On episode 30 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, hosts Toady Hawk and Joshua Fisher from The Noun Square sit down with David Hovarth, a legend in the Lifestyle Character Brand world and creator of such cultural heavyweights as Uglydoll and Bossy Bear.
In this conversation, we dig into David’s past and his development from a curious child into a creative force. We hear his story about founding Uglydoll with his now-wife and working partner Sun-Min Kim, and building that property into a globally successful character brand. We also chat about David’s 2022 Nouns proposal to put Nouns Sofubi and Plush into high end Japanese stores, and how they came back asking for more. Lastly, David talks about his new proposal to Nouns to produce more Nounish Plushes and place them in stores where they can be a trigger for new people to fall down the Nounish rabbit hole.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Plush down the rabbit hole
00:50 - ZEORPOD Intro
01:33 - First time face to face
02:30 - The David Horvath origin story: Childhood
03:15 - Favorite toys
05:31 - Favorite Collectibles now
06:31 - “Releasing a plushy” vs Plush culture in Japan
07:50 - The power of plush
09:07 - “Caught in the pursuit of awareness”
09:39 - Gary Lee is the Mr. Rogers of this generation
10:50 - “Brands cannot live on nostalgia alone.”
11:11 - Ugly Doll’s genesis
14:14 - Collaboration with Sun-Min
16:28 - “The Eames Chair of Plush”
21:00 - Taking UglyDoll to scale
23:00 - Pounding the pavement
24:36 - How was Bossy Bear similar, different?
27:31 - Misconceptions about breaking into Japan
28:00- In Japan, Lifestyle Character Brands are for everyone
29:00 - Getting people to care vs just knowing about you
30:45 - The BossyBear story
33:51 - Your tribe has to grow organically
34:52 - BossyBear compared to UglyDoll creative experiences
37:00 - 5 o’ clock somewhere 37:34 - David’s original Nouns proposal
39:25 - What is a Sofubi?
41:54 - How were the first run of Nouns plush received?
45:00 - What to expect if the current proposal passes?
46:16 - Taking CC0 ideals to shelf space
48:00 - Prop is designed to be self sufficient in the long run
50:00- Nouns at Toy and Gift Shows
51:05 - How does he answer people who ask “What is Nouns?”
54:00 - “Maybe I shouldn’t explain too much.”
57:00- Talking Snoopy
1:00:00 - “Wouldn’t it be treat if they fell down the rabbit hole?”
1:04:20 - David as a nouns OG
10:06:00 - “We know when we’re being sold.”
1:07:00 - Where to find out more
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On episode 29 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, hosts Toady Hawk and Prof Werder from The Noun Square sit down with Will Papper, Nouner and co-founder of Syndicate.
In this conversation, we learn about Will's career journey, which involves being a trailblazing founder, first in the field of AI and later crypto. We talk about how his company, Syndicate aims to facilitate cooperation and composability for onchain communities like Farcaster and $Degen, the future of Ethereum's rollup-centric roadmap as he sees it, and why he believes Layer 2s and Layer 3s could one day eclipse L1s in TVL. Finally, we dig into what attracted Will to Nouns since early days, how he likes to contribute to the project, and what he hopes to see in the future from Nouns.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - How did Will get Noun-pilled?
02:25 - ZeroPod intro
03:40 - The Will Papper Origin Story
04:14 - “Decentralization Technologies”
05:35 - Infinite regret
06:14 - What are Mesh Networks?
08:22 - “Timing is hard.”
09:00 - Discovering Ethereum
10:30 - The Coingecko experiment
12:50 - Hysterical NFTs
14:20 - Avoiding hype cycles
15:12 - Librarian AI
17:13 - Remembering the 2018 bear cycle fondly
22:00 - “A few people with a great idea can have a huge impact.”
25:25 - 2018 vs 2022 bear market comparisons
27:30 - The crazy speed of infrastructure development in crypto
29:10 - What is Syndicate? Early days.
31:15 - Enabling onchain investment clubs
35:15 - On L3’s
37:00 - Why are L3 fees cheaper?
41:00 - $Degen and tipping culture
44:00 - “The value of an L2 will never surpass the value of an L1” argument challenged
47:37 - Our video about bridging that never uses the word bridge: youtu.be/fnji_t6hUXc?si=KwKF6i-ahy_KKXT5
48:27 - The Superchain is a messaging protocol, not a bridging protocol
51:00 - Security vs Usage
54:00 - L3 Composability
57:35 - On Farcaster
59:24 - Cow-clicker in a frame: warpcast.com/will/0xefedba2a
1:00:00 - Working with Jacek on Degen Chain
1:04:00 - Will on Nouns
1:06:00 - Noun-pilled by Noun40
1:07:00 - Sponsoring Glitch art proposal
1:08:00 - Thoughts on moving Nouns governance off L1 (Don’t do it!)
1:10:55 - Sharing unique perspectives in governance
1:11:48 - The future of Nouns
1:13:00 - The Yellow Collective, Purple as examples of successful branches into other niches and ecosystems
1:18:00- Predictions for the current cycle
1:19:18 - Syndicate’s goals for this year
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On episode 28 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, host Toady Hawk from The Noun Square sits down with Amir Bandeali, the co-founder and co-CEO of 0x and Matcha.
In this 45 minute conversation, we learn about Amir's crypto and career journey, his pioneering work with 0x protocol and we learn all about all the useful features of the Matcha DEX. We also chat about the recently announced partnership between Matcha, Nouns Esports and The Noun Square, and trade insights on Nouns, L2 summer, Farcaster and more.
If you've never tried making a swap on Matcha using their money-saving Matcha Auto feature, you can try to here: nouns.gg/matcha
Also, if you enjoy this pod, please mint for free and subscribe to us at zora.co/basedandyellow.eth
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Amir on why Matcha wanted to Partner with Nouns Esports and The Noun Square 01:03 - ZeroPod intro 02:15 - Onchain origins 04:29 - Why was he able to see the benefits of onchain finance when many in trade don’t? 05:00 - Learning about the benefits of self-custody getting rugged by online Poker Sites 06:44 - Go West young man: Moving from midwest to SF 08:43 - Special guest kitty 09:24 - The 0x story - The first DEX protocol 11:58 - Aggregating liquidity across chains and protocols 12:41 - What kind of apps are using 0x? “Most applications that have swaps use us.” 15:15 - What is Matcha? 18:01 - Favourite features of Matcha - “Matcha is like a search engine for tokens.” 20:20 - MEV protection out of the box 22:58 - “Abstracting away complexity.” 23:41 - L2 Summer 26:18 - The Rise of Base 28:16 - Amir on Nouns ⌐◨-◨ 29:00 - “The concept of Nouns was so unique to me.” 31:17 - Nouns is truly decentralized and doesn’t have a scarcity mindset 32:48 - Nouns Esports and the new partnership with Matcha 34:30 - Nouns Esports changing the game with transparent funding 35:28 - The Cat was a paid actor. 37:00 - What does Amir hope to see from this collaboration with Nouns? 39:49 - Amir on the future of Ethereum. “Everything of value will be tokenized.” 42:40 - Thoughts on Farcaster 43:59 - Outro
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On episode 27 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, host Toady Hawk from The Noun Square sits down with James Ross, founder of a modular OP Stack L2 called MODE Network, which is aiming to bring more defi energy to the Superchain.
We hear about James' crypto and defi journey and find out why he wanted to build on Ethereum and on the Optimism stack. We chat about Eigen Layer (which he advised previous to founding MODE), some promising protocols on MODE, Farcaster, incentivizing builders and much more in this one hour conversation.
If you want to check out MODE, here is an invite code that should work: ref.mode.network/AgNTDx ---
Timestamps:
00:00 - How MODE fits into the Superchain 01:45 - ZeroPod intro 02:45 - James’ crypto and defi journey 04:31 - GTM consulting with Hype 05:31 - Why Ethereum? Why Optimism? 06:32 - Different models of builder funding 08:30 - The difficulty of measuring impact 11:36 - How MODE fits into the Superchain 13:56 - Renzo brings ETH staking to L2 16:24 - How EigenLayer is changing the game 19:00 - Is EigenLayer a systemic risk to ETH? 22:30 - How has MODE been going so far since launch? 25:00 - L2s as an unlock for defi strategies 28:00 - Points and airdrops meta, difficulty of incentivizing the right things 31:50 - $Degen and Farcaster. The power of “microbounties” and tipping 35:16 - Thoughts on Farcaster 38:00 - Devs will figure out novel ways to do things 41:50 - Builder culture at MODE: Building for the entire Superchain 43:00 - Some of James’ favourite projects on MODE 47:40 - Why build MODE on the Superchain? 51:20 - Where to go to learn more about MODE: docs.mode.network 52:36 - What is he most excited about for the next 6 months? (Some alpha maybe?)
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On episode 26 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, host Toady Hawk from The Noun Square sits down for part one of a two part Home & Away podcast with Nick Hollins from UFO. In this one, Toady puts Nick in the hotseat to find out all about his career and crypto journeys. We talk about everything from onchain media and web 3 distribution to open source and DAOs, and hear firsthand what’s next for UFO. Next week, Toady and Benbodhi from The Noun Square / ZeroPod will join Nick on the UFO pod to chat about TNS, the pod, The Yellow Collective and more. Make sure you subscribe at ufo.fm/ so you don’t miss it!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Open source wins. 01:54 - ZeroPod Intro 03:40 - Nick’s origin story 05:33 - Intro to crypto and podcasting 07:08 - ETH Berlin pre-covid 07:44 - 0x Labs & Matcha 08:20 - Meeting UFO cofounder Ivano Salonia 10:06 - Voyager Artist Collective 11:05 - UFO Radio / Podcast 14:25 - Onchain Distribution vs web 2 Distro 16:40 - Onchain podcast pioneers - UFO as an Onchain Radio Station 19:35 - “Everything that happens onchain is a broadcast event.” 21:00 - Experimenting with Hypersub 23:00 - What does an onchain radio station look like? 25:00 - The Synchronous Signal 26:05 - Discoverability for onchain media 32:00 - Higher: A new model for DAOs? 33:00 - The Yellow Collective 35:00 - Why “Yellow”? 38:00 - Emojis and Brands — the new flags of Network States? 40:49 - Farcaster chat 47:00 - Twitter’s fall from grace 51:41 - Decentralized orgs and Open Source FTW 53:00 - Retro funding as a key unlock 1:00:00 - Positive Sum mindsets 1:00:51 - Nick on Nouns 1:09:00 - Favourite guests from UFO pod 1:14:20 - Onchain media as Onchain Anthropology 1:16:00 - Outro
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On episode 25 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, host Toady Hawk from The Noun Square sits down with Hong Kim aka Noun 40, cofounder and CTO of Bitwise for a deep dive on all things Nouns! We learn about what attracted Hong to Nouns, and chat about the importance of figuring out ways to fund the things nobody wants to fund (public goods.) We chat about the forthcoming $NOUNS fungible token, the nouns minting culture, Hong's dream proposals, and much, much more. If you're a fan of nouns, this is not one to miss!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Teaser: 40 on the importance of repairing market failures and funding public goods, and why nouns appealed to him
02:04 - ZeroPod intro
02:31 - Welcoming 40 to the pod.
04:22 - The 40 Origin Story.
