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In this 3rd episode of WAC Morning, co-hosts John Karp, Rem, Fanny Lakoubay, and Diane Drubay are joined by Chris Cummings, the CEO of Iconic Moments, for an engaging discussion on the intersection of digital art, Web3, and cultural institutions.Key Highlights:* Insights from Art Basel Miami:The team reflects on the growing acceptance of blockchain-based art in mainstream art spaces, particularly at events like Art Basel Miami. Chris and John share their observations on the elevated quality of presentations and panels, highlighting the significance of Tyler Hobbs' generative art series, "64 Bits of Sunlight," launched in collaboration with Iconic Moments.* Chris Cummings' Work with Iconic Moments:Chris introduces Iconic Moments, a platform aiming to bridge the gap between cultural institutions and blockchain technology. He discusses notable projects, such as collaborations with:The Universal Hip Hop Museum (opening in 2025).The Kansas Museum of Art and Light, featuring an immersive approach to digital and contemporary art.* Redefining Museum Experiences:The conversation explores how museums can modernize their offerings to stay relevant, particularly post-COVID. They discuss efforts to:Create participatory exhibits.Enhance global engagement through storytelling and digital tools.Build long-term connections with audiences who may never visit in person.* Immersive and Interactive Exhibits:The Kansas Museum of Art and Light is showcased as an example of integrating digital art into museum spaces effectively. Highlights include:* Hands-on activities with generative art algorithms like Tyler Hobbs' QQL.* Educational components explaining blockchain, NFTs, and the diversity of digital art styles.* Interactive installations where visitors can experiment with art-making processes.* Future Prospects:Looking ahead, Chris emphasizes the need for cultural institutions to adopt new technologies thoughtfully and sustainably to engage diverse audiences while preserving accessibility and inclusivity.Key Phrase of the Episode:"Cultural institutions must embrace digital and blockchain technologies not just for survival, but to engage and educate a global audience in innovative and inclusive ways."Useful Web Links:Iconic Moments – Explore Chris Cummings' platform connecting cultural institutions with Web3 solutions: https://www.iconicmoments.coTwitter account of Chris CummingsThe Kansas Museum of Art and Light – Discover the innovative museum championing digital and immersive art: https://www.artandlightmuseum.orgWAC (Web3 for Art and Culture) – Insights and resources for cultural institutions in the digital age: https://www.wac-lab.comTyler Hobbs' "64 Bits of Sunlight" – Learn about the generative art series featured at Art Basel: https://www.tylerxhobbs.comDiscover the video replay of the episode here This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nftmorning.com

It's cat week! The Grizzlies are off to Bozeman as major underdogs in a fight for a playoff seed and to keep the brawl trophy. Joining the pod is former Grizzly D-lineman Tyler Hobbs. Hobbs expresses his initial query of what the GFP really does know about football and then the stories get rolling. Over [&hellip The post Griz Fan Podcast – What the hell do these guys know about football? appeared first on Montana Mint - The greatest website north of Wyoming..

It's cat week! The Grizzlies are off to Bozeman as major underdogs in a fight for a playoff seed and to keep the brawl trophy. Joining the pod is former Grizzly D-lineman Tyler Hobbs. Hobbs expresses his initial query of what the GFP really does know about football and then the stories get rolling. Over [&hellip The post Griz Fan Podcast – What the hell do these guys know about football? appeared first on Montana Mint - The greatest website north of Wyoming..

For the second time in a row, PARIS PHOTO, the most important art photography fair, will feature a dedicated DIGITAL SECTOR curated by Nina Roehrs. To cover this event, which takes place from November 6th to November 10th, NFT Morning is hosting a special week focused on this Digital Sector.Tyler Hobbs, who, in addition to his masterpieces like Fidenza and QQL, has a strong background in physical art, presented his latest collection New Space at Paris Photo. Known for blending algorithmic processes with traditional art practices, Hobbs' work pushes the boundaries of both the digital and physical art worlds. New Space features six unique pieces that explore the intersection of generative art and traditional still life subjects, such as chairs and pears. This series, curated by Marlene Corbun from LaCollection, exemplifies Hobbs' ability to merge hand-drawn techniques with computational design, offering a fresh take on classical forms.To learn more, visit:New Space on LaCollectionNew Space Teaser Marlen Corbun | Twitter ProfileTyler Hobbs | Twitter ProfileTyler Hobbs | WebsiteNew Space #1 (Two Pears)New Space #6 (Three Chairs) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nftmorning.com

This is Le Random's discussion following the release of Chapter 9 of our Generative Art Timeline, which covered the decade of the 2010s. Le Random's Peter Bauman (Monk Antony), editor in chief at Le Random is joined by co-founder thefunnyguys and Content Lead Conrad House. Our guests today are some of the artists and thinkers who lived art history in the 2010s. They are Tyler Hobbs, Helena Sarin, Rhea Myers, and Gene Kogan. Join us as we discuss digital expression in a decade of major trends such as AI's rise and the invention of NFTs.

Is the sleepy crypto market a sign to abandon the digital art world? Not a chance! "Rare Bits" dives into the booming digital art market, exploring why it's more relevant than ever. We'll uncover the reasons why this artistic revolution is a goldmine for innovation, accessibility, investment, and cultural impact. Join us as we unveil the hidden gems and chart a course for navigating the exciting world of digital art! This episode also features top digital artists like Beeple and Xcopy, and rising stars like Matt Kane and Mathcastles. Learn about their groundbreaking work and staggering sales figures. HOW CAN SUPPORT THE SHOW? SUBSCRIBE: ⁠RARE BITS PODCAST⁠    WATCH: ⁠RAREBITS LIVE YOUTUBE⁠   READ: .⁠RARE BITS SUBSTACK⁠  Follow on X: BEATBROKER RARE BITS LIVE GET SOME MERCH RARE BITS GEAR:⁠RARE BITS MERCH⁠ ON THE DOCKET Larva Labs - @larvalabs Tyler Hobbs - @tylerxhobbs Snowfro (Erick Calderon) - @ArtOnBlockchain Dmitri Cherniak - @dmitricherniak Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) - @beeple Xcopy - @XCOPYART Takashi Murakami - @takashipom Damien Hirst - @hirst_official Matt Kane - @MattKaneArtist Mathcastles (Sarah Friend) - @isthisanart_ (for Sarah Friend)

The seeds for both Big Sky basketball tournaments are set, and Colter Nuanez breaks down Monday night's action. Plus: New Montana State quarterbacks coach Chuckie Keaton makes his Nuanez Now debut, and Colter catches up with Missoula Sentinel girls basketball coach Tyler Hobbs ahead of the state tournament.

Montana Grizzly Football brought Tyler Hobbs to Missoula in 2006 from Spokane but coaching high school basketball has kept him here. The principles he's learned throughout his playing days have led him to a successful real estate career and he now passes those lessons onto the kids he coaches in the game he loves. Connect with Tyler on Real Estate: https://www.kellerwilliamsmissoula.com/agent-list/tyler-hobbs

Colter Nuanez and Justin Angle lament the death of Sports Illustrated and debate just why Netflix would want to get into business with the WWE. Plus: Missoula Sentinel girls basketball coach Tyler Hobbs.

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That's up to a one-year supply of Vitamin D as added value when you try their delicious and comprehensive daily, foundational nutrition supplement that supports whole-body health.*[04:57] Tequila disclosures and investment discourse.[10:42] Startup advisor advice.[18:40] The hit rate of past New Year's resolutions.[20:13] Henry Shukman's new meditation app: The Way.[22:44] An overlooked advantage for the early investor.[24:15] Saucelessness and second brains.[27:41] Protecting your phone's collage of schwanzes.[34:20] Privacy and liability concerns in an AI-guided world.[40:42] Minimalist delegation, foot faults, and surrender.[46:30] Quick, creative collaborations.[51:39] My post-holiday physical reboot.[59:02] Kevin's physical reboot.[1:03:18] Taking a break from caffeine, alcohol, sex, and sweetness.[1:16:26] Cacao ceremonies and perilous tobacco cocktails.[1:22:18] Radical Acceptance and the origin of TimTim.[1:24:34] How NFTs drove Kevin to ketamine.[1:57:09] Kevin's robot-enhanced Tyler Hobbs tattoo.[2:02:45] What kind of tattoo might I get, and why?[2:09:11] Advice for our former (and current) versions.[2:21:25] Ayahuasca agony alleviation and alternatives.[2:34:07] Gratitude and parting thoughts.*For show notes and past guests on The Tim Ferriss Show, please visit tim.blog/podcast.For deals from sponsors of The Tim Ferriss Show, please visit tim.blog/podcast-sponsorsSign up for Tim's email newsletter (5-Bullet Friday) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Discover Tim's books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissYouTube: youtube.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/timferrissPast guests on The Tim Ferriss Show include Jerry Seinfeld, Hugh Jackman, Dr. Jane Goodall, LeBron James, Kevin Hart, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jamie Foxx, Matthew McConaughey, Esther Perel, Elizabeth Gilbert, Terry Crews, Sia, Yuval Noah Harari, Malcolm Gladwell, Madeleine Albright, Cheryl Strayed, Jim Collins, Mary Karr, Maria Popova, Sam Harris, Michael Phelps, Bob Iger, Edward Norton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Neil Strauss, Ken Burns, Maria Sharapova, Marc Andreessen, Neil Gaiman, Neil de Grasse Tyson, Jocko Willink, Daniel Ek, Kelly Slater, Dr. Peter Attia, Seth Godin, Howard Marks, Dr. Brené Brown, Eric Schmidt, Michael Lewis, Joe Gebbia, Michael Pollan, Dr. Jordan Peterson, Vince Vaughn, Brian Koppelman, Ramit Sethi, Dax Shepard, Tony Robbins, Jim Dethmer, Dan Harris, Ray Dalio, Naval Ravikant, Vitalik Buterin, Elizabeth Lesser, Amanda Palmer, Katie Haun, Sir Richard Branson, Chuck Palahniuk, Arianna Huffington, Reid Hoffman, Bill Burr, Whitney Cummings, Rick Rubin, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Darren Aronofsky, Margaret Atwood, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, Dr. Gabor Maté, Anne Lamott, Sarah Silverman, Dr. Andrew Huberman, and many more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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

The artist discusses the moment generative art went mainstream with Jason Bailey.

