Forefront Podcast: Recent Episodes
Forefront Podcast
Welcome to the Forefront podcast.
We are pioneers exploring & building at the forefront of the Web3 playground.
We’ve dug through the noise and surfaced the signal on the state-of-the-art of tokenized communities in the internet-native economy.
Enjoy this biweekly roundup of the latest & greatest in social tokens, DAOs and more.
We continue our exploration of collective intelligence and tools for wisdom in a conversation with Charles Broskoski, one of the many co-founders of Are.na.
Are.na is a platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge. It's a thinking-space for "connected knowledge collectors" and self-directed learners. Are.na aims to help users build up the "muscle" of recognition for what Charles calls "nodal points": this information, this image, this idea, this impulse is important to me!
Join SpaceXponential & Charles in a dynamic conversation that delves into Are.na's genesis; how Are.na and its philosophy distinguish themselves from the general "tools for thought" space; the importance of striking the fruitful balance between the role of software and the role of the user; the unique elements accounting for the magic of Are.na; and why Charles is feeling optimistic during this time of great challenge. This conversation was a real treat.
To see the Twitter thread referenced, see here.
For more, visit Are.na's website and blog. Charles' website is here.
We continue our exploration of collective intelligence and tools for wisdom in a conversation with Fabian Wittel, co-founder of Napkin.
"Collect ideas. See Connections. Free Your Mind." Napkin is not just a new note-taking app. It aims to be a digital garden of inspiration, a beautiful space in which human beings can unfold their creativity and curiosity.
Join SpaceXponential & Fabian in a delightful conversation that delves into Napkin's genesis; its unique, playful UI and the experiences it cultivates in users; the need for beauty in software design; metaphoric or poetic perception; and AI/Natural Language Processing's role in facilitating human creativity.
For more, visit Napkin's website and Twitter.
Join moderator @AlexMexicotte with panelists @Jayislate and @jaesmail for a special live episode hosted at MCON covering tokenized communities, platformless quests, and web3 social.
In this live panel episode recorded at MCON, Jay and Jihad talk about tokenized communities, platformless quests, and web3 social. Join us this week for some gigabrain and spicy takes on the most important aspects of running web3 communities.
Join @julia_pepper23 & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:
- Grand Leisure Launch by @Poolsuite
- DeFi Credit Score by @arcxmoney
- Squad Properties by @creatorcabins
- Governance Fail by Fei and Rari
- Centralization Worries with Ethereum Merge
Show Notes:
- Argentine Province Accepts Stablecoins for Taxes
- Resignation of Economy Minister Drives Premium Pricing for USD-Pegged Stablecoins
- Meta NFT Feature for Facebook and Instagram
- Validators Running on Cloud Providers
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Join @SpaceXponential & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:
- @UnlockProtocol and @Superfluid_HQ Partnership
- @moonbirds, @kevinrose and CC0 Ultra Deep Dive
Show Notes
- Superfluid/Unlock
- Moonbirds moving into CC0
- Community backlash
- Matthew Ball - Disney, IP, and "Returns to Marginal Affinity"
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Forefront's Web3 Creator Residency has launched its 2nd cohort of Resident Creators:
Kabuki (Residency game plan)
Nico (Agartha Village Figma)
d3mo (yh⁴ project)
This is the last Open Studio of Forefront's first W3CR! This Monday, our Resident Creators Nico, Kabuki and d3mo gathered to look back on the past four weeks, ideate on what their ideal Residency would look like and tackle the core
Listen in on the W3CR Open Studio now:
- We revisited the question of the essential elements of a Creator's ecology, asking the Resident Creators, "what do you absolutely need to enable you to create?"
- Nico thrives on tasting a variety of different experiences and cultures and surfing the Google search engine to drink up knowledge! Though Nico had never thought of building in public as essential to her ecology, she now sees that it provides an invaluable "sanity check" to help creators sense if they are in touch with the world.
