The Roadmap: Recent Episodes

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-NFT Market update

- Check out sales

- Top projects

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Founders: https://twitter.com/dom3xyz & https://twitter.com/jo3car

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- BAYC Sewer Passes/Dookey Dash

- NFT Market Update

- NFT/Crypto headlines

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On today's show:

- BAYC Dookey Dash

- NFT News, Azuki, Digi Daigaku/Limit Break, Logan Paul/CryptoZoo

- NFT Market Update

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On today's show:

NFTs in 2022: A Look Back and What to Expect in 2023

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On today's show:

Exclusive Interview: Game of Thrones NFTs are coming

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On today's show:

- BAYC NEWS- new CEO, new trailer

- Trump NFTs???

- News and headlines

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On today's show:

- Interview with Wall St Bulls team

- Benzinga Future of Crypto Recap

- News and headlines

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On today's show:

- Top NFT Projects

- NFTs in the Super Bowl

- NFT Plushies

- Sorare Segment

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On today's show:

Top 10 NFT Projects
BAYC pumped - Mutant Hounds
Pudgy Penguin auction
TMNT x Chimpers NFT

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Chris Katje

Alyssa Cole

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World Cup NFTs, Headlines, News

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Chris Katje

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On today's show:

Top NFT Projects
@Nike launches .swoosh
@adidas launches inaugural NFT wearables collection.
@Oracle Red Bull Racing & Azuki

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On today's show:

-Guest: https://twitter.com/Ishanb22 talking FTX / Sam Bankman-Fried

Crypto / NFT Market Update
Sorare Updates

_ Nike, Yuga acquires 10KTF, Adidas World Cup commercial

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On today's show:

FTX/Binance update
Opensea backtracks on royalties
Sorare
KPR art reveal
Top 10 projects

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Chris Katje

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On today's show:

VeeCon Announcement
Solana News
Binance/FTX
Yoots reveal

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Chris Katje

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On today's show:

NFT Market update
Top 10 projects by sales vol
NFT Whitelists?

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Chris Katje

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On today's show:

NFT Market update
Top 10 projects by sales vol
New NFT Projects
Elon Musk bought Twitter, good or bad for NFTs?

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Chris Katje

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On today's show:

NFT Market update
Top 10 projects by sales vol
New NFT Projects

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Chris Katje

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On today's show:

Reddit NFTs
Top NFT sales
NFT news / market update

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Chris Katje

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On today's show:

INTERVIEW with https://twitter.com/Billy_Apespeare

https://twitter.com/graycraftnft

NFT News

-Sorare NBA kicks off - opening packs live!

BEANIES BACK?!

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Chris Katje

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On today's show:

INTERVIEW with MacNCheeasy

https://twitter.com/MacNCheeasy https://www.tiktok.com/@macncheeasy?_t=8WcArEK8gGY&_r=1

Top NFTs sales
Market update
Azuki, Logan Paul, Bored Apes, Sorare, Super Bowl

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Chris Katje

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On today's show:

NFT Market Update
Top 10 NFT sales
Veefriends partners with one of the largest retailers in the world.

NFTs #NFTMarket #GaryVee nft art upcoming nfts benzinga nft show bored ape yacht club

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On today's show:

NFT Market Update
Top 10 NFT sales
International NFT Day

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Chris Katje

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On today's show:

NFT Market Update
Top 10 NFT sales
Openings NFL All Day Packs
Sports NFTs

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Chris Katje

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Today's special guest:

https://twitter.com/SprinterDAO

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Chris Katje

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Today's special guest:

https://twitter.com/franklinisbored

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Chris Katje

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Today's special guest:

https://twitter.com/LucaNetz CEO of Pudgy Penguins

https://twitter.com/pudgypenguins

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Chris Katje

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Checking out the top 10 NFTs this past week, new mints, NFT headlines, Twitter updates, community updates, and more!

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Chris Katje

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Checking out the top 10 NFTs this past week, new mints, NFT headlines, Twitter updates, community updates, and more!

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Chris Katje

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Today's guest:

https://twitter.com/ToyBoogers

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Chris Katje

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On today's Roadmap:

NFT Marketplace Update

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Chris Katje

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Today's special guest:

Carl Jones, Creator of Bubblegoose Ballers & Producer of The Boondocks.

https://twitter.com/iamcarljones

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On today's Roadmap:

NFT Market Update

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Chris Katje

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Join Chris, Harrison, and Emmett as they unbox and reveal VeeFriends trading cards!

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Chris Katje

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On today's Roadmap:

Netflix Stranger Things NFTs
Bill Murray buys more NFTs - Quirkies
NFT News
NFT Market update

MEET THE HOSTS

Chris Katje

Twitter: https://twitter.com/chriskatje

Alyssa Cole

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlyssasCC

NFTs #NFTMarket #NFTProjects nft art upcoming nfts benzinga nft show

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NFT MarKET Update

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Chris Katje

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Top 10 NFTs
ENS Sales
NFT News
BR1 Interview:

https://twitter.com/BR1Metaverse

https://twitter.com/RyanEver

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Chris Katje

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BAYC Update, Otherside, Drama
OpenSea Data Breach
Top 10 NFT sales
NFT market update

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Chris Katje

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Bored Ape Yacht Club Lawsuit
Top 10 NFTs by sales Volume
NFT Market update
NFT News
New Mints

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Chris Katje

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Alyssa Cole

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Today's episode of The Roadmap:

Ape Fest Day 2 Performers Timbaland, Lil Baby, Doodles 2 Announced and Pharrell Joins Project, What's Next?

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Chris Katje

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Today's episode of The Roadmap:

NFT NYC 2022
Bored Ape Yacht Club - Apefest 2022
NFT news
NFT Market update

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Chris Katje

Brian Moir

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Alyssa Cole

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Today's episode of The Roadmap:

Our long-term NFT picks
NFT headlines
NFT market update

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Chris Katje

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Alyssa Cole

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Today's episode of The Roadmap:

Interview with https://crypto.webacy.com/ team. https://twitter.com/0x_Capital discord.gg/EMWfXZxqUs
NFT news

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Chris Katje

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Reacting to Garyvee's interview from Veecon 2022!

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Chris Katje

Mitch Hoch

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Alyssa Cole

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VeeCon 2022 is a multi-day superconference where only VeeCon NFT ticket holders will experience an extraordinary lineup of content including iconic keynote speeches; innovative and educational talks, panels and Q&A sessions; and many collaborative experiences. In addition, there will be a bevy of entertainment.

Welcome to The ROADMAP

MEET THE HOST

Chris Katje

Twitter: https://twitter.com/chriskatje

GaryVee #VeeCon2022 #VeeconReview

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Bored Ape Yacht Club hacked for 3rd time
Zed Run come back?
Snoop Dogg is opening an NFT restaurant
Apefest
Veecon interview recap

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Chris Katje

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Welcome to ROADMAP Part2 of the 3-Part Series

4 Leading NFT Projects

Cool Cats @coolcatsnft

-Clon @cloncast Founder 🐱 Artist 💙 Creative Director

https://twitter.com/cloncast

-Elu @evanluza

Brand & Development ⚡️ Founder

https://twitter.com/evanluza

SupDucks @RealSupDuck

https://twitter.com/RealSupDucks

FrankyNines @frankynines

OG Artist working in the Blockchain Industry.

https://twitter.com/frankynines

Art Blocks @artblocks_io

https://twitter.com/artblocks_io

Snowfro/ Erick Calderon Founder & CEO of Art blocks @ArtOnBlockchain

https://twitter.com/artonblockchain

Pixel Vault @pixelvault_

https://twitter.com/pixelvault_

GFunk @Gfunkera86

Sean “GFunk” Gearin Founder of Pixel Vault

https://twitter.com/Gfunkera86

Welcome to The ROADMAP

MEET THE HOST

Chris Katje

Twitter: https://twitter.com/chriskatje

VeeCon2022 #VeeconReview

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Must See VEECON 2022 Interviews! Part 1 | Roadmap

https://youtu.be/wzhFTUuODt8

Chapters

0:00 - 4:53 Intro

4:53 - 7:51 Apecoin

7:51 - 11:00 Major Exchanges List Apecoin

11:00 - 19:14 Apecoin Value

19:14 - 28:16 What's Next

28:23 - 31:52 BAYC Sales Volume

31:52 - 33:37 ApeDAO Board

33:59 - 38:18 Rally Snapshot

38:18 - 40:15 MAYC Voyager Giveaway

40:20 - 43:54 MAYC Review

44:02 - 48:20 Punks/Meebits/Yuga Labs

48:33 - 54:53 Apecoin Final thoughts

54:53 - 59:33 NFT News: Photo Finish / Wonderpals

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Chris Katje

Brian Moir

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Alyssa Cole

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4 Great Interviews

Avery Akkineni, President, VaynerNFT

https://twitter.com/avery_akkineni

Keith Grossman Time President

https://twitter.com/KeithGrossman

Rob Petrozzo Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer at Rally Rd.

https://twitter.com/robpetrozzo

https://twitter.com/OnRallyRd

Betty Co-Founder Deadfellaz

https://twitter.com/betty_nft

https://twitter.com/Deadfellaz

Chapters

00:00 - 00:17 VEECON 2022

00:00 - 6:41 Avery Akkineni, President, VaynerNFT

06:42 - 17:04 Keith Grossman Time President

17:05 - 24:30 Rob Petrozzo Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer at Rally Rd.

24:31 - 31:01 Betty Co-Founder Deadfellaz

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Chris Katje

Brian Moir

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Alyssa Cole

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On today's Roadmap:

-Top 10 NFT sales

Free NFT Mint takeover
Free Sports NFTs from Tom Brady
Akumu Dragonz, Goblin Town NFT, More mints to come?

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Chris Katje

Brian Moir

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Alyssa Cole

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On today's Roadmap, we're talking to the minds behind Trippin Apes Tribe... which is definitely not a cult

10,000 Apes have fallen under the trance of a mysterious yet charismatic leader, Chorles, but don’t worry… it's definitely not a cult.

https://twitter.com/TrippinApeNFT

https://magiceden.io/marketplace/trippin_ape_tribe

Guests:

Joining us on today's Roadmap: SOL Legend https://twitter.com/SolanaLegend

NFTs @ FTX.US & Co-Founder of MonkeDAO

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Chris Katje

Brian Moir

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Alyssa Cole

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Episode Summary:

Today's episode of The Roadmap:

NFT News
Solana NFT Projects

Guests:

Joining us on today's Roadmap: SOL Legend https://twitter.com/SolanaLegend

NFTs @ FTX.US & Co-Founder of MonkeDAO

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Chris Katje

Brian Moir

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Alyssa Cole

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Today's episode of The Roadmap:

VEECON 2022 RECAP

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Chris Katje

Brian Moir

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Alyssa Cole

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Today's episode of The Roadmap:

NFT News
How To Mint SOL NFT Projects

Guests:

Joining us on today's Roadmap: SOL Legend https://twitter.com/SolanaLegend

NFTs @ FTX.US & Co-Founder of MonkeDAO

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Chris Katje

Brian Moir

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Alyssa Cole

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Today's episode of The Roadmap:

NFT Market Update
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Chris Katje

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Alyssa Cole

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Today's episode of The Roadmap:

Apecoin + NFT News
Elon Musk changed his Twitter PFP today, Bored Ape Yacht Club
Apecoin pumped and dumped this morning
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Chris Katje

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Today's guest: Metaverse HQ Founder: https://twitter.com/JakeAndBakeNFT

& Marketing Lead: https://twitter.com/Jacob___Meyer

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Today's episode of The Roadmap:

Today's guest:

https://twitter.com/TropixOfficial

Tropix music, NFT News
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Chris Katje

Brian Moir

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Alyssa Cole

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Episode Summary:

Today's episode of The Roadmap:

Apecoin + NFT News
Elon Musk changed his Twitter PFP today, Bored Ape Yacht Club
Apecoin pumped and dumped this morning
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Hosts:

Chris Katje

Brian Moir

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Alyssa Cole

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Today's episode of The Roadmap:

Today's guest: Metaverse HQ Founder: https://twitter.com/JakeAndBakeNFT

& Marketing Lead: https://twitter.com/Jacob___Meyer
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Chris Katje

Brian Moir

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Alyssa Cole

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Episode Summary:

Today's episode of The Roadmap:

Apecoin broke above $20 today
NFT News, BAYC, Top projects
BAYC Otherside mint coming soon
Kitbash Boogers news
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Chris Katje

Brian Moir

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Alyssa Cole

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Today's episode of The Roadmap:

Top 10 NFTs by sales volume
Bored Ape yacht Club, Otherside minting this Saturday 4/30.
How to buy Otherside Metaverse land
Bored Apes Instagram HACKED losing Millions
VeeFriends series 2
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Hosts:

Chris Katje

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all right, everyone. This is the roadmap work. It's Tuesday. Hopefully everyone had a good, long holiday weekend. I'm seeing a lot of people here in the chat, including some people who might have some super stickers and emojis here. Benzinga actually just launched our subscription service on YouTube for 3 99 month.

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I want to go ahead and bring up. My cohost Benzinga zone. Brian Moore, Brian, what's going on buddy? Oh pretty good. Now, after we got those technical issues out of the way, we're ready to rock and roll technical issues. It feels like a Monday, Brian, it's not it's Tuesday, but I'm pretty much thinking it's Monday, all day.

So I would expect technical issues and more issues to come. But. Yeah we got some stuff to talk about. We got a lot of NFT news some events that happened over the weekend. And then we did get the big news that our friends FTX are launching a new gaming division. We'll get into that.

And we thought that since we're going to talk about NFT games, maybe we should take a look at five play to earn an Ft games that should be on your radar for our viewers and our listeners. What do you think of that? I love it and want some more. Definitely. All right let's dive in to the news flow here.

So it's Tuesday, AKA Monday or Tuesday. One of the things we always like to start the week with is a look back, right? So let's look at the top 10 NFTs by sales volume of last week. And topping the list was a Zuki 33.7 million up 47%. NFT world's 27.1 million up 171%. This is similar to the central land and the sandbox a metaverse play a virtual world.

We also saw efforts up 48.6%. We had Eden horde, Kobata AXI, infinity, tasty bones, board, API club, three, Landers and clone ax, rounding out the list. Just to highlight a couple of Zuki has a floor price at 12.49. And FTE worlds. That's a collection of 10,000 17.49 east. And then am efforts 4.59. I remember when that thing was trading at a floor of 0.2, it has risen significantly.

People are using this as their profile picture. It's almost the new crypto punk style, a lot of people in it. And then of course, some new ones Eden. Tasty bones, but then we also saw board API club Clonex and ACCE remaining in the top 10. And then which we're going to talk about later on the plater earn NFP game on the avalanche blockchain, Brian showing some strength being in the top 10 for two straight weeks.

We don't often see avalanche projects in the top 10, and now we have one that's been there two weeks. What catches your eye and stands out to you top 10 lists. I like what you just said about how avalanche is now. The second week in a row, they're on a top 10. That's just, that's a lot of good news for avalanche.

It shows a little sustainability and a little good inkling that we'll have more to come. I like that the M efforts is top three and cause that project is a little, it's fun. It's interesting. And there's like some stuff. Hidden stuff in there that if you're a part of the community, you know about, I don't know, a lot of deep dive into it, but I've seen a lot of talk on Twitter and I just liked that project just cause was fun and vulgar and I don't know, it just makes me smile.

So that's good enough for me being on the top 10. I'll take it. That sound, a game in blockchain project that's on there. I think that's the most interesting aspect of it all. Yeah. We talk about the top 10. The other thing Brian I'd know is so out of these 10, five appeared on last week's list and five were new either a return or brand new to this top 10 list.

So it's nice. We got to change the pace here. NFP world. Brian, we've been talking a lot about decentral land in the sandbox. Those are the two big plays, right on the metaverse NFTs and Ft worlds. Those starting to show some strength almost as like a a former third wheel that could be a triple threat here.

I know a lot of. Very high floor price. Now, 17.49 last I looked, I haven't looked today. But the one thing I know is crypto debt, oh, 15, eight now at the time of this episode, crypto dads, which I own some NFTs and crypto moms, they have land and NFT worlds, and they're going to launch their own universe there.

And along with that, you'll be able to participate and maybe earn some of the world token. Just for playing some games. And FTE worlds. I like what it's offers. Cause it's all about connecting your project, your community, and you can essentially build your own world. It's also compatible with Minecraft, which is obviously one of the bigger games out there.

Yeah. There you see crypto dad's right there. And I hadn't looked at what the world token was. But my guess is that maybe that one could see some some volume here as this project grows. Not financial advice, but I would definitely keep that one on radar. And Brian, I'm excited to explore NFT worlds just like looking at the sandbox and the central land.

All right. Moving on from the top 10, we did get big news out on Thursday, and it's been that long since we last talked to all our listeners and viewers here, world of women, which is a project we've talked about several times. Reese Witherspoon features a world of women as her profile picture on Twitter, and she's taking it a step further, her hello sunshine, which is a production company, signed a storytelling partnership with world of women.

So they are going to build out a character universe that includes films, scripted and unscripted television shows based on world of women. Hello, sunshine also wants to launch and highlight other women led NFT products. You're not familiar with world. The women. It's a collection of 10,000 women NFTs. It had a mint price of 0.07 back in July of 2021.

Lots of celebrities have gotten into this one and guy Oseary who also has a deal with boredom yacht club. Was signed as the representative of world of women. No surprise that media was coming here. This project has shot up in value. Just insane. It's gotta be getting close.

To at least being considered a blue chip at this point. And Brian so we're at 9.25 east floor. Now it actually came down over the last 24 to 48 hours. How about this media deal though? Movies and TV and coming from hello, sunshine, Reese Witherspoon. It's the same company that actually produces the morning show, which is a show on apple TV with Boone and Jennifer Aniston.

Yeah. So that's one. So I know the company. What do you think of this media deal? No, it's huge. It's enormous and I'm very excited about it cause it's going to lead to a lot of stuff. And then a T space. This isn't, we're not gonna break this dance or anything yet, but we do have some interesting guests lined up coming soon that have other TV shows.

Different production values tied to it that we're pretty excited to talk about. And I'll fill you that in later, because I don't know if I want to worry if we're a ruined anything or if I'm even allowed to really talk about it yet. But there's a lot of stuff happening in this space.

And it's really exciting in this deal itself, I think is going to spearhead just so many new. Crazy great projects and different ways it's going to disrupt the media industry as a whole. So I'm super excited. I think it's great news. I think we could talk about this for hours. Yeah. And maybe we'll do a special episode sometimes to Brian that a new show that you were talking about, maybe when that.

Announced, maybe we do an episode talking about all the NFTs related to a TV shows or movies. Cause we have this one now with world of women, we have board a yacht clubs sign that talent deal, crypto punk signed a talent deal. So maybe they announced film or TV show eventually. And our friends at robotics they have an animated series coming with the robotics and the robo pets.

There's a lot to like in that space and a very exciting time. And I fell all day, which is from dapper labs. It's a the same company that brought NBA top shot. So if you were with us a couple of weeks ago, I know Brian wasn't, but I'm sure he was watching from the sidelines.

I opened up a pack of NFL all day. So there was three moments in that pack. I have a couple unopened packs that I'll be opening on future episodes. So if you want to see me open those, definitely let me know in the chat right now and hit me up on Twitter. I was able to score a pack on Friday, which will have a rare or legendary moment inside of it, along with eight others, including some super bowl moments, but the marketplace for NFL all day is going live today, Brian.

So that was something I said last week. NFL all day launch these packs, but you weren't able to sell the moment. And now the NFL season is over. So are they losing some of that momentum? With the marketplace launching today, we'll get to see real fast. Whether these have high volume of transactions.

If the price drops on them, if people are making more money than they spent on the packs, et cetera. So I have. Rare Patrick, my home's a numbered two 1200 and last I looked Brian, the lowest listed price was $1,400. So I will be following along. Cause I don't know if I want to hold onto this, my homes or sell it today.

I want to see what we get for a volume. What do you think the all day marketplace opening today? You think we see a surge today and we reach peak or you think this will happen over the next couple. Ooh. I don't know what the it's really interesting to even think about because it's new and this is like a Kind of a trading practice, if you will, that's much older than NFTs, but now that we've tokenized it and made it digital, it's a whole new ballpark, but I can't say either way, but I can say that I bet you it's going to gain a lot of traction.

I think over time, we're going to see a lot more volume and interest in this whole aspect because there's already there's YouTube videos. That are directly made just for opening packages. I've seen people where they accidentally drop a card and it's $50,000 and nothing looks bad about it, but because they dropped it on videos.

Now the value has tanked three fourths of what it was worth. It just crazy. I don't know. But yeah, I think there's going to be a lot of interest and we'll see a lot more value in these than we do now. As soon as it's launched. Yeah. Who knows? Yeah. And the other thing to watch is NBA top shot has done a real good job of doing like collections and challenges.

So like right now during the NBA season, if you like collect the top scores of every night, you may get an extra pack. They're going to tie in some fantasy football into this over the next season. Today in the next couple of days could be the days to S snatch up some of these low priced moments and sit on them until next year.

Cause I don't know if the values are going to skyrocket necessarily now, but I think we're going to see increased volume when the NFL season starts in September. Something to keep an eye on there as well. All right let's move on up next. We have the women try, which we talked about last week.

They had their mint and their reveals. So Eva Longoria, who hosted a spaces with the team, she put out a tweet showing off some of her women tribe there. You can see them on screen. This has a floor of points three to nine, and I was hoping it would come down a little bit. I wanted to get one of these, but right now just sitting on the sideline, I wasn't able to meet these.

But now that we have the reveal I'm going through some of the images. They're real cool. Look earthy, some vibrant colors. Brian, what do you think of a women tribe now that we have the reveal out here? The look you said, I liked the colors. I like how how they pop.

And I think I've said it earlier. I really liked the pastel colors, but I like how this has a neon aspect to it. And little bit almost cyber punk mixed with that pastel kind of edge. I liked the artwork a whole. Thing is really unique compared to yeah, and it's not a guarantee, that all women led NFT projects are going to run, just because that has been a trend lately, but with a floor price of 0.3, two, this does offer a little bit, a better entry point than some of these other women led NFT projects. So definitely one on my radar. And I'll be looking at some of these.

Now that mint and reveal is done. All right, guys, let us know if you are watching live right now. Again, shout out to all our live viewers on YouTube. Let us know in the chat. The chat is rather quiet today. We'd love to hear from you. And if you're listening to us or watching this after the fact, let us know, hit Brian and I up on Twitter, or leave a comment on this YouTube video.

We want to know where all our loyal fans are and maybe let us know where you're listening or watching from. So we can see that global audience that we have. Brian. I think it's time to get into today's big subject, is play to earn NFT gaming. I'm so excited that over the weekend, I found out from our friends at FTX, who of course are sponsoring this episode, that they are launching a brand new gaming platform.

So this is going to be FTX games. Which is going to provide complete solutions for companies and projects seeking to grow in web three. So they're recognizing the monetization efforts of NFTs and web three and the the head of FTX gaming. There's a future where 2 billion gamers get to own what they earn and we want to help build it.

So they're calling the new segment F a or FTX as a service. They're going to offer an end to end solution of their core product to launch NFTs and tokens, our custodial wallet with non-custodial integrations, primary and secondary. Compliance and license syncing and more so I'd like that there really being that back end behind the scenes thing behind the thing supporter for some of these gaming companies or these NFT projects.

They obviously see huge growth ahead in NFTs and gaming. This is huge news and they have some job postings and in those they're looking for software engineers and people. A specific familiarity to unity game engine from unity software, unity game engine. One of the biggest gaming platforms out there responsible for helping build around 50% of the top downloaded games.

FTX launched a hundred million blackchain gaming fund in November. And of course, FTX raised $400 million in January when they were valued at $32 billion. Brian, I just said a whole lot of stuff. I'll let you chime in now. FTX gaming. What do you think of. You've pretty much laid it out. Word for word.

What needs to be said, I think is really exciting. I think, like you said, a unity is one of the biggest software engines to build software platforms to build software that there is out there. It almost every game that you've ever played, anyone's ever played as somewhat been either influenced or built by unity.

So that's going to be big. I think that they have actually been in the web, not really web three, but the crypto space because people have integrated a web three or NFTs or blockchain technology into video games for a while. Relative to how old blockchain technology is. So it's going to be exciting to see this go mainstream.

Of course, anything FTX does or touches. There's going to be a lot of money. That's going to be put into it. So you know that there's going to be a lot of Skilled professionals that are going to be building on this platform. And there's going to be a lot of resources that they have available to them to make it as good as it possibly can be.

So it's pretty exciting and we're in a really cool time and error era that we're about to see something. Most influential technologies be built, be it gaining or tokenizing of assets and stuff like that. And plus video games are so mainstream. Now, unlike whenever I was a kid, you were a nerd, or even though it was fun to play video games, you were nerdy.

If you played all the time, which I still do. But now it's cool. And people are making our professional athletes are e-sports game gamers and they're making millions of dollars. So having this be tied into it with all that money and revenue and high popularity who knows where we're going to be.

And it's awesome that we're having some of the biggest savings in crypto and the gaming space and gaming development mashed together. So we'll see some cool things come from. Yeah. To me again I used the phrase that our CEO and founder likes to use with some stocks and some companies, the thing behind the thing, companies that help power other companies behind the scenes.

And to me, that's what I see FTX doing here with its gaming platform. We all know FTX as a cryptocurrency platform. We know it as a growing NFT marketplace for Ethereum and Solana. And now we're going to get to know it as a gaming platform. They're not going to necessarily build out their own games.

They're going to provide that infrastructure for companies wanting to launch games, and there is such an unmet need. In this space and that's why I'm excited. And again if FTX was public, if open sea was public, if looks railroads, public, those are the types of companies that I'd be investing in.

Because they're not a one trick pony, we're going to see some of these different NFT projects come and go, it's part of what it is. It's unfortunate, but a lot of them will not be around. Couple of years from now, right? And your NFTs of those projects may lose a ton of value. But the ones that stick around are going to be the ones that engage with their communities, provide utility and the companies that are going to benefit the most are these companies like FTX that are working as a platform as a infrastructure place. So I like this move by FTX. And the other thing I'll say, Brian I was a big video gamer as a kid.

I like to play some mobile games now and some of those games cost money. A lot of them are. But the more time you spend, you can level up your character, you can earn rewards in the game. What do you have to show for it? A lot of times, right? You can't sell your character.

You can't sell in game items unless a few sell your whole account. I remember when Pokemon go was huge, right. And I played that and people were selling their whole accounts. So you could get an account with a bunch of legendary. And complete your polka docs, but what if they had a marketplace in there right where you earn along the way, and you're able to sell those items.

That's massive. And it's going to increase engagement if you're a gaming company and you have a way for people to earn. Th you're going to have people want to play it. I just feel like that's a fact and the big companies that I know working in this space that we've talked about, Brian Ubisoft and Zynga.

And I think we're going to see more gaming companies. Get there, but I just think FTX is ahead of the game here and we're going to get more announcements of gaming partners out of them. What do you think, Brian? When you play games, would you love the ability to sell some of that stuff that you earn along the way and maybe make some money to where you can spend it in a game or elsewhere?

I think that'd be cool. Yeah, absolutely. Especially if you spend a lot of time and work and what's While you're doing it is to create this extra source of income or it'd be your main source of income. Yeah. I think that's a great way to do that. I think it's awesome to be able to sell sell your work and what time you put hours into it, instead of just collecting it for a hobby, you can make it a living and Brian, I do see a question here in the chat from a black Buddha, which I'm guessing.

So it says, I totally agree with. But why are gamers so mad about NFT earning? So my guests here is that there's been this old adage for a while brian of played a win or pay to win, right? Where people who have a lot of money can buy items and essentially they can win because they have the best items.

So that would be the unfortunate side of NFTs in the marketplace is that yes, you're going to be able to buy items and possibly have a leg up on the competition, but that's a free market society within the games. And to me again a game like Fortnite, you pay 10 or $15 for a skin.

That doesn't give you an advantage in the game. It's just an aesthetic thing. I would much rather have an advantage if I spent the $10 or $15, right? Like that's me. Maybe I'm on the the minority side here, but that's what I think. Brian, what do you think of you're spending 10 to 15 bucks on a scan.

I think. I might be wrong, but in my opinion, I think that's more geared towards younger kids where it matters what your character actually looks like as opposed to what advantages it gives you, because hell I'd ever pay $20 just for a skin for it to make my character look good because either you're in first person mode, so it doesn't really matter.

Or it's just showing off online that doesn't matter. But like you said I still, I'm not going to pay $20 to get myself an advantage in a video game if there's like a way to earn it. And even if there wasn't, I wouldn't really care that much about it, but I know that Paying for some sort of service or utility that it brings besides just cosmetic or subjectively makes yourself look better.

I wouldn't do that. But yeah if I get like an unlimited gun or instead of having to crank out 10, 15, 20 hours on a game to get a certain loop box, I can pay $9 for it and get all the guns that would have taken me. A month to get then. Yeah. That would make sense, but not just for some aesthetic or if it gives me no value in it gives me some advantage rather.

No. Yeah. There's definitely a ton of work here in the gaming space, but I just really feel we're early, still. And again, I I think that. Gaming is a big area for NFTs to tackle. Yeah. We don't want you to spend that much on skins either Chile. That's a lot of money.

Shout out to Shelley here in the chat. One of our, one of our loyal viewers and yes, Alyssa is here. And is the best NFT producer, to be honest, I would agree. And I think Brian would as well. So shout out to. All right. Let's get into some play to earn games that Brian's. So there are some that are already out and that are being built.

Aside from this big news. So probably the most well-known play to earn game is ACCE infinity. And it really took the world. And world global scale by storm last year. We got people in some countries earning a little. Playing and breeding with their axes. So in ACCE infinity, there, there's a couple of ways to earn money.

You need three axes to play the game and you start accumulating the two tokens, SLP and AXS, and then you can breed your axes. So if you have two axes that haven't been bred much before you pay for a X S N amount of SLP. That scales along the way. So then you've got a waiting period as you get those axes.

There's obviously a lot that goes into this. I'm not an expert on. But I do want to share. Brian, we got massive news that Axion infinity passed the $4 billion sales volume milestone, $4 billion in transactions for that game. And that came less than five months after they hit the $2 billion sales milestone in September.

So in five months, $2 billion more there's 166,870 axes in the game. Over $45,000. 1.9 million transactions. And to point out how massive acts the infinity is it's actually the third largest NFT marketplace with $4.14 billion open. See 21.85 billion looks rare, 16.8, 5 billion.

And then ACCE is third on the list. So they're in game currency. Surged and in price in 2021, it hit a high of a hundred sixty five thirty seven, and now trades at 48 82 ACCE ranks. First, all time beating out crypto punks and boarded yacht club, which of course have a much smaller collection size.

We did see ACCE dropped 40% in sales volume last week, but it still was on that top 10. And I saw news out this week that ACCE announced a partnership with bit to me, which will help grow the brand in Southern Europe and Latin America. So it doesn't look like axes going away anytime soon, Brian, I still haven't played ACCE.

I really want. Having to own three when they were around $250 each, I shied away from it, but I think you can actually get it much cheaper now. So I'll definitely be taking a look at ACCE now. And maybe play it just to say I played it and maybe to earn a little alarm the way.

Yeah, I think it's really cool. We've had a on mineral bus, we had one of the co-creators of XC on, and it was crazy just to see him or just to speak with them and talk with them. And that was right when they were first blown up. And that was what, two, $3 billion ago. It's just, yeah.

This game taking the world by storm. It's awesome. It's it really revolutionized? Play to earn. And they, even whenever they first started, they made it a little bit more fair where people didn't weren't priced out from playing. And then once that it blew up, they even brought it down another peg.

So even know people were priced out, they made it a little bit more fair and they keep doing that as it grows. And it's just really cool to see that. They care about the community and see what this game single Handly has done for other players to earn and FTE games and just revolutionize gaming as a whole and disrupted it from its core.

It's pretty neat. Yeah. Definitely it it's really cool to see what ACCE has done. It's been really successful. And again all along with that being said, I just want to. I want to experience it. So I can say that I played it and whether or not that means I earn money along the way, but it's really cool to see.

And they really helped pioneer the play to earn in the NFP space and the fact that it's still so massively popular all these months later is a Testament to their success. So shout out to act. Brian, this next one I'm excited to talk about, but it's another one that I still am in the middle of doing more research on for myself.

And it is the horse racing game, photo finish game based on so Lana, and if you were with us, when we interviewed Solana legend, it was one of the five Solana projects that he said he liked best. It is like the Zed run of Solana and it is being developed by several former employees at electronic arts.

Brian, speaking of video games, electronic arts, one of those. Gaming studios out there and yeah. Get in the game. And they brought a lot of people over to this game from EA they've already built a live simulator. That's been used by media companies, including CNBC. They also launched a mobile game previously that didn't have the play to earn mechanics.

So they already have proven six. They mentored their male studs in September for around $70. When we had legend on, he said that the male studs were going for $600 each. When I looked Brian, I think the cheapest horse I could get was a little under $800. So we're already starting to see this go up and remember the game hasn't launched.

But they did just start breeding. So that's an important element, right? That they're doing breeding already before the game launches. They have a unique breeding system where, you know, those horses can only breed a certain number of times. I don't know if you ever played Zed, Ron, Brian, but that was one of the biggest takeaways for me was that breeding.

You could breed it. Three times a month and their supply has just been so massive now that the valuation has also dropped, right? Because now that you have so many horses, everyone can own one. There's no longer a scarcity of supplies. I like what Photofinish is doing here with their game, you're also going to be able to obviously horse your horses against each other.

There's going to be a token. You can earn. There's just so much to this game. And also the fact that it's not going to be on a Sirium, those transactions are going to be a little bit cheaper. It's going to be fast. Brian. I know you are a fan of this project when legend was on. Have you done any more research?

Or is this something that you're still interested in here with? So I've been a little bit more in a research in, I did try to buy a horse, but I was priced out. I couldn't actually figure out how to utilize it and play it, which I really wanted to. And I did get to the point where I gave up.

So I was hoping to maybe we could run through it on a show on how to play and actually use some of these games maybe later this week, or on an upcoming show dish. Users like, this is how some of these work and especially this one, because I think this is one of the cooler ones, especially being on Salada and being you have the little gas fees, like you said, you can breed them.

And so there's more there's more. Of them out there that you can own. I really like this one. I'm still interested in it. I'm in no means a written off the game. I'm all about it. I don't know much more about it though, but yeah, I love it. All right. If you're watching us live, let me know in the chat.

I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it today, Brian, but should I buy an $800 virtual race horse? In the future, I want to know. Let me know because yeah. I know. Brian's going to say yes. And I know some of you guys out there are going to say yes, but we'll have to do this on a future episode where I dive into the world of Photofinish.

Again, I do have some experience with Zed run. I never owned a ton of horses over there and the breeding by the time I got in, again, it just wasn't as successful in valuation because the supply had increased. So much over time. But yeah, so photo finish next on the list for play to earn.

And then we move over to one. We talked about a couple of weeks ago sky Weaver, which is a free to play trading card game from horizon blockchain games. So this is a TCG, right? Similar to magic the gathering or. I did play this one. This you did see. Yeah. So I downloaded it. I've played it. I haven't earned any of the NFTs yet.

I'm working my way up through, I'm working my way up through those battles bride. Cause I, I want to earn them. I want that that reward at the end. I want to be able to sell them or say that I have some NFTs here. But it's a really cool game and it's addicting the matches take anywhere from five to 15 minutes, which is a nice in terms of time, you can do a at night or after work it's not going to take you hours, right? You can do one game at a time or you can play a couple back to back. And try to, I love a, her stone and imagine. Played magic a lot in highest school. And then as an adult, a little bit dabbled back in, but it wasn't as fun to have as many people, but I love her son to play every now and again.

And this is a lot like that, but it has the the blockchain in Ft, Ethereum mix into it. So I love it. Cause I nerd out about anything that has to do with solidity and blockchain technology. So I really liked this. This is one of my favorite ones too. And I haven't, I've just like you haven't played it.

I've been going through the tutorials. I haven't won anything yet, but I've been taking my time and just dabbling when I have time, I don't have much while I'm working, but it is a lot of fun and I love the aspect of love, how the gameplay works and I'm all about it for sure. Yeah. And again, it's not something you have to spend a ton of time in, it's not something where you got to read through a huge white paper.

If you do those tutorials you, you pretty much learn it. They released some gold cards. Recently, they actually partnered with open sea where they did a drop there where you could buy some rare cards. So I feel like that's going to be something to watch too. As they cross promote with open, see in some of these platforms, The chief storyteller recently did an interview with NFT and cider.

I haven't listened or watched that yet, but that's something maybe I want to take a look at. And see what is the plan of growth here? I have seen quite a few people playing it on Twitch or on YouTube playing live. And again, They do it leagues at a time. Those gold cards that you can earn, they reset every so often.

And then those gold cards will never be available again. So there's going to be a scarcity there. Once the season ends, if you were able to earn a silver card or a gold card if you wait to sell it until it's no longer earn a bubble, I think you're going to see valuation go up. So here you can see some people playing this game and Brian, again, played an earn, right?

If I'm playing a mobile game I'd love to get something in return, right? If I'm spending hours yet it's fun, but it's also more fun and more rewarding. If I have something in my wallet to show for it. All right. So that was of course sky Weaver. And I do have an article out on, Benzinga talking more about that.

I want to turn to another one here that I don't have all the information yet. It's one I've been researching for a time. I remember when they did their mint of their first round on open seat, galaxy fight clubs. So if you don't know, galaxy fight club, a mint or a floor price right now in open seas, 0.49 a collection.

10,000, but this is cool. It's going to connect some different NFT collections. It's going to be a cross-platform player versus player fighting game where holders of different NFT collections can battle with each other to win and earn rewards. They have the G coin is their total. It's a cross IP cross platform.

It's really going to be like one of the first to do what they want to do. And they really are taking after Nintendo that they call themselves the super smash brothers of the world. And they've already partnered with board API club, Chris crypto punks, deadhead animals.

And some other groups, BYO Hills. So it's really cool. And again, they sold out of those fighters. But I'm still looking at 'em and again, that floor price 0.49. It's really not that bad for play to earn game that is up. And I saw some of their big investors. They've got some decent names involved and there's just a lot to like about this game as it comes.

Brian, what do you think of galaxy fight club? The Nintendo of NFT played earn games here. I don't know too much about it. I'm actually trying to look look through it right now. It looks really, it looks a lot of fun. Like I, I think I mentioned just earlier. The gaming aspect of a crypto blockchain empties is not something I really dove into till recently.

And this is definitely one of the games that I can see myself spending a lot of time on. I hope to see more of these games go to like mobile apps. There are a couple of. That I do. There's one, I play called up land, but it's not really a game. You play, you just buy properties and you hold them and pretty much stake.

One form of the other that it's on mobile, but if I can get more of these on mobile, I definitely play them a whole lot more. And this one looks a lot of fun and I liked the aspect. I liked the, this I don't know if it's turn-based or not, but I do think this one looks like fun and I can enjoy.

Yeah, I was thinking it was turn-based, but based on the trailer, it almost looks like it. It's not here. And Brian, it does say on their website download our game for iOS or Android. So it is going to be mobile three V3 team tournaments and 10% battle. Roy ALS also coming where you can earn more gene points and also.

Theory. So if you play this game and you get good enough you can actually participate in some tournaments. So that's pretty cool. I like the fact that they've already partnered with some of these different cyber Kongs and wicked craniums also our partner. They don't have a date.

That's the only drawback, is they're still really working on getting this out. They'll have alpha test and beta testing. Later this year, you can sign up on their website to try to get early access. This is just exciting, right? Another game that combines all the elements of play to earn along with mobile games and the freemium model.

And I really liked the fact that yeah, you're going to be able to play it, have fun and also possibly earn along the way. For anyone watching or listening, that's galaxy fights. Again, a project that minted a while ago, it lost steam and I haven't heard a ton of news about it, but it's one, that's definitely been on my radar since they meant it out in August.

So again a while in terms of NFTs, right? An August, 2021 mint but 0.49 floor price. I think we're early here. I'm not financial advice before this game launches. Yeah, galaxy bike club. Check it out if you have not. Brian, last on my list here we have CRA Bata. So Kobata you heard me say in the top 10, right?

This is based on the avalanche blockchain. And it's another one that maybe we're early to, right? Because the game hasn't launched they had their motto is mine, Lou breed and battle. And if we pull up down at the bottom of their website, I believe is the roadmap and it's got a time table. I believe of specific things.

Yeah. There is there road. If we can zoom in. So fourth quarter 2021 is done we're in the first quarter 2022. So there's a lot to like about this project, Brian, because they've got a ton of events happening this year as they build out that game. And as I said, the fact that this has been on the top 10 for two straight weeks, I think is showing strength in this project.

So again, avalanche was. On my radar, but it is definitely now I'm with this Kubota game. What are you saying? A hundred percent. Yeah. Avalanche is booming there. Them and salon are taken on Ethereum by storm, by force. Sooner or later, I think that they're going to definitely match what a theme is doing.

And like they're already steps ahead because they're fully proof of stake as opposed to a theory. The E 2.0 or whatever the new Eve name is. It's still in launching mode, which is going to take awhile. I think we're going to see a lot more of these happening and I'm all for it and all excited about it.

It's awesome. Not complaining Chris, not complaining one. Definitely. I pulled up the Kubota marketplace just to take a look, Brian, cause I was thinking Hey maybe I can start buying up some of these NFTs and according to this, it's sorted lowest to highest price. The lowest that I see is $1,605.

For one of these crab looking NFTs. Brian, that's a decent price. It looks like a, this thing. People are interested in it. And again, I want to do some more research on it. If anyone out there plays Kubota, please let us know in the chat or hit me up on Twitter. I do want to learn more about this game.

Maybe we'll work on getting that team to come on for an interview as well. Again, Brian, as we try to diversify. Not just a theory. I'm right. I want exposure. I've got flow. I've got Solana. And now avalanche on radar here as well. All right. That is going to do it for our five play to earn an FTS to watch we hope that everyone enjoyed this segment.

We're going to be trying to do more top five and top 10 list. And we can also clip that out. We can do an article. We can do a shorter video. I think it provides good education. So if you're watching us, let us know in the. Did you enjoy doing this top five list to get Brian and I's thoughts on some projects to watch and speaking of projects to watch.

We talked about the upcoming mint schedule last week. And I do just want to bring up some of these projects again, because we have a big week ahead. So we already had the mutant bats of that happen. If you owned a crypto bat, you could fight one of the partnered NFT projects. And now there is a mutant bats collection on open.

See, I believe the floor was underway. We also have a big event tonight, Brian, I don't know if you saw this. We're getting a mega mutant reveal for a board ape and mute and eight yacht club. Someone is finally using one of those mega serums. There'll be doing a live video starting at 6:00 PM Eastern time.

We also got the launch yesterday. Of sneaky by vampiress syndicate for 0.16 east. That is from sneaky vampire, syndicate the floor right now, Brian 0.2. Or 0.209. So not that much higher than the mint price. So I'm definitely watching this one. This is a way to get into that sneaky vampire society through the vampires is here and they have not revealed Ryan.

So there is the potential that you buy one at the floor and it ends up being rare. I did love the artwork here on the vampiress. So another one to watch and then turning to this. We have star catchers minting today at 0.1, one, one, Ethereum, a collection of 10,000. It is one of the most hyped projects out there.

So there is going to be a gas war likely. So I will be waiting to see where these land at AF ger the mint. And then we also have the doggies from. D O double G of the sandbox avatars. The presale is today at 10:00 PM, UTC, the public sale tomorrow, and the reveal is happening on Thursday.

Fingers crossed that you get a rare dog or alien and those costs 150 sand plus a theory them for gas. So sand price right now. Is 3 0 9. So these are around $450 for these avatars. Brian, do you think these us Snoop dog avatars the doggies, you think those sell out super fast between today and tomorrow?

No. A hundred percent. Yes. No flat. Yeah. And you'll be able to play them in the avatar. They're going to be, you're going to be able to be in a music video, right? Not you personally, you technically are. That's your property, so that's. Definitely. And then also today we have dented fields which is 2:22 PM today.

So it actually happened during the show, their pre sale. There is a total of 11,111. and then tomorrow invisible friends minting a 5,009 at 0.25 east Brian, an insane project, right? Invisible friends. I think we see that. Absolutely. Just take off tomorrow. It's one of those floors that I could see hitting a couple of ease right away.

And then we have weather report. Which is the project from the former artist. That's doing dented fields. They are launching on the 24th and then wonder pals launching on the 26th, which is Saturday 10,000 at a 0.08 east mint price. And then also one to throw on the radar because our show is of course called the roadmap.

We like when project. Hey roadmap, but sometimes they also release a new updated roadmap. So we have a collection out there called alien friends. Which minted, I don't even remember how long ago, but they will be releasing their roadmap 2.02 months ago. December was their mint. It looks like they will be released.

Alien friends roadmap 2.0 on March 3rd, Brian, which is next week, Thursday. So as always not financial advice, but when these projects tend to list a new roadmap, you tend to see some volume pour in, either good or bad. Yes, a hundred percent. I think this will definitely pump that up a little bit.

And on the backside, of course, Brian, it'll probably get pumped up going into the roadmap. And if people do not like that roadmap, what happens on the backend? The project could fall because people likely will want to get a ton of new stuff, they want to be rewarded. And we'll see if alien friends what their plans are for the future.

But this is one of those that. Was minted in December. It was in that PFP phase. I did see some people use these on Twitter as their PFP, but the project has lost some momentum and maybe roadmap 2.0, helps bring that back in. I haven't taken a look at the sales value of this project recently.

It looks like it's been pretty flat to start 2022, it did have a good little pump at the start of January. But yeah, we will see what happens with that roadmap or release next week. That's what's on our radar. As always guys, if there's anything you're watching, let us know in the chat. I think we did have one that someone pointed out when we were talking about play to earn games.

If we can find that comment, nifty league DJ Jens is a great working NFT gaming multi-player with live play to earn. I don't think I know nifty league. I think I looked at, I did see something about this on Twitter today and looked into it. It's pretty interesting. I don't know a lot of information, so I'm not going to dive into it, but it's weird that someone mentioned this.

Cause I, I realized I recognize the NiFi, the And I thought that was pretty cool. So they read your mind. I pulled up open sea and I see a floor price of 0.57. Get ready to brawl. Nifty league is one of the first NFT gaming platforms set to change the way NFTs and games are experienced.

That is something we've been talking about, right? Oh, these are their pixel art style. There they are. Yeah, this looks pretty cool. Another one to put on the radar for a play to earn games. And I do like when they have a floor price under one once we hit one, if it's not a project that I'm fully invested in or fully committed to, I tend to stay away.

Just because of the opportunity costs out. But a 0.5 range is definitely interesting. And yeah, this roadmap here so shout out to the chat for letting us know about this one. Definitely. On radar now, a hundred percent. All right. Time flies, it looks like that is going to do it here for our Tuesday episodes.

As always let us know in the chat, if you enjoyed today's episode. And again, if you'd like that top five segment for play, to earn games that you should watch. And then also the calendar, which is so important to talk about upcoming minutes. At the end of the episode, we will be back tomorrow. 2:00 PM Eastern time.

And as always stay tuned, we got pre-market prep at the close coming up where Joel and Spencer will break down all the top stories and trends for stocks and crypto. I know that there's so much going on in the world right now. We did have a speech from Joe Biden and we of course have all the world news out there.

A question here from Russell. What was the first one you mentioned? Was it star catchers was the first one that I mentioned for a today for upcoming mints. I hope that is the answer to your question. Russell's star catchers, February 22nd. All right, Brian, anything else? And to leave us off on today.

Nope. Can't wait for tomorrow. See Wells in the store. All right. And as always, Brian and I will be doing some research into some of these plater earned projects. You never know when we might be playing them live on screen. And when you know, my horse stable decides to kick off in high gear here. Take care, everyone stay tuned and we will catch you tomorrow.

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all right, everyone. Yet, this is the roadmap Benzinga NFT show. We've got so much to talk about as we previewed last. We had one of the biggest sporting events, the super bowl. And there was tons of rumors, tons of conversation about what was going to happen during the big game. So without further ado, let me bring on the man who I talked to about all those rumors and all that news we have Benzingers oh, Brian Moore Hola.

Brian, before we get started today, I have to remind everyone that today's show is sponsored by FPX U S one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world in terms of trading volume and daily use. The FTX app is used by over 6 million people that buy crypto and NFTs, no transaction or withdrawal fees from your phone or computer.

And that FTX us trading platform offers NFT trading on both the Ethereum and Solano blockchains with no gas fees. You can find out more by clicking on the link in the description below and also pinned to the chat right now. And Brian, speaking of FTX we talked about this last week, right? That our friends from FTX, we're going to have a super bowl commercial and they were also going to be giving away Bitcoin based on what time that commercial aired.

So Brian. That commercial was the FTX featuring Larry David. It was one of the most talked about commercials and I thought really well done and really funny. What'd you think of that commercial? Yeah, I really liked it. I liked the other coin based one where I had no idea what was going on with it, the bouncing around on the screen.

So Brian I was way off with my guests on a FTX. I thought that commercial was going to error like nine o'clock. And it actually, I shared the tweet here. 7 54 was the actual time. So they're giving away 7.5 for a Bitcoin to anyone who retweeted and entered that contest. Fingers crossed here, of course, but again, props to our friends at FTX for getting that Superbowl commercial out.

And then Brian, you of course mentioned the other one that I've heard so many people talk about. Coinbase not a 32nd ad. They did a full minute, right? Yeah. What seemed like it would last forever, which was probably good because it gave a lot of people time to figure out what was going on. So $14 million is the estimated cost that they spent for that 60 seconds to have a QR code bounce around.

And. For many of us in the crypto space, in the NFT space, I think we knew what was happening right away. I grabbed my phone so fast, Brian. I already had it out because I was live tweeting commercials during the super bowl, but I scan that QR code and I was hoping, Hey, it's going to be the Coinbase NFT marketplace.

Let's go, let's start buying NFTs. It wasn't but still just disappointed. Like I even, I ran into. As I was in the kitchen, fixing, finishing what were made for dinner because my wife and I stayed home and I saw it on my phone and of course I couldn't do anything for my phone. So I ran into the bedroom, we were watching it and then I started scanning it and got it.

And I was like, really disappointed, but she had no idea what the hell was going on. And she was like, I don't get it. That was stupid. Why? And I was like I bet a lot of people scan that. And then a lot of you are disappointed like me because we didn't really get anything. Yeah. And that's the key point, and I, as my, my takeaway is that I scanned as fast as I could. And what did I get out of it? Nothing, possibly something. So on the top of it, something to talk about, there you go. And what did they get a ton of new users potentially. And that's what they spent money on. Of course. And also Brian, I saw the data yesterday, there.

Chief product officer actually said that they had 20 million visitors to their website in one minute. So one minute after that commercial aired or during 20 million people last or in the month of December, they had 77 million visitors. So around a quarter. Of what they normally get in a month, they got in one minute, thanks to the power of the Superbowl.

So obviously $14 million is no small amount, but it looks like potentially money well spent and also their app. It went all the way up to number two, I believe on the U S app charts for downloads. So again getting their word out there, we also saw. Crypto.com. So FTX, Coinbase, crypto.com.

All doing ads. And then Brian, the surprise one for me. And the one that I think a lot of people loved because it had so much going on was the E Toro one, right? So the equatorial commercial, it featured a Sheba dog, that we saw lots of different crypto communities fight over which coin it was actually supposed to be.

But then also hidden in that commercial, which no one seemed to find until each Toro tweeted out. There was a board ape from the board ape yacht club, NFT collection. Brian, I didn't see this the first time there it is on screen. You have to really slow down zoom there. Yeah. So they tweeted out and said that they brought a friend along.

So that is a board ape that belongs to their founder and CEO. So here we have the the. Of the actual NFT, right? So there it is. That's his, and he featured it in the commercial. Brian, there was all kinds of talk, that we were going to see board apes in a commercial, we were going to see board apes as part of the halftime show.

That stuff didn't happen. But instead we got a one second image of a board ape in a commercial. Is that kind of a small constellation prize or just a non-event. Yeah. It's just here you guys go quit talking about it. Yeah. Now people can't say that aboard wasn't in the Superbowl commercial.

Cause technically so I guess on a technicality we'll take it, but has also mentioned that maybe they're going to get into the NFT space. So maybe this was just a glimpse of what they have coming. So again watch out open, see, there is tons of competition out there or coming your way soon.

But the super bowl is very exciting. We also saw the bud light next commercial that featured the nouns. Which is something we talked about, those nouns glasses. That was really cool for me to see. And technically that was the first time. And Ft ever featured in a Superbowl commercial. So a bit of history there.

What did you think of that bud light ad? That was, it was really neat. I saw bits and pieces of it. Then I had to rewatch it because it. I wasn't really paying attention when I first saw it, but it was, it w it was what you expected, I guess it was pretty neat. I still go back to what I was saying on the episode before the super bowl in hope and hoping that this will push the nouns Dow out there a little bit more.

And we'll have more Dow's actually. Follow what they're doing. Cause I don't know why, but I really liked their style. I really like how they have done everything and just the fact that it's never going to end and it's a daily auction. Maybe a couple years from now when people might forget about or whatever, you might be able to snack one for really cheap, just out of nowhere kind of thing.