00:00 Intro 00:13 Market Overview 04:41 Bitcoin Punks Take Off 07:21 Metaverse Fashion Week Lineup Announced 09:26 Notable Sales: Fidenza 724 by Tyler Hobbs, 266.2 ETH; American Dream Life: Terrell Jones, 13.7 ETH; OnChainMonkey: Celestial Cake, 40 ETH; The Blank Page by Jake Fried, 100 ETH Follow us! Proof Podcasts Twitter | http://www.twitter.com/proofpodcasts Telegram | https://t.me/proofcountdown NFTstatistics Twitter | http://www.twitter.com/punk9059 Proof Twitter | http://www.twitter.com/proof_xyz NFTstatistics Presentation Deck https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Lr9lA6Lzs8arkVoZr7tVoKtNRrtholg95tpFLmHZdYA/edit?usp=sharing

Fresh from his new collaboration with Dandelion Wist, the artist speaks to Alex Estorick about his search for the grail.

On today's show we discuss the fine art side of the NFT market and what the future could like. We touch on Genuine Undead and the current pump its experiencing. Also see Renga bounce from its dip and talk about QQL by Tyler Hobbs, DigiDaigaku and CloneX flipping Doodles. Today's show is sponsored by Iconic Moments NFT. A business designed on bridging museums and the traditional art world into web3. Iconic Moments Twitter Tune in live every weekday Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM Eastern to 10:30 AM Buy our NFT Join our Discord Check out our Twitter Check out our YouTube Give us your thoughts on the show by leaving a rating. -- DISCLAIMER: You should never treat any opinion expressed by the hosts of this content as a recommendation to make a particular investment, or to follow a particular strategy. The thoughts and commentary on this show are an expression of the hosts' opinions and are for entertainment and informational purposes only. This show is never financial advice

Dan Smotz & Reed Coverdale (Naturalist Capitalist) watch the world burn, while laughing their way thru all the most important articles in the news… and a whole lot of unimportant ones as well. On the Docket:* Dave Smith vs LPNH* Tyler Hobbs insurrects LP Twitter* Elon insurrects Twitter Twitter* Putin bombs himself* Biden is “Politically Puerto Rican”* Kanye West & Candace Owens are white* & moreGuest & Sponsor Links:Reed Coverdale / Naturalist Capitalist: https://linktr.ee/ReedCoverdale  Tinfoil Hat: https://GetTinFoil.comAsteros Cybersecurity Services: https://asteros.com WVW / Jack Casey Books: Https://jackcaseybooks.comMatt Miller's Liberty Portraits: https://libertyportraits.com Brave Botanicals (Kratom / Delta 8 THC) :https://mybravebotanicals.comPromo Code: TSIDBecome a Producer:Https://patreon.com/thesystemisdown Contact:Call in and leave a vm: 309-716-3818Send Dan a present by Fed-Mail: PO Box 84. Aledo, IL 61231Electronic HateMail: dan@tsidpod.comJoin:For the extended bonus episode and all of our weekly bonus content, please check out and join The Downers Club.Follow:TSID Forum (OUR Social Network): http://antinewslive.com  The System is Down: http://tsidpod.comThe Downers Club: http://patreon.com/thesystemisdown Buy Some SWAG: http://tsidpod.com/shopOdysee: https://odysee.com/@thesystemisdown:d?r=7uBq4D3e3qS3h97oEh8sW5jmd1dsnezJ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/679892132686869Twitter: http://twitter.com/tsidpodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tsidpod/ Minds: https://www.minds.com/thesystemisdown/ Parler: http://parler.com/thesystemisdown Gab: https://gab.com/thesystemisdownRumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-593937 MeWe: https://mewe.com/i/smotz Youtube: http://youtube.com/thesystemisdown Backup Youtube: http://youtube.com/channel/UCjpjRdEI7E4xlHWg7nbuXtgSupport the show

Auf einen Espresso #7 - das wöchentliche Update von NFTea-Time! Another week, another Episode! Jeden Dienstag mit der perfekten Länge für einen entspannten Espresso. Kurz, knackig und sogar koffeinfrei - in zwei Kategorien. Espresso News: 1. NFT Flugtickets Die argentinische Fluggesellschaft Flybondi ist eine Partnerschaft mit TravelX eingegangen und bietet ihren Kunden nun die Möglichkeit, tokenized Tickets zu kaufen und über Binance Pay Technology zu bezahlen. Read more - https://w3-news.beehiiv.com/p/appl3-nimmersatt 2. Solana Ausfall Die Solana Blockchain hat Freitag Nacht bereits ihren vierten Totalausfall zu verzeichnen gehabt. Solana steht deshalb bereits schon länger in der Kritik erfreut sich dennoch starker Beliebtheit. Read more - https://decrypt.co/111021/ethereum-killer-solana-suffers-another-major-outage 3. Christie's on chain Das legendäre Auktionshaus Christie's baut einen eigenen NFT Marktplatz namens Christie's 3.0. Check it out - https://nft.christies.com/ Read more - https://decrypt.co/110659/christies-goes-fully-on-chain-with-new-ethereum-nft-marketplace Probably Nothing: 1. Tyler Hobbs... ... hat eine zweite Generative Art Collection gelaunched die vor weniger als einer Woche für einen Preis von 14 ETH pro NFT gemintet worden. Bisher hat die Collection ein Volumen von fast 5.000 ETH und tritt damit in die Fußstapfen seiner ersten Collection "Fidenza" die mittlerweile einen Floor von 96 ETH und ein Handelsvolumen von 52.000 ETH hat. Read more - https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/09/29/tyler-hobbs-qql-nft-project-raises-nearly-17m-in-successful-mint // https://archipelago.art/mints/qql 2. CryptoPunk #2429... ...wurde für 3300 ETH (ca. 4,4 Mio USD) verkauft. That's huge! Read more - https://www.theboredapegazette.com/post/breaking-this-cryptopunk-just-sold-for-3300-eth-or-4-4-million-usd 3. Linagee Name Registrar... ...ist das vermutlich älteste NFT-Projekt aller Zeiten. Wait, what? Read more - https://twitter.com/m_keresty // https://twitter.com/LeonidasNFT 4. RENGA... ...hatten wir erst vor 2 Wochen vorgestellt und der Floor ist solide am steigen! RENGA auf Twitter RENGA auf OpenSea Auch heute gilt der Disclaimer: Bitte beachte, dass alles was wir hier erzählen keine Anlageempfehlung oder Finanzberatung darstellt. Du solltest nicht auf Basis unserer Einschätzungen investieren sondern auf jeden Fall selber recherchieren bevor du investiert. Wir übernehmen entsprechend auch keine Haftung falls du all dein Geld verlierst. DYOR - Do Your Own Research!

Wir beginnen also zum verspäteten Wochenstart mit News zu Elon Musk und Twitter und der Integration des Dodgecoins. Wir schauen auf eine neue Studie, die sich mit Erfahrungen rund um NFTs beschäftigt hat und blicken rückblickend auf das QQL Projekt von Tyler Hobbs. The Sandbox launcht einen eigenen Staking Pool. Und neben unserem täglichen Blick auf den Kryptochart und den Floorpreisen auf Opensea, erfahrt ihr von dem neuen Games of Thrones NFT Projekt, einem nicht zu vernachlässigen EZB Termin und unserem Ticket drop für das anstehende IRL Event. Also viel Spaß mit der heutigen Folge von ALL IN NFT.

Azurbala reveal backlash | huge sales | Tyler Hobbs QQL | Gutter Cat Gang coin | Renga | all-time top ten mints | Pixel Vault | Cryptoys | NFL All Day | Frida Kahlo burn stunt | Build-A-Bear NFTs | K-pop group Aespa | Apple in- app NFT purchases | oldest eth NFTs rediscovered | Links: Michael Keen https://twitter.com/NFTicketJennifer Sutto https://twitter.com/jennifer_suttoNFT Catcher Podcast https://twitter.com/NFTCatcherPodproduced by Andy Cinquino  https://twitter.com/ajc254NFT Catcher theme music by ItsJustLos https://twitter.com/its_JustLosemail : NFTCatcherPod@gmail.comNFT Catcher Discord

Hoodies Ape eating QQLs by BeepleL'artiste Albertine Meunier, Magyk du podcast cryptodaily, Konohime de Nonfungible.com, Nikola de NFT France, Andreweb3.eth de la communauté NFT sud-américaine étaient tous à noc côtés pour parler des sujets d'actualité de ces derniers jours: le nouveau drop de Tyler Hobbs, La 2ème collection de la NEw French Touch, la vente du CryptoPunk #2924 pour 4.5 millions de dollars, la destruction d'une oeuvre de Frida Kahlo et le marché actuel…Pour aller plus loin: Compte Twitter d'Albertine Meunier La 2ème collection de la New French Touch sur SuperRareCompte Twitter de NFT France (Nikola)Compte Twitter de MagykCompte Twitter de Konohime / MaximeCompte Twitter d'Andreweb3 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nftmorning.com

Andy and Tyler podcast on a Friday and were joined by Dickie Walnuts - its Friday and we discuss podcast clips and more. Andy: https://twitter.com/Garbage_Mane Dickie: https://twitter.com/pine__barrens Toad on Kelly Patrick Show https://overcast.fm/+UngZdxe2Q Anchor: https://anchor.fm/libertypodreview Locals: https://libertarianpodcastreview.locals.com/ Odysee: https://odysee.com/@LPR:b This show is an attempt to review the libertarian and libertarian adjacent podcasts or video podcasts. Send us your favorite podcasts or ones that you would like to have us critique and analyze.