- Kabuki stresses the importance of IRL interactions to his creator ecology. IRL gatherings hit different than Zoom calls, because the effort one takes to travel, to dress properly (vs dressing from just the shoulders up!), deepens the felt impact/significance of our eventual encounter with others.
- d3mo posited that his ideal Residency would include an IRL element, after which an intriguing jam sesh was sparked on why it is so difficult for creators to come together to collaborate. d3mo thought that lack of structure, discipline and time/money were factors.
- Kabuki believes the coordination nut is hard to crack chiefly because of the lack of a common language and the difficulty of listening selflessly to what is coming out of the collective. (Indeed, you will likely realize that you were never taught how to practice or execute these "skills" that are so germinal to social life.)
Note: we have published the audio/video as originally recorded on the Riverside.fm platform; please excuse any hiccups as we build in public!
Forefront's Web3 Creator Residency has launched its 2nd cohort of Resident Creators:
Kabuki (Residency game plan)
Nico (Agartha Village Figma)
d3mo (yh⁴ project)
During the Residency, our Resident Creators will be workshopping their projects, learning and building in public, and sharing their challenges along the way. Each Monday, they'll gather for our weekly Open Studio.
Listen in on the W3CR Open Studio now:
- The Creators recalled those special moments when a creation crosses the line from mere artifice to something with deeper life due to perhaps a subtle transformation.
- Kabuki shared a musical analogy - applying reverb! The convolution reverb method involves going into a specific physical space, sweeping sound frequencies through this room and simulating the recorded sound in a virtual recreation of this room.
- For d3mo, these moments are driven by subtle sound design, which ensures that the visual & and the musical component are not separate, but coherent.
- Nico's sessions last week explored Permaculture as a "spiritual science." What does such a characterization mean to Nico and the other Resident Creators? What does the experience of "intuition" have to do with spiritual science?
- Nico's sessions also inspired a jam sesh on the topic of Nature as an interconnected ecology. What is the analogy of this ecology in a Creator's life? What essential elements or factors must be present in the Resident Creators' "ecology" to enable them to create?
- Kabuki stresses the need for limitations, structure and tradition to be present, while Nico emphasizes the need for freedom from these!
Note: we have published the audio/video as originally recorded on the Riverside.fm platform; please excuse any hiccups as we build in public!
Forefront's Web3 Creator Residency has launched its 2nd cohort of Resident Creators:
Kabuki (Residency game plan)
Nico (Agartha Village Figma)
d3mo (yh⁴ project)
During the Residency, our Resident Creators will be workshopping their projects, learning and building in public, and sharing their challenges along the way. Each Monday, they'll gather for our weekly Open Studio.
Listen in on the W3CR Open Studio now:
- Last week, Nico's Residency sessions explored the belief systems that motivate creators. What is the higher belief motivating Nico's project? "We want to elevate consciousness," Nico said, conceding this may sound "super cheesy and very L.A."
- But how do we make the world a better place?, asks Nico in all seriousness. We can all agree that we want to live in a beautiful, humane environment. This is the common ground that inspires Nico's project which explores technically, how can we live in harmony with Nature?
- d3mo shares the unique inspiration behind the name of his project (ytrium and hydrogen, a chemical combination that is not actually possible in our world and would destroy it if they were somehow brought together) and h/ts the book Codex Seraphinianus.
- Kabuki's 1st week of Residency emphasizes the importance of performing "due diligence" - immersing oneself in the history and pioneers of a field of art (in this case, generative art) before diving into create oneself.
- Kabuki shares the astonishing story of how Buckminster Fuller invented "high-frequency sleep" - a method for increasing his productivity and waking hours while reducing the number of hours of sleep required!
Note: we have published the audio/video as originally recorded on the Riverside.fm platform; please excuse any hiccups as we build in public!
