conversations is around this smart messaging future that we're building out, and that's when I think folks get really excited about the opportunity.Joe (30:07):Yeah. I mean, I completely agree. It's really hard to imagine a scenario where an app isn't going to need some form of messaging or notifications. And given the direction and the future of the company and where you guys want to take the product and protocol, it seems inevitable that folks are going to be adopting this. So maybe talk a little bit about how you're envisioning the future. You know, you have a very specific view into what you're doing with Dialect, but by engaging with all these different projects and protocols, you can get like an interesting view into what things are happening, what things are coming out soon, and maybe where you see things heading. The space is evolving and changing so rapidly and quickly that it's hard to predict anything, but what are some things that you kind of see in the future not necessarily just for Dialect, but also you Web 3.0 in general and how maybe Dialect plays a role in that?Chris (31:05):Yeah. I think if there were a single theme and I'm not alone in saying this, it's just really what got me into crypto in the first place and it's incredible to see it beginning to happen. I would say the thesis here is composability, so any blockchain that really makes global shared state a possibility. I think it might have been Chris Dixon who said composability is like compounding interest, it just causes this exponential runaway in technology. And the things I'm most excited about and we are most excited about at Dialect is that composability. So whether it's being able to exchange information and perform financial actions between DeFi protocols or it's the financialization that's going into some gaming tools that are coming online, like you said, that rely on some DeFi infrastructure like... To me, this is why it's going to be the sort of killer consumer experiences that come of composability and global shared state that are really going to make for the next big wave in Web 3.0.Chris (32:09):And the way we're interested in that in our own small way with Dialect, and I didn't mention this earlier, is one of our visions here with smart messaging is creating a kind of decentralized inbox. So as we mentioned, our tooling today supports these on chain messages delivered directly to any given DApp where the user enables and then can consume those messages in the DApp itself. But those messages can be consumed by anyone and so there's this other half of the problem that we're working on that's coming online soon, where for example, a mobile wallet could have an entire inbox and messaging section. And now you're talking about no matter which DApps you've enabled, you're receiving a true iOS or Android push notification directly to that mobile messaging experience that you have there, and that's just yet another example of composability. And so, like I said, I'm not alone in being incredibly excited about this but it really is, I think, the kind of compounding developer experience that's just going to create a whole new set of really exciting consumer... Like a new kind of internet consumer experience.Joe (33:18):That's awesome and I agree. I think one of the areas that is no short of discussion in Web 3.0 is NFTs. I've talked about this on some Twitter spaces and other podcasts where right now we're just kind of in the infancy of what NFTs can unlock. You know, there's obviously the art aspect of it, there's in video game assets, et cetera, et cetera. But one of the things that I am interested to hear your take on, and maybe how this correlates to Dialect is NFT is in a person's wallet, it's on chain, but the person interacting with the wallet is a customer, a user, and I think a lot of companies want to be able to engage with their customers and users more directly. So is there a scenario where I have an NFT in my wallet and depending on the NFT mentor or something, maybe it's a brand, maybe it's a company, maybe it's an artist, maybe it's a musician, has a way to either via the NFT directly or utilizing Dialect, be able to kind of communicate with me directly?Joe (34:31):An example I always give is imagine Starbucks wants to airdrop, I don't know, some seasonal loyalty program thing, right? Christmas, Easter, or whatever, spring break, you name it, and it's for people that have this NFT in their wallet and they want to airdrop them something or be able to communicate with them. Is this something that Dialect would unlock or do you think this is something that's more kind of NFT specific?Chris (34:55):To be honest, I thought you'd never ask about this. This is this third part of smart messaging that we are just beyond excited about. It touches on a few different things, but maybe I'll just say briefly that another key aspect of Web 2.0 messaging that I think to many of us feels very broken is this question of sort of like cold inbound and marketing and spam. With Web 3.0's inherent financialization, there is this very natural situation where you can basically tokenize messaging and create markets around how different entities communicate with each other. And on the two extremes there, or maybe let's talk about three, two to three points on the spectrum here. If you Joe and I just want to message with each other, there's sort of mutual opt-in in the exchange of a token and we can just message with each other.Similarly, if there's a business that I really love and I want to opt-in let's say, like you mentioned, I think you said Starbucks, I'll opt into that and there may be some implicit under the hood kind of exchange of a token that allows for that messaging. There's also scenarios where businesses want to get in touch with individuals that they think are high value, and that's a cold inbound scenario. In that scenario, a business might need to actually buy one of these tokens of yours on an exchange in order to engage with you.By financializing that component of cold inbound, I think one, it creates a much more harmonious kind of like cold messaging experience in Web 3.0 that in many ways is a bit much in Web 2.0, but in the mutual opt-in scenario or the messaging is effectively like vanishingly small cost or effectively free. And powering all of this, kind of coming back to your point about NFTs, is the NFT primitive. So this is a technology in an architecture we're exploring right now and it's very likely that NFTs will serve that use case. It's a kind of technology in a use case that we're just like beyond excited about.Joe (36:59):Fascinating conversation today with you, Chris. I really appreciate it. The future's bright for Dialect, the use cases that you've outlined are kind of no brainers, but what I'm really excited about is what we unlock in a Web 3.0 native context for smart messaging. I want to thank you today for joining the Solana Podcast. How can people actually get in contact with you? Are you on Telegram or Twitter? If they want to contact Dialect and get in touch, what's the best way of doing that?Chris (37:26):Yeah, the best way to get in touch with us is on Twitter and our Twitter handle is @saydialect, that's S-A-Y D-I-A-L-E-C-T. We love engaging with the community. Developer feedback, we live and die off of that, and so if you have complaints about our technology, have feature requests, any of that, send it our way. We're also on Discord. We have a Discord community, you can join that from our bio in Twitter. And then the last thing I would say is we're hiring, and so if this technology is interesting to you, we would love, love, love to work with you.Joe (38:02):Well, you heard it here first folks. Chris Osborn, computer scientist in the quantum physics space turned smart messaging protocol engineer and architect. Chris, thanks so much for joining the Solana Podcast. Looking forward to chatting with you again soon. See ya.Chris (38:18):Thank you very much, Joe. It was my pleasure.

Web 3 is the next generation of the internet that aims at shifting power from big tech companies to individual users. What this means is that, rather than availing themselves of free tech platforms in exchange for their data, users can participate in the governance and operation of the protocols themselves. As a result, they become participants and shareholders, not just customers or products. In Web 3, these shares are called tokens or cryptocurrencies, and they represent ownership of decentralised networks known as blockchains. MVP Workshop is a Serbian venture builder company focused on Web3, instrumental in creating over 50 blockchain products, including 2 unicorn companies, Celsius Network and Polygon. The company works on several blockchain projects focused on FinTech, Supply Chain, Asset Management and Healthcare. Ivan Bjelajac, a serial entrepreneur, one of the founders and the CEO of MVP Workshop, speaks with Andrew Wrobel about the future of blockchain technology. They also speak about his earlier experience in building Devana Technologies – one of the most successful Serbian tech companies whose solutions were acquired by GoDaddy, as well as his other successes and failures.

How will it affect our everyday lives as the internet of things evolves? whether consciousness will exist in virtual worlds? How will the metaverse impact our day-to-day lives? Intro: Hi, I am Neeti Keswaani, and Welcome to Luxury Unplugged This is a podcast for entrepreneurs like you wanting to simplify your work life, and enhance productivity. Also, Time and again we bring to you stories around Luxury lifestyle that gives an edge to your growth mindset. Let's start with Web 1, which was made up of basic websites and Google Search. In Web 2.0, we gained access to social media networks. We're now living in Web 3.0, when decentralized internet reigns supreme. So, what's next? The Metaverse. The Metaverse is the next evolution of the internet, made up of virtual worlds that are realistic and interactive. Think of it as a parallel universe where you can explore, learn, and play without geographical boundaries. What's more, the Metaverse will be accessible through augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies. As the internet of things evolves, so too will the Metaverse, with implications for our everyday lives. If you Like this episode, be sure to subscribe so that you are notified when a new episode is posted ! What are some examples of how the Metaverse might impact us? Consider education... Listen to the full episode of Luxury Unplugged Podcast here: https://geni.us/lupbsp Spotify: https://geni.us/luxupbtrailer Apple: https://geni.us/applepodcastslupb Listen to Content Marketing tips and trends based podcast: "Content is King" on Spotify:https://geni.us/CIKPIanchorlc Apple:https://geni.us/cikpb Grab a copy of Bestselling Book 'Live Your Dreams' here:  https://geni.us/liveyourdreamsbook Blog : @plush-ink https://geni.us/pilupodcast   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/luxuryunpluggedpodcast/message

Web 3 – also known as “Web3″ or “Web 3.0″ – is a term you may of heard thrown around a lot lately. It simply refers to the next iteration of the internet that promotes decentralized protocols and aims to reduce dependency on large tech companies like Youtube, Netflix and Amazon. Web 1 – arrived in the late 1990s and comprised a collection of links and homepages. Websites weren't particularly interactive. You couldn't do much apart from read things and publish basic content for others to read. Web 2 came next. Some people call this the “read/write” version of the internet, in reference to a computer code that lets you both open and edit files rather than just view them. This version of the Internet allowed people to not only consume content, but create their own and publish it on blogs like Tumblr, Internet forums and marketplaces like Craigslist. Later, the emergence of social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram took content sharing to new heights. Web 3 can be understood as the “read/write/own” phase of the Internet. Rather than just using free tech platforms in exchange for our data, users can participate in the governance and operation of the protocols themselves. This means people can become participants and shareholders, not just customers or products. In Web 3, these shares are called tokens or cryptocurrencies, and they represent ownership of decentralized networks known as blockchains. If you hold enough of these tokens, you have a say over the network. Holders of governance tokens can spend their assets to vote on the future of, say, a decentralized lending protocol.