Sam Trabucco hängt seinen Job als Co-CEO bei Alameda Research an den Haken, Kraken-Gründer Jesse Powell kehrt seiner Kryptobörse den Rücken und FTX U.S. Präsident Brett Harrison haut ebenfalls in den Sack. Es sind nur drei von vielen Beispielen hochrangiger Kryptoköpfe, die ihre gutbezahlten Jobs in den letzten Wochen gekündigt haben. Verlassen die Ratten das sinkende Schiff oder was steckt sonst hinter dem CEO-Exodus? Genau darüber spekulieren Julius Nagel und Florian Adomeit in dieser Folge Alles Coin, Nichts Muss. Außerdem geht's um Tyler Hobbs, dessen Algorithmus nicht nur Kunst, sondern auch jede Menge Kohle macht. Flo teilt seine Erfahrung mit dem Krypto-Schach Immortal.game und Julius berichtet von den bevorstehenden Änderungen im Cosmos-Ökosystem. Ob der Atom-Token dadurch attraktiver wird, erfahrt ihr in der Folge. Weiterführende Links: QQL Art: https://qql.art/ Tyler Hobbs Fidenza Kollektion: https://tylerxhobbs.com/fidenza Immortal Game: https://immortal.game/ "Atom 2.0" Whitepaper Diskussion: https://forum.cosmos.network/t/proposal-draft-a-new-vision-for-cosmos-hub/7328 Alles Coin, Nichts Muss ist ein Podcast von Finance Forward und Podstars. Bei Themenwünschen, Kritik und allen anderen Rückmeldungen schreibt uns auf Twitter oder Instagram an @allescoin_pod. Julius Nagel (@julius_nagel) ist bereits seit 2012 in der Krypto-Welt unterwegs und hat unter anderem 2014 für Ethereum gearbeitet. Er investiert in Coins und Start-ups im Web3 mit Picus Capital und verfolgt die aktuellen Trends & Entwicklungen. Florian Adomeit (@AdomeitFlorian) ist Podcast-Host von Beckers Bets und Experte bei Ohne Aktien Wird Schwer. Diese Folge von Alles Coin, Nichts Muss wird unterstützt von Ultimate by Unstoppable. Die Mission von Ultimate besteht darin, sowohl eine nutzerfreundliche App als auch einen kuratierten Zugang zu Protokollen bereitzustellen, auf die sich Nutzer verlassen können - sozusagen einen Co-Piloten, um die DeFi Welt mit Zuversicht zu navigieren. Um dich für die Warteliste anzumelden und für weitere Infos siehe: ultimate.money. Um die Warteliste zu überspringen, schreibt eine Mail an allescoin@ultimate.money mit der Antwort auf folgende Frage: Welches DeFi-Ökosystem auf welcher Blockchain könnt ihr mit Ultimate nutzen? Timecodes: (00:01:20) CEO-Exodus (00:08:01) NFTs im App Store (00:13:50) Generative Art und 17 Mio. $ für Tyler Hobbs (00:29:48) Immortal.game (00:47:44) Atom 2.0

#NFT #NFTPodcast #NFTNewsJoin the Giveaway for a chance to win a ZenAcademy Genesis Token:PREMINTZeneca and Jaime Musings are the hosts of Two Bored Apes, an NFT podcast. In this episode, they talked about QQL by Tyler Hobbs, Art Blocks ending their curated series, the huuuge NFT sales of the week, more QQL, House of the Dragons, scented candles, and more random stuff.Please consider subscribing and leaving a review - it really helps

In this Friday episode, host Ev Tchebotarev helps to unpack the week's events in the web3 space. We witnessed Tyler Hobbs launching QQL generative art project and banning X2Y2 marketplace from participation. Azuki was briefly delisted by OpenSea (by the end of the episode it was resolved), showing powers that platforms have over projects and teams. Polly shared the timeline of early Ethereum projects from 2015 to today, so we will need to do detective work to find out who was the first photographer to ever be on-chain?! We touched on the current bear market, looked into OpenSea metrics for the last 2 years, and discussed what photographers can do to ride this out. Recorded on September 30, 2022. Our speakers: Polly Pierce, Laura Abad, and your host, Ev Tchebotarev. ------------------------------------------ Website: https://sloika.xyz Twitter: https://twitter.com/sloikaxyz Telegram: https://t.me/sloikaxyz Discord: https://discord.gg/FJpYyVPBY2 Instagram: https://instagram.com/sloika.xyz Newsletter: https://sloika.xyz/subscribe

Today we talk about the aftermath of the QQL auction, QQL being the new project by Tyler Hobbs in collaboration with Dandelion Wist. Our very own King Kix and Spencer both participated in the auction and we discuss the secondary action as the floor rises from its auction resting price of 14ETH up to 20ETH in less than 24 hours. We also discuss the 7 figure Crypto Punk sale that happened yesterday, the difference between digital vs physical collectibles and how to price them accordingly. Today's show is sponsored by Wilder World. Their team joins us and we discuss their Metaverse ecosystem that has several NFT collections built on Unreal engine. Wilder World Twitter Tune in live every weekday Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM Eastern to 10:30 AM Buy our NFT Join our Discord Check out our Twitter Check out our YouTube Give us your thoughts on the show by leaving a rating. -- DISCLAIMER: You should never treat any opinion expressed by the hosts of this content as a recommendation to make a particular investment, or to follow a particular strategy. The thoughts and commentary on this show are an expression of the hosts' opinions and are for entertainment and informational purposes only. This show is never financial advice

✨ SUBSCRIBE TO THE OVERPRICED JPEGS CHANNEL ✨ https://bankless.cc/jpegs ----- On this episode of Overpriced JPEGs, Carly welcomes some of the amazing team behind the crypto art documentary, New Here, which weaves together an all-star cast of cryptoart pioneers (Tyler Hobbs, Beeple, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Claire Silver, Gmoney, and SO many more) to tell the story of the web3 movement.  In this interview, Carly and the New Here team dive into the how and why this film is being made, the history of the crypto art space, and the biggest "aha" moments the team has had interviewing some of the biggest names in web3. ------

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Minters have played a role in NFT minting simply by deciding to mint and inserting randomization into the algorithm at that moment. QQL takes it a step further with a beautiful collaboration between famed generative artists Tyler Hobbs, Dandelion, and... you. QQL provides an interface to play with output parameters allowing all minters to explore artistic possibilities previously left to chance. https://twitter.com/tylerxhobbs https://twitter.com/dandelion_wist https://twitter.com/kevinrose https://qql.art/