04:47 - Falling down the Crypto rabbit hole in 2016.
05:30 - “Everyone is early”
06:00 - The origin/idea for Bitwise Investments
07:15 - Onchain journey & nouns journey
07:39 - Crypto’s opportunity to repair market failures and fund public goods
10:20 - Nouns: “Maybe we can just build memes that fund public goods”
12:00 - Where did you first hear about Nouns
12:58 - Why Void Head noun?
15:02 - Favourite noun head aside from Void?
16:34 -“The silliness of nouns allows people to be a little less serious than in most governance contexts.”
17:50 - The benefit of nouns’ gradual token issuance
21:36 - What is his definition of nouns & nounishness (aka “40 goes off”)
26:00 - Appreciation for the craft of the art and code base of nouns
27:40 - “We’re doing great on the weirdness front.”
28:10 - Talking $NOUNS (nouns fungible token)
31:00 - $NOUNS broad overview
32:33 - Lessons from Bitcoin’s fractionalization and culture
35:00 - There’s currently no good way to own a fraction of a Noun
40:00 - Who would swap $NOUNS for Nouns and why?
46:30 - Potential future governance participation by $NOUNS holders
47:04 - “Speculation is a superpower.”
49:51 - $NOUNS as an API
52:00 - $NOUNS as a potentially meaningful way to acquire new fans for nouns-funded projects
53:37 - Will $NOUNS have a positive or negative effect on arbitrage?
57:00 - $NOUNS Timeline… alpha?
57:50 - The future of the nouns minting economy
1:02:58 - Mint to support
1:04:00 - Minting as a way to further decentralize nouns funding
1:06:56 - Minting Splits as a way to tag mints as nounish on zora
1:08:00 - How to get enough volume on nounish mints for revenue to be meaningful
1:12:00 - rounds.wtf and possible minting applications
1:14:00 - Ideal nouns proposal (lessons from the DARPA model… but for onchain world)
1:20:00 - Think hyperlocal
1:22:00 - On Bitwise, and what might make wall street take notice of a project like nouns?
1:26:00 - What is 40 most excited about for Nouns? Thoughts on the new delegation governor.
1:31:00 - “Enjoy Nouns!”
1:31:51 - ?
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Mar 27 2024
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On episode 24 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, host Toady Hawk from The Noun Square sits down with Jacob, cofounder of Zora to talk about everything onchain. We hear about Jacob's early days at Coinbase, talk about how Zora came to be and how it has evolved over the past 4 years, what Farcaster and onchain content means for the future of media distribution and much, much more-- including some alpha about what's next for Zora!
If you enjoy this conversation, please LIKE & Subscribe so others can find it and enjoy it too!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Jacob on Farcaster
02:41 - ZeroPod intro
03:20 - Toady apologizes for constantly trying to break Zora
04:44 - Jacob’s personal onchain origin story
05:50 - Messing around with Bitcoin and Colored Coins
06:30 - Discovered by Coinbase, moving from Sydney to SF
06:47 - From literal Coinbase Intern to USDC Project Lead
07:49 - The appeal of Uniswap and the paradigm of protocols
08:50 - SaintFame.com “The Long Sleeve of Crypto”
09:40 - What is the reason for the success of “The Coinbase Mafia”?
12:23 - Four Years of Zora: The History. “Ideas are valuable.”
14:00 - Making it easier to bring content onchain
15:00 - Designing for media first
16:26 - Huge stats, huge growth
19:00 - Zora compared to the other NFT platforms
19:39 - The Zora L2
20:08 - Pepe week, shared PTSD
21:27 - Why OP Stack?
22:19 - The decision to make Zora multi chain: good vibes only
23:36 - Zora abstracting the bridging experience
26:50 - Creator Rewards - A Primary Royalty?
31:00 - The secret weapon: Create in one place, disperse everywhere
32:08 - The evolution of the Zora homepage
33:00 - Experimentation with content discovery
35:00 - Jacob on Farcaster’s 3 year long “Overnight success”
39:00 - The power of crypto content distribution on Farcaster
41:09 - The future of Frames
43:59 - Opens Deals type service in a Frame?
45:00 - $DEGEN Specific Client?
46:11 - Talking about rounds.wtf from Nouns PropHouse
47:29 - What is Nouns could give away $nouns instead?
48:20 - What attracted Jacob to Nouns?
51:29 - Ideas for the future of Nouns, disrupt the film production industry
54:52 - What should Nouns maybe do less of?
55:00 - Lamenting the loss of Nouns AI
56:00 - The future for onchain creators
58:00 - Jacob puts Toady in charge of Zora for 3 months (verbal contract)
1:01:00 - “Have fun, be fast.”
1:03:00 - Alpha!
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On episode 23 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, hosts Toady Hawk and Prof Werder from The Noun Square sit down with Mike Demarais, cofounder of Rainbow Wallet to hear his story. We go deep down the Rainbow Road and chat about buying weed on the Silk Road, why he built a crypto wallet and why they called it Rainbow, his thoughts on Farcaster, BASE and Nouns, and much, much more... including a few pieces of juicy alpha! If you enjoy this conversation, please LIKE & Subscribe!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Will “Mike Rainbow” Ever Make it Official? 01:00 - ZeroPod intro 02:00 - Mike likes TNS and ZeroPod 03:27 - Mike’s origin story - B2B SAAS roots 04:24 - “Crypto really scratched an itch for me.” 05:20 - Originally thought Bitcoin was a scam 05:50 - Buying weed on the darknet 07:00 - Attracted to the composability of Ethereum 09:20 - The importance of crypto wallets for mainstream adoption 10:11 - Why “Rainbow”? 10:26 - Importance of ‘Emojiability’ 11:10 - CryptWallet Pro Coming Soon 12:49- Rainbow’s mobile-first approach 16:22 - The new desktop extension: Going after power users (and aspirational power users) 19:44 - Cross-chain compatibility 22:24 - The Vampire Attack: “It is always acceptable for David to take shots at Goliath.” 24:00 - Rainbow POINTS 27:28 - Fartcaster 29:00 - Twitter API woes 31:00 - Having fun on Farcaster 33:00 - We meme the ones we love 34:55 - On being an unhinged founder, and the importance of approachable raw brand voice 37:36 - Everyone DM Mike all your problems (jk) 37:56 - The Top Signal for this bull run 38:44 - Mike on the growth of BASE 43:00 - Farcaster flippenings 44:00 - Mike asks about Nouns x Farcaster 47:06 - Mike on Nouns, possible future Rainbow ⌐◨-◨ collab 50:00 - The importance of open source 52:00 - ERC 4337 - Account Abstraction: Rainbow Mini wallets 57:00 - What is Mike most excited about for 2024?
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On episode 22 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, hosts Toady Hawk and Prof Werder from The Noun Square sit down with crypto twitter legend, fashionista and founder winny.eth! We hear about her crypto journey, and the career path that lead her to the founding of Gossip Protocol, and her newest venture "Chipped", a line of NFC-enabled acrylic nails that will allow wearers to keep their social graph at the tips of their fingers!
This was a great conversation with a mainstay of the space, and we hope you enjoy!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro: Chipped 01:34 - ZeroPod intro 02:17 - Winny Crypto Origin Story 04:28 - “A Spite-Fueled Journey” 06:29 - First peer-to-peer app 07:20 - “My first metaverse was Animal Crossing” 08:36 - Marrying fashion and computer science 09:40 - Political lessons, and moving to France 10:36 - Shillr Days 12:44 - Got ‘em! 13:48 - Serotonin Time 14:36 - Starting Gossip Protocol 17:13 - Chipped! NFC-enabled nails 21:00 - Letting people own their social graph 22:20 - Chipped Art contests 24:14 - The importance of making crypto accessible 26:20 - BoysClub Adjacent 26:50 - Denver-bound 29:00 - Oasis Onchain Retreat 33:00 - Rebuilding the reputation of crypto in the Bahamas 34:00 - The Yellow Collective empowering artists with crypto 34:49 - What events are you planning to attend? 37:02 - “Despite the French, I love Paris” 39:00 - Love on Leverage 40:00 - Winny on Nouns 42:50 - Outlook for 2024 44:54 - Thoughts on Farcaster Energy: “Get on Farcaster, find your real users.” 47:33 - Where to learn more about Winny, Gossip and Chipped. @winnyeth, chipped.social
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We're starting 2024 off with a bang as Jesse Pollak joins us for episode 21 of ZEROPOD! Jesse is a longtime Coinbase alum and leads the team for their Ethereum L2, BASE.
On this episode, Toady Hawk and Benbodhi from TNS ask Jesse about his crypto journey, his thoughts on the recent BTC EFT approval, and talk about his vision for the future of BASE. They also talk about some of most interesting projects currently being built on BASE, and about our upcoming Yellow Collective launch (going live on January 18 at basedandyellow.xyz.) And of course, Nouns and the common culture that connects many Ethereum native organizations.
This was a fascinating conversation with one of the top contributors in the Ethereum space-- we hope you enjoy! (And if you do, please Like, Comment and Subscribe!)
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro: Jesse Loves Yellow 01:13 - ZeroPod Intro 01:55 - Happy Bitcoin ETF Approval Day! 03:30 - Building the New Internet 04:28 - Why is an ETF good despite not being self-custodial 06:44 - Crypto-pilled by a lumberjack 08:08 - How he ended up at Coinbase 08:57 - “Coindesk’s Most Influential in 2023” 11:37 - The Coinbase Vision for 2024 Tweet 14:44 - “Building a global onchain economy that increases innovation, creativity and freedom.” 17:10 - People feel let down by traditional economy 20:00 - Why OP? 23:25 - Tourists and Purists 25:00 - The Superteam 28:22 - A Question from Chris Carella 30:00 - The benefits of parallel core development 32:50 - Favourite projects on BASE? The Yellow Collective of course! 34:00 - Upcoming Nouns Builder L2 Migration 35:00 - Jesse is a big fan of Yellow! (Also how Jesse stole our yellow circle emoji.) 36:35 - Advertisement: Collective Nouns by TNS & The Yellow Collective, launching January 18 at basedandyellow.xyz 39:27 - Retro funding and the OP Stack 44:48 - What drew him to Nouns? 50:00 - Progress in Ethereum ecosystem is exponential 53:00 - Advice for launching The Yellow Collective 57:33 - Question from Sanya on Farcaster: What can people contribute to BASE? 59:00 - “Do Something at the intersection of your passion and this technology”
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Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit tns.wtf to learn more.
Dec 31 2023
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It's the crossover episode you never knew you needed -- on episode 20 of ZEROPOD, our very last episode of 2023, BoysClub cofounder Deana Burke joins us to talk about building a community media organization on the new "ownable internet." We hear about her background, how BoysClub came to be, and what to expect in 2024, with many more interesting topics sprinkled throughout. We really enjoyed this conversation with Deana, and we hope you will too!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Art Basel flu
00:50 - Intro
02:11 - The Deana origin story
03:30 - Shitcoin-trading beginnings
04:08 - The rabbit hole: Levelling the playing field.
05:28 - A Bitcoin Wallet for Teenaged Girls
07:09 - Crypto: “I love that for you”
07:45 - The birth of Boys Club
08:39 - When Boys Club interviewed Toady about Nouns fork: open.spotify.com/episode/6ETx...
