Mint Season 2 episode 11 welcomes pet3rpan, a DAO and NFT thought-leader whose work is widely known across the early-stage token investment firm 1kx. He’s also a Community organizer and summoner at MetaCartel, as well as the Co-founder & blood mage at MetaCartel Ventures.In this episode, we talk about: 1kx’s investment thesis Understanding the role of leadership in DAOs How to eliminate or prevent bad actors Strategies for growing decentralized communities His POV on JPEG Summer His NFT investment strategy What will eat Web 3?...and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Links: How To Grow Decentralized Communities https://medium.com/1kxnetwork/how-to-grow-decentralized-communities-1bf1044924f8Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 2 episode 10 welcomes Erikan Obotetukudo, Founding and Managing Partner at Audacity Fund, who’s investing in Black and African-led crypto startups targeting trillion dollar markets worldwide. I wanted to bring her on because she’s extremely vocal of how NFTs will change Africa forever - a new perspective that sparked my attention.I genuinely had so much recording this episode as Erikan’s high energy and incredible spirit made sharing her story enjoyable.In this episode, we talk about: Audacity Fund’s investment thesis Understanding JPEG Summer Erikan’s love for the intersection of DeFi and NFTs How NFTs will Revolutionize Africa What will eat Web 3?...and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Shoutout to Etiwanda High School!LinksHow NFTs will Revolutionize Africa –– Forever (pt 1)Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 2 episode 9 welcomes Andy Artz who's on a mission to advance humanity by solving the world’s hardest problems by investing capital across early-stage startups at Social Capital.  He’s also a major proponent of the decentralized social media platform BitClout following his own creator coin $ARTZ.  In this episode, we talk about:  Understanding BitClout Weighing the risks of creator coins Curation on the blockchain Launching $ARTZ coin Trading social capital What will eat Web 3?...and so much more.  I hope you enjoy our conversation.   Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint------------------------Support Season 2's NFT sponsors   Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/  POAP - https://poap.xyz/  Socialstack - https://socialstack.co/  Celo - https://celo.org/  PrimeDAO - https://www.prime.xyz/

Mint Season 2 episode 8 welcomes Maria Shen who’s a partner at Electric Capital. Prior to Electric, Maria was CTO and co-founder of a startup that helped SMBs easily create their supply chains with manufacturers around the world. Prior to that, she worked on search technology at Microsoft, with her features shipped to more than 1 billion devices.In this episode, we talk about: Her NFT collection strategy undercollateralized social lending in NFT communities Favorite NFT use cases The intersection of DeFi and NFTs How creators should be thinking about the metaverse The frenzy behind Bored Ape Yacht Club Lessons learned working in this space What will eat web3...and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 2 episode 7 welcomes Jonathan Dunlap, Founder and CEO at MintGate. He and his team are building tools for creators to experiment with token-gated content via NFT access passes and generative secret links for events, videos, music, websites, and blogs, to name a few.I’m a big believer in the power of token-gated content and how it will upgrade your communities - so this session is a special listen.In this episode, we talk about: Why should creators care about token-gated content? Excited token-gating use cases How you the creator can start integrating token-gated access into your community The biggest challenges stifling token-gated content...and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.

Mint Season 2 episode 6 welcomes Reuben Bramanathan, an expert on all things crypto law, product management, fund management, and more. Having worked at Coinbase from 2015 to 2017, Reuben has seen the industry evolve at a rate in which many don’t have purview. Now, he’s helping build IDEO CoLab for collaborative impact where he and his team connect organizations to shape technology's impact on the world.In this episode, we talk about JPEG summer, securities laws regarding fractional NFTs, what opportunities in the space most excite him, how NFTs are introducing the mainstream into crypto, NFT consumer applications, what will eat web3 and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 2 episode 5 welcomes Jess Sloss, the instigator at Seed Club, an incubator for the crypto space helping creators and communities launch and grow successful social tokens.In this episode, we talk about finding and aligning your community with a universal purpose, the ownership economy, frameworks used to derive liquidity for early-stage social token projects, DAO management roles, the importance behind on-chain revenue, the rise of a human stock market, and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 2 episode 4 welcomes CEO and Co-founder of Socialstack Andrew Berkowitz. He’s building a protocol to power mission-driven social token economies on the blockchain that is driven by gratitude and abundance.In this episode, we talk about what determines the success of social communities, debunking social token myths, how to derive initial liquidity, Andrew shares predictions for where the space will be in 5 to 10 years, Socialstack's vision and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mintDisclosure: Socialstack is an NFT sponsor for Mint Season 2.

