We sat down with Harold and Charolotte Eytan, the brother-sister team behind Particle Collection ,to find out. Particle enables anyone to own, collect, and experience works of art using blockchain technology and NFTs, and they're leading the charge to make fine art more accessible. The team recently acquired a Banksy and opened up ownership to their community through fractionalization. Charlotte, who serves as head of the Particle Foundation, has worked for some of the world’s leading galle...
In this episode, we chat with fellow crypto girls Stef and Lauren from the forthcoming podcast Allowlist. It's our first unstructured episode, where we really just let the convo flow. And where did we end up? In an intense discussion about what we'd love to see in the metaverse and why we'd create a sisterhood of the traveling haptic bodysuit. Also if you have a haptic bodysuit, DM us pls. Follow Lauren, Stef, and Allowlist on Twitter: @laurendtierney, @bystefcaldwell, @allowlistvip We wil...
We continue our discussion from last week on the evolution of NFT projects from individual drops into full-fledged brands with Tara Fung. She's the co-founder and CEO of Co:Create, a new protocol that makes it possible for NFT projects to scale and generate new revenue streams. Armed with a $25M seed round led by a16z crypto, Co:Create is poised to lead the next evolution of the NFT ecosystem. We chatted with Tara about the nitty-gritty of native tokens, consumer-facing projects, and the Co...
Dirt is a daily newsletter about entertainment online that has earned a cult following. Recent dispatches include reflections on HBO's Gen Z workplace drama Industry, a look at thirsty brand Twitter accounts, and a deep dive on the history of shells in visual culture. New York Magazine put it best: Reading Dirt is "like getting a note about something interesting from a smart friend." A casual reader wouldn't know it, but the newsletter's operation is actually funded in part through th...
And are curators actually just gatekeepers? It's a question we see raised often on crypto and NFT Twitter. In a space like social media where nuance is lost, tastemakers and curators have sometimes become the unfair targets of those looking to shake up the business of selling art, and by extension, the business of selling NFTs. We discussed this question and more with Jamie Gourlay, the co-founder of Verse, a new fine art NFT platform that enables collectors to discover and acquire NF...
In this episode, we break down the recent implosions of 3 crypto-adjacent companies: 3 Arrows Capital, Celsius, and BlockFi...and decide which one would make for the best Netflix mini-series. Casting choices include: Vin Diesel, the Sprouse twins, and potentially Colin Firth reprising his acclaimed role as a lawyer. Disclaimer: We are aware there are really people and real money at the center of these situations, and our intention is not to cause offense or harm. Our only goal is to ed...
We're not totally sure. Join us as we debrief a wild evening of parties we attended at NFT NYC – the good, the bad, and the goblin-y. It's just us this week, and we're IRL for the first time. Major shoutout to pod guest and CoinDesk legend Eli Tan for letting us be his +1s to witness the madness.
Solo episode just us girls <3 We sat down to talk through everything that’s happening, from Do Kwon and Terra to LACMA and Paris Hilton buying NFTs. We catch up on the state of the market, getting into questions like… Where do we go from here? What projects will actually survive? And how will the government play a role in the crypto world going forward? A few helpful resources/links if you’re interested in further reading: Why play-to-earn is not embraced by all gamers, from Vo...
We had the chance to chat with Ryan Carson, who is, yes, the founder of a brand-new $40 million web3 VC fund. So of course we asked him: Why invest in crypto right now? As the former COO of Proof XYZ , he had a lot of thoughts on this topic. We also discuss why he won't bet on anon founders, what it's like having the Twitter storm turned on you, and why he's still all-in on Moonbirds, the NFT project he helped launch that has seen sales top $200 million. Vocab words: Dutch aucti...
The crypto market crash/UST disaster, explained. In under 30 minutes. You're welcome. We invited future pilot, computer programmer, lizard farmer, and crypto expert Coltrane Nadler to break down WTF happened with Terra/UST/Luna — aka, the stablecoin that collapsed and brought the rest of the crypto market down with it. He explains how stablecoins work, why they’re appealing to people as savings accounts, and what might be next for Terra Labs’ “godlike” founder, Do Kwon (who, for the rec...