So I don't know. I think it's really cool. And I, hopefully they, we see a lot more of them because of the commercial. And the. Yeah, definitely. And something else, Brian is we gotta give a shout out. We talked about a couple players, right? So winning the super bowl and it wasn't his first super bowl ever Von Miller defensive player for the Los Angeles Rams.

And we highlight. Because he is the owner of a couple of board apes. So let me get this cowboy on the screen, right? This is his board aid that has been his profile picture before. He also owns two mutant serums that he has not used yet to make those NAPE yacht club NFTs. I'm wondering when we get news or anything on that, but cool to see someone who's so heavily involved.

In the NFT space, as far as athletes win a Superbowl tweet about it, be congratulated by the community. And then also we saw Odell Beckham Jr. Who has a dead fellows and FTS his profile picture. He also owns a crypto punk. And Brian, I don't know if you saw this picture. I just actually remembered about it to add it in here.

During the celebration he wants again, war his crypto punk. So here it is. I didn't see that the Lombardi trophy there is Odell Beckham Jr. On the right with his crypto punk on his shirt. I mean talk about a flax Superbowl champion, crypto punk owner. I love. And not the first time he also wore this way before.

We talked about that last week, Brian. Odell was having a great game. I was really rooting for him. I had, I may have had some money on him to win MVP. And then of course he got her. Which was very unfortunate. Sounds like it is a score one. So I was fine. I know he did get that touchdown yet.

So good call Brian. I did get some money off of that, but he didn't hit the over on the yards I needed. He didn't win MVP, so that would have been cool to hit those things. But again, my hats off to him, he has now a super bowl champion. But Brian, I think that's what we've got for Superbowl.

Anything else that really caught your eye or to talk about what the super bowl here? The halftime show was really awesome and it made me think about back when I was a kid listening to rapper a teenager listened to rap and all those people were. My favorite.

So I really liked that in sneaking Kendrick Lamar, but yeah, it was overwhelming on the sense of, we, we definitely maybe got a little over excited about how crypto and empty focus it would have been. But then if you look back on retrospect, it makes sense. There's not really much else to do besides commercials and stuff like that.

I was just hoping. I would have seen a lot more stuff, maybe on social media and different announcements, different drops, and just see a lot more trending stuff than just the usual just to have a halftime show, blah, blah, blah. It's a little underwhelming on just that small aspect of it. Overall.

I thought it was good. Yeah. And looking back now, I feel like maybe we should have thought that all along the fact that there were so many performers that there wasn't going to be room or time to really do anything NFT related. And also it's not like it was just Eminem and Snoop Dogg, performing who both owned board ape.

There were other performers who, to my knowledge don't own any NFTs. So what would that have Look would they have just stood on the stage watching, would they have bought some before? Would that have been part of it? And that, that performance Brian, you mentioned it.

Yeah, it took me. Years ago, listening to all those songs and I could've listened to that halftime performance for so much longer. And then it ended and it was like, oh shit, it's over. They all performed, so there probably wouldn't have been time to really get into anything crypto or NFT related.

But it was a great game and also a great halftime performance. And again, we did get some NFT and crypto connections via the commercials, at least. So a lot for us to talk about last week and of course today to wrap it up. But I think that's going to do it for Superbowl talk. Brian let's get into something we talk about a lot is the top 10 from last week.

So the top 10 and FTS by sales volume, we did have a couple, a new ones on the list here. So we had Kara Fu Ru was number one at 54.3 million pixels. Number two at 52.7 and then criminal punks came in third. Cool pet fourth ACCE, five board, eight, six, no surprise. A Zuki fell from one down to seven and then Clonex and mutant, Abe.

And then number 10 I believe it's CRA Bata. So Brian, I'm going to break down a couple of these cause they caught my eye. So Kara Fu topping the list. This one came out around 12 days ago. Now it's a collection of 5,555 floor price of 3.15. So it's an interesting one. And then pixel mine, it has really been talked about a lot and we might get to that later on in today's episode of these NFT projects with huge followings starting their mint price way too high.

So pick some on, had a Dutch auction. The starting price was three east. And now we have a floor of around 1.4. So people are literally underwater from where they got in depending on when they bought in this Dutch auction and then crypto punks. Brian, did you see the record?

Crypto punk 5 8, 2 2. For anyone out there watching or listening? It's one of the rare alien punk. So there are only nine of these alien punks in existence. And it sold for 8,000 EAs or $23.7 million. Brian, that is a huge price tag. And with that, we then saw a little bit of a run on a crypto punks.

And then of course cool cats and cool pat saw good volume because of the cool pets launch. The surprising one for me though, Brian Kirabati coming in at 10. This is based on the avalanche blockchain. It's a plater earn game sales volume, 18.2 million Brian, I don't know a ton about avalanche, but this game.

Tell me more about avalanche? I just saw an article that avalanche is now trending up because a DFI is coming back and I've actually seen a lot more mentions on different parts of Twitter that Defy's kind of making, not necessarily the same kind of run, but we're seeing the NFT.

Pretty much only focused now expand back to inclu, include a tokens and crypto into NFT and both or vice versa or NFTs with tokens or tokens with NFTs. So finally, we're having this mesh that. It should have been all along and maybe we'll see a lot more of these EIP or ERC 1, 1, 5, 5 protocols where you can have fungible and nonrefundable and tokenized assets all in the same.

Avalanches. Yeah, just another defy protocol with staking and all that kind of stuff. Just like Solano. We're just seeing a lot more rise in it. And that probably is why this and if T project had a big boom because AVX shot up 40% or something like that, the last little bit in a very short time.

Yeah. And I have the website pulled up in my browser because I've been meaning to do some research on this game and find out if maybe I want to get involved, but play to earn, we've got the typical mining, looting, breeding, and battling. Obviously looks a little bit similar to ACCE 64 breed types.

It looks like we're still in the early phase here though. So they have a demo for windows, Mac, and Andrew. They have a token, their own token, their own in-game currency. And then also the NFTs that are playable. This is interesting. I'm going to need to do some more research on it. Brian, but it's always nice to see something non related, pop up in the top 10.

Usually it's just ACCE. Occasionally it'll be something on like the wax black chain, right? Yeah. But lately we've been getting these other ones. Solana now, avalanche it's nice to see some difference and some diversification. And that's why when we did our interview recently with Solana legend, which we actually replayed yesterday, too Those NFTs have been kicking it.

It's an area I want to get more exposed to because I want more diversification in my portfolio. I'm definitely going to be checking out Kubota, anyone out there listening or watching has experience with avalanche NFTs hit us up, let us know. Cause maybe we can feature that in a upcoming episode.

Brian, I tuned into a Kula Twitter spaces yesterday. It was actually hosted by a Coinbase, I believe. And it was with a bunch of the women in the NFT space. So it actually featured a Reese Witherspoon. Known actress and entrepreneur, and then women behind So we had like dead fellows, world of women, long neck ladies.

And it was really cool just to hear like their perspectives, the different inspirations for their artwork and really get a spotlight. And from an investment perspective, Brian, we've seen a run on a lot of these women led projects. So to me, I was able to take notes right.

And less than, and see, okay. Which of these projects have taken off. People know about, but they still haven't taken off all the way. Because obviously world of women. Out of my price range right now, it's taken off a ton, but some of these other ones, I still think there's room to grow because they have that that factor, they have a good community, a good roadmap.

So a something I'm interested in. What do you think of some of these women projects? Brian? I think they're awesome. I liked the the. Ah, it's, it'd be really weird to say no, I don't like projects that are headed by women, but I really do that fact that we're having a lot more projects that are focused, headed up by women.

And they're making this a. I would agree that the crypto space has been inclusive over the past couple of years to be mainly male dominated, because it's just, maybe it's because of like how it all is laid out or I couldn't really tell you why I'm not. A social scientist or someone that could really explain the difference, but they're just not as many women led projects are really women in the space.

So it's really awesome to see a lot more of them. Kinda take charge, take ownership and kick ass because it, this crypto and blockchain empty any part of this space, it doesn't matter who you are, where you're from. You could be part any part of the country, any part of the world. Any demographic, any, anything whatsoever, and you can make a name for yourself in this space, and you can either tell people who you are, or you can be completely anonymous and be the creator of Bitcoin.

And no one knows who it is, but has changed every single person's life that you'll ever talk to for the rest of your day for the remainder of time. It's pretty cool. I really liked that, that we were seeing a lot more and they're taking charge of it and being. All I said that. Yeah. Yes.

Love it. Yeah. No, and a good, another good use case of Twitter spaces, right? An area that we've tried to grow with. Benzinga Brian, I know you're so active in the Twitter spaces. I've been trying to listen in on more, right? Obviously. I spoke on some weed co-hosted, but sometimes it's cool to just listen, and get that perspective from other people which is what the NFT community can be so much about. Different opinions, different artists, different perspectives. That was really cool for me. Brian one of the areas I've mentioned was that we had.

Some controversy in the NFT space. So we have some of these projects. Yeah. Nothing new, but it seems like it's really coming heavily lately. So the biggest things I see are a lot of these projects have large followings and then they're doing these high mint costs. And it's something that they're doing because they have the demand, or they think they have the demands. But then they end up not having as many people maybe as they thought, or some of these NFT well-respected names say, no guys like this isn't right. You shouldn't be doing this high mint costs. I've seen a couple lately. We had a serial club mint today and they did a Dutch auction and it just seemed like it was really high.

Squiggles, which we talked about not too long ago, they're meant they actually ended up getting delisted from open C they had some transactions that were questionable from team members, weather report, which we'll get into on the upcoming mint. Their former artists published a document today saying that he was only going to get 5% of royalties and the two co-founders.

Split 50%. So now there's a debate on whether or not weather report is going to make it. And then we also saw jacked ape club, which was another ape derivative project where we actually had some influencers not disclose that they were influencers. The project manager. But then we saw the founders kinda walk away with the money.

Which is something we never liked to see was it a rug poll time will tell because then we saw some other people start to buy him up and the floor price actually rose Brian what do you make of all this? I know I just rattled off a bunch, but there just seems so much controversy to where, if you're new to this space, how do you get into some of these mints?

You're almost better off. Going to existing projects, rather than trying to get in one and find one, that's not going to rug. I think you almost nailed it. Whenever you go into a mint and a not financial advice, of course, but everyone, you need to keep something like this in mind, if you're going to be trading stocks, assets options in MTS grip to anything with NMT is especially if you're going into a mint.

Just know that at that moment is the most speculative. The asset will ever be, especially in MTS, that being said, MTS are on their own. Are speculative in general because unlike cryptocurrency, unlike say we'll take a one ether. For example, one ether equals one ether, but one board API club token does not equal another board come together.

Everything's really subjective. So when you go into the minting aspect say the mint price is 0.06. They mint out, then they're on open sea and now they're going to be trading at 0.03 for the next six months. Do you hold onto it to goes back up to 1.3 or do you get rid of it and try to move on because you don't really want to hold something for six months unless the project keeps your attention, keeps you involved and keeps you motivated to stay in.

So I always wait until see things on open seat. See how much left is in the mint, and then go from there. I've mentored a couple of things, but I think of. Done to in my whole time where I made money off the mint, specifically over buying or minting and holding for awhile yeah. You know what we're trying to provide some education and guidance and Brian, that's where I try to be as honest as possible and we don't provide financial advice and I don't want to see anyone get hurt.

I don't want to see anyone lose money. And that's where I almost want to call people new to this. To look at existing projects that have been established. We know who the founders are. We know that they didn't walk away with the money. They're still active. The discord still active. The community is still active or they're projects that maybe you can buy in with the USD.

And get some some early experience with NFTs, right? Like dapper labs with top. Some of these other drops, right? It's just, it's so hard to get behind some of these projects that have these large followings. And then all of a sudden they say, Hey, our mid price is going to be four ease or our mint price is going to be one ether.

With the exception of cool pets, right? Cause cool. Cats was established their mint price was 0.5. I get that when Newton API club launched, everyone got a serum, but they also did a Dutch auction or a launch public launch. And that was a couple EAs. But again those people have clearly made a lot of money that meant then, but I think that price was warranted because they had that community, they had already done a successful launch.

I just really don't think some of these. Can a do these ones. Yeah. And we got nifty hunters in the chat saying, I believe in jacked, a club Bradley Martin took over the projects, Bradley Martin. I believe has a huge following on Twitter, a fitness person, I believe. He was active in that project and now seems to be in charge and again, the floor price did go up, but they did have some questionable influencers and questionable group of founders. And sometimes red flags are enough to just get me to steer clear of a project. And Brian, it's not like we only have five projects to choose from.

We got thousands. I get a number. So if I pass on one, there's more to choose from and that's. Anyone new to the space. I just want to remind you guys again, to be cautious out there. I've seen a lot of people get burned over the past couple of weeks. And unfortunately when people are new to the space and they get burned, usually that turns them away forever.

And that's not something that. For the space and to see NFTs, continue to grow, we need to get more people involved in the space as well. So just a word of caution, Brian, I didn't even put it in my notes, but I was actually thinking that metaverse right. You missed Thursday's episode.

Last week I had Mitch from Benzinga with me and we opened some packs from MBA, top shot and up all day, but we also spent some time in the metaverse. So we played around in decentral land and Brian, it's a date a day. Doesn't go by that. I don't see a headline or get to write about decentral land.

So today. I actually got to write about the metaverse. The Atlanta Braves are going to be the first baseball team to put their stadium in the metaverse. So they are going to create a virtual copy of their park. And the really cool thing here is for fans is they're going to have some Easter eggs and some scavenger hunts.

And if you're able to complete puzzles and win games, you can win. Maybe some tickets, maybe some memorabilia. And again, it's not like it cost you money. You're just hanging out in the metaverse. And then also J JP Morgan, one of the largest financial institutions out there, they launched a bank in the metaverse this week.

And they also put out a 18 page report, which Brian I'm still reading and working on articles about it. Talking about growth of the metaverse. They see it as a $1 trillion. I know market size. That is insane. But something we've heard other say, but to hear JP Morgan say yes, metaverse $1 trillion and they talk about the growth of work in the metaverse.

Even saying people in other countries could work from the metaverse and not have to worry about moving. To the U S or to other areas. So we could help some emerging markets, it could also help with gaming companies, which obviously we've seen all these. But what do you think Brian?

$1 trillion. Is that just hogwash or is JP Morgan onboard here and that's a legit number in the. No, I think that's absolutely legit number in the future. It's speculative, we say that word a whole lot, but yeah it was JP Morgan first off, so there is a little bit of credibility behind that whole conglomerate.

But also. Yeah, there's no telling like $1 trillion. I that's almost on the low end, in the whole grand scheme of things of what it can be worth in the next 20 years. Within the next five to 10 years, we're going to see probably double one. 2 trillion and who knows it's going to be its own entire ecosystem and decentral and the central land up land sandbox.

And there's maybe a few others, but those three, I think are the forefront of this whole thing. And yeah, it's no telling where they're going to be. And they're definitely going to be way bigger than Facebook and all these other ones. Yeah, but easy Chilean, easy. Yeah. And for those looking looking for more information, like I said, I'll have a couple articles out.

We have one up on Benzinger right now about JP Morgan opening that bank in the metaverse. So you can find a link to that report with that article. Brian. So metaverse huge talk obviously. I want to get to some upcoming mints, right? That's something we always like to do on the show. And again, I stress, right?

Not financial advice, Brian and I are not telling you to go out and mint these or buy these right. We're providing the data, the date, the mint cost, right? Some some information. Oh yeah. You reminded me of the New York stock exchange. They filed a couple patents and they are possibly exploring the metaverse right.

I actually spoke to a representative from the New York stock exchange it's spokesperson. And this is the quote that they gave me. Brian, the New York stock exchange has no immediate plans to launch cryptocurrency or NFT trading. The New York stock exchange regularly considers new products and their impact on our trademarks and PR protects our intellectual property rights.

According to. So a vague statement, right? That they don't have immediate plans, but they filed trademarks. So for those of you out there listening or watching the New York stock exchange, one of the largest exchanges in the world, they filed trademarks to potentially launch virtual currency, a NFT marketplace, NFTs, virtual events.

That's huge. And we've talked about it recently with McDonald's Panera. All these companies where they file and it doesn't mean that they weren't. But normally if you file a trademark, either means you want to block other people from using your brand or you have intent to do something with that.

So to me, I feel like there's intent here, right? Brian, that maybe. I see them launch if, Hey, they can make money off of people buying and selling stocks. Maybe they want a piece of people buying and selling NFTs. What do you think is the New York stock exchange going to take on open sea and Coinbase down the road?

Yeah, I think so. I think one, they be stupid not to form like kind of a. A tokenized version of stocks on their own anybody who is in any ticker that goes through the NYC it has a tokenized version to it. And then there, you open up this is legality and stuff like that.

We're not lawyers or anything, but you can open up a futures. You can open up a fractional. Shares, you can open up a ton of different things, even collateral against your tokenized stocks, because you have all your stocks in your portfolio. Then you also have a tokenized version of them. You get the tokenized version of them as collateral against a loan or may your margin and stuff like that.

There's endless possibilities, what they can use it for. And you know what New York stock exchange that's free. It doesn't consultants. Yeah we got Brian in the house giving some advice to the NYC and Ryan, you made some great points there. And I would highlight with what you said, the IPO process, right?

When a company decides to go. They can choose between listing on the New York stock exchange or the NASDAQ, are the two major ones and there's disadvantages and advantages to both. But what if the New York stock exchange has an NFT marketplace and can make that fractionalized trading option of your symbol, your ticker, your company, right as shares and the NASDAQ can't right.

That's a competitive advantage. And then. AMC, right? They did where everyone who owned shares got an NFT, it was part of their investor connect program. And what if the New York stock exchange could be like the. The middleman for something like that, right? If you're publicly traded we know who all your shareholders are, we can get that data and we can give all those people in NFTE.

So I really think there's strong use case here. And I was pretty excited to see at first, Brian, when I saw the headline, I was like, oh this is fake. The New York stock exchange files for NFT is I was like, no way. So I had to dig in and like I said, I was on the phone yesterday with the NYC.

Cause I wanted to hear it from them. We were able to get an article out and to get that source, that spokesperson in the article, that's something Benzing always tries to do. Is get the source, make sure they're reliable, but a great point there, Brian, on the New York stock exchange thing that they could do, which is something I thought might be interesting.

I'm just coming up with it. But they could also take the tokenized version and different time zones can all sync up to be like there. Preferable eight or nine 30 to 4:00 PM open and close. It could be on all their times, but you can also have the amounts of trade and volume, everything match up to where it wouldn't change anything throughout the country, but everyone's on the same thing.

I was just saying, there's so many possibilities that I'm just so many now we're excited and that would give us a ton more to talk about in a future episode. Let's get this some upcoming minutes. Brian, I mentioned this, we missed you on Thursday show. I had Mitch fill in one of Ben's thing is great video team members here.

I'm sure people had seen him before, across other shows. And one of the things we did was we opened up some packs, right? So I had some NBA top shot and an NFL all day past. Brian. I ripped open the NFL all day pack and I actually had a rare Patrick. My home's a moment. They don't have a marketplace yet, so I can't sell it.

But people in the chat were saying all that's going to be worth a thousand. That's going to be where 2000. I don't know what it's worth yet, but I was pretty excited. Guess what? There is another NFL all day pack drop happening this week. And this isn't just any old pack, right? So at 4:00 PM today, for anyone on the closed beta list.

So not if you're new, you had to already be on the. They are dropping 32,400 packs, $59 each. And you get four moments in the pack and at least one moment will be from the super bowl that we just watched on Sunday. So the very first ever super bowl moments from NFL all day. And then on Friday, they are also launching a premium pack, which will be $259.

No real details on this yet. But two drops this week and the most they had done before, that was one. So it looks like maybe NFL day getting ready to fire on all cylinders and maybe closer to a public launch. Brian, what do you think? Sports NFTE seemed like they're really here to stay. NBA top shot led the way.

And now we have these NFL moments launching is part of the problem here though. Could it be a timing? The super bowl is over the season's over. Are we going to cool off here? And maybe they they're going to see not as much demand as they thought at the end of the season.

What do you take on that? We'll see cause each sport has their own diehard fans. So now maybe we'll run over to basketball and we'll see a lot more like with top shot and stuff like that. And another thing that we're I saw that LeBron or not LeBron, maybe Dwight Howard, I'm gonna, I'm gonna make sure you get the name right.

Who it was, did a made like 330 something thousand dollars betting Bitcoin on the super bowl. And they, he only bet a big, oh, Drake, it wasn't a basketball player. It was Drake, sorry, but a Drake made a $381,000 from Superbowl Bitcoin bets. And so I think we're going to see a lot more crypto game.

It, now that there's a whole lot more sports betting because I like football more than basketball, but I like to bet on basketball more than I like to bet on football. Cause this is a lot more predictable. And I think with NFTs in this whole thing, not just remembering Billy and not just for collectors items, but with NFTs and cryptocurrency in general, we're going to see a lot more betting move towards crypto, as opposed to just or that secure.

A ACH transfer, all that nonsense. That's outdated and whatnot. You'll be able to verify people's location, age, all this other stuff. So I think we're going to see a big influx of that within this year. Yeah. And speaking of tickets in the blockchain, Brian, I hadn't even looked yet. I'm going to have to look after the show.

But we did have where everyone who attended the super bowl got that free Ticketmaster, NFL, NFT. And I hadn't looked to see what those were selling for yet. But again, sports NFTs I think are definitely here to stay and just gonna grow another mint that's coming up soon. This isn't per se a mint, but.

I don't think you had joined the show yet when we talk or no, I think you did. When we talked about crypto bats, the Ozzy Osborne and smattered. Yeah. Okay. So remember how we talked about how they had partnered with a couple of other NFT groups and eventually you were going to be able to do like this bite process, create a mutant bat.

I don't think you've seen this yet, Brian, but before you joined backstage today, we actually where to watching this video and having a good one. Brian, I want to share this crypto bats video. And to me, this is how you make a NFT hype video. Let's take a look at this guys. I really enjoyed this and I'm an Ozzy Osborne fan hats off to him to.

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Look at that. He looks so excited, Ryan. He is ready. He is ready. I didn't get into crypto bats cause I didn't make the white list and that project took off. I think the floor price now is 1.25. But I think it's really cool that they partnered with these projects. And you're going to be able to combine.

So if you have a crypto bat and you have a board ape you can do the biting process. And I just want to see what these look like. The mutant bats, I think they're going to look so cool. So I'm very excited about that. So that is February 20th. So that is first here on our list of some upcoming things February 21st sneaky vampiress syndicate, which is from sneaky vampire syndicate who were on a past episode.

Oh, this is their next project, Brian and a 0.16. Ease is the mint cost. But if you own a sneaky vampire, you have been collecting or earning the blood token. So you will actually be able to pay less by utilizing that blood token. So I liked that, you're rewarding existing members. The 0.16, I do think is a little high, but again, it's a well-established project.

They're been successful. The new collection will have a supply of 12,545. I don't remember if I put any of these pictures into the overlay here, but they look really cool. The sneaky vampire syndicate always reminded me a bit of Oh here's a vamp. Yeah, there we go. The sneaky vampire syndicate all released reminded me a bit of Adam Sandler's character in a hotel Transylvania the artwork, but I always thought this was really cool.

Brian. I'm interested in this. If I'm able to mint and get in at 0.16, or maybe a little bit more, that has been a nice community, right? The sneaky vampire. They also have that blood token, which they can continue to utilize. So that's one that's on my radar. What do you think or know about sneaky bay?

Not much besides what we talked about, we covered the I thought that they were really cool. I liked the art. They have a lot of this neat utility and I think the bats project is one of the cooler ones out right now because they've collaborated with a few other projects. I'm pretty sure wall street bulls has a similar aspect to theirs and.

Talked on the show and like on Twitter spaces with different projects that do have some sort of connection to other projects and written in the smart contract to where it's open-ended to where you can, if you hold this token address in your wallet, you'll actually get either. This NMT, this token will change.

This NMT will change or that one will do, or you'll get a whole new one, that kind of stuff. So I think that's really cool to include in your projects because you not only get your community, you get their community and you get different ones and everyone's coming together, driving the price up and always have a good time.

If you're a smart NFT token developer or a project, this is what you want to. Because you're eliminating yourself just by only your community, might as well join forces or have other people in. I think it's really cool. I like it. I can't wait to see what's next on the evolution of what's going to be the next hot topic as every other week, every other project.

There's something new and cool and exciting. And this is the last one. I think that's the most exciting to me so far. Yeah, no shout out to Gilberto Rodriguez in the chat. I know we've talked to him before with wall street bulls during the, those interviews and the chat and saying. They partnered with a lot of female projects.

So he got white list spots due to owning world the women. You heard me mentioned that Twitter spaces, and now we have sneaky vampire doing a female trait project. And that's one of the things with board apes is the board apes were all these male traits for the most part, which has led to some derivative projects that have been female.

Because board apes, hasn't done a female launched themselves. So I really liked sneaky vampire doing this themselves, creating a whole nother way. Also crypto dads, which I own, they did the crypto moms mint, where you got a free mom for holding a dad. There eventually we're going to have the crypto taught down the road, but I really am looking forward to this.

Brian. And another one we talked about recently with star catchers, right? So star catcher is very cool artwork. A big hyped project. Their mint date now is out February 22nd, a MC cost of 0.1, one, one east supply of 10,000. They just did a spaces recently with robotics and I know the robotics team.

I like that, that gives me some nice validation of the team because the last couple projects that we've seen that have these huge Twitter followings have ended up not being the greatest ones to get in. So star catchers has over 77,000 followers. But we actually have a hundred and common right.

Between me and them. Which I like seeing that, that means a ton of people in the NFT space. Follow them, look at that image right there. We got the backpack, the jacket and that star and that, even that background that is PFP a bowl right there. What do you think.

Yeah, I like it. I like the colors. I like the pastel aspect to it. Yep. Yeah. So again, that is star catchers and that is February 22nd 0.1, one one. All right. So February 23rd Brian, this is probably the biggest project that I have heard about or seen since makeover launched a couple of months ago.

Invisible friends. So invisible friends, February 23rd 0.25 Eve is the ma costs 5,000 supply. Their discord is now locked because they want to fight off any possible, but attempts when they do their mint. Last I looked invisible. France has 470,000 followers on Twitter. And I have 230.

Followers in common. Again, this is the biggest, most hyped and Ft project I've seen in a while, but Brian, there's only 5,000 and they're meant costs is 0.2, five. What do we think is going to happen? I know they have a big white list. So those people are going to be able to get in and probably avoid gas wars, but I don't know how many are going to be left for public.

But I just have the feeling that floor is going to go up significantly. And I actually respect this team a lot for keeping it at 0.2, five. Again, that's higher than we've seen other products. But the last couple projects that have had this big of a following have done a much higher mint costs.

So what do you think? Point two, five mint cost with this big of a following and only 5,000 supply. Was that the right call? Is it too high, too low? That's going to probably sell out very quickly and the floor price will be between on and to eith within seconds of it selling out. If if, even if it's that low I'm thinking higher.

I, this one has been really hyped and yeah. It's gonna, I think it'll explode. It might dip a little bit when people try to sell, get out. Cause it, if you are going to mint, one thing that I would do again, not financial advice. If you're. Try to always get multiple of them. Try to get more than one and do it at the same time.

So you don't pay ridiculous. You're not paying for one and just gas he's alone. Keep doing that more meant more than one. And then take your profits off one of them, or try to flip at least one of them. And if you have multiple more, but if you only buy one don't just flip it right.

When you get. I wouldn't flip it right when I got it. That's what I meant to say. You just hold it do what you gotta do. Maybe by more than one. Yeah. This project. Again, it's so hyped, I'm looking forward to it a 0.25. I'm not on the white list. I don't think I have any chance of getting one.

So I'll be looking at open C for secondary sales, but again, I just think that they're going to be too high pre reveal and I might get priced out of this. But the fact that it has this many followers and this big of a a community and hype I'm still going to take a look, and see and then Brian, on February 24th we have weather report. So weather report, I can't remember if we've talked about on the show. It's one that I've been following for a while. Another one where people are really drawn into the artwork. So they announced their mint date, February 24th.

I have not seen a mint price yet. Look at these images though. Really cool. Really unique. And the thing with this though, Brian, of course, as I said in the drama segment, they have. Some drama out there. The former artists took to Twitter today, released a paper, saying he was let go from the project.

He was promised 5% of royalties. The founders were going to get 50%. There was a huge disagreement. They stole his artwork and the list goes on. They did a Twitter spaces today. I don't know if the former artist was part of that Twitter spaces, if they all cleared the air, if they came to any agreement, my guess is that was probably one sided.

But who knows? So if anyone out there listening or watching knows, let me know, but otherwise I'll be sure to play the recording on that Twitter spaces later tonight. But Brian the fact that there's a little bit of a a phot on this project going into the, I don't love it.

When there's other projects that we could find a. But again, it should be on everyone's radar that the mint date is February 24th and we'll definitely keep everyone updated. And then last on the list, February 20. We have wonder pals, minting wonder pals the wonderful artists MENA a collection of 10,000.

Brian, look at those. They're so cute. They remind me of some of these other projects. And the thing I love about this project is that when we had like toy boogers on and some other. They love this artist. They love the project. Look at that mid price 0.08. Let's get cement back under 0.1.

I love it. This one's on my calendar February 26, 10000.08. What do you think? Have wonder pals here, Bri? Yeah, like that. I liked the price. I liked the art and I liked the. Just the whole aesthetic. Cause that's kinda my style. I really liked those like the cartoony, but like the pastel colors kind of thing.

I like it just on a aesthetic. Just by looking at it. That's what I like. So I'm down with them. I like, I don't know if I'm going to get into them yet. I got to see more about it, but from just the way it looks, I do really like it. Definitely. All right. We're running out of time here, so I just want to recap, cause that was a some big projects that are coming up over the next two weeks.

So again, today we have NFL all day dropping packs where you get a guaranteed Superbowl moment inside those packs for moments $59 32,400 packs available on February 20th, we have crypto bats being able to bite and another NFT project for the first time to turn into a mutant bat floor price on crypto bads.

Currently 1.25. February 21st, we have sneaky vampiress syndicate launching from sneaky vampire syndicate 0.16 east mint price. Or you can utilize your blood token for a cheaper cost. That collection 12,545. A supply. On February 22nd star catchers, 10,000 NFTs 0.1, one one east mint price, February 23rd, invisible friends 0.25 east 5,000 supply.

Their discord now lacked over 700,000 followers on Twitter, February 24th weather report. And then February 26th, wander pals, 10,000 NFTs 0.08. There I got through on Brian. That was a lot to rattle off, but again, a big part. What we want to do of the show is letting everyone know what's project should be on their radar and they should be looking forward to, so we'll let everyone know.

If any more pop up. Brian, one thing I do know is I saw an update from Photofinish the Solana based horse racing game. And I think maybe we're going to have to talk about that on an upcoming episode and get more into some of these Solana projects, because I wrote an article about that interview with legend.

And there was I listened to it again, Brian, when he named his top five and man, that guy is so smart and those five that he named. Yeah. I got to get some Solana and I got to start getting into these projects, especially getting my stable setup and photo finish. What do you think Brian?

We're we're going to have to buy some Solana enough to use right now. I'm two steps ahead. All right. Brian, anything else to add before we wrap for the day? All right. We will see everyone tomorrow, as Brian said to take care of 2:00 PM Eastern time tomorrow, again, shout out to everyone watching us live, watching us on replay and listening in on the podcast.

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Today's episode of The Roadmap:

NFL All Day
Exploring The Metavers

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all right, everyone. Yeah. Welcome to the roadmap. Shout out to all our live viewers right now, joining us on YouTube. If you're here, live, smash that like subscribe to the stream. If you have not already and leave us a comment in the chat, those comments will appear on screen as they start to scroll through right now.

And yeah. Already see happy Mohammed calling out that I have a surprise special cohost on today's episode. I'm super excited. But before I bring him on, I do want to give a shout out to today's sponsor. So today's show is sponsored by FTX U S one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world in terms of trading volume and daily use.

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So shout out again to FTX, and if you have not checked them out yet, I would suggest that you click on that lake and see what they are all about. And speaking of hearing what something is all about, I've got Benzinga zone money, Mitch, joining me on the stream today. So welcome to the road. Mitch what's going on, brother.

What's going on guys? I think I tried to match the background. I hope I nailed that down. Let's go ahead. Let's get to it. I know that I'm relatively new 10 FTEs, still learning myself, but I have been doing more and more research on the metaverse. We'll get a little bit into that. I know Chris is going to lead into that and you guys out there do me the favor, hit the thumbs on up, and also let me know.

Are you new to NFTs? Like I am. Let's go ahead and learn a little bit about it. Yeah, Mitch. I'm super excited to have you on and that's a great point that you said is that NFTs is not your specialty, right? It's a market where you're still trying to learn. And that was one of the reasons why Benzinga created the roadmap, our NFT show, is that we wanted to have. Some NFT projects with exclusive interviews, which we've done already and also to provide education to people. So people who are new to the space, people looking at which projects should they be looking at, et cetera. So today we're going to dive into the metaverse right.

And kind of bridge that gap between NFTs, the metaverse and publicly traded companies, that are getting into the metaverse. If you saw today's title and that thumbnail, we're also going to open up some NBA, top shot packs, Meg. I'm super excited about that. That's something you and I have done live on stream before.

It's always so much fun. Cause it's that surprise element. It's like opening a pack of trading cards as a kid. I'm excited about that. Let us know in the chat right now. If you're here. Should we open up a bunch of NBA top shop packs, cause I've got a bunch and I will also be opening up that NFL all day pack, which right now you can't even go and buy, unless if you were high enough on the wait list, which I fortunately was.

So with the super bowl coming up, I'm excited to open that pack and see who I get as well. Let's dive into the, metaverse met. So Metta versus a term that was created in a book a years ago, snow catch or was the book and Facebook right. Changed their name to meta platforms. And they're going to change over to the ticker Metta I'm ETA and they are going all in on the metaverse.

But they're not the only ones we keep getting press releases. We keep hearing more and more stories about the metaverse and one story that I saw a match that obviously got a lot of attention out there on socials. That there was a wedding hosted in the metaverse. So we have a story out on Benzinga and it is that 2000 people attended a virtual ceremony between Ryan and Candice Hurley from Phoenix.

It was the first couple to tie the knot into centrally and a wedding in the metaverse. And it actually was witnessed by a Supreme court justice, Clint Bolek to certify that marriage. So Mich weddings in the metaverse. Is that something that you know is just a one-time thing here and goes away?

Or do you think there's a market there for some companies out here to say, Hey, we'll marry you in the metaverse. Yeah I definitely do think that you're going to start seeing not only this will be the first, but I think you're going to start seeing a lot. Weddings are expensive and one way that we usually go around those expenses are what invite people that are around this, right?

Like in the same city. The hard thing. It really is when you have like international weddings, let's say if you're in Spain and you're trying to attend a wedding all the way here in the United States, or like some people they want to go ahead and get that environment. Hey, I live in the mountains.

I would love to do a wedding in a beach environment. Why not just do it in the metaverse so I think it's interesting to see that. I think definitely you're going to see more and more come out of that. The average cost of a wedding here in Colorado is over $30,000. Somehow I don't think this one costs over $30,000, but it could be something to definitely think about.

I, myself am starting to dip my toe in decentral land. You guys want to check out a little bit? I think we do. I think we want to see decentral land. I wanna hit Happy's comment real quick. He said, I thought Facebook changing to M V R S. Are they able to get Mehta now? I am able to report and put in my last Facebook article that yes, Facebook is changing their ticker to M E T a.

For those who didn't know. ETA was the ticker of the metaverse ETF from our friends at round hill Mitch, but they changed their ticker to MeTV. And now Facebook owns ETA. So I don't know what happened in that exchange, but it is now owned by Facebook. But Mitch, let's see the central land here in action and get into the metaverse.

People hear about the metaverse, but what is it? What does it look like? Go ahead. Let's dive right in there. I'm actually in there right now. If you could throw me on the screen right there you guys have, there we go. Look as money Mitch in the metaverse guys. Let's go. Let's go to the rooftop guys.

Let's go. Let's go on up. Let's see, this is so cool. And Mitch we've been playing around with this before the show started. And you were exploiting the metaverse here into central land. I know what I'm going to be doing later because after I get done working and the kids go to bed, I'm going to be checking out to central land and the sandbox and some of these other areas, because it is just fun to be in the metaverse.

And that's really what we wanted to get into. Not just fun. There's actually utility and actual brands building around that. A one brand that's connected to the metaverse that I always hear about. Cause my kids love it. It is roadblocks, right? So roadblocks is similar to this where you're playing a game at the virtual world and you can build on top of it.

You can create games, create apps within that virtual world and the national football league partnered with roadblocks. So they're gonna create destruction house, which is an interactive event. So that's exciting, Mitch. We've had concerts in the metaverse right? So that's another factor I heard about dead mouse.

Yeah. We really saw the metaverse kick in during the pandemic too, right? Because let's say you're a musician and you weren't able to tour, because of restrictions, you could host a concert in the metaverse. So create an event, you pick the location and then you have all your fans show up.

And they can listen to your concert. You can use it as a way to promote a new album or new songs and also get them to buy stuff. So it's win-win for everybody. And you're playing to central land right now to central land. And the sandbox are the two big ones. We're going to talk a little bit about some other plays as well, but Mitch, how much fun are you having right now?

Just playing around in the central. No, I'm having trouble listening to you, Chris. Cause I'm just trying to get to the rooftop. I know here I am rambling around and you're just like, I'm on a mission. I'm going to get to the roof top. I'll tell you one thing, guys. I have this turned up to the highest you can have the graphics.

So that's why you see a little bit of lag, but even my computer while I'm streaming, while everything's going on is being able to handle this. So a new computer, I would definitely say that you can handle. The furthest on the graphics. That was one of my thoughts were how are the graphics going to be?

And a lot of computers use this, or is it going to be more, just your high end computer? And I built my computer three or four years ago yet. It's a little high end, but you guys could definitely do this. Another area that I'm looking, another world that I'm looking at is of course.

Block Topia. And so let's talk a little bit about block Topia. I'll go ahead and just leave this on. I'm learning just about this. And I did a little bit of research and one thing that you can clearly see is there's some bigger companies on here. You even got crypto boy, Jake Paul on here. I saw WWE as a part of this.

Let see. Lamborghini is going to be interesting. This one's a little bit more futuristic. It's a building that has 21 floors. And so you'll be able to, of course 21 the Bitcoin thing there we'll see if we can get on through the levels. I think this is supposed to be released here in February.

So I'm super excited to find out a little bit more about block Topia and see its see use that this one looks like it's going to be pretty good on the VR. Yeah. And there you see some of the backers there. Jake, Paul polygon is a backer and some other well-known companies. Yeah. And we got Logan in the chat saying when Lambo, cause you said them.

Of course. So yeah. There, you have it on screen. Learn, earn, play. So you can, it's a play to earn game as well. Which is something we talked about earlier this week, that video game companies need to be in play to earn, that's a huge growing market. It's a way to monetize your assets.

So that's what I like about black Topia. And also as you see flashing on the screen, they already have big brands attached. And like when the sandbox and decentral land law, They were really tied to NFT brands, that wanted to buy land there to connect with their large followings, their discords.

And here you already have black Topia, these huge partnerships where it took decentral land at sandbox months to get some of these big brands on board. So nice. Call-out here, Mitch. I'm excited about this one as well. Yeah this video looks so cool as we see the different things.

And we got Zen bullish in the chat saying yes, NoOps mansion. Yes. Of Snoop is partnered with the sandbox which Mitch, that's something Brian and I talked about yesterday. We do have Snoop dog performance. Superbowl halftime show. What if he were to do some sort of reference to the metaverse during his performance, maybe he disappears from the day she comes back as a hologram avatar.

What about that? Yeah, it could be a, you never know, really the Superbowl loves to try new things. So one of the things that you have been seeing is more and more virtual studios, and how is that going to play into with NFTs VR? AR I think this is a great way to bring it in one thing that I definitely want to look out for is. Actually wearing an FTS. I would love to see maybe like him rocking like a necklace or something that has like the NFT, like literally digitalized it right on him. I think he's going to do something special. It's Snoop. Yeah. We're going to see, we're going to see some sorta item with NFTs during halftime.

I just know it's going to happen. There's been lots of rumors out there. I'm an admin, Snoop Dogg, both on board ape yacht club, NFTE, Snoop Dogg owns a ton of NFTs. So I really think we're going to see interest there and I got to do it. I got to do it for us. I know monetization's off.

So let's just go.

Let's go. Let's go. Awesome. Yeah. I mean that halftime show. Excited about this one. I haven't been as excited about some of the recent halftime shows just cause maybe it's been musicians that I just don't know as well or don't listen to. But these are people that I grew up listening to Mitch and you as well.

It's bringing back that those decades and I'm excited. Of course I'm excited about the game as well. And the crypto commercials, the NFTs and everything that goes along with that. And Mitch, I want to get back to the metaverse and some of these big brands, right? So we saw you walking around in there, right?

And there was like a movie theater in different places you could visit. So brands are starting to trademark their company names and different items for the metaverse. So I don't know if you heard this McDonald's right. One of the biggest restaurant companies in the world, they filed to open virtual food and beverage products, downloadable multimedia files that could include NFTs and.

Online virtual concerts. That's pretty big, right? And it doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to happen. It could just be, McDonald's trying to protect their trademarks, that does happen from time to time. But Mitch, here's my favorite in that trademark filing. And this is from Josh. Gerben on Twitter from Gerben law.

There it is on screen. Mitch, how about this one? McDonald's file. Then it says operating a virtual restaurant, featuring actual and virtual goods operating a virtual restaurant online featuring home delivery. So you go into decentrally and you walk up to your McDonald's you say, Hey, I want a big Mac. And then 10 minutes later, ding dong a food delivery company is at your door with your big.

Is this real? Is this going to happen? What do you think of this Mitch? Yeah. Why not? One of the things is that we always love convenience. And if you can be convenient right inside the game what if you're just playing, you get hungry, go to McDonald's dude. What are you doing?

You're wasting time. They're going to use your phone. You could just literally actually go to McDonald's in the metaverse. I think that's in the long run too. Not only is this going to be playing into, let's say restaurants, but even let's say services. What about a metaverse grocery store where you pick the items in the metaverse and then all of a sudden go Walmart site?

Actually, I think Walmart's actually testing that. I think I saw where they have a shopping cart and you go on the metaverse and you like, see the items on the shelves and you can pick it off the shelf. You can read it and you can add it to your car. Amazon's an easy one here, right? Like Amazon, for years, it's been able to get people to add stuff to their carts online.

And if they could do that in the middle. But McDonald's, to me, the screams, Hey, which food company wants to get on board and do this right. Food delivery, because you got Uber eats, you've got grub hub, you got DoorDash. They saw huge growth during the pandemic. When people weren't eating out at restaurants, they were ordering food to get delivered.

If one of them partnered with McDonald's and this thing became real, it seems like a joke. But I really think. It's worth a shot. And I think McDonald's is going early here. First mover advantage. Another company that filed for the metaverse was Panera. So they actually are trying to trademark Panera verse.

So instead of being in the metaverse Mitch someday, you might be at the Panera verse. So that's interesting. A good play on words. And the interesting thing from Panera's filing was it said that if you, in the future, if you eat virtual food, you could be rewarded with Panera rewards points. So how about if you go to your Panera verse, you eat some fake food and you earn rewards points to then go to a Panera and use them.

Again, it's all about utility, right? I'll take my cinnamon crunch bagel, please with my honey Walnut. That's you can't go wrong. And Panera's coffee. Who knows. Definitely. I'm gonna, I'm going to go ahead and say Panera is making the move of just not trying to be left behind, right?

Yeah. I think this is also the move here by McDonald's and Panera is that if this does take off, they're ready and if it doesn't then guess what they're also ready. And I think that's more important is to be ready into what's going to happen in the metaverse of course we're hearing that word being thrown around, back and forth, and really what this all has to do to me is utility, right?

It's the utility between NFTs and crypto. And I always talk about the underlining assets, right? And so I, to me, the metaverse is that word over the top and everything falls underneath it, the NFTs, the cryptos, and also the utilities, the games that are being created, the technology behind that's all just funneling.

Definitely and match another company that looks like they're going to go heavy into the metaverse in the future is Disney. And this is one I've been screaming from the rooftops on this show that Disney should be doing NFTs, right? They should be doing NFTs. They should be in the metaverse right.

They're one of the largest media companies. They have such a huge portfolio of brands and they reported earnings yesterday and CEO Bob . He said that they believe the opportunity for the Walt Disney company goes well beyond these channels. It extends to sports betting gaming and the metaverse so sports betting and metaverse seemed like they're going to be two areas of huge growth.

And he said that they are going to be aggressive in getting into the metaverse and that's pretty important. And he also called it top of mind when analysts asked him how far along were. Met you mentioned not just restaurants but like services and stuff. What about if someday, instead of going to like YouTube for the new, let's say like star wars trailer, you have to get into Disney's metaverse and you have to go to their event to watch that movie trailer.

That seems like a big win for Disney for me that instead of utilizing YouTube to show off their trailer there, they're going to own a piece of it in the metaverse. What about something like that? Yeah. I'll just show here, right? Decentral land you can see here on the bottom right corner movie evening in the metaphor.

Why can't that just be done with Disney plus right. Here we go. You could just go ahead and you can sign up for Disney plus, and that's how you get access inside the building. And then next thing you know, you can just sit down with people that you probably didn't know before. Next thing you're making new friends while you're watching the content that Disney has to offer.

I think that's something that definitely could be going on. I want to call out easy Mike in the chat here, Mitch. I don't know if our like, counter is broken, but that can't be real guys, right? That we only have nine likes right now. I think maybe YouTube is broken. I know that's not true.

Yeah. Cause if that's the case, Mitch, you probably gotta go. Cause you got other stuff you could be doing. Maybe I don't want to open up all these packs because there's not that many people here that are excited. I really want to open them. So let's get those lights. Also, I've been doing some research.

I got an NFT dimension I've been looking at ones that could potentially really still kick off. We've been seeing plenty of different projects come out there, but I did do a little research. I've been looking at one that maybe take a chance on you guys smash the so they can give that.

Yeah. And we're going to get into that in a minute. One that you've heard about and that's something that always gets me excited, right? Is that when people who aren't heavy into the NFT space, if there's a project that they've heard about, or that they're interested in to me to go back to a stock market term and not financial advice, but that makes me pretty bullish.

Because if other people are hearing about it that's a big deal. That's what we're seeing with board API club, is that people who don't even know NFTs people that don't own NFTs. A lot of them still know what board apes are, because of the valuation. Because of the increase in value because of the celebrities that own them, because it's lots of people's PFP on Twitter and the list goes on.

Mitch, do you want to tell everyone what NFT it is that you are excited about and that caught your eye from someone who hasn't been heavily following the. Yeah. So let's before I actually pull it up, one thing I want to talk about is different features right. Of NFTs, right? That's one of the main things is, so how's the art, is it static?

Is it dynamic? What kind of features do they have? Is it an ape? Is it a penguin? Are we talking crypto? Is that it's here? And so one of the things that I've been noticing is more and more, we're getting leads, higher quality ones that come out. And what I mean by higher quality, to me, it's more detail in the art, right?

And so the more detail you can bring in the art, the more exclusive I feel the art is. And so let's go ahead. Let's take a look here at the research that I've found. I found out about this one. I'm sure you guys have already covered it on the roadmap. Let's talk about. Invisible friends. So invisible friends is one that I really like now just cause one of the things is they're invisible.

So the only thing that stands out are those features. And I think that's the important part. The people don't make it different. It's the actual things that the NFTs are wearing or bringing into it that I think really brings that exclusivity. As you guys see here there's some pretty cool ones like this basketball one.

I could use a baseball one. I wouldn't mind putting that as my, and you could see here with the Gator polling, you see this guy over here, this looks like Sean McVay. Sean McVay should definitely buy this plays out. Let's go. So definitely I think it's interesting. Look at this.

Look, what that has. Do you see their candles, baby? All I see is candles. All I know is I would take that right now if I could. These are interesting, Chris. And when are these supposed to come out? I know that they were talked about in February. Do we got a date yet? Yeah. So one thing Brian and I mentioned earlier this week was that invisible friends had a tweet out and they asked the chat.

They said on Twitter, should we announce the mint price? Or should we announce the mint date first? And the winner of that poll was I believe the mint date. So let's get that on screen. There it is. Mint date, February 23rd. So put that on your calendar. Every want to get not financial advice.

Today's the 10th. We've got about two weeks, right? Until that mint date happens. And Mitch, that this thing has just blown up. They've got hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter, hundreds of thousands of people in their discord. And that, like you said, that artwork is sweet, the dynamic, right?

The fact that it has motion, it moves around. We've got different colors, I think pop on the screen, different traits. I love the basketball and other ones. I'm excited about this. I'm not on the white list. I want to shout out. We got strictly three sports in the chat that says he got white lists.

He or she got the white list for invisible friends and can't wait to next blue chips. Not financial advice, but to me, yeah. This one has been thrown out as a possible blue chip. And that's a term that I don't want to just say lightly, but again, large following, I think this is one that people are really gonna want to be in.

And Mitch, we talk about supply and demand. And when you were first scrolling through there, I saw on the screen that there is only going to be 5,000 of these available. So to put that in perspective, the majority of your big NFTE PFPs and the big collections, are around 10,000. Some of them have done like 8,888 or 7,777, or occasionally we get the 6, 9, 6, 9, but 5,000, that is an incredibly low number compared to their following Mitch. This thing's insane. That the one thing that concerns me a little bit is they haven't announced the price yet. So when that comes out yeah. So they could be greedy if they want it to that's kinda up to the project leads, right?

Cause if they wanted to they could charge you no one Eve probably here even more. We just saw one earlier this week, pixel mine that charged a couple EAs because it was such high demand. Then the floor price dropped and now they're not even worth what people paid. So sometimes that can backfire I'm excited about this one.

And Mitch, the thing with this is to get on the white list. It was really hard. They had all kinds of different things. You could own a couple of their previous NFTs, or you could be really active in the discord. You could submit artwork make your own invisible friends, but Mitch, for someone from the outside, who's not active in the NFTs. What do you think projects with high demand should do? Should they really make it to where the most active people the people who spend the most hours in discord get rewarded or should they try to level the playing field and make it more of a raffle or a constant.

To see who gets the white list. What do you think? I think this is an awesome conversation to have, especially for you new NFT investors, probably looking at it the same way I'm looking at it. A lot of times when I want to actually start dipping my toes and taking more and more NFTs, I do have very few, but nothing high valued.

And when I want to start taking some more NFTs, I go to do it. And then I realize, oh, I'm not white listed or I got to do such and such thing just to even get an opportunity to maybe get the NFT. And I think that's the important part here is that the one of the things is by having a free market, I think would be better.

What I mean by free market is that literally, Hey, if your internet is quick and it gets to that by then, Hey, you get it. I'll compare it to some of the NFTs that I've seen. So I do have NBA top shot and NBA top shot changed over to that kind of more reserve your pack and then show up.

But then I also first started more in that top scheme. Remember when tops first came out and remember you and I were able to get some packs when a lot of those will work first, come first serve for those types of packs. Yeah. So that's a perfect example. So two different sides, of the business strategy there.

And to me, I personally. Enjoy the tops. One more than I enjoyed going after top shots, which I just had to like show up and then yeah. The problem's always going to be the potential for bats, or people creating multiple accounts. So let's say that we actually saw this with makeover.

Some makeovers Mitch was looked like transformers. That was one of the, yeah. So that was one of the biggest releases ever in terms of following. And they did a a raffle, where you essentially went to a website at the time you clicked a link and then they awarded spots to random people.

It was luck of the draw. And I believe they're meant price was 0.5. Either 0.5 or 0.25. Now I can't remember. But then the floor price actually had five east and of course, a month or two later now we're trading under one east, I believe. And it's interesting though. 'cause that, that goes back to the demand, right?

So a project like that, you have all this demand at the start and now look at it. The floor price has fallen because you didn't reward. Maybe you're a loyal consumer. That's another reason why a project maybe you should reward the people that are the most active and discord, the people who win contest, the people who contribute, their mods and your discord, they help people learn in your discord because they're going to stick with you, right? Don't you want the people who are going to stay along for the ride rather than people who are just clicking a button and then gonna to flip it and make a quick buck. This conversation could go on forever Mitch cause like I've participated in all these different ways.

I've gotten NFTs all these ways, right? I've been on wait lists or white lists. I've had to get in discords and post a certain number of times and level up to get on a white list. I've won raffles, I've won contest and I've done NBA top shot and tops where it's just kind of luck of the draw or who's quickest.

So all the methods work, there's no necessarily wrong approach, but a great topic here. So Mitch, you said the tops one just click in a first come first serve as one of your favorite. Yeah. My thing is just that I like the hype that, that creates, I liked the hype that I created for what it can actually open.

It creates more like the IPO kind of strategy and stocks. When you get an IPO yeah. You got the kind of the insiders, the banks that get to go after it. But now we're getting shots like with like companies like sofa and Robin hood, that gives an attempt to get into the IPO before it actually opens to me, I think things like that are what I want to be looking for.

I understand rewarding community members, because at the end of that day, that's what we try to do here every day. Is build a community. And so I understand, and I know that. Loyal community members should always be treated a little bit higher than let's say a brand new viewer.

But from that perspective, I just think about it as we don't always want to just double and triple down on only our community. We want to also reach out and get to the mass. I think that's how you really take off in the utilities of these NFTs is not only just going towards the people that are using it right now, but to some new users and ex and showing them that there is utility.