Today's podcast is part 1 of 4 (maybe 5) podcasts about the Metaverse and what it really means to the real estate industry, real estate agents and our future.  1 - What is the Metaverse? The Metaverse can be defined as a simulated digital environment that uses augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and blockchain, along with concepts from social media, to create spaces for rich user interaction mimicking the real world. Blockchain is defined as a system in which a record of transactions made in bitcoin or another cryptocurrency are maintained across several computers that are linked in a peer-to-peer network.   Reminder, you promised yourself you would become a HARRIS Coaching client. You are done wasting time and ready to follow a proven path. Now, while you are here make the next natural step and join the 1000s of other agents as a HARRIS Real Estate University coaching member. No more waiting or procrastinating. Join now. Here is the quick and simple enrollment.—-> YES, Enroll Me Now In Premier Coaching. I WILL make NOW my best year ever!  Over the next few years, the Metaverse could become a literal parallel universe. Or perhaps, there are many different metaverses and you will virtually go from one 'metaverse' to another. Metaverse is a term, not a company name. The metaverse may be what will become known as Web 3.0.  If the Metaverse is becoming Web 3.0, how do we define Web 1.0 and Web 2.0? Web 1.0 was the first stage or iteration of the internet. There were not many content creators and most internet users were consumers. It was characterized by few people creating content and more people on the internet consuming content. This was a simple model, based mainly on just viewing content. Web 2.0 started being used as a term around 1999 and is the internet that we've all grown accustomed to using today. In Web 2.0, content consumers were encouraged to become content creators. Rather than taking a passive approach to internet use by simply viewing, Web 2.0 provided an environment where more users could become active participants. Most if not all of the top 10 visited sites on the internet are based on user created content.  Web 2.0 allowed individuals to publish articles and comments, and users could create accounts on different sites, which ultimately encouraged participation and increased the number of people regularly using the internet. Web 2.0 was structured in a way that encouraged more people to create unique content. Web 2.0 has been characterized by the rise of apps, platforms that enabled self-publishing like WordPress and Squarespace, and social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube. These websites emphasize user-generated content, participation, and user-friendly layouts, which are all distinct characteristics of Web 2.0. In simple terms, Web 2.0 transitioned to the idea of "the internet as a platform." Web 2.0 is the transition that the internet went through after the dot-com bubble, but the internet is once again in the process of transitioning. This new stage of the internet will provide new benefits to users and content creators. In Web 3.0, data will be connected in a decentralized way, unlike generation 2.0 of the internet in which data is primarily stored in centralized storage locations. In Web 3.0, users will also be able to interact with data through the use of AI (artificial intelligence) and machine learning technology.  The use of AI will allow data to be provided to users faster, and the data that is provided will be more relevant to each user. We are beginning to see the use of this technology in the internet through algorithms that are used to suggest products, videos, etc., to users based on their previous searches. However, the technology in Web 3.0 will be even more advanced. MSN was the source for much of the above explanations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rekt-report-issue-25-blockchain-questions-answered-rob-mowryThis year, I'm investing time into sharpening up my presentations to a general audience on blockchain topics. There's a huge appetite in the Los Angeles area for people that can come in and explain these complicated topics. I'm happy to do these to sharpen up my ability to communicate some of these often opaque topics and am doing them about once a week.I enjoy getting feedback from audiences because it allows me to determine what parts of my presentations are the most impactful and, like a stand up comedian will tighten up their set, I use this as a good barometer of what to focus on and further build out and what to cut. Another good exercise is ask the audience afterwards: what was the real takeaway from this one or two hour presentation that you'll take with you?When I read a book, I like to write down a handful of thoughts, every hour, so that I can review impactful points, because after reading for five hours, I'm not going to be able to immediately recall all of the salient points that hit me at various times. People have limited free time and public speakers have a duty to get right to the point of the most impactful topics that's relevant to an audience.I had a conversation about content structure with a colleague whose writing I enjoy and we discussed the push to impactful brevity. Blockchain influencers and fund managers are integrating memes and shorter form content by looking to the standard that if you can communicate something in less words, as impactfully as something that is haphazardly spilled out on a page, then it's an imperative that you do so. Every minute that something isn't tightly wound into something that's highly readable, you've introduced the potential to lose the reader so to the extent that you can prevent against that you must.In one of my recent presentations, I fielded questions