Welcome back to another episode of ZEROPOD, a zero copyright video podcast for people who enjoy Ethereum. 

Our guest this week on ZEROPOD, is from the artistic side of the onchain world— Yon, the self described “degenerative artist” behind The Peaceful Groupies, the Yon Experience and most recently, one of the first artcoins launched via the clanker AI agent on farcaster: Redacted Gdupi.  On this episode, we talk about Yon’s youth in a small Argentinian town, how he moved to Europe and carved his own way as an artist, how he has been a constant early adopter of onchain techs and trends, and what’s next for him and $GDUPI. We hope you enjoy this conversation with an onchain CC0 art legend, and if you do, please remember to like and subscribe!

Thank you to our partner sponsors at clanker.world for helping to make this content possible. Clanker is the easiest way to deploy a token on Base.

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Timestamps

• 0:00 - GDUPI Origins

• 1:35 - Welcome to ZEROPOD, introducing Yon.

• 2:59 - Yon’s upbringing in Chaco, Argentina

• 3:55 - Early love for character design, video games, and art

• 4:56 - Childhood gaming

• 6:25 - Yon the Baller

• 8:50 - The Paris Period

• 11:00 - Saving money and finding time for art

• 12:50 - Discovering clients through Reddit subreddits

• 14:10 - Parental perceptions of an art career

• 16:01 - “Every piece is a portrait of what I’m living in that moment.”

• 17:03 - Introduction to crypto and saving in Ethereum

• 19:00 - Early experiments with CS:GO skins and CryptoKitties

• 21:00 -Discovering NFTs

• 22:20 - A Word About Our Sponsors Clanker.World

• 23:10 - Yon’s first NFT purchase was a Beeple

• 25:00 - Minting on Rarible and building early collections

• 26:50 - Experimenting with telegram auction houses

• 28:00 - Creating Peaceful Groupies and generative art

• 31:00 - The challenges of launching a hyped NFT collection

• 32:40 - Mentorship from 9999 and learning about contracts

• 35:00 - Joining Farcaster and exploring new creative outlets

• 39:00 - The Reply Guys channel and community-driven art

• 41:50 - The Reply Guys t-shirt and embracing CC0 licensing

• 44:00 - Perspectives on piracy, creativity, and open art

• 48:00 - Organizing minted collections and planning for the future

• 51:00 - Reflections on the Yellow Collective’s first year

• 54:00 - GDUPI: origins, meme culture, and experiments with Clanker

• 57:40 - Thoughts on memecoins and tokenizing moments

• 1:00:30 - The distribution powers of ERC-20 tokens.

• 1:02:20 - Moving from Argentina to LA and the creative scene in the US

• 1:04:00 - Planning for the future and growing the Yon ecosystem

• 1:06:10 - What’s next for GDUPI, NFTs, and personalized 1/1 art

• 1:07:00 - Yon turns the tables on Toady

• 1:11:10 - Closing thoughts on creativity, 2025 plans, and the onchain journey

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Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk, JackWyldes and Santhosh. Hosted by Toady Hawk. Music by Toady Hawk, SuperTightWoody & Suno AI. Ad spot by JackWyldes. Produced by Zero Rights Media. 

Special thumbnail frame for this episode hand illustrated by Yon.

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