Yeah, definitely. And some great points and let us know in the chat guys, if you're watching us live right now share what your favorite way is to get into a project, right? Do you want to grind it out in the discord and get rewarded for being loyal? Do you want to just go to people who are the quickest to click on something or just random right around.

To the luck of the draw, right? What's your favorite way? And I see a couple people in here. Yeah. Talking about top shot and we're going to open those top shot packs in a little bit, Mitch, and we have so many gusts on here, Mitch, and it would, I think it would surprise you.

Maybe not that like, when we talk to people behind these big NFT drops and I asked them, Hey, what was the first NFT that you ever bought? Or how did you get into NFTs? The majority of them, Mitch majority say that NBA top shot was their first NFTs and the way they got in, not a ton of people got in buying crypto punks and crypto kitties years ago.

Top shot changed the game. And that's why I think it's so important. Really go back to some of these sports NFTs because the sports fan market is just massive. So these people they've already collected trading. They've already collected tickets, they've already collected autographs and sports memorabilia, they know about collectability and they want to own an FTS because of that. I think that's a good reason. And speaking of sports NFTs match, we have the super bowl coming up on Sunday. And Brian and I did a whole show on Superbowl NFTs yesterday. Cause there's so much to talk about. That's the insane part, but ticket master has partnered with the Ana.

And every person that attends the Superbowl. So over 70,000 people can get a free NFT and it is a copy of the ticket. I think we still have that. There it is met. So you and I actually talked about this, I think like on a different stream. Months, years ago. Yeah. The ticket master should be doing NFTs of concerts of sporting events.

The NFL is doing it. And the cool thing is that, so everyone who attends the super bowl gets this ticket. But to me, I think a lot of people are going to turn around and sell it, because maybe you go to the game and you don't even like either team, right? You just go for the experience and to be able to say, Hey, I went to the super bowl.

Maybe you want to make some money back, to pay for your ticket, your hotel, whatever people are going to start listing the Sunday and Monday. And this is it's historical, right? Because it's going to be the first NFL ticket as an ad Ft. The day the Superbowl happened, right? You can always go back and make NFTs a past Superbowls, but this is going to be the first one.

So I'm going to be watching on Sunday to see how quick people sell these. And yeah, and we got happy in the chat saying tickets scalpers and put tickets on the blockchain. That's something Brian's actually talked about and he's trying to work on making tickets on the black chain to prevent ticket scalping.

Mitch, what do you think of this this NFT? How does it look? And is this something, if you were a fan of the Rams or the bangles, you can't go to the Superbowl. Is this something that you would want in your car? Yeah, definitely. If you're a fan in a super fan of these kind of teams that's already going to get you into it, right?

Let alone, if a team actually wins the super bowl too, that's gonna push you a little bit over, if I was a Bengals fan or if I was a Rams fan, depending on which team won, I'd be like, okay, I need a piece of this. But one thing that I think that it wasn't done here that I think you and I have talked about in the past was should they have made certain seats have some special to these NFTs?

I think that's what they should have done. I think let's say if you were front row at the super bowl, it should be like gold. Like this, you should be shimmering and gold or things like that. I think those are the types of feature that I was looking for in tickets for NFTs, really, to play into because Jess going to a concert or going to in a sporting event is something.

But there's something else going in front row, right? Yeah. And Mitch, that goes back to the conversation we just had, about should the loyal people be rewarded, should the people that spend money be rewarded. So one thing I saw earlier this season that the Dallas Mavericks did right. Was when they retired Dirk Nowitzki, his Jersey, every person in attendance got a free NFT.

And that, and I F T it was almost like a a 3d, like Bible had, right? Like an avatar, a decentrally and character right. Of, of Dirk. It looks sweet. Jerks in all time, legend NBA mean we watched him play growing up. And what they did though, was there was random rarities.

And those weren't based on your seat, it was just random. So if you had a front row ticket, you had the same chance of getting the legendary version limited to 50, as someone who sat in the nosebleed seats. So again, That goes back to should we randomly do it? Should we do it based on where you sit?

So I love that argument mentioned again. We could go on forever about that, but again, I love the fact that you could go to a sporting event and get a free NFT. It just completes that experience. And it also provides value. Let's be honest. It wasn't free. You paid for your ticket. Yeah. There you go.

You could actually, the Dirk Nowitzki retirement nightmare. If I lived closer to Texas, like I would have probably gone because the cheap seats were like 120 bucks. Those NFTs were selling for 250 bucks. That's double. So you just got to go to a game for free and you got paid come on.

This is why all these companies in sports teams, you should be at least exploring NFTs. But enough about that match. I know we're not close to running out of time yet, but I also know how long it takes when we opened some packs up. So I think we're getting to about that time. And I have a lot of NBA top shot packs to open.

And I don't want to say the number because we might not open all of them today. I want to see the light count, get up. And for anyone who's watching us live right now, I want to see those ones. If you want to open some packs with us, smash that and start putting a one in the chest. And I will be opening up these top shop packs.

And then by the end of the show, we're also going to open up that NFL all day pack, which I'm excited about. And who knows, maybe I'll get a Matt Stafford moment to my favorite player in the super bowl because he was a lion for awhile, but they're those ones come in, Mitch. What do you think?

Are you ready to see me open up some top shot packs or no? Let me see if I can get the rally going here. Rally team rally. Let's hit those likes. It's getting going. Let's get excited. We're about to open some brand new packs. And you talked about there that some people started taking their dip and toes about top shots.

Look at me with my little three moments. I took a shot on top shots also in a lot of that was. That was because of you, Chris you opened it up to me and really started telling me about NBA top shots really early. I think this is before we were even talking about specs. That's the interesting part here is that you've definitely have led the way here.

And taught me something and I took a shot on top shot. Yeah. These moments aren't the biggest moments, but I also took a shot on those tops cards and I ended up making really good money and kept some, and with that money ended up getting some higher valued cards that I still hold to this day.

So I, no, we don't have historical value to cause they were the first of something. We got Logan in the chat saying 1 million likes or no packs. I don't know. I don't know about that. If we got a million likes on a video match that'd be a happy day here at Benzinga.

Maybe in the future, we can hit that. Mitch. All right. So I have a lot of packs and they go back over the past month. I've got new ones. I've got old ones. I even have some from last year's playoffs. Playoff moments. I've even got some archive ones. Maybe we'll get a Shaquille O'Neal moment.

So let's open some up. So up first the new one that I got was a Kevin Durant's certified pack. And this one, before I share my screen here, this one has four moments in it. You have a 73% chance of getting all four commons. Which is what the majority of people got. 24% also got a limited edition one, and then it goes down from there.

So I'm not expecting a ton out of this, but let's see if I share my screen here, we get into top shot. All right. All right. So here we are. You guys can see that, and we have this Kevin to ramp pack here. I've got my sound on. That was the heartbeat. Are we ready? All right, let's go. Let's go.

Let's see. Let me know. You guys can still see this right. All right. All right. Are we ready? Let's click to reveal, right? We've got common. Of course. A layup. Oh, Devin Booker. Hey, not a bad one to have. All right. All right. Up next. We've got a dunk. Ah, Justin. Okay. Oh Holly. Oh, there we go up. They left them open. Shouldn't have done that. All right. So these are both numbered out of, oh, that Devin Booker was a limited edition. I didn't even see that much. That's out of 10,000, so we did get a limited edition. Okay.

We're doing okay then. All right. And now we got another dunk here taking it all the way to the hoop. I can't give people space like that. And then we got one more moment in this pack, which I'm guessing is going to be a common since we already got that limited edition, we got an assist to the big man.

There we go. Who Raul Neto is? I do not know, but all right what did we think guys, in the chat? I got a limited edition. That logic. Yeah, I got a, it got the slide. Me that man. I'm about to slide through my Joel and B. I can send you that. All right. Now. Gotta get back to my, I love the dragon.

All right. So let's see, we got some packs here, guys. All right. We got, yeah, we got lots of packs guys. So I hope you guys liked this. So now we got a hustle and show series one. This has five moments in it and it contains one out of 18,000 limited edition in the hustle and flow. Series. So this is the only way you can get, oh, I didn't click open.

That's the only way you can get the hustle and show moments is through these packs. So what do you guys think let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. The hustle and show here guys. Release one. I remember one of these packs came out, man. I wanted one, but I know, and I can't believe I haven't opened a match.

I've been just wanted to do it for the chat. I want it on a live stream. So here we got Forbes just floating it up there so that one's number asked 60,000. So it's common. And then we guys $70. I heard isn't it. All right, let's do it. Oh, I got the same moment from the last package.

I hope not. Oh yeah. I hope he's worth some money because. All right. And now we got a Millsap dunk here, very low. Oh man, there we go. One of the most underrated basketball players out there, I like how they almost stopped him. And he like paused. He's Nope. I remember when he was a boss and just not that good anymore.

All right. What do we got? We got a dunk. A comment. Oh, we got down. There we go. Oh, nice. I love oh man. All right. And now this should be the hustle. PJ Washington. Oh. Number nine, six 60,000. Oh, so we got all commons in this. Oh man. All right. At least we got that Booker and the the last one here. So you can't go wrong with that Booker.

All right. I do have another hustle and show pack. Should we open that? Don. Don, what do you guys say in the chat? Let's see what they say in the chat. Let's keep it. How's the chat doing? Aren't we loving this because here I am sharing my screen. And, but that was Anthony Edwards. Nah, it looks like peg said home run looks like you got a nice one there.

She definitely thought so this pack was already open. No it wasn't. Oh, there we go. Okay. I was like, all right guys. Let's see what we got. Let's do it guys hit that like button. Let's keep it going here. We got

dunk. All right. What's next here. Another common Aaron Gordon dunk. All right. All right. Oh, in Denver. Oh, there we go in Denver a little bit too much. Let's just say that. Oh, that was the hustle. And that was the hustle and show out at 18,000. Oh, we got tackled

of central Florida. People ask where I went to school. It's right where this guy went. I remember watching college. Yeah. Taco van. Everyone wanted to dress up like a taco and you go to the Burke, the former Michigan man with the floater. All right. And what do we got to close out the pack? We got a block from Josh.

Richard said, oh, that's not in my house. Get outta here. All right. So that Aaron Gordon was at an 18,000, so not too bad here. All right. What is next in our pack? You guys having fun still let me know in the chat here. All I know is that my score is 36 and yours is 306. I think my score is going to go up too, because I think we get points for opening packs and for owning different moments.

All right, now we got fresh threads, so fresh threads. These have moments numbered out of 11,111. So let's see if we get some non commons in this. I'm really hoping we got a common assist here from Eric Bledsoe, those fingers guys. Oh, okay. That's one way to get it done. Oh, and that is numbered out of 11,111.

So there's our limited edition. Now we've got to lay up for Mike Conley.

Okay. What's next in our pack. We got a dunk. There's so many dunks. Yeah, throwing it down dunks or probably like the top to top was I don't really like the ones that I don't like, and I'll be honest. It's I have one, no, the 3.3 0.3 pointer here. It is all, but you got to hero, so I'll take it.

Honestly, underrated also that one should be worth some money. All right. Let's not open our other fresh threads right now. Let's skip down. Let's see, I got a base. How about an archive release to all right guys. So definitely smash it like guys. Let me tell you about this Mitch. So in this archive set, this was from last year a summer.

You could possibly find a moment number.to 10,000 and included in this is moments from the 2005, 2006 and the 20 13, 20 14 season. So let me throw out some names. Dirk Nowitzki, Shaquille O'Neal, Tracy McGrady, Tim Duncan, Ray Allen, and Vince Carter are the ones that we are looking for here. Oh man.

Mitch, I'm excited. I'm excited. T-Mac Tracy McGrady was really one of my favorite players to watch you guys got chase and kid. There you go. That's actually a really good one to have numbered out at 20,000. Look at the video quality. You can tell we're going back a couple of years here. See how that changes.

What else do we got here?

there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Went to UMass and what is her? Alright. Oh, Jason kit, lay up again. Come on guys. We got a duplicate. Hopefully that's where some money. Cause I got two in that pack. So not a 20,000. The Marcus Camby also numbered out of 20,000 and you can see, it also has a bad tier.

The T S which I believe. Yeah, it is his first ever top shot match his top shot debut. So that holds some historical value. What do you think guys, should we skip and find some playoff moments from last year's NBA playoffs? I've been waiting to open these for a while too. So Chris is loaded, man. The good news is we might be able to open some more on a future episode.

Cause I don't think we're going to get to the them all here. So let's go ahead. Let's open up. This was released three from last year. Play on. I think there's three in this pack. If I remember right. Yep. Three let's see match the Knicks play off. That's not something you see every day, right?

That's something I could have historical. Alright. We got RJ Barrett. That's number, not at 12,000. That is a limited edition. Love it. Come on. I'm looking for something big here. We got Jay Crowder. I liked Jae Crowder. Oh, DSS was Mitch. Was that an okay. I guess it wasn't a cyst. I was like, it looked like he was shooting for a minute.

Yup. Oh man. All right. And then the last one in this playoff back at three point or Trey young. Oh, this is number. This is number, not a 40,000 though. So it's not as rare as the other two. But we'll take it. It's tray. Yeah. People in the chat. If you know what these are worth. I haven't looked at the marketplace in a little while, so you might have to let me know.

Let's do another playoff pack here. This was released too. So earlier games in last year's playoffs let's see, bam block. That would be now. Oh, there we go. All right. So we got a Jeff Green three pointer taking it, kick out numbered out of, oh, this is a low serial number match number 3, 4, 4 out of 11,500.

That used to mean that they had some value. So we'll see if that holds true. We got a window Carter Jr. Dunk the past between the legs, but numbered out of 40,000. So we're common there. And then we got a click Clint Capella block, which I also have another Clint Capella moment in my in my moments.

I know that, cause I remember getting it from a pack, but all right, let's get out. What else do we got for packs here? Match. Maybe you can pick out what I should open next because we got archive. We got some base. We got another playoff one there on the right. We got another base and a pre-order base.

What do you think? Should we do that last playoffs? Or you want to see some of these base set ones? Maybe for some non playoff players? Yeah. Let's just go ahead and let's do a one. Let's go do one more. Play off one. Let's see, let's pick that blue one. That blue ones are standing out to me. Then we do that blue one.

Now I can't remember. I'm not sure, but I guess I just like blue. What can I say? Oh, I already opened. I was like, this is what happened there. Oh, there we go. I think it's this pink one. That's the one that we haven't opened. Let's go. Let's go. Let's get it. All right. And then in a couple minutes, guys, we're going to open up that file pack.

Let's go big here. Give me a rare, we've opened. No big rare ones. All right. Paul George, with a jump shot match. It's not even, it's not even three pointer. Isn't it. At least he falls, but it's a deep two. What is that? Get outta here. Get outta here with that three pointer from Reggie Jackson, Reggie, he's still playing the step back.

And then what else? We got a dunk from. Oh, who's mom. We got Lakers showing up finally. Number nine 40,000. Okay. Was supposed to be really good just to get to that level. I think hype hype. All right, let's open one more NBA pack and then let's get into our NFL pass. So let's do a base.

I picked orange. We'll see what we got in this.

All right. Up first, a three-pointer we got marae. Oh, he looked like he was going to drive out of 40,000. We're still common. Come on. Where are all the rares at? In this? We got a dunk here from cam all they gave him. Oh man. I didn't think he had room.

Love it. And then the last one in this pack, we have ah, former Spartan. Jaman green Michigan's own with the assist, the kickout. Oh, it wasn't a kick-out to Curry. I was hoping it was a kick to Curry. All right. Let me stop sharing that screen and Mitch, we're going to get into an NFL. Let me tell you about this.

So I signed up for the waitlist for NFL all day, because I said, Hey, I know that people are going to want these moments when they first come out. And I got on the wait list and then I was able to get in line for a pack. I wasn't guaranteed to get one, but this pack is from the conference championship games.

So the Rams and the bangles getting to the super bowl. So included in these packs, you could get a it says a Joe burrow script, a scramble for a couple of yards to get a first down Matthew Stafford for the touchdown pass to Cooper. We got DFCM UL, a 44 yard touchdown, even though they didn't make the super bowl, we got Jamar chase making a two point conversion and the end zone, we got Aaron, Donald getting a interception to end that game.

And then of course we have the bangles game winning field goal in overtime. Mitch, let me ask you this. So you're a fan of NFL, right? So I think everyone's bashing on Twitter, the kickers, and saying, Hey, I don't want to get a kicker moment in my pack but let me just say this. I feel that, but let's say my bank, I was a fan of the bangles and they make the Superbowl because of a game winning field goal.

I would want to own that moment. Because that's what put them in. It won the game, it wasn't like these NBA top shots, that three pointer that we saw it, it was to take a two point lead. It had no significance, winning field goal. To me, I feel like it's cool. Let's be honest, right?

You got it could be a defensive game where you have three field goals when the game, if the guy kicks three field goals and that's how you win the game. You might be the MVP could, it could have kick or get MVP. And then that moment go up dress. That could happen too. And that's the thing I feel like kids, rookie cards were going up on eBay.

So to me, I wouldn't mind if I get the Bengals kicker in this pack match, I'm just going to throw it out there. I really want to stay. I really want to Stafford and also Von Miller. Cause we were talking about him yesterday for owning so many NFTs. There's a van Miller sack that could be in one of these packs.

So I'm excited about that. Mitch. Mitch, who would you want from the four teams that played? What do you got here? Look at that name right there. Cut me cop. Yeah. Yeah. A cup one I think is going to be sweet too. So yeah, trophy there. I told and my name just cup me and now they got a cup, Cooper cup.

They got to give him the cup. Mitch. I'll say playing daily fantasy this year. Anytime it was Sunday, I get my lineup set right for the. It was pretty easy to pick cup, right? Yeah. He cost a lot of money, but it was like, all right, he's going to put up lots of points. If I don't have him, all those people that do are going to pass me.

So I had to stack him in my lineups. So let's face it. Yeah. And people saying in the chat that they would want to own a cup. Yeah. Let us know in the chat guys, who do you want to own out of these NFL moments? The ones I'd also say Mitch, Tom Brady, right? Tom Brady. There's some moments in those first packs, obviously with Henry tiring, you're only gonna see so many moments.

So the other thing with these is there's no marketplace right now, Metro. I open this pack and I can't sell my moments yet. I have to sit on them. So does that hurt the value? If I opened, let's say a Matt Stafford, he wins the Superbowl wins super bowl. MVP. I can't immediately sell that. Is that a miss here by dapper labs with NFL all day?

Yeah. How long is it going to take for them to get the marketplace? No date set. That's TBA match. That's the date? That's a little concerning to me. That's the question. If it at least had a date, then maybe you could wait for the, that day to get that pop. But you are completely right. If whoever wins the MVP, if you have that moment of that, I think that's going to jump it and price, so I don't know who's gonna win it there. I would say don't count out the defense, because I think the defense is gonna have a big part to game plus 40,000 to win MVP match. So we talked about that yesterday. If he likes NFTs, I'll throw a little bit his way on a bat. Nah, not advice here guys.

But I really think it could be Stafford's to lose if the Rams, when assuming they go pass heavy, but will defensive player to get it, you need to beat three sex. Three sacks is the record in the Superbowl. So let's go ahead. Let's see if Vaughn can get maybe five. I think that could feel, oh man.

Did you guys hear that? Oh, I think he's coming hard. Alright. Time to share my screen here. Let's make sure we got this up. Can you guys see that? Oh, we got to share. There it is. There is Meg. All right. So three moments in this pack. Let's see what we get. And with that being said, Mitch, I'm guessing they're going to do super bowl moments, right?

So after Sunday's game, if they drop a pack next Friday, can you imagine what demand is going to be like for people to try to get moments from a super bowl? That's crazy, right? Cause those NBA playoffs, you're talking best of seven series with the super bowl. You're talking one game, it's win or go home. So that's pretty interesting. All right. Enough of me talking let's open up claim. Oh, now I got another random up coming at me and the central land. I gotta be careful.

All right. Let's see what we get on this champion. Championship game here. No worries. Just pull it on up for us. If you can hear, we're going to go ahead and see. I'm telling you right now, guys, I'm getting lost in this metaverse I hope you guys are too. We'll see you out there. Fast. Start doing some meet-ups Chris on the weekend.

All right. Now I've got to make sure I'm sharing the right screen here because I want to make sure everyone can see this pack. Let's get that back up on screen. You guys can see this right here we go. We see it right there. Let's do it. Oh my goodness. What does this mean? Executing your transaction. Don.

Don. Don, who knows? Oh my goodness. Don't tell me. I can't even open this right now. It could be having a little bit of issues there. It looks like the, come on blockchain having a little issue to open up. All I am going to stop sharing for a minute. Let's go ahead and try to knock it out and try to open it up.

You walk here just while you get ready. I just want to show you guys having fun a little bit here.

Look guys, there's Hilton. Who wants to come through? Who wants to come through the music concert here? I got a Snapchat. There's a lot of people here. Let's go find them. You guys have.

Oh, they went to Wonderland. I don't think I have entry to hold they're in here. Let's go get them. They are going to be really sad if I can't open this. Ooh, I got a sword. I want a sword.

Oh, you got a Rocky pack. Oh, and we got strictly three sports in the chat saying it takes three minutes to open Mitch. I've never waited three minutes to open a pack before. I don't know. I'll tell you one thing. I'm having fun here. Yeah. You're killing it in decentrally and where we're over on time right now.

So I appreciate everyone sticking with us while we try to get this. But Mitch, I don't know if we're going to be able to open this NFL pack today, but at least we were able to open so many of those NBA packs, ice cream. I want ice cream find the McDonald's Mitch. You gotta look for the McDonald's so you can order food to be delivered.

That what's that guy called. Ooh, I don't know that one. Let's find out the fun part is a lot of times you can just click on them and it gives you information on, looks like this one second to me, I got to get close. Cooler. What I like is how the, it actually looks like good graphics on the sky.

Look at that. That's some good graphics right there. You guys come find me. Yeah. I'm gonna keep playing here. I have to learn here. Let us know in the chat who here has actually spent time in decentral land. Because again, I know a lot of people in the NFT community are at least have heard of it.

And they might actually have some items in their wallet. Maybe some clothes for their avatar, but how many people have actually explored it? Gotten them. Master round let us know and yeah, born to be free saying, thanks boys. Good to see the SPAC brothers back together. Again, Mitch, I got my hoodie on because it's cold out here in the office, but I did wear my specs today.

Review of you coming on. I definitely so shout out to you. So I think I got it working. It says open pack. Let's do it. Let's do it. All right. Before we run out of time here, we're already out of time and people are going to be like a Tinder for the central line. All right. It says open pack.

You guys see it, right? That means I must be able to. All right, it's going to go. Let's go. Oh, I heard that noise. Oh, I didn't turn my sound off. I let it keep going. All right. Let's reveal it. Let's see it. Oh, you know what? This is a rare.

oh, you can't take me down and look at him. Go look. Oh, Kelsey. I already knew Kelsey. Of course. Oh my gosh, Mitch. I got a rare get it right.

Oh man. Do you guys see that 1200 available? All right. I bet I get common next up. Oh, what do we got here? This guy? Honestly this was one of those games that I didn't expect the chiefs to win, but it was a tough one. Oh, the first down here. Oh my goodness. Let's go. That's a 12 grade 1200.

Oh man. Let's go. One more, one more. All right. This is for conference championship. This I'm trying to think of the other teams available. I thought it was the final four, but what do we got here? Oh Dell. I think this is this the touchdown or the long pass. Oh, this is just one of those short.

I think he got a first down. It wasn't important down, but there's only 8,500. Oh, there is this common, but there's only 8,500. So guys check this out on the Josh Allen, 2 8500 Mitch. These are so low in number. The commons are low they're. Normally you see like at least top shot was like 60,000. These are going to be worth some money.

Oh, let's go. All right guys. We'll you guys were having too great of a time to, you want to know who I found right now? Let's see it. Let's see it. That's Alyssa guys. That's our producer. She's just hanging out and hanging out. She got her Fang gang shout out. I'm jealous at the thing gang here. We had Fayton gang on Mitch.

Oh man. Alyssa, you know what we should do? We should give Mitch the lake to play the fan game. I bet he would play it the rest of the day. Isn't going to get any work bending if you're listening a Spencer or razz or any of the people Mitch's just, he's working right now. Taking a break, but helping me out with my little guy, I got to run a little better than that though.

He looks like he can't run and it looks like he's going to break a leg or something. Oh my goodness. All right. And yes, look at strictly sports. That's a fire ass pack, bro. Mitch. I got a fire ass pack. I will take you. Boom. That's money. That is what I call

Let's go. All right. Did you guys enjoy that opening packs up? Cause if you did, I'm going to try to get more and we're going to keep doing this and Mitch, maybe we should give away a pack sometimes. So you got sign it. I've got lots of packs. Maybe I could give away one of the base packs or a starter pack to get someone going in NBA top shot.

Stay tuned guys. The roadmap we'll be back next week Tuesday. And we'll be talking about what happened at the super bowl, right? So you'll hear from me and Brian we'll break down whether or not we saw board apes, whether or not we saw the metaverse and other stories. And again, a big shout out and thanks to today's show sponsor, FTA.

For sponsoring the show and be sure to watch the Superbowl and when their commercial airs in the second half, get on Twitter, find their tweet, retweet it for your chance to win Bitcoin. And if you haven't signed up for an FTX account, you can find information in the description below. I want to give a huge shout out to my coworker, but also my wonderful friend money Mitch, for joining me on the roadmap today and filling in and check that out on the screen at story investors.

If you're not following him on Twitter, check it out. And Mitch for people who don't know, and they want to see more of you here on Benzinga YouTube TV, when and where can they find. Like always guys. One of the things I do is a, do a little stock trading just a little bit there. We do have a show live trading with Benzinga that goes on Monday through Thursday.

That's at 9:00 AM where we actually do live trading. I also have a show, just my specific, my only show money Mitch that goes on at four 30 weekdays. So check that on out. Definitely. And thank you for having me on Chris. One thing I definitely have learned a lot from you in the NFT world, and I think you helped me really dip my toes and more and more.

Am I getting lost into the metaverse as you guys can see. And one thing I'd definitely say is just keep looking out. Not only in a short timeframe. I think that's one thing that a lot of people get lost in is looking at what this is going to be worth today. I'm not looking at it. What is going to be work today?

I'm strictly looking at it in the longterm. I think in the longterm. Big push in VR and AR new goggles coming out by Facebook in the summer. I'm going to be looking to grab probably those new goggles I've been looking to just literally just start getting more and more immersed inside AR and VR.

And that's going to bring more and more to. And I appreciate you uncovering this area for not only myself, but for you guys out there. I hope you guys appreciate Chris going into this and always shoot Chris. A message. If you guys got something you guys want on here on the roadmap, maybe it's an NFT.

Maybe it's a game, or maybe it's just a platform. Like we showed a little bit of decentral and today let's go ahead and do so and hit the comments after let us know what platform you guys prefer to use in the metaverse. I would love to see that because I'm definitely taking a look block Topia coming on out the central land use.

You said it sandbox. There's so many that are definitely taking on over, but I'd love to hear what the audience has to think in the comments after. Definitely. All right that's going to do it for today for the roadmap. As I said, we'll be back Tuesday. Stay tuned, everyone coming up next, you got pre-market prep at the close with Joel and Spencer breaking down all the big stock stories and crypto stories from the day.

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Hey everyone. Welcome to the roadmap. Benzingers NFT show. We've had some great interviews past episodes, pixel vault, art blocks, robotics, the dos pound owning Forex, crypto dads, lazy lions, sub doc sappy seals, and more. We also have some NFP Merck coming soon. Stay tuned for that today's episode, you guys have been asking for it.

We've been previewing it for the past couple of weeks. It is time to talk super bowl because we have a series of cryptocurrency and NFT news items and rumors surrounding the big game being held this Sunday. So stay tuned so you can hear about the commercials and what NFTs might need to be on your radar.

Heading into the weekend. Don't go anywhere. This is the.

all right, guys, thanks to all our wonderful viewers and listeners. If you are joining us, live on YouTube right now. Go ahead and smash that like subscribe depending as YouTube channel and leave a comment in the chat. Let us know that you are here. I see born to be free, of course, telling everyone to smash that so shout out to born to be free for getting us kicked off here.

I want to give a special shout out to our friends at FTX who are sponsoring today's episodes. FTX is one of the largest cryptocurrency. In the world in terms of trading volume and daily users, the FTX app is used by over 6 million people to buy crypto and NFTs, no transaction or withdrawal fees from your phone or computer.

And that FTX trading platform features a theory. I'm an and FTS with no gas fees, you can find out more by going to ftx.us and clicking the link in the description below on this video and also pin to the chat right now. So again, big shout out to our friends at FTX, and we're going to be talking about them a little bit later on when we get into super bowl commercials, I'm getting ready to bring on.

It looks like Brian is ready to go. So it's time to bring on my co-host Benzinger zone. Ryan Moore, what's going on by I'll just live in the dream, like always excited for the super bowl. So excited here I am rocking my Matthew Stafford Jersey. The lions will not be playing in the Superbowl. I know not a big surprise to anyone out there.

They still have never appeared. But Hey, next year is our year. Right? Brian, that's what they say. But Matthew Stafford, former lion will be appearing in the super bowl. So I will be cheering him on and rooting for the Rams. Let us know in the chat guys, who are you rooting for? Is it the Rams? Is it the bangles?

And with that being said, we actually put out a poll that I'll probably use for an article. So make sure you vote and also leave a comment. And that's what our poll is. What are you most excited about for super bowl? 46? Is it the game, the Rams versus Bengals? Is it the commercial. Is it the halftime show?

Em and em, Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre, Mary J Blige and Snoop Dogg, or is it our topic today? Crypto and N F cheese. So look at that vote, Brian, it's looking pretty, even when I saw earlier today, crypto and NFTs had a big lead, but it looks like we do have a lot of sports fans out there too, that care about after all it is the super bowl at the football game.

But look at crypto and NFT is getting a lot of love in this. What is your pick, Brian? I know I wanted to select all four, but if you had to pick one, what are you most excited? Shoot. It's hard. I love football in general, so I'm excited about the game I like from, I guess we'll call it a business standpoint and what we do as an enthusiast standpoint the crypto NMT side, I'm pretty excited about it and see what that means.

I know we're talking a lot more about it in a second, but to see what that really means for the crypto space and to see how some of these companies the rise they've had in the last five years, getting to the point where they're owning freaking arenas that hosts Superbowl or different sporting events and they just started out of nowhere and rose to these billion dollar companies.

It's crazy. It's awesome. And I cannot wait to see what the board apes having store, what crypto.com, Coinbase all these different platforms and projects have in store for the super bowl itself. I'm excited for. I definitely will. Brian, that is going to get into some of our first topics here.

So you know, let's talk super bowl commercials first. I want to remind everyone again, super bowl. 46 will air live on NBC on Sunday. The game kicks off at six 30 Eastern time. Super bowl commercials costs around $6.5 million this year. Brian, some even going for seven to $8 million. Again, depending on when it airs, if it is a prime time spot or not.

Brian, it is an exciting year. You and I have both talked about this over the years we've seen a lot of consumer product companies vehicle companies, movie companies use the Superbowl as a way to get their ad in front of millions of people, right? It's the most televised event of the year.

So while that cost seems high, it's also the biggest audience you can get in one swoop with the 32nd ad. So to me, if you're a company and you have the money to do it, I still think it's worthwhile. So with that being said, We are getting a lot of crypto commercials this year, which is really interesting and exciting times for the space.

So up first, our friends from FTX, Brian will air their first ever Superbowl commercial. And we talked about this week. This is really exciting because not only are they airing a Superbowl commercial to try to get new users, they're airing a super bowl commercial and giving away Bitcoin to their users, into people for watching.

As I said yesterday, the super bowl commercial will air in the second half of the game. And whatever time at Arizona will be the amount of Bitcoin they are giving away. So for example, there on the screen, 8:38 PM, that would mean that they're giving away 8.38 in Bitcoin. So we will find out on Sunday, how much, as soon as that commercial airs, you can head over to the FTX Twitter account, retweet that tweet, follow the rules and have your chance to win.

Brian. This is really exciting because our friends at FTX sat over there, Superbowl commercial to us today, and here it is on screen. So you don't even have to wait until the Superbowl. You do to enter the contest. I want to stress that great point, Brian, you can't win the Bitcoin yet, but here is that Superbowl commercial featuring Tom Brady.

Great use there. The go and there is his wife to, so of course so both being featured, they have started an FTX ads before. Brian, is this an upgrade that Tom Brady retired and now he gets to be in Superbowl commercials. It's probably more of a lateral move there, but if he can't play in the super bowl, I guess be in a Superbowl ad in the same amount of money.

And I just want to say, can you scroll back the video a little bit, Alyssa? Just like a, oh, a little bit more, a little bit more. Back to where they're at the building. What? One more? Oh, where the ribbon cut right there. That's from parks and rec. Did you guys notice that? I just noticed that. I just thought that was really oh yeah.

Parks recreation. That right there was from parks and recreation. And I think he's in Philadelphia though. I don't know. But yeah, I think it's pretty cool that I got distracted. Welcome to Tampa bay. They say change the Tampa bay sign. See, they're so clever over there. FTX and free Bitcoin, Brian, like that is exciting too.

Yeah, lots of it. FTX has already done some commercials with Tom Brady before, but it's really cool to see them utilize him. Once again, here we have another commercial. I was big into web three and NFTs and crypto too. Like it's his I think that's his new passion and what he wants to spend the rest of his like retirement and life doing is advocating for web three, which I'm all.

Yeah. And he actually said one of the reasons, or one of his focuses now along with his family is going to be his NFT company called autograph. So autograph is partnered with draft Kings. So you can get some NFTs on their platform, including some Tom Brady once they actually had some Gronkowski ones that I believe we went live today between autograph and draft Kings.

But yeah FTX, Superbowl commercial, again, airing in the second half of the game. I'm going to throw out a guess that it airs right around. Let's call it 9:09 PM Eastern time. But again, that's just a gas and you don't win anything for being right. Brian, do you have a guest or no,

maybe before the first half. Okay. I will say before the first, so I'll go with a it's six 30 Eastern here. So I'd say around 8, 8 30. Okay. I don't know. We'll see. We will see. So we will find out again, FTX, Superbowl commercial. So let's dive in. We've got more commercials to talk about. Not just FTX, although that is one that is pretty exciting with the Bitcoin giveaway.

Coinbase is also doing a Superbowl commercial Coinbase of course, publicly traded. So here at Benzinga we know the Coinbase story. Coinbase has not shared their commercial to my knowledge, Ryan. So they're being a little bit more secretive. They haven't announced a promotion at all. I did see some ramblings and rumors that maybe they launched their NFT marketplace after the super bowl.

And that they're using this big event to be the all-in approach. That would be a huge deal. But otherwise, what do you think of Coinbase? Do you think that they use it to promote NFTs or do you think they're just going to show off their their trading platform and trading cryptos?

Let's say if I was their marketing head of the marketing department, I would definitely push the NFT platform. Everyone really already knows about Coinbase. Obviously you see claimants, you're going to know what's up, but I would, I'd highly suggest pushing the NFT marketplace and trying to get a stranglehold on that.

So that's why I think. Definitely. We will find out on Sunday again, I have not seen their commercial. Maybe it'll come out in the next couple of days. That is the thing. Brian, when I was a kid, I remember you always had to wait until the super bowl aired, to see all these commercials. Now of course, we get to see a lot of them before which does take away a little bit, but it also leads to more conversation like this, about the big game.

So another company they're no stranger to the Superbowl Anheuser Busch, right? The owner of Budweiser, bud light and hundreds of beer brands, they of course have some of the most well-known super bowl commercials of all time. You got the frogs, you got the WhatsApp guys, you got the Clydesdale horses and the list goes on.

They are going to be promoting their bugs. Next brand, which is a zero carb beer that was just released this week. And we showed off that commercial yesterday and featured in that commercial. Brian is the nouns Dow glasses. And if you don't know nouns Dow, you'll be able to see it here in the camera.

Right there. Perfect job from our producer there, get in the glasses on screen. And Brian, this is a big deal because to me, as someone who follows NFT, I know what nouns is, right. But if you do not know what nouns is and you see this ad, do you think that people that are going to search and look for, Hey, what were those glasses in that bud light commercial?

What is nouns Dow get a ton of attention this weekend I'm led to believe so, yeah. So with that being said, the nouns collection on open, see, there's only 204 with an 86 east Florida Bryan or 77,000. I was just doing the math is $277,000 for one for the lowest price one. Yeah. Now, Brian I don't have enough to buy announce NFT.

I want a house before I get to now and I don't own any, but with that being said again, not financial advice, but there are a couple of projects out there that are nouns inspired. They're not official, not from the company, but they were pretty well known when they released. We had a now. Which has a 0.08, four and noun punks, which has a 0.06 east floor.

Not to say that these have long-term value or a huge roadmap, but do you think we start to see some of these noun knockoffs are now inspired, inspired, derivative plays. Do you think we see a run on those next week? Yeah, because I think there's always some of that FOMO that happens the thing with announced, which is really cool is how they set it up and why these guys are so expensive.

It's not really the artwork really at all, that makes it expensive. It's your ticket into the Dow itself. And they auction them off daily. And so it's every day. Perpetuate Truity is saying that right where it's going to happen forever. It's never going to stop. So every single day they're going to every 24 hours, they auction new ones.

So when winds each time, so maybe down the road, they might get a little cheaper it's just, it's really cool how they do that. And once you have one you're always in it, and there's just a lot of really cool things that they're doing. So it's, if you haven't checked out now in stout, definitely check them out.

And this partnership with Budweiser is huge for more than just them, but it's really cool how they have everything going down. Yeah, definitely. So again, nouns is going to be featured in that bud light commercial. And again, if you don't know what nouns are, they're going to get a lot of attention.

It's not financial advice, but Brian, I definitely looked at some of those derivative plays today. And I feel like we could see a run on noun plays next week. I also think of course some of these other projects we're going to talk about may get some derivatives made or a run as well.

So keep an eye on nouns, keep an eye on some of those derivatives and maybe it can be a short-term trade next week. Like a stock would be, but again, not recommending, not financial advice, just what I am watching, going into the game. Brian, we also have a super bowl ad coming from crypto.com.

So crypto.com similar where they have a crypto trading offering, they also have NFTs, right? I actually saw, they just launched NFTs of Terry Bradshaw, the legendary Superbowl a quarter. What do you think crypto.com uses the Superbowl to promote crypto NFTs are a mix of, I'd say it's going to be probably 80, 20 and of Ts crypto, because they are really pushing the NFTE stuff out.

I get so many emails and different things. I see their in platforms everywhere. I don't personally use crypto.com very often. But I did whenever they're in Ft platform first dropped and there wasn't this huge race against open sea and everybody before open sea was the main one go-to and it's pretty cool, but they price out and they had a lot of big sponsorships and a lot of big collaborations with like big celebrities.

So you're priced out, but I would, I'd highly I think that they're going to definitely push the NMT marketplace because that's what everyone's doing and that's, what's making money. Yeah. And crypto.com. For those who aren't familiar, they already have been airing lots of commercials, right?

They're the ones who have Matt Damon. So it is the future favors. The brave is, or fortune favors. The brave is the slogan that they're using right. There it is. And Matt Damon going walking through different times of history and then talking about it's a commercial of course for Bitcoin.

So to me, I feel like you said, Brian, crypto.com. I think they use their commercial to, to talk about NFTs, they've already gotten the crypto story, the Bitcoin story out there. I think it's probably time to do something else and create more brand awareness. So we'll see.

I also saw in the chat while we're on the topic of Matt Davis, Where was it? A Tomo said Coinbase is rumored to have made a production with Ben Affleck directed by an also starting Jimmy Kimmel. Brian, we see lots of celebrities in super Superbowl ads. So this of course wouldn't be a big surprise, right?

If there was a celebrity in the Coinbase ad, but I think it'd be pretty interesting if we saw Ben Affleck and Matt Damon who are like best friends, on different sides and different crypto companies here, that could be a good storyline. What do you think. Yeah. That, that is definitely interesting.

I don't, I've never heard this rumor and if it's true, that's kinda, it's wild and I don't know what Jimmy Kimmel he has a board eight, but I don't think he's really in the crib. I don't know. I don't know much about it. I just know that he does have a board ape and has talked about NFTs on his show, but that it's just a strange mix of people that are getting into it, who Coinbase can reach and whatnot.

That's neat. Definitely. And then also we have so far so fi isn't necessarily the NFT side, but they are crypto. They have a crypto trading platform. And if you don't know, of course the S the game super bowl, 46 will be played at sofa stadium. So you're going to hear a ton this weekend. And they are also airing a commercial. And again, it's another one where I haven't heard exactly what they're doing with their commercial. They do have a bank charter that just happened. They're trying to get people to ditch their banks and sign up for so five accounts. So the question is do they use the Superbowl to try to get banking customers or knowing that there's other crypto companies airing ads?

Do they try to go after that crypto crowd? What do you think Brian, what's the best play for sofa here. So from what I can see that, that how they market themselves as they have the APY and the staking kind of aspect, but it's like really easy user-friendly you don't even have to be in crypto to do it.

They are also one of the ones kinda like Coinbase, where not your keys, not your crypto it is safe there. So it's not like a worry that something's going to happen to it. I'd imagine that they're going to go after the banking customers over the, like trying to take away from Coinbase or other ones for like crypto trading only because they don't really have a lot to offer on the crypto.

Like day-to-day trading. If you want to be an active crypto trader, but they do have a whole lot. If you want to hold and gain APY, have it easy, like a better savings account and just utilize what crypto and blockchain cryptocurrency is made for and getting money and kind of being on that side of the ballpark.

Yeah, definitely. And the nice thing about all these rumors and all these guesses from Brian and I is we're only a couple of days away. So we're going to get those questions answered on Sunday during the game another crypto company related to the super bowl, we have Binance, Brian, I don't, I think you saw this is Binance is running a kind of super bowl promotion, right?

Not necessarily a super bowl commercial, but they are going to give away and FTS during the game. And what they're doing, this is really interesting because we just talked about Matt, Damon, Ben Affleck, if you can scroll down Alyssa, I want to make sure I get this right. And Ryan's in the chat who wrote this, but I'm pretty sure that the thing with Binance is that every time there's a celebrity.

In a crypto commercial, they are giving away a polo app to people that are watching the game. Yeah. So their new ad is don't listen to celebrities about crypto, which is really interesting because we're seeing a lot of celebrities in crypto commercials. So it's a way for Binance to differentiate themselves.

Although I will say that Binance also uses some athletes in their promotions, so it's a little interesting there, you can see them right there. And a musician of course, J Balvin there, Jimmy Butler and NBA player. But this is interesting, Brian. So again, it's this a good way for a crypto company.

Maybe if you don't buy a commercial to still run a promotion with the big game going on to reward some of your users and maybe new users, what do you think? That thing is a great idea. And I really liked that aspect of they're like, Hey, don't listen. All this. Be a part of the whole movement as a whole, don't just listen to certain only certain celebrities at ones, but another whatnot just be a part of it.

And everyone likes free stuff. And the coolest part about like his poems or any of these free and MTS is they have a lot of potential to actually have monetary value. So unlike some other free stuff that you get that just as cool, a little trinket or a cool little image or something, some of these can actually be like heirlooms and you can hold onto them for a while.

And it's, you have a piece of history because this is the first time this has ever happened in all of the history of the world. Right now this Superbowl itself is making history. So just having something to commemorate that is pretty damn cool. Yeah, definitely. That is what I've got for kind of our Superbowl commercial segment.

So again, if you didn't have a chance to vote in our Twitter poll, make sure you do so for what you are watching are most excited about the game. The commercials, the halftime show or crypto slash NFTs being featured throughout cause I really think that's interesting. And again, I'm excited to do an article about what our Benzinga fans are most excited about for the the biggest game of the season.

Well, Brian, along with commercials, we've got plenty more to talk about with the big game. So a story we chatted about last week was the continuation of sports and FTS and everyone who attends super bowl, 46 is getting a free NFT through a partnership with ticket master and the league. So if you didn't know, during the season, the NFL did kind of these ticket replicas as NFTs, I believe they are on yeah, the polygon chain.

I was able to buy some of the the team ones, but I've not gotten any of the playoff ones. But what do you think Brian, they're going to give these away for free. What percent of people that attend the game, do you think, try to list those right away and maybe make some of their super bowl ticket price back.

And do you think a ton of people that missed out on going to the game are going to scoop these up as a memorabilia item? I think you'll have a lot of people you don't know. Cause I just said like how I just said that this is a part of history and this has never been done before and there's a new sub, so it can go either way.

There'll be a ton of people that are going to sell to make a profit, because like we were talking about it off air where I tried, I was gonna thinking about buying one of the NFL tickets that commemorates the the the super bowl game against the Rams with bangles. And we talked about it last week on the show and I came close to buy one, but I was like, I don't know if I want to do.

And so I ended up not, and the next day they were, so they were only 2 95 for one, the next day, there are songs like $1,200. I don't know how much they are now, but yeah I think you can make an easy money. I don't think you'll make your money back on your super bowl tickets. Cause those are pretty pricey plus parking, everything he did, but you can still make enough.

I think that holding it is more valuable than trying to sell it and make a profit or try to make a null and void your costs it's to each their own. I think that they're pretty cool. And I think that holding it has a lot more value in a lot more potential than trying to rip it off at the, from the get go.

Yeah. Definitely an interesting take. I was looking at the site and Brian you're right. The road to the Superbowl. So the one that features the re. Yeah, the cheapest price is $1,250. And the one that has the bangles, the cheapest price, it's $1,050. And again, those were priced at 2 95. It's actually interesting because the conference championship game of the Rams is only selling for 199, which is what it priced at and the divisional playoffs, same thing, 149, which is how much it was priced at.

So the ones that actually say super bowl on them and have the super bowl logo, we're already seeing heavy demand for those. So I think that bodes well for these tickets from the game and the one thing, Brian, we talk all the time about supply, right? So when you have a collection like board apes where there's 10,000, so there's only going to be 10,000, right?

That's not that many to think about. There is. Capacity at Sophie stadium of 70,240. So assuming everyone goes and claims they're NFT, which I'm guessing not everyone will. Cause some people won't or just don't know about it. There could be over 70,000 of the super bowl tickets. So do you think the high supply could hurt these being listed for a super high price, but again, they're free.

So anyone who lists their they're making money off of it, they got it for free for going to the game. So I don't know if you get one, I don't know what you'd even start the list at, because if you're the first one to list, you get to set the bar and everyone's going to undercut you. So I'll definitely be watching on probably Monday or Sunday night, see what these start to get listed.

Because I really think fans are gonna want a piece of history here, if your team ended up winning the super bowl. So of course, if the Rams win the super bowl the random yes, definitely to have on that. And like maybe something crazy happens and we break a record. It just it all depends on what happens during the game, if nothing special happens.

And it's just a normal game where I guess that's impossible at the super bowl, but if it's just like a back and forth and it's boring, man, maybe it might go a little lower, but I'm assuming this is going to be a pretty big one. And I think that coming even like closer to Sunday, we're gonna see even more surprises come out from different companies with different different marketing strategies, different programs and different like giveaways and all this crazy stuff.

So it's just, it's I think we've said, I've said it maybe five times now this is the first time it's ever happened. And I'm very excited to see where it all takes, where it all goes. I can't. Yeah. So with that being said, Brian not just the commercials, not just the fans. We also have some players and some halftime performers to talk about.

So I want to bring up Von Miller first. So if you don't for our viewers. Von Miller is a defensive player for the Los Angeles ramps. He's a former Bronco. He is one of the key building pieces that the Rams did to really give them a shot to win the super bowl. They added Von Miller.

They added OBJ who we're gonna talk about in a minute. And of course added Stafford and they gave up a ton of draft, picks a ton of capital to do this. But van Miller look at that profile right there. You can already see that he loves him some NFTE. So that is a clone X right there. So clone acts, of course, from artifact that was acquired by Nike.

This is already one of the the biggest NFT projects out there. Well-known this, I tried to pull up the floor price right now. What do you think Brian, like if people say bond Miller has a great game are people gonna look up, man? On Twitter. Are they going to see that profile again?

Are they going to search and ask, Hey, what is this profile picture? What NFTs does Von Miller own is clone X going to see some possible interest over the super bowl. We've already got a floor of 13.99, but if the Rams win, I tend to think that Von Miller is going to help that product out.

What do you think? Oh, I know for a fact there's I'm getting a lot of people even now, like family and friends and people from that I talked to forever all are always messaging me, ask me about MTS or crypto. And so the super bowl is going to be pretty much heavily focused on that. Cause that's the talk of the year.

And I think you're going to see a lot of people, like you said, they're going to go to as Twitter people that might not be in this space, it will be like, what the heck is this guy? Why does he have a cartoon? What the hell is this? This is stupid. And then maybe maybe I'm a little bit more curious, cause there's a lot of talk about it.

And then they see the price tag because a lot of people don't believe it. They see the price at $270,000 and you're like, what the hell would that have a fuck? Did that happen? So people get a lot more interest in it and I think we're going to see I think we'll see a little bit of an explosion in.

Have a lot more gains in the NFT market side of things and maybe not as effective for the crypto, but I think like a theorem itself and NFTs like different platforms, we're going to see a huge increase in volume with over the next couple of days. Yeah, I think you're, I think you're spot on and that's something we'll probably hit on here at the end of the show too, is the fact that we can trade NFTs and crypto on the weekend and we can't trade stocks.

So like Superbowl normally we'll save that for the end. But Von Miller. So he has a clone acts. He also owns a board ape. So again, board a, one of the biggest projects out there, one of the most valuable Von Miller has that in his collection too. And it was actually previously his profile picture.

You can see it right there. We've got the cowboy hat. This is an interesting one. We also have the fact that he owns a crypto. So again, very interesting that a player on the Rams and here you can see his portfolio. He's got a ton of NFTs, but crypto. Board ape clone acts three of the biggest projects out there.

Von Miller alphabet. He's right there on screen. We had them on for an interview months ago. That's a cool one. That's a smaller one. You could see that football trait. So that could be an interesting there's crypto dads. So some of these smaller ones, Brian, maybe you start to see get some interest over the weekend because of these players or these musicians also owning them along with the bigger ones.

What do you think of that? If you're a person who's into NFTs, Von Miller on the screen here that he owns NFTs. You immediately try to go find his open, see, and look and see what he owns and start to get into some of those projects. Or do you just go, Hey, this is this profile picture.

This is the one that he cares the most. I think maybe the latter, what you said, this is the one he cares about, I don't know. I don't know which one he really likes, but he does have a very selective collection. I'm sure that he gets sent and FTS all the time from different projects, but you can tell which ones he's a more of a fan of which one is not.

And what's cool is you can print, you can get a vibe that he's not just doing this from like some sort of a investment firm or for a marketing strategy, or from having someone like an advisor to do it for him. It feels like he is actually really passionate about it and wanting to collect these and looking all these different projects himself.

So that's always really cool to see, not just something to collect money or just because it's a trendy thing to do. He's actually involved. Yeah. And I, so I was just pulling up his wallet here too. As Alyssa of course, scrolls in the background here. And if I saw that he owns two board apes and Brian, he also owns two mutant serums that he has not used yet.

There is some heavy speculation out there spot boom, that, yeah I don't know if he'd be able to pull off the logistics, but when we talk about the halftime show in a minute, there's some rumors that we're going to see some mutant serums. Put to work during the Superbowl and hit a phone in the in the goalpost bangles.

So Hey might happen. That's a throwback if anyone is old enough. Yeah, I definitely remember that. And shout out, we got Logan in the chat mentioning the staffer Jersey again, Matt Stafford, Superbowl. He's probably going to win Superbowl MVP, Brian, but the odds on him to win are only plus 100. So you don't win a ton of money.

Let me tell you something though, because he loves NFTs. I want to root for Von Miller to win the super bowl MVP. Maybe he has a couple sacks and interception of forced fumble and a defensive touchdown. If he wins the MVP Bryan plus $4,500 again, not financial advice to throw money on that bat. I would never tell you to do that.

I'm rooting for Von Miller to win Superbowl MVP. And those NFTs of his will get even more attention. I got to scroll down a little bit here in the doc, cause I'm already skipping ahead. Odell Beckham Jr. Also a Rams player, a wide receiver who like Von Miller played for a different team and became a building block of the Rams.

Another interesting piece added to their puzzle. And if you go to Odell Beckham, Jr's Twitter account, his profile picture is dead fellas. So dead Filas is one that we've talked about a lot on the show. They have they're going to be on the Coinbase platform. They were actually the the banner photo for the Coinbase NFT account for a while.

Dead fellas, 2.98 east floor, Brian. This is one again, not financial advice. But if I had to pick one that could really benefit after this week and it'd be dead fellows because it's under three east it's Odell Beckham Junior's profile picture. And he actually has lower odds to win the MVP at plus 2,500.

And again, he's a controversial guy. He could get a lot of attention and a lot of people going to his profile and looking at that dead fellows. So what do you think Brian of dead fellows? That's a pretty sweet one that he's rocking as his PFP there. Yeah. I liked that. I liked the project and I like OBJ because he's been in the crypto and NMT space for, I know it's only been a short maybe a year or two, but in this space, that's 10, 20 years in retrospect.

So he, I think he was like one of the original athletes to get a crypto punk and a board ape and stuff, and change his profile picture and just dive into the whole. Crypto aesthetic. I'm all about it. I liked the dead fellows. I don't have one, so I don't really have any opinion either way on the project itself, but yeah.

Who knows if it went MVP, but we'll see, like you said, it, he does have a ways to go. I think Von Miller might have a better chance. I'm definitely going to be on the Barstool sports app. Pretty much trying to pick and choose which ones I want to go with. So we'll see. Yeah. And you mentioned crypto punk, Brian.

Yeah. So Odell Beckham Jr. Owns a crypto punk. And not only does he own it, not only was it his profile picture for awhile. Look at that picture. Brian, before one of their games, he actually rocked his crypto punk on his shirt. Look at that flex right there. That is awesome. I love it. And again, Odell Beckham Jr.

Also takes a salary roadmap OBJ. After the super bowl we got to have you on. He also takes his salary and Bitcoin. So Brian will do whatever coin NFTs. This guy is all in on crypto and NFTs. So shout out to OBJ, but again, crypto punk owner, he owns dead fellows. I think dead fellows is the one that kind of watch this weekend, but we'll see, he also owns an ENS name.

You can look at his wallet, he's got a ton of other NFTs in there. Again, some may have been gifted to him. Some he bought, but very pro NFT. So another name to watch during the game, Brian, I hate to bring this next one up because I know it is a project that you had. We had that Adam bomb squad, which now has a floor price of close your ears, Brian, 0.79.

So they have heads and better than the one point, what, like eight, it was like 1.8, the one show when you were talking. So that's when I was sad. I'm not sad anymore. Yeah. So they had a couple tweets out that they have an NFL partnership. And if you look, they have certain traits that kind of have a football team colors and like football helmets.

And there was speculation that if you owned one of those, you were going to get some additional rewards during and after the game. So now, oh, so this is an interesting project to watch. And Brian I know it is trading higher than when you got in the first time, but again, not financial advice, but trading under one Eve, if this project gets some attention this week, I have to think that it's in play here.

Another one to put on everyone's watch list, just throwing it out there, my 2 cents and what we do here on the roadmap, Brian, I think it's time to get into the halftime show, right? So this is what a lot of people are excited about. And normally I don't get as excited about the halftime show performance because a lot of times that ends up being a bunch of like pop singers, right?

Although we have had some great rockers and different performers, but this year we have a killer lineup of some hip hop, rap, legends, all performing. As I mentioned in that Twitter poll those performers, but let's center in on a couple. So we have Eminem again, shout out Detroit closest.

We will ever be to being in the Superbowl with Stafford. And I'm an M I'm an Amazon board ape yacht club owner. So board a, getting a ton of love. Look at that. His profile picture, Brian Marshall Mathers himself is going to perform their speculation. That board ape of course, is going to get mentioned during the halftime show, we're going to see board apes turned into Mutan apes during the halftime show, we're going to see a board, ape, commercial, all kinds of stuff.

And to go along with that Snoop dog, who's performing with him also owns a board. What do you think, Brian, what's your guests here? Do we see board aids? Just get attention because of who's performing or is there actually something happening? Will we see board apes during halftime on Sunday? That'd be really cool.

I have no idea. I think they'll definitely get attention. Cause everyone has one and it's like the most that them and crypto bunks that are most well-known. Right now I do want to say one thing that we're good. We'll clip out, but Marshall, but Eminem Von Miller, OBJ, Snoop Dogg. Anybody, if you want to come on and talk about NFTs or crypto on the roadmap, you just let us know, just send a DM.

We'll reach out. Let's make it happen. Just anybody who wants to, because anybody you heard very exciting. You heard Brian, we want you all to come on. Brian you saw Snoop dog up there on screen for a minute to his profile picture, actually it looks like out of the sandbox, right? So Snoop dog has a partnership with the sandbox.

So that's another topic that maybe people haven't been looking at because we've been so centered on board ape. Do we get some stories? Performance or focus on the metaverse Sunday is there any kind of hologram, is there any kind of 3d avatar up on stage? Do they all leave the stage and enter the metaverse?

Could that be something else that's happening behind the scenes? Maybe the sandbox is gonna be. The winter after all that? No, one's talking about what do you think of metaverse in sandbox here? So I don't know if we'll see a whole lot of it like on the stage or anything like that, but we'll definitely see a lot on Twitter.

I think there'll be a lot of action. We will see a lot of different surprises with different Metro versus in different projects. I know for the past, probably two weeks or so on multiple different spaces that we've had in help. We've had a metaverse projects and different NFP projects. But mainly metaverse projects come on and explain Hey, we got some really cool stuff happening for the Superbowl that weekend.

I can't really drop any just because, but you'll see. But there's so much different stuff that's happening behind the scenes in the metaverse because that's going to be, if you think NMT. The metaverse all of that is going to explode within the next couple of months. That's going to be the next hot topic.

Definitely keep an eye out for that. And I think that the super bowl was going to start trailing it off and just the rocket ships going to keep on guzzling for, because we're going to see a whole lot of action when it comes to the sandbox or decentral land or up land. I think I that's one of the only ones I actually play every now and again, but w yes, the metaverse is going to be huge.

And I think there's gonna be a lot of attention to it on social media. Yeah. And I saw someone in the chat saying that the sand coin, right? So sandbox has their own coin. S a N D. We also have this central land with Manoj. I made an a those would be two to watch if we do get any mention of the metaverse or digital lay on this weekend.

Again, this is all just rumors, speculation, not financial advice, but the fact that Snoop Dogg has a partnership, he has land in the sandbox. I feel like there's at least a chance, that we'd get a mention. Remember to these performers are going to get interviewed over the weekend, too, right?

They're not just going to perform, they're going to be doing press events. They're going to be doing after parties, talking to other celebrities. So maybe they can get other celebrities, other athletes onboard into some of these other projects. So this is a huge topic. There's so much going into.

To this weekend. What else do we have on here? I got through Adam bomb squad. Okay. So last one to touch on here. Before we get to some of our questions from the chat. And guys, if you have questions, now's the time drop them in the chat. If you're watching us live, let us know. What do you want to hear about what are your questions about Superbowl or what are your questions about NFT projects?

I see a couple there, Brian, the other NFT project that I'm watching, but this is a harder one for people to get into is dapper labs, the parent company of NBA, top shot. They started releasing their packs of NFL all day. So NFL all day is not like a public open yet. It's still people that were on a wait list.

So I was actually able to score a pack two weeks ago. I haven't opened it yet, but I think I might be opening it live on the show sometime, maybe tomorrow teaser there. So if you guys want to see me open an NFL pack and some NBA top shot packs, let me know in the chat, right? But Brian dapper labs has the rights now to make moments of NFL games for the first time ever.

They're going to be able to make these moments from the super bowl and then put them into packs in a a week or two. What do you think of that? Are we going to see now? We saw this huge run on top shot when it first started and the low supply is this the perfect time now for NFL? All day to come out right around the playoffs and the super bowl.

Did they time it like this on. Oh, the hat guarantee it a hundred percent and yes, it is a perfect time. It's going to, because the NMT, I think a lot of people are now getting back into collectibles and like we've discussed this multiple times and it's pretty known fact that NFT or just a tokenized version of an app.

We'll change how memorabilia and collectors items will be utilized and used in the future. And yeah this is a perfect time to start. And honestly, these are these right here could have potential to be the next Pokemon cards. When I was a kid, it was all big. I had every card, I had one of the best charts ARDS.

My parents threw them away when I was a kid. Cause they were always everywhere. And I'm like 20 years later I'm like you guys owe me a hundred thousand dollars, but I don't. But it could be that kind of thing where you get one of these gen zero gen one or Genesis version and 10 years from now you're looking at a pretty nice paycheck right there.

So Brian as a sports fan, right? Let me ask you this. So in NBA top shot they of course have moments of three point shots done. Layups and assist. So obviously I think a lot of people tend to want like the dunks, cause they're a little bit flashier. Then an, a sister, a layup, nFL moments. So we've got passes, catches. We've got sacks by defensive players. We've got interceptions. Here's the sleeper though that I think out there as a sports fan that I would want to own. It sounds silly. But how about the kicker moments? The game winning field goal.

Because that's what it actually is. The moment your team won a certain game. So I know that they have moments out there of the bangles kicker, hitting the game winner to send them to the super bowl they aren't avail. So that's the other thing. They haven't opened their marketplace yet to sell these moments.

You can just open and buy the packs. Once that marketplace opens. I really think that those kicker moments could be some of the most sought after, because of the historical significance. What do you think, what NFL moments would you want to own and what do you think of the kickers here? Yeah, you pretty much nailed it right on the head.

There's a, that is going to be really cool. And that's a huge thing too, because you now have, oh, I just tried to pull up the, okay. You mentioned some sports in the while. I was trying to pull up the kick to see. To see what it was and see how it would go down. But that, that's a really cool aspect too, because you have like a.

For instance, maybe OBJ makes one of his classic one-handed catches and it's the game winning touchdown in overtime. That's a huge thing if you're if you're from Tennessee, for example, like I'm from Knoxville. And we beat Georgia, Tennessee, V Georgia a couple of years ago in overtime with a hail Mary pass.

And that's one of the most iconic pictures that you can find and stuff like that. That's huge because if you have it and say it straight from like routers or whatever, the photo service it has it, or licensed by the NFL, it's going to maybe a one of one or one to 10. You now have that.

And it's pretty much the same thing as having like your own piece of art, just like a crypto bunker or anything else. So I think that's really interesting and very exciting because I really want somebody. Yeah. And we got Logan, our boy, of course, in the chat saying that he wants all of the lions classic fourth quarter come back, red zone last second, turnovers.

There is some interceptions on NFL all day that I have seen. But yeah, I think if I got one of a lion's interception, I would probably have to sell it just because I would hate to watch that moment as the lions fan, but I'm not a lions fan. I know you lock out here, but you know what, Brian we've suffered over the years so much that we just want a university.

And so trust me, I get it. It's part of, it's part of our culture now. And again this is why we root for Stafford in the super bowl, because that way we can feel like we're a part of something and that we're participating so Broncos and a Colts fan. Cause a Beighton yeah, there you go. Oh, I did see a question from Logan asking about those the NFL NFPS from ticket master, right?

So we talked about. Brian, one thing to add to that, right? Is that don't you think during the Superbowl, they're going to at least run, not a commercial, but flash on the screen at some point, go to this website to buy Superbowl NFT tickets. And if they do that, I feel like the price on some of those existing and FTS could go up because those Superbowl ones aren't going to be available until the fans at the stadium sell their ticket.

What do you think if they put that website on screen, do people go after those Earlier relief. Yeah I would assume so the one thing that I think they actually do a pretty good job of, but how they've handled it. And of course they're pretty smart this kind of takes having the bots in it takes that whole aspect out because the tickets are given to people.

If you bought an, a ticket or you have to buy it with a card, you can't buy through a blockchain, but then you can mend it to your then you access it after you purchase it, you send it to you, whatever. But that kind of that's one cool aspect of NFT and tokenization and tickets. And as memorabilia is you're limiting the number of scans and then limiting the number of people like even shoe resellers, where they'll buy a whole stock of Yeezys and then that's what drives the price up.

But now you can't do that with these. Commemorative tickets, which is really cool. And I think that, that adds a lot more value to them in turn, when people try to sell them immediately or they'll hold them for a longer, the value of kind of stay steady and it'll be worth it. I kinda answered like four questions right there, but yeah, I feel about it.

Yeah, definitely. All right. I think that's a ton on the Superbowl here. We did get some other questions. Brian, why don't we talk about Kara foo for a minute? This was one that you brought up a minute ago and I saw in the chat, I forgot who brought it up now. But let's pull it up. Oh, here it is.

Vitale's thoughts on Kara Fu revealed tomorrow? Brian, this is one that I had actually forgotten about. I knew the name again, 154,000 followers on Twitter and a discord of 88,000. So a big following and here's something to throw out there. On Twitter. I have 73 followers in common with Kara Fu.

And again, I follow a ton of NFT accounts. That means there's a lot of people following this. So this is unrevealed, right? They're not all bots. It's unrevealed right now. And we already have a floor of 3.78, and Brian, speaking of supply, there's only 5,555 available. That's why your price is so high right now.

Demand is super high. Supply is super low. My guess is that when we get a reveal, we see a bit of a dip, but with that many people out there, I tend to think that we actually go higher than that floor price maybe next week, depending on how strong that, I mean that art looks cool.

Those colors jump off the screen. Brian, I don't know anything about their roadmap. I'll have to get one. I'll have to do some digging on that. You can't get one now because they meant it out, but you can buy one on open. But yeah, so to answer your question in the chat I would hold it going into the reveal based on that demand and that low supply, but I think we see maybe a short term debt, but I think this one could run based on those numbers and the strong interest.

So just my thoughts, not financial advice. I CA I would say the same as this is not financial. This is something I personally do. And I don't recommend I, I'm not gonna recommend it out. But what I personally do is I would never sell at the reveal of anything cause there's going to be a dip. And that's when you're going to see the rip, it'll either fall or jump, but you have a higher chance of, I have a higher chance of success of making a bigger ROI.

If I hold through, instead of gambling to see how it interacts with the community and everything. So I don't know why people would sell Amelie after seeing it, unless you have a cup, like unless you have four or five of them, but if you only have one or two, just I would just hold it out.

Not financial advice and I will no, not financial advice. Here's a good question. Let's say you decide to sell before the reveal, right? Let's say maybe you meant five of something. You sell a couple to get your money back and you hold the others. Okay. Let's say you do that. Do you go after the reveal and look at the ones you sold or do you just know that those are forever gone and you don't want to look in case they were rare personally?

Yeah. I'd forget about it. I don't look back because then I'll just soak and I'll just be like, and feel bad about it. So I just I do the same thing with stock trading or crypto trading try to keep emotions out of it. And if I take a loss and then I get out a stupid time that shoots back up I learned my lesson.

I just onto the next. Yeah. I have a tendency to still go look, which is my problem. Portraying yourself here you are. And that's the thing yeah. In the list of saying that she looks back as well. Yeah. It's torture, but it's just my, my my nature to want to go look and see.

But yeah, like you said, you, you do have a tendency then to sulk and be upset, be sad. So you my advice out there is if you sell before reveal just take your profit and don't look back, look at, look forward and just turn off the computer. Look at the next project, right? Find your next one.

We're running out of time here. I did see a. Of course Logan and the chat mentioning heart project. I saw Ryan mentioning height bears. Brian height bears was on the top 10 lists. We talked about yesterday for sales volume last week. This is one that I didn't know a ton about, but I was following from behind the scenes.

I haven't owned any, they are pre-review pre reveal as well of supply at 10,000 and a floor of 0.6, five. I actually kinda like that price on a pre reveal with a lot of hype pun intended behind it. So you know, not financial advice, but definitely has been on my watch list, Ryan through doing research and writing about it.

I think they look cool. They have a large What's the name of the, I can't think of the the cause. Yeah, right outside in front of the Benzinga headquarters, shout out to the Benzinga HQ, downtown Detroit. You can see that cause statue also shout out to our boy, Logan in the chat saying great show and smash the like, and Ryan.

Yeah. Shout out to those guys great crypto and NFT content here. I want to tease everyone. I mentioned it a little bit with the NFL pack, I think, depending on what happens tomorrow, I think I might be opening some top shot and NFL packs. I know you're going to be a way, Brian, so I hate to do that without you, but we want to keep the show going.

So anyone in here watching or listening, if you want to see me open some top shot packs and the NFL pack that I got that hopefully as a kicker moment. Leave a comment right now in the chat, or hit me up on Twitter and say open them packs. Or you can say wind packs like Logan did earlier. Let us know Brian will be back.

I'll be back tomorrow. We'll be back next week. We have so much talk about next week, right? Because now we get to follow up on all these Superbowl projections and predictions. So very exciting times, big shout out to our sponsor FTX for today's episode and sponsoring the show. And again, watch the super bowl, find that FTX commercial retweet it for your chance to win free Bitcoin free.

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I got you, buddy. Here we go. I just put it in, just put it in the chat. So did Alyssa, there we go, everybody. All right, everyone go follow Ryan right now. Let's do it. Let's get him to a thousand today. Today's the day. Nothing. So a little over 71 Bitcoin for each follow, he says he's promised not financial advice guys.

Yeah. Binance to do yeah. All right. What a great episode. Brian, I'm excited to talk to you next week on everything that happened during the big game. And again, go Stafford, go Rams. We'll catch everyone later. Stay tuned. You got pre-market prep at the close coming up soon where Spencer and Joel will go over all the top trending stacks and crypto of the day.

And you can get all those details right here. Live on Benzinga TV, stay tuned, smash that and take care of everyone.

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Today's episode of The Roadmap:

Top NFT News
Upcoming NFT Projects

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Joining us on today's Roadmap: SOL Legend https://twitter.com/SolanaLegend

NFTs @ FTX.US & Co-Founder of MonkeDAO

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Today's episode of The Roadmap:

NFT News
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Guests:

Joining us on today's Roadmap: SOL Legend https://twitter.com/SolanaLegend

NFTs @ FTX.US & Co-Founder of MonkeDAO

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Today's episode of The Roadmap:

Cool Cats
Pixel Vault
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Chris Katje

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Bored Ape Yacht Club is one of the largest and most well-known NFT collections around. Today on The Roadmap, we are joined by one of the top 11 holders, an individual named Franklin who owns 37 Bored Apes.

Based on the floor price of Bored Apes, his Ape collection is worth over $11 million.

One of the Apes he owns (his profile picture and image in the thumbnail) is solid gold fur (only 46 of the 10,000). The floor on solid gold Apes is 690 ETH (or around $1.86 million).

Join the show today to hear about his start in Bored Apes and how he has also sold some to celebs/athletes over the past few months

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Today's guest:

Franklin @ElectionDayMad1 https://twitter.com/ElectionDayMad1

Top 11 #BAYC holder, Owner of 36 Bored Apes

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Wall St Bulls NFT, Interns

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Today's guest: Wall St Bulls NFT, The degen NFT collection 🐂

https://twitter.com/wallstbullsNFT

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NFT News, Drops, & MoreNFTs-
Big Brand Cash Grab or More?
CryptoBatz by Ozzy Osbourne launched last week
1st trimester of the Metaverse

Guests:

Today's guest: Doug, creator & founder of Toy Boogers!

https://twitter.com/ToyBoogers

https://toyboogers.io/

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Today's episode of The Roadmap we are joined by Doug, creator & founder of Toy Boogers.

Superbowl's customized NFT
Tickets as NFTs
Utility for NFTs
Blockbuster comeback?

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Today's guest: Doug, creator & founder of Toy Boogers!

https://twitter.com/ToyBoogers

https://toyboogers.io/

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Today's episode of The Roadmap we are joined by John Lemon, creator of Doge Pound Studios.

utilities for Dogepound puppies
celebrities that are new to the doge pound communities

Also check out the Benzinga Exclusive Interview with Al Harrington

Guests:

Today's guest: John Lemon, creator of Doge Pound Studios

https://twitter.com/JohnLemonNFT

https://twitter.com/TheDogePoundNFT

https://opensea.io/collection/the-doge-pound

Doge hat: https://swag.benzinga.com/products/doge-dad-hat

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Chris Katje

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Today's episode of The Roadmap is all about the NFTs.

NFT Headlines
The New NFT Marketplace in Town
Looks Rare, OpenDAO SOS, Rally
NFTs at this Super Bowl halftime show? Bored Apes?

Guests:

huntΞr.eth

https://twitter.com/hunterorrell

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Today's episode of The Roadmap is all about the NFTs.

Top 10 NFT Sales
NFT Headlines
Barbie NFTs
WOW NFT

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Chris Katje

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Robotos is a collection of droid characters designed by Pablo Stanley and minted as NFTs. They are constructed from various metal outfits, tin faces, digital accessories, top pieces, faces, backpacks, arms, and colors.

Robotos: https://twitter.com/robotosNFT

Pablo Stanley: https://twitter.com/pablostanley

https://opensea.io/collection/robotos-official

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What do you need to know about taxes when you sell NFTs? CPAs Peter and Rich talk about how IRS handles NFT sales.

Peter: https://twitter.com/NFTandDFSCPA

Rich: https://twitter.com/RichM_34

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Which NFT project is a better investment : CryptoPunks vs. Bored Ape Yacht Club?

Join Chris and Maz on the Roadmap for the December NFT Watchlist.

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Chris Katje

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Joining us today on The Roadmap: Josh Ong - Communications Consultant. Collecting NFTs, sneakers, and cards. Ambassador @TheSandboxGame https://twitter.com/TheSandboxGame

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Bored Ape Yacht Club Token?

AMC Giving Away Free NFTs?

On this episode of The Roadmap hosts Chris and Maz talk about the trending headlines in the NFT space.

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Chris Katje

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The Goonz are joining us today for yet another exclusive NFT interview!

The Cryptoon Goonz collection consists of 6,969 generative rubber hose style characters, made up of hundreds of unique traits which not only change the look of a single Goon, but completely change the form a Goon will take. Whether it's a wolf, cat, or ape/marshmallow hybrid, every variety of a Cryptoon Goon is decked out in pop culture, hip-hop, and streetwear references.

https://opensea.io/collection/cryptoongoonz

Guests:

https://twitter.com/RyanHodge

https://twitter.com/JesseFriedland

https://twitter.com/Cryptoon_Goonz

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On Today's episode we'll be talking about Bored Ape Yacht Club, Miami, Spoiled Banana Society, and MORE!

11 Bored Ape Yacht Hodlers came together to build an NFT fantasy sports society.

https://twitter.com/SBananaSociety

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Joining us today: Richard Vagner - Grammy Nominated Multi-Instrumentalist & Producer Collabed with @Jaden @SojaLive @OfficialMateo!

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Joining us on today's Roadmap: Sappy Seals

Sappy Seals is a community-led project focused on metaverse expansion and a growing ecosystem

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Sappy Seals: https://twitter.com/SappySealsNFT

Kass: https://twitter.com/0xCryptoKass

Wab: https://twitter.com/wabdoteth

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Chris and MAZ make a list of the top 10 NFT projects of the year.

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Joining us on today's Roadmap: Wall St Bulls NFT, The degen NFT collection 🐂

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Chris and Mazdiscuss the most popular NFT projects.

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Can NFT music take over the music industry? Will the metaverse take away record labels' power and give it back to the creators? Post Malone recently aped into Bored Ape Yacht Club among several other celebrities. Who will be the next musician/band to stream music to the metaverse? The Gorillaz hopped on the NFT trend back in March, will similar artists ape in?

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Crypto/NFT Rapper @Dyl with over 240 Million Streams! Check out his Twitter:https://twitter.com/famous_dyl

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The Bored Ape Yacht Club is a collection of 10000 unique Bored Ape NFTs— unique digital collectibles living on the Ethereum blockchain.

Rolling Stone Minted First-Ever NFTs With Bored Ape Yacht Club.

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Joining us today for another NFT interview: Fang Gang!!

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Fang Gang: https://twitter.com/FangGangNFT

Paca: https://twitter.com/CryptoAlpacaNFT

Junshi: https://twitter.com/JunshiNFT

Fang Gang is a collection of 8888 randomly assembled Fangsters - twisted lunatics that come out at night to throw parties, hang around in dark alleys and have fun on the streets of New Fang City.

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Unedited Transcript:

Hey everyone. Welcome to the roadmap. Benzingers new NFT show. We've had some great teams on our show for interviews before the teams behind pixel vault, art blocks, the Vogue collective robotics, the dos pound crypto dads, lazy lion sub duck, and more. We also did an NFT giveaway and we are planning on more NFT giveaways in the future.

So make sure you like this stream and subscribe to Benzinga as YouTube channel. We have a great show today. Fang gang joins us for an interview here on the roadmap guys. This is the road.

Oh, right. Everyone. As I said, this is the roadmap Ben's thing. As new NFT show. If you're new here, we air Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 2:00 PM Eastern time. Make sure you like the stream and subscribe so you can get more NFT content right here. Let me go ahead. Bring on my cohost mass mass. What's going on, buddy?

Yo, what's up Chris, back to back, man. I love it. How are we feeling today? I know it's nice to have the, the expanded show schedule now and to have these great interviews. We've got a big one today. I also, I mean, when we started this show, we had a different background and I am still loving this new layout.

So if you're new here, you can see right there on the screen. If you comment in the chat. Your comments appear on screen. So with that being said, if you have any questions along the way for mass, for myself, or for Fang gang, when they are on the stream, go ahead and comment and let us know. And we will be reading that throughout the episode and try to get to questions later on a mass bang gang, right?

That is the focus of the show today. This is a project with 8,888 NFTs. The Fang stirs. Um, there is 4,100 holders, so we're looking at a pretty strong, uh, user base, right. And we have a floor price of 0.07 right now. 17,000 in their discord and over 17,000 followers on Twitter. What do you think of Fang gang?

What do you know about this project? Yeah. Well, shout out to our producer, Alyssa, who has she kind of introduced us or at least my self-defined gang, uh, it's her profile pictures. So that's when I saw it, I was like, oh, they're pretty cute. You know? So they fit that aesthetic of a great profile picture. The community looks awesome.

Uh, very supportive, you know, all throughout Twitter and discourse. So it should be a good episode. Definitely. We always like focusing on teams with strong communities, right? I mean, community is so important in the NFT space. If you want to make it longterm, shout out to our chat. I'm seeing lots of familiar faces that have been on lots of our shows with us.

So shout out to you all in the chat and if you're new here, let us know in the chat as well. Let us know. Hey, it's my first episode. And maybe we will give you a shout out during the episode. Mass before we bring on, uh, the Fang gang team. I think we have a trailer to play, to get hyped for this interview.

Should we roll that trailer? Absolutely. Anybody watching though, we need you guys to hype it up with us. Put that like button down below and let's hype this up. Let's make this intro great. These always get me hyped up for the interview.

Oh, come on. Look at that. Look at that. Shout out to our producer, Alyssa for making that wonderful trailer video. I mean, math, this makes me just want to play the game. I don't even know. Uh, I mean, I know we've got the interview, but I mean, if you have not played the fan gang game yet, uh, to anyone in the chat, make sure you check that out and we're going to hear more about that game during the interview.

So without further ado, let me bring on the co-founders of Fang gang. We've got pocket and June sheet joining us on the roadmap what's going on. Hey. Of course, of course. And that trailer video by our own producer, Alyssa highlighting the Fang gang game, a super exciting project to talk about. Uh, let me go ahead and kick off the questions here before we get into Fang gang.

One of the things we always like to ask teams is what was your history like before you created the project? You know, were you involved in other MFTs? Did you hold NFTs or was this a completely new space to you? So I'll, I'll start with pocket here to kick things off. Awesome. So, uh, I've joined the NFT space back in March, beginning of March or, uh, end of February.

And, uh, I've been, uh, I started experimenting, so I've been a designer and, uh, uh, want to be artists for all my life. And so I found a space through to try some stuff here. So I've launched, uh, uh, experimental collection. It was my first one. It, it didn't go anywhere big, uh, but it was a way to learn. And then a while later I launched my, uh, uh, the collection that actually, uh, when I got my nickname from, which is crypto or backend, uh, where I did, uh, our Packers for ID, like, uh, over 50, uh, in pixel format.

So that's how I started. And then of course I started as a creator, but quickly, uh, started to be a collector as most of the artists in this space. Uh, and I met June, she along the way, uh, we, we joined the same chat room, uh, I think back in March too. And we started talking and, uh, that's what that is to creating fan gang, uh, in August.

So it was a short but intense ride so far. Perfect room. Was it? Uh, it was, uh, uh, Twitter, uh, chat with a lot of artists, like, uh, people that were starting at the same time as this, uh, like crypto burbs was there, uh, June. She was there. I know, uh, uh, hash vestors was there like some names that are being talked about nowadays, uh, started with us right there.

Awesome. Jinshi same question for you. Uh, what's your, uh, intro to NFTs look like here. Um, so also back in March, like Bucca set, um, my brother had told me about NFTs, uh, because of their crypto punk hype was real back then. And, um, well, as, as a, as a studying a multimedia designer artists, um, I thought I would hop in and just create some stuff.

So I kicked it off with a personal collection, uh, based around doge because there was the high back down of course. Um, and I made some pixel dogies out of those. Um, after that, I started to look at more of the collecting side of things. Uh, so I branched out my collection quite a bit, um, met amazing new artists, um, and just, uh, made many more connections in the NFD space.

I think that's, that's key to, uh, to anyone who's trying to hop in. So, uh, there was a lot of fun. And then I think maybe in July, we started working on fan gang and, uh, the rest is history. Awesome. Yeah. Give us some more, uh, behind the scenes, you know, you too, Matt, and then, you know, how did the idea for fan gang come to be?

And, and then maybe June she talk about the, the artwork, right? What was the inspiration, how did this artwork come to be? Um, I don't know. Basically we wanted to create a, a unique character and not link it directly to a certain type of animal. It's still a mystery to our community. What type of animal?

Thanks there is. And that's, that's part of the fun, obviously. Uh, so we wanted to create a unique character that is not necessarily animal. Like I said, uh, I think most inspiration for me personally came from, uh, more old timey cartoons, maybe Felix, the cat, stuff like that. Um, 'cause I love that stuff. And I wanted to incorporate that into this design and that pocket.

And I went back and forth, designing the base of the character, a lot of iterations, a lot of sketches, a lot of discussing. And, uh, we ended up with this beautiful creature. Awesome. And PACA, you know, uh, same to you. Uh, you know, you met June, she, you came up with the idea, give us the behind the scenes. You know, why fan gang, why this style of artwork and project, uh, for this.

Well, I think may and June, she are pretty much aligned when it comes to the, the inspirations of fanging. Uh, actually one of the things that got me here and when we were experimenting, we, we looked at that a lot, uh, was vinyl toys because, uh, when we started it, uh, we had the idea of going beyond an NFT collection, like creating an IP.

And building up on that. So that's what, uh, that's, that's one of the things we wanted with the characters is that they could be, uh, they could be used in different media, different formats and, and above all, we wanted people to be able to remix them to which happens so far. So we launched a, uh, uh, an art contest, I think about a month ago.

Uh, and, and, and that's, that's the confirmation we needed that we were doing what we propose ourselves to do, because people were able to, uh, to grab the, the, the, the most iconic traces of the characters and, and, uh, redo them in their own style. So I think, uh, when, when creating the characters, these, this concern we had, uh, actually, uh, worked, ended up.

Love that. So pocket June sheet, let's talk a little bit about the recent airdrop that you guys sent to everyone who had delisted or listed for one Eve. Can you guys tell us a little bit more about that? Um, let's start with you, do you and cheat. All right. So we always had in mind that ever since we started the diamond facts club, which was a, I think halfway through September, uh, pocket came up with the ID to, to do this, to reward holders and active community members, especially.

Um, so that's when we started to give away 0.18 or at one faster every single day, uh, to everyone who, well, like you said, the, their Franks or list above one eighth. Um, and we wanted to do something extra. I know like giving back a bit of is already cool, but we wanted to do an add drop as well. And we recently hired a new developer to work with us.

Shout out to reveal if you're watching. To do ad reps and stuff like that. So that's more, uh, easy to us to do that right now. And one day pocket DME with this amazing artwork, he made it all himself, no discussing or back and forth or iterations. And he made this and I was just amazed by it by it. And I thought let's, let's add up this to our diamonds banks club members.

Yeah. That's awesome. So, um, parka, why do you guys do the daily diamond fangs raffle? Um, and you know, why is this important for the committee? Uh, well, first of all, I think it's, it's a good way to keep the community engaged. And, uh, when we launched we wanted the community to be, uh, one of, uh, one of its most, uh, strong points.

So, uh, we've been working, uh, on that daily, beyond the, the diamond banks club. Uh, we, we try to reward our holders constantly. Uh, like we did an airdrop on Halloween and we're trying to, uh, do, uh, games daily. We do a lot of stuff, uh, to, to keep the community engaged. So the diamond thanks club is not only a way to, to, to reward our holders, but it's also a way to express our creativity so we can do stuff like this, like the diamond, thanks to God, uh, just because we want to, and we can reward our holders with that.

So, uh, it's, it's, uh, a way to do, to build on community. Love that. So speaking of community, can you guys tell us a little bit about the Fang runner week three contests, you know, the high scores in the game, what are your guys' high scores? And do you guys put a game? Yeah,

I've been trying to break 15 K for a while, but I can't quite get there. It's hard. It's hard, but I mean, there's, I think, uh, the high score so far is like 24 K on the first week. And that's nuts because when, when I'm on 12 30, 13, K I'm already stressing and sweating a lot. So this is, this is, this is not, uh, but we've been having a lot of fun with Fang runner, I think.

Uh, well, it's, it's another way to reward the community as, uh, as the diamond. Thanks. Uh, we, we tried when we launched the game, it's just the promotional game. It's not nothing too big yet, but, uh, we, we, we launched the game, uh, along with a pixel thanks collection. Uh, but when we, when we, when we propose to do that, we wanted to reward players and we, again, we wanted the community to be engaged with the project.

So, uh, one way to do it is to rewards, uh, holders, uh, and players above all, uh, uh, every week, uh, for their, uh, crazy runs like those 24 K that I think it was invalid by gut. So we've been rewarding so far, um, with, uh, special pixel fangs, special peaks of thanks there's for the collection. We created them specially for this, uh, but, uh, we have something planned for the F for the fifth week that we can't reveal yet, but it's, it won't be an NFT.

What used to be something. Uh, but you'll have to stay around the city to see it. And that's in what, two weeks you said two weeks yet. Nice. Yeah. So can you guys tell us, so will the pixel fangs be expanded then? Or is it going to be something completely different from the NFTs, like you said,

I think it was talking about the price. Yeah. So in two weeks we have a physical price for any thing, runner competitors. Um, but we, we are, uh, in talks to expand the game later on. Yeah. We want to do much more with it. Uh, just a matter of time, basically. Nice man. And, uh, especial note for this one, we've been working with pixel hands on, on pixel fangs and the Fang runner game.

Uh, and we actually want to keep on working with him, uh, everything pixel related because he's the pixel king. So, uh, I'm sure we will expense, uh, Uh, we've been working on that. We can share much yet, but we've been working on it. Awesome. And we asked people in the chat to drop their high scores in the chat.

I saw, you know, I think, uh, 8,000, uh, 4,000. Um, but yeah, it looks like you've got a lot of people that play that game. I know I'm going to be playing it over and over now that I know what some of the high scores are to beat here. Um, but it it's just so addicting. Uh, you know, another common question we ask, right?

When we have teams on is when merge. So is merchandise a part of the plan going forward and when will we get an update on the.

Um, so merge was something we had in mind from basically the very first date, um, because the longterm vision for fan gang, eventually it's just expanding it into a brand, um, something much more, um, than just your avatar. Um, so merge was something really big and something we're really excited for. Uh, we often call it a premium merge merge store because we want to do a little more than most projects do a lot of projects, have a really cool merge, but we want to take it a step further and add some very exciting merge items, as well as non wearable items and stuff like that.

I'm currently in the process of sketching, a lot of designs and patterns for the clothing items. Uh, so it's starting to take shape. Um, um, and I hope we can release that end of the year, beginning of next. Yeah. And actually it's still still about merge. We, when we launched banksters, uh, if I don't know if you've noticed it already, but, uh, some of the factors of, uh, some specific brands that we created for the collection, like the wild fangs, uh, and the three little piggies and, uh, uh, by 12th grade is some of them Lupa.

And, uh, our idea is to expand those, uh, into the real March. So, uh, we'll probably have some wild fangs merge, t-shirts hoodies and whatnot. So that that's, that's something we planned from the start. And that's why this process is only happening now, after we launch a bunch of things, because we really want to focus on this and, and do it properly, you know, as, as June, she said, premium merge store.

Awesome love that. I know there's going to be a lot of excited fans out there to get their hands on that merge. Um, you know, this show is called the roadmap. Uh, you know, so another big highlight is we always like to talk about, you know, the roadmap and what's next. So I saw a comment already in the chat from third, I won saying, can you talk about Fang city?

So if you guys can share a little bit about Fang city and that roadmap, uh, for our viewers, Yeah, absolutely. Actually, I've been drawing all day for new thanks city. So I just stopped for the, this, this live stream, but it's been our focus lately. Uh, so June she has been working on Merck and I've been drawing for new thanks CD, mostly.

Uh, and, uh, I think the, this started as a community project. So this, this wasn't something that was on our roadmap, uh, uh, since the beginning, but our, our current dev reel, uh, came to us with an idea of developing, uh, that, that new Fang CD we talked about before, uh, eight into a, a hub, a place where, uh, you can, uh, search for everything, uh, Fang, gang related.

So, so far we have a few ideas in mind, something, and, uh, it will probably, uh, stop. Uh, just with the game room and the merge store, uh, and the two, two or three other rooms, but our idea is to expand it a long time. So, uh, when you, when you enter new thank city, you'll be able to name your faster, tell his backstory and then roam around and, and interact with other fencers.

Um, but it will be a long-term project. So when we launch it, we'll probably have like three or four buildings, but, uh, as, as we go, uh, as we go down the roads, we, we could add more things. So it's, it's a dynamic websites, uh, to say, so I don't know if you want to add something. Um, and that's about it. I'm super high for it.

And, uh, I can't wait to expand that as well. I think it's cool that we have stuff that we can expand later on like Fang runner is basically the core of what we wanted to make and people are enjoying it and we're having fun with it. We are rewarding the community with it. Uh, but we are expanding that and same for new fact city.

It's something we want to release and people have fun with and also expand later on. Perfect. Yeah. I mean, that's awesome to hear more about what's ahead and pocket also that you're working on the artwork. Um, you know, and thanks for taking a small break to join us on the stream today. We appreciate that.

Um, well, uh, another thing we always like to ask the teams, and this can be a difficult one, you know, especially for the artist, is we like to hear what are your favorite traits, um, from Fang city? So, uh, June G let's start with you. Oh man grills, grill gang all the way. Fucking grill myself. Really? My favorite.

Yeah. Um, besides that I think, uh, the for code is amazing. Um, And the wild fangs, uh, all the hoodies and stuff like that. They, the caps they have on it's dopest. Fuck. I would wear that in real life. There you go. Ask me suits too. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah, we got to see the fur coat here a while. We're trying to pull that up a parka.

Oh, there it is. Haka over to you. Um, what are some of your favorite traits in the, in the series here? Just check my PFP. You'll see a four codes. So that's definitely one of my favorites. Uh, I'm chain gang of everything that has changed. So basically, uh, the tank top and the four coats are two of those. Uh, and then I'm a separate for bunny.

Heres I love them. I think they're workout. Breeding. So check those two and then there's there's well, all the wild things, uh, merge, uh, speaks to me. I love it. Uh, and there's more, I think it's hard to pick one, you know, I love almost all of them. That's awesome. If there's one with the fur and a grills, that'd be awesome too.

Oh, there's not. Yeah. There's no. Yeah. Oh man. That'd be awesome. So guys, we, you guys had a ho how a wean costs contests, uh, earlier this last month here. Uh, will there be more holiday contests coming up, you know, since we're approaching holiday season here? Yeah, man, we, uh, we have something for Christmas lined up, well, lined up where we're discussing it right now.

Thinking of cool ideas. Slowly starting to work on it. Um, uh, but it's tough because we're also working on merge in New York city and everything coming out. It's, it's a lot, it's a big package, but the Halloween, uh, costume maker is definitely something we will return for Christmas, uh, and run a contest with it as well.

Of course. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah. I can't wait to see, like Santa hats or you guys get creative with all that stuff. Yeah, that's really cool. I love that. Um, so speaking, you know, we talked to community earlier, um, discord management, right? So we know discord, depending on which discord you joined, it can be completely hectic or one of the best, you know, organized, structured communities you've been to.

How do you guys manage the community? Do you do anything specific to make sure it's running smoothly? Um, well I guess that's the question for me as I am the community manager, um, I don't know, really. I think we attracted the right group of people that are very chill, very wholesome, very welcoming to everybody.

So it's been pretty chill. We have moderators, but I don't think they have to do a lot of banning or warning people and stuff like that. I've been in much worse communities outside of NFTs as well. And, uh, ours is just very, very wholesome. They're welcoming, really love that. Are you guys both active on there?

Yeah. Every day. Yeah. We basically live on discord. Yeah. Yeah. It's tough on like, there's so much FOMO. You leave for like an hour. You have to catch up on all these messages. And is there a favorite room in the discord that you guys like to be in? For me, basically the team chat, because that's where the goodies are, right?

Yeah. Yeah. We actually launched something, uh, recently, uh, which is called the fan gout where we host game nights and such, uh, Heartland sparks. One of our mods has been taking care of it and it's actually a fun place to hang out. Like we have terrific games. We have, uh, what was the first one? Uh, we had a night of, uh, what was called the game helped me drinking, uh, party books, Jack party, Jack books, Jack Jack box.

So we have, uh, that's, that's also a way to keep the community engaged. That's something we really focus on. So the hangout is also a cool place. So me and Chris are going to have to join you guys on the next game night there. Yeah, that sounds like fun. I feel like we did that here at Benzinga one time, the, the Jac games, um, the different mini games.

So, uh, that, that could definitely be a fun night. So absolutely one last question about discord for you guys. So we have seen a lot of discourse get hacked. You know, they're posting these spam links, uh, anything that you guys are doing and take precaution with this and anything that you recommend to the community to just, you know, kind of as a guide, to not fall for these things.

Um, I've been community managing on this good for a six or seven years now. And I've recently actually posted a thread about this because I've seen so many surfers getting a hack and a scam. Like you said, if people lose a lot of money, um, I think it's a lot of teams may be new to discord. I don't know, to like the intricate details or the useful tips you can add to your server.

And basically it's all my trout. That's been to my profile page view. If people want to win the, read that all true. I've linked some very useful things in there. Okay, awesome. Yeah. We'll make sure to check that out because now more than ever, it's more important for all of these things to take precaution, you know?

Perfect. Yeah. And for anyone out there watching, if you're watching us on YouTube right now, you can follow pock on Junichi on Twitter. Those are in the description of this video below. Um, so make sure you check those out as well. Um, we do have some questions here from the chat, um, which is something we always like to do here on the show.

Um, we got a question from, uh, Quito, how did they meet David Horvitz and get him to do a one of one Fang stir David Horvath? Of course, uh, ugly Dallas founder. Uh, I believe, and I know ugly Dallas from having kids and they did that movie a couple of years ago. So, uh, tell us a little bit about how that came to be.

Uh, well, actually it's, uh, it's a pretty straightforward, uh, they, they be joined or discord and both a bunch of factors and started sharing them. And we were astonished by it because I've been following David's work for quite a while, as you, as you've been Chris. Uh, and, and actually we reached out to him.

It was the coolest dudes and just agreed to do it, like, just like that. So he is, he was a collector before he was collabing with us. So that's, that's, that's the best thing, I guess. So, and then the process was, was pretty straight forward. I'm sorry. He just picked one of his characters and it turned it into a fencer.

Like we didn't have to do much because it was his style and it was a perfect match for our colors and our, our, our theme. So it was pretty straight. That's awesome. Um, so we have another question from the chat here. This one is from third. I, Juan, he's asking, do you guys do this full time? And if so, what is your daily routine?

Um, yeah, I do this full time. Uh, I know PACA doesn't, but, uh, I recently, after we launched and we sold out, I made the choice to quit university and quit my part-time designer job. Uh, as I w I always wanted to go full-time NFD ever since I got into this space, because it's just so welcoming a super cool as you, as an artist, you can create so much and have such a big audience.

So I decided to bite the bullet and quit uni and quit my job and go full-time fan game. I do. I actually do a lot of juggling between my day job and thinking I'm 24 7 on this cord, but luckily my job allows me to, to balance things. So, uh, I can do my day job and still be fully committed to, to thinking.

So me and June, she worked perfectly, uh, with this, with this schedule. So not a lot of sleep hog guys. Yeah. Not, not really. Yeah. I feel like that was something we talked about in one of our other interviews of like, do you ever feel the need to, you know, take, take a break, maybe take a day off from the, the discord, um, you know, maybe, uh, a mental break.

Is that something you guys ever do or think about, or is this just, you know, 24, 7, uh, all in no breaks. Um, I do think about it. Uh, I rarely do it though. Um, but sometimes, you know, on a Sunday you sleep in a little and, well, I mean, this is just fun. It doesn't feel like work or anything. So I do check this every day, but I don't, sometimes I take one day off or something like that.

Yeah. Yeah. It's very important. Yep. Very important. Packa. How about, how about you juggling a, you know, two things right now? Um, you know, how, how do you take some mental breaks? Yeah, I probably need to take more of those. Uh, but uh, I tried to, as June, she said, I tried to enjoy a bit of the weekend, even though I'm always checking discord and Twitter, but, uh, I think I'm going to need a break, like after we release new thanks city and the March, probably some days off, but I know I won't be able to, to, to log off and, and skip on discord, but still, uh, probably less hands-on and more, uh, enjoying.

I guess I have a question for you guys. I'm curious to hear your guys' thoughts on the current NFT markets. You know, since we have seen, you know, gas go up volume kind of slowed down a little bit. Uh, what are your guys' thoughts on the market right now? Let's start with you PACA. Uh, well, I think, uh, market is going through a slow days and we've noticed that on, on thinking.

Uh, I don't, I honestly don't know if this is just a phase or if NFTs are starting to, to, to enter the real bear market, because so far we had like one or two weeks bear markets and then things start to spike up again. But, uh, all I know is if we keep on building communities and, and, uh, keep on working daily for those reasons, Those are the projects that will stand the test of time, you know?

So we, we gotta build when things are down. So we really enjoy when things are back up. So that's, that's at least my, my way of seeing things. And that's why we haven't stopped ever since we started, uh, I don't know where, I mean, I don't know if this is, this is changing anytime soon. I hope so because I've been seeing a lot of reds on every three Twitter threads, like.

Uh, but uh, people are still around. So I think that's, that's one of the things that matters the most and, and you see new people, uh, buying their first NFD every day. So I think that's, that's a bullish sign and then Christmas is coming and I, I truly believe that the NFTs are going to be these year's Christmas gifts.

So who knows. Yeah. Um, I'm looking for some gifts for the family and I'm definitely gonna give NSC. I hope I get some as gifts this Christmas too. So if my family's out there watching, I'll take some out of teas for Christmas. All right. We got another question here in the chat. Uh, this one, uh, along the same, you know, broad NFT lines, a question from Brenda, um, are they into other types of NFTs, like NBA, top shot or music?

Um, you know, we, we asked about your early days in NFTs and now that fan gangs going, I know you're busy guys, but you know, are there NFTs that you guys, uh, you know, collect, uh, you know, currently. Um, yeah, like you said, we're, we're busy and I was a died down definitely a little bit, but I'm still degenerate.

So I still browse open, see all the time looking for new stuff, but also still supporting my friends who we came up with, uh, from back in March, uh, people like crypto pers, uh, Marco, uh, those are still grinding every single day and they put out dope stuff. So I still check those out and sometimes buy one of them.

Uh, so yeah, definitely still collecting pocket. Yeah. About a top shot and music. Uh, well mainly tough shots. I was never, uh, much into it because first of all, we're in European. So, uh, basketball is not as huge as there over here. Uh, but, uh, I, I mostly collect, uh, the same stuff as June. She said, I, I do. Well, some 10 Ks.

I do. Someone wants, uh, I actually liked music, but I haven't found anything that, uh, really, uh, pushed me to it. Uh, like nothing NFD related that, that, that I think was it, uh, I think we still have a long way there. Uh, I've I've played for, for over 10 years. So music is something that interests me. Uh, but I'm yet to find a proper, uh, NFT, uh, about it.

I guess. I, I mean, there there's, there's good stuff. Uh, but nothing that has really spoken to me.

Awesome. And one more, uh, you know, just broad question here. Um, you know, uh, another topic we've hit on a lot with this show is obviously a lot of people know the current NFT marketplaces, you know, open, see super rare, rare bull and others. We have this elephant in the room of Coinbase launching an NFT marketplace.

Uh, what are your thoughts? You know, how big of a deal is this for the NFT market for Coinbase getting involved and have you guys, uh, you know, talk to a Coinbase at all about maybe, uh, getting fan gang on there? Um, yeah, we definitely want to, uh, because obviously it's a, it's a huge step. Uh, and I think it's about time to open C has got some real competition.

I think it's very healthy for the market over. Um, so I think that's very good how they develop it and how it all, uh, works out. That's yet to be seen of course, but it's a very promising, uh, company to be behind an empty marketplace. I get, I think, and if anyone's in the chat or anyone out there has any connections to Coinbase, please link us up because we've been reaching out, we've been shooting emails left and right.

But so far to know, I feel sadly, so

awesome. Well, June she and PACA, you know, thank you guys so much for joining us on the roadmap today and also shout out to the fan gang community, joining the chat. Um, you know, we want to thank you both for taking time out of what we know is your busy days. And we look forward to following the progress of fan gang along the way.

Awesome. Thank you guys. We'll talk to you soon. See ya. All right. May I ask, I mean, another great interview here on the roadmap, right? Which when we started this show, right. You know, the big things where it provides some education, talk about some upcoming projects and interview these great teams. Right.

And we get that behind the scenes. Look, that's what I really like. Right. Is hearing. I mean, where else are you going to hear it? What their high scores are on this game, or, you know, how much time they spend in the discord, you know, and their favorite traits. I always love getting that. And, you know, hearing what the artist thinks, you know, are their favorite traits.

What do you think mass? Yeah, one of my favorite things about these interviews is watching the chat. Now, seeing, you know, all these guys from the community, come on here and just ask questions or provide feedback. You know, I get a good sense of the community from this chat. So it's really cool to see that.

And if you guys enjoy this again, make sure to leave a thumbs up subscribe. We're trying to, you know, really push this as NFC is expand. So yeah, you know, I'm glad it was a great interview, great team. And I look forward to seeing where they're at in a couple months or following up with them in the future.

Definitely. And I mean, that's an exciting roadmap, right? To hear about Fang city, to hear about merge and, you know, there's this new artwork coming and also those, those, uh, costume contest, right. The Halloween one, and we got a Christmas one coming up. Um, so definitely excited. Mass before we get to the headlines, I'm seeing a, a, it looks like we got a shout out in the chat there and a tip.

So, uh, thank you, mark, for your super chat contribution. And the comment is, let me go ahead and pull this up on the screen. The comment is the floor for pudgy penguins is 1.2. Ethan robotics is 0.3 for any reason not to buy at these prices. Thanks guys. Uh, mark, thanks again for the shout-out here. Um, again, not financial advice.

Uh, you know, I was a former holder of robotics. Um, I do not have my Roboto any more. They just did the. Airdrop of the pet. Um, you know, and the price has come down since then. I love this artwork though. We had the team on, and this is one that I'm looking to get back in. I love the ones that have the animal is, you know, on the head.

Those are my favorite ones, but 0.3, four. Um, you know, I think maybe we dip a little bit more, but you know, I sold mine at 1.5 east. So, uh, it definitely was up there and pudgy penguins, I've never been in a, you know, I missed the run on that. Um, so I can't really speak to that. Maths. What do you think of a pudgy penguins and robots here at these levels?

Yeah, so great question, mark. Um, you know, not financial advice, but I think now, you know, We're kind of past that flipping phase right now, since we're kind of in a, we've slowed down a bit. So what I've focused more on is look at the community, right. And we've had the robotics team, you know, they're all docs, they're a great community there at New York, uh, you know, and the events, um, are they a great long-term hold?

Absolutely. In my opinion, I think they are so kind of, I think price is a lagging indicator right now. You know, floors are thin. There's not a lot of volume. I think these will pick up over time, you know, in a year or so. Can you see this as your profile picture and not worried if it dips? Absolutely same with budgie penguins.

I mean, I see them both on Twitter all the time. A lot of people use them as their profile pictures. Um, so, you know, that's the biggest thing. Can you, do you, would you hold on to this for a while? Is the community strong? Do you see the roadmap? These things matter now? A little more so than ever before in the last couple months I would say so in my opinion, I would definitely buy at these prices.

They look good. They may go down even more, a bit who knows, but, um, yeah, I mean, I like that. Definitely great insight there, math, uh, you know, I always love the call-out right. That you, you see these as profile pictures, right. And that is true with penguins and robotics and the communities are huge. You know, uh, we talked about that on a past show.

Robotics was that, you know, Um, and did some events there. Uh, Pablo is an amazing artist, right? Uh, shout out to Pablo. We had him on the show and they also do random airdrops different times. Um, you know, of just some of his artwork to, you know, give back. And I think, uh, after pets they've got more coming.

So, uh, I could definitely see some, some longterm value there. So again, not financial advice, but that's our thoughts on the overall price right now, again, mark, you know, thanks for the shout out there in the chat. Um, and again, guys drop your questions in the chat. If you have them, we'll try to get to some let's turn to some, uh, news and headlines.

Um, you know, there, there's not a ton of new stuff out there, mass, uh, but one of the big headlines I saw, you know, I, I occasionally watch, uh, late night television and I have watched Jimmy Fallon for awhile and he had people on last night. Right. So we got to hear all about NFTs, right? With people's latest, say.

And one of the things that was revealed during the interview was that Jimmy Fallon is now a board ape yacht club owner. So he said that he partnered with moon paid during the interview. And, uh, we're not sure if moon pay, you know, a, it was a sponsor at all, or if they just got that shout out from Jimmy Fallon.