Join @julia_pepper23 & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:
- Non-Transferrable Badges by @otterspace_xyz
- Consistent Creator Income by @Collab_Land_ and @Superfluid_HQ
- Bottom-Up Governance by @jokedao_
- The Moral Character of Cryptography by Phillip Rogaway
Show links:
- Apply for MCON
- Reddit releasing an NFT marketplace on Polygon
- Disney partners with Polygon
- Gamestop ETH NFT sales dwarf coinbase NFT in 2 days
- OpenSea lays off 20% of their employees
- The Moral Character of Cryptography - Revival Tweet
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Forefront's Web3 Creator Residency has launched its 2nd cohort of Resident Creators:
Kabuki (Residency game plan)
Nico (Agartha Village Figma)
d3mo (yh⁴ project)
During the Residency, our Resident Creators will be workshopping their projects, learning and building in public, and sharing their challenges along the way. Each Monday, they'll gather for our weekly Open Studio.
Listen in on the W3CR Open Studio now:
- Kabuki's 1st week of Residency will focus on sharing his productivity hacks as a creator: how to stay in a productive mindset, how to stay accountable and how to switch between "both sides of the brain" to balance the right amount of structure and guardrails with free space to play
- d3mo shares his approach to world-building and muses that he is often "discovering" the connection between his art pieces as he creates them, vs arranging connections in a preset fashion.
- Nico shares her epiphany about the prototype eco-village she is building: it is not enough for the architectures to be environmentally sound. They must also be inspirational! And for this, Nico is digging back into the designs of ancient Indian, Chinese & Islamic temples to inspire her new structures.
Note: we have published the audio/video as originally recorded on the Riverside.fm platform; please excuse any hiccups as we build in public!
Forefront's Web3 Creator Residency has launched with our first cohort of Resident Creators:
Allie (Play Library project)
Alex (Preseason Training project)
Entes (Caras Latinas project)
During the Residency, our Resident Creators will be workshopping their projects, learning and building in public, and sharing their challenges along the way. Each Monday, they'll gather for our weekly Open Studio.
Listen in on the W3CR Open Studio now:
- Entes shares how his Residency project underwent a transformation last week.
- Last week, Allie got out into the community, placing 20 play kits in Little Free Libraries; she shares the fruits of that adventure today!
- Alex shares the creative breakthrough she experienced while doing her live producing session last week.
Note: we have published the audio/video as originally recorded on the Riverside.fm platform; please excuse any hiccups as we build in public!
Join @SpaceXponential & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:
- Web3 Creator Residence Retrospective
- Creator Economy Course by @ljin18
- @SBF_FTX Crypto Bailouts
- @Wonderland_fi Governance🤦
Show links:
- Web3 Creator Residency
- Creator Economy NFTs
- What Are SBF's Motives?
- SBF Rumors to Acquire Robinhood
- Wonderland Passes Vote to Invest $25 Million Into Sifu Vision
- Wonderland Governance Proposal Overview
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We're excited to bring you a new Community Hangout with GLASS!
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Forefront's Web3 Creator Residency has launched with our first cohort of Resident Creators:
Allie (Play Library project)
Alex (Preseason Training project)
Entes (Caras Latinas project)
During the Residency, our Resident Creators will be workshopping their projects, learning and building in public, and sharing their challenges along the way. Each Monday, they'll gather for our weekly Open Studio.
Listen in on the W3CR Open Studio now:
- Allie revisits the Morning Pages she wrote 2 weeks ago
- SpaceXponential reads a beautiful quote by adrienne maree brown and asks the Creators, "What's the front line in your imagination battleground?"
- The Creators jam on different forms of abundance & wealth in their lives.
Note: we have published the audio/video as originally recorded on the Riverside.fm platform; please excuse any hiccups as we build in public!
Forefront's Web3 Creator Residency has launched with our first cohort of Resident Creators:
Allie (Play Library project)
Alex (Preseason Training project)
Entes (Caras Latinas project)
During the Residency, our Resident Creators will be workshopping their projects, learning and building in public, and sharing their challenges and learnings along the way. Each Monday, they'll gather for our weekly Open Studio.
Listen in on the W3CR Open Studio now:
- Why did Allie kick off her Residency by exploring the values of open-ended play?
