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Senior Director of Ecosystem Marketing at Polygon Studios Chad Hugghins shares how pursuing a failed acting career eventually led him to stumble upon the Friends With Benefits DAO, and how FWB led to working at Polygon Studios where he's able to apply his background as a classically trained actor to helping some of the best known artists and brands with their Web3 strategy.Twitter: @ChadHugghinsInstagram: @ChadHugghinsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome to Chain Reaction. A show that unpacks and dives deep into the latest trends, drama and news with some of the biggest names in crypto breaking things down block by block for the crypto curious. For this week's episode, Jacquelyn talked with Ryan Wyatt, president of Polygon Labs, one of the biggest market shakers and layer-2 blockchains in the crypto space that's building on top of the Ethereum ecosystem. The past year has been huge for Polygon as it partnered with big-brand names like Starbucks, Disney and Mastercard to launch loyalty rewards and accelerator programs. Now, Polygon is looking to 2023, new opportunities and Wyatt shares what's in store for it and how the space still has room to grow.We also discussed: Polygon's big themes and product vision for 2023 Mass adoption of crypto and what it takes to get thereWyatt's outlook for the gaming and NFT marketWhat real world use-cases may arise in the future Chain Reaction comes out every other Thursday at 12:00 p.m. PT, so be sure to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favorite pod platform to keep up with the action.

What do Nike, Starbucks, reddit, and AAA gaming studio 12am have in common?They all use Polygon to build in web3.Polygon Studios CEO Ryan Wyatt joined Brian Friel to discuss crypto's mainstream adoption and the future of web3 gaming on Episode 15 of The Zeitgeist.Show Notes:01:36 -  Background / How he started working at Polygon?05:09  - Why Polygon and web 3.0 gaming?11:29 - Partnerships16:58 - The state of web 3.0 gaming today20:28 The future of web 3.0 gaming22:29 How will wallets evolve in the space24:35 -  A builder he admires Full Transcript:Brian (00:06):Hey everyone, and welcome to the Zeitgeist, the show where we highlight the founders, developers, and designers who are pushing the Web 3.0 space forward. I'm Brian Friel, developer relationship fan, and I'm thrilled to announce my guest, Ryan Wyatt, the CEO of Polygon Studios. Polygon is a platform for scaling and building decentralized blockchain apps on Ethereum. Polygon Studios specifically is the business team working to help advance the Polygon ecosystem across its various products. Ryan, welcome to the show.Ryan (00:35):Dude, you've got a perfect podcast voice. Let me tell you, man.Brian (00:39):Thank you. It's a good thing no one can see my face. It's a voice for podcasting, but we'll keep it at that.Ryan (00:44):Yeah, that's fair. That's all that matters. That's all that matters. Thanks for having me.Brian (00:48):Yeah. Hey, we're really excited. By the time that this episode's live, the announcement will be out that Phantom and Polygon are joining forces and bringing the Phantom experience to the EVM ecosystem. We couldn't be more thrilled to be working with you guys.Ryan (01:01):Yeah, we're super excited. Long time coming. Glad the day has finally arrived. We can share it with everybody. You can't see it, but I'm wearing my Phantom shirt, so I'm fully celebrating the moment.Brian (01:12):I love it. And we definitely got some more of those Phantom shirts in stock. We can be giving it out to all the Polygon community.Ryan (01:19):That's right, man.Brian (01:19):Getting the merch going.Ryan (01:20):Send them my way.Brian (01:20):Hey, well, you know, you have a really interesting background. I really want to dig into that before we get started on everything that's in what we can be teaming up together across Polygon and Phantom. But for the uninitiated, can you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you became to be working at Polygon?Ryan (01:36):Yeah, so my whole background was really in the creator economy all the way back to my days in college. So I played games competitively. I commentated tournaments for Major League Gaming. I ran the online tournament infrastructure for Major League Gaming, 2008, 2009. Ultimately went to Machinima, which was a really early gaming company on YouTube, and then went to YouTube to start the gaming vertical where I was the head of gaming for almost eight years at YouTube. And gaming is the second largest vertical for YouTube. It's got 350 million logged in users. It generates billions of dollars for the platform. So a really fun time that I had of 12, 13, 14 years in the creator economy. Last year in 2021, I really started getting into angel investing of Web 3.0 projects. And the way that I actually got connected into Web 3.0 projects was just really game developers that I really believed in that had a high degree of talent that were going over and they were making at the time, calling blockchain based games.(02:33):And I just became very enamored and fascinated with the concept of what can you do when you really own your digital items and how big of a business that's becoming. And so as I spent more time in that space while still at YouTube, I got really excited about what can I do to jump in full time. And I came to Polygon and I thought I really like Polygon for a couple key reasons. First and foremost, I was already sold on Ethereum where that was going to be a base layer for developers and users, and not to say that other alt ones don't have a place in the world. Ethereum had kind of already checked that box that they'd been able to gravitate a lot of users and developers. And clearly there was this conundrum that existed at Ethereum of the inability to let it scale.(03:12):And so I started focusing on protocols and companies that were really looking at this idea of how do you scale Ethereum? And landed on Polygon because I had liked their ZK tech acquisitions that they had done. They spent about a billion dollars acquiring three different ZK companies. I looked at that as like, okay, that's a real scaling L2 future for this platform.(03:35):And I thought I could come in given that I worked at a platform like YouTube, saw a lot of verticals, saw what it's like to scale a company, and knew Web 3.0 and Web 2.0 really. Well, I thought I was in a unique position to come into the company and help out. And so I joined Polygon Studios in January of this year. I lead our whole business team. So if you can think of Polygon as there's a product and engineering team that's focusing on ID and our different ZK solutions, our POS chain, avail, our super nets, a lot of work going into our product efforts across the board over there. Everything else kind of sits under my camp of everything from BD to partnerships to marketing, finance, legal, compliance, a lot of these different other business areas. And so it's been an awesome opportunity. I've really enjoyed being here and Polygon had such a tremendous year. It's been fun to be on the ride, that's for sure.Brian (04:24):Yeah, I couldn't agree more. I think Polygon is a bit of a meme that you guys have the most legendary BD team in the Web 3.0 space.Ryan (04:31):I love that meme too. I won't lie to you.Brian (04:33):Yeah, I want to get into all that and what you guys have cooking over at Polygon, but just to quickly go back a little bit on your background, you mentioned you were the head of gaming at YouTube, and that's at a time when it really wasn't popular opinion that it would be a popular thing to watch people play video games on the internet. I think you were very early to that movement and now you see that movement potentially heading to the blockchain space, you know, mentioned that your interest in Polygon really peaked from seeing game developers move over. For you, what was the aha moment for you that made you leave a job like YouTube to come into the Web 3.0 space?Ryan (05:08):Yeah, no, I love the question. I think the funny thing too is, so, taking a step back at the first part of hey, you know, you got involved before the creator economy was even a thing. And the reason I got involved was I really was such a gamer and it was fun to watch gaming highlights and clips from other cool moments in games. And what got me into it was simply, I think there's other people like me that might enjoy this, other gamers that are watching these videos and stuff. And so it started just with something as innocent and simple as that and kind of kept building off of it. Okay, how do you introduce this to more people? What barriers do you break down in order to get it into more people's hands and so forth? And so some of it you control, some of it you don't.(05:54):So a good example was really where you started to see scaling of more gaming videos being uploaded was when the Dazzle capture card came out, it was like a 50 or $60 capture card you plugged into your Xbox or PlayStation very simply captured to a hard drive. You had this raw footage output that you could just clip up and then upload, right? Then also software got better with Final Cut and Premier and all these different things. And so you started to see a lot of these things happen that other companies were contributing to and really what you don't ever sit there. And at the time I was never like, oh, some of the biggest celebrities in the world one day are going to be people that upload videos on YouTube. You don't start with such an insane point of view that I wouldn't have believed it at the time.(06:38):You didn't need to sell this huge idea and you just believe, hey, there's people that are interested in it and this is going to keep getting bigger as more people progress. I say all of that because clearly the outcome was, again, 350 million logged-in people watch gaming video on YouTube every day. Some of the biggest celebrities in the world now come from YouTube. Mr. Beast was uploading gaming videos, Dream, all these different people, right? And so I saw a bunch of similarities in Web 3.0. I love this idea of decentralization. I really did believe that, hey, there is a power dynamic that negatively impacts users. You see it in gaming, a lot of this is anchored around gaming and that as people are spending more money on digital goods, there's going to be this desire and push for more genuine ownership over it. So I started to see something where I was like, hey, this is interesting to me and I think it will be interesting to other people.(07:27):And now I also saw a lot of capital in the space, and by that I mean there is so many different people focusing on so many different problems like Phantom with the wallet, us with a protocol, Magic Eden who we just partnered with on the marketplace. You saw all these great talented people contributing their part in advancing the overall ecosystem. And so I had this perspective of, well, the creator economy took about 15, 16 years to really hit its stride in a meaningful way. I think that Web 3.0, if you think about where we're at, can really cut that timeline in half because of the type of people, the capital and resources that are in this space. And I felt that there was already a really good product market fit as far as people wanting this. And so for me, it actually was a really easy jump.(08:11):I had no issue leaving. I did awesome. I loved my job at YouTube, running gaming YouTube was so fun. Great people love Susan, our CEO. Really enjoyed who I worked with. But even saying all that, it was actually really easy to come make the jump here because I was like, oh, this is going to be so fun over the next decade, there's going to be so many different learning opportunities, things to build. There's this blank canvas of creativity and yeah, it's littered with a bunch of issues. That was no different than YouTube in these early days with people uploading porn or videos that had copyright or music. You're dealing with a bunch of abuse factors in crypto right now. We're seeing it play out, but that's okay. It's a lot of what you expect in first movers and early adopters of a new product. And so I'm really optimistic about how this stuff shakes out and what the future looks like and how even on a personal level I can contribute to shaping that in some way.Brian (09:01):Yeah, no, I agree. There's nothing quite working on the frontier attack. It's really exciting.Ryan (09:07):Frontier indeed it is. Yes. We're reminded of that every two months at this rate.Brian (09:13):Absolutely. So let's turn a little bit to Polygon specifically. And you mentioned that you just jumped in with two feet into this space. What is it about Polygon that piqued your interest and why do you think it's particularly well suited for this movement into Web 3.0 gaming?Ryan (09:29):So going back to Ethereum, I was betting on Ethereum, so I was like, I want to be associated with a protocol that's focused on scaling Ethereum. And so there's some great companies, Immutables out there and so forth. I just really liked Polygon because I love the founders, so I got to spend some time with Sandeep. I mean these guys have the heart and spirit, JD, Milo, Onarog. It's really inspirational. I kind of like an underdog story too. And if you think about even where YouTube was relative to Twitch and some of these other things in the gaming category, we had to overcome some of these battles to stay being the largest video platform. Facebook, Mixer with Microsoft, it was just fun to kind of compete. And so I just really like the heart that they had of one, they were really well intended about how much they believed in the future of decentralization and polygons' role in it.(10:20):And two, that passion, you can't recreate that stuff. And so I just very easily gravitated towards them. I also, again, well capitalized the product and engineering team, brilliant people on the ZK side. We have some of the best engineers, mathematicians, PhDs when it relates to cryptography and ZK work in the world on Polygon. So it was, it shot up. I don't think we're an underdog anymore, obviously I think we've arrived, right? We have all this great talent across the organization. We've got a really clear vision of what we think it's going to look like. And so it's just fun. It's just fun to be on a team when you work with people that are really talented, it makes you want to work harder, it makes you get excited to get up every day to work. And so we've just got one of those teams and organizations and I love it.Brian (11:13):That's awesome. So you have a great team that you guys have here at Polygon. We mentioned a little bit earlier that you guys are at the legendary BD team in the Web 3.0 space. Let's talk a little bit about some of those partnerships that you guys have landed recently. What partnerships are you particularly excited about?Ryan (11:29):Well, I mean honestly, selfishly, the Magic Eden and Phantom partnerships are pretty fun. Seeing these, a great marketplace, a great wallet go multichain is so good for the space. I think multi chain is a good thing for the space. Oftentimes too, I say it's just like we're so small and so early to be super competitive. And so I think multi chain is just a great way for all companies to look. Even games and things that are building on Polygon. So that's been really fun. We've also had a lot on the gaming side this past year. We partnered with Tilting Point, we partnered with Midnight Society, which is Dr. Disrespect's game. I mean obviously we had just a heyday on the enterprise side. We had Nike and Starbucks and Reddit and Meta. I mean, honestly, that list gets crazy. Super proud of all the team's work there.(12:19):DeFi, we had a really fun year too. I really feel good about what we've done with DeFi, Robinhood, who was a really exciting announcement. So there's just been great momentum. The teams really, it's a mix of Web 2.0 background folks from big tech with Web 3.0 native gurus, and they just really work well as far as learning from each other. It doesn't come without its hiccups, but it really has been a great collaborative effort. So we've just had a lot of fun partnerships this year. It's great to be able to announce Phantom as we come to the end too as well. I think that's going to be exciting as we go into the new year, especially with all the projects we announced and so many of them we haven't even launched yet. If you think about Starbucks and some of these other ones, we haven't even debuted them yet. So 23 is going to be a fun year. I'm really excited. I know people right now are pessimistic bears because that's the season when the highs are high, they're really high and the lows, they're really low. I'm kind of pretty excited going into 2023 with all this momentum we have. Then our ZK tech coming out, we're going to be able to do a bunch more and the DeFi space with our ZK tech as well. Vibes are high on IM my man.Brian (13:27):I love it. That's great. You mentioned a ton there that hits across a bunch of different sectors. When you talk to these teams, especially, I'm curious, the ones who maybe aren't as Web 3.0 native, are there any commonalities between all them about what they're particularly excited about or maybe some specific areas that they think are most fruitful for growth in the Web 3.0 space?Ryan (13:46):It varies so much from each one. Think about a Magic Eden or a Phantom opportunity versus a Starbucks versus Meta. I do think a lot of folks are really interested in these ideas of these decentralized, let's say peer-to-peer networks, if you will, in layman's kind of Web 2.0 terms and kind of what you can do with it. So yeah, I think from that perspective, there's a lot of intrigue and appetite in the space. I would say it's not necessarily a growth vector for them. I think it's a lot of it is, hey, this is really interesting, new tech, what can we do? How do we participate in it? How do we learn in it? How do we trial? How do we try projects in it? And then there's varying degrees. I mean if you look at Instagram, they went really in, you mint on Polygon. You can sell directly from Instagram as they build on that. That's a really just valuable tool from a creator product feature set.(14:37):And people don't really need to worry about the Polygon aspect. I mean, it's fun if you're in the space, Polygon, but at the end of the day, it's like it's a great product feature they unlocked via Polygon, Reddit and what they're doing with Starbucks Odyssey. And basically they're going to allow this rewards program to be on chain, and the NFT part will be really passive as it should be with users that are going to use it. Same with Reddit, digital collectibles. So I just think you're really hitting a stride in how people are figuring it out. And there's going to be learning and iterative work here for all of them. But yeah, I think everybody's looking for something different when they come to the table. And I feel like what we have that's pretty unique is a bunch of people that can look at all these different perspectives from institutions, to finance, to big tech, to DeFi, to being a NFT, degen trader, all these different users that matter in our communities that matter. We've got good representation of it internally.Brian (15:32):Yeah, no, that's great. And it's great to see so much enthusiasm from these orgs actually putting their money where their mouth is and learning by doing and shipping and iterating, doing all that. It's a really cool time to see. Just a couple years ago that would've been basically unheard of in the crypto space. So it's really awesome to see that changing.Ryan (15:48):It's fun that crypto's ... look, dude, I would never call myself a crypto native. I didn't read a Bitcoin white paper and it changed my life back in the day. So you are seeing this new wave of people. This is good for the space. People that come in-Brian (16:02):Totally.Ryan (16:03):That got really interested in some of the ethos of Web 3.0 that is entering the space. And so this is why I feel good about these cycles that we'll have of people coming in. And it will be an ebb and flow. We'll have these big breakthroughs. We'll have moments we've been going through the past couple months on pulling back, and that's a natural part of the course that we're on. And I think what you continue to see with each stride will be more talent, more innovation, more use cases, more people each time.Brian (16:29):Yeah, no, I agree. And each new wave of users has their own perspective. As you said, it's no longer the hardcore cyberpunks and crypto maxes coming in, and that's how the space grows. It's really exciting to see. Totally. I want to bring it back just a little bit to gaming in particular too. Given your background, everything. We talked about how excited you were moving into the Web 3.0 space from head of gaming at YouTube. Talk a little bit about how you see the state of gaming, Web 3.0 gaming today and how that might change in the coming years.Ryan (16:58):So if you think about Web 3.0, the first version of it was, they were rudimentary Ponzi-esque type games. Some games I don't think operated with malice. I think some did, right? No doubt. I think that it was a great learning experience of what can you do with all these different things? You have a token, you've got decentralization, you've got ownership. You're trying to balance game mechanics. You're just doing a lot. Making a game is really difficult. You start adding all these different elements, it becomes very complex. So I'm pretty empathetic to, let's call it generation one of Web 3.0 games, none of them, which would be anything that I'd be interested in playing. I think Axie even playing that was like, okay, at least it's like there's something here. But these are all kind of base level games. A lot of great talent though coming from that space as far as generation one Web 3.0 games as far as learning and iterating.(17:50):And that's not super uncommon if you look at some of the early gatcha games and what mobile first offered up and some of the pay games that mobile ad were pretty atrocious as well. And so mobile went through a very kind of similar era of how do you iterate on these things? How do you improve? And so Web 3.0 games now, it's like you're starting to see some really good. One, it's like if you think about really great games take years to make. So you could have been last year been like, I'm going to make a Web 3.0 game and I have this really good studio and I've got a great background. And you're not seeing that game next year. You're seeing it in like 2024. So it's going to take a while and it's not going to happen fast in gaming. You're going to keep seeing new things come out in Web 3.0 gaming that will continue to pique people's interest and be like, okay, that's cool.(18:41):Or oh, what they just did with memberships and NFT, that's cool. Or what they just did with governance, that's cool. And games are just going to keep getting better and better and better. It'll be beyond just digital marketplaces and things that you own items in and all of that. So anyway, I say all that is, I think really the reality of where games are, where you start to see mass adoption of Web 3.0 games is years away. I think I feel very confident Web 3.0 gaming will be a pretty sizable subsection of games revenue in 2026, 27, and then you'll just keep seeing it go up to the right over time as far as users revenue, how many wallets, all of this. So yeah, I'm excited. I say it in a little more tempered way because it's more of a long term bet. We've been placing a lot of them now though.(19:25):You got to place those bets now. Those trees take a long time to grow. They're really impactful when they do, but you have to plant these seeds now. So we spent a lot of time this past year investing in different gaming projects out of our ecosystem fund, partnering with really large game developers, some of which we haven't even announced yet. So yeah, we've got some cool stuff that's coming up. And I definitely think things that's going to show what gen two of Gaming and Web 3.0 looks like. Again, I think where you see a meaningful breakthrough is more likely in this gen three era in four years or so.Brian (19:59):Yeah, for sure. No, it takes a lot of cycles to make something that's kind of a generational game like that. You know, mentioned some of these early investments, planting the seeds on this. If you had a crystal ball and you looked out, do you see that most of the games people are playing three, five years out from now? Are these being made from the existing AAA game studios that are coming into Web 3.0? Is it these web one game developers who are more crypto native iterating and finding something special? Is it some sort of blended between the two of them? What do you think there?Ryan (20:29):It's probably a blend. I actually think of more of it a regional thing. I think APAC game developers, largely in APAC will be the ones Web 3.0 native or Web 2.0 will be the ones that really do really interesting things in Web 3.0 gaming that will then spew towards the West. And so I think of it more as a geo-specific thing than anything else.(20:50):I do think you will have a massive Web 3.0 game hit the equivalent of Minecraft. The thing about Web 2.0 gaming is it wouldn't be incredibly difficult to pivot when they need to. And then when they do pivot, they would be very successful. So if you could imagine a world, just take any AAA game that is a platform, a Valorant, a Call of Duty, any of these different ones that are allowing people to buy cosmetics and skins, and people are spending boatloads of money doing that, they could very easily start to think about how do you flip on something where there's governance, how do you, true ownership, scarcity of items, and even just put membership passes, stuff like that where they could play in a very low level way of playing in Web 3.0 versus there's going to be other games where people are going to go off and create all kind of different mods and versions of it and communities around it and could start from it being a PFP NFT project that evolves like a Board Apes-esque kind of path.(21:51):And so I think it's going to show itself in a lot of different ways. But generally speaking, if I had to make a bet, I would say game developers largely in Asia will set the tone for how Web 3.0 gaming will look in a couple years.Brian (22:04):That's pretty exciting. I'm very interested to see what comes out of that region. And just to bring it back, one thing that I, selfishly here at Phantom were curious about is how do you see the role of wallets evolving in this space? Wallets right now touch a lot of different aspects of Web 3.0. I think the gaming space is relatively unexplored right now. Is there anything in your mind that you're particularly excited to see about from wallets and from Phantom in particular as it relates to this?Ryan (22:30):The user journeys are tough on wallets. Wallets bear the brunt of it. When you think about bridging and making entities really accessible and displayable all in a wallet, you know, have all these on ramps, it's just very digestible. It's clean. Maybe you start to have specific vertical specific features across DeFi gaming or music as you own these things. Like wallets can then go vertically deep, I think, which would be really interesting. But right now, so many of them are just dealing with this onboarding issue. It's complicated. It really is. It's not easy to set these things up for a lot of folks. So as wallets can go deep and then be really seamlessly integrated into all these different consumer experiences, which it's like, well, on its way, that is an already accelerated timeline. You guys have done great work there. This is what I would like to see for wallets.(23:18):I want it to be, my mom can set up a wallet and use it really easily and be like, oh yeah, I mean, here's how I add money to it. Here's how I buy an item. Here's where I can look at it in my inventory. Here's how I easily send it to Brian. That's like when we get there. And I think that's everyone's North Star. And so who's going to do it the best and who's going to do it fastest, I think is what we're going to find out. But look at, you guys have hit a really great narrative in the Solana ecosystem of having this very clean, simple, easy to use wallet. And so you've got a huge leg up already on that because that's what people are looking for and what is needed first.Brian (23:56):Yeah, no, I agree. We always saw that this was one of the bottlenecks in the space of getting things easier, getting it so easy a kindergartner could use it. So we're really excited to bring that to Polygon as well.Ryan (24:06):I love working with you guys because that's good for us. We want to make it easy to come on a polygon and use all these things and have no problem immediately setting up. And as we continue to onboard big games and different enterprise companies and so forth, this is going to be really important to do. So I think it'll be awesome.Brian (24:23):Yeah, I love it. Well, Ryan, this has been an awesome discussion. One closing question we always ask all our guests, and I want to hear your take on this, is who is a builder that you admire in the Web 3.0 ecosystem?Ryan (24:35):Man, I've plugged so many of them here. This is a tough one. Gosh. I'd say right now I think I'm going to go back to Midnight Society. It's a little bit of a curve ball, but the reason why is, that team has a bunch of ex Gears of War, Call of Duty developers that are really from prestigious game development. And they've been a builder that's focusing on how they introduce Web 3.0 to the masses, which I think is obviously, I'm personally fascinated by that. And the way that they've done kind of the membership pass and so forth with NFTs, all these anti NFT like, oh, I hate NFTs, blah, blah, blah. Gaming communities really served it up in a way for them to think about it differently. So I read it too, but sticking to this, and I think as we just touched on how we see gaming start to evolve, I look at them as going to be someone that's going to crack what Reddit started to do with the idea of owning out of a PFP NFT, right?(25:37):They're going to start doing this with gaming, with general gamers that don't really care about this crypto NFT, blockchain, or decentralization bit. They're not interested in that, but they'll be interested in this concept of having genuine ownership of items and memberships and so forth. And they're going to get introduced to it in a way that is different from an NFT perspective than they ever have. And so I like them as a builder because they're Web 3.0 builders, but they're targeting the crypto naive in a way that's really interesting. But honestly, dude, it's an impossible question. There's so many bad asses working in this space right now. This is why it's fun to be in it. So yeah, you guys and some others fall into that category for sure.Brian (26:16):Yeah, no, it's a bit of a selfish question too, so that we can get our next guest lined up for the podcast. I think Midnight Society would be a great guest there.Ryan (26:24):We got to get them out, man. I think. There it is. Yeah, I think they're really, really fascinating group to talk to and dive in about gaming.Brian (26:31):Awesome. And I know there's no shortage of people we could all list on this, but that's great to hear. Well, Ryan, this has been an awesome conversation. Really appreciate your time. Super excited to see what we can do together to push Web 3.0 forward. Where can people go to learn more about Polygon?Ryan (26:45):Yeah, I mean just polygon.technology, right? Honestly, that's probably the best. It's where our blog posts are and all of our updates you can follow then all of our socials that you're interested in. If you want to go deeper on our tech stack, whether you're a developer or just interested, we have all the engineering and technical documents that you would want to look into as well as social and what we've been up to, partner announcements. So I'd head there for all things Polygon.Brian (27:10):I love it. Thank you so much, Ryan Wyatt.Ryan (27:13):Take care, man. Thanks for having me, Brian.  

The past couple of years have shown both tremendous growth and highlighted tailwinds for blockchain gaming. Ryan Wyatt (CEO, Polygon Studios) and Jeff "Jiho" Zirlin (Co-Founder, Sky Mavis) join Dean Takahashi (Lead Writer, GamesBeat) to discuss the merits of blockchain gaming, how to operate in today's dynamic market, and their predictions for the future of this segment.

In this episode, Ryan Wyatt – CEO of Polygon Studios – joins Naavik co-founder Aaron Bush to discuss:#1 How Polygon Studios works, its grand ambitions, and why teams should consider using it as their layer 2 of choice#2 What Ryan learned about “excellence in scaling” at YouTube, and how running a web3 business presents unique challenges#3 What will unlock the next phase of growth for blockchain games, advice to teams during “crypto winter,” and why he doesn't worry about educating gamers#4 As a venture partner at BITKRAFT, what other trends in gaming excite himTo learn more, check out Polygon Studios' website and Twitter, and you can follow Ryan on Twitter.As always, if you like the episode, you can help others find us by leaving a rating or review!Go premium with Naavik Pro to access an ever-growing library of deep exclusive research including free-to-play and blockchain game deconstructions, and market analysis. Check out the link to request a demo, and use the promo code METACAST to save 10% on your first payment. TLDListen?: Episode summaryWatch the episode: YouTube channelJoin the discussion: Naavik DiscordFree newsletter: Naavik DigestGo premium: Naavik ProFollow us: Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook | WebsiteSound design by Gavin Mc Cabe.

 In this episode we are honoured to host Urvit Goel, who leads the games business development team at Polygon, having built multiple games at Amazon over the previous 10 years.  At Polygon Studios, Urvit and his team are developing a platform that allows developers to build games using their blockchain tech. They're looking ahead and building something for the future.

Today on the Ether we have the OnePlanet X Polygon Studios AMA with Ryan Wyatt. You'll hear from DystopAI, Rekt Wolf NFTs, Dim, yubu.derby, Kiho, Amy, TRACER, and more! Recorded on September 6th 2022. If you enjoy the music at the end of the episodes, you can find the albums streaming on Spotify, and the rest of your favorite streaming platforms. Check out Project Survival, Virus Diaries, and Plan B wherever you get your music. Thank you to everyone in the community who supports TerraSpaces.

今週は、Polygon Studiosのビジネスデベロップメントマネジャー、ビール依子さんにご出演いただきました。 Polygonは、イーサリアムブロックチェーンのサイドチェーンで、イーサリアムと互換性が高く、比較的安価な手数料で素早く処理できるのが特徴。いわゆる「岸田トークン」として話題となった自民党・青年局が発行した出席証明・記念バッジ”POAP”もPolygonでミントされています。JOI ITO'S PODCASTの各種NFTもPolygonでミントし、トークンもPolygon上で発行しています。 そんな、Polygonで活躍するビールさんは、2015年頃からさまざまな企業で仮想通貨関連の仕事に携われてきました。最初に仮想通貨に触れたきっかけは、かなり意外でした！そんな彼女が歩んでこられたクリプトとの歩みをぜひお聞きください。 【編集ノート】 編集ノートには毎回番組で登場した難解な用語や固有名詞などの意味や内容をまとめています。また、ETHアドレスの取得方法やNFTの確認方法についても、まとめています。ぜひご参照ください。 https://joi.ito.com/jp/archives/2022/08/29/005818.html 【JOI ITO 変革への道 - Opinion Box】 番組では、リスナーの皆様からお便りを募集しています。番組に対する意見はもちろん、伊藤穰一への質問があればぜひ投函ください。先日からイーサリアムのアドレス記載欄も設けました。お便りを採用させていただいた方には、番組オリジナルのNFT会員証がmintできるリンクをお送りしています。 https://airtable.com/shrKKky5KwIGBoEP0 【求人サイトCool Job Listの開設】 番組にご出演いただいた方々と聞いている方々を結ぶプラットフォームとして、ジョブマーケットを作ってみました。今、実は仕事を探している、なんてあなた！ぜひこちらを確認してみてください。ぴったりの仕事がみつかるかもしれませんよ。 https://joi-ito-podcast-jobs.super.site/ 【コミュニティ醸成実験について】 これまで番組で小出しにお伝えしてきたコミュニティ醸成実験。ようやくその中身をお伝えできるようになりました。番組という枠を飛び出して、リスナーの方々同士が交流できる場となっています。詳しくは、下記リンクをご覧ください。 https://community.henkaku.org/ja この実験に参加をご希望の方は下記リンクから参加メンバーの登録をお願いします。メンバーのダイバーシティを考慮しながら、徐々にメンバーを拡大していく予定です。参加時期がきましたら、スタッフから個別に連絡をさせていただきます。興味のある方、まずは登録だけでもしてみてはいかがでしょうか。 https://airtable.com/shrbDbYUBoFgkg0tY 【今週のシークレットキーワードの申請先】 シークレットキーワードの申請先は、HENKAKU COMMUNITYの[こちらのQuestサイトになります。新バージョンのNFT会員証をゲットした皆さん、頑張って聴いて、HENKAKUを稼ぎましょう。ちなみに！シークレットキーワードを申請できるのは新バージョンを持っている人のみとなります。まだお持ちでない方は、頑張ってコミュニティに入るかおたよりを採用されるまで送り続けましょう。 https://omise.henkaku.org/quests 【デジタルガレージ Web3のコア人材募集中】 https://recruit.garage.co.jp/fintech/番組のスポンサーDigital Garage

Today Frank Downing and Nick Grous are joined by current CEO of Polygon Studios, Ryan Wyatt! A lifelong gamer and technology enthusiast, Ryan shares his journey through these worlds as a user and then as a professional before we dive into Polygon and some of the foundational elements of what they are doing in the gaming and non-fungible token (NFT) space. Ryan talks about the Polygon protocol, and also how the company relates and compares to its peers and adjacent technologies. From there, the bulk of our conversation is spent unpacking what Polygon Studios is bringing to the table and how they are aiming to attract customers through their unique value offer. We also cover exciting avenues in the gaming world and weigh how much of this is going to the move into the Web3 domain. Ryan also comments more generally on the buy-in to decentralization, interoperability concerns, and his perspective on the realities of the metaverse. “We're not really a studio. We're not making any games in-house. We're not creating any IP in-house. That's very intentional, because I would never want to be at odds with any of the people that are building.” — @Fwiz Key Points From This Episode: Some background from Ryan on his journey through the world of gaming and media. Unpacking the Polygon protocol and how Polygon Studios fits into the ecosystem. Introducing Polygon's role in the context of Ethereum and companies like Solana. The main products that Polygon is targeting as a means of attracting customers. Ryan shares some of the development happening at Polygon. The new toolset that is now available for game development. Possibilities for the future of the play-to-earn model and cosmetic purchase options. Considering mass adoption of Web3 and the current readiness for this. The spectrum of investment in the idea of decentralization. Interoperability arguments and Ryan's thoughts about how best to tackle some of the issues. The transition that Ryan made from YouTube to Polygon and his reflections on the contrast. Ryan's perspective on the potential of the metaverse.

The GM NFTs show was joined by the gaming industry guru @Fwiz or Ryan Wyatt the CEO of Polygon Studios. He brought an amazingly inspiring energy to the stage along with some amazing outlooks on web3 gaming and where Polygon stands with the future of the industry. With his deep experience comes a unique perspective on how gaming could take shape using the technology. Every response captivated the stage, at one point so moving it had deezeFI ready to run through a wall!GMRecap of the show here: gldn's notes Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

John & Rob interview Polygon Studios' Metaverse Lead, Brian Trunzo, discovering his thoughts on the Ethereum Merge, open metaverse standards, and the future of Web3. Brian Trunzo's Twitter: https://twitter.com/NTBro Polygon Studios: https://polygonstudios.com/ Produced by John Nichols of NFT Insider and Robert Baggs of Token Gamer. Watch Mint One on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8rZbVByk9AZpvBSwdNsw8w Follow Mint One on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mint1Pod "Voxel Revolution" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Jamil catches up with Ishan NegiIshan to learn more about Polygon Studios, Interoperability in the Metaverse, NFT Gaming with LK Rollups, and the Hermez Merger, with Ishan Negi at Polygon Studios Ishan NegiIshan is the Nft/gaming lead at Polygon, having joined the company in late Feb, 2021. Prior to this, Ishan has worked in M&A and in the social-tech space in India. He has completed his undergrad from SRCC, Delhi and his MBA from Indian Institute of Management - Bangalore.In his spare time, Ishan is passionate about football/soccer, music and landscape photography.. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/crypto-hipster-podcast/support

Opera, the company behind the popular multi-platform web browser, has fully integrated the Polygon Network into its lauded Crypto Browser Project. The integration will unlock unfiltered access to Polygon's vast array of more than 7,000 decentralized apps (dapps), including popular gaming dapps such as Decentraland, Sandbox, Aavegotchi, My Crypto Heroes and Atlantis World, and Decentral Games, among many others. Critically, the direct integration bypasses the need for users to transfer assets from Ethereum to Polygon — increasing the environmental benefits of using Polygon's solution. Bridge contracts alone account for about 70% of Polygon PoS gas usage. By circumventing the need to bridge assets, Opera users can dramatically reduce their carbon footprint. Susie Batt, Crypto Ecosystem lead at Opera, and Brian Trunzo, Metaverse Lead at Polygon Studios, join me in a discussion about accessing Web3 and crypto functionality technologies to create a trusted and unique way for everyday users to access the future web. I learn more about the future for both Opera and Polygon in the growing Web3 industry and how these two companies are working together.

With most of the cryptocurrency market turning green on June 23, Polygon (MATIC) has seen the largest gain out of the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. MATIC has surged by as much as 23.81% in the last 24 hours to lead the market in terms of gains. On this episode, we're taking a look at all the massive updates to their ecosystem including: Polygon ID, new Polygon Studios games, Wearable Tech, and more.~This episode is sponsored by iTrust Capital~iTrustCapital | Get $100 Funding Reward + No Monthly Fees when you sign up using our custom link! ➜ https://bit.ly/iTrustPaul#crypto #nft #matic ~Polygon Ecosystem's Massive Growth Update | MATIC Set To Explode~⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺Become a Diamond Circle Member FREE! ➜ https://bit.ly/PBDiamondCircleSubscribe on YouTube ✅ https://bit.ly/PBNYoutubeSubscribeFacebook

In today's episode of the Growing Web3 podcast, we're talking to Brian Trunzo, who is here to talk about our collective digital experiences and what this means for what's come to be known as the Metaverse in Web3. Brian talks about what our digital experiences may look like as Web3 develops, and the importance of NFTs in this space as it grows. We also discuss some of the challenges involved as Metaverse experiences are built out, around things like interoperability. And, finally, we chat about the platforms he regards as on the Metaverse frontier and where we go from here. Topics: Leading the Metaverse at Polygon Studios Metaverse as a developing category Metaverse NFT interoperability Current Metaverse product development And more Follow Brian: https://twitter.com/NTBro Sponsors: Hype Partners: www.hype.partners Brought to you by Hype Partners. Hype is the Web3 super-agency with 150 employees across 35 countries. Hype helps $billion protocols and communities scale their ecosystems with cuttingedge creative, community, and growth campaigns.

For the full audio interview, transcript, show notes and more visit: https://altassetallocation.com/ Ryan Wyatt is the ex Head of Gaming at YouTube and made the jump full time into Web3 with Polygon Studios earlier this year. Web3 gaming will be huge. The future is certainly bright. I really enjoyed this conversation and we covered a ton including talking about where Blockchain Gaming is today, where it could be going, some pitfalls for game designers, new mechanics that the blockchain allows, some valid arguments that “non NFT gaming” people have, and some things to watch out for as investors in this area. This is a great one. Ryan Wyatt on Blockchain or Web3 Gaming. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/investinalts/support

Cryptocurrency News Live and Breaking in Real-Time! Current crypto coin prices, analysis, and predictions from the Global Crypto Press Association. https://www.globalcryptopress.com/2022/06/boomland-polygon-studios-partner-up-in.html BoomLandBoomLandhttps://www.boomland.io/https://twitter.com/BoomLandGameshttps://linktr.ee/BoomLandGamesWatch the Polygon News video here.

Today on the Ether we have the OnePlanet AMA hosted by Polygon Studios. You'll hear from Ryan Wyatt, SungMo, Department 77, DystopAI, Sifer Wars, Rekt Wolf, and more! Recorded on May 26th 2022. If you enjoy the music at the end of the episodes, you can find the albums streaming on Spotify, and the rest of your favorite streaming platforms. Check out Project Survival, Virus Diaries, and Plan B wherever you get your music. Thank you to everyone in the community who supports TerraSpaces.

NFT's are becoming more and more popular especially NFT art collections. This growing popularity has also inspired and increased innovation, and the latest company to get involved is DNAverse who have created the world's first art NFT collection customised with real DNA data. Ronan talks to Juan Castillo, Marketing Director of DNAverse. Juan talks about his background, what DNAverse does, and their recent strategic partnership with Polygon Studios, to spearhead the development of the BIOmetaverse on the Polygon blockchain. Juan also talks about what the BIOmetaverse is, and his vision of bringing human verification to the metaverse in response to the proliferation of AI and bots. More about the DNAverse art NFT collection: Each NFT is one-to-one handcrafted and includes a genetic study and a fully personalisined artistic interpretation of collectors' own DNA, presented as ‘DNArts'. The DNAverse team comprises a range of seasoned NFT specialists, scientists, designers and 3D animators at the vanguard of innovation in the biometaverse. DNAverse also recently announced a strategic partnership with Polygon Studios, to spearhead the development of the BIOmetaverse on the Polygon blockchain.

Mint bonus episode: I was invited to speak at NFT LA on all things about the creator economy and lead a discussion with Jesse Tevelow of Praise, Alexandra Hooven of Rally, and Noel Borges of Mintblack.00:00 - Intro 02:12 - The current state of the web3 creator economy06:28 - Should creators strive to build virality or a niche group of true fans?14:22 - How to transition your web2 audience into web3?22:02 - What data can creators unlock via NFTs and other crypto assets?35:47 - Outro…and so much moreI hope you enjoy our conversation.Jesse Tevelow: https://twitter.com/jtevelowAlexandra Hooven: https://twitter.com/aehooven Noel Borges: https://twitter.com/zaptheory---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

This episode is different than the rest.Mint Season 4 was epic.We now reach over 20,000 web3 creators, founders, and investors per month across audio, video, blog, and newsletter, to name a few. I started Mint 10 short months ago to focus on the web3 creator economy and couldn't be happier with its progress to date.A special thanks to Coinvise and Polygon Studios for collecting my sponsorship NFTs and making this season possible.For this season, I curated 20 creators to be featured across 20 episodes. Yet, as publishing time increased and trends evolved, so did my guest list.I ended up publishing 34 episodes with leading figures in the web3 creator economy and music movement featuring everyone from the founders of Catalog, Mint Songs, and Royal, to the top collectors and music creators defining this decentralized revolution.To close out season 4, I wanted to take a moment to compile some thoughts, favorite takeaways, and summaries from a few key episodes.Check out the written version: https://mirror.xyz/levy.eth/JUO3isycKrrU57lP_bdr5un3dIhgzb9LhNWdXY1u4jk---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

As the metaverse emerges, it's becoming increasingly evident that many are seeking to tackle some of the key technical challenges of the new platform with cryptocurrencies, blockchain and associated web3 technologies. Ryan Wyatt, the CEO of Polygon Studios, joins Mathew and Yon to discuss the future of web3 in the metaverse and gaming, how Polygon plans to invest more deeply in partnerships with creators and developers and easing the onramp to crypto games and worlds for a more casual audience.

Mint Season 4 episode 34 welcomes Matthew Chaim, who's the founder of SONGCAMP and ideator of CHAOS, a 77-person collective building towards a headless music artist. In this episode, we discuss:02:08 - Intro 07:58 - Why Music Needs Web309:47 - How has crypto influenced your creativity?12:39 - What is SONGCAMP and CHAOS?26:50 - Patronage-based NFTs vs Ownership-based NFTs 34:28 - What to expect from Matthew Chaim in the future40:38 - Outro …and so much moreI hope you enjoy our conversation.Matthew Chaim: https://twitter.com/matthewchaimSONGCAMP: https://twitter.com/songcamp_CHAOS: https://twitter.com/headless_chaosLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Guests: Sandeep Nailwal is the Co-founder & Chief Operations Officer at Polygon Studios, an NFT-focused gaming and metaverse hub backed by a 100 million USD fund and already has multiple NFT projects with Decentraland, Opensea, Sandbox, Somnium Space, and Decentral Games. They have more than 3000 gaming and NFT decentralized applications. We're excited to have Sandeep on the show as he talks about various NFT projects he's led and how he set up Polygon Studios to make the best use of modern technology to shape fandom for generations to come and change the way the fans interact. Gabriele Bernasconi is the Co-CEO at Genuino, where they connect physical and digital commerce with authentic digital sport memorabilia. They help sports brands create trust with consumers by bringing transparency, traceability, and tradability of real-world objects into the digital frontier. In this episode, we're excited to hear from Gabriele Bernasconi and Genuino's NFT deals with brands and sports clubs like ACF Fiorentina. Thom Kozik is the Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Campus Legends, a socially-driven community for officially licensed collegiate digital collectibles. He has had 25+ years of success in leading teams to deliver innovation and transformation at the intersection of consumer services, technology, and marketing at organizations such as Marriott, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Atari.

Mint Season 4 episode 33 welcomes Benny Conn, who's a developer at Gallery.so and co-founder of Beat Foundry, an NFT platform for entirely on-chain generative and curated music. Benny is back for a second episode on season four of Mint mainly because I love what the team is building at Beat Foundry, his energy and passion for music beams every time he talks about what he does. It's genuinely contagious.In this episode, we discuss:00:19 - Intro09:56 - What Rights do You Get When You Buy a Beat Foundry NFT?17:19 - Benny's Thesis Around the Consumption Layer as it Pertains to NFT Editions?19:25 - What Traits go into Valuing Music NFTs?20:44 - Should Artists Prioritize Social Media Virality or Web3 Collectors?22:44 - Benny's Favorite Music Artist in the Space23:21 - From a Collector's Point of View, What Makes One Music Artist More Valuable Than the Other and Web3?26:50 - How Did the Collaboration With Oshi Come Together?31:33 - Why Does the Music File Itself Need to Be On-Chain?37:27 - Benny's Biggest Challenges With Bringing This Project to Life41:08 - Outro…and so much moreI hope you enjoy our conversation.Benny Conn: https://twitter.com/bennyconnnBeat Foundry: https://twitter.com/BeatFoundryNFTsLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Polygon Studios is home of all NFT, Gaming, and Metaverse projects that are on the Polygon ($MATIC) protocol. They partner with large scale NFT projects for globally recognized IP and Brands, and are the best in class solution for energy efficiency and scaling on the blockchain. Polygon is currently supporting metaverse titans like Sandbox ($SAND) and Decentraland ($MANA).Guest: Brian Trunzo - Metaverse Lead at Polygon StudiosPolygon Studios website ➜ https://bit.ly/MATICstudios00:00 intro00:54 Polygon Studios05:35 Metaverse by 203009:09 Legacy Web2 Titans11:00 Gas Fees & Ethereum 2.014:00 Polygon MATIC15:12 Polygon Game Ecosystem16:10 AAA Game Studio Adoption18:39 NFT Marketplaces21:19 Multi-Chain Interoperability23:00 Polygon Team25:28 Game Partnerships27:47 Crypto Regulation28:59 outro#MATIC #Metaverse #NFT~Polygon Studios interview | The Metaverse For AAA Games & Brands~⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺Become a Diamond Circle Member FREE! ➜ https://bit.ly/PBDiamondCircleSubscribe on YouTube ✅ https://bit.ly/PBNYoutubeSubscribeFacebook

Mint Season 4 episode 32 welcomes Lee Parsons, CEO of Opulous, who's changing how artists access the funding they need to pursue their music. He's on a mission to wake up the outdated industry and he explains why the legacy music system is about to encounter a rude awakening. In this episode, we discuss:01:07 - Intro08:18 - How Web3 Will Fix The Music Industry14:27 - How Do Artists Get Started on Opulous?15:43 - What is an S-NFT?19:22 - The future of music NFTs at Opulous24:22 - What will the decentralized layer of web3 music look like?27:33 - Does Web3 Favor Established or Up n Coming Artists More?30:38 - How Do you Turn Listeners into Investors?34:44 - Copyrights on-chain40:14 - Future plans for Opulous?43:30 - Beyond the collectible: Staking your music NFTs…and so much moreI hope you enjoy our conversation.Lee Parsons: https://twitter.com/ceoleeparsonsOpulous: https://twitter.com/opulousappLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

What does the future of gaming look like on the blockchain? We're joined by a leader in the space Ryan Wyatt (@Fwiz). He's the former global head of gaming partnerships at Google and head of gaming at YouTube, where he also led their virtual and augmented reality business. Wyatt now serves as the CEO of Polygon Studios. In this episode of Where It Happens, Ryan discusses his path from high school gamer to successful businessman, the future of blockchain gaming, and the power behind play-to-earn. ►► Want more community? Learn more here: http://trwih.com THIS EPISODE Ryan Wyatt: https://twitter.com/Fwiz Sahil Bloom: https://twitter.com/SahilBloom Greg Isenberg: https://twitter.com/gregisenberg Production & Marketing Team: https://penname.co/ SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS ►► This episode is brought to you by Outer. Spring is in the air in both NYC and Miami, and we can't get enough of our Outer outdoor furniture. Their furniture looks incredible and is durable. Personally, we love the Outdoor Loveseat. Right now for our audience exclusively they are offering $300 off any product + free shipping until May 1. This is one of the most generous offers of any sponsor we've had. Did we mention they have a 2-week free trial? Go to https://www.liveouter.com/room to get the deal. ►► This episode is also brought to you by LEX. We're always looking for breakthrough businesses. And, our audience has repeatedly asked how they can invest in commercial real estate. Lex is the easy answer. LEX turns individual buildings into public stocks via IPO, so you can invest, trade, and manage your own portfolio of high-quality commercial real estate. It's so simple to get started today. Sign up for free at https://www.lex-markets.com/room and get a $50 bonus exclusively for our audience when you deposit at least $500. It's a no-brainer.

Mint Season 4 episode 31 welcomes Paul Zehetmayr, the new co-CEO of LimeWire, the discontinued peer-to-peer file-sharing software that we all loved and abused in the early 2000s. Paul and his partner are revamping the iconic brand, but taking it in a new direction to focus on music NFTs.In this episode, we discuss:00:00 - Intro2:07 - Step aside RIAA, LimeWire is back11:19 - What traits go into valuing music NFT's?20:02 - What makes a music artists valuable in web3 from a collector's point of view29:23 - Why experimentation is key: understanding the collector's mindset33:52 - Do music NFTs work in favor of record labels?39:12 - Bringing back the golden era of internet interconnectivity46:35 - How LimeWire will tackle IP on-chain51:12 - What would cause the downfall of music NFTs?54:34 - Outro…and so much moreI hope you enjoy our conversation.Paul Zehetmayr: https://twitter.com/PZehetmayrLimeWire: https://twitter.com/limewireLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 30 welcomes Justin Blau, who's an American DJ, electronic dance music producer, NFT pioneer and one of the most cited and recognized thought leaders in web3. Justin is on mission to revolutionize the music industry. He's been on this path for years now, but more recently started Royal.io where musicians sell royalty ownership in their songs and give collectors access to special perks via NFTs.In this episode, Justin shares his insights on:00:00 - Current state of music NFTs13:10 - Fun fact: most audio files do not live on-chain19:07 - Why do people care about owning or collecting NFT songs?31:20 - What traits go into valuing ownership-based music NFTs?35:31 - Web2 data used to value a Royal.io drop42:16 - What is an LDA: Limited Digital Asset49:30 - Music NFT price psychology52:23 - Justin's thoughts on what will eat web359:04 - Outro…and so much moreI hope you enjoy our conversation.3LAU: https://twitter.com/3LAURoyal.io: https://twitter.com/join_royalLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 29 welcomes a live Twitter Spaces co-hosted alongside Coinvise where their team member Cody interviewed Adam on his origin story into crypto and his thesis on the web3 creator economy.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 28 welcomes Dan Hannum, COO of ZenLedger, who's on a mission to provide crypto traders and tax professionals with the most user-friendly tax and accounting software for cryptocurrency investments, trading, and fund operations.This episode outlines what crypto-native creators should look out for during tax season. From issuing tokens, selling and buying your first NFT, to even forming a DAO, here's a comprehensive discussion on web3 taxation and tips to consider.Promo: Get 20% off ZenLedger when using MINT20 at checkout.In this episode we discuss:00:00 - Intro11:49 - NFT Tax19:22 - DAO Formation and Fungible Tokens22:15 - Tax Tips for Creators26:38 - Crypto-native business models30:32 - Government Backed Stable Coins32:57 - Ethics Around a Human Stock Market35:32 - ZenLedger and High-End Luxury NFT Drops39:08 - Deciphering between a personal transaction and a business transaction41:45 - Bonus Questions43:57 - Crypto Tax Loopholes55:05 - OutroI hope you enjoy our conversation.Dan Hannum: https://twitter.com/DHannum8ZenLedger: https://twitter.com/ZenLedgerIOLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 27 welcomes Ben Lakoff, co-founder of Charged Particles, which is new protocol that lets you put digital assets inside your NFTs. Now, ordinary NFTs (think neutral molecules) can contain a digital "charge" inside — ERC20, ERC721 or ERC1155 — giving you the unprecedented power to create nested NFTs.In this episode, we discuss how creators can tap into the variety of use cases presented by dynamic NFTs and their upcoming NFT drop, Particlon.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Ben Lakoff: https://twitter.com/benlakoffMore on Particlon: https://www.particlon.xyz/Charged Particles: https://www.charged.fi/Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 26 welcomes Yury Liftshits, Founder and CEO of SuperDAO, an all-in-one DAO formation platform that recently raised $11.5M in seed and pressed funding. Before Superdao, Yury has started four companies with one major exit, is a YCombinator alum, Ph.D. in Computer Science, and was teaching grad-level cryptography courses even before Bitcoin was invented. A long time ago he also won two gold medals at International Math Olympiad. In this episode, he shares why creators should leverage DAO models to build fan clubs, and why owning your monetization channels and incentivizing aligned participation is the future foundation for building a community.In this episode, we talk about:00:00 - Intro02:05 - Yury's Previous Startup: The Discord Killer05:39 - How Yury Got Started With DAOs17:16 - Building Products In Web2 vs Web322:57 - Thoughts on The Emergence of Creator DAOs31:53 - How To Do an SEC Complaint Token Raise (Not Legal Advice)33:41 - Strategies for Generating Revenue in DAOs42:59 - Why Creators Should Build DAOs to Monetize Super Fans48:35 - DAO Trends for 202254:26 - OutroI hope you enjoy our conversation.Yury Liftshits: https://twitter.com/yurylifshitsLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 25 welcomes Richerd Chan, Co-Founder at Manifold, Punk #6046, Professional NFT Degen, and smart contract artist. Manifold enables web3 creators to have true creative ownership, preserve on-chain provenance, and interoperate with all major NFT marketplaces. The company is known for building some of the top creator drops in the early NFT days alongside leading figures like Mad Dog Jones, Jay Z, pplpleasr, Steve Aoki, and FVCKRENDER, to name a few.In this episode, we talk about:00:00 - Intro00:20 - How Do Creators Get Started in Crypto08:51 - Richerd's Thoughts On Why NFTs Took Crypto Mainstream10:51 - Richerd's Inspiration Behind Starting Manifold15:02 - Are There Benefits That Come With a Self-Sovereign Contract?19:46 - Richerd's Thoughts About the Creator's Class That Has Yet to be Impacted by the Web3 Primitives21:28 - Richerd's Point of View On Music NFTs23:43 - How Collector Stats Can Enable Creators to Build Their Audience28:23 - $9.5 Million Crypto Punk Offer37:06 - The Future of NFTs and Crypto40:28 - OutroI hope you enjoy our conversation.richerd: https://twitter.com/richerdLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Welcome to episode 100 of the FTX podcast with special guest Sandeep Nailwal and your host Tristan Yver!Sandeep is the co-founder of Polygon Studios (formerly known as Matic) with a focus of on-boarding decentralized applications on to their network to achieve scalability and faster transactions with long term network velocity. Currently, all Ethereum top protocols have a larger number of users on Polygon than on the Ethereum main chain.Thank you Sandeep for your time, energy & insight!