Um, but so now I'm seeing on Twitter that based on it being through moon pay, it is most likely board ape number 5, 9, 9. If we can get that picture up here in a minute. Uh, so it is a six tray cream for eight. So 6% tray of cream for has a sea captain's hat, 3%. Uh, Navy Stripe, T3 percent and heart sunglasses, 4%.

Uh, this was purchased for 46.6 east or around $216,000 on November 8th by moon pay and then was transferred to an open sea account that had just been set up this month. So again, that's the one that they think that Jimmy Fallon got, it has not been confirmed. And also in that regards mass, Jimmy Fallon has not changed his profile picture to the ape yet.

So a great shout out on TV, but a well, he changed his Twitter picture, uh, to this APM. Yeah, that's a great point. You know, I have a feeling he doesn't fully understand it yet. It was just from, just from hearing him talk there. I feel like he just, how he described boom pay and how it worked. Hopefully it does.

And yeah, I mean, it would make a cool profile picture, you know, I'm sure the board answer glad that Jimmy is onboard. So that's awesome. Yeah. I'm curious, you don't mask. That's a great point. I'm curious to hear what the community thinks because you know, not too long ago, we were talking about a rumor of, you know, Kylie Jenner wanting to get a board ape.

Right. And a lot of people, you know, kind of shunned her, right. And now will Jimmy Fallon be welcomed, you know, with open arms and again, I mean, Jimmy Fallon, he's, he's a decent size name, right? He has a late night talk show that airs every night and mass where I get excited about this. It's not just for the eight community, but let's picture.

You know, Jimmy Fallon doing an interview in the future with, you know, Steph Curry or shack or Reese Witherspoon, people who have they own NFTs. What are the ads now that Fallon's going to talk about NFTs with them, you know, during the interview, like, I feel like that's pretty exciting to think, Hey, there could be more NFT talk during, you know, a late talk show.

What do you think? Yeah, I mean, I'm sure we should probably, I wouldn't be surprised if we see that I should say in the next, I would say year or two. Yeah, absolutely. We're starting to see some of those conversations happen on Twitter between celebs and between, you know, celebs and ape owners. So yeah, that'd be really cool.

Yeah. Definitely. Um, so let's talk a little bit about, so cool cats teased today. They tease their pets, right? So we'll pull up a picture right now. We'll show you guys what the pets are looking like, but I'm more interested in talking about the roadmap, right? So we're kind of at a point now where a lot of projects, you know, like the apes, the cool cats, these blue chips, they're building this economy around their original 10 K profile pictures, right?

So they're building, you know, utility, they're building a different, you know, you know, cartoons and pictures, and they're creating this big, you know, universe of, you know, the original 10 K. So I'm so curious to see how this evolves over the next year, right? When people come into the, you know, out of T we'll do the buy these pets as it may do, they make it a profile picture, does the cool cat universe sport, ape universe expand, you know, to all of these different things.

And, you know, seeing this come to life, Cool to see. So I'm excited for that. Yeah. I mean, that artwork is looking sweet, man, uh, you know, for the pet. So, uh, this, this is pretty exciting and, you know, uh, I definitely agree, right. The roadmap is looking good. Um, for cool cats. I mean, this has been a blue chip for a while, and I know that you're in this project.

Um, you know, do you think, you know, this, this has got that, that wonderful lasting touch of being, you know, one of the top blue chips. Cause right now, I mean, it's, it's a top five projects, top 10, I would say all time. Right. You know, for me, I don't look at the floor with this at all, you know, I can go up or down and I really don't care unless I'm trying to buy another one.

Uh, so to me that's always a good sign personally, you know, I just liked the project. Um, I liked the community and again, the roadmap we're so early man, and all these projects are building and there's only 10,000 pieces. Right. So when let's say a hundred thousand Coinbase has what, 2 million people on the, on the way.

So 2.5 million now 2.5 million, right? How many of those are going to want a cool cat? Yeah, that's a great 10,000 cats. You know, you can't, they start becoming unattainable at a certain point, but that's where the other, you know, that's where the cool cats universe comes to life, which is more bullish for these original pieces are the way I see it.

So I still think it's too early to call it. You know, it's too early to say, it's going to go to the moon. It's too early to say it's going to crash. You know, we're just kind of in that in-between phase the way I see it. Definitely. Well, so math, we just talked about a robotic is doing a, a pet, uh, you know, uh, airdrop.

We got cool cats doing pets. I saw another project that's launching a free pat mint. Um, this is bubblegum kids, which I think I talked about on the show, um, you know, a month or two ago. So this was one that I actually mentored. I have sold out of it, but I have seen some people on Twitter that I follow in the stock community using bubble gum kids as their profile picture.

So this isn't an inexpensive one, right? I think the floor is like 0.03. And they now said that they are doing bubble gum up. Uh, so, you know, along that same lines of, uh, you know, uh, Coinbase, right, and new people getting into NFTs, I'm wondering if some of these projects can, you know, gain some traction, right.

With seeing people have them as their profile picture and also having that cheaper price point. Right. Cause again, not that floors matter long-term but I think your initial people that get in that are new to the space, you're going to see some of these cheaper projects be, you know, good entry points and bubblegum kids.

I like what they've done. They did some honorary ones too. Um, Steph Curry, they made one for him, Andre Iguodala, another NBA player. They also made one for Reese Witherspoon. I don't think she has it. Um, so they're kind of going that approach too, to get celebrities. And, but again, doing there's that puppy there, I mean, I actually kinda liked this, uh, you know, the artwork on it.

So, and I have seen the bubblegum kids, you know, uh, and they're a little bit unique, right. That they have the, the bubble gum. Uh, what do you think maths, do you know this project at all? I don't know this project, but you know, you made a good point where when new people come into the NFT worlds, uh, you know, what are they gonna buy first?

Right. So that's always interesting to see, and I guess we'll, we'll find out, but to have projects starting to prepare for that would be cool. So, yeah, definitely. Um, so Chris, we talked on, we talked, was it yesterday or talked to any of this? You know, it seems so long ago. It was just, I can't tell my base.

Yeah. So the super rare board apes, uh, they're out for auction. There's actually two of them. We showed one yesterday, but I want to show this one today. This one. Dude, absolutely a banger. Um, and let's, they're both up for auction. And I think one of them has, is up for 13 Yves and the other one's for 16. Oh my goodness.

Look at that. Rolling stone cover through that is so my goodness. And that's the roadmap as the backdrop. So that's, I mean, that is sick right there. Yeah. I love that. And what did, how we got to look at the price here? What are we at for let's look at the top bid for this is 16, 8, 16 Eve on the mutant. So, and I think that's actually higher.

What is the, the banana board eight cover? I mean, I call it the banana cause we got the bananas floating around in the background. 14 east, uh, 14. Yeah, that mutant one. I hadn't even seen until today, mass. I completely missed that. Um, and these end, I think it is at four day. Four days. So, uh, what do you think Chris, over under 28th for both of these?

Oh, you know what? I almost feel like it's gonna split. I kind of think the mute, no, get to 20. And I feel like the regular one I'll call it. I'll call it 1720 and 17. I'll call. Um, I think, I think they both break 20 considering. Yeah. I think they both got 20 days left, so these are sick, dude. I think. Yeah.

Whatever ones. I'm not sure what the other one of ones have gone for, but if floor price is what like 38th right now for a board ape. I don't know. I think it breaks 20. Uh, I'm curious to hear from the chat though, which one would you guys pick? The mutant one or the regular one? Because they're both cool.

So, oh yeah. 32 eighth floor. Yeah. Great question mass. So yeah, let us know right now, type in the chat. Would you rather have the board ape or the mute and ape? Um, you know, uh, just solely based on the image, not based on the price, if you had to pick one, which would you rather own mass? I, I think I got go mute here.

Right? Uh, you know, that, that artwork, uh, it's dripping off the face, the roadmap in the background, which one would you rather have. I mean, the other one is cleaner though. It's just simpler and, and this one has a lot going on through their votes. Sick man. I want both of them. Let me just get both you going to play some bids right here on the show.

We're going to hear it here. All right. We're starting to get some votes and we got two votes for Mueller right now. No surprise. Um, let's keep those votes comment. Oh, I mean the OJI, right? It's clean. It's clean. Oh, another vote for boards. So, I mean, we're, we're seeing it split right now. Mass. Are you surprised by this vote?

They're both sick, man. So yeah, it's kind of like picking, it's kind of like picking, oh man. I think if I had to pick one probably original because looking at it now. Oh gee. But I don't know. I want this one too. They're both sick, man. So we'll, we'll update the chat when this thing is go for final sale.

Cause these should probably, I think they'll. Yeah. And I mean, mass, I think if you're, if you're rolling stone and also if you're other Meg, I mean, where are the other magazines that right time magazine partnered with cool cats. Now you got rolling stone partnering with board Abe. I mean, if you're a magazine, I mean, you're watching the show right now.

Stop watching. You should be on the phone. Right. You should be connecting with these NFT projects because look at this, I mean, you can get people to your space, right? You can bring new people to your magazine and you can also make some money and, you know, these just, they look so cool. And I mean, again, one of one, so, you know, mass, you just said that was cool cats, right?

10,000, you know, there's only 10,000. Well, now you've got something like this, there's only one, right? Like, and you can say you own the one of one, I mean, what a flex. That is two. So, uh, another vote here for mute due to the detail, again, that roadmap behind, I mean, the parrots constantly moving to. There's just so much going on in these covers, dude.

If I had this, I put it in my house and I'd have, I'd find a way to display it. Just like this all day, every day, all day people over just invite people to be like, Hey, come look at this. Got yeah. Oh man. That's awesome. So ends in four days. So we'll be able to talk about that final price next week on the show.

And again, I said 20 for the mutant 17 for the board ape and mass said both we'll hit 180, so we will see, um, you know, what the final price is. Our, you know, we were pretty close with our guests is on the Southerby's board, ape auction, mass. Remember that, uh, you know, we. Um, so, you know, again, uh, just a, an educated guests here.

Um, but we will see, well, we have a couple minutes left, so anyone, you know, watching this live, and again, if you're not watching this live or you're listening on the podcast, you know, that's great too. We're happy to have you as part of the. If you're watching live right now, though, uh, you know, let us know, what are you watching?

Um, drop it in the chat. Are there any upcoming minster you're looking at any recent NFT purchases that you had? I do see a comment from mark in the chat there talking about the Viveve star wars drop, um, which I believe is at three o'clock today, mass. I wrote about this a week or two ago, and I, I forgot.

I haven't even looked at these. Right. So Disney partnered with Vive to do star wars, Marvel and Disney related, um, NFTs. And they're they're collectibles. Right. And you have them in the Vive app then, you know, I saw, I think like a gold Bart Simpson skateboard. All right. Cause Disney now owns a Simpsons. I saw, um, you know, some Marvel ones as well.

Have you looked at the Vive and FTC? No, I have not, but I think we'll pull them up right here. So we can all look at the ass C3, POC, like, look at that, like again, Disney, I mean, one of the biggest media companies in the world getting into NFTs and look at this, I mean, what a way to monetize your intellectual property, the golden moments and Ft collection with the, um, the, this is pretty sweet.

Um, I might have to take a look at these because mass, if I remember right, I think you, it's kinda like a, uh, you know, like a normal NFT where you're just, you're, you're buying it and you don't know what you got until you open your pack. I think I, I feel like it's similar to top shot where, you know, you open it then, and it's an instant reveal, but, uh, I think that'd be wrong with that too.

So, but that's pretty exciting too. I mean, I've got kids who love. Getting blind bags, right. Where you don't know what you're going to get until you open it. And that's kind of the thrill of NFTs too. I mean, there, you got Homer choking bar. Uh, there's just so many great ones in this collection. So walk us through this, Chris.

So you pay, I'm assuming with cash or us dollar credit cards, us dollar through the Vive app. So that's a great point. Matt is another thing where, you know, maybe people new to the NFT. Get in through something like this, you know, top shop, we saw that, right? Cause they have the flow blockchain where you could, you could use a credit card.

I mean, my first top shots I ever bought, you know, I was using a debit card to buy those packs. I didn't have to get a theory. Um, um, you know, to make that transaction. So here you have. Yeah. Homer and Bart. Um, yeah, so I mean, and addition, so yet, uh, 12,333. So I mean, that's still not a crazy supply. I actually thought there was going to be more of these.

And that was the one thing that scared me away a little bit was like that inflated supply, but I mean, I've watched the Funko NFTs constantly sell out mass and I think Disney is going to sell all these out. So, is there a resell market for this? Or how does this work or do what, who do you think they're attracting just collectors from star wars that are going to come into this NMT?

Are they attracting current NFTE people or is it a mix of both? Yeah, so I think they're going after new people and collectors. Um, and I think the resale market is right there on the Vive app. I see a comment from lane in the chat though, saying from what I understand, you still can't cash out Vive.

That's an interesting comment. Um, that's something we've seen with newer apps before, right. And I think tap shot actually had that complaint for a while where you could bypass, you could buy moments, but you couldn't cash your money out for a while. Um, you know, cause again, just working out the, the processes and stuff.

So if that's true, I mean that could scare some people away as well. But um, I mean, mass being able to use U S D don't you think that just brings, you know, new people to the. Yeah, I do. I, I'm curious to see kind of like meaning when we bring people on most of the time we ask them how they got into this world, they say top shot.

Right. So, uh, absolutely. You know, absolutely. I'm curious to see I'm more, cause I didn't get in through top shot. I just got in through like straight Eve. So I'm curious to see how that works because like you said, yeah, it's going to bring a lot of, I'm sure a lot of Disney collectors to buy their first NFT and you know yeah.

I think it's great on looking back. So in one minute, mass, if that is true, we got a loyal, loyal fan, Mexican Crip. Shout out to you. I see that name all the time in the chat. So shout out to you for joining us saying that that Vive drop is sold out mass. What are we doing? Doing the show live right now? We could have been buying some, uh, some Disney NFTs.

So, uh, I, I mean, you said it that's bullish, right? If they're selling these out. I mean, and also, you know, so Disney, Hasbro, Mattel, all these companies getting in again, I just said it with the magazine companies, right? If you have not thought about getting into NFTs, what are you doing? Like, why are you not exploring how you can do it?

I mean, McDonald's even right. The McRib NFT, um, you know, isn't this just an extremely bullish sign for these companies. Yeah. I mean, seeing them come onto this world is it's, it's, it's exciting. I'm curious to see how they implement it though, but yeah. Seeing a star wars side in a minute, it's pretty crazy.

I want to look, is it mostly bots or how the process works? I'm going to do some research because I'm not sure we're going to, we're going to have to research that and see, and we'll have to try to get some, cause I mean, I, I'm a star wars fan. I'm a Marvel fan. Um, you know, so I wouldn't mind owning some just to collect them.

Right. But I'm, I'm curious about the resell market to, you know, also there was the draft Kings NFTs, right. I was able to buy some of those and you were able to use your existing balance, right? So you couldn't just use a credit card on the spot. You had to have money in your draft Kings account, but you could just pay with that money to buy the.

T. And I think that brought some new people to the space too, and those sold out, but they used to align process like top shot dead. Right? Where and Mexican Crip now saying it's mostly bots. Uh, you know, that would be the thing I would worry about. Yeah. Is, you know, if it's an instant sale and not align process, you're going to see a lot of bots get in there.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, man, these are all bullish. Just finding easier ways for people to get into that. If two worlds is exciting, I can't wait for Coinbase and see how that's going to work. If you're going to be able to use U S dollar from your Coinbase to buy NFTs. I mean, dude, that's gonna be huge. So yeah, I mean, mass with that being said, there was a rumor not too long ago, um, that open C uh, there, someone found in the code, I think visa, right.

That you would be able to use a credit card. And we talked about that on the show. I know we did, uh, of how, you know, potentially that could make it easier for people to buy, but also could be scary, right. If you could. Use a credit card and start buying all this stuff. Um, you know, you think that brings more people too.

And also with that being said, if, if open CCS competition coming from Coinbase could add in credit card payments, if open, see like announced that the same time Coinbase goes live, would that be like the ultimate way of, you know, trying to connect. Yeah. I mean, so there's been a lot of negative feedback for open C lately.

You know, they've made a lot of money and they're not the best at customer service. So there's opportunity for another big player to come in and take over. I think that's definitely a possibility. Um, I love the competition. I think it's going to create the best product for the consumers and make it easier for people to come on.

So, so game on baby. Yeah, and that's what we want to see. Right. We want it to be easier for the everyday person to be able to, you know, buy and sell NFTs. And I mean, you heard Fang gang say right. That, uh, you know, Coinbase, they welcomed the competition to open. See, so, uh, you know, I'm looking forward to Coinbase and again, you know, the, these different platforms like Vive partnering with Disney, I just think we're going to see more and more pop up and more and more ways for people to get involved with NFTs mass.

I think that's going to do it. Uh, you know, it's been a great week. Uh, we'll be back next week, right? Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 2:00 PM. Eastern time. Uh, we've got some interviews, we'll be covering all the latest headlines and of course, interacting with our wonderful community here in the chat. Uh, anything you want to leave us off with today?

No. The only thing is we're still early, right? We are in a slow process of NFTs right now. But once these things pick up, man, I hope everyone watching is ready because it's going to be fun. All right. May I ask, do you see this comment right now from mark? I've got a secret spider for $7, a foot for tough.

Oh my goodness. We have got to look into, to even find out what this is all about, man. So next week we might have to do a whole segment on Vive. Maybe we take a look at that, but mark, that is awesome. Wonderful to hear happy for you. Um, and again, thanks to everyone in our chat for joining us today. And if you were watching this after we aired live, leave a comment on the video.

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Hey everyone. Welcome to the roadmap. Benzing. As new NFT show, we've had some great teams on past episodes. Pixel vault, art blocks, the vole collective robots, the dos pound owning force, crypto dads, dizzy dragons, sub doc, and mobile. Today we have the team from lazy lions joining us on the 6:00 PM Eastern time, special edition of the roadmap.

Stay tuned, everyone. We've got a great show coming up. This is the road.

All right, everyone. Yet, if you did not hear me at the start, Benzing his new show, the roadmap covering NFT news and doing interviews with top projects out there. And we've got a great interview coming up to night. But before I talk about that, let me go ahead and bring on my cohost mass mass. What's going on, buddy?

Yeah, what's going on? It's a pleasure to be here it's Monday. So it's throwing off stuff a little bit, you know, different time, you know, different day. Uh, it's going to be a great episode. Yeah. You know, we, we ere Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 2:00 PM. Eastern time. We're three days a week now, but we had the opportunity to get this team on a stream live at night.

And we said, of course, let's go because mass lazy lions. I mean, we talk all the time about projects. We talk about community. I mean, this is a big one and they're showing up in the chat. They've got 6,000 people in the discord, almost 50,000 followers on Twitter. And this isn't a new project. I mean, this minted back in August and this community is just getting stronger and stronger.

Absolutely. So funny story, right. We first found out about this community when we shot an episode and then the comments, you know, they started, you know, talking to the cops. We tweeted something out when Zynga, I don't know if you remember that Chris and the crazy. So when Zynga is now, so, you know, thank you guys for tuning in.

It's going to be a great episode. Yeah. I mean, the chat spoke, right. And also, I mean, Matt, as you saw it, right, we put out a couple of tweets sharing the preview of this video. Right. And the engagement on those tweets was insane. And that's how we know that there is going to be a lot of people here. A lot of people excited for this interview when we get that kind of crazy engagement on Twitter.

So if you guys are new to the roadmap, please like this video, please subscribe to Benzinga channel. Again. We air the roadmap Tuesday, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 2:00 PM. Eastern time. Mass before we get into the interview. I think we need everyone in the chat to roar. Right? I want to see some roars out there and we can play our trailer and get started with this interview again, mass, I mean this minted at 0.05, we've got a floor price of over one it's sold out in its first day.

And again, this was back in. You know, so a different time than what we're seeing now. There come the roars here. Uh, yeah,

go. And let's get those roars go. And guys it's Monday night here in the U S but I know everyone is joining us from different countries, different time zones. That's something we're going to get into in the interview later. I mean, they, they've got a nice base of users from different areas and I love that they break that down.

Um, but yeah, I think we've got enough roars now, mass, what do you think that's run it. Let's hear it. Let's see the trailer.

How about that at the end? Love it. I love it, man. I'm excited. Let's do it. All right. So joining us on the roadmap today, we have Asher the co-founder of lazy lions and nine. The developer got to go ahead, bring these guys on the stream. What's going on here.

We've been doing that lately, where we do these trailers. We love putting those trailers out, you know, on Twitter, getting some engagement built up, but it's a great way to bring on our guests, right? It's almost like entrance music to play you guys onto the stream. So we're glad that you liked it. And we're super excited to have you guys on the stream and also this loyal community in the chat.

Right.

Super excited for this one. So, uh, yeah, that's definitely going to be exciting. And I just noticed now, as I'm looking at this. I came in a bit more casual with my hoodie and I see you've got the Riyadh Madrid shirt and all that.

for this one. All right, guys. Well, let's dive into some questions, uh, before we get into Lacy lions, one of the first questions I always like to start with is. Tell us about your experience with NFTs prior to lazy lions where you collectors, where you investors, or was lazy lions, your first entry into the NFT space.

Uh, let's start with nine on this one and, uh, hear from you. Yeah, sure. Um, so T is for us was very interesting actually, because when we first started, we were very into sort of like, okay, Um, so we used to play a lot of games when we were younger, um, in that. And then we start to learn about, you know, crypto.

It first started when we got into cryptocurrencies. Uh, we got a little bit about that and it started to move into NFTs. I personally had an actual collected any of NFTs at the time, but it just tied in like the way that I understood it was like, oh yeah, it's on a blockchain, you know, proof of ownership.

There was rarely factor involved. And that just took me back to our younger days when we used to play games and it just resonated with us and we spoke about it and we're like, yeah, this is, this is space. And when you were, and then we started to work together and get into the NFV space and start looking.

I was building lazy lines from the ground up. Um, that's really how it started. I personally didn't collect any, I know Ash, I think he, I think he bought one, but yeah, he would touch on that more. Yeah. Ashley let's hear from you. Uh, what and FTS were you in before lazy lions? Yeah, for sure. Um, I mean, I just like to answer that question both.

Uh, code up different things and then, um, you know, taken to mark. And that was always a lot of fun, um, with crypto, for me, um, I wasn't like a big crypto guy, like even during the off season. Uh, David, is that the lie that really interested me because I saw the value of the metal sets. It still makes a lot of sense, but it didn't hit me as like, oh, this is going to be a really big thing because I couldn't see it being like a cultural impact, but NFTs for me, it was beginning of this year.

And as soon as I like started. To me, I'm like, this is not going anyway. Like digital ownership. Like we grew up, you know, playing video games where you've spent all that time and energy and money as well, but you can never take that thing outside of the game. And it's like, now you can actually do that.

It's just, so for me, it's a no brainer. This is definitely not going anywhere. Um, one of my favorite entities actually like full AC lines. In our bungalow and a bungalow is an entity that we dropped where you can showcase your other entities. Um, it's actually forgotten ruins character. Um, and this probably ties in with what nine was saying, you know, would be gay.

This girl playing greenscape loved that game and that little. Like, he just reminds me so much of my childhood. I tell you, I don't know how much that could go up in value, but I don't think I'm ever going to sell it. So, um, I guess a collector before, before those lines, if you want to do, yeah, it sounds like he's not going to sell it.

Well, awesome love here in the video game. Talk as well. That's a common thing that we hear from different people behind NFT projects. Uh, you know, nine, you mentioned a little bit, uh, U2, uh, you know, getting involved together. Wondering if we can hear, or if we can hear more of the background, how did this team come to be and why the decision, you know, to, to launch lazy lions, uh, why a lion, why this type of artwork any a behind the scenes insight there?

Yeah, sure. So it was, it first started. I think it was actually my birthday when we first started discussing like, um, cryptocurrencies and. We started getting into it. And we were talking just back talking about different coins that we're interested in. Um, and then later down the track, I believe it was Ashley that came up to me was like, Hey man, have you heard of NFTs?

And I was like, yeah, I've heard of them. They pretty much just like JPEGs. Right. And he's like, yeah, but you can actually own, like, you could see these and there's a very flat line and it all started resonating for. And we're like, you know what? This makes sense. This makes sense to us being video game players, back in the days, it all like proof of ownership was a big thing for us being able to actually prove that you own this NFL, um, just made sense.

Uh, it just made sense to us and we started just discussing it and we sort of just branched out to the team as well. And they all understood the. And then pretty much from there, we just thought, you know what let's just think of, um, think of the next best thing. And with that with us, we always went back to our heritage.

So lions were pretty much a part of our heritage because of where we're from an student. So that just resonated with us and we just yet went full throttle with that. Yeah. I mean, just a few other things as well. Like the whole Kings and Queensland, hopefully my audio is working better now. I'm using AirPods and I realized it was a different setting.

Um, like just growing up, but we've always referred to each other as Kings, right. Like even just with mates around. Um, and I feel like that's something that's just hit off for you. What would the community, and, uh, it's probably a small thing. Like they might be people in the audience outside of the lazy lines community.

Going to their king or queen, but I think it goes more than that. Like it ties in with that values, which is yes, we're all Kings and Queens, but no one's above anyone else. And I feel like that's something that resonates with a lot of people in web three. Um, so yeah, just a few little things like that. A lot of that.

So guys, so the floor is over one eighth, you guys have over 86 K into. And the 49 K on Twitter. So how do you guys personally measure the success of this project? Uh, let's start with you Asher, if you can tell us a little bit more. Yeah. You know, it's, it's interesting. Like there are a few different ways you can, you can look at it.

Um, and that, and that we do track, right? Like obviously we've got our own KPIs that, you know, we had really, really smart people who know the ins and outs of, um, the whole economics behind it. Yeah. Tell us what metrics we should be looking. Um, and the community knows that, um, it, it ties in with down mission, which is simply it's to become the, the biggest and best entity community there is.

That's, that's our mission. Um, obviously we're a bit biased. We think we've already got one of those. Um, but to be the biggest, it's very black and white, so that's what we're aiming for. Not to put anyone else down. I, I love some of the other projects that are out there, but that's just our mission anyways.

Right. Um, so that's one way that we track success. Um, That's small quantitative like qualitative, just speaking with community members, the five, particularly in this dip right now. I feel like for me, um, that's what really just reassures me that we're on the right path. Just, you know, you jump into the discord, you see what's being posted.

You have chats with community members. I try to say. Um, spend a fair bit of my time just having those, like one-on-one chats with community members. Um, I feel like that's a really important thing. Like just, um, like really like, Hey, like how are things going? Like, you know, what do you feel is blocking us like real deeper conversation?

Um, and that's just been like, it's not obviously like all positive, like they're always things that we can be improving on, but overall it feels like we're on the right track. So that's, that's the way we measure it. Yes. We've got data that having those conversations with community members, um, tells me we were on the right track.

Love that. Yeah, same. I like to hop in a discord and you know, you see the activity level. You know, there's been so many discourse throughout this period that are just dead, you know, cause it's, we're kind of in a bearish market, so there's no one, you know, having a conversation, seeing you guys have this activity is amazing.

Uh, how about you, uh, nine? What, what, how do you measure the success of the. Yeah. So similar to what, similar to what Ash said. I think for me personally, it's during this fast success of the project, just jumping into the discord and seeing how active it is on a, on a daily basis, being able to hold these, um, conversations with, you know, my team members and, you know, moderators and community members.

And they're all, we're all on the same page. We all understand what the, you know, what we're here to do. And just, yeah, just seeing how active for me personally. Yeah, more on the community is just how active it actually is. And seeing the word being spread out, spread out on Twitter, spread out in discord.

That really just resonates with me. So I love that. So can you guys tell us a little bit more about bungalows and how they, uh, you know, come into the lazy lion world? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Um, and so I guess when we started, right, like we had a few things, um, In mind for the roadmap. Um, and two, we didn't want to be different just for the sake of being different, but at the same time, it's like, it was very obvious to us that if we just, I guess, copied what other projects were doing, like we could find our own way.

I think that that was a bit lame. Like that's not what we're about. Um, we're in a new space. I think there's a really good opportunity for us to build something unique and that's fun to us. Right. And it's something that was that we noticed during our research of NFTs, like at the beginning of the year was like, how do you show these things?

Yeah, that was the question I had. Um, and I spent a fair bit of time looking into that. I still feel like there's no great solution, um, in real life, if anyone has something like, you know, a great way to like show them off in frames or whatever the ambulance put down, I'd love to know because I want to bring out obviously my line, um, and a few other odd pieces.

Yeah, that's in the real world. And, um, you know, in the digital world, you know, how do you show these things off? I've seen a few like, um, social media websites, but nothing great. So just to us, it was like, well, Twitter event is on being used profile photos are what if we could show off entities in the Twitter banner, um, and you know, sticking with our values as well, which is to be inclusive rather than being exclusive, which I think a lot of.

Projects really focus on, you know, they're trying to build this exclusive community, um, and that works for them and that's great, but where we're different to that, you know, we're trying to, you know, we're aiming to be inclusive. So, um, sticking with that nature, it's like, you don't just have to show off your lazy lines indices, um, without new bungalows DAP, which is on all these loans.

And if the.com you can edit any bungalow, you have to include any NFT that you weren't. Even if it's not lazy lines for later. So, um, yeah, that's, that's how it works. It's a bit of background as to that's awesome. So me and Chris liked to ask this question on a tour guests, every episode, what are some of your favorite traits from the lazy lion?

So are there any unique traits that you particularly liked that no one knows about let's start with United. Can you tell us a little bit more, you know, which lions do you like the best or what traits do you like the most. That's a good question. That's that's a great question. Um, which ones are the ones that are being slept on?

Let's let you will personally love, you know, uh, honestly I think I used to love the, I like actually like the, really like the lederhosen, um, Um, it is one of the ones that I had originally as my PFE or my line had it. You had the, um, lederhosen shirt out of my eyes and I believe it had the halo just look very innocent.

So I was like, yeah, this one, this one resonates with me. Um, but I think that one's a little bit slipped on as well. It's, it's, you know, it is one of the real ones as well, but you don't see too many people will actually actually with it. So

what about you Asher? Um, there's a couple other big. Um, a big party, that guy, just because of the whole childhood thing, but, um, basically these, uh, these leads of fire, I think. Um, and I know I'll get in. Um, I'll get a bit of stick if I, Aaron. And he's part of that team as well. He is a community manager. I know he loves the lazy hat.

Um, so that one should probably get some recognition as well. I think that one's probably a fan favorite. Yeah.

And some call-outs for us steak mouth in the chat as well. It looks like there's some fans of the meat and the steak out there in the chat right now that guy's going to get about 50 steak bouts. So that's why, that's why, that's why. So there's a little bit of a bias going on. Oh man. Well, Sorry. There's a little bit of a little trait combo that I like as well.

So if you have like a, if there's a scratch body and they have a ripped shirt, you can see the scratches underneath the shirt, which is what just comes out really nice. So it's a little thing that I sort of go for as well. I like that. Nice, nice call out there. What about you guys? You know, I see in them, I like the steak right there, you know, and again, I know there's someone in the chat, you know, bias towards that, but I like the steak.

I like the party hat. I know there was the halo, um, you know, some of the different, uh, the headpiece traits. Um, I like, but I also have seen some real clean ones. Uh, you know, that are impressive. Uh, what about UMass, um, football Jersey, you know, big football guy. And then I do like, so I do like anything Miriam based from any collection.

I'm always trying to find like, is there an Ethereum chain or anything like that? I saw you guys having a theorem business shirt. I like that one as well. So yeah, exactly that one right there. So always those little subtle pieces. I think that's cool. Definitely. All right. Well, you guys also have roar words for your owners to reward the community members.

Can you tell us a little bit about this? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Um, this is probably what been one of the biggest, um, I guess catalysts of the project, particularly at the beginning, uh, at the early stage of, sorry. To put it simply, uh, rewards is what it sounds like it's a rewards program exclusively for lazy lion holders.

So this is one of the advantages, or I guess, utility of being a lazy lion NFT holder. Um, every month you're eligible for rewards in the form of eight by completing activities that, uh, That benefit the project. So, you know, community engaging activities and part of those, you know, they change from month to month, but one of those might be, you know, sending your profile photo on Twitter, to your lazy lion and they, um, and you know, I feel the little things like that.

And that might be why you see, you know, quite a few, um, you know, about how those changing their profile photo, um, to the lines, particularly the, the early stages, but what we found now, it's really interesting. Right. Um, And I should probably explain why we did this, but what we've seen is like, it was a good reason.

It was a reason why a lot of, um, people I guess, came to the project. Um, but what's happened now is like, it's become so insignificant where they just, they love their lines so much. They don't really care about rewards anymore. Like, that's a lot of the feedback that we get is like, yeah, that was really nice at the beginning, but it's like now I love my profile photo so much.

I'm not gonna change it. Even if you would've paid me to. So it's like, it's sort of changed, um, how they, how they view it. Um, but I think it's important to like, to explain why we did this. Um, it's sort of like a marketing expense, I guess if we, if we look at it that way, like from the project's point of view, like I know a lot of other collections and then this isn't me bashing anyone else.

Go down the route, which is the easy route of, you know, paying like an influence it's changed their profile better and, you know, paying a big amount, a large amount of Psalm, one influence, a change, that profile photo. Great. We saw that as a bit cringe and we're like, is there another way to do this? Um, but obviously we still need to do marketing.

Like obviously the project needs to be marketed and it was like, what if instead of just giving it to one celebrity or influencer. What if we just give that to the community and instead of just one big amount to one person, we just spread it out to the community. I'm like, well, that ties in with the whole, you know, web three N model.

So that's how we went. And we just created a system that allows us to do that. Essentially the community gets rewarded for, um, marketing the, the project. And I feel like that's worked one just for us and. Yeah. I mean, that's my, that's my opinion, but I think, you know, if you jump on Twitter and you just look at all the activity from lazy lion holdings, it feels like it's sort of evolved beyond that as well.

This is awesome, dude, this is some alpha for anybody looking to start a project. Seriously, notice that there's your marketing right there. And if you're looking to create an NFT project, yeah. I mean, what a great way, uh, love that. And, you know, look at the numbers you guys have too in building the community and the community.

I mean, being so loyal months after the launch. So clearly that rewards is worth. Um, I saw a picture on Twitter that you guys had a meetup in New York city, some lions holders. Um, were you guys involved in that? Have you met any, uh, lions holders and, uh, you know, talk to us about future events for lion? Hey, the Kings and I wish we were there.

So where, um, we're still in lock down here and study CD. Um, so I think we just now started to get out of lockdown, but as soon as we can fly out, like desperately, we'll be meeting up with laser line holders, but no, that was community led. Um, a lot of, a lot of really good feedback actually from that one.

Um, everybody seemed to really enjoy themselves. Um, but yeah, that was a little community, but we'll definitely look at doing more of those. Um, as soon as we're able to fly out. That's awesome. I mean, showing the initiative by the community there, I mean, that's something we don't see out of every project, uh, doing these, you know, these meetups.

So a, another great sign of how big this community really is. Um, I did see, you know, that there are quite a few celebrities that also own lazy lions. Um, that's something we talk about a lot on the show. A lot of athletes does Bryant, Josh Hart, Seth Curry, uh, Tyrese Haliber and also we've got Jake Paul John rule.

Uh, talk to us a little bit, you know, I know you guys didn't go after all these celebrities, what does it mean to see some of them get involved in the project in terms of validation going forward? Man, it's really cool. Uh, it's really cool, but. Uh, just in general, just with the community, like what I know it's sort of gone away from the question, but just what we love, 4,600 holders, like jumping into the, or like sometimes find him, must find myself just going like, well, is this sort of like a dream?

Like you sorta just have to step back. You're like, am I just going to wake up? And that damn like, went back in August, this never happened. Or just, you know, continuing on with whatever else we're doing. Um, so it's sort of surreal like that just with the community, which is a really cool thing. But, um, no, I mean like the celebrities in the.

Uh, the athletes, um, yeah, that's been organic or organic. Sorry. I'm like nothing from us anyways. Like the, the teams specifically bringing in those ones. Um, but yeah, I think it's really cool. Like it just goes to back, I guess they believe in either the project and the community or, you know, it's probably because they resonate with the art as well.

Um, like from a few of the things that I've seen. Um, which I guess makes sense. You know, everyone feels like a, you know, a lot of people feel like they're aligned, particularly athletes. Uh, um, yeah, it's it. Awesome. I got a highlight Tyrese Halliburton for a minute. Cause we talked about him last week on the show because the big news was that he, uh, wore a pair of sneakers during an NBA game, featuring his board ape on his shoe.

So my question for you is, you know, has there been any talks of Tyrese Haliber and having his lion on his shoe? Is that something you guys would love to see? And what has the reaction been from the community of that possible? I think that's so cool. Like now that we're seeing it, he's going into a culture like that.

Yeah. That's um, that's awesome. Um, I got a lot of respect for board apes as well. I mean, they've sort of paved the way for a lot of projects out outta here right now. I think it'd be really cool if you wanted to do something like that. And with the lazy. I mean, I don't know. How's the community feel about that when you recognize that guys in the chat, let us know.

I mean, I'm seeing a comment here when lion shoe, uh, you know, is that something you guys would love to see an NBA game with lazy lion sneakers being worn? Uh, you know, I know we got a ton of press about the board ape shoes last week, and it was really cool to just see an NFT, you know, on a shoe in real life.

The screen, um, you know, and Burton's changed his shoes, uh, you know, pretty much every game. So I have a feeling, you know, that he's not done and there's his lazy lie in there on screen. So, uh, can we get that on a shoe? I think that'd be pretty sweet. Yeah, that's awesome. You called it Chris. Let's see. Let's make it happen.

Let's make it happen. The crowd would be roaring. David says great comment. There. All right, guys. So back to the discord really quick. So again, you guys have over 80 K discord members, you know, I'm sure we've all been crazy. Discords where they're spamming and just out of control. So what do you guys do to manage the discord?

Yeah, we've got a great team, great team. And that's, um, you know, not just, uh, uh, just the community managers that we have in there, but even the moderators as well. And I think anyone in the community with. Um, you know, a lot of people I could shout out individually, but yeah, the modes, the community managers, um, support team, and even just like the w we've got like different roles.

Like we have one called like a role, uh, Royal king, sorry. And these are like community members that are sorta like self appointed by the community itself. It's funny. It's like, we don't even choose. It's like, it's very obvious it should be this role. And they're the ones that are sort of. The community outside of the actual moderators.

And I feel like the community itself just does a great job of like, self-governing like if somebody comes in and sends somebody that something that they shouldn't it's very quickly resolved by itself, which is just a beautiful thing. Um, so it's like, even though we have, you know, the more and more we scale up and grow, um, it hasn't been too much of the.

Um, but yeah, that's, that's how it sort of does it, so it doesn't get, like, it gets crazy at times, for sure. Especially on like, you know, Lauren's days and like rewards, especially. And we've got that one coming up this Friday, um, when the, uh, Downey's is sent out, you know, it gets pretty dense pretty well of that day because it's a bit of fun, but, uh, now it's all governed quite well.

I think. Um, that's awesome. How active are you guys? Both in the discord. And do you have any like favorite channels in there? I'm probably a bit too active in the, um, in the disc, like considering like, um, also, um, like leading up like the product team and obviously like, uh, just trying to keep my eyes on everything else in, uh, in the project.

Um, but man, it's just so addicting being in the discordant. Like what do you, I guess it's just like, it's hard not to be what up in the, in the moment. And then you're sitting there for like half an hour, just chatting back and forth with everybody in the. And the community. I think we get FOMO too. You want to scroll back and see what you've missed.

Finally, you said the scrolling through your phone for a little bit to try to catch up with everybody and what they're saying, but in terms of favorite channel, I would have to say it's probably, um, it's probably, it's probably cabana bar. That's our, that's our main channel for lazy line holders. Um, so it's sort of, you know, it's only available to them.

Um, but when that channel starts to pick up, it's really fast to pick up on. There's a lot of great discussions that, um, Uh, so yeah, you learn a lot and it's, it's great. Speaking of the community, uh, specifically lazy line holders and then, yeah, that would be probably my favorite channel. I'd say there's lots of London.

Yeah, love that. So we've seen a lot of discord hacks over the last couple of weeks. You know, this court, Twitter hacks, you know, different kinds of schemes going on there. Are you guys taking any precautions towards, you know, protecting the discord? Uh, let's start with you. Yeah. Sure. So recently we've done like a, an audit of our bots just to ensure that there is no, no left over bots that are lurking, that we sort of don't need.

Um, majority of our web hooks. I know they can be a little bit risky, um, in regards to, yeah. So I know that one of the discourse I apparently got, you know, got it. They got into it because of a web hook. So we started to, you know, just review the web books, make sure they're all clean. Make sure there's nothing we don't know about.

Um, we've started to leave sticky bots, uh, sort of sticky notes in each of our. I know that sometimes you can get DMS from fake collab land when you try to verify your NFTs. So we have sticky notes that, um, you know, just say, make sure, like, just confirm correct collab, land, which other scans, it leads the country, uh, of that channel.

So nobody can see like, so no collab then can sort of see who's typing, you know, exclamation mark join to verify that. And if they, so just little things here and there to really just clean up the discord, make sure there's nothing that's sort of. Leftover to ensure the safety of the community members.

That's, that's what we've been doing. And we'll continue to automate it just to make sure that nothing happens. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pretty much that. And um, I mean, cause our discord is like so important to us as well, right? Like it's such like it's front and center of our. Um, like the project strategy, right?

It's like, that's what we're really trying to grow and build a community. Cause like we've always said that like the project is the community, the community is the project. And like we're making a, we're making our bed on the discord platform. Um, that's not to say it's perfect. Like I feel like there's, you know, there's a few things that I, you know, I'd love to suggest to the disco, um, team members and just, you know, things that I think would benefit the platform.

Um, Overall, particularly as like entity and crypto is becoming more and more of a thing that's using discord. Um, cause like we've let so many important, um, positives, like we've got like a professional networking section. Um, cause it's funny. It, it goes, it's sort of gone away from the question, but it sort of ties into like what's the value in an inequity?

Um, like that's a question that I've, you know, I had asked, uh, a few times basically for people that aren't in crypto, like why would you get an NFTA? Like what do you actually get out of it? Yeah. Uh, like one of the most obvious things is the community. And some people just look at that and go, oh, like, what is that?

It's like, well, like, you know, it's just because they're cartoon characters. I think the stigma is like, people think it's it's little children or like fat kids in their mother's basements that are buying these entities. Right. And it's like, that's not the, that's definitely not the case. Right. Like, Like we're speaking with, you know, with like C level executives with doctors, with lawyers, like whatever their industry they're in, you know, our reporters, like people at the top of their industry, right.

Are like really smart, intelligent people. So it's like, um, how much does it cost to get into like a professional networking? Um, uh, you know, like, oh, like, you know, how will, what's the cost of that to be a part of that? Create those kinds of connections. Right. And that's something we've doubled down on. So we have like a whole professional networking section and in the discord, um, like we have gaming sections, um, marketplace, um, like all these other things.

So it's really critical to us. And security is really important as well. Um, those hacks are pretty scary, so it's just things that were, yeah. Like , those are some of the things that we're doing to make sure that, that Allstate. Uh, secure love that. So you actually just led me on to the next question I had for you guys.

I'm going to have a list of pull up this chart here. So someone posted this in the tweet and the tweet last night, and it's interesting because it breaks down all the demographics, right? So there's, you know, 4.6 owners. Yeah. So this is really interesting, right? Gender, you know, 92% male, 8% female, top three age groups, 26 to 35 leads.

Uh, 36 to 45 is second. See, I wouldn't have guessed that 19 to 20 five-year-olds is third. Uh, this one to 53% are married. 44% are single 60%, no kids, 33%, one to two kids. Can you guys tell us a little bit more about all these stats, man? This is really cool. Yeah, it's really interesting. I think some of those numbers would love for them to be a little bit different, um, particularly cause we have.

I think if you compare that to the average would probably be a bit better. It's basically in terms of, you know, having more or, um, more females in the, in the project being inclusive is obviously one of our core values rather than being exclusive. But this was just part of a survey that we, we did a while back.

Um, Uh, yeah. And it's interesting, like target market is, you know, 25 to 45 year old males, obviously high disposable income as well. Um, but, um, yeah, it's definitely interesting. We thought other brands would be, you know, we'd love to see that kind of information, particularly now as we've got the collectibles, um, you know, probably sneak, peeking a bit too much of that.

Um, but just to look at about that, but that's something that we've got coming out. Um, Quite soon. Uh, and that, I think it's an opportunity for, you know, we've had so many requests to do like collabs, um, you know, so many projects that have hit us up and we're like, Hey, can we do something? And we just haven't done anything with them strictly because we just haven't wanted to pay like any influences.

That's not been our strategy on the really cringe. Um, it just goes against that values. So this is an opportunity for us to actually partner up with brands in a meaningful way. So that's why we shared that. That data. Um, and I think it's quite valuable daughter to Danielson and entities, but yeah, that's, that was the reasoning behind it.

Awesome. So one of the things we've talked a lot about on the roadmap, obviously NFTs have seen huge interest this year. And we also have news that Coinbase a leading crypto platform is launching their own NFT marketplace. So they actually pulled their audience asking for favorite NFT communities. And of course the lions community.

Came through and roared and Coinbase actually retweeted. And they said roar louder for the people in the back. Please. Uh, tell us what this means. Uh, you know, have you been in talks with Coinbase at all or is this just validation that Coinbase sees the large community here? Um, that's one of those things where I probably shouldn't say too much, maybe just because I can't say too much, but I think that might be enough there just to say that you can't comment.

So maybe we got it. We got it out of here anyway. But I think it's really cool. All right. I think it's really cool and it's really exciting time. So we'll see what, um, you know, we'll see what happens with the platform and then we've all got a lot of hopes. Um, but at the same time, you know, like we've got to be a little bit skeptical.

Like there's a bit of pressure on them to make sure everything comes out. Well, it's not a guarantee or anything. Like we saw what happened with like Google plus, right. Um, just because you're the biggest doesn't mean it's going to be a guarantee, but, um, I think the fact that they moving into NFT.

Entities and they're focusing on it is extremely bullish, right? Um, so I've got, I've got high hopes and they got my support. Love it, Google plus. Wow. Take taken me back there. I definitely, I definitely had a Google plus account where I would share links to articles that I wrote to try to get increased page views, but yeah, goo Google plus a diet and unfortunate death there.

But yeah, that's a phrase I haven't heard in a while. Um, I think we have AR in the chat and I believe there was a mention of a tattoo. We do have a picture and a video of this tattoo. Uh, again, we, we talked to a lot of NFTE teams, right? And w we occasionally see strong engagement and we do not see too many tattoos.

So tell us a little bit about, you know, uh, why this tattoo came to be, um, looks like AR you know, called out for the floor price and then got the tattoo. Is this something you guys do about at a time and how did the community. Uh, man, I think everybody loves it. Like look at how clean that thing. Like man, whoever the tattoo was like, yeah, he's got some really good work, but um, no that was all right.

That was something he called out back when we first, when we first launched it, I remember seeing that and it was like, why did he say it's like, when were you reached to a, I'm gonna get my live. And I remember looking at that and like, obviously, like I'm extremely bullish on what I've got completely.

Like from the early days, I was like, sure, like, you know, we can do, we can achieve whatever we set our minds to. Right. And I still believe that. Um, so I was like this, guy's going to have to get a tattoo of his life. That is a sweet looking tattoo. Uh, I mean, loved watching that video. So clean, so shout out to the artists too.

Um, but yeah, I mean, seeing someone get a tattoo, I mean, that's great validation for, for the longevity of this project and the community. So, uh, an AR in the chat, I mean, a nice looking tattoo and thanks for joining us for the stream today. Uh, along with the tattoo talk and validation, another area where we've seen NFT projects, you know, connect with their community.

As we just had Halloween and I saw some lazy lions, Halloween costumes. Um, you know, is that something that you guys, uh, you know, called for, did a contest at all? Or is this just people happen in because they wanted to dress as their lion. Yeah, this was just, this was purely community-based. Um, when I actually saw that image and retweeted it on the main Twitter account, that was absolutely awesome that people were getting so involved.

I really liked it. I'd love that lazy hat as well. It looks so clean. I want it personally, but it was, yeah, that was just completely community driven in hold a competition. They just went out of their way and yeah, it's just beautiful to see. That's awesome. Uh, yeah, I mean, what a cool Halloween costume.

That is a sweet looking hat too. Um, but keep that in mind, any lions in the chat, if you're looking for a Halloween costume next year, I know it's a year away, but start planning to work on your lion costume now. Um, so you can be ready. Uh, you mentioned a little bit about collectibles, right? So we got a little bit of a teaser.

One of the things we are called the roadmap after all is we always try to hear about, you know, what's next. So I know you guys can't share too much, but can we get a little bit more information on collectibles and maybe what's ahead for lion holders. Nine, if you don't have a problem. I mean, why not? Like I've got a lot of respect for this show, so it looks sneaky.

All right. So essentially this ties in with our values and our mission as well. Right. Which is obviously like our value is one of our values is, you know, rather than being an exclusive community, which you don't know a lot of. Uh, you know, focusing on being, which is fine and like that works really well.

And I've got a lot of respect for a lot of other projects. I would never bash another one, but I'm like ours is to be inclusive rather than exclusive. So, um, we're trying to build obviously the biggest and it's the community, that's our mission. And part of that is bringing new people that aren't necessarily in NSCS right now.

And I feel like we sort of shoulder that responsibility as we've become. Um, you know, just from what other people have told me, it seems like we were kind of one of the leading projects now, at least like in the top, you know, I think like on open seat, like top 40 or all the time traded those types of things.

So I feel like we have a responsibility to actually, um, you know, to try and lead the space and, and bring in new people into the community rather than just, you know, those existing members. We already have enough teas. And I think the challenge is. Because it's still so early, like the interfaces and everything, it's not super easy to get into it.

Like know just the act of having to create a wallet and minting and gas. It's sort of like, you know, I said, it's like, if you're telling a friend or family member of someone that you know, coworker about entities and they're not in it already, it's like, Hey, we've got a lazy lion. This community is amazing.

Oh, cool. How much is it? And he's like one eighth and I look up one eight. They're like what? That's not how I'm going to get started. Right. So it's like, okay, how can we say. I have those, um, people still become a part of the community without having to fork out that much straightaway. And that's where this sort of referral program collectible thing came to mind.

So essentially what it is is every community member or every new person that you invite to the community, all they have to do is join discord and they will get a pack of tokens for free that they can claim on our website. Um, and this pack will be a random, you know, it'll be a set of cards. Um, you know, like we had to have a lane, next one will be, um, uh, like, uh, Thanksgiving.

Right. Which is what we've got planned. So that's probably a sneak peek there more than I should. Um, so there'll be, you know, a set of eight, eight, uh, Thanksgiving cards. Um, and every pack that you open, you'll get two random ones. And the idea is complete the set and you enter to win a lazy lions. Um, so this way, anyone who's not in the community already can just join up, join the disco and get a pack.

And if they want to get more packs, they just invite more people. And we cover the gas company. These tokens appear on open. See they can list them free without having to pay any gas that's all covered. So someone could come in, not pay a single cent, get one of the rare tokens, list them, and then, you know, make a profit or try and complete the sentence, win a prize.

Um, and I think it just ties in, like we said, without values gives them an opportunity to experience what mentoring is. Um, and then, you know, bringing in the ecosystem and understand the true benefits of web three. So. A bit of a lengthy explanation, but yeah, that's, that's what the collectibles ideas. And what does that mean?

We appreciate the background there. Yeah, when's the launch. Yep. So right now that is in, um, if we've got like a soft Bader internally, um, that's scheduled for launch, uh, next with next week. So we've got rewards this week. Oh, wow. Is that a big thing? And then we've got this coming out next week. That's awesome.

That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, pretty excited. You'll definitely see. Um, I think this will, yeah, we'll see how it goes, but I can see it having a pretty positive effect. I think so. Yeah. I, we we've seen some of these card ones do well too, and that's a great way. Like you said, to bring new people into the community and also the referral program, uh, you know, I'm a big fan of that.

So. You know, uh, we wish you luck with that. And thanks for breaking that news here on the roadmap, it's always exciting to, you know, hear what's next from these projects. And, you know, I think that a community out there is loving this. Absolutely. I mean, that's amazing bringing new people in is the biggest part of the game.

That's that's really awesome. Uh, let's take it to, we have some questions from the chat here. Um, the first question that I saw earlier in the interview today, we had a question from Brendan bald. Uh, he's asking, do you guys have any plans or hopes to develop the IP into film or TV or even comic books?

So the cool thing is I've already seen a few projects do it. Um, and I think they're just, you know, they hold the, uh, lazy lines and if feed themselves, once you hold it, you're able to go and create these things yourself, um, are stressing. Like we're open to it, but there's no immediate plans for it, but I've seen a few cool things going around on Twitter.

Yeah. I love that. Um, let's see. Do we have any more questions from the chat here, Chris, that we want to think we got most of the questions answered. Well, you know, the, uh, people loved hearing the Coinbase conversation again, and people loving this roadmap talk. Um, we're seeing merge now asked from Morgan.

Um, you guys, I think you, do you have some merch already or ends for Merck in the works? Uh, we've got much in the works. So, um, you know, I've seen, what's been being worked on, um, I think the community's going to love what we, what we release with this. Um, so yeah, not, not quite yet, but that's in the works.