- What's inspiring Allie about matriarchal gift economies?
- Entes shares wonderful snippets from his childhood: what was it like growing up as an aspiring artist with a father who was a Professor of Mathematics?
- What political topics currently inspire the Resident Creators' work and do they feel free to express themselves in this regard?
Note: we have published the audio/video as originally recorded on the Riverside.fm platform; please excuse any hiccups as we build in public!
Join @julia_pepper23 & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:
- Opensea on Seaport
- Governance Fails at TribeDAO and Merit Circle
- Salesforce NFT Cloud
- Nader Dabit (@dabit3) move to @CelestiaOrg
- DAOs as cities by Rowan Yeoman @SuperBenefitDAO
Show links:
- DAO Growth
- TribeDAO/Rari Governance
- Merit Circle DAO / YGG Governance
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Forefront's Web3 Creator Residency has launched with our first cohort of Resident Creators:
Allie (Play Library project)
Alex (Preseason Training project)
Entes (Caras Latinas project)
During the Residency, our Resident Creators will be workshopping their projects, learning and building in public, and sharing their challenges and learnings along the way. Each Monday, they'll gather for our weekly Open Studio.
Listen in on the first W3CR Open Studio now:
- We introduce you to Allie, Alex & Entes
- Our Resident Creators bring you up to speed on the history and status of their Residency project
- Cohort 02 Resident Creators Kabuki & Nico join the Open Studio to jam about a special surprise they're working on for the Genesis W3CR NFT.
Note: we have published the audio/video as originally recorded on the Riverside.fm platform; please excuse any hiccups as we build in public!
Join @SpaceXponential & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:
- @FoundationOS
- @headless_chaos by @songcamp_
- @0xSplits
- Radical Makeover at @MakerDAO
- Web3 critiques by @VICE and @smdiehl with a response from @prestonjbyrne
Show links:
- Razorfish
- Cryptoassets Book
- Letter From Technologists - The Dangers of Web3
- Debunking the Crypto Critics Letter
- W3CR 01 Community Creation
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Enjoy our latest Community Hangout with Mochi DAO!
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We're excited to bring you a new Community Hangout with Ale Borda!
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Join @julia_pepper23 & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:
- DAO Leadership by @signornessuno11
- Prime Deal by @PrimeDAO_
- NOLS Wilderness Leadership Training
- Instagram and Gamestop entering web3
- @HopProtocol Sybil Hunting
- Soul Bound Tokens
- Soul Bound Tokens 2
- MX is the new UX by DocTom
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We're excited to bring you a new Community Hangout with COLORSxCOMMUNITY DAO!
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We're excited to bring you a new Community Hangout with Scarlet DAO!
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Join @SpaceXponential & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:
- Chaos in the markets
- UST depeg attack
- Bored Ape Otherside land sale gas spike
- WSJ vs CT: NFT sales
- Bringing more humanity to web3 by @CryptoSocietyS1
Show links:
Market Turmoil:
- UST depeg jonwu.eth
- Route 2 FI UST Bank Run
- Do Kwon Recovery Plan
- Potential LUNA Bailout
- Janet Yellen on UST depeg
- On Chain Wizard UST Attack
- 4484 UST Attack
- 10 Things to Know About Inverted Yield Curves
- 2-year Treasury Yield Tops 10-year rate
- Inverted Yield Curve Does Not Prove US Recession Imminent
BAYC Otherside Land Sale:
- Yuga on Spike in Gas
- Nader Dabit on Existential Risk to Ethereum
- Grame on Optimisim
NFT Sales Trends:
- WSJ NFT Sales Are Flatlining (Article Taken Down After Response)
- Cointelegraph Rebuttal
Humanity and Web3:
- Bringing More Humanity to Web3
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We're excited to bring you a new Community Hangout with Songcamp! Join us as we discuss Chaos, a headless band.
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Join @SpaceXponential & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:
- Elon Musk buys Twitter
- $JPG NFT Index by @indexcoop
- Move2Earn by @Stepnofficial
- Gnosis Safe Spins Off From @gnosisdao
- DAOs as Novelty Search Engines by olly.eth
- Social Media and the Tower of Babel
Show links:
- Forefront W3CR
- Index Coop $JPG NFT Index
- Stepn Move2Earn Game
- Gnosis Safe Spins Out of Gnosis DAO
- DAOs as novelty search engines
- Twitter accepts Elon’s bid to buy them out
- Why DAOs Will Change Social Media
- Why The Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
- Arena
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Join us for a Hangout with Fancy of Radar! They're building a cutting edge community exploring "the future of futures," and we're excited to dive in. Links Radar: https://twitter.com/Radarxyz
Fancyy: https://twitter.com/Fancyyyyyy_
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Join @SpaceXponential & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:
- Axie Infinity Ronin Bridge Hack
- DAO Tooling by @patrickxrivera
- Dynamic DAOs by @evabeylin
- Designing Community Governance by @austinrobey_
- Tennessee DAOs as LLCs
- Nobody Wants CNNs NFTs
- Elon and Twitter
Show links:
- Axie Infinity Ronin Bridge Hack
- DAO Tooling by Patrick Rivera
- Dynamic DAOs
- Designing Community Governance
- Tennessee Allows DAOs as LLCs
- Nobody Wants CNNs NFTs
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We're excited to bring you a new Community Hangout with Zach from Rabbithole!
Here's what we cover:
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What is Rabbithole? How have things evolved over the last year?
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Web3 reputation systems
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Progressive decentralization and "aspirational DAOs"
...and much more
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Enjoy our community hangout with CabinDAO!
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Join @SpaceXponential & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:
- NFT Contract Builder by @water_and_music
- March Madness Player NFTs by @SigningDayLtd
- Bored Ape Ecosystem Updates by @yugalabs
- Vitalik Time Cover Piece by @TIME
Show links:
- Water and Music
- Signing Day Website
- Signing Day Launch Announcement
- NBA Innovation Dilemma
- APE coin and APE DAO
- Yuga Labs
- Vitalik Time Cover Piece
Don't miss this special edition of our Community Hangout. We are joined by Kianga Daverington of ACREinvest + ACRE DAOs, and Ellie Dermendzhiyska of Betwixt.
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ACREinvest is Kianga’s new blockchain venture, with the mission of regenerating the way capital markets work & for whom. Kianga recently launched ACRE DAOs, a Web3 portal for a decentralized impact investment club.
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Betwixt is a female-led NFT project in collaboration with the 2018 World Fantasy Award winner, and it combines story, sound, play, psychology and generative art sculpted by your choices in the story.
We jammed with Kianga & Ellie on
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additional perspectives each would bring to the conversation around diversity in Web3
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what is it that women are uniquely able to bring to web3?
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their greatest fears for Web3
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the power of imagination and fiction as the primal VR tech
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what Plato has to teach us about current world crises in politics & government
LinksFollow Kianga on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fhomoney
Follow Ellie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EllieThinksNot
Betwixt NFT Project: https://nft.betwixt.life/
Acre DAOS FAQ: https://faq.acredaos.com/acre-daos-faqs/
Ellie's writing: http://www.elliethinks.com/
Kianga's writing: https://www.futurehistoryofmoney.com/
Join @SpaceXponential & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:
- Digital Ad Real Estate by @modernbillboard
- Critical Infrastructure by @butter_hq
- Real-World Impact by @Ukraine_DAO
- Tough times at Consensys
- Brantly vote at @ensdomains
- Mic drop on DAOs by @RogerLMartin
Show Links
- The Modern Billboard
- Butter - Virtual collaboration tool
- Come Back Alive/Return Alive Foundation
- Consensys lawsuit
- Infura blocking access to certain jurisdictions/Infra down in Venezuela
- Brian Armstrong's response to Moxie's criticisms
- Vote to remove Brantly from ENS
- Governance tokens
Join @SpaceXponential & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into
- Lens Protocol by AAVE
- Salesforce + NFT Cloud service
- Intro to Metagovernance
- Wildfire DAO -metagovernance collective
- Treasure DAO —> game publishing
Show Links:
- Lens Protocol
- Lens Protocol Open Letter
- Salesforce + NFT Cloud Service
- Wildfire DAO
- Treasure DAO
- ETH Denver Regenerative Finance
- METADREAMER ETH Denver recap
Join @SpaceXponential & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:
- Seed Club Accelerator Cohort 4
- Metalabel & multiplayer mode cultural creation
- Pentagraph -enter ye “glorious age of storytelling”
- gmgn supply co. building CPG brands
- YouTube, creator loyalty & NFTs
Show Links
- Seed Club 04 Accelerator Vote
- Metalabel “introducing metalabels”
- Pentagraph
- Thobey Campion
- Gmgn supply co slides
- YouTube faces down exodus of talent
We're excited to bring you a new Community Hangout with Deanna from Boysclub!
Here's what we cover:
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Boysclub's origin
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Deanna's journey into web3
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Building collaborative learning resources and learning in community
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The web3 "spark"
Join @SpaceXponential & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into
- LooksRare $LOOKs airdrop
- Glass launches PRISM, the Uniswap of NFTs
- Bonfire is building custom for Web3 creators
- Tribute Labs’ tooling for DAOs
- Moxie’s 1st Impressions of Web3 & Vitalik's response
Show Links:
- Looks Rare
- Prism
- Bonfire
- Daniel Allan Overstimulated
- Tribute Labs
- Moxie’s 1st Impressions of Web3
- Vitalik Responds to Moxie
Join @SpaceXponential & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:
- Zorbs Time-Gated Minting by Zora
- $CLUB token launch by Seed Club
- NFT Derivative by flipmap
- Gnosis goes cross-chain
- $SOS token airdrop by OpenDAO
- Non-Fungible Olive Gardens
- Battle of the L1s by Kain
- Ground Zero Web 3 Learning by SuperteamDAO
- DAO Ecology by Numa Oliveira and Stefen Deleveaux of The DAOist
Show Links:
- Zorbs
- $CLUB Token Launch
- flipmap
- Gnosis Goes Cross-Chain
- Conviction Voting
- $SOS Token Drop by OpenDAO
- BlockbusterDAO
- Non-Fungible Olive Garden
- Battle of the L1s
- Ground Zero by SuperteamDAO
- DAO Ecology
Join Chase Chapman & Alex Mexicotte as they dive into:
- The Warehouse Digital Identity NFT Marketplace by Dapper Labs and Genies
- DAO Social Media Tooling by Baptiste Greve, creator of Orbis
- Governance Aggregator Platform by Messari
- Mimetic Power of Enemies With Benefits
- DAO M&A Between Fei Protocol and Rari Capital
- NFT music video sold by Latasha
- $6.1M Grant Round 12 by Gitcoin
- Web2 --> Web3 Call to Action
Show Links:
- The Warehouse
- RTFKT Acquired by Nike
- Orbis
- Messari Governor Platform
- Enemies With Benefits
- Collab with FWB
- Governance Proposal to Merge Channels
- Fei & Rari Merger
- Latasha NFT Music Video
- NFT Hyperlinks
- Gitcoin Grant Round 12
- Kickstarter Moving to Blockchain
We're so excited to bring you a new Community Hangout with Juliet from Surge! Here's what we cover:
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Surge's origin
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What it means to build inclusive educational resources in web3
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How to build a truly peer-to-peer community
Join @SpaceXponential & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:
- Former Lyft CFO joins Opensea & eyes IPO (Crypto Twitter loses its mind.)
- Rarible releases native Messenger
- Poolsuite’s NFT drop on Zora and our theory on why the vibez are unbeatable
- New DAO launch: Abolition in Progress DAO by Sirsu
- The Web3 polarity of Omakase vs Community-driven. h/t to Luke Burgis!
Show Links
- OpenSea
- Rarible Native Messenger
- Poolsuite’s NFT Drop
- DAOcentral
- Abolition in Progress
- Luke Burgis article
Welcome to the FF podcast. Today we're stoked to bring you a Community Hangout with En, the Community Lead of Web3 Baddies.
Web3 Baddies is the hot girl metaverse and is on a mission to make web3 more diverse, inclusive and accessible.
En recently joined Jihad on a Forefront Community Hangout. They jammed about web3’s inherently social nature, which calls upon us to focus more on the ppl than the tech and also to be intentional about creating diverse, inclusive spaces.
And you won’t want to miss En’s thoughts near the end of this podcast, when they press for a new paradigm for the lifecycle of businesses and orgs, one that pivots away from scarcity and fear to embrace a dynamic of entities emerging and then dying, to make room for new initiatives that are more needed.
links
https://www.web3baddies.com/
https://twitter.com/web3baddies
Join @SpaceXponential & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:
- New social tokens tooling: Super charge your community-building w/ HyperVIBES by Rarible DAO
- New DAO tooling: Wonder is building the Web3-native Asana X Product Hunt
- New DAO launch: Dream DAO investing in future of web3 X social impact
- Mimetic Power of ConstitutionDAO
- DAO Community Leadership by Rafa & Creator Cabins
Show Links:
- HyperVIBES
- HyperVIBES launch
- Wonder
- Dream DAO
- Dream DAO Whitepaper
- Constitution DAO
- DAO Community Leadership
Welcome to the FF podcast. Today we're stoked to bring you a Community Hangout with Mike & Jeremy, co-founders of Catalog.
Catalog is building the foundational music NFT platform of Web3, empowering artists to mint rare 1 of 1 digital records and keep 100% of all future sales.
Mike and Jeremy recently joined Jihad on a Forefront Community Hangout to jam on
- How Music NFTs cultivate both financial and social relationships between artist and fan,
- How labels will evolve as web3 grows,
- The rich continuum of fan-relationships that creators can build, with full-time fandom being only one option, and finally,
- The Future of Catalog as the base layer for Music NFTs
Enjoy this community hangout with the founders of Catalog.
Links:
https://beta.catalog.works/
https://twitter.com/catalogworks
Join @SpaceXponential & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:
- New social tokens tooling
- Patreon flirts w/ creator coins
- Nansen NFT Blue Chip Index
- New social tokens projects
- Rally launches SuperLayer Labs & decentralization debate
- Mad Realities, the “MTV of a new type of TV”
- City Coins coming to NYC
- New DAO launches
- ENS epic air drop, DAO + call for delegates
- DAO Masters onboarding the next mil to DAOs
- Unnamed Fund imagining new futures for funding creative projectsBuzzworthy
- The Great Resignation goes global
- Verses & “Declaration of Interdependence of Cyberspace”
Welcome to the FF podcast. Today we're stoked to bring you a Community Hangout with Réka of Agora Space and guild xyz.
In her life before web3, Réka worked as a veterinarian and launched a startup in sustainable agriculture.
Today, Réka is one of 12 members of the Agora team. Their vision is to craft composable, collaborative tools that give sovereignty to web3 communities.
Réka recently joined Jihad on a Forefront Community Hangout to jam about guild, a primitive authorization layer tool that can be used anywhere in web3.
Enjoy this community hangout with Réka of Agora Space.
Links:
https://twitter.com/reka_eth
https://twitter.com/guildxyz
https://twitter.com/AgoraSpaceDAO
Join @SpaceXponential & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:
- New social tokens projects
- Reddit’s building NFT platform
- Sam Altman launches Worldcoin
- Catalog Works - the Opensea of music NFTs
- Bright Moments + Tyler Hobbs collab
- New DAO tooling
- Backdrop - Etherscan for on-chain work
- Askmirror: search engine for Mirror
- Clarity app - DAO knowledge management
- DAO launches
- ecodao_ - UBI for artists & planet
- MUSE0DAO - internet-native museum
- Tim Ferris & DAOs
- Facebook rebrands as Meta
Show Links:
- Reddit & NFTs
- Worldcoin
- stackin.eth on Catalog Works
- Bright Moments + Tyler Hobbs collab
- NFTs & old art-world power structures
- Grateful Dead vintage tee auctioned off
- Backdrop
- Askmirror
- Clarity
- Lobby
- ecodao
- Muse0 DAO
Today we're stoked to bring you a Community Hangout with Chuy Garcia of Token Engineering Commons.