during the slides, and I thought that in this Rekt Report, and ones that follow, that I would answer specific questions that I seem to be receiving on a recurring basis. Rather than try to weave answers into the context of a longer form article, which I will do from time to time, I think that it would be particularly useful for a blockchain newsletter that's facing the public to piecemeal out answers that are easily digestible. So here goes:What is the Web 3 movement and why is it important?Web 1 was the use of the internet with individual, static websites that were functionally more like online brochures for a business. Web 2, which has been the past decade, is the era of centralization where you login to your profile on a platform of a tech behemoth. They control the rules to the game, own your images, and you're creating content for them, much like writing for a regional newspaper about your life, telling all your friends about it, and doing so for free while the newspaper rakes in advertising.Web 3 seeks to break the monopolistic control of tech companies who, first and foremost, have their profits in mind to meet analyst numbers projections and operate despite the preponderance of evidence that that their sensationalist algorithms, coded to foment extreme reactions that will engage users enough to stay on their platform, are deleterious to one's mental health. The most savvy tech minds, like Professor Cal Newport, embrace a tech minimalism, with all social media apps off of one's phone, in observation of the toxicity of this phenomenon. If an activity is deleterious to our productivity or overall well-being, common sense would suggest that we disengage to the extent that we can practically, and professionally, do so.By definition, Web 3 refers to a decentralized online ecosystem utilizing the blockchain. The real transformative aspect is that platforms and apps built on Web3 won't be owned by a central gatekeeper, but by an abundance of users, who will earn their ownership stake by helping to develop and maintain those services, even independent of any capital investment! They're investing their time and talents to help a platform scale. This is transformative due to the ability of a great many users to get access to a percentage of a company.In the start-up world, equity or stock options can be awarded but it's often a pittance, if at all, relative to those who founded a project. In Web 3 companies, you could have founders who contributed nothing more than good ideas and a structure to a business, coalesced an group together, and are able to earn a meaningful portion of a fast-moving, potentially highly valuable company for these formative efforts.Already there are awe-inspiring stories of how talented coders have clocked decades in with the top tech firms, but only since they've dived into the world of Web 3 have them be given access to resources such that they can start to plan an exciting retirement. We're quick to jump into the job market, but often slow to create a career plan that understands the transformative power of gaining access to equity, tokens, or tools that allow one to amass wealth outside of the exercise of selling the limited resource of one's time.Why did NFT (Non-Fungible Token) movement eclipse so many other blockchain movements in 2021?In America, when an artist sells a work of art that's, likely, the last they'll see of it. Should they scale to international acclaim and fame and the value of that work goes up 100x, they take no meaningful participation in this appreciation. Contrast this with the European Artist Resale Rights laws, or droit de suite, that remits substantial funds back to artists for every time a public sale takes place for one of their works. This gives fuel to ignite further growthIf you were an art dealer of an artist whom you had a significant amount of early, important works, you would give them studio space, spending cash to travel and exhibit wherever they could, press contacts to pitch themselves for artist profiles, and exhaust every resource you had to help them further their career. In this same way, if you're an investor in an artist, you want them give them access to all of the avenues for potential growth or success that you can. Doing so is very likely to appreciate the value of the art of theirs in excess your contributions to their growth efforts, and, surprisingly, this synergistic relationship is not more aggressively nurtured a lot of times, with some art dealers or collectors choosing to purchase a piece and simply hope that the artist's important grows. You wouldn't invest in a company and then wish them well for a decade, likewise, it is inadvisable, if you're an art dealer, to not nurture these artists if you want them to have a better than not possibility of making it to prominence in their chosen discipline.NFTs have, as the default, a royalty provision that remits money to the wallet making and minting the art, very often the artist's. From an artist's perspective, if you had sold an early work for $100 and, lo and behold, this work was worth 10k, then your 5% royalty share would be worth $500 each time it was sold. This doesn't make selling one's early works of art as distasteful knowing that they'll still be connected with you, at least financially, for the rest of your life and thereafter to be collected by your estate, providing your loves ones with resources after you're gone.NFTs are works of art, on the blockchain, that are written in code by artists themselves so the terms will be favorable to artists in a way they recognize will sustain them such that they can focus full-time on their artistic passions, but they're more than that.Celebrities like it because digital art projects are less fought with potential legal complications associated