It's coming out soon. And then mass. How about that? A question there from a breezy in the chat, uh, that, that could be a fun one. Oh, yeah. So when Arizona ice tea collab, can you guys tell us more about that? Is that a rumor or, you know, is this question coming out of nowhere? Um, yeah, I mean, there's nothing like official going on.

Um, what's nice. Is it sort of ties back into the collective. Um, to is now like, again, if there are any brands listening as well, I feel like there's definitely an opportunity for the brands who are wanting to get into entities, particularly with like more established projects. Um, at least for us, this is an opportunity for us to actually partner up with brands in a way that's actually beneficial for everyone involved.

So, um, you know, if we were doing those, you know, biweekly, um, releases of collectible cards and one of them. The Arizona theme, just for the sake of argument. Um, but yeah, not nothing official, but we're definitely open. Perfect. Yeah, I did see Arizona as one of the owners mentioned in the, uh, celebrity spotlight, um, on that cool graphic and the facts that we shared.

So I think that's where maybe that rumor comes from. Um, but we'll wait. We'll wait to hear more details from you guys in the future. Well, I think that's going to do it for today's interview, you know, nine Asher big. Thank you for both of you coming on our show. I know it's early morning where you guys are at, um, your flexibility with doing that.

Also shout out to the latest science community. I mean, mass, look at them. They're in full force here in the chat during this whole interview. So a shout out to lazy. Absolutely. I mean, this has honestly been one of the biggest communities I've seen and I'm personally measured by the Twitter. You know, I see on my Twitter, the profile picture, I mean, I see a lie and I would say one out of every 10, if that, I mean, you guys are killing it.

I can't wait to have you guys come on again and just, you know, do some updates in the. Yeah, man, this is a lot of fun. Um, I have like, everyone's been waiting for it for a while. So this is tape spot. It went by a lot quicker than I thought it would. Alice. That's how you know, but, uh, yeah, not, King's definitely out to doing this.

Yeah, well, we will, we will have to have you guys back on. Um, so thanks again, nine and Asher, uh, before I let everyone go here, uh, mass, we do not have a show tomorrow. Um, I know I said we're going Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 2:00 PM. Eastern time. Benzinga is hosting. PAC awards. And actually there's going to be some awards given in crypto, in NFT categories.

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Welcome to the roadmap. Benzing. As new NFT show, we've had some great teams on past episodes. Pixel vault, art blocks, the Vogel collective robots, the dos pound owning force, crypto dads, dizzy dragons, sub doc, and.

Today. We have the team from lazy lions joining us on the 6:00 PM Eastern time, special edition of the roadmap. Stay tuned, everyone. We've got a great show coming up. This is the roadmap. All right, everyone. Yet, if you did not hear me at the start, Benzing his new show. The road. Covering NFT news and doing interviews with top projects out there.

And we've got a great interview coming up to night. But before I talk about that, let me go ahead and bring on my cohost mass mass. What's going on, buddy? Yeah, what's going on Chris? It's a pleasure to be here it's Monday. So it's throwing off stuff a little bit, you know, different time, you know, different day.

Uh, it's going to be a great episode. Yeah. You know, we, we ere Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 2:00 PM. Eastern time. We're three days a week now, but we had the opportunity to get this team on a stream live at night. And we said, of course, let's go because mass lazy lions. I mean, we talk all the time about projects.

We talk about community. I mean, this is a big one and they're showing up in the chat. They've got 6,000 people in the discord, almost 50,000 followers on Twitter. And this isn't a new project. I mean, this minted back in August and this community is just getting stronger and stronger. Absolutely. So funny story, right.

We first found out about this community when we shot an episode and then the comments, you know, they started, you know, talking to them. We tweeted something out when Zynga, I don't know if you remember that Chris and went crazy. So when Zynga is now, so, you know, thank you guys for tuning in. It's going to be a great episode.

Yeah. I mean, the chat spoke, right. And also, I mean, mass, you saw it, right. We put out a couple of tweets sharing the preview of this video. Right. And the engagement on those tweets was insane. And that's how we know that there is going to be a lot of people here. A lot of people excited for this interview when we get that kind of crazy engagement on Twitter.

And again, this was back in. You know, so a different time than what we're seeing now. All right. So joining us on the roadmap today, we have Asher the co-founder of lazy lions and nine. The developer got to go ahead, bring these guys on the stream. What's going on here.

Right.

Super excited for this one. So yeah, that's definitely going to be exciting. And I just noticed now, as I'm looking at this. I came in a bit more casual with my hoodie and I see you've got the real Madrid shirt and all that.

All right, guys. Well, let's dive into some questions. Uh, before we get into Lacy lions, one of the first questions I always like to start with is. Tell us about your experience with NFTs prior to lazy lions, where you collectors, were you investors or was lazy lions, your first entry into the NFT space? Uh, let's start with nine on this one and, uh, hear from you.

Yeah, sure. Um, so NFTs for us was very interesting actually, because when we first started, we were very into sort of like. Um, so we used to play a lot of games when we were younger. Um, and that, and then we start to learn about, you know, crypto it first started when we got into cryptocurrencies. Uh, we know a little bit about that and it started to move into NFTs.

I personally had an action collected any NFTs at the time, but it just tied in like the way that I understood it was like, oh yeah, it's on a blockchain, you know, proof of ownership. There was rarely factor involved. And that just took me back to our younger days when we used to play games and it just resonated with us and we spoke about it and we're like, yeah, this is, this is the space.

And when you were, and then we started to work together and getting to the NFV space and start looking like building lazy lines from the ground up. Um, that's really how it started. I personally didn't collect any, I know Ash, I think you've, I think you've bought one, but yeah, he touch on that more. Yeah.

Ashley let's hear from you and FTS. Were you in before lazy lions? Yeah, for sure. Um, I mean, just.

Uh, code up different things and then, um, you know, taken to market. That was always a lot of fun. Um, with crypto, for me, um, I wasn't like a big crypto guy, like even during the. Um, it is that the, the vibe that really interested me, cause I saw the value of the metal offsets. It still makes a lot of sense, but it didn't hit me as like, oh, this is going to be a really big thing.

Cause I couldn't see it being like a cultural impact, but NFTs for me, it was beginning of this year. And as soon as I like started that. To me, I'm like, this is not going anyway. Like digital ownership. Like we grew up, you know, playing video games where you've spent all that time and energy and money as well, but you can never take that thing outside of the game.

And it's like, now you can actually do that. It's just, so for me, it's a no brainer. This is definitely not going anywhere. Um, one of my favorite entities actually like a full lights. In our bungalow and a bungalow is an NFC that we dropped where you can showcase your other entities. Um, it's actually forgotten ruins character.

Um, and this probably ties in with what nine was saying. You know, we'd be gay. This girl playing greenscape loved that game and that little guy. Like, he just reminds me so much of my childhood. I tell you, I don't know how much that could go up in value, but I don't think I'm ever going to sell it. So, um, I guess a collector before, before these lines, if you want to.

Yeah, it sounds like he's not going to sell it. Well, awesome love here in the video game. Talk as well. That's a common thing that we hear from different people behind NFT projects. Uh, you know, nine, you mentioned a little bit, uh, U2, uh, you know, getting involved together. Wondering if we can hear, or if we can hear more of the background, how did this team come to be and why the decision, you know, to, to launch lazy lions, uh, why a lion, why this type of artwork any a behind the scenes insight there?

Yeah, sure. So it was, it first started. I think it was actually my birthday when we first started discussing like, um, cryptocurrencies and. It's a lot of getting into it. And we were talking just back talking about different coins that we were interested in. Um, and then later down the track, I believe it was Ashley that came up to me was like, Hey man, have you heard of NFTs?

And I was like, yeah, I've heard of them. They pretty much just like JPEGs. Right. And he's like, yeah, but you can actually own, like, you could see those as NFTs and there's a very flexible and it all started resonating. And we're like, you know what? This makes sense. This makes sense to us being video game players, back in the days, it all like proof of ownership was a big thing for us being able to actually prove that you own this NFT just made sense.

Uh, just made sense to us and we thought, you know, just discussing it. And we sort of just branched out to the team as well. And they all understood the. And then pretty much from there, we just thought, you know what let's just think of, um, think of the next best thing. And with that with us, we always went back to our heritage.

So lions were pretty much a part of our heritage cause we were from an, a student. So that just resonated with us and we just yet went full throttle with that. Yeah. I mean, just a few other things as well. Like the whole Kings and Queensland, hopefully my audio is working better now. I'm using AirPods and I realized it was a different setting.

Um, like just growing up, we've always referred to each other as Kings, right. Like even just with mates around. Um, and I feel like that's something that's just hit off for you. What would the community, and it's probably a small thing. Like there might be people in the audience outside of the lazy lions community.

Coming to their king or queen, but I think it goes more than that. Like it ties in with that values, which is yes, we're all Kings and Queens, but no one's above anyone else. And I feel like that's something that resonates with a lot of people in web three. Um, so yeah, just a few little things like that.

Love that. So guys, so the floor is over one eighth, you guys have over 86 K into this school. And the 49 K on Twitter. So how do you guys personally measure the success of this project? Let's start with you Asher, if you can tell us a little bit more. Yeah. You know, it's, it's interesting. Like there are a few different ways you can, you can look at it.

Um, and that, and that we do track, right? Like obviously we've got our own KPIs that, you know, we had really, really smart people who know the ins and outs of, um, the whole economics behind it. Yeah. Tell us what metrics we should be looking. Um, and the community knows that, um, it, it ties in with that mission, which is pretty simply it's to become the, the biggest and best entity community there is.

You have chats with community members. I try to say. Um, spend a fair bit of my time just having those, like one-on-one chats with community members. Um, I feel like that's a really important thing. Like just, um, like really like, Hey, like how are things going? Like, you know what he feels blocking us, like real deeper conversation.

I love that. Yeah, same. I like to hop in a discord and you know, you see the activity level. You know, there's been so many discourse throughout this period that are just dead, you know? Cause it's, we're kind of an embarrassed market, so there's no one, you know, having conversation, seeing you guys have this activity is amazing.

Uh, how about you a nine? What, what, how do you measure the success of the. Yeah. So similar to what, similar to what Ash said. I think for me personally, it's during this fast success of the project, just jumping into the discord and seeing how active it is on a, on a daily basis. Being able to hold these, um, conversations with, you know, my team members and, you know, moderators and community members.

And they're all, we're all on the same page. We all understand what the, you know, what we're here to do. And just, yeah, just seeing how active for me personally, because I'm more on the community is just how active it actually is. And seeing the word being spread out, spread out on Twitter, spread out in discord.

That really just resonates with me. So I love that. So can you guys tell us a little bit more about bungalows and how they, uh, you know, coming to the lazy lion world? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Um, and so I guess when we started, right, like we had a few things, um, In mind for the roadmap. Um, and we didn't want to be different just for the sake of being different, but at the same time, it's, it was very obvious to us that if we just, I guess, copied what other projects were doing, like we could find our own way.

I think that that was a bit lane. Like that's not what we're about. Um, we're in a new space. I think there's a really good opportunity for us to build something unique and that's fun to us. Right. And it's something that was that we noticed during our research of NFTs, like at the beginning of the year was like, how do you show these things?

Yeah, that was the question I had. Um, and I spent a fair bit of time looking into that. I still feel like there's no great solution, um, in real life, if anyone has something like, you know, a great way to like show them off in frames or whatever the ambulance go down, I'd love to know. Cause I want to bring out obviously my line, um, and a few other odd faces.

Yeah, that's in the real world. And, um, you know, in the digital world, you know, how do you show these things off? I've seen a few like, um, social media websites, but nothing great. So just to us, it was like, well, Twitter ban is not being used. Profile photos are what if we could show off NFTs in the Twitter banner, um, and you know, sticking with our values as well, which is to be inclusive rather than.

Being exclusive, which I think a lot of other projects really focused on, you know, they're trying to build this exclusive community, um, and that works for them and that's great, but where we're different to that, you know, we're trying to, you know, we're aiming to be inclusive. So, um, sticking with that nature, it's like, you don't just have to show off your lazy lines and, um, without new bungalows DAP, which is on dot com, you can edit any bungle.

It, you have to include any NFT that you weren't. Even if it's not lazy lions related. So, um, yeah, that's, that's how it works. It's a bit of background as to why. That's awesome. So me and Chris liked to ask this question on to our guests, every episode, what are some of your favorite traits from the lazy lion?

So were there any unique traits that you particularly liked that no one knows about? Let's start with you nine. Can you tell us a little bit more, you know, which lions do you like the best or what traits do you like the most. That's a good question. That's that's a great question. Um, which ones are the ones that are being slept on?

Let's let you personally love, you know, honestly, I think I used to love the, I like actually like the, really like the lederhosen. Um, it is one of the ones that I had originally as my PFE or my line had it. You had the better hosing shirt out of my eyes, and I believe it had the halo just look very innocent.

So I was like, yeah, this one, this one resonates with me. Um, but I think that one's a little bit slipped on as well. It's, it's, you know, it is one of the rare ones as well, but you don't see too many people will actually actually with it. So

what about you Asher? Um, there's a couple big. Uh, a big party guide just because of the whole childhood thing, but, um, basically these, uh, these sorts of fire, I think, um, and I know I'll get in. Um, I'll get a bit of stick if I, Aaron, and he's proud of that team as well. He is a community manager. I know he loves the lazy hat.

Um, so that one should probably get some recognition as well. I think that one's probably a fan favorite. Yeah. That's been some call-outs for us, steak mouth in the chat as well. It looks like there's some fans of the meat and the steak out there in the chat right now that guy's going to get about 50 steak bouts.

So that's why, that's why, that's why. So there's a little bit of a bias going on. Oh man. Well, Sorry. There's a little bit of a little trait combo that I like as well. So if you have like a, if there's a scratch body and they have a ripped shirt, you can see the scratches underneath the shirt, which is what just comes out really nice.

So it's a little thing that I sort of go for as well. I like the nice, nice call out there. What about you guys? Yeah. You know, I seeing them, I like the steak right there, you know, and again, I, I know there's someone in the chat, you know, bias towards that, but I liked the steak. I liked the party hat. I know there was the halo, um, you know, some of the different, uh, the headpiece traits.

Um, I liked, but I also have seen some real clean ones too. Uh, you know, that are impressive. Uh, what about. Um, football Jersey, you know, big football guy. And then I do like, so I do like anything theorem based from any collection. I'm always trying to find like, is there a theme chain or anything like that?

I saw you guys having it there in business shirt. I like that one as well. So yeah, exactly. That one right there. So always those little subtle pieces. I think that's cool. Definitely. All right. Well, you guys also have roar words for your owners to reward the community members. Can you tell us a little bit about.

Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Um, this is probably what been one of the biggest, uh, I guess like catalysts of the project, particularly at the beginning, uh, at the early stage of, sorry. To put it simply, uh, rewards is what it sounds like it's a rewards program exclusively for lazy lion holders. So this is one of the advantages, or I guess, utility of being a lion NFT holder.

Um, every month you're eligible for rewards in the form of eight by completing activities that, uh, That benefit the project. So, you know, community engaging activities and part of those, you know, they change from month to month, but one of those might be, you know, setting your profile photo or on Twitter to your lazy lion entity.

Um, and you know, I feel the little things like that, and that might be why you see, you know, quite a few, um, you know, about how those changing their profile photo, um, to the lines, particularly the, the early stages, but what we found now, it's really interesting, right. Um, And I should probably explain why we did this, but what we've seen is like, it was a good reason.

It was a reason why a lot of, um, people I guess, came to the project. Um, but what's happened now is like, it's becomes so insignificant where they just, they love their lines so much. They don't really care about rewards anymore. Like, that's a lot of the feedback that we get is like, yeah, that was really nice at the beginning, but it's like now I love my profile photo so much.

Go down the route, which is the easy route of, you know, paying like an influencer to change their profile better and, you know, paying a big amount, a large amount of Psalm, one influence, a change, that profile photo. Great. We saw that as a big crunch and we're like, is there another way to do this? Um, but obviously we still need to do marketing.

Like obviously the project needs to be marketed. Um, and we're like, what if instead of just giving it to one celebrity or influencer. What if we just give that to the community and instead of just one big amount to one person, we just spread it out to the community. I'm like, well, that ties in with the whole, you know, web three N model.

So that's how we went. And we just created a system that allows us to do that. Essentially the community gets rewarded for, um, marketing the, the project. And I feel like that's worked one just for us. Yeah. I mean, that's my, that's my opinion, but I think, you know, if you jump on Twitter and you just look at all the activity from lazy lion holders, it feels like it's sort of evolved beyond that as well.

This is awesome, dude, this is some alpha for anybody looking to start a project. Seriously. I noticed that there's your marketing right there. And if you're looking to create an NFT project, yeah. I mean, what a great way, love that. And, you know, look at the numbers you guys have too in building the community and the community.

I mean, being so loyal months after the launch. So clearly that rewards is working. Um, I saw a picture on Twitter. That you guys had a meetup in New York city, some lions holders. Um, were you guys involved in that? Have you met any, uh, lions holders and, uh, you know, talk to us about future events for lion?

Hey, the Kings and I wish we were that. So where, um, we're still in lockdown here and study CD. Um, so I think we're just now starting to get out of lockdown, but as soon as we can fly out, like desperately, we'll be meeting up with laser line holders, but no, that was community led. Um, a lot of, a lot of really good feedback actually from that one.

Um, everybody seemed to really enjoy themselves. Um, but yeah, that was a little community, but we'll definitely look at doing more of that. Um, as soon as we're able to fly out. That's awesome. I mean, showing the initiative by the community there, I mean, that's something we don't see out of every project, uh, doing these, you know, these meetups.

Uh, talk to us a little bit, you know, I know you guys didn't go after all these celebrities, what does it mean to see some of them get involved in the project in terms of validation going forward? Man, it's really cool. Uh, it's really cool, but you. Uh, just in general, just with the community, like what I know it's sort of gone away from the question, but just what we love, 4,600 holders, like jumping into the, or like I sometimes find, must find myself just going like, well, is this sort of like a dream?

Like you sorta just have to step back. You're like, well, I'm just going to wake up. And that damn like went back in August. This never happened. Or just, you know, continuing on with whatever else we're doing. Um, so it's sort of surreal like that just with the community, which is a really cool thing. But, um, no, I mean like the celebrities in the.

Uh, the athletes, um, yeah, that's been all organic or organic. Sorry. I'm like nothing from us anyways. Like the, the teams specifically bringing in those ones. Um, but yeah, I think it's really cool. Like, it just goes to back, I guess they had belief in either the project and the community or, you know, it's probably because they resonate with the art as well.

Um, like from a few of the things that I've seen. Um, which I guess makes sense. You know, everyone feels like, you know, a lot of people feel like they're aligned, particularly athletes. Uh, um, yeah. It's, uh, Awesome. I got a highlight Tyrese Halliburton for a minute. Cause we talked about him last week on the show because the big news was that he, uh, wore a pair of sneakers during an NBA game, featuring his board ape on his shoe.

So my question for you is, you know, has there been any talks of Tyrese Haliber and having his lion on his shoe? Is that something you guys would love to see? And what has the reaction been from the community of that possible? I think that's so cool. Hey, like now that we're seeing it as he's going into a culture like that.

Yeah. That's um, no, that's awesome. Um, I got a lot of respect for board apps as well. I mean, they sort of paved the way for a lot of projects out outta here right now. I think it'd be really cool if you wanted to do something like that. And with the lazy lines, I mean, I dunno, how's the community feel about that?

That guys in the chat, let us know. I mean, I'm seeing a comment here when lion shoe, uh, you know, if that's something you guys would love to see an NBA game with lazy lion, uh, sneakers being worn, uh, you know, I know we got a ton of press about the board apes shoes last week, and it was really cool to just see an NFT, you know, on a shoe in real life.

There it is on screen. Um, you know, and I love her and changed his shoes. Uh, you know, pretty much every game. So I have a feeling, you know, that he's not done and there's his lazy lion there on screen. So, uh, can we get that on a shoe? I think that'd be pretty sweet. Yeah, that's awesome. You called it Chris.

Let's see it let's make it happen. The crowd would be roaring. David says great comment there, Dave. All right, guys. So back to the discord really quick. So again, you guys have over 80 K discord members, you know, I'm sure we've all been crazy. Discords where they're spamming and just out of control. What do you guys do to manage the discord?

Now we've got a great team, great team, and that's, um, you know, not just, uh, uh, in just the community managers that we have in there, but even the moderators as well. And I think anyone in the community with. Um, you know, a lot of people I could shout out individually, but yeah, the mods, the community managers, um, I support team and even just like the RA, we've got like different roles.

Like we have one called like a role, uh, Royal king, sorry. And these are like community members that are sorta like self appointed by the community itself. It's funny. It's like we don't even choose. It's like, it's very obvious it should be this role. And they're the ones that are sort of. The community outside of the actual moderators.

And I feel like the community itself just does a great job of like, self-governing like if somebody comes in and sends somebody that something that they shouldn't it's very quickly resolved by itself, which is just a beautiful thing. Um, so it's like, even though we, you know, the more and more we scale up and grow, um, it hasn't been too much of the.

Um, but yeah, that's, that's how it sort of does it, so it doesn't get, like, it gets crazy at times, for sure. Especially on like, you know, Lauren's days and like rewards, especially. And we've got that one coming up this Friday. Um, when the, uh, Downey's sent out, it gets pretty, did pretty well on that day because it's a bit of fun, but, uh, now it's all governed quite well.

I think that's awesome. How active are you guys? Both in the discord. And do you have any like favorite channels in there? I'm probably a bit too active in the, um, in the disc, like considering, like I'm also, I'm like leading up like the product team and obviously like, uh, just trying to keep my eyes on everything else in the, in the project.

Um, but man, it's just so addicting being in the discordant. Like what do you, I guess it's just like, it's hard not to be what up in the, in the moment. And then you're sitting there for like half an hour, just chatting back and forth with everybody in the. And the community. I think you get FOMO too. Like you want to scroll back and see what you've missed.

You said this falling through your phone for a little bit to try to catch up with everybody and what they're saying, but in terms of favorite channel, I would have to say it's probably, um, it's probably, it's probably cabana bar. That's our, that's our main channel for lazy line holders. Um, so it's sort of, you know, it's only available to them.

Um, but when that channel starts to pick up, it's really fast to pick up on. There's a lot of great discussions that, um, Uh, so yeah, you learn a lot and it's, it's great speaking with the community, uh, specifically lazy line holders. And then, yeah, that would be probably my favorite channel. I'd say there's lots of learning.

Yeah, love that. So we've seen a lot of discord hacks over the last couple of weeks, you know, discord, Twitter, hacks, you know, different kinds of schemes going on there. Are you guys taking any precautions towards, you know, protecting the discord? Uh, let's start with you. Yeah. Sure. So recently we've done like a, an audit of our bots just to ensure that there's no, no leftover bots that are lurking, that we sort of don't need.

Um, majority of our web hooks. I know they can be either a bit risky, um, in regards to, yeah. So I know that one of the disciplines I apparently got, you know, got it. They got into it because of a web hook. So we started to, you know, just review the web books, make sure they're all clean. Make sure there's nothing we don't know about.

Um, we've started to leave sticky bots, uh, sticky notes in each of our. I know that sometimes you can get DMS from fake collab land. Can you try to verify your NFTs? So we have sticky notes that, um, you know, just say, make sure, like, just confirm correct collab, land, which other scams, it leads the country, uh, of that channel so nobody can see like, so no collab then can sort of see who's typing, you know, exclamation mark join to verify that.

And if they, so just little things here and there to reach clean up the discord, make sure there's nothing that's sort of, you know, leftover to ensure the safety of the community. That's what we've been doing, just to make sure that nothing happens. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pretty much that. And um, I mean, cause our discord is like so important to us as well, right?

Like it's such like it's front and center of our. Um, like the project strategy, right? It's like, that's what we're really trying to grow and build a community. Cause like we've always said that like the project is the community, the community is the project. And like we're making a, we're making our bed on the discolored platform.

Um, that's not to say it's perfect. Like I feel like there's, you know, there's a few things that I, you know, I'd love to suggest as a disco, um, team members and just, you know, things that I think would benefit the. Um, overall, particularly as entity and crypto is becoming more and more of a thing that's using discord.

Um, cause like we've let so many important, um, possibly it's like we've got like a professional networking section. Um, cause it's funny. It goes, it's sort of gone away from the question, but it sort of ties into like what's the value in an annotate? Um, like that's a question that I've, you know, I had asked her a few times basically for people that aren't encrypted, like why would you get an NFTA?

Like what do you actually get out of it? Yeah. Uh, like one of the most obvious things is the community. And some people just look at that and go, oh, like, what is that? It's like, well, like, you know, it's just because they're cartoon characters. I think the stigma is like, people think it's it's little children or like fat kids in their mother's basements that are buying these entities.

Right. And it's like, that's not the, that's definitely not the case. Right. Like, Like we're speaking with, you know, mid like C level executives with doctors, with lawyers, like whatever their industry they're in, you know, our reporters, like people at the top of their industry, right. Are like really smart, intelligent people.

So it's like, um, how much does it cost to get into like a professional networking? Um, uh, you know, like, oh, like, you know, how will, what's the cost of that to be a part of that? Create those kinds of connections. Right. And that's something we've doubled down on. So we have like a whole professional networking section and in the discord, um, like we have gaming sections, um, marketplace, uh, like all of these other things.

So it's really critical to us. And security is really important as well. Um, those hacks are pretty scary. So it's just things that were, yeah. Like what, what nine said, those are some of the things that we're doing to make sure that, that Allstate. Uh, secure love that. So you actually just led me on to the next question I had for you guys.

And I think if you compare it to the average would probably be a bit better. It's basically in terms of, you know, having more or, um, more females in the, in the project being inclusive as obviously one of our core values rather than being exclusive. Um, but this was just part of a survey that we, we did a while back, um, Uh, yeah.

And it's interesting, like target market is, you know, 25 to 45 year old males, obviously high disposable income as well. Um, but, uh, yeah, it's definitely interesting. We thought other brands would be, you know, would love to see that kind of information, particularly now as we've got the collectibles, um, you know, probably sneak thinking a bit too much of that.

That's not been our strategy on the really cringe. Um, it just goes against that values. So this is an opportunity for us to actually partner up with brands in a meaningful way. So that's why we shared that. That data. Um, and I think it's quite valuable daughter to, to anyone in any entities, but yeah, that's, that was the reasoning behind it.

Came through and roared and Coinbase actually retweeted. And they said roar louder for the people in the back. Please. Uh, tell us what this means. Uh, you know, have you been in talks with Coinbase at all or is this just validation that Coinbase sees the large community here? Um, that's one of those things where I probably shouldn't say too much, maybe just because I can't say too much, but I think, yeah, that might be enough there just to say that you can't comment.

So maybe we got it. We got it out of Yeti. But I think it's really cool. All right. I think it's really cool and it's really exciting time. So we'll see what, um, you know, we'll see what happens with the platform. And then we will got a lot of hopes. Um, but at the same time, you know, like we've got to be a little bit skeptical.

Entities and they're focusing on it as is extremely bullish. Right. Um, so I've got, I've got high hopes and they got my support. Love at Google plus. Wow. Take taken me back there. I definitely, I definitely had a Google plus account where I would share links to articles that I wrote to try to get increased page views, but yeah, goo Google plus a diet and unfortunate death there.

So tell us a little bit about, you know, uh, why this tattoo came to be, um, looks like AR you know, called out for the floor price and then got the tattoo. Is this something you guys do about at a time and how did the community. Man. I think everybody loves it. Like look at how clean that thing. Like man, whoever the tattoo was like.

Yeah. He's, that's a really good word. But um, no, that was all right. That was something he called out back when we first, when we first launched it, I remember seeing that and it was like, um, did he say it's like, when were you reached to a, I'm going to get my live. And I remember looking at that and like, obviously, like I'm extremely bullish on what Wade I've got completely.

I really liked it. I'd love that lazy hat as well. It looks so clean. I want it personally, but it was, yeah, that was just completely community driven in hold a competition. They just went out of their way and yeah, it was just beautiful to see. That's awesome. Uh, yeah, I mean, what a cool Halloween costume.

All right. So essentially this ties in without values and mission as well. Right. Which is obviously like our value is one of our values is, you know, rather than being an exclusive community, which you don't know a lot of other. Uh, you know, focusing on being, which is fine and like that works really well.

And I've got a lot of respect for a lot. A lot of other projects, I would never bash another one, but, um, like ours is to be inclusive rather than exclusive. So, um, we're trying to build obviously the biggest and it's the community, that's our mission. And part of that is bringing new people that aren't necessarily in entities right now.

And I feel like we sort of shoulder that responsibility as well. Um, you know, just from what other people have told me, it seems like we kind of, one of the leading projects now, at least like in the top, you know, I think like on open slate, like top 40 or all time trader those types of things. So I feel like we have a responsibility to actually, um, you know, to try and lead the space and, and bring in new people into the community rather than just, you know, those existing members who already have entities.

And I think the challenge is. Because it's still so early, like the interfaces and everything, it's not super easy to get into it. Like I just, the act of having to create a wallet and minting and gas, it's sort of like, you know, I said, it's like, if you're telling a friend or family member of someone that you know, coworker about entities and they're not in it already, it's like, Hey, we've got a lazy lion.

This community is amazing. Oh, cool. How much is it? And he's like one eighth and I look up one eight. They're like what? That's not how I'm going to get started. Right. So it's like, okay, how can we say. I have those, um, people still become a part of the community without having to fork out that much straightaway.

And that's where this sort of referral program collectibles thing came to mind. So essentially what it is is every community member or every new person that you invite to the community, all they have to do is join discord and they will get a pack of tokens for free that they can claim on our website.

Um, and this pack will be a random, you know, it'll be a set of cards. Um, you know, like we had to have a lane, next one will be, um, uh, like, uh, Thanksgiving. Right. Which is what we've got planned. So that's probably a sneak peek there more than I should. Um, so there'll be, you know, a set of eight, eight, uh, Thanksgiving cards.

Um, and every pack that you open, you'll get two random ones. And the idea is complete the set and you enter to win a lazy lines. Um, so this way, anyone who's not in the community already can just join up, join the discord, get a pack. And if they want to get more packs, they just invite more people. And we cover the gas company.

These tokens appear on open. See they can list them free without having to pay any gas that's all covered. So someone could come in, not pay a single cent, get one of the rare tokens, list them and then, you know, make a profit or try and complete the set and win a prize. Um, and I think it just ties in, like we said, without values gives them an opportunity to experience what minting is.

Um, and then, you know, bringing in the ecosystem and understand the true benefits of web three. So. A bit of a lengthy explanation, but yeah, that's, that's what the collectibles ideas. We appreciate the background there. Yeah. When's the launch. Yep. So right now that is in, um, we've got like a soft bed or internally.

Um, that's scheduled for launch, uh, next week, next week. So we've got rewards this week. Oh, wow. Is that a big thing? And then we've got this coming out next week. That's awesome. That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, pretty excited. You'll definitely see. Um, I think this will, yeah, we'll see how it goes, but I can see it having a pretty positive effect.

I think so. Yeah. I, we we've seen some of these card ones do well too, and that's a great way. Like you said, to bring new people into the community and also the referral program, uh, you know, I'm a big fan of that. So. You know, uh, we wish you luck with that. And thanks for breaking that news here on the roadmap, it's always exciting to, you know, hear what's next from these projects.

And, you know, I think that, uh, community out there is loving. Absolutely. I mean, that's amazing bringing new people in is the biggest part of the game. That's that's really awesome. Uh, let's take it to, we have some questions from the chat here. Um, the first question that I saw earlier in the interview today, we had a question from Brendan bald.

Uh, he's asking, do you guys have any plans or hopes to develop the IP into film or TV or even comic books?

So the cool thing is I've already seen a few projects do it. Um, and I think they're just, you know, they hold the, uh, lazy lines and, uh, feed themselves once you hold it, you're able to go and create these things yourself. Um, I suppose things like we're open to it, but there's no immediate plans for it, but I've seen a few cool things going around on Twitter.

Yeah. I love that. Um, let's see. Do we have any more questions from the chat here, Chris, that we want to think we got most of the questions answered. Well, you know, uh, people loved hearing the Coinbase conversation again, and people loving this roadmap talk. Um, we're seeing merge now asked from Morgan. Um, you guys, I think you, do you have some merch already or pens for Merck in the works?

Uh, we've got much in the works. So, um, you know, I've seen, what's been being worked on, um, I think the community's going to love what we, what we release with this. Um, so yeah, not, not quite yet, but that's in the works. It's coming out soon. And then mass. How about that? A question there from a breezy in the chat, uh, that, that could be a fun one.

Oh, yeah. So when Arizona ice tea collab, can you guys tell us more about that? Is that a rumor or, you know, is this question coming out of nowhere? Um, yeah, I mean, there's nothing like official going on. Um, what's nice. Is it sort of ties back into the collective. Um, to cause now, like again, if there are any brands listening as well, I feel like there's definitely an opportunity for the brands who are wanting to get into entities, particularly with like more established projects.

Um, at least for us, this is an opportunity for us to actually partner up with brands in a way that's actually beneficial for everyone involved. So, um, you know, if we were doing those, you know, biweekly, um, releases of collectible cards and one of them. The Arizona theme, just for the sake of argument. Um, but yeah, not nothing official, but we're definitely open.

Perfect. Yeah, I did see Arizona as one of the owners mentioned in the, uh, celebrity spotlight, um, on that cool graphic and the facts that we shared. So I think that's where maybe that rumor comes from. Um, but we'll wait. We'll wait to hear more details from you guys in the future. Well, I think that's going to do it for today's interview, you know, nine Asher big.

Thank you for both of you coming on our show. I know it's early morning where you guys are at, um, your flexibility with doing that. Also shout out to the latest science community. I mean, mass, look at them. They're in full force here in the chat during this whole interview. So a shout out to lazy.

Absolutely. I mean, this has honestly been one of the biggest communities I've seen and I'm personally measured by the Twitter. You know, I see on my Twitter, the profile picture, I mean, I see a lion, I would say one out of every 10. If that, I mean, you guys are killing it. I can't wait to have you guys come on again and just, you know, do some updates in the.

Yeah, man, this is a lot of fun. Um, I have like, everyone's been waiting for it for a while. So this is tape spot. It went by a lot quicker than I thought it would. you know, but, uh, yeah, not, King's definitely out there doing this. Yeah, well, we will, we will have to have you guys back on. Um, so thanks again, nine and Asher, uh, before I let everyone go here, uh, mass, we do not have a show tomorrow.

Um, I know I said we're going Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 2:00 PM. Eastern time. Benzinga is hosting. PAC awards. And actually there's going to be some awards given in crypto and NFT categories. So if you're interested in the space, we have FinTech awards, airing live on YouTube, beginning at 9:00 AM, Eastern time and going all day.

And also if you're into crypto, we do have our Monday night show. After this show is done with, through there, he will be talking some metaverse crypto plays. Um, so I know I'll be sticking around to hear more from Ruelle on. But yeah. Thanks for everyone for tuning in and yeah. Thank you. I mean, let's chat, they're so appreciative to mass here.

I am trying to tell them. Thank you. And they're all thinking. Yeah. Thank you guys. If you guys liked this content, you know, we're, Benzinga, there's, we're starting to test this out. We want to bring more NFT content, make sure to like subscribe, share this content. We're going to continue to bring more of it as the NFC community expands as well.

So thank you guys for watching. We appreciate it. Definitely. So stay tuned, everyone for a root welds report talking crypto plays, and we will see everyone on the roadmap on Wednesday, 2:00 PM, Eastern time. Take care, everyone. And thanks again.

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Hey everyone. Welcome to the roadmap. Benzing. As new NFT show, we've had some great teams already interviewed in past episodes.

The teams behind pixel vault, art blocks, the Vogel collective robots, that dose pound only force crypto dads, dizzy dragons, sub doc, and more. We've also done an NFT giveaway. Stay tuned for future NFT giveaways coming soon. We've got a great show today. Sneaky vampire syndicate joins us to talk about their project and what's ahead.

This is the road. Hey guys. Yeah. As you heard me say, the roadmap Benzing as new NFT show, uh, airing Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays 2:00 PM. Eastern time. We've had some amazing interviews with some big teams and we have another one coming today. Let me bring on my cohost mass mass. It's been a long time, but it's great to see.

What's up Chris we're back, man. It's been forever. It's been forever. It has no shows last week, but the big news, of course, we're expanding. We've got three shows this week, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Um, so we've got some big interviews this week and I mean, man, we we've talked to some great teams, some projects with some big followings.

And of course today we have SVS on and they have a huge community, right? I mean, we're talking, uh, 45,000 followers on Twitter, over 38,000 in their discord. Uh, you know, looking forward to, to SBS today as. Exactly. Yeah. I'm a big fan of the project. I know we talked about it. We mentioned it before they meant it out.

Um, you know, how big the project could be. So it's great to see it come along in the last couple of weeks or so. Um, but yeah, man, I'm excited for this interview. I'm excited to be back. Let's get empties back and running. Yeah, definitely. I mean, this, this is a big one to talk about, but yeah, we have seen NFTs pull back a little bit, which we'll get into later with our news and headlines.

Also. I do see a comment in the chat from Randall about my mic. Thank you. I did just fix it. So I, it should sound better. I switched over to the right mix, so we should be good to go. Uh, before we bring on a team from SVS, I know let's bring on the team. So joining us on the show today, we have Wolf the lead developer, and we have MIG the artists behind SPS and also an artist from boredom yacht club and hall of fame goes welcome to the show guys.

What's going on, sir? Thanks for having us. Thank you for having us. It's a great, yeah, of course. I mean, what a cool project we've been talking about this one for a while, we talked about it with our Halloween NFT focused show once before, um, we got vampires now we got bats. So we got a lot to get into and of course get into, you know, what's ahead.

Right? We're always looking forward to the roadmap after all. It is the name of our show. But before we get into SVS, just wondering, you know, if a Wolf and Meg, if you guys can give us, you know, your history in the NFT space prior to this project, I'll start with you Wolf. Well, personally, I, um, my introduction and thesis it's been a while actually, but I've never made my.

But I've been involved in development of with like a software program and stuff like that too, for a decade now, um, crypto since 2014, but I, uh, I've always had this interest in salute in a decentralized programming because it's like this whole new, all new, um, experience because you have to make sure everything's secure.

Everything can be exploited, stuff like that. So, yeah, I've been, um, I've been buying entities like, like for a while now, just, uh, messing around with them. And, uh, personally I think it's more than just art. Um, I've also developed a ticketing system, for example, with NFTs. Um, so I think, and if these can be just more than AR and that's something I really want to go.

Perfect and MIG, you know, we know you as an artist for board ape yacht club and hall of fame goat. Can, can you tell us, you know, uh, what was your experience with NFTs before those projects and then talk about creating the art for those projects prior to SVS? Um, so prior to BC, I didn't even know what an NFC was.

Um, I've been a freelance illustrator for most of my life. Uh, so almost 20 years now, but, um, yeah, I had no idea what an NFT was. I didn't know, uh, anything about crypto. Uh, so it was only after, um, Basey started really taking off that, uh, I delved into it and, um, started reading up on NFTs and, uh, yeah. You know, uh, it kind of boggles the mind, how quickly things, uh, develop in the NFD space.

And, um, yeah, I guess, uh, so creating the artwork, uh it's uh, SVS is pretty much the first project, uh, worked on NFT project. I worked on where I had most, uh, the most control over what's being, uh, presented. Um, I mean the guys came up and I came to me with a list of traits and, uh, and they just, um, told me to do whatever I, you know, uh, just, uh, go wild.

Uh, they really didn't want to, um, You know, just, uh, hold me back. They just wanted me to go crazy with my imagination and yeah. Sort of came up with, but with, uh, with goat lodge and, um, Basey, I was on the more direction there. So, uh, yeah. Awesome. So Wolf talk to us, you know, how did the idea of SVS come to be and you know, how were you able to bring a well-known artists like MIG onto the team?

Yeah, so, um, initially the idea was to create an empty, uh, well, we didn't have the idea to create an empty, but, uh, the other team members are friends of mine for a couple of years already. And one of them introduced me to me and like the whole group. And then we, uh, cause we were thinking of making something crypto anywhere like a project.

And we were, we like building like everyone in my. My friend group is like, they, there, they have already had jobs in different businesses, different niches, stuff like that. Like community management, um, of course development. We have, um, we have two developers and a UX designer, like a full blown team. Like we've known them for years already.

And then we got introduced to me. Um, of course he's a great artist with a great track record. So we thought, oh, that that's a perfect combo with the team. We have to create something, something special and what makes it that he had full control over the creative aspect. That's something we really wanted to keep because we didn't want to limit his creative.

For example. So, so that was one of our main key points to focus on to just give me every possibility he wants to. And then he gave us like a couple sketches in the beginning and we select the one we all like liked the most. And that's how we started. We see. Perfect. So, Meg, I mean, you touched on the, the artwork a little bit and, you know, having more control versus prior projects, you were on.

Talk to us about, you know, the inspiration, the artwork here. Is this something that, you know, came to you immediately was that, you know, a trial and error process, um, how many different, uh, you know, uh, variations of the vampire did you come up with? Okay. Uh, I came up with about 12 different vampires that are presented to the team and, uh, eventually set along the one that you see now, but, uh, the inspiration for it, uh, I guess.

Um, Bruce, Tim is a huge inspiration. Uh he's he's the guy who created, uh, the Batman animated series in the nineties. Um, so basically just a goofy looking vampire that you would, uh, that goes well with like a Saturday morning cartoon, uh, yeah. That something goofy, not too serious. And, uh, hopefully something that appeals to a lot of people love that.

Um, so there was an SVS and eight, eight collab that launched on Monday for, you know, it at eight holders and SVS holders. Can you guys tell us a little bit more about that? You know, how the project came to be? And I know there's like a staking or burning mechanism behind it as well. Um, so yeah, a today is, um, we've been talking to him for a while and he's invested in our project.

Uh, he also has a whole nerd. He's like a good friend of ours. So you can say, um, Yeah. So the PR the idea between the collaboration with eight and eight is that, uh, we've dropped in a unique piece of art by me. And it's basically, uh, the sort of vampire model we use for our, um, profile pictures, but then also with a little bit of eight, eight style with it.

So he's like all about this magic stuff. Like, um, like there, the X stuff, like angels, like eight and eight, stuff like that. And then we dry, we basically made it so you can claim one of these per SVS, token, you hold and eight and eight Genesis token. And then we added a game fighting aspect where you basically, you can burn through them to go to next year and then there's rewards for the seven and eight.

So, um, so that's the entire collaboration is basically reborn two communities together this way, because they have to work together to get the 120. Love that. And if you get the 128, what is the reward? I think it's a, one of one drawing, if I'm correct. Or can you tell us a little more, more about that and sort of rewards is you, um, you basically have white lists for next generation.

Um, also you get access for the first aid to the top tier. I think it's that. And then you get access to the ADA Genesis group, like his inner circle group, where you get always, uh, collaborations. Like you can get them for free. And then also the one of one. Yeah, I think. And did we have some, yeah, I think that, was it the one of one, a white list and access to his gender Genesis inner circle.

Yeah. So I'm in the 8, 8, 8, uh, discord. And I saw that a couple of people from the SVS, they collapse, they joined forces to be able to death the 128. So that's cool to see the community come together and, you know, yeah, definitely not something we want to do because community is one of our biggest, uh, key points.

Love that. So Halloween just was over. So there was a contest derivative. Right. So can you guys tell us a little bit more about some of your favorite derivative derivatives that you saw of the SVS, uh, uh, drawings, um, made you pick those, right? Uh, yeah, I picked some of them. Uh, this one, we really love this one.

Uh, I mean, most of the, um, most of the, uh, competitions we've had have been just drawings, but this was special because it was a 3d sculpture by one of our community members. And we really love the effort that she took to bring this life look great. And the one to the left, uh, it just, I, uh, as an artist, I can see how much time and effort he put into this.

And he adds some new references yet. I think about 20 movie references in the. An actual picture. So it had to be in there. It had to be a winner for us. Yeah. That one's sick. Look at that. You got the little clown in the background. That's awesome. How does it feel to see, you know, a lot of, you know, the community drawing, you know, these pieces, uh, to you as an artist makes it's, uh, it's pretty mind blowing sometimes, uh, to think that people are doing all these derivatives of, uh, something I've created, uh, it D you know, always put a smile on my face, no matter how, how little effort went into it, or how much effort, uh, I get a kick out of it this year.

That's awesome. Um, so we, I was looking and I saw that you can stake your vampires and then you get the blood token. Can you guys tell us a little bit more about blood token, the utility behind it and how it benefits the SBS. Yeah. So the bot token will be, um, purely used for you to like it's a it's in our ecosystem.

Right? So, um, for example, in our next generation, we're going to introduce a breeding aspect. Well, we kind of call it breeding as that's the pros of putting two and two together and then getting something out of it, but it won't be exactly that. So blood will be heavily use there. Um, we'll have like an increasing cost whenever you breed with one, which is already brand, so we'll go up and like use it.

And then we also plan to have more, uh, in real life collaborations with blood. So you get access to that item, meaning a physical item with blood. So we have, we have one collaboration running right now, which is in progress. Uh, it takes a while to actually produce, but that's, uh, we've partnered with, uh, One of the biggest champagne creators or like most famous ones, like really good at it and stuff.

I am like skilled. Um, and we'll, we'll be giving access to that champagne through blood. So that's one of the things we want to provide. Um, well, it's, we're looking to do like merged for like bloods. You can get so emerged for free, if you could just use the butter into claim it, for example. That's awesome.

So I can essentially exchange my blood token from staking to get wine or apparel. Yeah, for example. Yeah. We're looking to do more, uh, fiscal collaborations, right. Ready have some stuff lined up, which will be in the later months. That's okay. Yeah. I love that. That's awesome. Awesome. Well, you know, one of the things that recently launched was you guys also did the bats.

So we have sneaky bat. This was a free mint for anyone who owned SVS, a Wolf, I'll start with you. You know, why was it important to do you know, a, a free meant here for holders of SDS? Well, I think we shouldn't charge any holder who is already bought an SVS or invested in the project. I think it's fair to do a free companion drop because that wasn't our roadmap always.

And it's a great way to give everyone another rare or not. So rare Coleman piece of art. And it's just fun to do, right, man. Tons of fun. MIG, talk to us about the, the artwork here, right? So not only did you get to develop the vampire, but you also got to develop this bat. Um, walk us through the process here on, you know, this cool free companion drop.

Um, I just wanted to create a sort of mini and or side kick for the vampire. Uh, yeah. I went through a few sketches to get it done, but, uh, I already knew in my mind that it was going to be a very, uh, like a mischievous kind of character, um, yeah, similar to, um, Dick dastardly and, uh, muddly, you know, um, Motley is this, this kind of, he's a sidekick to, uh, Dick dastardly, but he's, he's kind of mischievous on his own.

He doesn't always. And he's got that constant loft and I wanted to bring that kind of, uh, that kind of spirit, uh, into the bat. So yeah, that's the origin for, I guess. Awesome. Love that. Yeah. The old Hanna-Barbera cartoon reference there. Uh, you know, I remember watching that as a kid, definitely in my kids now are getting into that.

So love the reference there. Um, you know, we got into the roadmap a little bit, right? With the staking of the blood token, you know, there's also a call for a gen two breeding, uh, you know, a vampire hunt, a vampire meetup, uh, you know, with, uh, give us the background, you know, what can holders expect, uh, as part of the roadmap, uh, any timeline updates on gen two, maybe for us as well.

So of course we're doing the gen two, a mint, which will be. I dunno because of the current state of the market, we don't want to bring in their collection so fast. So we might look to delay that if needed and then we'll just try and create as much value for the Genesis collection. Of course. So we're looking to do gen two, which will then come with breeding, which will be after that.

Cause Meg has to draw the R we have to settle on, like while we're going to make as a result. Cause we don't want to do, uh, just a simple like baby vampire, stuff like that. So we want to do something cool. We can eventually do something with which makes, which makes for another grave roadmap item, for example.

Um, so. And then we're going to do gen two companions as the same way as our Genesis companions. We're planning to do a in real life meetups. Once you're more established, like the board app yacht club one, that was really cool to see that come into action. Um, and then we're going to do some, uh, of course they're going to keep our community contests running the art derivatives.

It's cool to see every what everyone does. And yeah, that's basically what we've planned right now. And obviously there's always stuff going around, which is not on the roadmap. So the champagne wasn't on the roadmap. We have that game in development, which was on the roadmap and yeah, there's more to come.

Meg, walk us through, you know, the, the gen two development process and what this means for, for you as an artist to, you know, have to create more artwork. Oh, a whole nother series. Uh, well, I actually can't say much just yet. Uh, uh, right now we're just formulating a lot of ideas, uh, gathering, um, info on what traits we want to do.

Uh, but, um, yeah, once, once I get going then perhaps the limo sneak peaks, but until then, I don't really want to say too much. I want to blow the surprise. That's perfect. Yeah. We always try to get stuff out, but we understand if we can't. So, uh, one of the things we, we do like to ask, and this can always be a tough question, right?

Cause it's like a, you know, picking your favorite kid is we talk about favorite traits, right? So, uh, going to the vampires, you know, uh, Wolf, I'll start with you, uh, cause it, maybe it's easier for you than the artist himself, uh, share with us, you know, what are some of your favorite traits for the SVS? Uh, So I think my favorite, um, well I have my own, well, I think the shadow skin's one of the coolest we've done, uh, personally, even though it's not the most rare.

And then I really liked the whole load glasses and the laser eyes, but, uh, this one doesn't have, you know, the whole low-class. I was one of the, one of the things where we had to move our generation process entirely because they wouldn't, uh, export properly. So now that I think that was like, uh, two days before we, um, revealed or drop the collection.

Oh, nice. Oh yeah. I, yeah, those are cool. Yeah. Perfect. And MIG, I mean, this, I don't know if this is a tough question for you. I'm assuming it is. Uh, but any favorite traits to call out, uh, for, for SDS here? Um, uh, I think. Uh, it's really hard to pick. I mean, those glosses that I did big, uh, those triangular glasses, uh, were from an anime called, uh, grew in Lygon, um, and, uh, really like the character to use those glasses.

And I love have, uh, being able to add that into SPS. Another cool one was that actually on, on the right there, the laser moth. Um, so one of our guys, uh, 2d van came up with some of the traits and one of them was a giant moth and, uh, so out of the giant moth. And then, um, I thought, you know, why not give it lasers too?

And so I put it on there and it, and it works

love that. Um, so one thing I wanted to touch on was community. So I kind of wanted to paraphrase this really quick about your guys's launch. So when you guys launched, people were able to mint three vampires, um, you know, you guys wanted to keep it as organic as possible and have the distribution spread as possible from the beginning.

Um, so immediately after you met your unique holder percentage was around 52%, right? So we've seen the community, you know, it's, it's, it's very spread out. There's not just big whales that own the project, you know, there's over 45, count Twitter, over 30 K on discord. Uh, how do you manage the community and what do you love about the community the most?

Um, well, we have a bunch of people who actually like active all day in our discord chat, which is amazing to see because people. They've genuinely like they started talking to each other in the DMS actually. So it's great to see people connect with each other, um, community manage wise. We have a team of malts to keep the chat in like intact, like, but the there's not really that much like need to moderate all than like spamming, like invite links, stuff like that.

Um, I think the community we have right now is actually really great. And it's one of our main, main success points I think, to have as engaging community. Absolutely. Uh, how active are both of you in the district? Well, personally, I've been really busy myself working on like everything around SVS, getting these partnerships and stuff.

But, uh, so I haven't been around this much in this good lately, but I used to be very active, but Meg is around daily to talk to people in the joints, this voice chats. Every, we have a voice chat with, um, with one of our community members who is really good at investing, for example, in play through end games like strategies.

And he does a talk every Tuesday to like talk about investment strategies and how it helping people out. So that's something really great, which just came from the community. And we really, uh, really like that because that's how the community is supposed to work. Like they build it, they build each other and help each other.

Yeah. Um, if you'll notice in a lot of the, um, NFT projects in the, in the discord, uh, a lot of the time the artist doesn't really interact with the. Uh, community members, you know, and I find that really weird, uh, and it could be a sign of a rug pool who knows, but, uh, yeah, I, I, I don't want to be a person that you can never contact.

You can never interact with. I'm just this presence that's there. I just did the artwork and that's it. I want to be a part of the community on a lo I love joking around with the people there love, hanging around, uh, listening to whatever they have to say. Um, and they really, the lifeblood of any project.

Uh, it doesn't matter what we do. Um, doesn't matter how many collabs, uh, we bring, uh, how many, how much new utility we bring to the project. If you don't have a strong community, then, uh, it's. Exactly. I love hearing that, man, because I've been in a lot of discourse where the team comes on, just when they want to show stuff to this, to see you guys active day in and day out, embraces the community.

And I know you do weekly AMS, which is super important, you know, I've been in cool cats, they do it every week and I see the community rile up from that. So I love to see that. Um, what do you guys think of the current discord hacks? You know, are you guys taking any precautions towards that? You know, we've seen a lot of that in the last week or so.

Oh yeah. Uh, from day one we have, um, we've locked. Our are down basically. So, but these hacks. Uh, I feel like they just, uh, they bribe one of, uh, members with some special permission. So a lot of these discords, they forgot, forget, like, um, make it sell malts cannot give people certain roles or announce in these general, like admin channels, like announcements, for example, where it looks really official.