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The show today was wayyyyyyy too much fun. With special guest Tyler Hobbs on the show giving us origins and his new partner Dandelion wist discussing their new drop called qql! the site qql.art allows users to plug in parameters and create generative art using the awesome tool they have created. During the show we all created tons of different qql's and had a blast all while getting the details surrounding the drop and giveaways associated.Skip to Tyle Hobbsr@ 37:41GM Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Theme: The Floor is Lava  Don't trust floors in low volume periods.   Affordable project: ALPACADABRAZ - Collection | OpenSea  NFT NewsNFT Headlines: NFT Fund Starry Night Goes Dark on SuperRare - The Defiant  Nansen Connect to Rival Discord as Hub for NFT Communities New Generative Art NFT Marketplace Archipelago Backed By Tyler Hobbs   Why Solana Is Going Big on Mobile—And Making a Smartphone    Transcript:   [00:00:00] Today on all about affordable NFTs, the floor is a lava. Why we gotta be a little suspicious of low volume floors when we see 'em all right, Andrew, what do you see in the news? Yeah. So we've got, uh, you may have heard some things recently going on with three arrows capital, one of the big hedge funds. I think we talked about them, but they have an, an NFD collection that they have put together under the name of the collector, uh, going the, the group going a starry night. [00:00:30] Um, so you've seen recently, or some people have noticed that all of their. NFTs have been moved to just a single wallet now? Um, not much, uh, not much news beyond that, but it does look a little, uh, looks a little odd, um, from where they had these all in many wallets before and now they are face potentially facing some insolvency issues. [00:00:52] So could see where they may need to be selling their NFTs at some. Uh, what. Would presumably create a discounted price, um, to what they paid for. So keep an eye on that. I think that is interesting. They have, it's a, it's an impressive collection. Um, yeah. What kind of, what kind of stuff are they long on? Uh, so they've, I mean, they've got some, some, uh, some max copies in there. [00:01:14] They've got some, uh, DK motions, some, um, some other, I mean, I, I, I haven't looked at the entire thing, uh, specifically, but I know it's a, I've noticed them put some. Or make some big, big, uh, buys, uh, the past six months or so I think they've also got some, um, Some high end art blogs pieces in there. So I'm sure there's gonna be people watching what happens with this because, uh, you know, like I said, it's, it's a pretty impressive collection. [00:01:40] And if, if someone, if someone's going to, if someone is forced to liquidate, I'm sure there's going to be, uh, buyers at a, a certain price, you know, but it will be a big discount, I would think. Yeah. That's an interesting one. Not affordable, but interesting. Yeah. Not affordable at all. [00:01:56] Let's see we've got so Nason is a, uh, an analytics platform, uh, does a lot, um, with the NFT space and they are launching Manson connect as a, I mean, they're saying to rival discord, but as a communication hub for NFT communities. Um, so we have talked about the need for. For other alternatives, uh, to disor and it looks like, um, N has launched one here. [00:02:24] And, you know, I'm curious to see where this goes. Yeah. Um, I don't know much about it, but, um, you know, more web two in it. And let's see, we've got another NFT marketplace launching. This one is called ACAP archipelago. I always have a hard time saying that word, but it is, um, backed by, uh, the artist Tyler Hobbs. [00:02:45] He's the art artist behind, um, Denzo the Denzo collection. So this will be a generative art specific marketplace. Um, A lot of art blocks, but also other generative art on there. So, you know, we've talked about how, uh, these new marketplaces are popping up and specializing in specific, uh, areas of the NFT space. [00:03:05] And, uh, you know, that's what we're seeing here with this one. Hmm. [00:03:08] You know, I just like how many, how many marketplaces for generative art can the market sustain and, and support? I think it's really just about. What artists can you get in there? And I, I think it's hard for a new platform like that. Maybe to be a resource for launching new ones, as opposed to giving maybe the opportunity to find existing artists that have like collections and like you might be able to snipe some interesting opportunities that way. [00:03:37] Yeah. So I think this is a, you know, more of like a, this third part, you know, a, a marketplace where you can buy and sell generative art pieces, not necessarily launching new art collections from here, but, uh, just like an open sea for generative art specifically. Um, so I assume that they will have more features that are, uh, you know, specific two generative art, specifically some of the, the traits and filters. [00:04:00] Aren't great on open sea for some of these collections. And I imagine that some of that will, uh, you know, they'll, they'll build. Things to work specifically for generative arts, um, you know, with Tyler Hobbs name, I'm sure that it will get some attention from, from collectors in that space. We tended to say this thought for a future episode, but I get the sense that like we're like reaching a peak for generative art. [00:04:24] I think there's a certain point at which the bloom is off the roads and it's no longer novel. Just the medium of it. It'll be really much more about how you're actually using it. Especially as I look at the advancements that are about to just roll on with D two. Uh, G P T three open AI extension of, uh, generative images that can be done by like, just text alone. [00:04:50] It'll no longer be like, oh, how cool you cobble together? These like, you know, uh, adversarial networks and like started with this like unique process. It's gonna be somebody writing a couple sentences and shit. And now, yeah, we got Agans are different than generative. Um, in the way that I, you know, generative art in the space is generally looked at as like, this is the code that produces this output rather than here's a bunch of images that we feed to make a new image. [00:05:17] Um, so I see those as being, as being different. Um, yeah, we are definitely seeing some, those Dolly two images are some interesting stuff coming out there. This is a, this would cut me by surprise. Saw this headline today. Solana is launching a smartphone. Um, so this will be a, as far as I know, the first web three native smartphone. [00:05:38] Will have features more built in natively to the OS. Um, so that you're not necessarily, I mean, I think if you, any of us have, have used meta mask on, on your phone or tried to do much on the phone, you realize that you're kind of jumping around from, from different app to app to get things, to work and assign the transactions. [00:05:58] It's not ideal. Um, so I think. There is, there's some opportunity here to improve that. Um, I'm not entirely clear how this is going to work with work for Solana at this point, but, you know, I it's, I imagine that we'll get some, you know, this will have payment features so that you can pay easily using crypto. [00:06:18] Um, that's what I said in announcement, at least. Yeah. So it's interesting. We'll see what happens. I don't know. As a rule software companies don't fare. Well, when they just jump on into the old hardware world and assume that like, oh, you just can kind of roll that out. But, you know, um, I don't know if there's particular advantages that being native web three will, will have when it comes to mobile tech. [00:06:47] Uh, I'm not optimistic about it, but I am interested in, in what they find out. It feels to me more of. A well functioning application on an existing phone than a phone phone, but, Hmm. I mean, as long as you're fine with your call getting dropped, I don't know, for seven hours at a time because you can't keep the network up. [00:07:07] I'm good. I'm good with that. Oh boy. Oh, oh. T-Mobile can we hear you? . All right. Well, what have we got for a affordable project here? We've we've we've got one. I feel like we, uh, you know, we didn't have the best, uh, we rehashed one last, uh, episode, so, well, I'm glad we've got something here, George, you brought one to us. [00:07:26] What have you got? I have found the thing you say it first I'll pack a PAC cadavers, PAC. Deborahs all one word and it's, uh, an alpaca themed, uh, type of PFP will say, and I'm talking about, um, not their 3d collection, but their Genesis collection, current floor price. At 0.2, they have 9,700 items, roughly speaking half owners. [00:07:55] So that's a pretty good mix of owner distribution. I'd say. And the, the team is, I hate saying this, but semi docs where they have a team, I can see, but they're, you know, Twitter profiles, they do list the team. There are a number, uh, of them, uh, working on this project at least 12. I see. They have. A bit of a classic run the play with regard to their roadmap, focusing on the metaverse, but they're doing it as sort of a play on other people's lands. [00:08:29] So they've got a foot in NFT, worlds, sandbox, web land, other deed, arcade land, but more importantly, it seems like they're trying to build mini games inside of those ecosystems, including not limited to a mobile game they're planning and. I think it's affordable. I found it also on, um, uh, the, the wame.io, but it's actually had some, some interesting price movement recently. [00:08:56] So I don't know if you're, you're also seeing that Andrew. Yeah. So I, this is one that I looked at a very long time ago. Um, and I remember that it had actually climbed up. I mean, looking here, like this is, this was up over half an eighth at one point. Um, Hannah's come back down, but yeah, we're seeing some, we're definitely seeing some action still here. [00:09:16] It's actually, I see it at the end of, um, end of last year, looks like it was hitting at one point. Yeah. So this is really had a run. This has really come down, um, from there. And I dunno, we're also kinda seeing like this, this 0.2, um, floor looks like it's, you know, looks like it's holding fairly strong as a, as a floor. [00:09:39] Um, you know, seeing some sales under that recently, but not a whole lot. Um, so, you know, I think that's something we've we. We've talked about, and you know, these, these, the collections that do persist with sales and that you do start to see like, well, this is really where the floor is. Um, you know, I think that's, that's good to get there, you know, not saying that it can't go lower, um, you know, famous less words. [00:10:01] Right. You know, as soon as you, you buy in, it can go lower of course. But, um, but I think it is good if you see sales over time, you know, that are, you know, they get picked up when they do get much below there. Um, and I do like that. I mean, they do have a big team, like you said, it's semi doc. But I recognize a lot of the people that are here and it, you know, they, they are people that have been around the space for, you know, relatively considerable amount of time. [00:10:23] Um, you know, considering the age of the NFT world. Yeah. I mean the gray boys was it the little NFT characters and they were like focusing on that. It's kind of like that play where you're just like, I I'm past trying to get up on sort of acquiring land, but acquiring the, the players. And the builders that will be trying to work across the land with across brand types of components. [00:10:52] And these folks seem like they're developing stuff. I don't know, you know, not financial advice I'm talking about, you know, two D P F P Alpac is done with pixel art. So there's that full disclosure. I don't own any, but tend to get into. I get in my own head of being like, I'm gonna feel like a real dope if I don't buy the thing I talked about. [00:11:13] So don't be surprised if you see mostly, most, mostly stable creep into the creep into the activity there. Yeah. Easier. I'm gonna float some bids. I'm gonna, I'm gonna float some bids, maybe, um, maybe I'll use genie. There you go. Yeah. I mean, uh, yeah, definitely worth floating bids. I think we've talked about that. [00:11:34] You know, that's, it's a good play right now. I think you can get a lot of things, a lot of, uh, offers accepted and try out that new, uh, that new collection offer feature on open sea. That's that's pretty cool. I'm so glad you brought that up. Uh, because they, they bought it and they implemented it right away. [00:11:49] So like, just to talk this through, there is now a collection make collection offer. So this means I'm literally just saying I'm willing to pay, you know, in case of this, I'll, I'll throw a dart at 1.5, a 0.15, sorry, 0.5. You're gonna wanna be careful. You put that 0.5 and I can put an expiration date. It looks like of one day, three day custom date. [00:12:13] And now this means like anybody who wants to sell one of these Alpac Cadas. We'll see that and be able to say, okay. Um, so I, I'm not really getting to choose on trade. Am I you? Well, you can put a, you can select, if you want to do a specific attribute on most of the collections, I have noticed that the, uh, it's somewhat different on various collections. [00:12:41] So I can put a collection note. Like I want a body of a standing, cuz I have no clue what the rarity. The rarity special, unique. I think they've got, you know, attributes in here. [00:12:53] I am checking it out yet. I actually have not done. Yes, you with this, you cannot do any kind of, uh, offers on or any kind of attributes on the PAC Cadas it seems like it is on some collections and not on others, but so this, yeah, you'd be making a collection offer similar to how it's done and looks rare already where you can make an offer. [00:13:13] Anybody that holds one could accept that. Um, but yeah, I think it's, I mean, I think that is a, well, I know it's a whole lot easier than trying to make offers on, you know, the, the five or so that are just among the floor. Um, so this is, it's a nice feature. Um, and I think it adds, I think you can add a lot of liquidity to projects, um, makes it much easier. [00:13:34] Um, For these offers to even, to make the offers that people that maybe weren't so interested or, or didn't yeah. Didn't we say like 10% of offers are getting accepted these days. I think it's, I don't know about, yeah. I mean, I've seen some big numbers of like the percentage of sales right now. The number there in with have been has been it's been up there. [00:13:54] So, uh, yeah, definitely try those wealth offers. If you are buying it into any of these projects, I think it's real smart. Yeah, I might put little fueler, little fueler, bet. Know what George is gonna be doing? George, you gotta finish the podcast. No, I got a thing to do. Sorry. I'm busy. Alrighty. Uh, that's your affordable project and good luck to. [00:14:17] All right. So let's get into our topic here. Low volume projects and floors. Whew. What's the problem, George. the floor is lava. All right. The floors lava injury. It means it's gonna get, it's gonna a burned, right? It's a little. Well, well, metaphor here is that with low volume, I've had this thought of, you know, both on the rise up and the rise down, but you know, you, you watch the price sort of hit this peak in your, in your mind saying, oh, if only I had put a high price on it, it definitely would've sold when it hit the peak. [00:14:50] The point is like, In and around there, like the amount of volume really is thinned out and in general has thinned out, which just means that you just need everyone to agree to a certain price and set the number there. But especially, I think when you reach that peak, you, your likelihood of being the like three things that sell at a peak at that floor being like when it gets up there is minuscule. [00:15:11] So if it, if you're the type of player and I was until I really thought about. If you're the type of player who's like trying to time it. So I'm thinking about selling my, my flower fan thing. Like, oh, how, how can I perfectly time? The peak, the truth is only like a handful of people are going to get that sold at that floor when it reaches there. [00:15:32] And then it's going to drop quite precipitously from wherever that is because the floor is lava because there is low volume. If there's only three people bidding on a thing being like, all right, I'm good. And. It doesn't matter what you set the number to. No, one's buying. Yeah. I mean, I think that's yeah, low volume. [00:15:52] I mean, I think you just really can't trust the floor. I mean, if you it's almost, I mean, it's almost an indication that the floor is too high. If the volume isn't there, um, otherwise, you know, somebody would be buying it. It means generally speaking that the price is gonna have to come down before someone's ready to, to make the offer, uh, or to make the buy, um, you know, it's. [00:16:13] Not always the case, but you know, I think you start seeing that to get the sale. You'll have people that will. List, maybe, you know, 20% under what the floor is because you need to make it somewhat attractive. And as we know, you know, once one person undercuts, uh, you know, you you'll get others doing it as well. [00:16:30] And you know, this is really just a matter of there's more people wanting to sell than there are buyers out there at that time. And it's, you know, the prices can drop pretty quickly when that happens. I feel like there's a metric missing for. Some of my evaluations right now, which is like rolling 10 day volume sales, average, not volume. [00:16:53] I don't like what I don't like is that we're handed volume as opposed to transactions. I wanna know average transactions trailing 10 day. And, you know, just to come like to, to put my money where my mouth is and my math should be, uh, for the Alpac Cadabra, I feel like I'm nailing it on pronunciation, by the way. [00:17:15] Not bad. Your dad's. We have like, it, it fluctuates between like it's a range of a low of three and a high of, uh, a high of 12 trailing 10 day. So not huge, but there's movement. Right? There's a little bit of life there. Yeah, I think that's, I mean, I think that's a good, I don't know, potentially a good metric that they could add, but there's definitely, you know, looking at the total volume really, isn't a very good indicator of what's going on with the project. [00:17:43] You know, as we know that there's a lot of projects that start hot and that's where, you know, 80% of the volume comes and then it's. It's slow after that. Um, so it's not great. I mean, and I get your point about even putting it in not necessarily volume, uh, but in the number of sales, you know, a high price project, obviously the volume is going to be much greater, but it doesn't mean that price is holding any steadier. [00:18:06] It just means that it was a, you know, that it's higher prices than the lower price projects. Um, I think trying to look at the number of sales look at, you know, how it is recently, you know, it's, you know, right now when you're going on open sea anyway, Kind, I mean, to get that information, you're sort of just looking through the sales history, um, you know, these, their charts, aren't interactive. [00:18:26] You can go and, and get information on this other places. And, you know, it's something that I do a lot, but, but yeah, I think you're, you're right in pointing out that it's the, the metrics aren't fully giving a full story of what's going on in the collection at this at any given time. Yeah. And it's exacerbated by volume. [00:18:43] I, I don't know what, how to say high versus low. In terms of number of transactions, cuz it's, it's really thrown off by the power law of looking at what, you know, the top crypto slam, blah, blah blahs have, you know, like, oh, a number of transactions, you know, 58,000 on so rare. Or if you're looking at like right now, the duplicator drop right from doodles, we were talking about doodles the other day. [00:19:05] I announced that at Ft NYC, like, you know, they're doing like, uh, 800, 800 transactions the past seven days. So. Those are it's different. I'm looking at projects that have just been quiet, right. Quiet for, for a bit. Um, but still have like a base level. Like we haven't completely forgotten about you kind of thing. [00:19:26] Yeah. I mean, I, I think we've, you know, we've talked about that when looking at some of these projects right now, we wanna see that there's still some sales going during this time, you know, because if it's, if you got nothing right now, um, you know, it's gonna be hard to just have it come back because of a market turnaround. [00:19:42] There's a lot of other projects that are taking attention. And as we know, that's a lot of what NFTs are. It's. You know, who can get the attention and it's hard to get it back if, uh, if people have moved on. Um, so I think you're right in saying like, where are people still paying attention? Where are people trying to scoop up some deals and look at that, you know, try to find, I got a fun game. [00:20:00] I have a fun game. I just made up. All right, you're ready to play. You're gonna guess the seven day transaction amount for, for different projects I throw out to you. Right? So total transactions that have occurred over the past week. Are you ready? Max pain and friends. Ooh, how many transactions? Uh, man, I don't know. [00:20:21] 30. All right. 62. I'm trying to build a little muscle for us. All right. So it's like they're, you know, kicking around close to 10 a day. Okay. So we get that type of project. Um, let me see another one for you. Um, going to go with. [00:20:37] Oh, ACU guitars. What do you think? Number of transactions past seven days? Um, let's see, I'll go. I'll go with 50, according to this 96. Okay. I I've been about, uh, I've been about half the number on both these so far. Well, it's just intro. I'm trying to build our muscle here. Uh, alright. You wanna do one more? [00:20:59] Sure. Let's do one more. you're like, why am I playing this game? What is, I'm gonna double whatever I think. And then I should wait, but then I'll I know you'll choose. All right. Alright. All right. Right. Let choose one that let choose one. That'll be good for your, okay. I feel like you have a good pulse on cool cats. [00:21:24] What do you think? Ooh, you know, I don't, I don't have much of a pulse on that right now. Uh, I have not paid attention and I'm not sure how the pulse is there, but ah, let's see. Cool cats I'll go with, well, I'm gonna go with one 20. 1 43. You're getting better. Ah, all right. Getting better. all right. So there was a, I mean, look, there's a semi point to this game, but I think I want to build up that muscle and hopefully like you were playing while we were just having this conversation, but to try to understand, like, so we just said for the PAC Cadas. [00:22:00] That we saw that many transactions going on for like, all right, they're doing about, you know, a range of call at seven a day. So you can begin to say like, where does this stack up? Like in terms of signs of life, because I don't like the metrics that were handed. And so I, I, I really wanna tune that a bit more to understand if the floor is lava. [00:22:19] Yeah. You know, I'm thinking about it in some, almost like a, a, an inventory turnover type of, uh, metric, you know, you wanna see like how, you know, how big is the collection, how fast these pieces selling. Um, and I think that is more, more meaningful than just volume. Um, you know, we, we know that volume is, is, I don't know, pretty blunt, uh, measurement to be using for all these different collections. [00:22:42] And it's , I don't think it really gives us much, much information overall. No. Here's the other thing with volume is that one rare piece sells for like 10 X the floor. And so you're like, oh my gosh, this project is ripping. And you're like, no, a whale came in and wanted the super rare piece in this collection. [00:23:02] But that doesn't mean biscuits for the floor. Yeah, exactly. I mean, we, yeah, it, it, it, it's a vanity metric, really, I think at this point, and we've seen that people know how to game this. They also know that that is the ticket onto the leader boards and we've seen over and over again, that new projects come on, get hot, make it onto those leader boards. [00:23:25] And then most cases, they just, the price just slowly fades after that. So, you know, volume is a, is a. It's one measurement that is being used way too widely right now. And it doesn't give you much information about how quickly can you actually sell your piece and how firm is the four? How, how realistic is this number and how much has it been tested, tested by the market? [00:23:51] Absolutely. All right. That's what I got for you. That's all my, all my, my theme. [00:23:56] All right. I think that's a good one. So, all right. As reminder up it comes. Yeah, go on discord. Go rate us on whatever app you happen to be listening to because, uh, you know, the more the merrier and maybe we can like start moving market on your new salon phone. You know, I assume there's some got their own podcasting app. [00:24:18] I'm sure we talk. Hey look, I think we've had an open mind about. Solana and magic Eden and again, correlation or causation three, a talks about magic Eden magic Eden gets 130 million. I'm not saying we didn't not do that, but we should have found something for ourselves in there. we're terrible business people. [00:24:43] really awful, which is why you should believe us or rating. The team, the team could use it. The team could use it. Yeah. all right. Stay safe out there.    