with security tokens or cryptocurrencies, which often can be perceived by regulatory bodies as de facto securities.Affords opportunities for not only visual artists but also musicians, writers, or other royalty-based creative professionals to integrate their IP on the blockchain in a way that can be seamlessly crowdfunded or collected.Can be linked to trading--options, futures, leveraged trades, or plain vanilla cryptocurrency--positions in a way that will self-settle to the wallet owning the NFT at a particular time.While DeFi has nearly $100 billion staked across various platforms, it's still working out jurisdictional challenges that often introduce friction points. Few of these friction points exist with digital art, which has been a well-established asset class, albeit modest in size compared to most mainstream asset classes, such that you're seeing the largest baseball card companies you grew-up with doing blockchain baseball cards to keep up with NBA Top Shot or other projects that operate using many of the principals of value that hold together the value of a baseball card.As more digital artists come to the conclusion that they can keep their art in a digital form and not have to pay to print their works out and sign them by hand to extract the value they bring to the art world, the larger the NFT market volume will be. Much of the attention in March 2021 was on a singular artist, Beeple, for the watershed $69 million Christie's sale of his 5000 Days work. The months that followed saw the explosion of growth and appreciation of a multitude of individual projects and artists, providing capital for talented digital artists all across the ecosystem, allowing them to double down on their professional passion in a way they had never been able to do heretofore.The same shrewd eye that you focus on an investment you would be best advised to focus on an NFT. Many generative art projects, with entirely anonymous founders, have sprung up and have seen tremendous volume. You have to understand, however, that very often this volume is internal, between the wallet addresses of the founders, such that it's not a true indication of authentic sales activity.

By this point, you should've made your plans and set your goals for 2022. Today, I'm going to give you a birds-eye view of the new version of Web 3.0 and what that means for you.  In Web 1.0, you created your website, blog, and landing pages In Web 2.0, you took to social media where you have been able to go into Facebook and other apps where you can go into groups, have conversations in DMs, and create community pages. Web 3.0 introduces us to Oculus and the Metaverse; this is where you're going to want to be focused on what's coming.  In order to survive and thrive in Web 3.0, you're going to need 4 important skills I'll lay out for you in this episode.  You'll also need the processes to support those 4 skills when the rainfall of abundance comes for you.  I'm also going to drop 3 powerful references of people I personally know that have the lock on what's happening on this planet in real time!  Bring your notepads and get ready to put in the work! #RiseAbove   HOW TO GET INVOLVED:  This planet is based on an algorithm and with every positive action, there is an adverse reaction.  Ryan Stewman rose and overcame a life of addiction, imprisonment, divorce, and circumstances that would break the spirit of the average human being.  He went on to create a powerful network of winners and champions in life and business creating a movement quickly changing lives one day at a time.  The Hardcore Closer Podcast is brought to you by PhoneSites It's the fastest, easiest way to build a dynamic landing page or website in minutes from your mobile or desktop. Get a Free Trial Here--> PhoneSites Learn more at: www.JoinTheApex.com   Follow Ryan's killer sales blog at: HardCore Closer Check out this show and previous killer episodes of The Hardcore Closer Podcast in Apple Podcasts.

In this episode of Masters of Community, we speak with two people at the forefront of Web 3.0 communities. Tiffany Zhong, Founder of Islands and the upcoming GM Academy community that will introduce you to all things Web 3.0. Cooper Turley, Advisor at Audius and Founder of the “Friends With Benefits” community. This episode is full of beginner information that will help you conceptually transition from Web 2.0 communities to Web 3.0 communities. Guests Tiffany and Cooper talk about the unique characteristics of Web 3.0 communities, examples of well-managed Web 3.0 communities, and how to navigate some of the biggest challenges while building Web 3.0 communities. Who is this episode for? Community managers interested in building Web 3.0 communities of their own. Three key takeaways: 1. Web 2.0 Communities vs Web 3.0 Communities: In Web 3.0, you're trying to share value with those who create it in the form of tokens and ownership. In Web 2.0, shared purpose and ownership were never thought of because the decision-making structure was fully centralized. Communities around each of NFT, DAOs, and DeFi have different expectations. Their requirements may also change depending on their growth stage. In Web 3.0, the creator community is incomplete without a community economy. Web 3.0 is taking that promise of web 2.0 building something together, and actually putting an infrastructure behind it. 2. Exemplary Web 3.0 Communities: Cooper's “Friends with Benefits” community is a token-gated community where you need to hold tokens to join a social club that talks about the intersection of culture and technology. For example, Bored Ape Yacht club is focused on real-life activations of digital NFTs, airdrops, etc. The goal of Web 3.0 communities like these is to find ways to give their income back to the community through different projects serving the collective purpose of the community. 