Mint Season 4 episode 24 welcomes Alec King, an independent artist from Denver, CO and resides in Los Angeles, CA. Following his EP's, "Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2" he released his debut album "Everything's Backwards." Alec is gearing up to release a single every other week until a meteor takes us all out. Since leaving his label, he's taken a dive into the music NFT/web 3 space. Right before the pandemic, he went on tour as direct support for Kiana Lede across the US and Canada.We mainly shoot the shit in this episode, but we got to uncover a lot of his journey transitioning from Republic Records into now being an independent artist trying to own and monetize his audience using crypto primitives.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Alec King: https://twitter.com/aleckingmusicLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 24 welcomes the two co-founders of Catalog.works, Mike Mckain and Jeremy Stern. We had fun recording this one in person during Eth Denver where we got to explore how they're enabling a new era of valuing music for what it's worth. They're legends and the music NFT movement wouldn't have been possible without them and their hard work.In this episode, we discuss:00:00 - Intro09:29 - What Is Catalog?10:32 - What the Curation Process Looks Like Getting On Catalog as an Artist16:59 - Music Industry On Chain; What Happens When One Uploads Someone Else's Song On Chain?21:36 - Does the Music Industry Need Its Own Protocol?28:20 - What Does Streaming Look Like Through Collecting and Owning Music NFTs?34:10 - Outro…and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Jeremy Stern: https://twitter.com/jzstern?s=11Mike Mckain: https://twitter.com/mmckain_?s=11Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Alan Chiu, Founder/CEO @ Boba Network; Tiffany Huang, Head Of Content & Marketing @ Magic Eden. Chad Hugghins, Head Of Marketing @ Polygon Studios, Gianina Skarlett (Gigi), Founder @ Crypto Tech WomenMore from Edge of NFT:

Alan Chiu, Founder/CEO @ Boba Network; Tiffany Huang, Head Of Content & Marketing @ Magic Eden. Chad Hugghins, Head Of Marketing @ Polygon Studios, Gianina Skarlett (Gigi), Founder @ Crypto Tech Women

This week in Indian startup news, Metaverse startup Ikonz raises undisclosed amount from Village Global and Woodstock and plans to launch Tinkle's iconic character Suppandi's NFT, ALT Balaji launches a metaverse game based on their reality show Lock Upp, Radhe Shyam's trailer launch in the metaverse crashes servers, FTX Gaming partners with IndiGG for web3 and crypto gaming, Polygon Studios makes strategic investment in Zipmex, Blockchain analytics and security startup BitsCrunch raises $3.6 million. ALT Balaji launches a metaverse game based on their reality show Lock Upp: Indian OTT platform ALT Balaji has launched a fantasy metaverse game based on their reality show called ‘Lock Upp'. Lock Upp is similar to Bigg Boss/Big Brother - but instead of keeping the celebrity contestants in a house, they are kept in jail for 72 days. Based on this reality show, ALT Balaji has also launched a fantasy metaverse game - where players can interact with the contestants on the show, explore the Lock Upp metaverse, complete tasks and predict the winner of the show to win real prizes every week. Radhe Shyam's trailer launch in the metaverse crashes servers: On Thursday (3rd March), the trailer of the upcoming movie Radhe Shyam was released on the metaverse hosted by Spatial.io and within just 3 minutes of the release - more than 2 lakh fans rushed to watch the trailer in the metaverse which ended up crashing their servers. That's not all, it looks like the movie will also be creating its own metaverse and people will have the opportunity to create their own avatars and explore the ‘Radhe Shyam' metaverse. FTX Gaming partners with IndiGG for web3 and crypto gaming: FTX Gaming, which is the subsidiary of Bahamas-based crypto exchange FTX, has partnered with IndiGG, which is a subDAO (decentralised autonomous organisation) of Yield Guild Games. With this partnership, the two want to drive the adoption of web3 gaming across India. IndiGG has already partnered with Polygon to build a play-to-earn gaming hub in India. Through this partnership, gaming studios under FTX Gaming will be able to access IndiGG's distribution network to launch their games in India. Polygon Studios makes strategic investment in Zipmex: Polygon Studios, the gaming and NFT arm of layer-2 blockchain network Polygon, has made a strategic investment in digital assets exchange Zipmex's native token ZMT. Just last month, Zipmex had launched their own NFT exchange marketplace Zixel - which they are celebrating by hosting Thailand's first metaverse concert on Decentraland. This partnership will also help Zipmex to build out new metaverse experiences targeting the Asia Pacific market throughout 2022. Blockchain analytics and security startup BitsCrunch raises $3.6 million: BitsCrunch, blockchain analytics and security startup has raised $3.6 million in a round led by Animoca Brands to expand their team in India and to focus on securing other blockchains like Solana, Polkadot, and Algorand. Metaverse startup Ikonz raises undisclosed amount from Village Global and Woodstock: Metaverse startup Ikonz has raised undisclosed amount from Village Global and Woodstock to drop new NFTs from different IP partners.

Mint Season 4 episode 23 welcomes two-time Grammy award-winning producer !llmind who shares his motivation for launching Squad of Knights and argues why beats, loops, and sample packs need to be on-chain.In this episode, we discuss:00:00 - Intro09:24 - Understanding IP On Chain12:23 - How to Eliminate People Sending Files to One Another; Sending the NFT and Integration15:56 - !llmind's Point of View on Web Three and Web Two19:08 - Why do Beats, Loops, and Sample Packs Need to be On Chain?25:00 - How to Track Payments On Chain?27:09 - Who Does Web Three Work Against in the Music Industry?29:13 - Why !llmind is Starting Squad of Knights45:23 - How do People Gain Access to !llmind as a Producer and Mentor?48:03 - Community Building in Crypto Around NFTs52:16 - Roadmap Project Launch01:02:39 - Outro…and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation. !llmind - https://twitter.com/illmindPRODUCERLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 22 welcomes music NFT collector and crypto OG Cooper Turley (aka Coopahtroopa). He rationalizes his conviction for spending 100 ETH on music NFTs to date. He came by my hotel during Eth Denver for our first in-person conversation, making this session the longest episode in Season 4. There's just too much alpha in one sitting, I hope you can handle it.In this episode, we discuss:00:36 - Intro03:56 - Music Projects Dominating The Space07:08 - How to Price a Music NFT 11:17 - Why Treat Music NFTs as Collectibles14:18 - How to Get Started as a Music Creator15:34 - Understanding the Music NFT Movement21:26 - Web3 Protocols in the Music Industry24:58 - Getting Started at Audius28:18 - Building Funnels to Grow Your Collector Base35:04 - What is LA's Crypto Culture Like?37:46 - Web3 Music Platforms and Opportunities48:26 - How to Create Digital Emotional Experiences Around Collectors50:29 - End Goal with Collecting 100 Eth Worth of Music NFTs58:30 - Open Sourcing The Entire Music Industry01:03:22 - Music Streaming in Web301:04:46 - The Consumption Layer of Music NFTs01:08:31 - Tokenomics: Risks Associated with Overwhelming Artists and Fans01:21:19 - Daniel Allan and Designing Overstim's Tokenomics01:24:13 - Building Bridges Between Web2 and Web301:28:18 - Outro…and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Cooper Turley - https://twitter.com/CooopahtroopaLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 21 welcomes Queen George, the modern jazz-pop artist who's been publicly, yet thoughtfully experimenting with web3 primitives since April 2021 in an effort to find and build a collector base.We explore a new funnel and interesting case study on how she growth hacked *120* collectors by minting tickets as NFTs for her live concert at Eth Denver.In this episode, we discuss:02:00 - Intro07:36 - The World of Crypto Experimentation13:49 - NFT Ticketing, Metamask, and Eventbrite20:17 - Your New Single “If I Ever Go Down”30:30 - Crypto QR Codes; The Funnel33:52 - Why Doing Tickets as NFTs is Important37:09 - How Crypto Provides Better Fan Based Data To Artists45:57 - What are the Biggest Challenges Getting into the Space?49:25 - Building a Mainstream Audience50:47 - First Time at a Crypto Conference; Biggest Takeaways53:57 - Queen George's Thoughts on Web359:12 - Outro…and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Queen George - https://twitter.com/iamqueengeorgeLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Ryan Wyatt is the CEO of Polygon Studios and former Head of Gaming at Youtube. Ryan is always on the frontier of gaming, having stewarded a new generation of content creators. He's now shifting his focus to Web3, where the next wave of innovation is set to happen. Ryan presents a number of fascinating takes, including his feelings on Anti-NFT sentiment, the future of games, and the growing influence of gaming content. By building out the Polygon Metaverse, Ryan is colliding games and economies. In this episode, he shares what he's learned — what's real about crypto, and what's not. ------

Mint Season 4 episode 20 welcomes Mark Dawson, co-founder of Quixotic, the largest NFT marketplace on Optimism, and MusicFund, a community that finds, funds, and supports up-and-coming artists.This conversation took place during Eth Denver so there's a lot to unpack from the week itself, let alone all the cool stuff he and his co-founder are building, so let's just dive right in.In this episode, we discuss:01:08 - Intro07:05 - How Do Creators Get Started in crypto?12:55 - What is Quixotic trying to solve?17:45 - NFT Derivatives and Copy-cat projects19:11 - About MusicFund23:21 - Current State of Music and Web336:52 - 2022 is the year for Layer 2s38:03 - What is Layer Two Community Culture Like?40:39 - The NFT Landscape in 202242:12 - The Most Interesting Music NFT Use Cases46:37 - Mark's Thoughts on Web3-native Music Royalties 48:40 - Outro…and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Mark Dawson - https://mobile.twitter.com/web3markLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 19 welcomes Dwight Torculas and Garrett Hughes, co-founders of the music NFT marketplace, Mint Songs.In this episode, we discuss:01:53 - Intro 05:38 - Mint Songs13:59 - Data-first Community18:17 - Can NFTs help define the future of music?36:05 - Collection and Ownership38:54 - How to Convert fans into Collectors?43:23 - The On Chain Revenue Model47:43 - What is Metadata?57:42 - How does a new artist get started? 1:06 - How do you price an NFT?1:25 - OutroI hope you enjoy our conversation. Dwight Torculas - https://twitter.com/dorculasGarrett Hughes - https://twitter.com/_garretthughesLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Oveit, compania pe atunci de ticketing si no cash payments pentru evenimente mari - ii cunoasteti de la iCEE.fest / Upgrade100.Festival -, a rămas practic fără piață o dată cu pandemia. Cum au pivotat spre livestream shopping, s-au mutat în Austin, Texas și acum lucrează cu Polygon Studios (ex Matic) pentru implementarea conceptului NFT în ticketing -> într-o discuție profesională cu Dragoș Stanca (care e și unul dintre primii investitori în Oveit).

Mint Season 4 episode 18 welcomes Jermey Vaughn, founder and CEO of Remark - the soon to be social token issuance platform on Solana. The main premise behind this conversation revolves around the current state of social tokens on Solana blockchain and why he believes ESG tokens are a better framework for understanding brands and creators.In this episode, we discuss:00:25 - Intro05:21 - Rimark-able11:29 - What are ESG Tokens?16:21 - Why Do Musicians Need ESG Tokens?26:22 - What's the Difference Between an ESG Token and an NFT?40:10 - Social Media Funnels43:45 - What's on the Horizon for You?45:48 - What's Next for Rimark?I hope you enjoy our conversation. Jeremy Vaughn - https://twitter.com/j_rimarkLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 17 welcomes Kevin Owocki, a technology entrepreneur based in Boulder, Colorado, and the Founder of Gitcoin.In this episode, we discuss: 00:31 -  intro05:19 - Gitcoin14:00 - What's the Incentive to Build for Open Source?17:09 - What's Your Plan to Capture More Market Value?21:24 - Intersection Between Creators and Gitcoin24:45 - Synergies Between Journalists and Software Developers32:20 - Outro…and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Kevin Owocki - https://twitter.com/owockiLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