Today's episode is an amazing conversation I had with Tyler Hobbs, the creator of Fidenza. We discuss the collision of physical and digital assets and how they will impact our lives. Tyler tells us how he got started in the industry, how he is making digital art, and what he thinks the future of digital art holds. Enjoy! Let me know what you thought. Check out my new NFT project: veefriends.com Join the VeeFriends Discord: https://discord.gg/veefriends Tweet Me! @garyvee Text Me! 212-931-5731 My Newsletter: garyvee.com/newsletter

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

Today's episode is an amazing conversation I had with Tyler Hobbs, the creator of Fidenza. We discuss the collision of physical and digital assets and how they will impact our lives. Tyler tells us how he got started in the industry, how he is making digital art, and what he thinks the future of digital art holds. Enjoy! Let me know what you thought. Check out my new NFT project: veefriends.com Join the VeeFriends Discord: https://discord.gg/veefriends Tweet Me! @garyvee Text Me! 212-931-5731 My Newsletter: garyvee.com/newsletter

Tyler Hobbs, the NFT artist of Art Blocks fame, walks Ryan Carson, Proof's COO, through his process in creating the photorealistic image of "Wall" in Grails by Proof Collective, revealed to be entirely generative. 

Theme: What if… I had one month to spend 5ETH & couldn't sell any NFTs I bought for 3 years? Affordable project: Avastars -  Avastars - Collection | OpenSea  Select Prime and Series 1: https://opensea.io/collection/avastar?search[sortBy]=PRICE&search[sortAscending]=true&search[numericTraits][0][name]=series&search[numericTraits][0][ranges][0][max]=1&search[numericTraits][0][ranges][0][min]=0&search[stringTraits][0][name]=wave&search[stringTraits][0][values][0]=prime NFT News Rantum NFT Market Data,  Cryptoslam.io NFTs dominate Austin's SXSW Pixar NFT drop sells out on VeVe shortly after launch Ethereum NFT Sales Are Inversely Correlated to Crypto Market: Nansen - Decrypt  NFTs Have Taken Over March Madness  Transcript: [00:00:00] Today on all about affordable and FTS, we're doing a little, what if game? What if you had five Ethereum, one month to buy NFTs and you had to hold them for at least three years. So you had to hold all three years for NFTs that you bought this month. It's just a fun thought experiment to see what we come up with. [00:00:20] But first, Andrew, what are you seeing?  [00:00:22] Yeah. What do we see now here? Let's see. So we've got March madness just started as we're recording this and we've got all sorts of NFT drops around this. I've been surprised by the number of NFT drops here. And if NFTU was the first one that I heard about, and then there was a let's see, another one from draft Kings. [00:00:43] But they've been quite popular. They both sold out the draft Kings one. It was a draft Kings. I believe it was their first direct and NFT collection that they, they had. Created before they had just hosted them on their own marketplace. That was 12,000 pieces. The an NFTU from recur was let's see almost nearly 18,000 and FTS there they've been popular and selling on secondary as well. [00:01:08] So I'm surprised that it has been as popular to is took me by surprise here. Anyway. I expected a lot during the Superbowl. Didn't really think about how much it may come into play with the NCAA tournament here. And I think. It's interesting for a couple of reasons that this will have exposure for a whole month here, essentially as the tournament spans multiple weeks. [00:01:30] And the other part is that we have the, we do have, the players could potentially start using NFTs as a way to. To cash in on their likeness, which has not been possible for the most part in NCAA history. It's interesting that those are coming at the same time. So watching that kind of closely over the next month to see how much, how much their exposure NFTs get during the during media publication of the events and how much the uh, uh, the market responds to to these NFTs. [00:02:01] How much do you think is dapper labs? Again, the folks behind NBA top shot and also now the the new NFL all day behind any.  [00:02:09] No, I haven't heard their name as being directly tied to any of this, I don't know if there's. Who knows the reasons that maybe you would think they would be there, but I don't know if there's maybe an MBA issue with NCAA or I, that's a, that's outside of my knowledge, but I haven't seen their name come up in any of this NCAA NFT talk. [00:02:28] Yeah, it says N F T U largest unified collegiate sports, digital collectible NFD marketplace. Okay. Not going to be on my buyers list, but I think it may help people jump onto it. And if you're able to bring in some of the sports audience, you've seen a lot of success from dapper. Good luck. [00:02:44] Yeah, absolutely. It's not on my list either, but I am I am interested in the news of this or of these collections. [00:02:50] Okay. We have the Pixar drop, so I love Pixar and we've heard Disney getting into the NFT world. So what is this Pixar NFT drop sells out on the.  [00:03:03] I never actually said that out loud. I think it's V the BV platform. So yeah, drop, they had a number of different, our picks picks our characters from their various movies available as NFTs, and it was popular. Not surprising that Disney has found their way to this and is using their IP. I think we've discussed this in the past when we heard some rumors of them getting into this, that they'd have amazing intellectual property rights to all of their characters, all their movies to. [00:03:30] Using NFTs and they have started doing this already. And it it sold out quickly. I had seen news of it and was actually somewhat interested and it sold out before I had a chance to to be able to admit it. And I haven't looked at it closely since then, but it has, I know that they had a decent amount of volume and let's see, it was almost 55,000 pieces. [00:03:51] Yeah, total volumes 3.3 million. It starts type saying.  [00:03:55] It's an impressive amount and I'm sure we'll see a lot more from Disney as they are pretty good at this startup sort of thing. [00:04:02] Yeah, I've heard they're decent at branding as far as yeah. Something to check out. Yeah, a lot. I don't know about that. Big players in there. And especially if they're doing it the right. way, we've seen also big players do it wrong, with I would say last year tops, I was like my biggest like heartbreak. [00:04:17] So the question is it a money grab or is it a brand building established play? So we'll wait And see there, but Hey, maybe it ends up on the affordable list. Probably not at those prices. Okay.  [00:04:29] lastly, we've got a report here and just to report and a lot of people have talked about how NFTs are. Inversely related to crypto prices. We've talked about it a bit. When crypto prices don't do well and FTE prices tend to do better. And the thought is that you're spending less us dollars for the same NFTE. [00:04:49] Doesn't seem to hold as true as the prices also do well during a NFE bull runs for the most part. And there's some news or report from Nansen a an FTE analytics company that has that they put some numbers behind this. So there's a very negative correlation between the two. So it's a interesting report here to jump a chance to dig into this George. [00:05:11] So it was interesting when they're building up this NFT 500 similar to an S and P 500 or the blue chip index. So they're putting this index and pairing it against saying, how does this perform against prices? When Eve goes down, how does this index go up? Because it's hard to say NFTs as a whole. [00:05:28] So they're basketing this top group and showing how it shows strength. When in fact may maybe going down. It is giving me hope that during a, down a down cycle, which is where we are, I think Right. now that actually. Still makes sense to be shopping for or potential NFTs are the keep in mind, the historical window that we get to look at something like this is remarkably short, especially hilariously comparing it with something like the S and P, which is, standard and Poor's history of the stock market, as opposed to history of when we were putting digital images on the internet. [00:06:03] Yeah, but the history, and I think there's a few more regulations involved with going public and trading on the sec regulated market versus minting a new collection and being one of the top 500 at this point. Doesn't exactly sound Bluechip. I think that may need to. They need to be reduced somewhat. [00:06:22] I didn't read that it was 500. I did read they're basketing these in different indexes. I think it is. I think as we see the market mature, we will see different index products, even if they're just for tracking and tracking the health of the market. And we'll see them come together that look at NFPS in more nuanced categories, such as maybe 3d worlds or PFP projects and get a little bit more nuanced than just saying these are the top 500, I think for awhile, we probably should be hesitant to say that there's really 500 quality and FTE projects out there. [00:06:54] Yeah, that's fair. All right. Should we move into our affordable.  [00:06:57] Yeah, here we go. What do you got for us today, George? You get another one?  [00:07:02] I look, I fell bad again. I apologize already last episode. [00:07:07] for last week, I felt like I didn't bring the as awesome as I could have. And here it is, this is the killer one. So this is looking at a project called add a star Ava stars. And it's our creator is someone like Jimmy dot E I believe it is, but at a very well-known collector, throwing back to it was established in February of 2020, and it is all on chain generative characters. [00:07:34] And it was, I would say second to auto glyphs for full on chain art, according to my rough NFT history, and also a sort of collective agreed history of this. Along that same time was also chain faces a project that we called out a little while back, but avatars is all on chain. These images that are, they look like a profile pic and they have various designs and formats and layouts. [00:08:03] And currently I will say the floor of this is that 0.1, one, five, which I think is remarkably low for a project like this. I will say that. The project also now has the ability to mint replicas. So when you go in, make sure that you're looking at and finding originals, and as best I can tell you can find that in the in the filters of course, but the replicas. [00:08:30] the wave attribute I believe is what you're looking for. There. A prime and replicant. [00:08:35] there it is. Yeah. So the primes are 25. Thank you, Andrew. There are 25,000 primes and only 326 replicants. And again, the ability to recreate new ones so that you can merge and mix traits is paired. As long as you buy an art token, art tokens are currently around 50 bucks. So I think there's one. Interesting history here. And it's just, I feel like it's just getting overlooked because of all of the new hotness running around. Andrew, what do you see on this project? You actually, you're old enough to have actually mentored this back in the day. [00:09:10] So I had one yet, so they've got different series of these. And I had one, I believe, or I had a couple from one of the later series. I didn't have one from the earliest series. As I look at these now looking the gen zero series, there's only 200 of those. Those are the hefty floor price of 19.5 E whereas all the others are much more reasonable. [00:09:32] The the gen one or the series ones looks like they start at a 0.1, two, five. So I think it would be interesting to look, know, if we're looking at some of the historic value, I think it'd be just going to look at the release dates of those. I am sure the is that again, zeroes are actually the oldest pulling up. [00:09:50] One now. So the gen ones was still like this pier was actually. To Jimmy, the creator on May 12th, 2020. So that's actually pretty interesting that is sitting at the floor right now of the gen ones. That's a pretty old piece and has some historic value. Also consider when looking at this as just the various rarities of the attributes. [00:10:13] When I, so when I invented one of these, there were how it worked was you could create your character using picking various hair attributes or skin. No, Tats different things like this, but then at different times they would take a selection of the of these different choices away. Throughout the minting, they would reduce the numbers. [00:10:36] So some of these become more rare both by the fact that they aren't available at a certain point and some are chosen by the people that do them. So it's worth looking at those, I think. Cool project still. It's a relatively, somewhat large collection at 25,000, but I certainly wouldn't say that is a reason not to to look at it. [00:10:55] We've seen very large collections go achieve quite high for prices. Not a reason to stay away. Definitely interesting project here. And I think it's a good reminder to look at this one. I, I've realized I actually do hold one of these in my wallet right now, as I look at this I had one yeah, I had sold some, but I do have one in there. [00:11:13] I may look at, they look to pick another up here, George. [00:11:16] So here's how you can tell us a good project. I brought this to the table and I think, I may have convinced you to go buy another one. [00:11:23] Absolutely. I  [00:11:24] good project. Yes,  [00:11:26] really interested when you  [00:11:27] also full disclosure. I may have just bought a man bun, a gen one, man bun.  [00:11:32] did you do it as live on air as we're  [00:11:35] I did it live on air gen one minute. Gas was too low for meeting with. [00:11:38] Ignore it. And also it's man been only 1%, 1% of man bonds. So there you go. Full disclosure.  [00:11:45] I'll let you know listeners, when he matches his avatar. I assume he's going that way soon.  [00:11:51] I don't think I can do it. But this is, so this is exactly. If we're going to tie into the theme here on the smooth transition, what would you buy right now? If you had five E and couldn't sell anything for three years, right? Those two things are unique. One of the guardrails here is five eight. Yes. [00:12:10] This is well beyond our normal affordable project. But the guard rail there is saying like, all right, you're going to put a sizable bet. Would you buy all into one thing or would you spread it out? And then if you have the mindset of holding for three years, what does the market look like? [00:12:24] And in some ways it takes the. This FOMO, panic of oh my gosh, this thing just ripped and dumped. I got to get in on it. Do you really think it's going to last three years from now? And it just puts a different lens on it. So I will kick off our debates saying, I, I brought out a Starz because it is an old stablish collection, at the prices run up way, way back in the day, but know. [00:12:46] It's been mostly drama, but I think when a larger community looks at the historical context of NFTs, this has a place in it.  [00:12:52] Yeah, I agree. I think this holds a place. I think it also has a respected creator. Very likely to stick around the industry and not not be out of the picture in three years. I think that's an important thing. We've talked about this recently and our, just our most recent episode about the role of the creator in establishing value. [00:13:11] And you've really got to start thinking. Who are the creators that will stick with this, with the teams that will grow and continue to work on their projects for three years. And that's not easy to say at this point, because most of these projects are well under a year old avatars. We've got something different here that is, we're actually looking at something that's two years old here. [00:13:31] And, I know that's not a lot, but it's a lot more than what most teams have at this point. [00:13:35] Yeah. So in my basket, I would say I would be looking for projects. That are like this. And I don't have, like this full list, but I want something that was minted in 2020 or 2019. And maybe I would shop, I would put say or two weeks toward just shopping on like a looks rare or something like that to be like, All right. Let me find artists that have a cohesive collection that have been doing the work and trying to pick up. Varieties of art. Obviously you're not buying the next copy, but that's not to say you can't find some glitch art potentially in some early works like that. So I would consider pieces like that, that just have art with the capital, a types of appeal and an age to them because I get nervous. [00:14:23] I would get nervous. If anything, if I'm buying and holding for three years, I get nervous of anything that was like minted with. Hysteria where like the last four or five months I think it's just a different atmosphere. And if I'm going to hold something through three months, I better know that. [00:14:37] Like for instance, that the other episode I talked about calling up human park and I know that the virtual human studios is behind Zed run and they're funded and that that's a studio that's going to be around for awhile. that's interesting. Although I wouldn't throw out there. So what, w where would you throw a bucket of your five five-year magical investment? [00:14:55] All right. Yeah. So I think this is a, it's an initially question, what's going to stick around we've talked about. One project that I, that is historic in the past and we've mentioned it. And I think Boone cats is one that I would still put some in. And I think there are some concerns about how active they'll be. [00:15:11] But I also think that, if assuming things continue to. That the NFD marketplace continues to be active, that the team will be around that they do have plans to be on Coinbase. And I think that is good that the team will be around that long. And that it's a historic project. Going back to 2017 I don't have to look at the floor price of that recently, but I believe that's around half an ear. [00:15:33] Could do that well on, and still have a lot to play with and get some historic value there. I like the avatars play as a another I don't know, maybe one of the earliest PFPs that isn't, isn't punks and certainly had a lot. Customizability than almost any project that we still see now. [00:15:51] So I liked that play a lot there. Again, I think the historic value is I don't know, it's important to look at, and, but we also need to start thinking like, are there teams now that are going to be supplanting these more historic teams, as we've seen with UGA versus larva and I think that's a, that's a tougher question. [00:16:08] To answer right off the bat. What's your thought on that, George? [00:16:12] I think. Looking at a scan. If I just scan what is on the top crypto slam top traded top volume. I take a look at that and I'm like here's a perfect list of exactly what I would not be throwing money at right now, because one it's just not affordable. With, if we're talking about an ape or a immediate, like maybe you could grab a meet at four for that right now, but I absolutely would not do that. [00:16:34] Because again, when I put that guard rail of five feet, I wouldn't want to put it all in one big purchase and then hold it for three years. I'd much rather see it spread across a few bets one or two of which could go to a larger return and spread out. [00:16:50] And then, remember the conversations about reputation and what might happen there. I've seen. Other works, I think I'd want, I want to get into some generative pieces. And I know you're the expert really on, on a lot of those those generated pieces, but, I know we're both collectors of pod Gans. [00:17:08] And I think some of those are interesting and I I would want to dig in to say like, all right, what's the generative plan. I can't afford a squiggle. I know you got squigglies for days. But what is the the affordable play of it's clear that in this moment of time, right? [00:17:21] Three years from now in this moment of time. Oh my gosh. People went absolutely nuts for generative artwork. So how do you fill out part of that in important?  [00:17:31] That's a good question. I was thinking about that and it's, like you said, I do have some squiggles and I look at that as a somewhat being a safe Safe play in generative art. Yes. Expensive. But I I. Tended to go there because it wasn't quite as susceptible to the, how the market is reacting. [00:17:48] It was the first art blocks project that really led the way for a lot of these. And, again, I looked at the historic value there. So I think it's, trying to look at some of that, what has changed things, pod Gans, I don't know if it definitely changed things, but it certainly was the, it helped establish that new. [00:18:02] That new platform for AI generated art, China. So I think trying to look at look at the pieces or look at artists that have been transformative. We've talked about a an affordable project from Dimitri cherniak in the past, I think in general, trying to look at some of those artists. [00:18:20] Like Casey Reyes who's another, just very influential generative artist who maybe is somewhat overlooked in NFTs at this point. That could be an interesting one that I know that he has some pieces out there that are fairly affordable at this point. And. I don't know, certainly seems like he's interested in sticking around, has done a number of projects and is working on a lot of new projects with art blocks and bright moments teams that I've worked with a bit. [00:18:44] Some other artists that I tend to think of Tyler Hobbs. I would just keep an eye out for things that he's connected to. He does a lot with the feral file. I'm sorry. That's I, you know what I have that mixed up that is Casey Rio's that does something with federal file, I believe. I think that's an interesting platform to look at as something that's been somewhat overlooked but does generative art. [00:19:05] And another thing that we've talked about in the past is looking at non theory based NFTs. And I think. The worth putting some into a platform like Tezos we haven't gone into it a lot. There are certainly plenty of different platforms to go and do, but Tezos is one of the earlier ones and there has been a lot of generative art there. [00:19:26] A lot of just art in general, I would say. I think so that's a, it's a tough one to filter through. We've started to look at it a bit and it's a little overwhelming. I have some pieces there from when it was a lot newer and there was a lot less there. It was a lot easier to just navigate that world. [00:19:41] I haven't spent a lot of time that recently, but I think it may be interesting because there's a chance that there's. Some other, some additional historic value added to those pieces. I don't know enough of about other chains at this point. Such as avalanche or over. Phantom any those too, to know what the NFT world is really like there. [00:20:01] I would stay in with Ethereum for the most part, but perhaps put a little bit into other chains to just play that potential that they end up, that those chains just end up being popular in the end. [00:20:11] Yeah. If we're talking on Teslas, the only one that caught my eye, I did a little bit of a dive on object.com. That's O B J. A t.com, which is like the open sea, for for the Tezos and market is Tizzard's, which seems to be. Randomly generated little lizard Tizard things. And it seems to be the G project as far as that can go on that platform. [00:20:34] So that might be my play there. I'll do more digging to decide if it's like affordable makes sense for a project to feature. But I would throw a dart at that maybe and part of that portfolio, because again, if it's been around this long, it holds a place it's ridiculous for its own. It could have value again in three years. Cause what we're doing is walking this in a box and not touching it for three years, which just forces you to think a little bit differently about it. Notably absent. I was thinking about this notably absent from my basket would be game NFTs, simply because with games I'm very bullish this year on that, but they take so much careful monitoring. And management that I wouldn't necessarily trust that it would make sense to hold it for three years, as opposed to have some sort of unique opportunity to do something weird with it. Flip it, breed it, whatever it, and so I, we get nervous putting games in, into this basket that said this is a bit of a cheat, but I have been thinking about how important. How important. I think that dapper labs is going to be in the next three years of onboarding people and specifically their flow token, I think gets overlooked. Now it's not an NFT play, I'm thinking about how. It is a backdoor into saying like, all right, I'm not gonna collect NBA top shot or the, maybe NFL, I'll take a look at it, but it could be a backdoor at the same. [00:21:55] How do I make a bet on that platform as a whole? I'm an NFT way looking at flow token, but That's a little bit of a cheat.  [00:22:03] yeah, that might be a little bit G I wouldn't actually rule out as an MBA top shot. I don't have much, but I do have some, a couple from season one. And again, somewhat of a historic thing helped usher in a lot of people to NFTs and. Debra labs going away anytime soon. I don't think, I don't know what the price is. [00:22:21] There are a lot of like right now, I'm sure there are values to be had with certain players, certainly that you could put some towards that with the five, eight under the five eith allocation. And feel like he's still got a lot to play with otherwise, but I think that might be interesting again. [00:22:36] To get out of necessarily just going with Ethereum based NFTs. And I think that is a question that we'd have, that you really have to look at when you're saying buy and hold for three years. What do you think of the chain that it's on is that network going to continue to hold value or to rise in value and are the pieces that are minted on it, going to hold that value or, are they gonna be valued in. [00:22:56] USD. And, if the Arrium, I shouldn't mention the report that we talked about earlier was talking about a theory based NFTs and they made that very specific. They didn't, they're saying that. The value of the NFTs that are held in a theory, them were held a value better than crypto tokens over that time period that they looked at. [00:23:16] So it's, it is interesting that you've got to take into account the value of the tokens that the the NFT is actually transacted in. And we've talked about that a bit in the past. I think, when you're thinking about this, how much are you taking that into account? Do you think of Ethereum is going to continue to hold that. [00:23:31] I think if I'm putting out all of the horses in the race, absolutely. This year, we're going to see the improvements to proof of stake over proof of work in the merge and Ethereum as a platform, if you look at it with regards to a PE ratio, it's actually being used, burned and utilized a lot more than any other token. [00:23:53] And in our current drop a lot of tokens have taken a haircut. Eve is still, hanging in into the mid, 2,500 to 3000 range. And it's still, half off, a high, as opposed to 90% off of a high, it is a strong platform to, to bet on all ready on a risky asset. [00:24:10] And yeah, I think that is why we've brought up that. [00:24:12] article and I like this basket, I think this basket would potentially do. It's risky. And we're talking about, buying images and find images on the internet. But I think having that lens, especially during right now and during recession shopping, we're where things are down to have that mindset of like, all right, there are, there is value out here and there's not a lot of customers running around, buying up stuff. Where's that value instead of. Trying to contemplate whether or not you should, ape into Abe token, which I have already warned, I believe will go down because of money versus go and find a project it's just straight up overlooked, but has long-term potential value.  [00:24:48] Yeah, I like that play. I think going small, with a lot of these different projects is the way to go here. It's really difficult to pick one that is definitely going to work out in three years, especially at that five eighth level. I think, at any level, I should say I don't think that I could say with a hundred percent, or I can't say with a hundred percent certain that any of these will be around in three years. [00:25:09] So it's better to take a number of risks here and try multiple things. And I think there's a lot of value to be had in the market right now, if you can sift through things and come up with the projects that are being overlooked, it's not necessarily the easiest thing, but I think we've had a few good ideas here. [00:25:24] And I think that they can also, by looking at some of these. It's leads you to others. If you start looking at things that are admitted at a certain time, you can start finding other wallets. It may have been active at that time and what else it may have been doing. It takes some digging, but I think, if you had a month to do it, and this is the way that I would start going about it. [00:25:40] All right. I say we wrap it on there. It was a fun. What if keep it in the back of your mind? What if you had to hold whatever you were buying for three years and it. [00:25:46] may change how you are making that next purchase. Andrew, thanks so much for the advice and thoughts on.  [00:25:53] All right. Good talking, George.     