3. Preventing Web 3.0 communities from becoming “early-adopter cliques”: Rather than only offering all-in access to everything in that community, you can start to fragment different sections of it and lower the barriers. NFTs will start to become membership tokens, and people will be able to buy in for small time intervals to see if it's a good fit for them and upgrade to a higher tier if required. Access can also be given by granting tokens in exchange for volunteer work instead of direct investment. Notable Quotes: 1. “What Web two brands would say, cool, this is now our revenue or creators would say, cool, this is now my profit. I'm going to go buy a Lambo. Is that right? It's not, how do I share the Lambo with the entire company? That's the shift” “Start using discord. Discord is where most of these communities live. And I think it's a very foreign platform to most people. But if you're looking to get involved with Web 3.0, you need to learn how to navigate.” 2. “Start spending even just ten minutes a day in this space. You don't need to start dedicating your whole workday or week to going forward if you don't have the time, but just doing incremental” 3. “Just go in with an open mindset, but also with no ego and just ask questions. There are no dumb questions. The interesting thing. And the cool thing is that everyone's learning” Answers to rapid-fire questions: 1. How do you see consulting work to help create and build community at the start of a DeFi or similar project? If you are a consultant, I think the best that you can do is provide context on what's already happened. 2. What are the absolute critical priorities to think about when setting up a new community management function? Take charge of project management and keep track of what does what and how they are contributing to the community. 3. What role do you think offline will have in Web 3.0? Offline is where you celebrate community and where you strengthen relationships but online is where it really lives and where the function of it happens on a day. 4. Can't you build a community that is open, transparent, governed, and owned by the community with a stewardship and ownership model like the co-op model in Web 2.0? The notion of holding an asset that's able to increase or decrease in value relative to the growth of that community is really magical. It also gives people the option to either play long-term games or have instant liquidity based on where they are in life. 5. A lot of web three projects have a few different owner groups. How do you keep all these different groups engaged? Everyone is aligned to make the value of community treasury grow. And outside of that, each of the stakeholder groups is doing different things to grow the value of that treasury in very unique ways. 6. Tweet-sized vision for if everything goes perfectly, where do you want to see the world of web 3.0 five years from now? Tiffany: A world where creators are able to get paid what they're worth. A world where all the current web two creators and fans will now become web three community builders and collectors. Cooper: We are in the MySpace era of crypto right now. In five years, the Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter of this world will be created.

In Web 3.0, is it possible to not only generate revenue for yourself through content creation, but for your audience as well? I think this is actually a thing, and maybe we need to begin planning for it. ------- See all Content Inc episodes at the Content Inc. podcast home. Get more by subscribing to TheTilt.com newsletter. Order the new version of Joe's best-selling book today - Content Inc.: Start a Content-First Business, Build a Massive Audience and Become Radically Successful (with little to no money)

Each week, I cover the “So what?” of 5 key crypto stories in about 5 minutes. Let’s go. This week:Federal Reserve OutageMIT to strengthen bitcoinCoinbase is $100B NFT record art sale Dubai Fund sells bitcoin, buys Cardano and PolkadotFederal Reserve outage exposes single point of failureFederal Reserve Bank’s payment systems were out of service for several hours due to an operational error. The impacted services include but not limited to FedACH, FedWire, FedCash, and settlementFedACH system handles direct deposits of payroll, Social Security and income tax refunds as well as scheduled payments for mortgages and utility bills. It supported 62 million transactions a day in 2019. So what?The outage disrupted payment transactions across the economy and highlighted the single point of failure. A pattern could be emerging as FedACH had 2 disruptions in 2019. Recently, I read Sandworm by Andy Greenberg, this book helped drive home the point that the next great war might be fought in cyberspace. High traffic systems with a single point of failure built on dated technology are attractive targets. The US might be better served by a more resilient decentralized system perhaps one that leverages blockchain technology MIT to strengthen bitcoinMIT’s Digital Currency Initiative has launched a 4-year R&D effort to strengthen bitcoin security The program has been endorsed by cryptocurrency industry leadersSo what?Bitcoin ascended from an obscure project to a robust network that secures over $1 trillion in value due to millions of hours invested by open-source developers The program will contribute neutral, expert resources to improve the robustness of Bitcoin protocol and security. This could include exploring new programming languages and pre-emptive investigations against possible attacksI think this is great news particularly in light of the recent outage at the FedCoinbase releases financials ahead of $100B IPOCoinbase, the US leading digital currency exchange, is now expected to be valued over $100B at IPO In 2020, Coinbase reported $322M profit on $1.28B revenue. The company also served 43M retail investors and 7,000 institutional investors. 76% of customers are based in the US. So what?The Block Research has forecasted that Coinbase could generate $2.4B revenue in Q1 2021 alone. That’s more than 2x full year 2020 in the first quarter. IPO at $100B would make Coinbase a top 20 financial services company right below Goldman Sachs and above S&P. The data implies about 10% of Americans have a Coinbase account. It is not farfetched to anticipate the valuation rising 5-10x as adoption of digital currencies scale. Some industry observers believe Coinbase will become a trillion dollar company. Select Coinbase Financials from The Block ResearchNFTs: Beeple art sells for record $6.6M Mike Winkleman is the artist also known as Beeple. Everyday for the last 13 years he creates one piece of digital art. This week, one of those pieces was sold as an NFT for a record $6.6M.Next week, Christie’s will begin a 2-week auction of 5,000 pieces by Beeple with payments accepted in ether. So what?NFTs have been booming lately. The market size grew over 700% from $42M in 2017 to $338M at the end of 2020 according to NonFungible.com Think of NFTs as a new type of file like JPEG or MP3. NFTs are encrypted files authenticated by blockchain technology. They are not limited to art, for instance NBA Top Shot enables fans to purchase officially licensed video of key plays. NFTs are ushering a new era for creators. Leonardo da Vinci painted Salvatore Mundi which sold for $450M in 2017 setting a world record. Yet, in his lifetime, he likely was a cut or two above a starving artist. With NFTs, in the future, the creator or their estate could receive commission (~10%) upon the resale of their workBottomline: Digital Art and NBA Top Shot are opening doors for new consumers to engage with cryptocurrencies and blockchain applications Crossroads by Beeple sold for $6.6M this weekDubai fund sells $750M Bitcoin to buy Cardano and Polkadot FD7 Ventures has $1B under management; the crypto fund’s thesis is that Cardano, Polkadot and Ethereum will be the foundation of Web 3.0 So what?Investors are going beyond bitcoin. FD7’s decision highlights growing excitement about Ethereum, Cardano, and Polkadot; these blockchains support greater functionality than Bitcoin. Cardano is a third generation cryptocurrency network, it aims to improve upon Bitcoin by having faster and more secure blockchain. It is also more scalable and safe than Ethereum. There are pilot projects in Ethiopia and Tanzania leveraging Cardano to extend financial services to the unbanked. Polkadot aims be the platform for Web 3.0 by connecting a new web of decentralized blockchains. In Web 3.0, trust is built in the network, individuals have more power than corporations and governments, and people own their data. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit afolabio.substack.com

Gabriel Rene, an architect of the spatial web, director of VERSES Foundation (verses.io), delivers an overview of the current state of technology, including AI and product interfaces as we move to a Web 3.0 world.  Gabriel Rene is excited about technology. As an experienced deep technology entrepreneur and researcher, he has been a leader in the technology, telecom, and entertainment industries for over 25 years. Rene has helmed innovative tech companies, and has been instrumental in developing consumer software. He has advised many leading industry brands including Verizon, Sony, Coca-Cola, Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, Intel, Qualcomm, Universal, Boost Mobile, Conde Naste, Elle Magazine and even the Obama Campaign.  Rene talks about the history of humans and our relationship to information, transitions, and experiences. He provides his thoughts on evolution and the progression of man in regard to communication, from early years all the way up to the computer revolution that is now powering a multi-trillion dollar economy progressing through Web 2.0 developments. Web 2.0 refers to websites that push user-generated content, simplify use, etc. As the web develops, Rene states that we are moving toward spatial web. Rene explains how the current AI boom will transition everything in our world into smart, autonomous, and self-programming products and devices. Blockchain and cloud-enabled systems and services will be able to support a secure data layer, and new virtual as well as augmented reality eyewear advancements will provide an opportunity to truly interface with an exciting, digitally-mapped, changing world, bursting with visual imagery and details never before seen. Rene's company, VERSES, is a non-profit foundation that is producing the universal protocols and standards for the next-generation web. No longer tied to a page, the Spatial Web will exist freely, as a single, worldwide network that can creatively link people, places, and things—in the virtual and physical realms—and enable flowing interaction, transaction, as well as full and immersive navigation between them for a more advanced way to experience our daily lives. Rene discusses the many regulatory issues surrounding data and privacy, etc. In Web 3.0, he states, the risks must be mitigated, and security must be built in to protect privacy, etc. He explains that a type of digital force field will be utilized to implement protections and securities for all of our products within our space, to control the information that is going out. Ultimately, as Rene states, much regulation will be needed, and that we will need to hold our elected officials accountable to implement laws that can help us all to enjoy the technological advances while keeping our privacy secure. 