09:25 - “Wherever you meet us on our journey is perfect.”
10:00 - The Boys Club name
11:45 - “We have an opportunity to shape the new internet and be involved int it, and speak to what it becomes, but only if we have a seat at the table if we are learning about it and understanding and building things in and around it.”
13:57 - The Boys Club DAO
16:15 - Going full time
17:00 - Boys Club Events
18:16 - Basel… we are so back?
19:45 - Check the receipts!
20:00 - The Boys Club Zine
23:00 - The impact of physical products in the onchain space
26:30 - Experimenting with different minting mechanisms for physical editions: “Trading scarcity for attention.”
29:24 - Boys Club as an Offchain DAO
34:00 - Protocol DAOs vs Onchain Social Club DAOs
37:00 - AirPod Malfunction
38:11 - The struggles of new onchain media
43:29 - Onchain Spotify wen
44:26 - Crowd-funding PTSD
46:11 - If you build it, they will… not necessarily come.
48:03 - The importance of minimum viable community
49:28 - “Find a parade and get in front”
51:38 - Deana on Nouns
55:00 - The power of absurdity
56:53 - Boys Club live covering the SBF trial
58:42 - Daylight is the best disinfectant (Woohoo!)
1:00:02 - What’s next for Boys Club in 2024? boyclub.vip for more
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Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit tns.wtf to learn more.
Dec 12 2023
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On Episode 19 of the Zero Rights Reserved Podcast, hosts Toady Hawk and Prof Werder sat down with Roy aka Zeneca, founder of ZenAcademy, and the 333 Club, cohost of the Two Bored Apes podcast and beloved web 3 educator!
We talked with Roy about his journey from playing poker professionally, to teaching NFT-curious people when to hold'em. We dig into what it was like to build ZenAcademy through the bull market and the bear, the realities of founder burnout, and why he believes that many projects should concentrate on building communities not companies.
And of course we had to ask Roy for his takes on Nouns and CC0, a topic he has written about extensively. We hope you enjoy this conversation with a true legend of the space!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Communities and Companies
01:58 - Intro
02:57 - Poker Days
03:50 - Crypto journey
06:00 - The difficulty of HODLing through multiple crypto cycles
07:35 - The “Zeneca” backstory
10:23 - Zeneca x Seneca wen?
11:06 - The Zeneca Spreadsheet Era
13:43 - Experience building a community during the bear market
16:16 - Lessons learned from the previous cycle
18:11 - “Infinite Regret”
22:00 - Taking profits when you know all the project leaders or are in the public eye
24:47 - The Denizens PFP Collection
28:28 - ZenAcademy DAO?
30:57 - How can NFT projects grow without extracting from their communities?
32:00 - Communities vs Companies
33:37 - Recent tweet announcement about the future of ZenAcademy: x.com/Zeneca/status/173166963...
35:00 - Being honest about burnout and mental health
39:28 - Zeneca the Writer
42:00- The importance of education in this space
44:00 - What is Zeneca looking forward to most in this coming cycle?
48:00 - Roy on Nouns
51:00 - Thoughts on CC0 and other IP experiments
56:00 - Roy on Royalties
1:00:00 - Crypto / Poker Overlap
1:03:00 - Outro
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Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and JackWyldes. Hosted by Toady Hawk and Prof Werder. Music by SuperTightWoody.
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Nov 28 2023
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Episode 18 of the Zero Rights Reserved Podcast is a special one because it’s the first time we’ve ever streamed an interview live. We did so on the Unlonely web3 streaming platform, which only seemed natural, as ZEROPOD’s Toady Hawk and ProfWerder were hosting Grace and Brian Guan, the founders of Unlonely!
We talked to them about their individual onchain journeys, why they decided to tackle the difficult issue of decentralized web 3 streaming, their recent hit web series “Love on Leverage”, what’s coming next, and more!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - We do it LIVE
00:30 - ZEROPOD Intro
00:45 - Grace’s story
02:13 - The Sibling dynamic
03:38 - “Big Tech Corporate Girlie”
04:00 - Crypto-pilled
04:38 - Wanting to solve problems seen at Google and YouTube
05:28 - Kitty Cameo
06:32 - Enter Brian
08:10 - Early Unlonley days
11:16 - Love to Farcaster
14:33 - Why Unlonely?
16:39 - The Frend.tech Effect (the importance of cashflow positive)
18:54 - Show, don’t tell
22:00 - Any legal concerns with in-chat betting?
25:00 - Gamified streaming
27:49 - Love on Leverage
31:00 - WorldCoin Orb Rizz
32:51 - Love on Leverage Success
36:38 - The Rizz Olympics
39:22 - What is RIZZ?
41:08 - Network Rizz
42:00 - Rizzommendations
44:00 - “Unlonely - It’s in the name.”
47:00 - Esports opportunity?
50:00 - Impromptu biz dev sesh
51:43 - Privy, PWA and onboarding
53:00 - Content is King
55:20 - Pay-Per-Rizz
55:55 - A decentralized alternative for content creators
56:44 - Auditor-gate
1:00:00 - Unfundable.eth
1:05:00 - Guans on Nouns
1:08:00 - The value of being contrarian
1:09:00 - Grace flashes some Nouns swag
1:10:00 - Brian being NSFW
1:11:49 - Brian coming for DWR
1:15:00 - Outro
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Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and JackWyldes. Hosted by Toady Hawk and Prof Werder. Music by SuperTightWoody.
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Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit tns.wtf to learn more about us.
On Episode 17 of ZEROPOD, Toady Hawk hosts artist, designer and talented doodler extraordinaire Vinnie Hager. We talk about his early art beginnings making small custom pieces for his friends back in high school, and follow his trajectory all the way through to becoming one of the most iconic and versatile physical & digital artists in our space.
This was a really great conversation and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Please MINT WITH COMMENT and FOLLOW if you do, it helps a lot.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Art on clothing 01:55 - ZEROPOD intro 02:51 - The Vinnie Hager origin story 04:24 - Diary: opensea.io/collection/diary-b... 06:00 - “Keep everything.” 07:02 - How do you decide what to release? 07:50 - Early style influences 09:50 - High School Hustler 11:09 - NFT journey 13:18 - The Letters Collection 16:32 - Physical vs Digital Illustration 17:50 - How does he plan his doodle pieces? 18:32 - Where do the symbols come from? 19:27 - Drawing on clothing 21:20 - Parallels to CC0 art 22:20 - Toady’s Vinnie Physical 24:04 - Simplicity as a creative cue 25:45 - Clon and the Cool Cats 27:30 - The friends we make along the way 28:46 - Being and artist through crypto cycles 31:44 - Favorite piece from your collections? 35:00 - Vinnie on Nouns 37:00 - DNounScouted? 40:00 - What’s next for Vinnie? 43:00 - Advice for aspiring artists.
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Nov 7 2023
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On Episode 16 of ZEROPOD, Toady Hawk and Prof Werder sit down with Dan Romero aka @ dwr, founder of Farcaster. We talk about his Coinbase origins, his days as a Twitter API dev, and why he and his co-founder chose to tackle the important problem of Decentralized Social. We also talk about Nouns, Network States, permissionless proliferation and so much more. This was an awesome conversation and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did-- Please LIKE, COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE if you do!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Nouns as a great example of decentralized governance
01:54 - ZEROPOD Intro
02:45 - Early career on the West Coast, discovery of Bitcoin and Ethereum
04:28 - Thinking about moving Twitter onto a protocol, Paul Graham essay: www.paulgraham.com/twitter.html
05:15 - RSS to RSS+
06:00 - Why tackle decentralized social media?
06:28 - History as Twitter API dev, Strawpoll creation
07:59 - Social networking vs Social MEDIA
10:45 - Farcaster the protocol vs Warpcaster the app + The Power of Channels
12:26 - Balaji’s Network State, the power of onchain networks and pseudonymous
15:15 - Network State can be a charged term - Need better retail packaging
17:08 - Kind Internet Strangers
20:00 - Walking the Decentralized Talk
21:34 - The airdrop is the friends we made along the way
22:38 - The value of owning your social network (immunity to deplatforming)
23:03 - Vitalik as an example of someone who walks the walk
25:00 - Future integrations of podcasts into Farcaster?
28:32 - Apps should be opinionated and focused
29:00- Build things you are passionate about
31:17 - A Permissionless milestone for Farcaster: Importance of building culture early, and the novelty of permissionless interaction with the protocol.
36:27 - You own the relationship wth your network.
36:42 - Setting norms on Warpcaster: Building a culture
40:00 - “Good” is Not Great.
42:00 - Freedom of choice of client
42:50 - Flink example: flink.fyi/
44:46 - “The decentralized approach of Nouns is inspirational to me.”
47:33 - “Why didn’t your fork your noun?” (In it for the meme!)
49:40 - The importance of taking a 10 year horizon on investments you believe in
51:38 - Let memetic compounding happen
52:41 - Almost the Purple Patricio
53:05 - Purple DAO
57:35 - The Grateful Dead as an example of permissionless proliferation
59:00 - Ethereum and Bitcoin as decentralized brands
1:00:00 - Community Questions - Noun40 question about community curation of channels
1:06:00 - Dustmartn question 1: What Superpower?. Question 2: Why will people still be using Forecaster in 10 years?
1:07:00 - “Farcaster is default dead right now”
1:10:00 - Why should someone join Farcaster?
1:15:00 - Outro
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Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like!
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On Episode 15 of ZEROPOD, Toady Hawk sits down with Noah Davis aka CryptoPunkNoah. We talk about his experience working at Christie's, where he brokered the famous $69 Million Beeple deal, and ask him about the differences between the trad art world and the world of NFTs. We also talk about Cryptoadz, his love for CC0 and his collection "Howlerz", plus we get all the alpha on his new "open edition pfp" collection dropping tomorrow, Halloween Day, called Hellionz!
We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did-- Please LIKE, COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE if you do!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - The Hellionz Collection! 00:50 - ZEROPOD Intro 01:39 - Everybody is an artist 03:05 - Christie’s & the Beeple deal 06:00 - Comparing traditional art world with NFT art world 10:00 - Blockchain as an equalizing force for artists 11:30 - Ode to Toadz! 16:00- Onboarding our moms and wives to NFTs 17:00 - Howlerz 20:48 - Lessons from the Howlerz launch 22:00 - The Grinder NFT meta 23:59 - Lessons from Howlerz overall - how to build a community around your art. 26:44 - The Prey Collection 32:22 - Tokenizing traditional art 33:20 - Why CC0? Because it’s punk rock. 37:04 - “Copyright law is kind of absurd.” 40:00 - How can blockchain help solve some of these problems of attribution 44:27 - Hellionz Collection (dropping Oct 31, 2023) 50:26 - Custom Minting Game! 51:28- Style inspirations for Hellionz 52:45 - Inspirations of fatherhood 58:00 - Outro
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Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like!
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Oct 23 2023
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On Episode 14 of ZEROPOD, Toady Hawk and Joshua Fisher sit down with Chris Waters and Eric Towner from Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, makers of Robot Chicken, Marvel's MODOK, and soon a full-length feature documentary all about Nouns called [REDACTED] (you'll have to watch the pod to find out the title!)
First with Eric, we delve into his memories of founding Stoopid Buddy alongside Seth Green, Matthew Senreich & John Harvatine, with nothing but a 1972 Winnebago to their name. Eric and Chris talk share their favorite non-Robot Chicken projects, and then we chat in detail about the two nounish projects they're actively working on: Nouns Short Shorts, and the nouns documentary... including some never-before-revealed alpha!
These guys are talented, knowledgable and hilarious and we enjoyed chatting with them so much, we could have kept going all day. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did-- Please LIKE, COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE if you do!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Most Noggled Pod Yet?
00:40 - Intro
02:08 - Stoopid Buddy Origins
03:23 - Towner’s unconventional advice for creatives
04:43 - A Winnebago is like a clipboard (or a ladder, according to Josh)
06:13 - Starting Stoopid Buddy Studios
07:48 - Towner’s secret tattoo
08:16 - Favorite Non-RobotChicken Project. Eric: Micro Mayhem: vimeo.com/64585891
10:28 - Driving pun-off
10:55 - Chris’ favorite: Blark & Son
13:13 - What’s it like when someone says “Here’s a check— go make something”?
16:30 - What it’s like creating for some studios under the current IP model
20:35 - The first Short Shorts experiment - Onboarding artists to crypto, and to nouns
28:25 - The importance of trusting pods and teams with certain niches
31:10 - Are you an animator in Antarctica?
31:58 - What are the audacious goals for the most recent Short Shorts proposal?
35:09 - Mickey and friends: Trick or Treat, working with Disney
38:36 - Binding verbal agreement to live stream the next Short Shorts Wrap Party on The Noun Square
41:02 - Q4 Forward-looking projections lol
42:49 - Shark, Pickle, Cone
45:03 - Gif or Jif?
45:52 - The Rose Parade and the Documentary
51:23 - What is it like to work for a DAO?
53:39 - Feedback from outside nouns
59:00- Rose Parade Redux
01:01:30 - Giant Steel Noggles from the Float— who wants ‘em?
01:04:04 - Submitting the Nouns Doc to Festivals
01:06:55 - IP vs CC0
01:10:11 - Would you release all the raw footage?
01:13:54 - The Nouns Walk Around Costumes: Where are they now?
01:15:25 - How did the artists on the short shorts project react to the idea of making their work CC0?
01:18:00 - Minting with mETH
01:19:00 - Noggin’ up, swag off & outro.
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On Episode 13 of ZEROPOD, Toady Hawk sits down with skateboarding legend, philanthropist, and brand new Nouner Bob Burnquist!
Bob talks about his childhood growing up in Brazil under an oppressive regime that actually banned skateboarding in public, and how he made it from those humble beginnings to tearing up the X Games and pulling fakies with Tony in Tony Hawk Pro Skater.
We also chat about his web 3 journey, and why he thinks blockchain is a huge unlock for funding public goods. Two days ago, Bob became an official member of Nouns DAO, and we talk here about what attracted him to this particular onchain community, and his excitement for future collaboration opportunities.
We hope you enjoy this episode. Please LIKE, COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE if you do!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Legends Skate Jam 01:46 - ZEROPOD Intro 02:43 - Early days in Brazil 04:28 - Skateboarding was illegal! 05:28 - Skateboarding is more art than most sports 06:50 - Skateboarding as a grounding influence 08:42 - Early competition circuit 11:26 - Going Pro 12:51 - What was it like to be part of making skateboarding mainstream? 14:30 - Tony Hawk as the “public hero” for the sport 15:15 - Meeting Tony for the first time in 1993 17:30 - Tony always wanted to help people 19:45 - How has skating subculture stayed strong despite mainstream adoption? 23:40 - How did he first encounter Gnars DAO and Nouns? 26:22 - First Nouns Prop (Prop 142) 28:08 - The importance of niching out communities 31:16 - Nouns compared to other big-ticket NFTs 35:42 - Blockchain as a powerful unlock for public goods funding 40:00 - Similarities between skate culture and web 3 43:10 - Any favourite Nouns props? 45:15 - Impact Onboarding (h/t web3beach by carlosjmelgar) 47:08 - The difficulty of being your own bank (and the importance of education) 48:31 - His thoughts on the current Proposal to gift Bob a Noun for his work nouns.wtf/vote/402 (has now passed at time of publication!) 54:55 - What is he most excited about working on with Nouns over the next 6 months to a year 58:00 - Outro
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Zero Rights Reserved, remix and reuse any of our content in any way you like!
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Oct 11 2023
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On Episode 12 of ZEROPOD, Toady Hawk and Prof Werder host Bitcoin OG, Nouner and founder of Pizza DAO— SNAX! In this entertaining one hour conversation, we chat with him about how he went from studying mathematics at University to travelling around the world hosting crypto-onboarding pizza parties, and everything in between. Please LIKE, COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE if you enjoy!
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Swag off
01:10 - ZEROPOD Intro
01:41 - The World Pizza Tour
03:21 - The Snax Origin Story
04:48 - Bitcoin discovery: Currency Backed by Math
06:32 - Bitcoin meetups in Philly
08:08 - Buying Cryptopunks
08:25 - South Silly and Clubhouse Days
09:30 - NFTs are to Objects as DAOs are to Corporations
11:20 - “The good thing about the metaverse is that space is free— you can just make a new room.”
11:40 - COVID Days
12:25 - Pizza as a meme
13:12 - What is Bitcoin Pizza Day?
15:09 - What does pizza want?
16:30 - The Power of Pizza Parties
21:13 - Community in a Box
22:40 - Proof of Pizza
24:06 - Pizza = Nostalgia
30:00 - Random Vietnam Story
30:55 - Snax’s Dirty Secret
32:28 - Helping small business owners: A real estate organization that offers pizza solutions.
35:40 - The “Francheese” Model: 2024 Plan
40:00 - Olde English Style Pizza?
41:26 - The Pizza Expo
43:00 - Pizza POS is a problem ripe for Open Source disruption
43:25 - “There’s no scarcity problem, there’s a pizza distribution problem.”
46:00 - Nouns Fork Discussion
47:53 - Pizza DAO’s Dream Noun (and Overpaying for the Meme)
50:54 - “Money’s not rational.”
53:58 - Friends are recession-proof
57:04 - Snax on Nouns: “Everyone should want Nouns to succeed.”
58:39 - Art Basel Prop Draft: Nouns Curatoooors
01:01:30 - Fork talk redux
01:06:00 - Paper Noggle-off
1:06:47 - Snax’ Favorite Pizza
1:07:34 - Pizza DAO Mafia Names
1:10:07 - How to get involved in Pizza DAO
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On Episode 11 of ZEROPOD, Toady Hawk and Robotfishgirl host one half of the dynamic duo behind Deadfellaz — @psych_nft! We battled against a raging Australian wind storm that caused several wifi interruptions for our guest, determined to persevere and hear about his journey as an artist, the Deadfellaz story, his views on Nouns, and perhaps most excitingly, alpha about their upcoming “Non-TCG TCG” game called RIP! We did our best to polish out the rough patches caused by technical difficulties and we hope you enjoy this one as much as we did. Please LIKE, COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE if you do!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro RIP Psych’s Wifi 01:49 - Always been an artist 02:21 - Depthcore and the Agency Scene 03:50 - Early NFT experiments 04:36 - Cryptovoxels art community: Meeting 4156 and lastpunk9999 06:00 - The Utility of Being a Person 07:30 - The attraction of NFT immutability and NFTs making digital art respected 10:37 - The Deadfellaz story: Addressing gender representation problems in the pfp genre 12:29 - The Deadfellaz novel take on pfp rarity 15:07 - Why has Deadfellaz been a lasting community (and why some other projects have not lasted.) 22:00 - The difficulty of separating finance from culture in unchain communities 18:00 - Kickstarter vs. NFTs 23:10 - Psych’s candid thoughts on the Nouns fork 25:05 - Psych’s thoughts on Nouns as a project since inception 28:46 - Lamenting all the technical difficulties / wifi disconnections we’ve been battling up until this point 29:52 - The Deadfellaz Twitch team 32:40 - Web3 Discord organization 33:27 - RIP TCG - What is it, and what can we expect from the gameplay? 36:50 - Breaking the confines of physical tabletop games 40:53 - Hearthstone Support Group 42:49 - Banter, back from another bad wifi disconnection 44:22 - Interlude: “The One Where the Gang Loses Wifi” 46:09 - Back to RIP TCG: Factions 49:26 - Community reaction to RIP so far. 52:00 - Check out the RIP TCG sale here: x.com/Deadfellaz/status/17002...
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In this episode of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, The Noun Square's Toady Hawk and Joshua Fisher interview artist, musician and stop-motion animator Ed Balloon.
We'll hear about his journey as an artist, how the pandemic forced him to think of new ways to engage with this fans, and why he wants to collaborate and use his platform and stop-motion character "Ed B" to bring the culture of Nouns to a brand new audience. (Check out Nouns Proposal 372.) Enjoy!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Teaser - Ed gets Noun-pilled by Short Shorts 1:45 -Intro 2:10 - The Ed Balloon Journey 4:25- The Pandemic’s effect on artists 5:52 - Ed B the Puppet 11:31 - Moving into web 3 13:45 - Ed rates TNS Twitter Spaces 18:18 - Ed’s creative process 19:58 - Ed B the Puppet as a Cathartic Medium 23:44 - Toady’s Random Canadiana: Ed the Sock 28:28 - Building culture takes time 29:35 - The web series 30:09 - How he got noun-pilled by Nouns Short Shorts 37:18 - It’s not a cult, it’s a movement 40:57 - Noggles as an icon 42:11 - The great Noggle Off 47:33 - The artist exposure trope 55:11 - Nouns Proposal 372 1:00:00 - A little bit of name-dropping 1:05:05 - How will he integrate Nouns culture into this project if funded? (It’s gonna be weird.) 1:09:00 - Run Ed, Run 1:12:00 - Go and vote! 1:15:00 - Banter and outro.
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Sep 19 2023
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On "The Purple Pod", Episode 9 of ZEROPOD, Toady Hawk and Robotfishgirl sit down with artist and 2-time non-DAO founder Chris Carella.
We learn about his career and crypto journey, chat about his role as one of the founders of the Farcaster-supporting collective “Purple DAO” and the artist-supporting collective “Energy,” and we ask him for his thoughts on the recent Nouns DAO fork as well.
We hope you enjoy this casual conversation with this prolific nounish builder— please LIKE, COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE if you do!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Teaser: The Network Value
00:47: Intro
01:01 - The Chris Carella Origin Story
02:33 - Startup Studio
04:24 - Pandemic Era
05:47 - Top Shot
7:15 - The Dopamine Hook
9:48 - Tezos Chapter
11:41 - ETH / Peak Mania
12:45 - Bear market benefits
13:07 - DATA science to escape the bull
13:38 - SharkDAO and intro to Nouns
14:51 - Back to crypto
15:41 - Working like like a Charmverse
18:09 - Avoiding the word DAO
19:43 - A troll in Carella Park
21:34 - FUD and the RFV playbook
22:40 - The Fork Time Machine
23:51 - The Forecaster Chapter
27:27 - The Genesis of Purple DAO
30:21 - Jacob Flowers Intermission
31:44 - The Iconic Art
32:30 - Focus on Retroactive Funding
35:20 - Farcaster as a more positive social media experience
39:58 - Farcaster Birthday
41:22 - Energy Launch
46:50 - Share your ideas, because execution is rare
50:02 - “How Chris Carella founded another DAO he didn’t want to found”
51:00 - Different thoughts about DAO founder allocations
55:16 - L2’s as a Game-Changer for deploying DAOs
60:00 - Chris on the Nouns Fork
1:05:00 -Roundtable Space about Nouns Fork with 4156: twitter.com/i/spaces/1zqKVPdB...
1:07:00 - DAO morale has improved post-fork
1:09:00 - The Network Value of Nouns
1:14:00 - Nouns should work more with other sub DAOs
1:16:00 - Named to the Optimism Citizens House
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Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like!
Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit tns.wtf to learn more.
Sep 11 2023
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On Episode 8 of ZEROPOD, Toady Hawk and Cardno host the one and only Jack Butcher, founder of Visualize Value and the man behind the Checks and Opepen art projects. We learn about Jack’s childhood in the UK, how he ended up Stateside, and all about his journey as an artist and a creative. We then delve into the ethos behind Checks and Opepen, the importance of CC0 and permissionless protocols for solving “The Cold Start Problem” for artists, and much, much more. We hope you enjoy this one as much as we did, and please LIKE, COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE if you do!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Teaser: Jack’s advice to aspiring artists
1:12 - Intro
2:00 - The Jack Butcher Origin Story
3:00 - An impactful internship
5:12 - Civics Lesson
6:16 - Another internship
6:45 - New York New York
7:35 - The Welsh Connection
11:23 - Family Lore
11:55 - “Fixing it in post”
13:03 - The NYC Agency Grind
15:20 - Striking out on his own
19:05 - Visualize Value: The Business of Distillation
22:18 - Jack’s Crypto Journey
25:20 - Foundation-al beginnings
28:01 - Double-posting to Ethereum
30:58 - The Modem Moment
32:24 - Ethereum as an art authentication machine
33:23 - “Provenance is Cumulative”
37:47 - In our post-cringe era?
39:00 - Checks Genesis
42:00 - Meaning is reduced to zero
43:17 - Let him cook
44:42 - Mutable vs Immutable Checks
47:47 - Invisible Blue Check
49:30 - The Persistence of Symbols
50:40 - Let’s talk Opepen
52:39 - The Power of the PFP as a Platform
58:45 - The Nouns AI Platform & Opepen AI
61:01 - NPA (Not PFP Advice)
64:00 - The Cold Start Problem for Artists
68:00 - Jack on Nouns
71:00 - Noggles as a Powerful Memetic Icon
73:00 - Jack on CC0
80:00 - “We’ll make art until there’s nothing left to make.”
80:50 - Community Questions: VV Training Bundle
82:00 - The Success Case for Opepen
84:45 - Physical Claim Opepen Set?
86:27 - What’s next for Jack?
90:19 - Have you read any good books lately?
94:00 - Alpha? Connecting the dots with Ethereum
97:00 - Crypto is for Collaboration
100:00 - Jack’s advice for artists
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Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit tns.wtf to learn more.
Sep 1 2023
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Welcome to Episode 7 of the Zero Rights Reserved video podcast, in which hosts Toady Hawk and Prof Werder from The Noun Square Media Collective sit down with Binji Pande from OPLabs and the Optimism Collective.
The quote in the title is from Jesse Pollak of Coinbase/BASE, and Binji said it sums up what it's like to work daily on scaling Ethereum alongside some of the best minds working on the OP Stack together.
In this pod, we dig into Binji's background, talk about Optimism's commitment to broad collaboration and funding public goods, and we learn that the ""Superchain"" is a blueprint for an open source hat warehouse in New Jersey? Enjoy!
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Episode Teaser
1:32 - Zeropod Intro
2:34 - The Binji Origin Story: Coconuts in Cost Rica
3:44 - College Days: Studying Behavioural Economics
5:49 - Incentives, Incentives, Incentives
6:08 - Joining Coinbase
7:20 - Joining Optimism
8:14 - Impact Over Profit
9:10 - Is Optimism Nounish?
9:51 - Conviction + Optimism = Success?
10:38 - What kind of challenges has Optimism faced recently?
11:23 - The Pros and Cons of Tribalism
13:20 - The Superchain Solution
16:00 - One Super Dream
16:43 - So what exactly is the Superchain?
17:22 - The Hat Store Analogy
18:58 - Optimism is a hat warehouse in New Jersey?
20:43 - The Superchain is an open source hat warehouse blueprint
21:52- Builders can now build for all warehouses in the world at the same time
23:00 - Open Source Protocols allow a faster pace of innovation
25:13 - Why is OP Winning The Culture War?
30:05 - Based #OnchainSummer
32:35 - WTF is a PWA?
33:54 - The ease of launching and operating DAOs on L2
35:57 - The importance of Optimism’s Ethereum “sameness”
38:15 - Open source as a Nounish value
39:42 - Nouns + Optimism = Super Alliance?
40:20 - Solving for the current disincentive to working on public goods (great quote!)
42:12 - The importance of retro funding
44:56 - How can builders apply for Optimism retro funding?
47:44 - Where to find ideas to build for OP and information about the next Retro PGF: tinyurl.com/OP-PGF
48:58 - How can builders apply for Retro PGF?
50:18 - Telegram is awful and everyone agrees
51:45 - The Nouns x Optimism x Farcaster VIBE
53:04 - How interoperable will OP Stacks be? (NOMO Nouns example)
55:36 - wen Superchain?
59:51 - ZK vs Optimistic Proofs (Back to the hats!)
64:40 - The Farcaster OP Migration
70:00 - Of all the places you could work, why OPLabs?
72:00 - Possible OP x TNS Twitter Spaces Collaborations!
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Aug 25 2023
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Welcome to Episode 6 of the Zero Rights Reserved video podcast, in which hosts Toady Hawk and Joshua Fisher from The Noun Square Media Collective sit down with Nate Angell from Creative Commons to chat about how his organization created the very licensing protocol that allowed Nouns to be built — CC0.
We delve into the history of copyright, and the delicate balance to strike between protecting creators and the public good. We also talk about the intersection of blockchain and licensing, and the important daily work of the Creative Commons Org.
But don’t worry, it’s not all serious— we also keep it pretty weird with “The Nounicles of Nounlandia” and not just one but, inexplicably, 5 separate mentions of fax machine technology.
As with all our content, this recording is CC0… So please, copy this content.
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Teaser: I think Joshua is lying.
0:18 - ZEROPOD Intro
01:26 - The Nate Angell origin story
3:16 - Open Educational Resources vs. The Big Textbook Grift
5:30 - Joining the Commons
6:21 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 1
8:37 - The Creative Commons Licenses
9:41 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 2
11:56 - What is Creative Commons?
14:45 - Open Source licensing, but for content.
16:17 - Joshua The Reappearing Man
16:29 - Comic Book Collection Show and Tell
18:57 - Copyright Strikes This Podcast
20:44- The History of Copyright
23:00 - The Copyright Tradeoff
27:09 - The Mickey Mouse Rule
28:16 - What is CC0?
28:48- How does blockchain affect this dynamic
30:30 - Nate on the Nouns Experiment
31:03 - Welcome to Nounlandia
32:40 - Can a brand become ubiquitous faster with open licensing?
34:36 - Nouns: A Movie
37:57 - CC0 in the Context of Education and Science Research
42:20 - The Nonicles of Nounlandia
42:45 - Should works ever automatically go into the Public Domain?
44:32 - Striking the balance
46:17 - The difficulty for artists of making something popular
48:30 - CC0 is an Experiment Too
48:52 - CC0 is actually not a License
49:46 - Special Guest
50:19 - A Day in the Life of Creative Commons work
52:54 - A Day in the Life Part 2
53:59 - AI and Copyright
54:37 - Open Climate Campaign
55:50 - Josh’s Hot Take: No Such Thing as Big Brains
57:29 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 3
59:17 - Copyright as a protector of the gatekeepers
61:01 - Is Creative Commons looking at Smart Contracts?
63:50 - How can Creative Commons stay ahead of the curve?
65:01 - Sustainability and the Future of Creative Commons
68:25 - Nate on Nouns (Again)
69:07 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 4
70:40 - Crypto is like Camping
72:34 - What’s up with Opepen?
73:41 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 5
73:50 - Toady Explains Opepen
76:59 - Opepen and Nouns: The Power of CC0 + LoFi Art
79:14 - Outro
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For Episode 5 of the Zero Rights Reserved Podcast, we have stitched together two excerpts from the @otgwtf Livestream at EthWaterloo, where OTG's Aubtoshi and ZEROPOD's Toady Hawk took turns interviewing each other. Enjoy!
Be sure to check out the OTG YouTube channel for more Live Streams like this from Nounish events, as well as documentary shorts and more: @otgwtf
Small note: Because these interviews were filmed on a Live Stream at EthWaterloo with sketchy Wifi, some of the video in the latter half is a little glitched in spots, but most is great and the audio is clear throughout. Cue ""We do it LIVE!""
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Aug 9 2023
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Welcome to Episode 4 of the Zero Rights Reserved video podcast, in which hosts Toady Hawk and Robotfishgirl from The Noun Square Media Collective sit down for a fireside chat with Ben West and Azeem from Gitcoin!
We talk about:
- The history of Gitcoin,
- The importance of open source,
- Keeping both Nouns & Gitcoin weird,
- Why impact funding is so crucial
- Plus much, much more... including how you can apply for funding in their current impact round!
Grab a coffee and sit down!
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Teaser: “We eat VC’s alive.”
1:31 - Intro
2:40 - The Ben West origin story
4:15 - The Juggler5:11 - The Azeem Villain arc (just kidding)7:28 - Harassing Richard Heart
9:52 - Getting to the kernel of Kernel: www.kernel.community/en/
12:05 - WTF are the Quadratic Lands?
• Quadratic Lands | Proof of Knowledge
14:04 - The Genesis of Gitcoin
16:00 - Funding public goods
16:30 - The ubiquity of open source in software vs. art
18:08 - We like Short Shorts: zora.co/collect/eth:0xd64ce32...
18:42 - Quadratic Funding — what is it?
22:02 - Keep Nouns Weird
22:24 - New funding round that just started! #GG18
23:21 - Everything is beta
26:45 - Quadriga X Side quest. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcast... ; www.netflix.com/tudum/article...
29:10 - Who can apply for funding in a Gitcoin round?
29:18 - Keep Gitcoin Weird
31:48 - Gitcoin x Nouns Prop House?
34:28 - The Pillars of Gitcoin
36:00 - Hidden benefits of open sourcing infrastructure and software
38:18 - Gitcoin Passport. (Our explainer video:
• Prove you're human without annoying C... )
43:20 - Gitcoin as a bridge for non-crypto people
44:20 - In search of humans who don’t use Linked In
45:34 - Everybody hates CAPTCHAS
46:26 - What are Ben’s favourite projects funded by Gitcoin?
47:51 - The $BALD rug solved
49:02 - Trying to explain crypto things to normal friends
49:28 - Crypto Mom story time
50:07 - Azeem’s favorite Gitcoin-funded projects: “We eat VC’s alive.”
53:40 - Nouns and Attention-ROI
55:01 - Why is it so important to fund Public Goods? Azeem
56:27 - And Ben
01:00 - Turning the tables: Ask us about Nouns
01:20 - Where can people go to learn about Nouns? tns.wtf;nftnow.com/guides/an-nft-ever... ; nouns.center ; metaversal.banklesshq.com/p/n...
01:05 - Must-follow Nouners
01:07 - Outro
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Welcome to Episode 3 of the Zero Rights Reserved video podcast, in which hosts Toady Hawk and Jack Wyldes interview Amanda Terry, cofounder and COO of OnChainMonkey.
Learn about the genesis of OCM, the importance of onchain art, why funding builders and doing social impact work is so important to their community, and more in this 40-minute chat!
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Timestamps:
0:00 - OCM Impact Funding Teaser 1:00 - Welcome to ZEROPOD 1:30 - Jack’s bad week 1:58 - Looking back on our month of OCM sponsorship 3:00 - OCM x Prop House 4:45 - Upcoming TNS YouTube content 5:25 - NOMO Nouns Optimism Migration 6:19 - Gas will get ya! 7:40 - Welcome Amanda Terry! 7:58 - Amanda’s / OCM’s origin story 10:30 - The Karma collection story 11:30 - TNS #NounChainMonkey Art Contest 12:03 - The TNS x OCM Sponsorship Collaboration 16:39 - What’s next in Season 3 of OCM DAO funding 20:00 - Looking back on past funding rounds to see what can be improved or changed 21:20 - Why does OCM care so much about funding builders? 24:49 - !RISE 26:20 - Nouns Prop House as a Reputation-building tool. 28:07 - Public goods funding and OCM 31:25 - Afghan girl mission story 34:22 - More examples of OCM social impact funding 36:02 - What is the difference between Metagood and OCM DAO? 39:02 - Why onchain? Why monkeys? 42:00 - OCM Dimensions Collection 45:04 - OCM’s diamond-hand community 45:40 - Amanda asks questions about Nouns DAO 48:00 - The importance of community 48:41 - Outro / Physical Noggles order
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July 24 2023
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Welcome to Episode 2 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast from The Noun Square collective, in which hosts Toady Hawk and Jack Wyldes interview Supriyo from Atrium and chat all about The Rise of Blus: A Nouns Movie.
Learn about why he decided to transition from a career in tech to making ambitious animated films with a remote team, what drew him to build in Nouns DAO, and what it’s like to make a movie for a decentralized studio with 400+ bosses!
Part 2 of the movie is in production now, and we also got some tasty alpha about what to expect.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:42 - Trend of Awesome Animation and Nouns
0:44 - Nouns Short Shorts: zora.co/collect/eth:0xd64ce32...
1:34 - Is CC0 a double-edged sword?
4:29 - World-building in a CC0 environment
6:08 - Short clip from The Rise of Blues: A Nouns Movie
6:35 - Introducing our guest, Supriyo
6:44 - His career before Nouns
8:07 - Supriyo’s favorite movies
9:00 - Why go from tech into movie-making?
11:45 - Who are Atrium?
13:40 - Why Nouns?
16:04 - Why fund the movie in parts?
16:35 - Nouns DAO as Executive Producers, first such arrangement.
18:42 - “10 seasons and a movie”
21:30 - What is Nouns: A Movie?
22:51 - Visual aesthetic inspiration for the film
23:13 - The real life 13 y.o. Nouner
24:37 - Inspiration for the world of Blus: Cloud Punk
26:31 - Will the same team work on all the Parts?
28:50 - Is “DAOs as Patrons of the Arts” a new paradigm?
30:00 - Open IP actually empowers artists
31:06 - Behind the scenes footage
32:29 - Nouny Clock’s cameo, and other Easter Eggs
34:34 - We may see other NFT IPs included in the next Part of the Movie
35:55 - CC0 = ez world-building
37:16 - The casting call! Deadline midnight July 24: twitter.com/nounsmovie/status...
39:10 - Who the heck are the Frouns?
41:50 - How difficult is it to write a plot with a remote team
44:44 - Response to the Pilot so far?
46:05 - 118K Views so far!
47:21 - Settling the score
50:58 - Recapping the Atrium x Nouns story so far
51:55 - What’s next?
52:50 - What’s it like to work for a decentralized org like Nouns DAO?
55:20 - It’s like “Choose your own adventure”
56:03 - Where to find out more: nouns.movie
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In this first episode of TNS's new weekly Zero Rights Reserved podcast, The Noun Square's Toady Hawk and Prof Werder interview Luca Netz, CEO of Pudgy Penguins.
We'll hear about his formative years, his long list of entrepreneurial successes, and why he believes the pengus can become one of the biggest brands, both inside and outside of the NFT space.
We also chat in depth about Nouns DAO Prop 325, a collaboration between Pudgy Penguins and Nouns DAO to make some fun nounish pengu collectibles!
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Timestamps:
0:00 The Luca Origin Story. 3:30 The importance of Not Giving Up 7:00 Career before Pudgy Penguins, Part 1: Off the Chain 12:40 Part 2: Von Dutch & Gel-blaster 14:45 Crypto/NFT journey before PP 19:30 The Pudgy Purchase 21:00 $Degen minting Mutants during a Hasbro M&A meeting 24:50 Why did he buy PP? 29:44 A word from our sponsors: OnChainMonkey 30:48 On the Pudgy toy launches 36:50 How did Luca meet the Prof Werder and Klim from Nouns community39:00 Why do a proposal instead of just using the CC0 assets permissionlessly? 44:17 Summary of current Nouns DAO Prop 47:35 Luca on the Noggles as a brand/symbol 49:33 Pudgy Penguins will buy a Noun? 53:50 Future Nouns/PP collab ideas
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Zero Rights Reserved (Zero Pod for short) is the new flagship weekly podcast from The Noun Square media collective. We chat with a new guest each week about Nouns, DAOs, NFTs, Ethereum and more!
Subscribe to Zero Pod and you will also receive our periodic Prop Talk Podcast to stay up to date on all current Nouns DAO proposals, plus bonus interviews from our daily Twitter Spaces over @thenounsquare!
Subscribe on your favorite podcasting software to never miss an episode: pod.link/1651565766
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Interview by Toady Hawk and Prof Werder, editing by SuperTightWoody.
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Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit tns.wtf to learn more.
ZEROPOD ONCHAIN, Ep. 30: David Horvath, creator of Uglydoll & Bossy Bear
ZEROPOD ONCHAIN, Ep. 29: Will Papper from Syndicate
ZEROPOD ONCHAIN, Ep. 28: 0x Matcha Co-founder Amir Bandeali
In this 45 minute conversation, we learn about Amir's crypto and career journey, his pioneering work with 0x protocol and we learn all about all the useful features of the Matcha DEX. We also chat about the recently announced partnership between Matcha, Nouns Esports and The Noun Square, and trade insights on Nouns, L2 summer, Farcaster and more.
If you've never tried making a swap on Matcha using their money-saving Matcha Auto feature, you can try to here: nouns.gg/matcha
Also, if you enjoy this pod, please mint for free and subscribe to us at zora.co/basedandyellow.eth
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Amir on why Matcha wanted to Partner with Nouns Esports and The Noun Square
01:03 - ZeroPod intro
02:15 - Onchain origins
04:29 - Why was he able to see the benefits of onchain finance when many in trade don’t?
05:00 - Learning about the benefits of self-custody getting rugged by online Poker Sites
06:44 - Go West young man: Moving from midwest to SF
08:43 - Special guest kitty
09:24 - The 0x story - The first DEX protocol
11:58 - Aggregating liquidity across chains and protocols
12:41 - What kind of apps are using 0x? “Most applications that have swaps use us.”
15:15 - What is Matcha?
18:01 - Favourite features of Matcha - “Matcha is like a search engine for tokens.”
20:20 - MEV protection out of the box
22:58 - “Abstracting away complexity.”
23:41 - L2 Summer
26:18 - The Rise of Base
28:16 - Amir on Nouns ⌐◨-◨
29:00 - “The concept of Nouns was so unique to me.”
31:17 - Nouns is truly decentralized and doesn’t have a scarcity mindset
32:48 - Nouns Esports and the new partnership with Matcha
34:30 - Nouns Esports changing the game with transparent funding
35:28 - The Cat was a paid actor.
37:00 - What does Amir hope to see from this collaboration with Nouns?
39:49 - Amir on the future of Ethereum. “Everything of value will be tokenized.”
42:40 - Thoughts on Farcaster
43:59 - Outro
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Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and Santhosh. Hosted by Toady Hawk. Music by Toady Hawk x Suno AI.
Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like!
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ZEROPOD ONCHAIN, Ep. 27: MODE Network Founder James Ross
We hear about James' crypto and defi journey and find out why he wanted to build on Ethereum and on the Optimism stack. We chat about Eigen Layer (which he advised previous to founding MODE), some promising protocols on MODE, Farcaster, incentivizing builders and much more in this one hour conversation.
If you want to check out MODE, here is an invite code that should work:
ref.mode.network/AgNTDx
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Timestamps:
00:00 - How MODE fits into the Superchain
01:45 - ZeroPod intro
02:45 - James’ crypto and defi journey
04:31 - GTM consulting with Hype
05:31 - Why Ethereum? Why Optimism?
06:32 - Different models of builder funding
08:30 - The difficulty of measuring impact
11:36 - How MODE fits into the Superchain
13:56 - Renzo brings ETH staking to L2
16:24 - How EigenLayer is changing the game
19:00 - Is EigenLayer a systemic risk to ETH?
22:30 - How has MODE been going so far since launch?
25:00 - L2s as an unlock for defi strategies
28:00 - Points and airdrops meta, difficulty of incentivizing the right things
31:50 - $Degen and Farcaster. The power of “microbounties” and tipping
35:16 - Thoughts on Farcaster
38:00 - Devs will figure out novel ways to do things
41:50 - Builder culture at MODE: Building for the entire Superchain
43:00 - Some of James’ favourite projects on MODE
47:40 - Why build MODE on the Superchain?
51:20 - Where to go to learn more about MODE: docs.mode.network
52:36 - What is he most excited about for the next 6 months? (Some alpha maybe?)
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Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and Santhosh. Hosted by Toady Hawk. Music by Toady Hawk x Suno AI.
Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like!
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Synchronous Signals with UFO Founder Nick Hollins | ZEROPOD Episode 26
If you enjoy this conversation, please mint it here for free and share with a friend!
Timestamps:
00:00 - Open source wins.
01:54 - ZeroPod Intro
03:40 - Nick’s origin story
05:33 - Intro to crypto and podcasting
07:08 - ETH Berlin pre-covid
07:44 - 0x Labs & Matcha
08:20 - Meeting UFO cofounder Ivano Salonia
10:06 - Voyager Artist Collective
11:05 - UFO Radio / Podcast
14:25 - Onchain Distribution vs web 2 Distro
16:40 - Onchain podcast pioneers - UFO as an Onchain Radio Station
19:35 - “Everything that happens onchain is a broadcast event.”
21:00 - Experimenting with Hypersub
23:00 - What does an onchain radio station look like?
25:00 - The Synchronous Signal
26:05 - Discoverability for onchain media
32:00 - Higher: A new model for DAOs?
33:00 - The Yellow Collective
35:00 - Why “Yellow”?
38:00 - Emojis and Brands — the new flags of Network States?
40:49 - Farcaster chat
47:00 - Twitter’s fall from grace
51:41 - Decentralized orgs and Open Source FTW
53:00 - Retro funding as a key unlock
1:00:00 - Positive Sum mindsets
1:00:51 - Nick on Nouns
1:09:00 - Favourite guests from UFO pod
1:14:20 - Onchain media as Onchain Anthropology
1:16:00 - Outro
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Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and JackWyldes. Hosted by Toady Hawk. Music by Toady Hawk x Suno AI.
Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like!
Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @ thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit tns.wtf to learn more.
"Enjoy Nouns!" with Hong Kim aka Noun 40, cofounder of Bitwise | ZEROPOD Episode 25
wish me luck
Memes that funds public goods is a great idea
"The Future of Content is Onchain" with Zora Cofounder Jacob | ZEROPOD Episode 24
"Everybody Loves Rainbows" with Mike Demarais, cofounder of Rainbow Wallet | ZEROPOD Episode 23
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On episode 23 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, hosts Toady Hawk and Prof Werder from The Noun Square sit down with Mike Demarais, cofounder of Rainbow Wallet to hear his story. We go deep down the Rainbow Road and chat about buying weed on the Silk Road, why he built a crypto wallet and why they called it Rainbow, his thoughts on Farcaster, BASE and Nouns, and much, much more... including a few pieces of juicy alpha! If you enjoy this conversation, please LIKE & Subscribe!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Will “Mike Rainbow” Ever Make it Official?
01:00 - ZeroPod intro
02:00 - Mike likes TNS and ZeroPod
03:27 - Mike’s origin story - B2B SAAS roots
04:24 - “Crypto really scratched an itch for me.”
05:20 - Originally thought Bitcoin was a scam
05:50 - Buying weed on the darknet
07:00 - Attracted to the composability of Ethereum
09:20 - The importance of crypto wallets for mainstream adoption
10:11 - Why “Rainbow”?
10:26 - Importance of ‘Emojiability’
11:10 - CryptWallet Pro Coming Soon
12:49- Rainbow’s mobile-first approach
16:22 - The new desktop extension: Going after power users (and aspirational power users)
19:44 - Cross-chain compatibility
22:24 - The Vampire Attack: “It is always acceptable for David to take shots at Goliath.”
24:00 - Rainbow POINTS
27:28 - Fartcaster
29:00 - Twitter API woes
31:00 - Having fun on Farcaster
33:00 - We meme the ones we love
34:55 - On being an unhinged founder, and the importance of approachable raw brand voice
37:36 - Everyone DM Mike all your problems (jk)
37:56 - The Top Signal for this bull run
38:44 - Mike on the growth of BASE
43:00 - Farcaster flippenings
44:00 - Mike asks about Nouns x Farcaster
47:06 - Mike on Nouns, possible future Rainbow ⌐◨-◨ collab
50:00 - The importance of open source
52:00 - ERC 4337 - Account Abstraction: Rainbow Mini wallets
57:00 - What is Mike most excited about for 2024?
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Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like!
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"Gossip Girly" with winny.eth, founder of CHIPPED & Gossip Protocol | ZEROPOD Episode 22
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On episode 22 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, hosts Toady Hawk and Prof Werder from The Noun Square sit down with crypto twitter legend, fashionista and founder winny.eth! We hear about her crypto journey, and the career path that lead her to the founding of Gossip Protocol, and her newest venture "Chipped", a line of NFC-enabled acrylic nails that will allow wearers to keep their social graph at the tips of their fingers!
This was a great conversation with a mainstay of the space, and we hope you enjoy!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro: Chipped
01:34 - ZeroPod intro
02:17 - Winny Crypto Origin Story
04:28 - “A Spite-Fueled Journey”
06:29 - First peer-to-peer app
07:20 - “My first metaverse was Animal Crossing”
08:36 - Marrying fashion and computer science
09:40 - Political lessons, and moving to France
10:36 - Shillr Days
12:44 - Got ‘em!
13:48 - Serotonin Time
14:36 - Starting Gossip Protocol
17:13 - Chipped! NFC-enabled nails
21:00 - Letting people own their social graph
22:20 - Chipped Art contests
24:14 - The importance of making crypto accessible
26:20 - BoysClub Adjacent
26:50 - Denver-bound
29:00 - Oasis Onchain Retreat
33:00 - Rebuilding the reputation of crypto in the Bahamas
34:00 - The Yellow Collective empowering artists with crypto
34:49 - What events are you planning to attend?
37:02 - “Despite the French, I love Paris”
39:00 - Love on Leverage
40:00 - Winny on Nouns
42:50 - Outlook for 2024
44:54 - Thoughts on Farcaster Energy: “Get on Farcaster, find your real users.”
47:33 - Where to learn more about Winny, Gossip and Chipped. @winnyeth, chipped.social
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Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and JackWyldes. Hosted by Toady Hawk and Prof Werder. Music by SuperTightWoody.
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Bringing the World Onchain with Jesse Pollak from BASE | ZEROPOD Episode 21
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We're starting 2024 off with a bang as Jesse Pollak joins us for episode 21 of ZEROPOD! Jesse is a longtime Coinbase alum and leads the team for their Ethereum L2, BASE.
On this episode, Toady Hawk and Benbodhi from TNS ask Jesse about his crypto journey, his thoughts on the recent BTC EFT approval, and talk about his vision for the future of BASE. They also talk about some of most interesting projects currently being built on BASE, and about our upcoming Yellow Collective launch (going live on January 18 at basedandyellow.xyz.) And of course, Nouns and the common culture that connects many Ethereum native organizations.
This was a fascinating conversation with one of the top contributors in the Ethereum space-- we hope you enjoy! (And if you do, please Like, Comment and Subscribe!)
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro: Jesse Loves Yellow
01:13 - ZeroPod Intro
01:55 - Happy Bitcoin ETF Approval Day!
03:30 - Building the New Internet
04:28 - Why is an ETF good despite not being self-custodial
06:44 - Crypto-pilled by a lumberjack
08:08 - How he ended up at Coinbase
08:57 - “Coindesk’s Most Influential in 2023”
11:37 - The Coinbase Vision for 2024 Tweet
14:44 - “Building a global onchain economy that increases innovation, creativity and freedom.”
17:10 - People feel let down by traditional economy
20:00 - Why OP?
23:25 - Tourists and Purists
25:00 - The Superteam
28:22 - A Question from Chris Carella
30:00 - The benefits of parallel core development
32:50 - Favourite projects on BASE? The Yellow Collective of course!
34:00 - Upcoming Nouns Builder L2 Migration
35:00 - Jesse is a big fan of Yellow! (Also how Jesse stole our yellow circle emoji.)
36:35 - Advertisement: Collective Nouns by TNS & The Yellow Collective, launching January 18 at basedandyellow.xyz
39:27 - Retro funding and the OP Stack
44:48 - What drew him to Nouns?
50:00 - Progress in Ethereum ecosystem is exponential
53:00 - Advice for launching The Yellow Collective
57:33 - Question from Sanya on Farcaster: What can people contribute to BASE?
59:00 - “Do Something at the intersection of your passion and this technology”
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Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and JackWyldes. Hosted by Toady Hawk and Benbodhi. Music by SuperTightWoody.
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"Building the Ownable Internet" with BoysClub's Deana Burke! - Zero Rights Reserved Podcast, Ep. 20
ZENECA ON ZEROPOD! - Zero Rights Reserved Podcast Ep. 19 with Roy aka Zeneca, founder of ZenAcademy
Live and Unlonley! - ZEROPOD Ep. 18 with Grace and Brian Guan, founders of Unlonely.app
"Pushing The Envelope" - ZEROPOD Ep. 17 with Artist & Designer Vinnie Hager!
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On Episode 17 of ZEROPOD, Toady Hawk hosts artist, designer and talented doodler extraordinaire Vinnie Hager. We talk about his early art beginnings making small custom pieces for his friends back in high school, and follow his trajectory all the way through to becoming one of the most iconic and versatile physical & digital artists in our space.
This was a really great conversation and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Please MINT WITH COMMENT and FOLLOW if you do, it helps a lot.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Art on clothing
01:55 - ZEROPOD intro
02:51 - The Vinnie Hager origin story
04:24 - Diary: opensea.io/collection/diary-b...
06:00 - “Keep everything.”
07:02 - How do you decide what to release?
07:50 - Early style influences
09:50 - High School Hustler
11:09 - NFT journey
13:18 - The Letters Collection
16:32 - Physical vs Digital Illustration
17:50 - How does he plan his doodle pieces?
18:32 - Where do the symbols come from?
19:27 - Drawing on clothing
21:20 - Parallels to CC0 art
22:20 - Toady’s Vinnie Physical
24:04 - Simplicity as a creative cue
25:45 - Clon and the Cool Cats
27:30 - The friends we make along the way
28:46 - Being and artist through crypto cycles
31:44 - Favorite piece from your collections?
35:00 - Vinnie on Nouns
37:00 - DNounScouted?
40:00 - What’s next for Vinnie?
43:00 - Advice for aspiring artists.
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Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and JackWyldes. Hosted by Toady Hawk. Music by SuperTightWoody.
Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like!
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"Kind Strangers on the Internet" - ZEROPOD Ep. 16 with Dan Romero aka DWR, founder of Farcaster
The CC0 Punk! - ZEROPOD Ep. 15 with Noah Davis aka CryptoPunkNoah
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On Episode 15 of ZEROPOD, Toady Hawk sits down with Noah Davis aka CryptoPunkNoah. We talk about his experience working at Christie's, where he brokered the famous $69 Million Beeple deal, and ask him about the differences between the trad art world and the world of NFTs. We also talk about Cryptoadz, his love for CC0 and his collection "Howlerz", plus we get all the alpha on his new "open edition pfp" collection dropping tomorrow, Halloween Day, called Hellionz!
We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did-- Please LIKE, COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE if you do!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - The Hellionz Collection!
00:50 - ZEROPOD Intro
01:39 - Everybody is an artist
03:05 - Christie’s & the Beeple deal
06:00 - Comparing traditional art world with NFT art world
10:00 - Blockchain as an equalizing force for artists
11:30 - Ode to Toadz!
16:00- Onboarding our moms and wives to NFTs
17:00 - Howlerz
20:48 - Lessons from the Howlerz launch
22:00 - The Grinder NFT meta
23:59 - Lessons from Howlerz overall - how to build a community around your art.
26:44 - The Prey Collection
32:22 - Tokenizing traditional art
33:20 - Why CC0? Because it’s punk rock.
37:04 - “Copyright law is kind of absurd.”
40:00 - How can blockchain help solve some of these problems of attribution
44:27 - Hellionz Collection (dropping Oct 31, 2023)
50:26 - Custom Minting Game!
51:28- Style inspirations for Hellionz
52:45 - Inspirations of fatherhood
58:00 - Outro
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Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and JackWyldes. Hosted by Toady Hawk. Music by SuperTightWoody.
Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like!
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"Nobody is Doing What Nouns is Doing." - ZEROPOD Ep 14 with Chris & Eric from Stoopid Buddy!
Bob Burnquist - Grinding for the Greater Good - ZEROPOD Ep 13 w/ a Skateboarding Legend (& Nouner!)
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On Episode 13 of ZEROPOD, Toady Hawk sits down with skateboarding legend, philanthropist, and brand new Nouner Bob Burnquist!
Bob talks about his childhood growing up in Brazil under an oppressive regime that actually banned skateboarding in public, and how he made it from those humble beginnings to tearing up the X Games and pulling fakies with Tony in Tony Hawk Pro Skater.
We also chat about his web 3 journey, and why he thinks blockchain is a huge unlock for funding public goods. Two days ago, Bob became an official member of Nouns DAO, and we talk here about what attracted him to this particular onchain community, and his excitement for future collaboration opportunities.
We hope you enjoy this episode. Please LIKE, COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE if you do!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Legends Skate Jam
01:46 - ZEROPOD Intro
02:43 - Early days in Brazil
04:28 - Skateboarding was illegal!
05:28 - Skateboarding is more art than most sports
06:50 - Skateboarding as a grounding influence
08:42 - Early competition circuit
11:26 - Going Pro
12:51 - What was it like to be part of making skateboarding mainstream?
14:30 - Tony Hawk as the “public hero” for the sport
15:15 - Meeting Tony for the first time in 1993
17:30 - Tony always wanted to help people
19:45 - How has skating subculture stayed strong despite mainstream adoption?
23:40 - How did he first encounter Gnars DAO and Nouns?
26:22 - First Nouns Prop (Prop 142)
28:08 - The importance of niching out communities
31:16 - Nouns compared to other big-ticket NFTs
35:42 - Blockchain as a powerful unlock for public goods funding
40:00 - Similarities between skate culture and web 3
43:10 - Any favourite Nouns props?
45:15 - Impact Onboarding (h/t web3beach by carlosjmelgar)
47:08 - The difficulty of being your own bank (and the importance of education)
48:31 - His thoughts on the current Proposal to gift Bob a Noun for his work nouns.wtf/vote/402 (has now passed at time of publication!)
54:55 - What is he most excited about working on with Nouns over the next 6 months to a year
58:00 - Outro
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Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and JackWyldes. Hosted by Toady Hawk. Music by SuperTightWoody.
Zero Rights Reserved, remix and reuse any of our content in any way you like!
Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @ thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit tns.wtf to learn more about us.
Changing the World With Crypto (And Pizza!) - ZEROPOD Ep 12 with SNAX from Pizza DAO
"We're just here to do cool things." - ZEROPOD Ep. 11: Psych from Deadfellaz
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On Episode 11 of ZEROPOD, Toady Hawk and Robotfishgirl host one half of the dynamic duo behind Deadfellaz — @psych_nft! We battled against a raging Australian wind storm that caused several wifi interruptions for our guest, determined to persevere and hear about his journey as an artist, the Deadfellaz story, his views on Nouns, and perhaps most excitingly, alpha about their upcoming “Non-TCG TCG” game called RIP! We did our best to polish out the rough patches caused by technical difficulties and we hope you enjoy this one as much as we did. Please LIKE, COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE if you do!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro RIP Psych’s Wifi
01:49 - Always been an artist
02:21 - Depthcore and the Agency Scene
03:50 - Early NFT experiments
04:36 - Cryptovoxels art community: Meeting 4156 and lastpunk9999
06:00 - The Utility of Being a Person
07:30 - The attraction of NFT immutability and NFTs making digital art respected
10:37 - The Deadfellaz story: Addressing gender representation problems in the pfp genre
12:29 - The Deadfellaz novel take on pfp rarity
15:07 - Why has Deadfellaz been a lasting community (and why some other projects have not lasted.)
22:00 - The difficulty of separating finance from culture in unchain communities
18:00 - Kickstarter vs. NFTs
23:10 - Psych’s candid thoughts on the Nouns fork
25:05 - Psych’s thoughts on Nouns as a project since inception
28:46 - Lamenting all the technical difficulties / wifi disconnections we’ve been battling up until this point
29:52 - The Deadfellaz Twitch team
32:40 - Web3 Discord organization
33:27 - RIP TCG - What is it, and what can we expect from the gameplay?
36:50 - Breaking the confines of physical tabletop games
40:53 - Hearthstone Support Group
42:49 - Banter, back from another bad wifi disconnection
44:22 - Interlude: “The One Where the Gang Loses Wifi”
46:09 - Back to RIP TCG: Factions
49:26 - Community reaction to RIP so far.
52:00 - Check out the RIP TCG sale here: x.com/Deadfellaz/status/17002...
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Podcast recorded and edited by Toady Hawk. Hosted by Toady Hawk and Robotfishgirl. Music by SuperTightWoody.
Zero Rights Reserved, remix any of our content as much as you like!
Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @ thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more.
"Art Led Me to Nouns." - ZEROPOD Ep. 10: Ed Balloon Pops By
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In this episode of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, The Noun Square's Toady Hawk and Joshua Fisher interview artist, musician and stop-motion animator Ed Balloon.
We'll hear about his journey as an artist, how the pandemic forced him to think of new ways to engage with this fans, and why he wants to collaborate and use his platform and stop-motion character "Ed B" to bring the culture of Nouns to a brand new audience. (Check out Nouns Proposal 372.) Enjoy!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Teaser - Ed gets Noun-pilled by Short Shorts
1:45 -Intro
2:10 - The Ed Balloon Journey
4:25- The Pandemic’s effect on artists
5:52 - Ed B the Puppet
11:31 - Moving into web 3
13:45 - Ed rates TNS Twitter Spaces
18:18 - Ed’s creative process
19:58 - Ed B the Puppet as a Cathartic Medium
23:44 - Toady’s Random Canadiana: Ed the Sock
28:28 - Building culture takes time
29:35 - The web series
30:09 - How he got noun-pilled by Nouns Short Shorts
37:18 - It’s not a cult, it’s a movement
40:57 - Noggles as an icon
42:11 - The great Noggle Off
47:33 - The artist exposure trope
55:11 - Nouns Proposal 372
1:00:00 - A little bit of name-dropping
1:05:05 - How will he integrate Nouns culture into this project if funded? (It’s gonna be weird.)
1:09:00 - Run Ed, Run
1:12:00 - Go and vote!
1:15:00 - Banter and outro.
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Podcast recorded and edited by Toady Hawk. Hosted by Toady Hawk and Joshua Fisher. Music by SuperTightWoody.
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The Purple Pod - ZEROPOD Ep. 9: Artist and Non-DAO Founder Chris Carella
"Make More Art." - ZEROPOD Ep. 8: An Opepepod with Jack Butcher!
"One Super Dream, One Super Team, One Superchain" - ZEROPOD Ep. 7 with Binji Pande from Optimism!
Copy This Content! - ZEROPOD Ep 6 with Nate Angell from Creative Commons
"How the Turntables!" - ZEROPOD Ep. 5 - Aubtoshi & Toady Interview Each Other @ EthWaterloo
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For Episode 5 of the Zero Rights Reserved Podcast, we have stitched together two excerpts from the @otgwtf Livestream at EthWaterloo, where OTG's Aubtoshi and ZEROPOD's Toady Hawk took turns interviewing each other. Enjoy!
Be sure to check out the OTG YouTube channel for more Live Streams like this from Nounish events, as well as documentary shorts and more: @otgwtf
Small note: Because these interviews were filmed on a Live Stream at EthWaterloo with sketchy Wifi, some of the video in the latter half is a little glitched in spots, but most is great and the audio is clear throughout. Cue ""We do it LIVE!""
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"We eat VC's Alive" - ZEROPOD Ep 4 with Azeem & Ben from Gitcoin
"Do You Really Own It If It's Not Onchain?" - ZEROPOD Ep 3 with Amanda Terry of OnChainMonkey
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Welcome to Episode 3 of the Zero Rights Reserved video podcast, in which hosts Toady Hawk and Jack Wyldes interview Amanda Terry, cofounder and COO of OnChainMonkey.
Learn about the genesis of OCM, the importance of onchain art, why funding builders and doing social impact work is so important to their community, and more in this 40-minute chat!
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Timestamps:
0:00 - OCM Impact Funding Teaser
1:00 - Welcome to ZEROPOD
1:30 - Jack’s bad week
1:58 - Looking back on our month of OCM sponsorship
3:00 - OCM x Prop House
4:45 - Upcoming TNS YouTube content
5:25 - NOMO Nouns Optimism Migration
6:19 - Gas will get ya!
7:40 - Welcome Amanda Terry!
7:58 - Amanda’s / OCM’s origin story
10:30 - The Karma collection story
11:30 - TNS #NounChainMonkey Art Contest
12:03 - The TNS x OCM Sponsorship Collaboration
16:39 - What’s next in Season 3 of OCM DAO funding
20:00 - Looking back on past funding rounds to see what can be improved or changed
21:20 - Why does OCM care so much about funding builders?
24:49 - !RISE
26:20 - Nouns Prop House as a Reputation-building tool.
28:07 - Public goods funding and OCM
31:25 - Afghan girl mission story
34:22 - More examples of OCM social impact funding
36:02 - What is the difference between Metagood and OCM DAO?
39:02 - Why onchain? Why monkeys?
42:00 - OCM Dimensions Collection
45:04 - OCM’s diamond-hand community
45:40 - Amanda asks questions about Nouns DAO
48:00 - The importance of community
48:41 - Outro / Physical Noggles order
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Turn Those Frowns Upside Down - ZeroPod Ep 2 with Supriyo from "The Rise of Blus, A Nouns Movie"
Breaking the Ice - Pudgy Penguins CEO Luca Netz
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In this first episode of TNS's new weekly Zero Rights Reserved podcast, The Noun Square's Toady Hawk and Prof Werder interview Luca Netz, CEO of Pudgy Penguins.
We'll hear about his formative years, his long list of entrepreneurial successes, and why he believes the pengus can become one of the biggest brands, both inside and outside of the NFT space.
We also chat in depth about Nouns DAO Prop 325, a collaboration between Pudgy Penguins and Nouns DAO to make some fun nounish pengu collectibles!
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Timestamps:
0:00 The Luca Origin Story.
3:30 The importance of Not Giving Up
7:00 Career before Pudgy Penguins, Part 1: Off the Chain
12:40 Part 2: Von Dutch & Gel-blaster
14:45 Crypto/NFT journey before PP
19:30 The Pudgy Purchase
21:00 $Degen minting Mutants during a Hasbro M&A meeting
24:50 Why did he buy PP?
29:44 A word from our sponsors: OnChainMonkey
30:48 On the Pudgy toy launches
36:50 How did Luca meet the Prof Werder and Klim from Nouns community39:00 Why do a proposal instead of just using the CC0 assets permissionlessly?
44:17 Summary of current Nouns DAO Prop
47:35 Luca on the Noggles as a brand/symbol
49:33 Pudgy Penguins will buy a Noun?
53:50 Future Nouns/PP collab ideas
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Zero Rights Reserved (Zero Pod for short) is the new flagship weekly podcast from The Noun Square media collective. We chat with a new guest each week about Nouns, DAOs, NFTs, Ethereum and more!
Subscribe to Zero Pod and you will also receive our periodic Prop Talk Podcast to stay up to date on all current Nouns DAO proposals, plus bonus interviews from our daily Twitter Spaces over @thenounsquare!
Subscribe on your favorite podcasting software to never miss an episode: pod.link/1651565766
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Interview by Toady Hawk and Prof Werder, editing by SuperTightWoody.
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