In this month's special episode, Vaughn sits down with Eldar Basic of Polygon Studios to talk about NFTs moving into the games industry. They talk about the possible future of NFTs, their thoughts on the rollout so far, and much more. If you love Indie Games and want to stay informed, or better yet entertained, be sure to tune in each and every Friday for new episodes of Indie Pod. In which we run you through all the news surrounding the world of Indie Game Development, as well as check out Indies over on crowdfunding sites, answer your listener questions, and even interview a developer or two. So be sure to subscribe to Indie Pod: An Indie Games Podcast on your favorite listening platform. This is one of our formerly Patreon exclusive episodes. But we'll now be posting one every Monday until free feeds have caught up to the Patrons. Afterward, free feeds will receive Special Episodes and Book Club episodes one month after our Patrons. If you'd like to participate in the Book Club episodes become a patron today. Links: Indie Pod Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IndiePod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mint Season 4 episode 16 welcomes Steve Aoki, the world-renowned DJ, entrepreneur, artist, fashionista, collector, culinary entrepreneur - there aren't enough titles we can attribute to him. I had the pleasure of chatting with him on all things music NFTs and his latest project titled the Aokiverse! What an epic conversation, there's a lot to unpack. In this episode, we discuss: 03:10 - Intro07:53 - Any Concerns Getting Into the NFT Space?13:31 - Aokiverse25:03 - Future of the Aokiverse32:26 - How Do You Access the Aokiverse?46:32 - Future Relationship Between a Record Label and an Artist51:39 - Any Unexplored Areas Surrounding Music NFTs?54:20 - Any Clear Advantages to Web Three?10:03 - Will NFTs Allow Us to Live Forever?I hope you enjoy our conversation. Steve Aoki - https://twitter.com/steveaoki Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 15 welcomes Matt Alston and Melissa Zhang, the power duo behind Bonfire, who aims to be the front page for web3 communities. In this episode, we discuss: 01:27 - Intro06:37 - How Did You Guys Meet?09:59 - How Did the idea move from Events to Creators?18:27 - Are Creators Good Community Builders?22:25 - Is Web Three the Perfect Medium for Creators?33:32 - DeFi meets the Creator Economy38:12 - Governance and the Creators47:06 - Bonfire53:36 - Building a Bridge between Web Two and Web Three Audiences56:30 - Converting viewers into collectors58:59 - What's next for Bonfire?60:10 - OutroI hope you enjoy our conversation. Matt Alston - https://twitter.com/matt__alstonMelissa Zhang - https://twitter.com/MelissaZhang13Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 14 welcomes Mark de Clive-Lowe, an American-based Japanese-New Zealand DJ, musician, composer, and producer who's making headwinds in web3. I wanted to have Mark on because he's attempting to do something very unique; he's in the process of raising funds to buy back his music catalog from the labels he initially signed with early on in his career. Not only does he share his journey so far and how he's raised nearly 10 ETH to date, but we provide tips on how you can follow in his footsteps as well.In this episode, we discuss: 1:12 - Intro9:15 - Is Web Three the perfect medium for Music?19:37 - Buy Back Crowd-fund24:55 - Is Revenue shared with DAO Contributors?30:53 - Who Owns Your Catalog?35:28 - Give Us Your Roadmap37:57 - How do you price material?40:28 - Importance of ISRC Codes48:01 - DAOs that buy music catalogs51:48 - What if the Crowd-fund isn't fulfilled?52:50 - OutroI hope you enjoy our conversation. Mark de Clive-Lowe: https://twitter.com/MdCL Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mintShownotesCheck out his crowdfunding campaign to buyback his catalog: https://mdcl.mirror.xyz/crowdfunds/0xB23a19D28A7e9Bdec030782346B0d9aCe11530f5  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

This week in Indian crypto news, India makes cryptocurrencies legal with a crypto tax in budget 2022, FanCraze launches NFTs for cricket fans, Hike partners with Polygon to move into web3, YouTube's head of gaming joins Polygon Studios, Stader Labs raises $12.5 million and Flint raises $5.1 million. India makes cryptocurrencies legal with a crypto tax in budget 2022: Indian government has introduced a 30% tax on virtual assets – cryptocurrencies and NFTs – essentially making them legal in India. This decision has brought a lot of clarity and joy among all the crypto investors and web3 enthusiasts in the country. YouTube's head of gaming joins Polygon Studios: YouTube's head of gaming Ryan Wyatt is leaving YouTube to join blockchain technology company Polygon - where he will be heading Polygon Studios as its CEO. According to Polygon Studios LinkedIn description, it seems like Polygon is building a blockchain-based media and content platform and their focus seems to be gaming for now. They have already launched a $100 million fund to invest in NFT-based gaming projects. Hike partners with Polygon to move into web3: After shutting down their messaging platform last year, Hike is now focused on building their casual play to earn gaming platform Rush. The company has now partnered with Polygon to help them transition from a web2 to a web3 company as they plan to add NFTs and launch more play to earn features for their users. FanCraze launches NFTs for cricket fans: Cricket NFT platform FanCraze has launched digital collectables or NFTs called ‘ICC Crictos' in partnership with the ICC. This means that cricket fans around the world will now be able to own short digital clips of their favourite cricketing moments from Yuvraj Singh's six sixes to Mahendra Singh Dhoni's 2011 world cup winning six. And the best part is, they will be able to buy these NFTs using fiat currencies through payment methods like credit/debit cards, wallets and UPI – making them accessible to the masses. Stader Labs raises $12.5 million: Crypto staking management platform Stader Labs has raised $12.5 million in a round led by Three Arrows Capital – raising their valuation 9X in just three months from $50 million to $450 million. Flint raises $5.1 million: Crypto investment platform Flint has raised $5.1 million in a round led by Sequoia Capital and Global Founders Capital to help them provide passive investment opportunities to their users in the crypto market.

Mint Season 4 episode 13 welcomes Benny Conn, who's a developer at Gallery.so and co-founder of Beat Foundry, an NFT platform for entirely on-chain generative and curated music. Benny dropped out of college to pursue his love for where crypto meets music and Beat Foundry was his first stab at this passion. Congrats to him and his team for a widely successful drop and I'm glad I was able to lead the post-mortem deep dive. We recorded this episode on Twitter Spaces so excuse the Air pods level quality. In this episode, we discuss:IntroWho are your Biggest Jazz Music Influences?Beat Foundry - Why is Generative Music ImportantThe First Drop: OcarinasBeat Foundry and OwnershipDoes Music Need to Be On Chain?Current State of NFTsWhat's the Next Drop in the Pipeline?What's Next? The Oshi DropOutro…and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation. Benny Conn: https://twitter.com/bennyconnnLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

    NFT News YouTube's head of gaming leaves to join Polygon Studios as CEO FTX.US scores $8 billion valuation in its first funding round Coinbase VP of Product shows user experience for upcoming NFT platform Fidelity Files Two More ETFs for the Metaverse, Crypto Industry - Decrypt Jimmy Fallon hyped his Bored Ape NFTs on 'The Tonight Show' - Los Angeles Times  7 day market: https://cryptoslam.io/  External/Internal news:  Affordable projectThe Red Village: Mystic Bones  The Red Village Mystic Bones  Quick highlight on any past projects: Keep Us Honest Affordable Project Tracker    Theme: The more Opensea comps there are the more the market will need analytics/shopping across platforms. gem.xyz Wgmi.io Nfthud.io  https://defillama.com/nfts  https://dune.xyz/rantum/NFT-Collection-Dashboard Concern about SAS model where majority of money is upfront…

Mint Season 4 episode 12 welcomes William Bailey, Founder and CEO of Bolero Music, a platform that brings artists & fans closer together by investing in music through Social Tokens and NFTs.In this episode, we discuss: 00:57 - Intro06:15 - What does Bolero look for in an artist?08:23 - Current state of music NFTs16:03 - Understanding the value behind social tokens23:07 - Monetizing social tokens29:23 - Tokenomics38:24 - The creator virtual circle44:26 - How do we bring off-chain music data on-chain?50:29 - How can we convert more listeners into collectors?54:12 - Do artists have access to accumulated Social Token value?59:02 - OutroI hope you enjoy our conversation. Willam Bailey: https://twitter.com/williambailey_Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Episode 214 where we talk Microsoft and Antitrust, Steam Deck, REmakes, Metaverses, and more! Join the conversation with us LIVE every Tuesday on twitch.tv/2nerdsinapod at 9pm CST. Viewer questions/business inquiries can be sent to 2nerdsinapodcast@gmail.com Follow us on twitter @2NerdsInAPod for gaming news! Intro/Outro music by Sleepingwithspiders (soundcloud.com/sleepingwithspiders) Background music is a royalty free AI […]

Mint Season 4 episode 11 welcomes VÉRITÉ, an American singer and songwriter based in Brooklyn, New York. She's also a music NFT pioneer, who played a huge role in setting the minting models and trends for what we know as music NFTs today. In this episode, we discuss: 00:36 - Intro03:13 - Has Crypto Changed Your Style of Music?08:16 - Music Ownership in the NFT Space18:05 - How Do You Generate Value?23:18 - The Origin of Your Business Acumen28:18 - Three types of NFTs37:11 - Lowering Barriers to Entry for Owning Music NFTs40:22 - How Do You Price A Song?44:54 - Future Relationship Between An Artist and A Label49:47 - OutroI hope you enjoy our conversation. VÉRITÉ: https://twitter.com/VeriteLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 10 welcomes Charlie Crown, the Miami-based, Colombian DJ & producer who has released tracks through Sony Music, Dim Mak, and PRMD; and garnered over 25+ million streams in the process. He's received nods from some of dance music's biggest names including The Chainsmokers, Steve Aoki, Martin Garrix, and Illenium; and shared stages with other incredible artists like Zomboy, Mija, and Le Youth; in addition to massive performances at Club Space Miami and Life in Color. His most recent single, “Sinking” with Bronze Whale reached the top 25 on Apple Music's Electronic charts in over 40 countries and peaked at No. 28 on the US Electronic chart. Charlie Crown is endorsed by McDSP, FabFilter, and Sonarworks audio plugins.He's also deep in the world of where music meets web3. I wanted to have him on because, (1) I backed his project, and (2) his crowdfund mechanics are quite different from what we're used to seeing.I hope you enjoy our conversation. Charlie Crown: https://twitter.com/itscharliecrownLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Cryptocurrency & FinancialMarkets News, Stats& Data for 19th Jan 2022break out soon - get ready to buy Today I talk about the following:1. Market Stats, Trading models, Technical analysis, Sector performances & liquidity2. Fiat markets, Economics, Central Banks, Regulators and Government news3. Social media, & Greed and Fear index4. Derivative Positions & Leverage & Risk Metrics5. Binance to Launch New Cryptocurrency Exchange in Thailand After Thai SEC Filed Criminal Complaint – Bitcoin News. Crypto exchange Binance is launching a new exchange in Thailand after the country's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a complaint against the company for operating without a license. Binance has now signed an agreement with Gulf Energy Development, a Thai public company, to establish a crypto exchange in Thailand.6. Nexo partners with Bakkt . Nexo will use Bakkt's Warehouse to safeguard its customers' crypto assets.On January 19, Bakkt Holdings Inc announced a partnership with Nexo, a cryptocurrency-backed loan platform, to custody crypto assets in the Bakkt warehouse. The partnership will see Nexo using Bakkt's Warehouse to safeguard its customers' Bitcoin and Ether holdings. Bakkt warehouse is a regulated custodian, which allows for secure and safe storage of Bitcoin and Ethereum. 7.Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has partnered with Mastercard to allow a “broader group of consumers to purchase NFTs” by allowing users to pay with Mastercard cards on the platform's upcoming NFT marketplace. https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-and-mastercard-partner-to-revolutionize-nft-purchase-experience-8e486a392c558.Popular cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com halted withdrawals for a short period earlier in the week over an alleged security breach that saw a hacker steal $15 million worth of Ethereum (ETH) from its hot wallets. https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/01/18/binance-destroys-16m-bnb-tokens-in-first-ever-auto-burn/ 9.The Centre Consortium's USDC stablecoin has surpassed Tether's USDT in total supply on the Ethereum network. USDC's current supply is over 40.06 billion tokens, above USDT's 39.82 billion. The Centre Consortium's USDC stablecoin has surpassed Tether's USDT in total supply on the Ethereum network. USDC's current supply on it is over 40.06 billion tokens, above USDT's 39.82 billion. https://cointelegraph.com/news/usdc-flips-tether-on-the-ethereum-network10. Intel – the world's second-largest semiconductor chip manufacturer – appears to be planning a Bitcoin mining chip reveal. At this year's ISSCC conference, the organization has a presentation scheduled under the “Highlighted Chip Releases” category to showcase a “Bonanza Mine” processor.https://cryptopotato.com/intel-plans-bitcoin-mining-chip-reveal-at-upcoming-conference/11· The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) is reportedly planning to launch a central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot soon.https://cointelegraph.com/news/iran-to-reportedly-pilot-central-bank-digital-currency-soon12· The total supply for Circle's stablecoin USDC on Ethereum has surpassed that of Tether, putting USDT in second place on Ethereum for the first time. USDC's current supply on Ethereum as of writing is 40.06 billion tokens, just ahead of USDT's supply of 39.82 billion.https://coinnounce.com/usdc-surpasses-usdt-in-total-supply-on-the-ethereum-network/13· One of the world's most prominent cryptocurrency exchanges, OKEx, has invested in the short-video platform Chingari which announced raising $15 million in a funding round.. As part of OKEx's strategic investment in Chingari, the startup's native token GARI will be listed on the exchange on January 18. Five more crypto exchanges are set to list the token on the same day.https://cryptopotato.com/india-based-tiktok-competitor-chingari-closes-15-million-funding-round/14· South Korean Presidential Candidates Pledge Lower Taxes for Crypto Traders, End to ICO Banhttps://cryptonews.com/news/south-korean-presidential-candidates-pledge-lower-taxes-for-crypto-traders-end-ico-ban.htm15· Byte Trading, a crypto market maker specialized in derivatives, has raised $7 million in a seed funding round.https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/130653/crypto-market-maker-byte-trading-raises-7-million-in-seed-funding?utm_source=cryptocompare&utm_medium=rss16· Metaplex Foundation announced a $46 million funding round on Tuesday, co-led by Multicoin Capital and Jump Crypto. The fresh raise will go towards “expanding support for gaming and metaverse applications,” the company said in a statement to Blockworks. Metaplex, the Solana-based protocol developed by the firm, is commonly used in minting non-fungible tokens (NFTs), as well as an infrastructure for creators to launch self-hosted NFT storPlotX, a gaming Dapp built on Polygon, received a $5 million pre-Series A investment and grant from Polygon & Hashed. As one of Polygon's fastest-growing GameFi ecosystems, PlotX will be able to use this extra capital to increase its already sizable user base further.17· Hashed, Polygon Studios, Animoca Brands, Alpha Wave Global (formerly Falcon Edge), and power angels such as Sandeep Nailwal (Co-Founder Polygon) and Alan Howard (Co-Founder Brevan Howard Asset Management) participated in the round, which raised a total of $70 million.efronts. The protocol has minted over 5.7 million NFTs since its inception, according to the startup.https://thenewscrypto.com/plotx-acquires-5-million-in-funding-grant-led-by-polygon/18· PlotX, a GameFi protocol aiming to create sustainable play-to-earn (P2E) ecosystems, has announced the completion of a $5 million pre-Series A funding round and grant-led Polygon Studios and Hashed helping them expand to reach a global audience, details from a press release on January 17 reveals.https://coinquora.com/plotx-secures-a-5-million-funding-round-led-by-polygon-and-hashed-launches-staking-program/19· Cryptocurrency individual retirement account and 401(k) provider iTrustCapital said it had raised $125 million in a growth equity investment, making its valuation reach $1.3 billion. In a Wednesday announcement, iTrustCapital said it had completed a $125 million Series A growth equity investment led by New York-based VC firm Left Lane Capital. The company said it planned to use the funds for expanding its existing product and service line in addition to exploring strategic acquisitions.https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-ira-itrustcapital-raises-125m-pushes-valuation-over-1b20. https://cryptopotato.com/vc-firm-blossom-capital-raises-432m-to-invest-in-the-cryptocurrency-ecosystem/· The UK firm Blossom Capital intends to invest one-third of the $432 million in both digital assets and companies that develop crypto infrastructure. · The London-based venture capital company Blossom Capital raised $432 million to invest in early-stage tech startups in Europe. The firm has reserved a third of the proceeds for investments in the cryptocurrency industry.21. www.cryptonewsz.com/the-algorand-foundation-announces-partnership-with-icon/The Algorand Foundation recently announced a partnership with ICON by offering them the Bridges SupaGrant. The integration will also allow Algorand to enter ICON's BTP Working Group, known for its Interoperability Ecosystem.With the collaboration, the community will witness the perpetual growth of the diverse, growing, and vibrant Algorand ecosystem. Moreover, the Algorand Foundation will gain a security partner with the BTP integration.It also opens the door of opportunities for future upgrades and maintenance needed to the bridging integration. You can know more here about Algorand's potential as an altcoin investment. As ICON's state-of-the-art interoperability solution, BTP is both trustless and decentralized. In addition, it is completely secured via cryptography, making it a viable solution in the modern blockchain market. After adding Algorand, the BTP network now holds multiple renowned ecosystems.and more