Welcome to episode 96 of the FTX Podcast with special guest Tyler Hobbs and your host Tristan Yver.Tyler is a visual artist from Austin, Texas who works primarily with algorithms, plotters, and paint. His artwork focuses on computational aesthetics, how they are shaped by the biases of modern computer hardware and software, and how they relate to and interact with the natural world around us. Tyler develops and programs custom algorithms that are used to generate visual imagery. Often, these strike a balance between the cold, hard structure that computers excel at, and the messy, organic chaos we can observe in the natural world around us.Tyler's work has been shown internationally, and has been collected in more than a dozen countries around the world.

How can we classify the different works and styles within crypto art and NFTs?We tend to think of the major art styles (impressionism, abstract expressionism, surrealism, etc.) as they relate to a visual structure or language. For crypto art this understanding has been somewhat alighted. In a way we can think of PFP projects as their own style because visually there is something in common, they work as a personal likeness or avatar. That being said most are just jpegs and not necessarily art that has been enabled by the blockchain. Generative art however produces a certain aesthetic due to how that work is generated by code which could (somewhat) be classified as a NFT art style. Good examples of this would be OG artists like Eric Paul Rhodes or Tyler Hobbs, specifically his Fidenza series. In these cases, because of the algorithmic mechanism which is medium-native to crypto art, there are stylistic similarities which Kizu feels would classify as a major art style within NFT art. Beyond this we also have things such as illustration or painting, which could be used as classifiers but these come from a time before crypto art and we can not really view or classify them in the same way. Moreover, those are merely techniques, which can be helpful for ranking skill level, but in the end that doesn't really get to the point of why we classify art. While https://twitter.com/kaifuku_kizu (Kizu) and https://twitter.com/SabretoothSG (Sabretooth) both acknowledge their level of cynicism, they bring up the idea that ultimately, art being classified is a biproduct of the market. Sabretooth talks about how collectors will buy a certain artists and then look for a narrative in which to place these artists. The reason being that, works are worth more if they are part of something bigger than just the work itself. Sabretooth finds that overall this effort has been unsuccessful in the sense that they have not been powerful enough to break through to the traditional art world. He gives the example of Beeple who has sold for ridiculous amounts of money, has a large fan base in the crypto community, but is not accepted by traditional art people. Kizu talks about the use of of Punks as profile pics or RTFKT sneakers and the signaling of value in the metaverse, how we communicate, the transactions, etc. to point out that there is a narrative and it is about the money. He also draws a comparison between the NFT space and the art world of the 90s where, art from the developing world got recognized because there was a movement to promote these artists. It wasn't really about their style or aesthetic rather their background and what they stood for. What's up with music in the NFT space?Many major DJs are launching projects and that's not a surprise as DJs and NFTs are both on the cutting edge of popular culture. Despite this, Sabretooth notes that music has stopped being the cutting edge of niche subcultures. Minority expressions don't start in music anymore. There are cheaper or more viral ways such as creating a tiktok account. Because it has somewhat lost its power due to these mentioned elements Sabretooth feels that NFTs are ahead of music in creating subcultures and thus he is not as interested in the topic. Could NFTs and smart contracts replace traditional contracts in business and real estate?The idea of tokenizing real world assets has existed since 2016, it has not yet taken off nor does Sabretooth think it will. The reason why brings us to look at what is called the oracle problem - how do you bring data from off the blockchain on the blockchain and still have it be trustworthy? Especially in the case of real estate or other tangible items, the question moves to – if someone steals your NFT do they now own your house? The answer is generally, no, and if that is the case then, what is the purpose of putting it on the blockchain in the first place? When you buy an NFT who owns the creative rights?This brings...

Part 1/2 - Newbie interview episode with Meta, the podcast assistant, find her on https://twitter.com/MetaDaniel7 (Twitter) Time Stamps [00:32 – 4:38] Meta asks what websites to use for references, specifically sites like https://raritysniper.com/ (RaritySniper) and https://xn--rarble-5va.com/?subid=12a39eo15mhn (Rarible). Sabertooth says if you need to use these type of websites, you probably don't know enough about that project to be investing in it. For kizu, the analysis is useful in an objective comparison. Sabertooth disagrees and says it is actually subjective. He also warns to check out the business model for those sites.  [4:38 – 6:52] Sabertooth says that he doesn't personally use any websites for educational purposes and recommends that you simply listen to Floor is Rising for the info you need regarding trends, projects, etc.  Continuing, he does says that a helpful way to get more information is by looking at wallets. Using the example of https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks (CryptoPunks) he says, check out what wallets have Punks then see what other NFTs that wallet owns. By this you will see patterns and transactions. [6:52 – 11:55] Meta asks about the distinction between the different marketplaces. Sabertooth notes that it is helpful to break them down in to categories of primary and secondary sale. Primary examples would be; https://superrare.com/ (SuperRare), https://niftygateway.com/ (NiftyGateway), https://foundation.app/ (Foundation), https://async.art/ (async.art), https://newworldmarketplace.io/#/landing (NewWorld), etc. In these cases the artist is minting a particular work and you buy directly from him via listing or auction. Secondary sale sites include; https://opensea.io/ (OpenSea),https://rarible.com/officialnftmarketplace?tab=onsale (Rarible), https://zora.co/ (Zora), and you would buy from collectors.  These previously mentioned pertain to https://ethereum.org/en/ (Ethereum). https://nftplazas.com/hic-et-nunc-finds-a-solution-after-sudden-shut-down/ (Hic et Nunc) is different, it is on https://tezos.com/ (Tezos). Every blockchain (https://solana.com/ (Solana), https://www.terra.money/ (Terra), https://dfinity.org/ (Dfinity)) has an NFT ecosystem and thus its own marketplace. Most NFTs are on Ethereum but Tezos and Solana would be the next up. Kizu recommends, especially for those from the traditional art world, to check out some of the NFT gallery spaces for a more curated experience. One he likes, that was even mentioned by https://twitter.com/kennyschac (Kenny Schachter), is https://feralfile.com/about (FeralFile). Kizu says that on there you can even find OG artist like https://twitter.com/tylerxhobbs (Tyler Hobbs), https://twitter.com/refikanadol (Refik Anadol), https://twitter.com/quasimondo (Mario Klingemann) (who we just interviewed)  [11:55 – 13:45] Meta asks about minting, sales, and rights. Sabertooth clarifies that an NFT is not tied to a marketplace. This being said, the price can vary on different sites.  [13:45 – 16:36] Moving to wallets, Sabertooth talks about how the terminology and metaphors we use directly affects our behavior. Wallet conjures up the idea that the NFT is stored there, it's better to think about the wallet as a way to interact. The blockchain stores the NFT.  Ultimately, what people need to focus on protecting is their seed phrase not necessarily the wallet.  [16:36 – 20:33] The way you prove you own what you own is through your seed phrase and this is set up usually when you get a wallet. If you loose this seed phrase that's it. If you leaked your seed phrase there's no getting it back, you can't call up and reset the password.  One thing you can do to protect your seed phrase is to get a hardware wallet. This has a benefit as opposed to a hot wallet...

After Dinner Mints - Episode 31 - 22.01.05Interview with Tyler Hobbs & bonafidehanArt Blocks website: www.artblocks.ioJoin us on discord: discord.gg/artblocksSubscribe to our weekly newsletter: https://artblocksinc.eo.page/subscribeFollow us on Twitter: @artblocks_io

Jonas, JDH, and Seth chat with Tyler Hobbs about his latest generative drop and look back on the live minting experience

Tyler Hobbs is a generative artist from Austin, Texas. Bill Cresco is a geneticist who specializes in quantitative evolutionary genomics at the University of Oregon. Today Tyler and Bill joined us for a wide-ranging discussion, seeded by the topic of "complexity". The conversation was fascilitated by our two excellent moderators, Anya and Joe. Anya studied studio art and environmental studies at Wellesley College and now works at Reed Hilderbrand, and Joe studied bioengineering at MIT and now works at Ginko Bioworks. The conversation was wide-ranging and compelling, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did! Learn more about Tyler Hobbs HERE. Learn more about Bill Cresco and his lab HERE. Learn more about the Boston Computation Club HERE. Learn more about Anya HERE. Learn more about Joe: Just kidding, you can't, he is an internet ninja. Watch the video version of this talk HERE.

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

Mint Season 3 episode 2 welcomes the iconic generative algorithmic artist Tyler Hobbs, who's most recently known for his work Fidenza. In this episode we talk about:0:00 - Intro0:19 - Getting started in crypto3:15 - Thinking like a creative in tech8:42 - His first mint10:28 - Art Blocks14:49 - The Crypto Renaissance16:03 - The birth of Fidenza23:24 - Getting technical31:39 - NFTs in the creator economy35:45 - Fidenza in the future39:47 - Painting the impact44:37 - Outro...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-3/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 3's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. POAP - https://poap.xyz/3. Socialstack - https://socialstack.co/---------------------------------------------------------------------------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 is an 6 episode series on generative artists who we found interesting. 6 artists in total who we found contributes something unique in the current generative art landscape, they span different blockchains/platforms/aesthetics/personal histories. Episode Notes; Fidenza has the classical generative art aesthetics that current collectors love, it set records of how fast the price has appeciated on secondary markets. The collection contains multiple visual styles in the same collection, calls into the question the whole concept of categorising art visually. Discuss secondary market premiums for pieces, and how great communication ability like Tyler does on social media can translate to secondary market premiums. Tyler Hobbs twitter; https://twitter.com/tylerxhobbs The rise of Long-Form Generative Art; https://tylerxhobbs.com/essays/2021/the-rise-of-long-form-generative-art Fidenza on Opensea; https://opensea.io/assets/art-blocks?search[stringTraits][0][name]=Fidenza&search[stringTraits][0][values][0]=All%20Fidenzas

In this episode of the Cryptonary Podcast, our host Stan invites Erick Snowfro, the founder of Art Blocks, to learn more about generative NFTs, the vision of Art Blocks, and "Powered by Art Blocks". Want to dive into the art that Art blocks offers? Click here Interested in a Pro membership at Cryptonary after listening to the podcast? Click here Interesting links: Art Blocks Factory Breathe you click here Fidenza by Tyler Hobbs click here Chromie Squiggle click here FlamingoDAO Click here Cryptovoxels click here

In this episode of the Cryptonary Podcast, our host Stan invites Erick Snowfro, the founder of Art Blocks, to learn more about generative NFTs, the vision of Art Blocks, and "Powered by Art Blocks". Want to dive into the art that Art blocks offers? Click here Interested in a Pro membership at Cryptonary after listening to the podcast? Click here Interesting links: Art Blocks Factory Breathe you click here Fidenza by Tyler Hobbs click here Chromie Squiggle click here FlamingoDAO Click here Cryptovoxels click here

Pioneering generative artist Tyler Hobbs talks to Kevin about his history, how he mixes his hand drawings with algorithms, the tools he uses, the rare attributes his collectors are excited about, and the other NFT artists he most respects. Full show notes and links here.

Pioneering generative artist Tyler Hobbs talks to Kevin about his history, how he mixes his hand drawings with algorithms, the tools he uses, the rare attributes his collectors are excited about, and the other NFT artists he most respects. Full show notes and links here.