The mission of the Token Engineering Commons or TEC is to advance the transdisciplinary field of token engineering - an emerging discipline focused on holistic systems design and the theory, practice and tools used to design and verify tokenized ecosystems.
Chuy recently joined Jihad on a Forefront Community Hangout.
They dove deep into TEC’s mantra, “Our economy, our choice”; on Gravity, TEC’s trust creation & conflict management initiative; and finally on why token engineers may be among the most under-rated roles in DAOs.
Enjoy this community hangout with Chuy Garcia of Token Engineering Commons.
Links:
TEC website: https://tecommons.org/#mission
Gravity: https://medium.com/token-engineering-commons/why-is-gravity-relevant-in-token-engineering-e28ae4a5b5a1
Show notes
Today we're stoked to bring you a Community Hangout with Zakku, co-founder of Coordinape.
Prior to entering the Web 3 space, Zakku was passionate about collaborating for impact & worked in operations sustainability for businesses such as Dell, Apple and Intel.
Zakku went on to found Converge to solve the riddle of forming IRL networks for collaboration.
Today, Zakku is the founder of Coordinape, ubiquitous in the DAO tooling landscape.
Coordinape decentralizes a DAO’s compensation strategy, allowing DAO members themselves to disperse rewards peer-to-peer.
Zakku recently joined Jihad on a Forefront Community Hangout. They dove into the relationship between gratitude and gifting, human coordination and tech, retroactive vs proactive compensation, and the use cases for Coordinape that surprised Zakku.
Enjoy this Community Hangout with Zakku.
Links:
https://coordinape.com/
https://twitter.com/fifthworldzach
- Exploring the open design space around the term "social tokens"
- Hot take from David Phelps: Why NFTs are the best social tokens and always have been
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Social Tokens
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- New tooling/product for devs: Radicle Funding's Community NFTs
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- Felicia Day's new creator coin $GEEX
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- NFT apps boom: COntext, Nifty's & Showtime
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DAOs
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New tooling: Orca Protocol & Pods
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New DAO launches
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DAMN (Decentralized Autonomous Media Network)
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ScribeDAO
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Facebook going down, crossing the chasm to Web3, and personal aha moments
- hwgmi (how we're gonna make it): Spread the love around! Take a break from crypto (often), read & explore in divergent areas and topics.
Show links:
- FF Learn, Course 1: What is a Social Token
- David Phelps, "The Currency of Community"
- Radicle Funding’s NFT Community Tokens
- Felicia Day Discord
- Context app
- Orca Protocol, Pods: The DAOnfall of Token Voting
- DAMN Mirror Crowdfund
- ScribeDAO
- Facebook whistleblower
Welcome to the inaugural episode of the Forefront podcast, where we curate the latest & greatest in tokenized communities and the internet-native economy.
Join @SpaceXponential & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:
- mCon key takeaways
- Coinvise v.3
- Seedclub Accelerator - Cohort 3
- Gnosis Guild & Zodiac
- Hostile Takeover of Venus Protocol
- Ultimate DAO Report
Show Links:
- Zodiac Mirror announcement
- Bankless & Gitcoin “DAOs: The New Coordination Frontier” Report
- Andrew Beal, Barbarians at the Gate
- Social tokens, NFTs, Governance, Identity - James Young and MetaDreamer
- Mission critical infrastructure for DAOs -John Paller and Griff Green
- How to launch a Service DAO - Spencer Graham and Mia Koda