Um, and they also forget to disable the create webhook permission, which allows you to send a message through a web hook through these channels as well. So from day one, we've basically locked everything down except for the admin admin members. And we've forced everyone with substantial permissions to enable to have a, so that way in case someone gets hacked by some sort of malware key logger, uh, unless they get bribe, but then they don't have permissions.

They can't do anything which will harm the community. Lots of see it, man. Yeah, it's been crazy. Couple of weeks, man. I've seen so many, discords get hacked. It's been crazy. Yeah. Uh, the, these, uh, people getting really sophisticated with the way they work. Uh, we actually will. Some people actually attempted the same thing on me, uh, first by, uh, getting me banned from the Basey discord.

Uh, and then, uh, they going to pretend that their staff from the, uh, basically discord and attempt to fix the situation. And, uh, they'll try to get you to go either click on something or, uh, go on a video call. And, uh, once you click on the video, you know, that's when you start getting fished or hacked or whatever.

Uh, so just a reminder for everyone to stay vigilant and not click on anything, uh, always use a hardware wallet, uh, yeah, just be cautious. Yeah, the suspicious definitely great warning out there from you guys. It looks like people calling out, uh, Freddy, uh, XXX Al in the chat. Um, so I'm guessing that's a member of the discord as well.

There. Uh, want to talk a little, uh, broadly here? Um, you know, you mentioned maybe delaying a gen two, depending on the state of the market. Uh, talk to us a little bit, you know, where do you see the NFT market headed? Right. We saw a huge demand. We saw this big wave and now we're starting to see a little bit of a pull back as you know, the theory and price goes up and the sheer volume of NFT projects increases.

So, uh, we'll, I'll, I'll start with you just overall thoughts on the NFT. So I think, um, yeah, of course, what you've noticed that the theorem price is going up as soon, like severely affected like the volume traded at empties as well. Because, uh, if you look at the gas, like constant it's, I haven't seen it drop under a hundred gray in the past week, past two weeks, maybe.

So it's really, you lose so much value by just purchasing any theory right now from the like total price. So it has massively like dropped the volume of sales as well, and people are trying to get out of course, because they want to write the w the way for the price increase because they think, oh, it's going to, let's say 10 grand.

So they're trying to get out. And then that drops the four pies of maybe like, I think I've seen every project go down so far. But, yeah. So I think the current state of the market, you ever, probably going to see some more downside if it keeps going and Bitcoin, of course, but I think eventually it will settle down and people, uh, reinvest their money in, in NFS because right now a lot of like good projects are like on a discount, definitely.

And MIG, any thoughts on the overall NFT market here? Uh, ever every project's flaw has taken a battering? Uh, yeah, like will said, uh, crypto is pumping right now. So, uh, and if these are down, but, uh, what, what you'll see is, um, the, the teams that are really dedicated to delivering on their roadmap and just continuing to push forward, those are the projects that will outlast them.

Uh, there's a lot of projects that come out every day and it's sad to say, but, uh, you know, 95, 90 8% of them, aren't going to make it. That's just the way it is. Uh, you need a good strong team to, uh, to just weather the storm and keep going. And that's what we're going to do. Perfect. And, you know, uh, on that note, you know, you mentioned that there are some projects, you know, trading at a discount and some that, you know, maybe you're fans of.

So we always like to ask, you know, towards the end of the interview, are there any, you know, NFTs that you own that you want to call out or projects that, you know, you really like, I'll start with you Wolf, um, you know, what NFT projects outside of SVS for you? Um, I don't really own that many other keys sleep is the one that I really like is Kinesis art.

It's one of these generative, uh, well, like program the arts. So it's like a. I think it's like our book, but it's a little different because they're all animated and stuff. And another one is EPO name. It's a, I don't know if you heard about that one. It was this, um, project where you put in any worn, for example, and then AI generates an image.

I think they used Google, like images, like the 10 search results and then merged them together by day AI. And the results of them are pretty crazy. So that's the two and a few porters. I am, uh, I have some of, and I look forward to seeing what they can do. Awesome. And then MIG, you know, as an artist, you mentioned you, you weren't into NFTs prior to, you know, doing the artwork.

Uh, now that you're fully into the space, you know, are there other projects that you, uh, collect or anything you'd like to call out in terms of artwork? Um, Hm. I actually still don't collect many NFTs. I only had, uh, three NFTs that I've purchased. And, um, this week I, I gave them away because, uh, the sheer amount of people getting hacked and scammed, uh, really annoyed me.

So, uh, I gave them away to, uh, people from our community just because why not? You know, uh, they lost everything. They, hopefully this little token will help get them back on their feet. Uh, so I don't have any, uh, I don't have any FTEs right now, but, uh, and I don't really pay too much attention to other projects.

I like to pay attention to the mistakes of other projects so we know what not to do, but, uh, if I were. To namedrop. Uh, I'd say I really like dead fellows. I'm enjoying artwork there. Um, yeah. So that's something that, that, yeah, it gets my sense. Yeah. No, that's fine. Not everyone, you know, collects all of them.

Uh, you're a pretty busy guy, Meg, so we understand it. Uh, yeah, I, I, I don't collect any, I don't even own any vamps. I don't have any bases. I don't have any goats. Uh, and my reasoning for that is, um, if I were to own a vampire, for example, that would, uh, effectively take away, uh, one person away from the community.

And I I'd rather have, uh, an active member of the community rather than owning about myself. And, uh, there's so many great people in the community that, uh, you know, who knows maybe that one person that joined the community because of. Um, may not owning a vampire. It turns out to be, uh, a celeb or someone who's really helpful to everyone or, yeah, just the overall good person.

Yeah, definitely. All right. Well, masse, I think we've got some, uh, questions here, um, from the chat and some followers of Benzinga. So I'll let you, uh, take it away. Absolutely. First of all, MIG, you are the people's champ, man. That is awesome. Uh, we have a question from Scott here, he's asking. So what are the steps that you guys would recommend to a new project to secure their discord?

Um, so first of all, make sure, like, except you like the admin role has permissions to access announcement and stuff like that. So most of you, this Corptax. Go to a moderator. I give them like 10 grand to get access to their account, maybe, or get some permissions to post in those channels. And they'll add everyone with, um, with a fake site to meet that project again, for example.

So that's recently what's been going on in a lot of your SIS scores and a lot of people are falling for that. So make sure nobody has access to any like substantial, official channel to post an except like maybe the team or like you only asked the owner of this score and make sure moderators don't have access to create web hooks or manage roles.

So that that's one of the, like the most steps you can take. And eventually when you're big enough, you, if you applied to discord as a discord or partner, it will force everyone to, to have a, um, so that that's another great, uh, step you can take eventually. Love that. Do you guys think some projects are taking bribes considering how frequent these are happening or is it just the same thing over and over that people are falling?

Well, it seems to be the same person I've been following this personal Twitter. Um, let me find his name. So he's, uh, yeah, his name is NFP herder and he posts these treads on these discord hangs and it seems to be the same person every time who's been fooling off these hacks recently and it's discord. So, so either they're falling for the same bribe, like the moderators or, or they're being hacked.

So by the same, like maybe a piece of malware, they click like a link. I don't know what the attack vector is here. Yeah. So, yeah. And it's really bad situation for the product as well because, uh, The the, your, your loose, so much trust in a team. If they, if people lose money to you through like a scam like that, if you don't like take time to properly secure to this cortisol.

Exactly. And MIGS, you said that you gave some NFTs away to some of the SVS community. Did some of them get hacked through other projects they were in? Um, I'm not sure. I don't really know the full details of what happened. Uh, I just, uh, I just felt really bad for them. So, uh, yeah, I, I just want to do a little something.

I don't have much. I'd just give them something to, uh, get them back on their feet. Yeah. Amazing. All right. Let's see, Chris, I think, is there more questions from the chat here? Yeah. So we've got this question from, uh, de-bone in the chat. Uh, what are some of the other pop culture, Easter eggs we can find in the SVS bat.

Um, usually I like to encourage people to just look at the artwork and discover for themselves. Yeah. I mean, when it comes to Easter eggs sometimes yeah. You can't give everything away. So maybe you can share maybe one thing to look for. Uh, one of my favorite traits from the bats was creating, uh, um, a Walkman, uh, that, uh, if you've seen guardians of the galaxy style load has a Walkman, uh, that it's super ancient.

And I wanted, I wanted something like that, uh, to be kind of a success of trait to the headphones that we have for the vampires. So I, I created a Walkman pretty much in inspired from stall loads. Walkman, but yeah, I couldn't use, we might get DMC aid by Sony or something, so I couldn't use the exact name.

I changed it to SVS walkout wing man instead. Perfect. Well, thanks for sharing that. De-bone, there's your answer. You, you might have to look for the rest, but look for that Walkman. Absolutely. So we have another question here from Scott, who wants to know, uh, for new people coming into the NMT space as investors or collectors, what's the best way for them to, uh, do research and find quality projects versus avoiding scams or quick cash grabs.

Um, so there's a couple of red flags of you see. So first of all, if I were to invest in your project, I would look at maybe like, um, like any of their like team members to see if they're well established. Of course. So, and maybe look at their website, maybe. So a lot of these ex like scams recently, um, they, um, they tend to just maintain and run off, for example.

So it's really hard in, and if these spaces is not as simple as like a, like, uh, like checking a crypto Rockpool. So for an NFC space, a lot of people jump, try to jump on the hive because it's this one-time event where you can buy in this NFT, like at a really low price. So a lot of people tend to not do like their research because the event is going to happen anyway.

And there's so many people getting in and you're trying to flip it. Um, but the thing is with NMT project, you're only gonna see whether it's a rug pool, like most definitely, or like in the future, because it's whether they're going to work on the project in the future or not. So it's, it's a bit harder to do here than in normal token.

For example, a token you're buying through. Yeah. And of course settling, it's going to selling, it's going to be harder because you can't just go through union swap incentive there, but you have to actually find a buyer. So that's another factor you can look at. Yeah. And I've seen projects, they sell out and then these devs, they go to another project and they launch it and another one and they repeat the cycle, they just sell out and just kind of leave the community, sell out, leave the community.

So it's interesting to see, hopefully we start taking more, you know, doing more research before just jumping onto the hype, you know? Yeah. It's a, it's the wild west out here. And, uh, yeah, I think what was said is, um, you should really, um, do some research on the team. Um, that's exactly what I did before I joined, uh, uh, the team.

Um, so before joining SVS, I was, I was screening a lot of, uh, Proposals to me. And, uh, a lot of people wanted me to join their project. And I, uh, one of the deciding factors of joining SVS was, uh, choosing the right team who had, uh, who were well-established, who had a good, uh, Twitter presence. And, um, just the team that could get the job done and I chose correctly and, uh, yeah, so always, uh, do a bit of research on, on the team members.

And, um, but other than that, uh, yeah, just always, always be cautious. Perfect. Well guys, you know, thanks so much for, for sharing insights into SVS what's to come and also, you know, just the advice for NFT, uh, people out there, right? That's something we really wanted to do with this show was bringing the interviews to talk about big projects, but also, you know, provide that education segment for people, maybe new to the NFT space.

And I definitely think we, we shared some education today via you guys in terms of what to look for in projects and also, you know, managing a discord. So shout out to both of you for that. But, you know, we look forward to following this progress, you know, it's far from over gen two coming, uh, you know, I'm really excited to, to see what that looks like.

So Wolf and MIG, thank you so much for taking time out of your busy schedules and joining us today. Thanks guys. It's a, it's been a pleasure to talk with you and, um, just, uh, share our knowledge on everything. We know about crypto and NFTs and, uh, yeah, just, uh, stay vigilant out there. It's the wild west. So keep that in mind.

Absolutely. Thank you guys so much for coming on. We appreciate you and the SBS community. You guys are awesome. Yeah. And we will love to have you guys back when, you know, it gets closer to the next event. So, uh, thank you both. It definitely will be back, I think. Yeah. Awesome. Awesome. Shout out to, to MIG and to Wolf for joining us today on the show, and also shout out to the SVS community, showing up in full force mass in the chat, some great questions there.

Um, you know, the question from Debo and of course about the Easter egg, um, you know, traits, I, I loved that loved hearing about the, the guardians of the galaxy reference there. Um, you know, I, I loved hearing about the artwork, um, right. So the inspiration, uh, you know, from some different cartoons. So this was a fun interview and a exciting project, uh, with a lot to come back.

Absolutely. Yeah. You know, it's great to see these authentic projects that are really here for the community and not just trying to, you know, cash, grab everything. You can see it in the way they represent themselves and make the artists who doesn't own any NFTs. Who'd rather, you know, give his SVS to someone else that can be a part of the community.

Um, really great guys, really great community. I'm excited for them. And I cannot wait to see the progression over the next couple of months. Yeah. Definitely. I can't even get all these comments up on the screen cause they're coming in fast. Um, only fangs also got a call out here, mass that we should come join one of the AMA.

So, uh, we might have to try to set that up with SBS. So let's mass. Uh, another great interview here. We got more great interviews coming up this week before we leave today. Um, let's get into some news and headlines, right? We didn't do a show last week. So we got a full week, but also we saw, you know, the NFT market, uh, trading a little bit slower.

Right? So, uh, we, we still have some big news out there though, but the thing we always like to start with brightest, the top 10 weekly sales volume leaders. So I do this article for Benzinga every Sunday and it's based on data from crypto slam, which tracks NFT sales via. So no surprise mass. I know you're not going to be surprised by this one.

Number one in sales volume last week, ACCE infinity, $113.2 million in sales volume, and then followed by crypto punk sport, a yacht club, and then a couple of projects on the wax block chain, which actually was a surprise farming, tales and farming world then followed by art blocks. We of course had, you know, a snow fro from art blacks on the show two weeks ago.

And then, uh, the one I want to talk about here though, eighth place last week up 125% in sales volume. Uh she's right. This was the project that launched using dose killer. Um, also known as leash, which is the second coin in the sheet. And ecosystem system, which we've seen, you know, S H I B the coin absolutely ripping.

So this was a 10,000 Ft project. It had a sliding scale for the, for the pricing mass. I don't know if you saw that the first 3000 for 0.1, ease the next 5,000 per 0.2 and the last 2000 for 0.3. And if you own the leash, you got early access to this, it sold out pretty fast. We saw high gas. But this was in mid-October and now the floor price on this project has, has ripped.

I mean, when I wrote about it, it was 1.7. Then I did an article. It was 1.9. And when I looked today, 2.25 east floor now on , um, and the top sales, we had two 50 east to sales. Um, if we can get those up on screen, the Batman and the iron man based shimbashi there it is right there, mass. Uh, that's pretty cool.

Did you know this project mass? And what do you think about a Shabbos she's here? You think? Because it's the first really one tied to, um, you know, the, the ship coin that it's getting all this attention, all of a sudden, you know, it's funny. I heard it. I didn't really look into it till right now. These are pretty cool.

And I do like the connection to the Sheba coin. Um, Yeah. I mean, it's holding its price fairly well. And as far as art goes, those are, they're pretty cute. They fit that PFP style. That's a trending right now. Um, I like them. Yeah. I mean, this should have been one where I think everyone could have predicted right.

As ship gets hot, it looks like this NFT project is going to follow along. So it's definitely on my watch list, uh, based on the strong community behind the coin. Absolutely. You know, so speaking of community and if T Fest, you know, it starting this week or this weekend it's been going on. So I don't know if you guys saw the board ape yacht club, they had an actual.

And, you know, the party looked really awesome. You know, people were partying on the yacht. It's great to see the community come together. Um, there's a couple of videos and pictures on Twitter and man, I have FOMO from it. It just, it just looks like a great time. It does, it looks like a full-on party. Right.

And I really, yeah. You know, I, I had some big FOMO mez, uh, you know, not being able to be there and we, we saw it, not just board apes, right. But a bunch of different MFT projects, you know, just really rallying around this, this event. Right. Bringing your community together, bringing your teams there to meet your community.

And then, yeah, I mean, who could forget the, the party on the yacht, right board, a yacht club, a full-on party on the yacht. Also, I saw some, uh, billboards, right? We always talk about, you know, the, the times square billboards, right. That costs a lot of money, but get a ton of eyeballs on them. We saw some NFTs featured on those billboards.

Um, I know our friends from robotics were actually on those billboards, uh, throughout the event. And I know that they traveled to New York as well. So, uh, there, there it is right there on the billboard, uh, shout out to the robotics. Okay. You know, I wonder if this starts scaling up to like a comic con style, you know, as the years go by, you know, people come with their communities, they represent, you know, the board apes or bottles, cool cats.

And it's just a cool time meeting people in real life when we just talk digitally every day. So I love saying it. Yeah. I think it definitely a trend to watch. The, the big question is, you know, will it be, you know, You know, for NFTs all together, will it be for one event at a time where we see some regional events as well?

Right. And that's something with Comicons as you kind of see them spread out throughout the country, you know, are the big cities like New York, uh, you know, big meeting places like Las Vegas, are those going to be the places, you know, to host these events, but exciting times, uh, for, for meetups and, and speaking of board eight yacht club mass, I don't know if you saw this, but it, you know, the cover of rolling stone, right?

We, we talked recently about cool cats getting a collaboration with time magazine. Now you have board ape yacht club on the cover of rolling stone. I mean, and a full featured article inside the magazine talking about this. If, if you're out there and you didn't think NFTs were mainstream yet, I mean, if you're a musician, you always dream about being on the cover of rolling stone and here you have now an NFTE on it.

What do you think is this is a sweet looking cover. I mean, it looks awesome straight up the board API cover, like the rock stars of the NFC world and this, you know, rolling stone cover kind of a embraces that I thought it was really cool. I love the cover. Um, I love seeing more people, you know, by apes, I saw a couple of rappers, you know, they made it their profile picture.

Um, so again, we see more and more celebs start buying these profile pictures and making it, you know, their identity. I think it's great. Definitely. So speaking of, you know, we talked a little bit earlier with SBS. Discord hacks. You know, there's been a lot of discord hacks, and I think we should talk about, you know, what to avoid.

You know, when these projects do get hacked by, you know, however they're getting hacked, you know, what's happening is they're posting a link and people are minting through a fake website and just sending them Eve and they're just rug polling. So, you know, what are, what are the best tips that we can recommend Chris, for people watching to avoid?

You know, these, these scams that are happening consistently now? Yeah. I mean, I really loved hearing from the SVS team, right? Talking about, you know, the, the discord safety. And I think the biggest thing, anyone who's been in discord for a while, you see the sheer volume of messages that you get sometimes, right?

And a lot of them are invite link spam, right? Where people need, you know, a certain number of invites to get on the white list of a project. Um, you know, those aren't necessarily a, you know, a. Right at someone, you know, most likely trying to get you to join a discord, but also remember that those links are coming from someone you've never met.

Um, so I would always caution that, you know, I would try to join a discord, find a community, and you can talk about upcoming projects there. And, you know, it's a lot safer rather than just clicking on links from people. Then the other big thing, you know, as, uh, Megan Wolf said, right, is that most of these projects, their announcement channel, right?

It's the one that's locked just to the admin and pay attention to that. Right. They're going to update and they're going to say, Hey, this is our mint date, right? This is when we're going to mint. If all of a sudden, you know, you're getting messages saying, Hey, minting is live. And it's three days before the project's supposed to mint.

That should be an immediate red flag. Right. Unless if it was a now. And you really know that that's true. It's not a stealth drop, right? This is someone looking for you to connect your wallet to that site. And, you know, unfortunately you could be a victim in this way, so I would stay away from the messages you get in discord and make sure you're following and know that it is the admins posting in announcement channels, um, to stay safe.

Absolutely. You know, and they try to get you to mint emotionally, right? They create this sort of FOMO of mint now, you know, stealth drop, you know, get right away. So you don't really think about it twice. And I've realized that now, especially since the market has been slower, is we should take our time when we mint.

We shouldn't just rush into things just because, you know, you get the sense of FOMO. It's okay to miss things, you know, especially considering the environment we're in, where, you know, there's so many scams going on on day to day basis. Take your time. Do your research. You know, there's always opportunities out there.

Don't ever feel like you're missing out because we've seen people. You know, a substantial amounts of Eve coming into the NFT world and imagine if they're new, they're more susceptible to it. And they may just have a bad experience and not come back, you know? Yeah. And that's the unfortunate part. Matt has you, you hit it right on the, on the head there at the end, right?

Is the most likely victims of this are the newer people. And with that being said, it could mean two things, either a they're probably don't have a ton of liquidity. Right. So if they mint out on one of these fake projects, they might not have money left to get into other projects. And then on the flip side, it also may turn them away from NFTs completely.

Right. I mean, if I got hacked, if I was victim, I mean, I might just not want to pay attention to NFTs anymore. Right. Because it's a, you know, an unsafe market, so it's important. And that's why we try to educate people on the show. Um, so great insights, you know, from us in the education, but also you heard it directly from a team today.

Right? So great segment there. Mass. I want to talk a little bit about some of the major brands, right? So we just mentioned, you know, rolling stone of course, having an NFT on their cover. But aside from that, we're seeing major brands actually launch NFTs now, and this is something that we thought was coming, you know, for months, right?

Some of these big media companies monetizing their intellectual property. So Disney announced a collaboration with ViiV right. They're going to launch NFTs from star wars, Pixar, Marvel, and Disney characters. Um, you know, on that leading mobile platform, we have Hasbro is launching power ranger at FTS, right?

Uh, capitalizing on that brand that they have. Mattel which owns hot wheels. They're launching hot wheels NFTs, right? Similar to Funko where you collect the digital, um, you know, the NFTs. And if you get a certain rarity, you actually get the physical version of the hot wheel as well, which is what Funko did.

Right? If you got the chase version, you get mail, they physical Funko that you can only get from the NFT collection. And then mass, we got news this week, that one of the largest companies, most well-known brands in the world. Right. McDonald's McDonald's is getting into the NFT game. There it is the MC rib NFT, and these are limited.

You can't just go and buy these. They started a sweepstakes, um, today through November 7th, where you can enter and only 10 people will be awarded this NFT. I'm going to go ahead and drop the article I wrote on this, in the chat. So if you're interested, um, you can see how you can possibly, uh, you know, when one of those NFTs also on screen, you can see right now the rules and how to enter, but mass, those are some big names, right?

Disney, Mattel, Hasbro. And now McDonald's, I mean, it looks like we are going to make it right. Absolutely. I love seeing it. And I definitely retweeted that post and shout. You know, if we win, I already told our chick, I'm taking her out to get my grips. So hopefully there you go. There's the cloud right there with the mic rib, NFT.

Think of all that you can do with that. I love that. Exactly. Um, so moving on, Chris, I don't know if you saw last week, there was a huge sale for a crypto punk. Um, there was a crypto punk that was purchased for $530 million last Thursday night. So this broke headlines on Twitter, right? So we saw that everyone was like, whoa, freaking out.

But crypto Twitter was quick to point out that the sale was from authentic crypto punk, 9, 9, 9, 9, 8. Uh, so yeah, they, they kind of pointed out that it was, they sold it to themselves. They were able to get alone. Uh, they paid it back right after the sale and it just kind of created, it made headlines and it created this new, all time high price for the crypto.

Uh, what do we think about that? Yeah, I mean, th this, I think is the unfortunate side of NFTs, right. And, you know, we see it in crypto. We see it in NFTs where there's always going to be talks about, you know, regulation. And I don't love seeing this cause I think it draws more attention to possibly getting regulation involved, which is one of the things that's been nice about, you know, NFTs, you know, being able to, to operate on their own.

But I mean, a huge red flag, right? That this was a record price of over 124,000 a theory. Um, when the previous record for crypto punks was 4,200 a theory, I mean, that's a huge jump. We've seen some records this year, but not of this level. Um, but on the flip side, We did see crypto punks trending on Twitter.

So we did get some attention to NFTs, but I think unfortunately it was the wrong kind of attention. Um, I just, I didn't love this a headline, a news. Cause again, I think it's a, a bigger negative for the space than I would've liked to see. Absolutely. Yeah. I saw a couple, you know, people on YouTube that don't normally talk about NFTs bringing us up and you know, they don't understand.

And if T's, and what they were saying is just kind of looks, it's a bad look, you know, from someone on the outside, looking in, I see it as a publicity stunt, they wanted people to talk about their specific punk. Um, but yeah, it's not a great look overall, but interestingly, the. Yeah. And then I actually see a comment here, uh, on that note from a TEALS peels in the chat, I did actually see this headline as well, mass, that there was a punk listed for 4.4 EAs, um, on a most likely fat finger.

Um, but that is another topic too. We saw this with board ape, where there was one sold for a significantly low price. And the question is, you know, is it a fat finger or is it a possible tax wash sale? So there's kind of this debate going on. What do you think of the low prices here? Is that a fat finger or is that a, a tax, uh, benefit here, man?

And it's just, it's hard to say, but I can see the benefits of, uh, you know, from a tax perspective, you know, you accidentally fat finger and someone else buys it. You know, we don't know who that someone else is. That's where the mystery lies. Um, I would hate it for it to be a fat finger cause that would really hurt.

I'm not sure, but both suck. Definitely. And then maths, uh, another interesting topic and we could probably go on this one for a long time too, but just, uh, for anyone out there who doesn't know, we saw the floor price of an NFT project, uh, get pretty much wiped out over the last 24 to 48 hours. And that is jungle freaks.

So this was a highly anticipated project. And one of the big reasons that people were drawn into this was that, uh, a former artist for hustler was behind the artwork for this project. And we also saw a lot of, uh, you know, celebrities and NFT, you know, influencers, let's say right rally behind this project before the mint.

So w the floor price went up a ton last night. It actually hits 0.15. Um, it looks like it's recovered a little bit to 0.3. But the reason was because decades ago, the artist who is attached to this project, uh, George, Tracy, , uh, he drew some rather, um, let's call them racist cartoons. Right. And I don't want to get into the debate of, you know, what makes a racist cartoon, but the, the debate I wanted to get into is, you know, how much influence one person can have on a project.

Um, you mentioned it a little bit during the interview, Matt, you know, when developers leap from one project to the next, what it can do to a floor price and the community. Right. Well, what about something like this, where now there is just a negative cloud over this project? Can it recover or can one person, you know, ultimately just, just do them an NFT, you know, It's I think we still see volatility in this project.

We'll see some highs and lows because there's just so much money to be made. And, you know, people can ski the, the, the, the, the narrative, however, it benefits them monetarily. Right? So I'm sure people holding this project, they're trying their best to, you know, damage control it. As soon as they salad, they may switch sides.

But I will say that I don't, you know, anything that's, you know, racist towards anything should be, it's something I don't mess with. So I personally will not, you know, touch that, but I do see, thank people will still, uh, take the opportunity to buy and sell this project. Yeah, that's, that's a great point.

Right? And it turns into a moral one. For some people I I'm with you, right. Where I just kind of want to distance myself from this project. I was never in it. Um, but you know, eh, here in the stock market world, we talk about buying the dip, right. And that's a term that passed on to cryptocurrency and now NFTs, and you could have bought the dip yesterday.

But again, I just don't know if this project is going to have lasting power now with this negativity and, and a lot of the NFT influencers that were involved with this project, they've also distanced themselves, which, you know, isn't a great look. So, uh, um, we, we wish the best for teams, but, you know, I just don't know if this one is going to have a, as bright of a future as originally predicted exactly.

You know, and the big thing with crypto and NFTs decentralized and, you know, kind of against cancel culture. You know, I do think that we all can all make the decision, whether we agree with it or not. I personally don't, I won't buy the project. I won't talk about the project, but you know, people are still free to do what they want, so we will see what happens.

But yeah, it's unfortunate. Always do your research is what I'll say. You know, you can figure it out, cause I'm sure if you Google the artists, you know, how quick was it to find that, you know, so people may have not looked because again, monetarily incentivized, I'm not sure, but always do your research. Um, and other news though, Chris, it theory I'm hit an all time high today, man.

It just keeps on pushing gas keeps going high. Oh man, what is going on? Yeah, I mean, we, we talked about this weeks ago, right? How a theory I'm hitting all time highs. Great. For anyone who's invested in a theory of bad for the NFT market. Right. And you heard Wolf and Meg talk about that too. Right? How, when the price of a theory goes up, you know, impacts the prices of NFTs, right?

Because the majority of them are based in ease. I think until a pullback happens in Eve, I think we're just going to kind of see this current NFTE cycle happening, right. Where people don't necessarily want to mint new projects and sacrifice their. When he could be headed to 5,000 sooner than later, uh, what do you think mass, you know, uh, how close are we to 5,000?

You know, and what does a pullback possibly mean for, for NFT? You know, for me personally, eat is eat for me still, you know, unless I plan to take profits Eve one eighth is one eighth. What I think the biggest problem is is the gas, right? The problem with the gas is that anytime you try to mint something, buy something, sell something, you're paying this enormous amount.

That's not going to the dev. That's not going to the team. It's just, you know, being paid in gas fees. And I think that's been such a big disruptor in the NFT market so far. I mean, we've seen gas stay at over a hundred for the last week and a half or so. Um, but I do hope that he does stabilize and again, we're seeing what's happening.

You know, we've never really been in this situation before. Hopefully eats stabilizes gas comes down a bit. Um, and then we can start seeing the real, you know, market demand for NFTE. Uh, when, when Eve two, man, we've been hearing about this for awhile for a long time, right? Yeah. The actually going to happen.

And, you know, with that being said in the high gas prices, mass, I think that's something where, again, some of these other coins and platforms, like if they could really launch a great project that can, you know, eliminate gas fees or lower them, now's the time to take a theory. I'm head-on because I think you could win some fans.

Um, you know, I prefer the east based NFTs cause that's where I've always been. But I know some of these other platforms, you know, have lower gas fees. Um, but man gas, gas is brutal out there. It is, man. I do hope that we see Eve too sometime. I mean she in the next hopefully year, um, but Eve is the place to be, you know, the reason we're all still here in the eighth world and that's the dominant factor it's because it's the place to be.

It's where the top artists top projects are. So hopefully we do find a solution for this, but congratulations to anybody holding a theory them for the last, I mean, I remember it was $600 last year, you know, about a year ago. So congratulations. It's a great time to be in the crypto space. Great time to be in the NFT space.

Uh, I'm excited for 2022, definitely. Well, mass. I love our community and our fans out here. I don't know if you saw this, uh, this comment here. Um, I'll just throw that up there on the screen again, not to start a debate about McDonald's, but a shout out to hacks in the chat for that great comment on the McRib NFT.

That's going to do it for today's show. And as I said, we we've got some great interviews lined up and we actually welcome back to Morrow and we're back a team that we've had on before. And I know there's some loyal fans out there. May I ask who's going to be on the roadmap tomorrow, tomorrow. That's a great point.

I'm actually not sure I haven't checked it. Who is going to be on, so we are welcoming back crypto dad, right? So the dad team, we saw moms, right. The free mint of moms. So we'll be able to talk about moms and also what's ahead on the roadmap. So a very exciting one looking forward to this one. I own a couple of dads and a couple of moms still.

Um, so I'm excited. Um, but I know we will have a lively chat like we did before. Oh, yeah, one of the best communities from the get-go. Um, I'm curious to hear their perspective now that we've been in somewhat of a bearish market for the last couple of weeks. So awesome. Well guys, that is going to do it for us today.

Again, we had the team from SV S on shout out to MIG and Wolf for joining us on the show. Great insight into their project, the artwork. I mean, one of the most well-known artists in the NFT space now in MIG, um, we also got to hear their thoughts on the NFT market overall, right. And discord safety. I thought that was very, very important.

We don't always get that behind the scenes from the teams. So shout out to them and shout out to all of you in the chat, or if you are listening, this is also available on podcast. Um, so shout out to anyone or, you know, listening to them. As a podcast, if you are, you know, let us know you can reach out at Benzinga.

Um, and we would love to hear from you if you are loving the podcast, but that is going to do it for us. We will be back 2:00 PM Eastern time tomorrow. And as I said, crypto dads back on the show. Uh, thanks everyone, and have a great rest of your day. See you guys tomorrow.

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What's up everyone. It's Chris we're live Benzing as new NFT show the roadmap. We've had some great projects already on our episodes. We've talked to the teams behind the Vogue collective robotics, the dos pound Oni force. Oh, dads, dizzy dragons, sub doc, pixel vault, and also an NFT giveaway. Stay tuned. We got more NFTE giveaways coming up soon, and we've got a big, exciting show today.

Uh, following up our interview with G funk from pixel vault on Tuesday, we are, we'll be joined today by another huge, uh, you know, well-known project. We are talking art blocks with the founder. Project. Uh, let me go ahead and bring on mass. My cohost mass. What's going on, buddy? How you doing today? Yo, what's up Chris?

I'm so excited for this episode, man. I'm glad to be here. I know you've been looking forward to this one. We've been trying to get the team on. We've had some, you know, scheduling issues on Benzinga and, and we were able to finally nail down, you know, a date and again, mass talk about a big week, right? We had pixel vault, G funk on Tuesday.

And now Eric, from art blacks today, two of the most well-known projects out there in the same week on the roadmap. Exactly. Yeah. And one of the first projects that I was into when I got into NFTs has been art blogs. I've been a big fan ever since, and I love the work that they put out. So I'm super excited for this episode.

So yeah, without further ado, man, let's play the trailer. Let's get.

Love that love those trailers, our creative team. You know, we, we had a cool one earlier this week and now another specific trailer for this interview, mass. I think it's time. Let's go ahead and bring on Eric. AKA snow fro the founder of art, blacks. How we doing Eric? I'm good. Thank you guys for having me.

That trailer was like, it made me blush. That's awesome. Well, we're glad, we're glad you like it. Yeah. Our creative team has been doing these trailers and we love it. Brings some great personality for our show here. Um, you know, So I think we're going to have math kick off the questions here. If you're ready to go, Eric, super excited.

You guys are. Yeah, let's do it. So, Eric, first question for you, man. So how did you get involved, you know, into the NFT world? You know, tell us a little bit about the backstory. Um, you know, we know crypto punks have something to do with that. So for people that may not know, just tell us a little bit about how that started.

Uh, uh, okay. Yeah. So dinner of art 10 years ago, I started coding, creating art with code. I was using projectors and writing really weird scripts in a software platform called touch designer. Um, it's just something that kind of blew my mind when I saw it live at Coachella. And I was like, oh, I want to do something like that.

So that's kind of how I got into generative art. Um, fast forward, like six years, uh, I was reading Reddit and I ran across a link that the creators of larva labs posted, I assume it was them that posted and said, Hey, come check out our project. It might've just been another Redditor, uh, to the, to the claiming of the crypto.

Uh, what I thought was really cool was that it was a generative art project. Um, and also for the first time being able to prove ownership of a digital asset felt really special, uh, as well. And, uh, I think something kind of interesting is that I, by no means had come up with the concept of an NFT or even like the formation of it.

But I had spoken to friends and be like, man, there's something here where like, maybe you could have like a magic together in card on like the blockchain or some way of proving something that has rarities. And, uh, but of course it was all kind of speculative. Uh, and then I got that link to claim the punks and I was like, holy crap, this is it.

Like, they nailed it. This is exactly what the world needs. And I got real excited about claiming crypto punks. Um, I attribute 95% of everything that's happening now to the Matt and John from our larval labs. They, they lived the fuse. Uh, we wouldn't be here today without them. And that's kinda like where things where things were.

That's awesome. And how much was it to claim a crypto punk when you claim them? In my mind, it was 35 cents or the gas, but I also was feeling kind of foolish for spending money. And I don't know that I would've felt foolish spending 35 cents. So maybe it was like 35 bucks or $3 50 cents. In fact, I guess I can just check ether, scan.

I know exactly how much it was, but I did claim 30 for crypto punks. And during that process, um, you know, I, I realized I was being incredibly selfish cause I claimed all the zombies that were left. And of course, if I didn't like the next person would have, but, uh, it was actually during that process that I thought, man, like the Ethereum blockchain can actually decide for me whether I get a super rare zombie or maybe even an alien or an ape or just to a floor crypto punk.

Right. And so that, that was actually one of the very first moments where I was like, oh, I want to, I think it'd be fun to build a platform that presents you with rarities instead of you getting to. That's awesome. And you said you claimed 34 crypto punks. Do you still hold them all to this day? Or tell us a little bit more about what happened today?

Yeah, so early on, um, a couple other things happened that that kind of gave me more inspiration for our blocks. And then eventually I was like, okay, let's do this. And when I did finally pull the trigger, uh, I, I've never really kind of been in a financial position to just like spend 10, 15, $20,000 on development.

And so people were starting to place bids on my zombies and I was in utter shock. The first time someone offered to pay me $200 for this digital thing that I had, you know, especially because in the early days of NFTs, you know, like the true, some of the, some of the innovators beyond that were like no origin, for example, that, that had marketplaces.

Things felt expensive. If they were 200, 300 bucks back then it felt very expensive actually, compared to like, you know, a lot of pieces were like 20 bucks and 30 bucks. And so the fact someone was willing to pay me 200 bucks was significant. And so I, um, decided to hire a team of really brilliant developers, a company called block rocket tech, uh, to help me ideate the original version of our products, our box version one, which is very, very different than what our blocks looks like today.

Uh, and I was selling crypto punt zombies to pay that habit, uh, the developer habit. So, you know, I remember on at least one occasion, I was like, okay, I'm going to have to accept this offer for, for 300 bucks or 200 bucks. I will give you this zombie for $200 with the credit, but like, trust me, like. I don't want to, like, I shouldn't have to accept this offer.

Like it's worth way more than 200 bucks, but like, they're like, I mean, we don't want, we want to be being in zombies. We just totally respectable. Um, but I just remember thinking, man, like I wasn't, you know, I didn't want to do it the other way around. So I ended up selling Ms. Obvious for like 200, 300, 400 bucks a pop to pay for their developer fees, um, at the beginning.

Wow. That's awesome. So, you know, tell us a little bit more about, you know, we know that crypto punks help to launch art blogs. When did art blogs launch and how has it changed over time? You know, looking back at it, you know, from when it first began the F the first version of our blocks in 2018, that first smart contract, I mean, there's, first of all, every art project had its own smart contract, which was a complete cluster in and of itself.

Um, Probably the biggest innovation since then was that we put everything on the same contract. Um, but yeah, it was basically, it was called an art node and an artist would create a generative script that would listen to the most recent block hash of the Ethereum blockchain. And so the generative script would just change every block and there was slightly more complicated ways for people to intervene and inject their own hash into the script and generate a specific output kind of similar to what happens with our box today.

But it was through a very different mechanism where there was a token that stored a hash that you just kind of permanently owned that hash. And you would interact with other projects with that token. It was, it was so many more layers of complication than what we have today. Um, it evolved to what we see now, which launched in November of 2020, just last year, almost a year ago, uh, where the artist.

Deploys, uh, uh, our project on the same contract and the user comes and purchases a minted token, and that minted token, uh, contains a pseudo, random generated, uh, string of characters. And that's what controls the randomness of the token itself. So today when you purchase an AR buck piece, it's being purchased on demand, it didn't exist before you purchased it, which is kind of one of our key things that I think is really kind of special.

You're creating the body of work that the artist intended, but has never seen before at the moment of minting. Uh, and at the end, your takeaway is ERC 7 21 and NFT, uh, that represents that experience of printing. That's awesome fun fact, man. I actually bought a squiggle because it came out on my birthday last year and you know, I saw the date and I was like, oh, you know, I need to have this piece and I've had it ever since.

So I'm excited for that. No, wait a minute. That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Um, tell us a little bit more about how you guys transitioned to like a Dutch Dutch auction. Oh man. The emphasis, the infamous attractions. Uh, so th there was a lot of things involved and, uh, you know, I'd like to state that we don't think Dutch auctions are like the solution for everything in the world, but, um, we think we still think they are like the best approach to this.

A couple of things were happening. Number one, we were having, we were having gas wars and we still have gas wars and, uh, gas wars, or, you know, when more people want something, then the amount of there is. And so they paid, uh, increase their place in line to get there faster. And some people were paying more than the price of the art.

In fact, uh, when we kind of like drew the line and said, that's it to gas. Uh, we had a drop or 80% of the money that was sent to the smart contract or 80% of the money that was spent on the drop, went to minors. And 20% of it went to the artists and we felt like that was just kind of egregious and weird.

And like, it just wasn't very art forward, which is kind of our intent. Um, now with Dutch auctions, you still have gas wars, but those gas wars usually end up at a higher price point to where yes, a significant amount of money is going to the miner, but never more than half. And in fact, most of the time, like significantly less than half of the drop list of minors.

And so it just feels less kind of anti artists and like more artists forward. The other thing was that we weren't having any price discovery at all. And so, you know, we were kind of controlling artists to keep their prices between point, well, we never really set a low price. I always had the lowest price at 0.035 E for a squiggle.

I mean, when schools came out, they were 40 bucks. Um, but you know, we kind of, we kind of had this like 0.2, five, eight. You know, and that was kind of her curate. We reserve that even more for curated. I mean, if an artist and the fact that you want it to drop at 0.25, they could. But you know, it was very hard to justify a 0.2, five eats like as a selling price at, or in the early days of our blocks.

And sometimes those projects wouldn't really sell too quickly, which again, we don't mind because we liked the art to kind of sit there on a platform for a little bit, but there was no price discovery. So part of this gas war was that people knew that the moment that a drop happened, if the price was low enough, artificially set to 0.1 Eve and the least expensive price in the curated section on open seat was one eith that there was an instant kind of arbitrage opportunity there.

Like it, this is completely separate for any subjective appreciation of art. It was this completely financial instrument of something generically designated as art box curated is for sale an open seat for one week. And that's the cheapest, that's the floor and something. Arbitrarily designated as art books, it is about to sell for 0.1, Ethan.

So even if I add point for Ethan gas, it's still 0.5 each and there's that margin to be made on the secondary market. So to us, that means that there was no price discovery. We were essentially creating a, a, um, environment for wholesalers to come in and buy the product from us and then resell it on the secondary market for what kind of would eventually become the going rate after the drop for that piece.

Of course, what happens a day, five days and five weeks after that is actually more in line with price discovery in terms of people's appreciation of the art. Um, and we have kind of grown to let that market handle itself, but yeah, the Dutch auction was just there to help with gas wars, but also to like divert more funds to the artist.

Um, and so that art box wasn't artificially setting prices for something on the market. Perfect. So, you know, we have art blocks, uh, factory curated and playground. Can you talk a little bit about, you know, the differences in these different art blacks and how artists are selected for curated? Yeah. So, you know, in the end, the factory is this beautiful place for people to just kind of drop awesome generative art and something that I think is really important to note that's changed with our box is that originally our box was meant to be this place for anybody that can write an algorithm.

Like if you were going to create a script that drew a circle on the screen, we were going to let you, because I was just so excited and geeking out about the potential for this type of work to exist. Also, I had spent so many years at this 0.2 and a half years. Basically kind of like begging artists to participate in was not very successful, partly because it was a pretty complicated process to participate early on.

Um, that I was like, okay, crazy. Like, like let's just create somewhere where anybody that knows how to write an algorithm can deploy an art piece on bucks. Well, that's changed now. Uh, we have, we always seem to have like hundreds of people in the application queue and, um, we now have such brilliant works of art on the platform that we think that allowing low, like something that it's not even that it has to be low effort, but something that might be deemed low effort or something that's already appeared on, uh, on the platform like three or four times as a kind of like a trope, no matter how good it might be or how like generic, it might be.

Uh, we feel like eventually it becomes a little bit of a disservice to like the truly exceptionally brilliant projects that have come up in the platform. And those projects exist in the factory, in the playground. And then curated the difference is that a project that ends up getting selected for curated, which admittedly.

The bar has been raised over the course of the platform for curated as well, um, is a project that demonstrates something new or fresh, or like an incredible technical proficiency. It can be really, really simple, but if it's really, really simple, it has to be perfectly executed and defined it. Can't already exist on our blocks.

Curated, no matter how well it's executed, we don't want to projects that are using the same exact kind of algorithm or technology or not even the same exact, but something that could be confused between the two. Um, and there's also like a little element there of projects that have that come from people that have participated in the generative art world for a long time.

So, uh, what we have in the curated section or originally was projects where we were a little bit more protective of price. We were a little bit more, uh, you know, we would tell an artist, Hey, And this was well above what the factory was commanding, but we would say, Hey, okay, like you can set your price and iterations to whatever you want, but we want the max that this project would draw from it, from the ecosystem to be like a hundred thousand dollars or $200,000, which is significantly more than the artist might've ever made before using generative algorithms.

Not always but often. Um, and, uh, so we were controlling on price. We were controlling on, um, features and we were just a little bit more strict. Um, and so what that leads to is the third category, which is the playground, which is more of a badge than anything. And what that is, is a designation. Artist has previously participated as a curated artist on their own.

So, you know, we have a couple outliers, for example, if somebody was doing a collaboration in the playground and they presented as a single, a solo artist and curated, then that still has to go to the factory. Like, but you know, if you have two artists that have previously been curated and they want to collaborate on the playground, we would allow them to collaborate playground.

It's just a badge that says, Hey, like this artist really stepped it up and pushed really, really hard, uh, to present something to a board of 25, uh, relatively neutral curators. And I say relatively, because some of them are very passionate about generative art and like advancing the medium forward. Uh, and those curators decided, Hey, like this meets the expectation and the criteria for something that we would want to set aside as like a flagship project for our.

Awesome. I want to talk about Cromey squiggles. Um, you know, so that is the, you know, one of the most well-known art Black's projects, right? Uh, you know, when people talk about art, blacks, you know, a lot are familiar with that. We also see, you know, these huge sales for them. So can you just talk to us, you know, about, you know, Cromey squiggles, uh, how this came to be and why you think there's so much interest in, uh, this art Black's project.

Okay. So the squiggle was originally a proof of concept. It was never meant to be an art project. It was meant to prove how much variation you could get from the hash string with stored in a token. And to do that, I said, okay, well, let's find point data, because if you can have seemingly unlimited number of points along an access axis, and then, you know, Another limited unlimited.

There's actually more of a controlled range on the y-axis on the x-axis like the number of points on the x-axis. And then I can come up with like trillions of possible combinations of crummy, squiggles, and yeah, some of them might start to look very similar to each other. When you get into the billions and trillions, they would start like you would have that same squiggle, but like the green point in the middle might go down two notches, but everything else might be very similar, but in an edition of 10,000, it's actually.

Kind of uncanny how differentiated they look, if you don't know the collection well, and you just look at a squiggle, they all kind of look like squiggles, but when you start to explore them, you realize that they're all very different from each other. Um, that proof of concept was in 2018. In fact, my brother, so I originally wrote the chromic school in three JS.

My brother helped me convert the squiggle to processing, uh, dot, JS, uh, not just processing, um, because of a project where I, uh, gave a 2000 interior designers and architects in Houston, the opportunity to claim a chromium, Google of which 14 claimed them, uh, and were awarded with a real Promius squiggle in November of last year.

Um, and that was kind of version two of our blocks where, uh, it used the processing language, uh, on a local computer and just stored the hash of that script as proof of this. Um, the two years after that, I found myself kind of like. I don't know when you're a generative artist, you just like to tinker and iterate.

And I found myself kind of shaping the squiggle and tweaking it and modifying it. And also noticing that it kind of stood out from a lot of the things, not just in the NFP space, but just in the traditional world. Like I never, in two years ran across something and thought, man, that looks like a crummy squiggle.

In fact, I started doing Google image, image searches of squiggles, and didn't really find much that felt like it represented a crummy squiggle. So then I found this beauty in like the, the discernible nature of the squiggle and how it actually can represent something that people can relate to. And then in the end, I started adding all the extra features like the, like the pipe in the rib, and those didn't happen until right before, um, our box launched.

But that was kind of where I got excited and really inspired about the fact that our box was actually going to happen and decided to implement some extra little. Awesome. And then, you know, the other, uh, big art blacks, not that they're not all big, but the one that, you know, people talk about a lot. Cause again, the big sales is cadenzas.

Uh, so give us a little bit of the background and you know, the artists behind Fidessa is, and you know what, maybe draws people to this art box project. Well, and this one here isn't Meridian, but similar in level of beauty. So the Bonanza project by Tyler Hobbs is pretty special to me just cause Tyler is someone that I've been following for a long time.

So like there's a very clear distinction, um, of artists that I've been following and inspired by over the course of the last, let's say 10 years of being kind of in the space of creative coding. Um, and he's one of them. And so it's, it was really special to see. To have him agree to put something on the platform.

Uh, he's in Austin. And, uh, I've actually seen his physical murals before, because I live in Houston, so I'm down the street. And so I always kind of felt that it was even more special because he was in Texas. Um, and just his style is so special. He did something with Fidessa that demonstrated the depth of what can happen in the generation of a, a body of work using an algorithm where the artist gives up curation, sets the rules to where they're satisfied with anything that's going to come out of that mentor.

And, uh, just sets it free to the world and lets the world kind of tinker with it. Uh, he, he amongst like, just like any other architects, artists, they, they take these huge risks, like in the generative space prior to our blocks, you, you had the script living on your computer and you, you could generate thousands of outputs and then pick the one that you wanted to supply.

So the gallery, or if you were just going to post it on Instagram, whatever it might be, you, you had this. Built in curation. And I think what makes our books special is that that curation is out the window. That curation has to be done all on the front end. And the artist has to really tweak and massage their piece to where their, their algorithm to where every single piece that comes out of the Minter Minter represents them as an artist and that they're digitally signing something before they've even seen what comes out and, um, our blocks.

Um, uh, Tyler has really, I think, demonstrated that, uh, like as a, as a top project on our blocks. Perfect. Yeah. Love that. So to people that may not be familiar with generative art that are listening, um, can you tell us a little bit more of how the art is actually minted on our blocks when people meant it?

Yeah. So, um, generative art is a form of algorithmic art algorithm. The garden basically means that it instructions. Are given to a computer and the computer spits out an output, uh, algorithmic art might be that you were never intending to have more than one output, right? So you just write code and it produces something different than using a brush, even brush on like a tablet.

So generative artists, where you take that code that produces that thing and you assign a bunch of variables. So the background color, instead of just being blue is actually set to a variable so that every time that you generate a new one, it could be a blue or red or green or whatever. And when you assign various variables to an algorithmic work to where every time that it generates it sort of at random generate something fresh and different, that's where it crosses the line.

At least in my opinion of what would be considered a degenerative project. And I think something really beautiful to look at is that a generative project in my mind doesn't have to be algorithmic. Uh, one of my favorite pieces of art of all time is a piece in Marfa, Texas, by Donald Jonah, it's called a hundred boxes, a hundred untitled boxes and milled aluminum.

And it's. You know, Donald Judd, drew architectural drawings for a hundred sculptures and they were created, but there was rules. They all have the same length within height, and then he just modified the internals of them. So when you walk around them, you see these blocks, they're all the same size. And like the site modifications to me, that's a generative project, but made by hand and then generative art on our blocks is a generative project that's generated by code generated.

Algorithmically. The end results are very similar. So, you know, the, whereas a generative project, like the a hundred, uh, on a named boxes, uh, in milled aluminum, if you just have one piece, it looks really cool. It's like a beautiful sculpture. Um, but without exploring the entire collection of a hundred, it actually just doesn't feel the same.

Like you need to see all of the other iterations to really appreciate that one that you're standing right in front of. Otherwise, it just looks like a metal box. And I think a lot of that kind of happens on our blocks where, you know, Can you can become attached and really fall in love with a specific output or iteration, but then when you see the entire, um, uh, output, when you see the entire body of work, that's when it really sinks in.

The time and effort that the artists went into into creating this like beautiful piece. Uh, so what happens is the algorithmic artist, the artists creates an algorithm that algorithm is, is stored on the blockchain immutably. So like on the Ethereum blockchain, and that algorithm is missing the variability component.

So like, when I talk about the background being red or blue or green, the algorithm is waiting for you to tell it whether it's going to be a blue background or a red background by providing it inputs that are stored on the token itself. So the NFT, the non-refundable Dugan, all it stores is a bunch of strings of characters.

The algorithm that's stored in the blockchain without the information stored on the token is useless. And the information stored on the token without the information stored on the blockchain is also useless. It's those two things combined that create a visual output. So when a user. So the project, all they have to look at besides maybe some tweets from some artists that they might've kind of teased their work.

All they have to look at is all of the previously generated additions of that artwork. And that is the information that they have to decide whether they like those outputs and then want to mint another one. So when you go and you look at the beginning of a project and all you see is met number zero, you actually have very limited information.

To me, it's usually enough information to know whether I like this artist's style in case I wasn't familiar with them before. Uh, but then after that, you know, after 50 of them are minted, now you have this body of work and you can start to see the nuances between the different pieces. And that slowly builds until the edition sells out at whatever the cap that the artists set for the, for the artwork is.

And once that edition sells out, no more iterations can be purchased. And that's when you get the final body of work, the entirety of the, uh, Love that. And like how you mentioned earlier, right? So the artist doesn't know what the final body work's gonna look like until it's minted, which makes it pretty quick.

Correct. And one of, well, I'll just kinda touch on this here too. Cause I mean, we, we get really excited about we get, we get really nerdy about the blockchain component, right? So generative artists, like I mentioned, could have pressed the space bar before our bucks existed and generated unlimited number of iterations for a generative piece.

And so what the blockchain does is it kind of creates a finite amount of iterations to something that has historically been unlimited. Uh, and that's kind of something that couldn't happen without the blockchain. I mean, yeah. You could trust an artist to generate a hundred outputs generatively and then drag the algorithm to the recycle bin on their computer.