Cryptocurrency & FinancialMarkets News, Stats& Data for 19th Jan 2022break out soon - get ready to buy Today I talk about the following:1. Market Stats, Trading models, Technical analysis, Sector performances & liquidity2. Fiat markets, Economics, Central Banks, Regulators and Government news3. Social media, & Greed and Fear index4. Derivative Positions & Leverage & Risk Metrics5. Binance to Launch New Cryptocurrency Exchange in Thailand After Thai SEC Filed Criminal Complaint – Bitcoin News. Crypto exchange Binance is launching a new exchange in Thailand after the country's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a complaint against the company for operating without a license. Binance has now signed an agreement with Gulf Energy Development, a Thai public company, to establish a crypto exchange in Thailand.6. Nexo partners with Bakkt . Nexo will use Bakkt's Warehouse to safeguard its customers' crypto assets.On January 19, Bakkt Holdings Inc announced a partnership with Nexo, a cryptocurrency-backed loan platform, to custody crypto assets in the Bakkt warehouse. The partnership will see Nexo using Bakkt's Warehouse to safeguard its customers' Bitcoin and Ether holdings. Bakkt warehouse is a regulated custodian, which allows for secure and safe storage of Bitcoin and Ethereum. 7.Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has partnered with Mastercard to allow a “broader group of consumers to purchase NFTs” by allowing users to pay with Mastercard cards on the platform's upcoming NFT marketplace. https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-and-mastercard-partner-to-revolutionize-nft-purchase-experience-8e486a392c558.Popular cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com halted withdrawals for a short period earlier in the week over an alleged security breach that saw a hacker steal $15 million worth of Ethereum (ETH) from its hot wallets. https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/01/18/binance-destroys-16m-bnb-tokens-in-first-ever-auto-burn/ 9.The Centre Consortium's USDC stablecoin has surpassed Tether's USDT in total supply on the Ethereum network. USDC's current supply is over 40.06 billion tokens, above USDT's 39.82 billion. The Centre Consortium's USDC stablecoin has surpassed Tether's USDT in total supply on the Ethereum network. USDC's current supply on it is over 40.06 billion tokens, above USDT's 39.82 billion. https://cointelegraph.com/news/usdc-flips-tether-on-the-ethereum-network10. Intel – the world's second-largest semiconductor chip manufacturer – appears to be planning a Bitcoin mining chip reveal. At this year's ISSCC conference, the organization has a presentation scheduled under the “Highlighted Chip Releases” category to showcase a “Bonanza Mine” processor.https://cryptopotato.com/intel-plans-bitcoin-mining-chip-reveal-at-upcoming-conference/11· The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) is reportedly planning to launch a central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot soon.https://cointelegraph.com/news/iran-to-reportedly-pilot-central-bank-digital-currency-soon12· The total supply for Circle's stablecoin USDC on Ethereum has surpassed that of Tether, putting USDT in second place on Ethereum for the first time. USDC's current supply on Ethereum as of writing is 40.06 billion tokens, just ahead of USDT's supply of 39.82 billion.https://coinnounce.com/usdc-surpasses-usdt-in-total-supply-on-the-ethereum-network/13· One of the world's most prominent cryptocurrency exchanges, OKEx, has invested in the short-video platform Chingari which announced raising $15 million in a funding round.. As part of OKEx's strategic investment in Chingari, the startup's native token GARI will be listed on the exchange on January 18. Five more crypto exchanges are set to list the token on the same day.https://cryptopotato.com/india-based-tiktok-competitor-chingari-closes-15-million-funding-round/14· South Korean Presidential Candidates Pledge Lower Taxes for Crypto Traders, End to ICO Banhttps://cryptonews.com/news/south-korean-presidential-candidates-pledge-lower-taxes-for-crypto-traders-end-ico-ban.htm15· Byte Trading, a crypto market maker specialized in derivatives, has raised $7 million in a seed funding round.https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/130653/crypto-market-maker-byte-trading-raises-7-million-in-seed-funding?utm_source=cryptocompare&utm_medium=rss16· Metaplex Foundation announced a $46 million funding round on Tuesday, co-led by Multicoin Capital and Jump Crypto. The fresh raise will go towards “expanding support for gaming and metaverse applications,” the company said in a statement to Blockworks. Metaplex, the Solana-based protocol developed by the firm, is commonly used in minting non-fungible tokens (NFTs), as well as an infrastructure for creators to launch self-hosted NFT storPlotX, a gaming Dapp built on Polygon, received a $5 million pre-Series A investment and grant from Polygon & Hashed. As one of Polygon's fastest-growing GameFi ecosystems, PlotX will be able to use this extra capital to increase its already sizable user base further.17· Hashed, Polygon Studios, Animoca Brands, Alpha Wave Global (formerly Falcon Edge), and power angels such as Sandeep Nailwal (Co-Founder Polygon) and Alan Howard (Co-Founder Brevan Howard Asset Management) participated in the round, which raised a total of $70 million.efronts. The protocol has minted over 5.7 million NFTs since its inception, according to the startup.https://thenewscrypto.com/plotx-acquires-5-million-in-funding-grant-led-by-polygon/18· PlotX, a GameFi protocol aiming to create sustainable play-to-earn (P2E) ecosystems, has announced the completion of a $5 million pre-Series A funding round and grant-led Polygon Studios and Hashed helping them expand to reach a global audience, details from a press release on January 17 reveals.https://coinquora.com/plotx-secures-a-5-million-funding-round-led-by-polygon-and-hashed-launches-staking-program/19· Cryptocurrency individual retirement account and 401(k) provider iTrustCapital said it had raised $125 million in a growth equity investment, making its valuation reach $1.3 billion. In a Wednesday announcement, iTrustCapital said it had completed a $125 million Series A growth equity investment led by New York-based VC firm Left Lane Capital. The company said it planned to use the funds for expanding its existing product and service line in addition to exploring strategic acquisitions.https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-ira-itrustcapital-raises-125m-pushes-valuation-over-1b20. https://cryptopotato.com/vc-firm-blossom-capital-raises-432m-to-invest-in-the-cryptocurrency-ecosystem/· The UK firm Blossom Capital intends to invest one-third of the $432 million in both digital assets and companies that develop crypto infrastructure. · The London-based venture capital company Blossom Capital raised $432 million to invest in early-stage tech startups in Europe. The firm has reserved a third of the proceeds for investments in the cryptocurrency industry.21. www.cryptonewsz.com/the-algorand-foundation-announces-partnership-with-icon/The Algorand Foundation recently announced a partnership with ICON by offering them the Bridges SupaGrant. The integration will also allow Algorand to enter ICON's BTP Working Group, known for its Interoperability Ecosystem.With the collaboration, the community will witness the perpetual growth of the diverse, growing, and vibrant Algorand ecosystem. Moreover, the Algorand Foundation will gain a security partner with the BTP integration.It also opens the door of opportunities for future upgrades and maintenance needed to the bridging integration. You can know more here about Algorand's potential as an altcoin investment. As ICON's state-of-the-art interoperability solution, BTP is both trustless and decentralized. In addition, it is completely secured via cryptography, making it a viable solution in the modern blockchain market. After adding Algorand, the BTP network now holds multiple renowned ecosystems.and more

Cryptocurrency & FinancialMarkets News, Stats& Data for 19th Jan 2022break out soon - get ready to buy Today I talk about the following:1. Market Stats, Trading models, Technical analysis, Sector performances & liquidity2. Fiat markets, Economics, Central Banks, Regulators and Government news3. Social media, & Greed and Fear index4. Derivative Positions & Leverage & Risk Metrics5. Binance to Launch New Cryptocurrency Exchange in Thailand After Thai SEC Filed Criminal Complaint – Bitcoin News. Crypto exchange Binance is launching a new exchange in Thailand after the country's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a complaint against the company for operating without a license. Binance has now signed an agreement with Gulf Energy Development, a Thai public company, to establish a crypto exchange in Thailand.6. Nexo partners with Bakkt . Nexo will use Bakkt's Warehouse to safeguard its customers' crypto assets.On January 19, Bakkt Holdings Inc announced a partnership with Nexo, a cryptocurrency-backed loan platform, to custody crypto assets in the Bakkt warehouse. The partnership will see Nexo using Bakkt's Warehouse to safeguard its customers' Bitcoin and Ether holdings. Bakkt warehouse is a regulated custodian, which allows for secure and safe storage of Bitcoin and Ethereum. 7.Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has partnered with Mastercard to allow a “broader group of consumers to purchase NFTs” by allowing users to pay with Mastercard cards on the platform's upcoming NFT marketplace. https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-and-mastercard-partner-to-revolutionize-nft-purchase-experience-8e486a392c558.Popular cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com halted withdrawals for a short period earlier in the week over an alleged security breach that saw a hacker steal $15 million worth of Ethereum (ETH) from its hot wallets. https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/01/18/binance-destroys-16m-bnb-tokens-in-first-ever-auto-burn/ 9.The Centre Consortium's USDC stablecoin has surpassed Tether's USDT in total supply on the Ethereum network. USDC's current supply is over 40.06 billion tokens, above USDT's 39.82 billion. The Centre Consortium's USDC stablecoin has surpassed Tether's USDT in total supply on the Ethereum network. USDC's current supply on it is over 40.06 billion tokens, above USDT's 39.82 billion. https://cointelegraph.com/news/usdc-flips-tether-on-the-ethereum-network10. Intel – the world's second-largest semiconductor chip manufacturer – appears to be planning a Bitcoin mining chip reveal. At this year's ISSCC conference, the organization has a presentation scheduled under the “Highlighted Chip Releases” category to showcase a “Bonanza Mine” processor.https://cryptopotato.com/intel-plans-bitcoin-mining-chip-reveal-at-upcoming-conference/11· The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) is reportedly planning to launch a central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot soon.https://cointelegraph.com/news/iran-to-reportedly-pilot-central-bank-digital-currency-soon12· The total supply for Circle's stablecoin USDC on Ethereum has surpassed that of Tether, putting USDT in second place on Ethereum for the first time. USDC's current supply on Ethereum as of writing is 40.06 billion tokens, just ahead of USDT's supply of 39.82 billion.https://coinnounce.com/usdc-surpasses-usdt-in-total-supply-on-the-ethereum-network/13· One of the world's most prominent cryptocurrency exchanges, OKEx, has invested in the short-video platform Chingari which announced raising $15 million in a funding round.. As part of OKEx's strategic investment in Chingari, the startup's native token GARI will be listed on the exchange on January 18. Five more crypto exchanges are set to list the token on the same day.https://cryptopotato.com/india-based-tiktok-competitor-chingari-closes-15-million-funding-round/14· South Korean Presidential Candidates Pledge Lower Taxes for Crypto Traders, End to ICO Banhttps://cryptonews.com/news/south-korean-presidential-candidates-pledge-lower-taxes-for-crypto-traders-end-ico-ban.htm15· Byte Trading, a crypto market maker specialized in derivatives, has raised $7 million in a seed funding round.https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/130653/crypto-market-maker-byte-trading-raises-7-million-in-seed-funding?utm_source=cryptocompare&utm_medium=rss16· Metaplex Foundation announced a $46 million funding round on Tuesday, co-led by Multicoin Capital and Jump Crypto. The fresh raise will go towards “expanding support for gaming and metaverse applications,” the company said in a statement to Blockworks. Metaplex, the Solana-based protocol developed by the firm, is commonly used in minting non-fungible tokens (NFTs), as well as an infrastructure for creators to launch self-hosted NFT storPlotX, a gaming Dapp built on Polygon, received a $5 million pre-Series A investment and grant from Polygon & Hashed. As one of Polygon's fastest-growing GameFi ecosystems, PlotX will be able to use this extra capital to increase its already sizable user base further.17· Hashed, Polygon Studios, Animoca Brands, Alpha Wave Global (formerly Falcon Edge), and power angels such as Sandeep Nailwal (Co-Founder Polygon) and Alan Howard (Co-Founder Brevan Howard Asset Management) participated in the round, which raised a total of $70 million.efronts. The protocol has minted over 5.7 million NFTs since its inception, according to the startup.https://thenewscrypto.com/plotx-acquires-5-million-in-funding-grant-led-by-polygon/18· PlotX, a GameFi protocol aiming to create sustainable play-to-earn (P2E) ecosystems, has announced the completion of a $5 million pre-Series A funding round and grant-led Polygon Studios and Hashed helping them expand to reach a global audience, details from a press release on January 17 reveals.https://coinquora.com/plotx-secures-a-5-million-funding-round-led-by-polygon-and-hashed-launches-staking-program/19· Cryptocurrency individual retirement account and 401(k) provider iTrustCapital said it had raised $125 million in a growth equity investment, making its valuation reach $1.3 billion. In a Wednesday announcement, iTrustCapital said it had completed a $125 million Series A growth equity investment led by New York-based VC firm Left Lane Capital. The company said it planned to use the funds for expanding its existing product and service line in addition to exploring strategic acquisitions.https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-ira-itrustcapital-raises-125m-pushes-valuation-over-1b20. https://cryptopotato.com/vc-firm-blossom-capital-raises-432m-to-invest-in-the-cryptocurrency-ecosystem/· The UK firm Blossom Capital intends to invest one-third of the $432 million in both digital assets and companies that develop crypto infrastructure. · The London-based venture capital company Blossom Capital raised $432 million to invest in early-stage tech startups in Europe. The firm has reserved a third of the proceeds for investments in the cryptocurrency industry.21. www.cryptonewsz.com/the-algorand-foundation-announces-partnership-with-icon/The Algorand Foundation recently announced a partnership with ICON by offering them the Bridges SupaGrant. The integration will also allow Algorand to enter ICON's BTP Working Group, known for its Interoperability Ecosystem.With the collaboration, the community will witness the perpetual growth of the diverse, growing, and vibrant Algorand ecosystem. Moreover, the Algorand Foundation will gain a security partner with the BTP integration.It also opens the door of opportunities for future upgrades and maintenance needed to the bridging integration. You can know more here about Algorand's potential as an altcoin investment. As ICON's state-of-the-art interoperability solution, BTP is both trustless and decentralized. In addition, it is completely secured via cryptography, making it a viable solution in the modern blockchain market. After adding Algorand, the BTP network now holds multiple renowned ecosystems.and more