Drum roll please... we finally found a crypto lawyer! This week, we sat down with Cryptones, a Twitter friend and securities lawyer – or so we hope. (Slight disclaimer, we have no way to verify that he's actually a lawyer because, in true crypto bro fashion, he's anon.) Regardless, we had a long and fascinating convo about our burning securities questions, the Howey Test, and whether NFTs in their current form will even be legal five years from now. Be sure to follow him on Twitter, @crypton...
What does crypto have to do with gaming? What is play-to-earn? What are Genopets? We discuss it all and more with Mackenna Elran, content specialist at Genopets, the world's first move-to-earn NFT game built on Solana. In the Genopets universe, users earn rewards for walking, running, dancing, or simply moving around in a game. Be sure to follow Genopets on Twitter, @genopets, to keep up with their journey from now to its official launch. Also in this episode: The crypto market...
Fashion week has arrived in the metaverse, and there's no one better to break it down than Dr. Giovanna Graziosi Casimiro, a producer at Decentraland and the head of Metaverse Fashion Week. We sat down with Dr. Giovanna (aka, Gigi) to talk about what, exactly, happens at MVFW, why it's important to bring fashion to the metaverse, and whether our digital avatars will also have IRL wearables one day. Be sure to follow Gigi on Twitter, @ggcasimiro_, to keep up with the latest in metaver...
In this episode, we explore some of the most pressing issues facing the crypto space. It's podcast inception: The basis of our conversation today is a deep dive into "The Most Thorough Case Against Crypto I've Heard," a recent episode of New York Times podcast "The Ezra Klein Show. " Klein hosted Dan Olson, a noted crypto skeptic and YouTuber, to chat about what could go wrong if crypto doesn't work out. (Everything we chat about is contextualized in the episode so there's no need to ...
AkiyaDAO is "a Japanese ecovillage project funded by an international community of climate-conscious builders, artists and solarpunks." That raises a lot of questions: Isn't crypto bad for the environment? And what does an ecovillage even have to do with NFTs? We sat down with Michelle Huang, founder of AkiyaDAO, to hear about the DAO's plan to create an IRL community (or a crypto commune?) using the power of NFTs. Tune in to hear more about how Japan's housing surplus crisis makes this pos...
There's no one better equipped to break down music NFTs than Joan Westenberg, a writer, angel investor, creative director, and marketing lead at MODA DAO. We sat down with Joan and asked her all of our questions: What even are music NFTs, how do you listen to them, and why do they benefit artists. We also discuss her work with MODA DAO, a DAO dedicated to the adoption of web3 in the music industry, and Riot Grrrls, an NFT project building the first women-led coworking community in the crypto ...
We're back and better than ever! We sat down with Aidan Cullen and Sophia Robinson from The Heart Project, a community-run creative studio that is making the world a better place for creatives. To date, The Heart Project has worked with iconic LA brand Fred Segal and singer Prentiss, and the team has a music project with Lil Dicky and Benny Blanco in the works. Through the project, they're enabling artists to take back control of the creative process. We got the inside scoop on what i...
Drum roll please... it's a *solo episode*! Jk, it's a duo episode? Whatever you want to call it, it's just Dylan and Katie this week, breaking down 5 of the biggest recent crypto news stories. In this episode, we're taking a closer look at some of the crazier crypto-world developments of the last month. The stories covered in this episode include... (~0:00–18:00) Yuga Labs, the parent company of Bored Ape Yacht Club (arguably the most successful NFT project of all time) acquired CryptoPunk...
On March 11, 2021, artist Beeple's NFT "Everydays: the First 5000 Days" sold at Christie's for $69 million. The sale shattered both art world expectations and auction records, and in the one year since, the "traditional" art world and the NFT world have become more intertwined than anyone could have predicted. We reflected on one year since THE Beeple sale with Artnet News Art Business Editor Tim Schneider, one of the leading experts writing about the intersection of the art market and ...
We sat down with Ryan Rosenthal and A'ndre Gonawela, foreign policy experts and co-hosts of the Burn Bag podcast, to break down what's going on in Russia and Ukraine. In this episode, we get to the bottom of why the war is happening now, what financial sanctions actually accomplish, and how they think crypto may (or may not) play a role in the conflict. Ryan and A'ndre are the perfect experts to help us make sense of the situation more broadly – and we felt it was important to have a ...