Mint Season 2 episode 3 welcomes Jeff Kauffman Jr, who’s building Parachute, a social token-driven consultancy firm focused on web3 solutions for brands and agencies. Jeff has made it his responsibility to provide entry-level social token exposure to many mainstream marketing and advertising executives via the community’s currency, $JUMP.In this episode, we talk about the vision behind Parachute and $JUMP, how social tokens will change advertising forever, why he’s building an advertising and marketing network native to Web3, the early days of the internet and mobile adoption, launching creator coins, and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 2 episode 2 welcomes Neil Harbisson and Pol Lombarte, two biohacking artists leveraging NFTs to remotely alter their bodies. Cyborg-artist Neil Harbisson was born color blind but he can ‘feel’ and ‘hear’ colors, thanks to a WiFi-enabled bone-conduction antenna that is permanently implanted into his skull. Together, Neil and Pol experimented with a new state of NFTs where the buyer can directly send colors into Harbisson’s head. On the side, his friend, Pol Lombarte sold ‘access’ to his heartbeat as an NFT where the buyer can alter his heart rate from afar at any point in time of the day.In this episode we talk about the early days of transitioning into a cyborg, the curiosity behind selling access to one’s body, fears and concerns behind this level of biological manipulation, how much he’d consider selling the NFT for, the vision behind this level of experimentation, and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Don Diablo is an industry-defining NFT artist, Dutch DJ, record producer, musician, and songwriter of electronic dance music who is known for his electronic style of production and vocalizing in most of his songs. He led a multi-industry career ranking sixth in the 2020’s top 100 DJs by DJ Mag, as well as amassed millions of dollars in sales for his crypto-inspired fine art.In this episode we talk about the origins of his early inspiration into music, how his dad plays a major influence throughout everything he does in life, his career as a top 10 global DJ, how he broke into the NFT space, getting featured at the iconic auction house Sothebys, his latest NFT drop, and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 1 episode 11 features Dave Young - a serial entrepreneur and an indie game developer with over 15 years of experience. Using game tech combined with complex full-stack backends, Dave has founded and created teams to build complex products, like ScreenBlazer, Magnus Rush, and Announcr.On this episode, we discuss how he’s helping fund school supplies for the youth through his social token, his framework for deriving value and utility, the 12 projects emerging in his ecosystem surrounding play token, his approach for communicating cryptocurrencies to teachers, students, and parents, why he’s so bullish on social tokens, and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 1 episode 10 features American entrepreneur and author Peter Shankman. He is best known for founding HARO, an online service for journalists to gather feedback from the public. His fight for creating more positive awareness around ADHD has led him down the rabbit hole of monetizing his community through $SHANK coin.We talk about the launch of his new book and how he's incentivizing his audience to get access to that book by holding $SHANK tokens. Peter breaks down some tips to future creators who are exploring the path of launching their social token and what he wishes he had known before doing going live with $SHANK.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 1 episode 9 features Matt Mcdonald who is the lead vocalist and guitarist for The Classic Crime - a rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 2004. After leaving a record label in 2011, TCC pioneered the use of crowdfunding and other middle-men bypassing tools, continuing to make music, content, and community experiences for supporters a decade later. Their latest experiment with crowdfunding comes in the form of their social token - $CRIME, ticker C R I M E.In this episode, Matt and I look back on the early days of Kickstarter crowdfunding and how it compares to today’s ICO and IDO models that persist throughout the cryptoverse. We also chat about his frameworks for utility generation, how he’s onboarded his existing fan base to hold his band’s social token, how platforms like Facebook and Instagram help build their audience, but stripped them away from their power to monetize them, and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 1 episode 8 features Cooper Turley is actively shaping the Creator Economy through projects like Audius, Friends with Benefits, and PleasrDAO. He advises Variant as an operator and investor and works with teams on token launches and governance through Fire Eyes DAO.On this episode, we talk about his recent article mapping out the current DAO landscape. With 100s of DAOs in existence, he argues which ones he thinks will outpace the test of time, his point of view on how crypto is revolutionizing the music industry, why he’s betting big on DAOs, and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint----show notes----DAO Landscapehttps://coopahtroopa.mirror.xyz/_EDyn4cs9tDoOxNGZLfKL7JjLo5rGkkEfRa_a-6VEWwHow To Launch A Tokenhttps://forefront.news/blog/how-to-launch-a-token