Mint Season 4 episode 9 welcomes Spartan Daggenhurst, an award-winning Anglo-Greek filmmaker, composer, pianist, and poet. He grew up between England, Greece, and France before moving to Los Angeles at the age of 9. In 2016, he graduated from Bard College in New York with a degree in Piano Performance and Music Composition. He works actively in various artistic mediums, including film, opera, and poetry, and is fluent in English, Greek, French, German, and Italian. He's also the founder of The FilmDAO, which is the first web3 Film Studio producing and financing community-curated original cinema.In this episode, we discuss: 00:27 - Intro09:02 - What is The FilmDAO?15:25 - Importance of Community in the Film Industry22:46 - How Crypto can help Hollywood31:38 - NFTs being used in Hollywood37:02 - Using NFTs as a vehicle for Crowdfunding films40:51 - When will movie funding have its way in Web3?47:32 - Outro…and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Spartan Daggenhurst: https://twitter.com/theFilmDAOLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 8 welcomes Grady, the la-based singer-songwriter and producer who's been making a lot of noise in web3. From starting a decentralized record label called Good Karma DAO, selling music NFTs online, and even crowdfunding his next album on-chain - there's a lot to learn from this guy.In this episode, we discuss: 02:04 - Intro13:19 - Good Karma DAO18:42 - Good Karma DAO's First Showcase27:44 - $CHERRY Part 136:22 - Future of Music in Web Three39:53 - Parallels between the Music and Crypto Industries45:19 - Web Three Investments by Major Labels50:38 - How can new artists join the Good Karma DAO?54:06 - What can we expect from Grady in 2022?…and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Grady: https://twitter.com/whoinvitedgradyLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 7 welcomes the Overstimulated duo Daniel Allan and Henry Chatfield who are setting the example for how a music creator DAO should look and feel. Here's an end-to-end recap of their journey, analyzing the last 3 months of their work where we break down October's crowdfund as showcased in a previous episode and the day-to-day of bringing this on-chain EP to life.In this episode, we discuss: 00:44 - Intro05:26 - Artist Management/Community Management09:56 - Evolving Role of Record Labels17:17 - Songwriting Camp27:37 - Reinvestment of Earnings34:22 - The Live Performance of Overstimulated $OVERSTIM41:19 - What's Next?46:07 - Outro…and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Daniel Allan: https://twitter.com/imdanielallanHenry Chatfield: https://twitter.com/HenryChatfieldLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 6 welcomes serial entrepreneur and social media mogul Gary Vaynerchuk, who's the founder of VaynerMedia, VaynerX, VeeFriends FlyFish and so much more. It was a pleasure hearing his POV on the evolving landscape of web3 and all that it brings. In this episode, we discuss: 00:39 - Current state of NFTs in 202206:14 - Will record labels evolve into hedge funds?11:34 - Why buy music NFTs?17:10 - Creator coins vs NFTs?22:31 - Forming a DAO to buy the Jets 24:41 - Similarities between building an MVP and an MVC30:06 - Trends in 2021 and beyond31:32 - Game: Bullish or Bearish?...and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 5 welcomes Spencer Graham, who is a core contributor at DAOhaus, where he helps with product development, internal operations, communications, and tokenomics. He's been contributing full-time to DAOs since 2020, and introduces a solid foundation around product development in web3.In this episode, we discuss: 00:43 Intro07:15 DAOs and DAOhaus16:03 CCOs: Community Contribution Opportunity21:48 CCOs vs ICOs30:42 What are the cons of CCOs?45:16 OutroI hope you enjoy our conversation. Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 4 welcomes Xcelencia, a Puerto Rican songwriter and musician who growth hacked his way through Spotify playlists and now has landed in the world of web3. He's the creator of the social token $EQUIS and more recently launched a crowdfunding campaign on mirror to bootstrap the birth of Infinite, an immersive multimedia album and digital art experience that will grow in real-time as fans engage with the project.In this episode, we discuss: 00:39 - Intro03:45 - Playlist Building07:50 - Social Tokens13:47 - How to Incentivize your Community?24:48 - Labels and Investors- How do they fit in?28:29 - Two Tokens - What's the difference?34:01- How do you see the future?26:31- OutroI hope you enjoy our conversation. Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 3 welcomes M.Shadows, founder and lead singer of the iconic rock band Avenged Sevenfold. I grew up playing their music on the drums and have admired them ever since I can remember. I wanted to have him on because he started the Deathbats Club, a 10,000 PFP project whose perks and utilities are inner-twined within each NFT. We recorded the episode pre-launch so keep that in mind while listening, but regardless he drops so many golden nuggets on the music industry, being early to Ethereum, community building and so much. 0:00 - Intro11:50 - The Deathbats Club17:58 - NFT Adoption21:50 - Thinking About Community Management27:10- Thinking Post-Mortem29:02 - On-Chain Royalties38:52- Creating Utility47:03 - Deathbat DAO36:33 - OutroI hope you enjoy our conversation. Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 2 welcomes Dayo Adeosun, co-founder of Glass Protocol. In this episode, we talk about all things video NFTs, the fundamental macro problems facing short form mid form and long-form videos in web 2, why people want to own videos, how we can better educate creators around the world on the concept of ownership, and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 1 welcomes Kyle and Evan Dhillon, two brothers on a journey to empower the creative value of music by creating on-chain music production tools for creators.I hope you enjoy our conversation. Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

The podcast and Humans are back and while we've lost Kangy (love you brother), we were able to bring on some past guests to go over all that's gone on in Earth2.io the past few weeks. Hydra, Bowl Combo, and Meta all took part in a conversation that included the following topics: What everyone has been up to Devs leaving - what does this mean for Earth2? Importance of +2 ETH jewels Bazaar (impact of Jewels crafting) Tier 2 properties and what it means for Tier 1 Any value for Tier 2? Polygon Studios and why this is so good for E2. Any potential problems? How much will initial value of coin be? (will it be essence) What is better? Deflationary or Inflationary? What does E2 still need to improve upon? What has E2 been doing well of late? Has Earth2 turned the corner? MNIH Intro Song "My Name is Human" (Cover) by Oliver Jones Music --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week for our inaugural episode we feature Charles Adkins, NFT Lead at Polygon Studios, who brings some serious NFT Heat!

On this episode of the Welcome to the Metaverse podcast, I chat to Ishan Negi who is the NFT & Gaming Lead at Polygon. Ishan was the perfect guest to have on to explain the new blockchain gaming landscape, what is coming and the huge opportunities that await. Polygon is dominating the space as a layer 2 scaling solution, home to some of the best blockchain games and virtual worlds currently available. An exciting time to be witnessing this gaming and digital asset revolution and an episode packed full of value. ======================= This episode is sponsored by Republic Realm, who are a metaverse investment and innovation platform. We recently had them on the show and it was one of my favourite episodes, so I'm really happy to now be working together to bring you some of the brightest minds behind new metaverse platforms. Thank you for your continued support! Republic Realm are also one of the largest owners of digital real estate NFTs in Decentraland, The Sandbox and Axie Infinity. To find out more about what they do, head to https://www.republicrealm.com and follow them on twitter here : https://www.twitter.com/joinrepublic_RE and Discord : discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW ======================= To join my weekly NFT drops newsletter, head to metaverseluke.substack.com, you can also reach out at metaversepod@gmail.com ======================= Links for Polygon To find out more the projects building on Polygon and Polygon Studios - head to https://awesomepolygon.com/ Polygon Twitter : https://twitter.com/0xPolygon and Polygon Studios : https://twitter.com/_PolygonStudios ======================= In this episode we talk about : - Ishan's road to crypto and his role as NFT & Gaming Lead at Polygon - What Polygon is as a layer 2 solution and why it is perfect for the adoption of blockchain games and NFTs - How the play-to-earn blockchain gaming model is sustainable - What the next 6 - 12 months might look like for the blockchain gaming space - 3 games that Ishan loves on Polygon - Passive income gaming models, staking and Decentral Games - The Sandbox migrating to Polygon and the future of virtual worlds and blockchain gaming - How close we are to mainstream adoption - major gaming industry talent moving to the blockchain gaming space - How legacy sport and fashion brands are also building on Polygon - The next wave in the space - social tokens and how they change the creator model - Ways to support and benefit from this explosion in value of the space ======================= Games mentioned in this show Skyweaver - https://www.skyweaver.net/ Decentral Games - https://decentral.games/ Zed Run - https://zed.run/ Aavegotchi - https://aavegotchi.com/ Coinvise - https://www.coinvise.co/

Jamil catches up with Ishan NegiIshan to learn more about Polygon Studios, Interoperability in the Metaverse, NFT Gaming with LK Rollups, and the Hermez Merger, with Ishan Negi at Polygon Studios Ishan NegiIshan is the Nft/gaming lead at Polygon, having joined the company in late Feb, 2021. Prior to this, Ishan has worked in M&A and in the social-tech space in India. He has completed his undergrad from SRCC, Delhi and his MBA from Indian Institute of Management - Bangalore.In his spare time, Ishan is passionate about football/soccer, music and landscape photography.. Jamil Hasan is a crypto and blockchain focused podcast host at the Irish Tech News and spearheads our weekend content “The Crypto Corner” where he interviews founders, entrepreneurs and global thought leaders. Prior to his endeavors into the crypto-verse in July 2017, Jamil built an impressive career as a data, operations, financial, technology and business analyst and manager in Corporate America, including twelve years at American International Group and its related companies. Since entering the crypto universe, Jamil has been an advisor, entrepreneur, investor and author. His books “Blockchain Ethics: A Bridge to Abundance” (2018) and “Re-Generation X” (2020) not only discuss the benefits of blockchain technology, but also capture Jamil's experience on how he has transitioned from being a loyal yet downsized former corporate employee to a self sovereign individual. With over fifty podcasts under his belt since he joined our team in February 2021, and with four years of experience both managing his own crypto portfolio and providing crypto guidance and counsel to select clients, Jamil continues to seek opportunities to help others navigate this still nascent industry. Jamil's primary focus outside of podcast hosting is helping former corporate employees gain the necessary skills and vision to build their own crypto portfolios and create wealth for the long-term.

Polygon Co-founder Sandeep Nailwal explains the Hermez merger, $1 billion in initiatives to support Polygon's strategic focus on ZK-based scaling solutions, and how Polygon Studios is playing a role in growing Polygon as a space for digital culture. Aave's Ajit Tripathi discusses how financial institutions are entering DeFi and what they're looking for when considering joining the web3 industry. Polygon: https://polygon.technology/  Sandeep Nailwal: https://twitter.com/sandeepnailwal  Aave: https://aave.com/  Ajit Tripathi: https://twitter.com/chainyoda  Chainlink Today: https://twitter.com/ChainlinkToday  Andy Boyan: https://twitter.com/andyboyan

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