Join Jason Hartman and returning guest, Ellen Brown, author of Web of Debt, for a discussion of the United States' debt ceiling, QE2, inflation, as well as a brief explanation of how money came to equal debt. Ellen explains why the debt ceiling is unconstitutional, how the government is legally committed to paying its debts. She points out the contradiction that has been for more than 100 years, since WWI. The easing put into place at that time was only to be a temporary measure. Ellen also talks about shadow banking causing the crisis by money being lent into existence, slight of hand. The only real money are coins, which are one-tenth of the total money in circulation. Ellen also discusses QE2 , where the government agreed to pay the interest on borrowed money in order to maintain control of the Federal Funds rate. She said there are a lot of reserve funds on the books in certain foreign banks, including bond dealers, that is just being held.  Ellen also touches on the national debt, Glass-Steagall, and proposes state-owned banks as part of the solution, with the basic idea that we take care of our own, much the same way that Japan is reliant on their own Central Bank. Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In Web of Debt, her latest book, she turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and "the money trust." She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Brown developed an interest in the developing world and its problems while living abroad for eleven years in Kenya, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. She returned to practicing law when she was asked to join the legal team of a popular Tijuana healer with an innovative cancer therapy, who was targeted by the chemotherapy industry in the 1990s. That experience produced her book Forbidden Medicine, which traces the suppression of natural health treatments to the same corrupting influences that have captured the money system. Brown's eleven books include the bestselling Nature's Pharmacy, co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker, which has sold 285,000 copies.

Join Jason Hartman and returning guest, Ellen Brown, author of Web of Debt, for a discussion of the United States' debt ceiling, QE2, inflation, as well as a brief explanation of how money came to equal debt. Ellen explains why the debt ceiling is unconstitutional, how the government is legally committed to paying its debts. She points out the contradiction that has been for more than 100 years, since WWI. The easing put into place at that time was only to be a temporary measure. For more information, listen at:  www.JasonHartman.com. Ellen also talks about shadow banking causing the crisis by money being lent into existence, slight of hand. The only real money are coins, which are one-tenth of the total money in circulation. Ellen also discusses QE2 , where the government agreed to pay the interest on borrowed money in order to maintain control of the Federal Funds rate. She said there are a lot of reserve funds on the books in certain foreign banks, including bond dealers, that is just being held.  Ellen also touches on the national debt, Glass-Steagall, and proposes state-owned banks as part of the solution, with the basic idea that we take care of our own, much the same way that Japan is reliant on their own Central Bank. Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In Web of Debt, her latest book, she turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and "the money trust." She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Brown developed an interest in the developing world and its problems while living abroad for eleven years in Kenya, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. She returned to practicing law when she was asked to join the legal team of a popular Tijuana healer with an innovative cancer therapy, who was targeted by the chemotherapy industry in the 1990s. That experience produced her book Forbidden Medicine, which traces the suppression of natural health treatments to the same corrupting influences that have captured the money system. Brown's eleven books include the bestselling Nature's Pharmacy, co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker, which has sold 285,000 copies.

Join Jason Hartman and returning guest, Ellen Brown, author of Web of Debt, for a discussion of the United States' debt ceiling, QE2, inflation, as well as a brief explanation of how money came to equal debt. Ellen explains why the debt ceiling is unconstitutional, how the government is legally committed to paying its debts. She points out the contradiction that has been for more than 100 years, since WWI. The easing put into place at that time was only to be a temporary measure. Ellen also talks about shadow banking causing the crisis by money being lent into existence, slight of hand. The only real money are coins, which are one-tenth of the total money in circulation. Ellen also discusses QE2 , where the government agreed to pay the interest on borrowed money in order to maintain control of the Federal Funds rate. She said there are a lot of reserve funds on the books in certain foreign banks, including bond dealers, that is just being held.  Ellen also touches on the national debt, Glass-Steagall, and proposes state-owned banks as part of the solution, with the basic idea that we take care of our own, much the same way that Japan is reliant on their own Central Bank.Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In Web of Debt, her latest book, she turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and "the money trust." She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Brown developed an interest in the developing world and its problems while living abroad for eleven years in Kenya, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. She returned to practicing law when she was asked to join the legal team of a popular Tijuana healer with an innovative cancer therapy, who was targeted by the chemotherapy industry in the 1990s. That experience produced her book Forbidden Medicine, which traces the suppression of natural health treatments to the same corrupting influences that have captured the money system. Brown's eleven books include the bestselling Nature's Pharmacy, co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker, which has sold 285,000 copies.