Mint Season 1 episode 7 features Harrison First is an American songwriter and producer. He works producing for other artists in addition to his own solo works through his independent label JNRY FIRST. He is one of Ängie's best friends and a frequent collaborator. He’s also the creator of $FIRST coin.On this episode, we talk about his methodology for creating a token-gated audio library aimed at supporting NFT artists who need quality audio for their drops, his view on how social tokens will take the music industry by storm, how he thinks about the utility of his token, his bet on himself for being an early crypto adopter, and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 1 episode 6 features Jeremiah Owyang who is an advisor to Rally.io, an active angel investor, and is well recognized by both the tech and media industry for his grounded approach to deriving insights through rigorous research. He’s also the creator of the social token $JOW has achieved dominant placement on the social token charts.On this episode, we talk about his early insights into watching the rise of Facebook, Instagram and other web 2.5 platforms and why they’re prime for disruption, how he became successful at building social communities, why he’s so bullish on social tokens, his views on the future societal implications of creator coins, his approach for thinking about utility frameworks for creator coins, and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 1 episode 5 features WhaleShark, a social entrepreneur and investor with a focus on disrupting the status quo, whose work is widely known for the successful $WHALE community. He's a prolific advocate of NFTs, social tokens, DAOs and much more with an impressive track record of managing 3 different social token communities.On this episode, WhaleShark and I discuss his latest project Elite also known as the ticker $1337, his vision for creating digital clothing dedicated to gaming communities, or as he likes to call it, metawear, his learning points from starting the most successful social token project, WHALE, his views on the future societal implications of creator coins, and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 1 episode 4 features Bomani X, A Black guitarist, singer-songwriter, and celebrity digital strategist who has worked with Jill Scott, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Wyclef, and more. He’s also the founder of Lit.Spins and was selected as Clubhouses’ icon for the longest time.More recently, he’s known for his social token $BOO and in this episode, we talk about how social tokens will revolutionize the music industry, his vision for $BOO, how he’s created a utility for token holders by playing games on Clubhouse, and much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 1 episode 3 features Jenil Thakker, CEO and Founder of Coinvise, who focuses on helping creators launch personal or community-owned social tokens on Ethereum. Coinvise is also Season 1’s sponsor and is helping make this podcast a reality.On this episode, Jenil and I discuss how to improve the UX/UI around minting, his mission for Coinvise on it becoming a decentralized Reddit for communities and creators, how can crypto help keep a community sustainable long-term, how do you keep people in your community contributing long term, utility and value frameworks, how to get started in web3 as a creator, and much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 1 episode 2 features Jack Johnson, who’s artist name is JVCKJ. He’s widely known as one half of the multi-platinum pop duo Jack & Jack. He’s a creative force whose earned a billion-plus streams, achieved multi-platinum records, and countless sold-out tours. He’s also the founder of PSTL aka Pastel coin - a gateway to building his vision for his creator economy.On this episode we talk about his journey as an early internet personality on the once popular social media platform Vine, his new single Money Memories, his vision for his personal token, why he’s so big on crypto, how PSTL coin is empowering his fans, and towards they end we start having a live brainstorming session on how we can create further utility behind PSTL token.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint