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 mint a copy for free and follow our Zora profile @ zora.co/basedandyellow.eth --- 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! --- 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.

On Episode 23 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, hosts Toady Hawk & 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 subscribe to our zora feed at zora.co/basedandyellow.eth.

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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.)

This was a fascinating conversation with one of the top contributors in the Ethereum space-- we hope you enjoy!

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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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2023 was another big year for the Nouns community, from parade floats to sail boats, coffee shops to charity ops, and esports denomination to custom animation!

In this special "Last Year in Nouns" wrap-up episode of our This Week in Nouns series, JackWyldes takes us for a walk down memory chain, reminiscing about all the many things that happened in Nouns this year, summed up in just 6 minutes.

Collect the onchain version for free to remember you were here.

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/6ETx8SBvPR4ggUzom5bNPU?si=8ovBntM2TaunabFJuGQStA
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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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/1731669637572796634?s=20
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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The Optimism Collective is running a huge contest for digital art of all kinds and in this video from The Noun Square onchain media collective, you can find out all the details on how to enter in just 5 minutes!

All you need to do is mint your original art on Zora, BASE or OP mainnet to participate. For more info, watch this video and check out welovetheeart.optimism.io

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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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.

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This is a Collectible Free Mint to commemorate the end of The Noun Square's Season 2, and the (hopeful) beginning of Season 3 with Nouns DAO Proposal 434 (nouns.wtf/vote/434)

Thank you to our long-time community member and talented artist Ilustradora (twitter.com/ilustradoraeth) for creating this piece for us!

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.

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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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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!

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October 16/2023

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.

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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.

October 2/2023

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.

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/1700275345386099060?s=20


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Zero Rights Reserved (ZEROPOD for short) is a CC0 weekly podcast from The Noun Square media collective. We chat with a new guest each week about Nouns, DAOs, NFTs, Ethereum and more.

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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Zero Rights Reserved (ZEROPOD for short) is a CC0 weekly podcast from The Noun Square media collective. We chat with a new guest each week about Nouns, DAOs, NFTs, Ethereum and more. 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. Thanks for collecting! 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! Follow @ thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more. Watch HD version on YT: youtu.be/3JjblckvKZI?si=JhsBajC2rKcYWxQU

Zero Rights Reserved (ZEROPOD for short) is a CC0 weekly podcast from The Noun Square media collective. We chat with a new guest each week about Nouns, DAOs, NFTs, Ethereum and more. 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! — 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 — Podcast recorded and edited by Toady Hawk. Hosted by Toady Hawk and Cardno. Music by SuperTightWoody. Zero Rights Reserved, remix any of our content as much as you like! Follow @ thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more. Watch the pod in 4K on YouTube: youtu.be/Y5fdzCQnQak Subscribe to the podcast on your pod app of choice: pod.link/1651565766

Zero Rights Reserved (ZEROPOD for short) is a CC0 weekly podcast from The Noun Square media collective. We chat with a new guest each week about Nouns, DAOs, NFTs, Ethereum and more.

In Episode 7, "One Super Dream, One Super Team, One Superchain," hosts Toady Hawk and Prof Werder interview 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 actually a blueprint for an open source hat warehouse in New Jersey? Enjoy!

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Zero Rights Reserved (ZEROPOD for short) is a CC0 weekly podcast from The Noun Square media collective. We chat with a new guest each week about Nouns, DAOs, NFTs, Ethereum and more.

In Episode 6, hosts Toady Hawk and Joshua Fisher interview Nate Angell from Creative Commons 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.

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Zero Rights Reserved (ZEROPOD for short) is a CC0 weekly podcast from The Noun Square media collective. We chat with a new guest each week about Nouns, DAOs, NFTs, Ethereum and more.

In Episode 4, hosts Toady Hawk & Robotfishgirl interview 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.

Zero Rights Reserved (ZEROPOD for short) is a CC0 weekly podcast from The Noun Square media collective. We chat with a new guest each week about Nouns, DAOs, NFTs, Ethereum and more.

In Episode 3, 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 in their community, and more in this 40-minute chat.


Zero Rights Reserved (ZeroPod for short) is a CC0 weekly podcast from The Noun Square media collective. We chat with a new guest each week about Nouns, DAOs, NFTs, Ethereum and more.

In Episode 2, hosts Toady Hawk and Jack Wyldes interview Supriyo from Atrium Collective, 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 next...

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Zero Rights Reserved (ZeroPod for short) is a CC0 weekly podcast from The Noun Square media collective. We chat with a new guest each week about Nouns, DAOs, NFTs, Ethereum and more.

In this first episode of ZeroPod, Toady Hawk and Prof Werder interview Luca Netz, CEO of Pudgy Penguins.

We 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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