But for some reason that feels really weird, like to destroy code like that, like, you know, artists also iterate on the code and they kind of build on it, but it's not that different than like a screen printer taking and saying, this is in addition to 10. And then destroying the screens after 10 and kind of proving that no more are going to be created unless you go back and recreate the screens.

Got it. Uh, where do you see generative art going from here? Well, we're enjoying generative art, um, as kind of generative art fans here. And I think we're introducing a lot of people to not just generative art, but art in general. We're really enjoying the fact that people, you know, in our, in our discord, we have this need and that's, I came for the flip state for the art.

And I think that, I mean, people laugh about that, but I really think that genuinely has happened if that has happened with a hundred people in the last 11 months, I consider that like a major victory, right? Like what else in this world is so, uh, intentionally introducing people to art, um, then, then that kind of experience.

So, uh, I think that art in the generative world will kind of get, you know, it's been around since the sixties. Uh, but might get a new level of recognition, not just because of our box, but because of other generative art projects, uh, on, uh, um, in the space. In fact, I always like to joke that like I've been watching people buy generative NFTs on super rare known origin for years, but the word generative wasn't part of the equation.

Cause it just wasn't part of the equation. The artists was creating it, algorithmically, minting it and putting it on the platform. Um, and it's really nice to now see the word generative is part of the equation to the degree, maybe overdone in a couple cases, but that's okay. Like that's an, that's an indication that people are kind of drawn to that beyond generative art.

I think there's a lot of opportunities for generative. So a lot of the time that I spent ideated art blocks was not just for art. Although art has always kind of been our forward and our first kind of step, but also for the concept of generative design and generative content. In fact, you know, um, early versions of our website said, you know, generative content, regenerative design hosted immediately on the Ethereum, blockchain.

The idea here, being that just like, so art is the easiest implementation of generative, uh, content, uh, because it's, it's digital, it's flat. It's, uh, it's a file. Start on a computer or an algorithm stored on a computer. I think there's opportunities similar to the a hundred, uh, untitled boxes of in milled aluminum, where like you might have a really talented, uh, furniture designer, uh, industrial designer that creates an algorithm that creates a coffee table.

And, you know, you're going to be happy with anything that that algorithm produces because you've seen this designers work and you will go and you'll spend 2000. On a coffee table, which is actually a lot of money for a copy stable, but somehow not a lot of money in the NFT space. So I think we're eventually going to reach this kind of homeostasis, where we realized that, you know, you could spend half an Eve and actually maybe have somebody manufacturer a coffee table and have it delivered to your door that uses CNCS to follow some features that an algorithm dictated that was created by, by an industrial designer or a graphic designer.

So I think we're going to see generative applications in industry, uh, furniture, manufacturing, and then also gaming. I think that, you know, if, if every time I went and bought my, my sword on Zelda, if it was just a slightly different pixel configuration, I think that would be pretty cool. Uh, but then on top of that, if I could level up that sword and then it's available and open sea and, you know, it's unique from the start, but then on top of that, it can be built on, um, and you know, you can sell it and then go mint another sword.

Uh, I think there's a really beautiful opportunity for video game companies to have. The entire catalog of objects in a game existing on a single smart contract, kind of like the Bible of that project. So like, you know, every sort, every suit, every character exists as a generatively created piece. And no matter what happens to that game, that that catalog exists immutably because of the way our box works.

We store the scripts on chain. It has more longevity than your traditional NFT or the traditional video game that was hosted in 1995 on a server that no longer exists. There's that immutability that I could go back to in 20 years and be like, oh man, I remember when I got that character and know, play that game, and it's not dependent on the success of that video game, even though I might've dedicated 40 or 50 hours of my life to that video game.

And now that video game doesn't exist anymore, or that company went out of business. I can still go have the memory of that experience and maybe even own those pieces. So I think there's opportunities in the video game space as well. And we will definitely want to explore those with our blocks. Once we kind of get our inner stuff together and get to explore outside of.

That's awesome. So are you teasing out of art blocks, video games coming soon? Um, you know, we have one developer already Hindu, uh, dropped a piece on our box that, uh, is a game. It's a little game of pong and it's super, super sweet. It's like super smooth, clean 3d. Um, and you know, when, when he created that, I kind of hinted at him creating our blocks arcade and kind of creating like a standardized output for these games where another website could actually listen to outputs from the algorithm that would post scores and kind of create a home for people to like, kind of all play the games together, these like blockchain mini games.

Uh, we are absolutely going to focus on art for the foreseeable future. There's there's, you know, there's so much bandwidth that can be dedicated just to improving the art part of the platform. And that is our roots and that's where we started. And it's so easy to get excited about all these other opportunities and we'll we'll approach them, but.

For now you're going to have to live with like, you know, a couple, a couple of games hosted in the outbox factory. And, you know, I'd love to see like a putt putt golf thing, or like a generates a golf course, like a tiny little golf course with a hole in a random location and rocks and random locations.

And maybe you can't even beat that because the algorithm created an impossible level. I think there's a lot of fun to be had there. Uh, we're just, uh, we, we really are just wanting to take a step back with the exploration and focus strongly on just making sure that our product is as user-friendly and, um, buildable as possible.

Love that. So we've seen those become a hot topic in the NFT world lately. Uh, what are your thoughts on Dow's? Um, I hated the idea of Dow's, uh, early on. Uh, in fact it took two very smart humans reaching out to me and, uh, Proving that, that there was humanity in the concept of a Dow. So I, you know, I I've always been so grossed out by like the incredibly speculative nature of everything in the crypto space.

I shouldn't say grossed out, but that's not the right word. I just, uh, I really discouraged, I guess, by just how everything has to be associated with the valuation. Um, there's a market. I mean, there's market cap on squiggles, right? Like it's a work of art, but like they're, you know, schools are referred to as having a market cabin.

I'm not offended by that. I just, you know, like everything has that like dollar value associated with it. And to me, um, in my early days of crypto, which is 2017 and participating in new coins and startups and, uh, master nodes and, you know, trusting other people to dedicate time to a project. And people really like, I just, I think enough times I would be participating in some kind of like all coin project and the value would spike and like half the team would go away because it would just sell their shit.

They made it, like they made a bunch of money and I, and I felt like Dow's were just going to be an automatic perpetuation of that. Uh, and then I met the beautiful people of the Flamingo Dow and, um, I just remember, uh, pre reached out early because she's like, Hey, I just wanna let you know, we're the ones who've been getting all these squiggles.

Cause there was somebody that was just minting them up to squiggles. There was a few different people that were minting squiggles. And I was like, man, I hope these people, uh, realize like there's no guaranteed value of these things. Like this is just like, you know, um, my little art project, but she reached out and she was like, Hey, I just wanna let you know, we're really excited about our blocks and we really love your squiggles.

And I was very cordial and I was very excited. And then, and this is before I knew she was even part of a doubt. And I, I specifically remember she was like, have you ever heard of Flamingo Dow? And my response was like, oh, I'm not into douse. And we kept talking and. I mean, I love my fellow degenerates in the space.

I've spent four years, like on discord and the crypto punch discord, literally like meeting everybody as they stumbled into crypto because, or in the NFTs. Cause that was kind of like the, the home, uh, you know, the birthplace of all the projects. And I just, you know, I love all my degenerates, but I definitely felt alongside them, like very degenerate in the empty space.

And so little by little talking to Priyanka, I just kind of started feeling like I was talking to a human, like someone from the outside world, uh, someone that understands law and uh, just not just normal procedures. And so I. Decided to kind of consider working with Flamingo Dao. And I did, and I joined and I just remember joining and being like, this is, this is like pure magic.

Like there's dozens of people inside the Flamingo Dow talking about all the projects that are coming out, giving opinions, voting, thumbs up, thumbs down. And there's 50 something members and maybe only 13 active members. And like, I was maybe more than 13, but you know, I was originally an active member and I felt like I was contributing now.

I feel like a just useless number just because of the box has completely taken over my life. But, you know, I have this dream that I would one day get to a point where I can wake up in the morning, uh, open up like the philosophical newspaper, which is like the Flamingo discord with a cup of coffee. And just look at all the comments from the day before and participate in all of these things.

The exploratory, uh, nature of Dallas, I think is an incredible by having that many people from that many different backgrounds, all contributing to a project. I think that there's just like just, I, I just think it's a beautiful thing and I don't think. Our operate the same way. And I don't think all Dallas will be successful longterm, but I, my, I definitely did 180 degree pivot when I met Flamingo and realized that there actually was a humanity behind these dials and like their way of collecting art.

I mean, yeah, I think there is a financial long-term horizon, just like there is with just about anybody in this space, but they seem to respect the NFTs and the value and the artists, um, a lot more than others. And so I have like, there's a special place in my heart for, for Flamingo down, love that honesty I on Dows and also, you know, admitting to the 180 there.

So, uh, uh, thanks for that, Eric. Uh, you know, I know you mentioned, uh, you know, the market cap of art blocks. We talk about floor price on the show and, you know, putting the, the east value aside, how do you measure, you know, the success of art blocks? What makes it a successful project in your eyes? And that you're most proud of.

Uh, after w w what I consider a successful art work is when you drop the word crypto, and when you drop the word generative and you just call it art. And, um, you know, w if you go back to like Tyler House for Danza, all of those pieces, they look really great in the body of work, but they actually look pretty awesome independently too.

Like, even if it was just a, one-on-one like, that's a really delicate, beautiful piece. And so the success of it, of an artwork for me is a, like my interest in mentoring, a bunch of them, which obviously, since our box has gone through like a growth mode that has significantly reduced, like I mentioned, seven mentored in purchased $1,700 bucks pieces between November and may, and then subsequently minted in purchase, maybe like 50 from, uh, June or July to today.

So obviously, like my fund has dropped significantly on that and in the process, but. To me, the sign of success is like how degenerative early. I decided that I wanted to mint that piece. Like whether I wanted one or 10 or 20 or in some cases like, like poor, uh, Alexis, Andre, uh, he dropped it. He did a piece called messengers and I, I mean, I went deep.

I think I bought 40 of them. Cause I wonder one of every color that to me is like success. Uh, in terms of like an art piece, but that's just me as like a curator of my art collection. Um, the other sign of success is like really watching people from the outside world coming in and purchasing. These are box pieces.

Some of them have very significant valuations and people that have zero short-term horizon, like, you know, that the person that's buying these pieces of this price point is not expecting to turn around and sell it for like 10 X next week. Like at those prices, there is a fundamental ceiling. Like we talked about floors all the time, but there must also be a ceiling.

Right. And so whether that fundamental ceiling is the total sum of all of the dollars in the world, or whether it's some other factor of, you know, um, you know, wealth, uh, we, I do think that as you, as you sell pieces for higher, you're getting closer to that fundamental ceiling. And so watching people buy pieces at that kind of fundamental, I mean, that's not the ceiling, but as close to the ceiling, as we've seen, uh, that has zero intention of moving those pieces for the next few years.

Uh, I think is really a pretty solid sign of success as well, because that long-term, these are being recognized as like isolated individual, um, successful works of just generative and not just crypto, but just art. They stand on their own. And the, like the goose ringer is a really good example of that.

Like, it became a very well-known piece, uh, within our box, you know, um, you know, Dimitri showed a lot of favor to it, but then it also kind of looked like a goose and like people recognize it. And, you know, the owner of it was just so proud of that piece and it became world famous, I guess, maybe just in the NFT space, but it's a pretty big space these days.

And then watching the. Expand to end up in a collection of someone else collecting just like the finest pieces of not just our plots, but like all, uh, appease, uh, really I think solidified the, the long-term, uh, success of, of our box. Perfect. So one of our favorite things to ask on the show, um, you know, when we have the creators of projects on is to talk about their favorite traits, right?

So art blocks obviously has so many different projects. So I know you probably can't pick, you know, your favorite ones, but maybe give us some favorite traits for Cromey squiggles or some of the other big names. What do you think, uh, what are some of your favorite traits out there? It's easy with the squiggles.

Um, I really liked the closed terminal ribbed, um, as the community has so nicely dubbed it. I just love the words that the community can use to describe these pieces. And so like, ultimately. They've, uh, they've named it and it's just the rib squiggle, um, that doesn't have an open end on the end that you don't see color on the end.

You just see like the same color of the squiggle, uh, that I, there was a time where any of them that were for sale under five, under 0.5 each on open. See, I was snagging them and I built up a little extra padding on the, on those. I love those pieces a lot, uh, outside of the squiggle, I think I remember, um, you know, early on in our blocks traits were important, but they weren't like this intensity like they are now.

And I remember, uh, the archetype drop shuttle created this trait called the cube and the corner. And then, you know, like the rest of them were just the archetypes and there was something to me that just felt really special about like zooming out. Otherwise flat field and seeing the corner and that special, and then having the whole Cuban, making that extra special, uh, that really stood out to me as a really special trait.

And when I say that it's like, I ended up chasing those traits and then spending more money on that than I've ever spent on anything else in my life. And to date the most expensive things I've ever purchased in my life other than a house is an archetype cube. Uh, and, um, two sub scape star falls. So the Starfall was another trait that just, it just struck me and yellow and black and my favorite colors.

Uh, and so there was just something, when I first saw it, I didn't even know, you know, that was when our box was starting to kind of move faster and I stopped getting to literally nerd out and dive into every single Testnet. I mean, there was a time when our bus was getting started. I knew every single test in that piece from every drop, Dimitri mentioned a thousand tests that visas, I probably explored like 300 or 400 of them.

And then I got consumed by our box and I didn't really get to appreciate. Fun stuff that was happening. And I just remember seeing the Starfall piece, uh, from subscribes, from that Deloitte piece and after the mint and being like, I have to have that. And so I went in and I bought one and then I bought a second one.

And, um, just, you know, those two really stood out to me as like, like more in a sentimental way than just like, oh, these are rare. Like they touch the cord and I really, I really appreciate them. And there's many, many more, but those in particular, like stand up. That's awesome. I mean, I know it's hard to pick on some of these, uh, so, you know, I hate to ask that question, but we always like to try to get it out there.

So, um, Eric talking, uh, you know, broadly about the NFT market, right? You mentioned, uh, uh, I think rebel earlier, you mentioned open sea. We obviously have this, this overhanging elephant in the room of Coinbase getting into an NFT marketplace. Um, you know, what are you thoughts on, you know, a big crypto name, like.

Getting into NFTs and, you know, well, art blocks have a place in that. I say, bring it on. I mean, their, their user base is significantly bigger than the existing NFT space. Um, you know, and, uh, you know, I'm, I'm having some early conversations with them and like just learning about their integrations and kind of how they're going to, uh, deploy their project and like their MVP.

And I really think that they have an approach that's, that's different than your standard kind of NMT marketplace. And I think that it'll find a lot of love and a lot of success. Uh, I think if they act as a, as a ex like introduction to NFTs to 1% of their many, many millions of user bases user base, uh, I think we will all enjoy, um, uh, just a new generation of people entering the space.

And I think that's, that's pretty cool. Um, Marketplaces are hard. They're very hard, you know, and, and, and as, as, as I spoke to, for example, uh, Coinbase the other day, and I was like, look guys, like a lot of people, like to kind of shit on open seat, but like, can you imagine being in the position that open C was in like in August where not only do you have like a massive amount of sales and a massive amount of activity, but then you also have a new influx of people trying to deploy projects.

And everybody has their own little special case and their own little customer service requests. And yeah, you can try to grow your company, but like I experienced the same thing in our books. No matter how fast you try to grow, like you can't just pick people off the street and stick it behind a computer and started coding.

And so I think that there's just so much there that, uh, it's so easy, I think, uh, for the general public and that might've been me before I started our box, right. Like kind of come complaining and like, you know, yelling about the inefficiencies of, of, of open sea. But, you know, I remember open sea at NYC in 2019, you know, with a very humble table and, you know, three, four dudes that literally just were huge NFT nerds and that conviction that they had that early on, uh, I think, you know, they, they get all of the love and the market share that they deserve.

And I think it's going to be up to everybody else to either develop a better product or a different direction, um, a different environment, a different experience altogether for NFTs in order to kind of capture some of that market. But I do caution people. Like when you, you know, it's like, I feel like projects could come out, um, to compete with our box right now.

It'd be like, well, you know, we're not going to tell you how many additions do you have to do? Like they can, they can basically like pick all the things that our blogs is, has struggling with and say, we're going to create this new marketplace. That's going to fix all that. But like that basically is saying that, you know, our blocks is just naive and or dense and not understanding those conditions and just plowing through things.

When in reality, there's a very specific reason why the things that are deficient on our pots are actually deficient on our parts and they have to do with scaling and they have to do with like, Supply and demand. And, um, I think what I, what I appreciate about Coinbase is that they're not coming out and saying, okay, like we're going to do everything.

You know, we're going to pick all the things that open C's doing and do them a completely different way. They're just going to do their own thing. And I think that's how healthy competition happens in the crypto space. It's just do your thing, bring to the table, bring to market, whatever you are passionate about, whatever you feel strongly about.

And if it fits people will come to you. And if it doesn't then, um, you know, that that's part of like startups and entrepreneurship love that. Eric, one of my favorite things that come out of NFTs are the communities. Uh, you know, how do you communicate with, uh, our blocks community, you know, right now is that their discord Twitter.

And if so, are you active on a daily basis in those communities? Our discord community? I think if it hasn't hit 40,000, cause there's is about two, which is just like bonkers. It was a thousand during the archetype drop. In fact, we kind of. W when we were first panicking about oversubscribed drops, we did like a white list and the, our bucks discord, just like we did a user, why not a white list, but like a user list of all the users.

So that in case we needed to implement a white list, we had a way of doing it. That couldn't necessarily be cheated too easily. And then we did that a few weeks later and it was 4,000 I can remember was after some other drop. And then we eventually just gave up like there's 40,000 people that have joined.

Um, I. I spent a little bit less time in the discord than I used to because now there's, uh, 14, 15 of us at our box. And, uh, I spend a significant amount of time on like one-on-ones with the team to make sure that, you know, we can kind of keep her stuff together and continue building and growing the platform.

But, um, as a result of growing the team, cause you know, I got to a point where, I mean, I, I was on the, I was on the verge of breaking myself. I mean, you know, I was easily 80, 90, maybe sometimes more hours a week, you know, I'd wake up, I'd spend the entire time on our blocks and I'd put my kids to sleep and then I'd stay up until three on our blocks.

And it got to this point where it was just like so overwhelming and excessive. And a lot of that time was, you know, uh, you know, one-on-ones with people in the discord, like trying to defend what we're doing and, you know, standing up for what our blocks believed in and not trying to like get swept into like this whole crypto speculative madness and, um, the, the cool thing about growing the team, uh, where right now, I spent a lot of time with the team is that I'm hoping that by growing the team and being able to kind of offload a lot of the responsibilities that I had on a day-to-day basis, I can go back into the discord and fight it out with people again.

And I love fighting it out with people, as long as they're respectful. I don't like talking to people that are accusing us of being money grabby. And like, no, that's just not a fun conversation. Like, I don't think we've indicated in anything but Goodwill for the community. Like we really want the community to thrive and we want the artists to thrive and we want the platform to thrive.

So it sticks around how many platforms existed in 2008 at the peak of like the crypto cycle. And then that's when they were thriving and it, you know, everything fell apart and they went with it, you know, so it's good to be thriving in good times and also be very conservative so that we can vent exist during the slow times.

And that's when we can build. And right now things are cooling off a little bit. And so it's giving me some time to get back into the discord and have some nice little bouts with people which I can kind of miss. I mean, I don't, I don't miss the one. We were having an August, uh, but I missed the ones that we're having today.

Um, and, and it's going to give us time to take a step back and build and, and, and, and literally just continue trying to build like the best NLP platform that can exist, like the most crypto native piece. So, um, you know, that's, that's kinda where we're at, but I love my community. Uh, we're very lucky that I could not be more grateful for the team on our blocks.

They are the community, they all came. And majority of the art blogs team came from the community, which is just completely mind blowing as well. Um, and, and together, you know, uh, I think, I think we, I think we're going to do some fun stuff, love that. And you actually talked about, you know, how Adam teas can be mentally straining, which they can absolutely be that, you know, how do you balance your work and personal life?

You know, now. Th there there's a, there's a story I'll tell you. So we, we actually engaged with a mental health expert, um, because we started feeling like the quality, the mental health quality, and our discord was actually starting to be strained. Like people were saying things that just made us nervous.

I could just, you know, it just felt weird. Like there was the emotions that were, there were being really worn, um, in public and, and more importantly, the way the public was reacting to them maybe felt immature and felt troubling to us. And so we started working with this mental health expert, um, who we started explaining this is discord, and this is the madness that we shared discord.

And it was like, these are the examples of the things that make us really nervous. Um, and during that conversation, he's like, Hey, can, can we just step back a little bit and talk about your team? And like, I remember specifically hearing that and like, just like I was in complete shock because he was like, you're worried about like the mental health of your community.

But like, how has your team's mental health, like you guys are on here 24 7, duking it out with people and worrying about the artists. Cause I mean, you, you have, I mean the amount of time that goes into deploying projects now artists are becoming veterans because they've already deployed before. So it's a little smoother, but there's so much time that goes, especially early on into auditing scripts and vetting the artists and like just the entire process.

Everything was 24, 7 hands-on. Um, and it hit me pretty hard to be questioned about my mental health when we were there to like find out and help the mental health of our community and people were questioning our mental health and we took a step back and I'm like, yeah, this is, this is actually a problem.

And we are all suffering from this, not just the community, there's an addiction. Mentality like in discord and if Ts there's this speculative nature, there's the instant customer service on demand, or I'm going to tweet about how your platform is terrible thing, you know, which I mean, we definitely do not appreciate when people threaten us like that.

Like, I think it's completely unreasonable considering how transparent we are and how public we are about our mistakes and our issues. Like it's just completely unreasonable. Um, so yeah, so mental health is so it's so important in this space and everybody should take a step back every now and then. Um, and you know, we've, we've implemented no drops on the weekends.

Uh, that's been, that's probably been like the number one, like biggest mental health, uh, positive for me, uh, because I can actually kind of, I mean, I'll still LORIC I always learn like you can't not work in this course, but like, I'll take a step back and. And, uh, and not feel like I have to participate every single day of the week.

And so my, my kids are experiencing more of me, which, you know, there was a time there where like, I just really wasn't, it wasn't there. It wasn't very present as a dad. So things have come a long way. I'm hoping that things, uh, continue to get better. Uh, for the team. My target would be 60 hours a week. Like I'm not even looking for 40.

I would just be perfectly happy with 60. Uh, and you know, w we have a lot of team members that have joined, uh, one of them in particular, Jake Rockland is our CTO that came in and was like, okay, no more drops on weekends. Like we, you know, you, you need to set a good example. Like how many days off have you taken Eric?

Because if you're, if you're trying to set an example, You know, mental health, like if you don't do it, then no one else is going to do it too. Or they might take that as like the lead. And I was like, well, I haven't taken any days off. I literally haven't been off discord and 270 days. So, you know, um, we, we, I, like I said, our team is just really special and, um, everybody's looking out for everybody and, uh, we're, we're just really lucky.

And, um, if, if, if in the next five years, our blocks can get to a point where it can even be considered for like the top 100 companies to work for in the United States. Like that would be my next goal, um, because if we can have like the best artists and the best artworks and the best team, and on top of that, be recognized for like having internal, like positive company culture, um, and, uh, and just like a wonderful place to work.

Like there's really nothing else that I'm looking for in life at this point, uh, in terms of, uh, like business or entrepreneurial achievement, like I, I, at that point will have reached, reached my goals and, um, and, uh, I can't wait for that. That's awesome. Erica, thank you so much for your honesty. Right? We talk about these NFTs all the time.

And so many times we probably forget that there is real people, right? Real people behind these projects that have, have real lives. Um, so, uh, I love your honesty. W we kept you along. Uh, this was a great interview, a long one. So Eric, uh, that's going to do it for questions. We appreciate you, you know, joining us on the roadmap.

We look forward to talking to you soon and hearing more about, you know, art blacks in the future. Thank you so much for having me. Thank you to everybody out there, listening our community or our team and our artists. Like, you know, couldn't be here without y'all and thanks for taking the time to chat. I think.

Awesome. Well guys, another great interview here on the roadmap. I mean, mass a huge week, right? We had G funk from pixel and now Eric, from art blocks, two of the biggest projects out there and, you know, mass, I gotta repeat it. Right. I love the honesty from Eric, you know, whether it was the conversation about Dows and, you know, having the 180 there to the mental health aspects, right.

That was something G funk touched on on Tuesday, right. Was the mental health aspect and the needing to take breaks. And I just love the honesty there. Uh, you know, behind this project. Yeah. You know, in two things that I've noticed from the last two episodes that we've done is you can see the passion in the way these guys talk about their projects, you know, and they see it more than just, you know, just a cash grab or just, you know, putting a price on it, which I love, you know, seeing that aspect of NFTs because we get lost in the floor prices and, you know, and you know, is it gonna pump?

Is it not? Why is it dumping? You know, why is there no new news? So I love seeing these two projects that have been around for awhile, you know, provide that insight that we often forget in this fast moving environment. And then if two world perfect, well mass, uh, before we head out today, what do you think if we get to some headlines and talk about some of the big stories out there, let's break it down now, let's go.

What do we have? All right. So last, this actually happened last week, but we haven't had a chance to digest this news yet. So mass, there was a crypto punk record purchase that was turned down. So a $9.49 million bid, um, turned down by punk owner at Richard, R I C H E R D on Twitter, before the bid, he had said that his punk was not for sale.

Don't care, what anyone offers me. And then it was almost like someone out there taunted him. Right. And they put this bid out there. There was also some rumors that maybe, you know, this was a PR move. The big thing here is that this was a punk. That's not even one of the most rare, right. It has the 3d glasses, um, which is a decent trait.

You can see it there on the screen, the cigarette. Um, but the big key here for Richard was he said that over the past six months, I have used 6 0, 4, 6 as my identity, and have built up a significant brand around. To me, my brand identity and what I'm building in the NFT space will be way more valuable in the long run.

And this would have broke the record by a lot, right? The top sales 7.5 8000007.5 7000005.45 million. So I made a significant bump up from the record and I mean, mass, what do you think of this? And how important is it? If an anonymous person out there, you know, makes their PFP and NFT and builds a community, are they ever going to be able to see.

Well, you know, that's a great point, but a lot of these guys they've had their punks, you know, through the cycles where they've 10 X, 500 X, a thousand X, and they've held for this long, which tells us, you know, they identify with it in more of a, you know, like you said, brand instead of just a monetary thing.

So it's curious to see that, um, build around it as opposed to selling it for profit. Right? So this guy can build his brand and, you know, monetize it without having to sell his punk, which I think is cool. But having that offer, I mean, that's tempting, man. I don't know how, you know, that's a big offer. So yeah, I mean, we say diamond hands and, you know, NFTs and stacks all the time, but I'm a big fan of taking some profits too.

And I mean, you talk about a profit that's, that's a big one. Uh, you know, that's, that's, that's a big one to pass up behind, but, uh, again, more power to Richard out there for, for holding onto that. Exactly. Yeah. So yeah, as I was, that was huge. Um, let's see, in other news though, we have Mecca verse, right? So Mecca verse has taken a slight dip in value over the last week.

Uh, we've seen some controversy here, Chris. We've seen people talk about, you know, You know, they don't look, they don't, you can't tell them apart or, you know, the profile pictures, you know, don't look as good from a aesthetic level. What are your thoughts? Yeah, I mean, that one I'm screen here. I still love the Lego ones.

Right. But that one before it, the silver one, if you look at some of the, the difference between, you know, a silver, you know, uh, the different. It's hard to tell on some of them, right. It's like slight tweaks of color. Um, so, you know, they've been kind of accused of, you know, not really having differentiating factors.

There was also some accusations of insider trading before the reveal, which we never liked to see in the NFT space, but I mean, mass, these were selling for five to 10 east pre reveal, and then they dipped. Right. And we have a floor, I think right now of 1.83, that silver one that was on screen, um, I think was a 60 eith purchase.

The Lego style one, there was a 50th purchase. So I mean still some big purchases, but this, this project for being as big of an event as it was, you know, 200,000, the disk or 200,000 on Twitter, the hype has completely just died out. I haven't really seen anyone make a Mecca there. PFP. What about you, man? I have not.

And that just comes down to the question. You know, my self included, all I knew about Mecca was that it was very hyped and that you can sell it for a profit. Right. I didn't, I don't know much about what they're doing. You know, I, I feel like that message got lost with all this hype, you know, the community aspect, what their goals are, what the roadmap looks like.

I feel like that got lost and pushed in the backend, which doesn't mean they can't make a comeback and turn it around and, you know, focus on that now. Um, but you know what? Those hype drops, we tend to just be, you know, more concerned about the price. And once the price drops, we tend to look at it as a, you know, I wouldn't say this is a failed project, but definitely it's lost a lot of its hype and community behind it.

Yeah. That's what I was going to say. I think the important thing here still is that anyone that won the lottery, right. And you were able to mint these, your costs was still 0.2 plus gas, and there wasn't a huge gas war. Cause you had six hours. So 0.2 and you essentially could have sold it pre reveal for five to 10 east, or if you hold it, you could probably sell it for two or 1.8 floor now throughout the last couple of weeks.

So you still could have made a huge profit, the people that, you know, probably aren't too happy about the project hype dying down is anyone who bought after the lottery, right. That was buying, you know, for five east pre reveal. Um, but yeah, I mean this project, I, I wish it the best. Maybe it'll come back to life, but, uh, for now I just think the cycle is kind of over there.

Uh, mass, we, I talked for a minute about crypto dad, right? We had crypto dads on the street. So one of the big events is finally happening, right? If you own a crypto dab, you can mint a crypto mom for free plus gas, one mom per wallet. So there is mom acts right to a little take on space X. Um, w we have some other moms they've, they've released some sneak peaks.

Uh, we've got some rainbow lips there, the, the flower hat. Um, and then I think that that is the OJI, their maths. They're calling that the mom, oh, gee, that one right there. I think that's going to be the big one, right? So they will be revealing starting tonight at 7:00 PM. So this happened last night. You have a week to mint if you own a crypto dad.

Um, so I have not mentored my moms yet cause I keep waiting for, for gas to die down, but I kind of want to mint before the reveal tonight. Um, but I'll be following these at a 7:00 PM Eastern time when these start to show up and we'll see, uh, what I get out of this, uh, Love that, you know, we love the dads, such a great community.

Uh, you know, seeing them come out with the moms so quick because their project is only a couple of weeks old. So seeing them launch so quick is great to see. Um, so let's move on here. We have some big board ape yacht club sales. So Matt , who was the DraftKings co-founder he sold the board ape for 696.969 E.

You know, I love the numbers there, uh, which is a third, highest Eve amount ever paid for board apes. So that's huge. We've seen two top sales where it's 7 69, 8, 7 48. And then this one is a third one here. So this ape has a trippy for which I believe only points 77%. I have it, which is 77 apes and then has a King's crown as well, only 77 apes have it.

And the floor right now is 29 E uh, what do we think about this, Chris? Yeah, I mean, I love the sale price, right. Again, I mean, it's hard to pass up on these big numbers. So, um, I didn't look at when those other top two sales happen, but based on a theory I'm rising. I mean, this might actually be the top eight sale in, you know, USD, right.

Um, cause that's one of the things with these sales is it's based in ease, but if a theory was 3000 versus 4,000 today, same with the floor price, right? The floor pack price on apes is 29 eighth right now, which is actually mostly. Then, you know, a floor price of say 33 34, a couple of weeks ago. Um, but I like this, the draft Kings co-founder Matt Kelly.

She's been, he's been pretty vocal and bullish on a board apes. Uh, he still has some, in fact, I think his profile picture on Twitter is, is a board ape still, um, draft Kings has also gotten into board apes, right. They bought one to give away for a contest. So, I mean, I, I like the sale here. I love that trippy for too, uh, you know, as one of the traits.

So there's only 77 out there and actually the top sale ever in EAs, right there was also, I believe a trippy first. So that, that, that trade is definitely one to keep on watch with two of the top three sales of all time and, and, and mass speaking of board apes. Right? So, as I said, you know, we w we saw, um, you know, DraftKings do a, uh, not a giveaway, but you could enter a daily fantasy contest.

And the winner got a board ape, right? Huge value. If you were. We are now seeing that Coinbase is giving away a board ape yacht club NFT right there on screen. That is number 4,609. This is if you download the Coinbase wallet app, you import or set up a new wallet, and then you tweet your Twitter username and the hashtag Coinbase wallet sweepstakes you have until October 26th.

And you also have to follow Coinbase on Twitter through November 15th. This isn't a rare age by any means. Um, the, the key trait here, uh, is that service close, right? The, the shirt and the hat. So that is a 1% trait. So it's a decent one. The floor for a service ape right now is 33 east, which has more than $135,000 mass.

I think this just adds to the Coinbase field, right? They've already had over 2 million people sign up for their NFT. Wait. They already have an app to trade a crypto. Now they have a separate wallet app. I mean, I think Coinbase, they're just going all in on NFTs here. What do you think? Absolutely like snow for a set earlier.

Bring it on. So I can't wait to see that. Um, you know, with that though, if they're in price has been soaring, man, it's hit over 4,100, you know, in the last couple hours. Um, and it's affecting that FTE market. It seems like people are taking profits. It seems like people are not buying as much. You know, we've started to see a trend where, you know, when Eve rises, we do see NFTs kinda drop in floor price or stay stagnant for a bit.

Um, so what are your thoughts on this? As far as the NFT market? I mean, I own some Ethereum, so I'm always happy to see a theory, some go up, but on the flip side, as you said, when a theory goes. A lot of times we see NFT floor prices fall. Right. We see people want to sell their NFTs to take a profit or because they'd rather hold the theory.

I'm right. I mean, it's hard not to own a theory. I'm right now when it's ripping and when people are thinking, you know, that it's going to go higher by the end of the year and next year. Um, so this is just a continued cycle, right? We talked about this on the show before. It's one of those things where again, if you're in NFTs, you gotta be patient.

Um, you gotta know your plan, right? You gotta know your, your risk reward, similar to stocks, right. Um, if you get into a project and the floor drops or it drops, you got to know, Hey, am I going to cut my losses and get out? Or am I going to hold because the value could go back up. Um, you know, I, I just think, you know, it's one of those things, again, Ethereum 4,100 and NFT floor prices.

No, just falling, uh, as a, as a pair trade there. So, uh, uh, another hot topic though, mass, uh, team that we had on the show a couple of times now, uh, the dose. So they have delivered, right? I mean, this is a project where they started, the, the floor price has gone up. They built a good community. They launched puppies, right?

So everyone who had a doge pound guy, puppy, they have a Halloween drop coming up. If you own a dose, oh gee. And a puppy, they have an app they've. Uh, launched early access to some other projects. They have a new roadmap coming out at 7:00 PM Eastern time tonight. Um, so they tweeted that. So again, seven o'clock tonight.

I don't have any early details. Um, the one thing I, I think is part of that, uh, we've seen some athletes get into NFTs and doge pound has kind of been teasing over the last couple of weeks, um, that they have signed some NBA players up for a new NFTE series. So I think maybe that'll tie in maybe dosha pound owners will get early access to that.

Um, but maybe we're getting some new dogs or some new puppies or something down the road again. I mean, I just feel like this team has well exceeded expectations and I'm excited to see what this new roadmap has. Same. Yeah. You know, the doge pound team. They're one of the few teams that I see that are constantly well aware of the markets and are providing utility and value for current holders and marketing themselves to bring on new holders by, you know, all these things that they're doing.

So we'll find out and we'll report in our next episode, what this is here, but so today, this morning, Chris, I don't know if you saw Reese Witherspoon. She changed her Twitter profile pig. Uh, it was a world of woman picks. So that's her new profile picture. Yeah. So we see this here. Um, you know, this is big cause we saw her come on a couple of weeks ago on Twitter and ask about, you know, NFTs and Eve and she wanted to get involved in it.

So seeing her change, her profile picture, we've seen Shaq, you know, and her and a couple of other celebs do this. Uh, you know, do we see this move forward with others? I think definitely the, the thing I liked about, you know, Reese Witherspoon was she, she definitely said from the start, she wanted to know more about women led NFT projects, right.

And again, that's no slight of hand or, you know, offense to the, the male projects out there, but there's been kind of a drive, you know, especially with some of these celebrities and finding the, the female, that projects. I still, I love world of women. Mazza, it's one of those ones where I kicked myself about right.

We've talked about this before I posted about it at 0.06 east in a discord, we watched it go up to three. I think it's above two east today for the floor. I mean, Gary, V's in it, uh, art chicks in it, uh, Logan Paul's in it. Um, now Reese Witherspoon, you got some big names in there and I just, I liked the artwork.

I like their community. And again, a woman led project and mass to your point, you know, celebrities, athletes, they're, they're changing their profile pictures. Right? That can really, you know, build a project up. Right. And it, and it can do more, it can build the floor price, but also if the athlete or the, the celebrity engages in the discord, you know, interacts with the community.

I mean, it really shows that some of these communities have, you know, staying power, um, you know, going forward. Absolutely. And first of all, every time that I look at the world of women, a floor price, Chris, I think of you, man. So for better or worse, I mean, I'm glad that you say that, but yeah. I mean, I had a hard time looking at it today.

As soon as I saw a recent post, I was like, no, oh man. I was like, of course she picked that one. I am curious if we get the backstory or if we hear from Reese, right. There was actually a post about that today. You know, we'll Reese, do you know at Twitter spaces, will she do an interview? Will she start talking about, you know, NFTs?

And I'm curious to hear if she says, you know, why world. You know, was that people posting that on her Twitter, did the team reach out to her? Did she find it herself? Right? How did this come to be? Because mass, I don't know if you remember that, but when she posted that tweet and it was like, what NFT should I look at?

I mean, might as well not post that. Right? Cause she got thousands of responses. She got shilled. She had people not even talking about NFTs. I mean, posting ridiculous things like that. That's what happens. Right. When you're a celebrity, you're always going to get a ton of responses, but I'm curious, you know, so Reese, if you happen to be watching, I mean, we'd love to have you on and hear about world of women.

Cause I want to know, you know, why this project and how did you find it? Um, and again, we could talk more about celebrities with their PFPs let's tag her on Twitter. We'll break this, cook down, posted on Twitter and tag her. So hopefully she. Yeah. And, you know, mass, I didn't happen to look, uh, at her wallet.

I guess that would be the other thing is now that you see the world of women a picture there, you could probably find it right on open, see, based on the traits. And you could probably find the wallet. And I'm curious if anyone has done that yet. And maybe we see, is this the first one, did, how long has she owned this for?

Um, you know, and is there going to be more purchases down the road? Uh, you know, part of that conversation with, uh, with snow fro, right? It was talking about the big investors, but we've also seen, you know, some celebrities buying up art blocks, right. Buying up crypto punks, um, uh, again, and is it a store of value?

Is it, you know, a flax? Is it for the PFP? I think it's a combination, right? Of all those. Absolutely. You know, and I've seen some feedback about celebs joining, you know, I've seen criticism where, you know, we've have seen celebs join, you know, they buy, you know, a hyped project, you know, they, they, they come into that empty space and then a couple of weeks later they launched their own project and just kind of cash grab it and then they just leave.

Right. So we've seen that a couple of times. Uh, it's gonna be interesting to see if that continues to happen or if we see people that actually love the space, for example, Steph Curry joined the board apes, you know, he put it in his bio he's part of the community he's in the discourse sometimes. Um, so I'm curious to see, you know, which directions certain celebs take, you know, with their platform because they have an influence.

So we'll see where that goes as well. So yeah. Um, recess, she put out a tweet, right? It was GM friends and tagged world of women. You saw Barry V retweet it, uh, saying, well, and then Reese retweeted, Gary V's tweet. Um, but to your point about the bio, it looks like Reese Witherspoon does not have a Twitter by.

Um, so we'll see if maybe she, she adds something there, but, uh, I think, you know, this is definitely along that that big conversation we can have on every show matters, right? Celebrities, athletes getting into NFTs. I still think, you know, we're early, we are going to make it because the fact that these people want in, um, and are just now getting in.

I mean, when some of us were in this for months or years, I think shows, you know, the life cycle continuing for NFTs mass. I think that was all our headlines. Is there anything else out there, any, uh, you know, upcoming projects, we haven't talked really about any upcoming mint, um, or new projects. Uh, what do you think anything catch your eye on.

You know, that's funny that you mentioned that because there it's been slow, you know, I probably haven't mentioned projects in awhile that I've, unless there's stealth drops. So what I've realized is the best thing to do now with the downtrending market is to join these. Discords try to get on these white lists and do your research on these projects before you just, you know, mindlessly throw, if that, uh, um, I think it, we can change that and, you know, start doing more of this.

We may see less, you know, just junk coming out and more, you know, uh, projects that are actually focused on the community and the arts. So that's kind of where I'm headed towards in my direction, instead of just trying to mint projects in the last couple of weeks or so. Yeah. I mean, I feel like for a while we were seeing, you know, maybe three or four minutes a day and then it got up, uh, 15, 16, 20 minutes a day, right.

Maybe if we can see the trends continue down. They can be more focused, right. And then, you know, we'll see more people meant them when you're having 20 minutes a day and people are keeping their ease cause they don't want to lose it right now with the bull market. You're not selling out these projects and you're just not getting the interest.

And those projects are losing momentum real fast. So I'm with UMass, haven't done much minting, um, but have done some discord, joining some white lists, uh, searches, some contests, some scavenger hunts, right. Whatever I can do to, to get on these white lists. And again, I mean, look for those discords, um, find those communities where you think this project is, you know, going to last, I mean, I'll even use the example with.

Snow fro, right? He said the art blacks discord was only a thousand when they dropped one of their most successful projects. There's over 40,000 now. And then on the flip side you saw, you know, makeovers had over 200,000, but I haven't looked lately, but I'm guessing there's a lot less than 200,000 in there now.

Um, so that's the other thing is maybe find some of these NFTs that have already mentored, um, that may still have the strong communities and that staying power going forward. Absolutely. Awesome. Well, guys, that's going to do it for us. Another exciting episode of the roadmap. I mean, man, we had a killer week right today.

G funk from pixel vault. We got to talk about punks comic Mehta hero. Um, we got to talk, you know, about that, that talent deal. Maybe we get some movies, some TV in the future. We had a snow fro from art blacks on today. We also got through all those exciting headlines, uh, you know, mass, it's hard to pick, you know, a favorite moment or a, a big event from this week.

Uh, it was just so full of them. Yeah. You know, these are two episodes that I personally will go back and just listen to them and watch them over again, just as there's so much alpha and info from these two guys that are killing it in space. And I see them having long-term value in that empty world. So, yeah, great week for us and great week for people watching and the guests.

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GFunk.eth aka Comicman joins us for an exclusive interview! Learn about the MetaHero Universe, PUNKS comic, and more!

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What's up everyone. Welcome to the roadmap. Benzingers new NFT show. Last few episodes. We've had some great interviews, some great teams, the Vogue collective robotics, the dos pound owning force, crypto dads, dizzy dragons, suck doc, and more. We also did an NFT giveaway. Definitely stay tuned for more NFT giveaways in the future.

We've got a great show today. A great interview. Pixel vault, founder G funk. Joining us guys. This is the roadmap

All right, guys, you heard me say at Benzinga is new NFT show covering the latest news headlines and top interviews from top projects in the NFT world. If you're new here, we currently air Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:00 PM. Eastern time. We're working on getting more shows going. Uh, we we've got an exciting show coming up today.

Before I talk about that, I want to bring on my cohost mass, mass. What's going on, buddy. Chris, a exciting episode today. It feels like we haven't been here in a while. It's been a week since we did our last show, but today's episode is going to be amazing. I'm doing great. Yeah, we've got a great week planned.

And before, I mean, for those of you who follow Benzinga on Twitter or read the articles, you probably already heard who our interview guest is on Thursday. If not, we'll talk about that at the end of today's show, but we have two of the biggest NFT projects out there. Both joining us this week. I mean, one week to catch two of these big projects.

So if you're new here, go ahead. Smash that like subscribe to Benzinga his YouTube channel. That's where you're going to get notifications. When we're live. You're going to hear all about our great guests. So mass, uh, before we bring on our guests, let let's talk a little bit. Who do we have coming on the roadmap?

Yeah. So we have G funk AK the comic man joining us today. And you know, I've been in the space for a couple months and I hear his name all the time, nothing but good things, you know, love the pixel bolt, project, love what they're doing with the planets. And just, there's just so many things to talk about, which, you know, I'm excited for that.

And, uh, yeah. So yeah, I feel great. I mean, this is one of those projects where yeah. If you, if you're, you've been in the NFT space for a little while, if you're not completely new, you've likely heard of pixel vault, punks comics, Mehta hero. You've heard those names right. Well, today we're going to dive into the background, right?

How did those come to be? And what's ahead. I mean, you talk about NFT projects that could have lasting value and lasting pixel vault is building, I mean, an entire NFTE ecosystem. I am so, so excited to get into the, and for anyone, you know, here in the chat, we're going to be taking questions for G funk.

And if we have time at the end of the interview, one of the things we're doing on the show, right? Mass is asking questions right from the chat. So feel free, drop those questions in a me mass, and the producers will try to get to those, you know, at the end and pull up some of our favorite questions. So you never know what's going to get, but mass, I know there is a ton of people here excited and ready to hear from the man himself, chief funk.

But before we bring him on, we have this trailer that we made to get everyone hyped. So everyone out there mash the, like, sit back and get ready to hear about pixels. Let's go

all right. Hyped, right? It's time. I mean, hopefully everyone hyped up. We're ready to go. We we've got a great show. So without further ado, let me bring on to the roadmap. G funk, Hey, what's going on? What's up man. Loving the walk-in music. I appreciate that. We made you a hold for a whole trailer and everything.

I mean, that's how big this episode is. We appreciate you coming on. Um, again, as Matt said, you know, one of those names in the space that is very familiar, you know, to anyone who's been following NFTs for awhile. So we have respect for you and we are so excited to talk all things pixel vault today. So let's dive into some questions.

So I'm going to kick it off here, you know, G funk before we get in to pixel vault. Uh, let's hear a little bit about your experience in the NFT world before you created pixel. Yeah. So I've been in crypto since 2014. Um, I'm an entrepreneur in real life. And so a lot of those gains, uh, unfortunately were a bit muted.

I was, as I was, uh, taking profits on the way up. And I started to get exposure to the NFT space at the end of last year. Um, I got really into top shot, started to get into crypto punks, pretty similar, uh, pathway into the NFT world is I think a lot of our collectors have had, um, and I have a background in the entertainment space.

Um, so you know, very familiar with developing IP. And I saw this opportunity that, that, uh, was starting to become clear early this year that certain people on Twitter were starting to develop personalities. You know, whether they be beanie or G money guys like that, where they had these avatars and we're starting to kind of connect their personal brands to them.

But at that point in time, nobody had, had really started to develop IP in a traditional sense behind. And so that was the birth of pixel vault. Um, it's basically a business designed to, to drive intellectual property drive value, to NFTs, which are otherwise, obviously stagnant on chain. Um, so that was sort of the birth of the comic in the run.

Run-up there to that first Christie's auction, uh, very exciting time. Uh, and yeah, I mean, it it's crazy how much has happened in the last six months or so, but, uh, super happy to be here and see all the progress that has been made. And, uh, only up from here, I think that's right. And it's hard to believe it's only been, you know, sick like that.

And I mean, it seems like a lifetime, um, with all this stuff that has been created. So one of the things, when we talk about NFT projects, a lot is artwork, right? And. That you have Chris wall, a former, you know, Marvel, DC and other artists. Uh, how did that relationship come to be? And how involved is Chris wall on the current and future?

Yeah. So that's actually a really funny story. So, um, when I approached beanie with this idea, uh, for the punks comic, he actually just sent out a tweet saying like, basically money is no object. Like we want the best artists in the world. Uh, we're thinking of developing a project. I don't know if he mentioned, uh, that it was, uh, like a comic book based on crypto punks or not, but, um, yeah.

And Chris was one of the people that responded to that tweet and, uh, I just started talking to him and looking through his work. Um, obviously he's been a part of, a lot of great projects, but tank girl is sort of like what he's most notable for and very quickly and looking at his work, I just knew it was the perfect fit for, uh, what we were trying to create with the punks comic.

And yeah, he, he's the, he's the chief comic artists moving forward. Uh, we have issue two well underway. We have a large corporate partner that's, uh, As much as I love them slowing the process down a bit. So, uh, issue two is currently planned for sometime in November. We'll, we'll see how the dates change. Uh, but yeah, Chris is very much a big part of the future of pixel.

Awesome. Yeah. And we're going to show some of those images here throughout the interview. Love the artwork. I know there's a lot of big fans out there as well. W you mentioned that this, you know, six months, so it's when punk's comic first launched, it was not a fast sellout, um, you know, something we're seeing now in the NFT space.

So what was it like in the beginning? Was there always a belief, you know, that this project would sell out and find an audience? Yeah. So, I mean, you know, for sure I believed in the vision, right. And I think that time has, has really paid dividends to the people that understood the. But I think still today, you know, I mean, if you look at the planets, there's still supply available.

Granted, we, we intentionally designed it to, to make it available to anybody that wanted to join the community. But I think you're really seeing people focus on kind of this like lotto scratcher field. Right. Everybody wants those rarity traits and it's all PFPs and stuff that seemed to be selling out instantly.

Now, regardless of if the project is moving the community forward, you know, I think, unfortunately you're seeing like a lot of copy paste type stuff happening, but, uh, with that said, you know, with, with great risk comes great reward. So yeah, it took like five weeks for the comic to sell out. Um, but really sort of building on this idea of a quote unquote decentralized Disney is like this buzzword you'll hear, um, Giving the community, the opportunity to have fractional ownership in these underlying 16 crypto punks that we're actively developing story around.

Right. Um, as we succeed the community succeeds. And I think that just as sort of an overall theme for web three, that that's going to be very powerful and be a really disruptive force within traditional media. And, you know, as things have progressed over the last six months starting to approach these traditional media partners, um, you know, it's been, it's been interesting, the reception, and I think that a lot of them are fearful of being the next blockbuster, right.

Blockbuster didn't want to adapt to the Netflix model. So, um, there's actually been a pretty great willingness so far with, uh, major media partners to, to start exploring, developing this IP in the traditional sense. But yeah, I mean, yeah. Trying to blaze new frontiers. I think this is the way things are going.

And, um, you know, the people that have believed have been rewarded so far, but certainly some sleepless nights along the way. I totally love that, man. Um, can you walk us through the decision to make a burning mechanism for the comics? Yeah, so, um, at the time I don't, I don't think really anybody was doing this, but sort of a core proposition of pixel vault is this idea that when you're collecting the, the end result of your collection is very much going to be a result of your own decisions.

So trying to create as many 50, 50 toss up decisions as we can, you know, are you somebody that, uh, leans into risk? Are you risk averse? You know, do you love the comic? Do you like gaming? Um, all sorts of decisions that I think ultimately reflect the choices of the individual, the risks they want to take.

How they see their collection shaping how actively they want to be engaged in the community. Right? The game that we're building is very much going to be a community built project with all these Dows. So, you know, we, we like to introduce as many decisions as we can and, you know, some people love it. Some people hate it.

It's certainly, uh, a frequent complaint I hear about pixel vaults is that it's, it's too complicated. And so, you know, I take that, I take that criticism to heart and I'm going to try and find ways to make things more clear. Uh, but certainly, you know what, we've tried to do weekly spaces. We're trying to lay out everything very clearly on the website.

But, uh, I really liked this sort of like Willy Wonka nature of pixel hall. Um, I think it makes it a lot of fun and it's really built a very strong community, but you know, it's not going to be for everyone. You have to sort of be engaged with things of Walt to, to get and catch everything that. Exactly.

Yeah. You're building a whole universe around it, which is awesome. So speaking to that ma meta heroes, uh, how close to a game are we? Yeah, so, I mean, the game is going to take quite a bit of time, um, with that said we're looking to stagger it intelligently so that, you know, people aren't waiting two, three years to see any sort of game development.

Um, so sort of this first look and first, uh, action with characters, we're looking to hopefully be about a year out, but you know, it it's really too early to confirm any sort of timeline because we're, we're really actively engaged right now in the process of, of working with different game development studios.

So, um, myself and the virtual knot and a couple of other members of our team are taking, you know, a handful of meetings every week with, with different game dev shops. And, uh, there are a couple that stick out, uh, hopefully more news coming on this in the near future. You know, leveraging some of our own contacts and, uh, our team's experiencing game development.

And then also the relationship with WME, they're opening some doors that actually have a meeting with, um, our rep in, in gaming with WME tonight. So just continuing to look for potential partners. And, uh, certainly we're going to bring on a lot of experienced individuals in game dev. So it will not just be our, our team right now of 18, or we're either going to be hiring probably a team of 50 or working more likely with an experienced in dev shop.

So, um, still too early to commit to timelines, but, uh, you know, we have the resources that we need and the expertise right now on the team. And we'll be hiring a few other key individuals on the team, uh, to execute on this. So very exciting. Um, but still, definitely early days in that love that though. It's coming though.

Right. So that's awesome to hear for sure, for sure. In the beginning when you were launching punks comics, was this always the plan to create this, you know, world and game around the meta heroes? Yeah, so the, the games sort of developed over time, but there was always this idea to expand, uh, the universe of IP that tied in with the comic.

So if you look at like early days of DC and Marvel, right originally comics were just humans, right. And then with the introduction of Superman and then eventually Batman, et cetera. Now comics are pretty much synonymous with superheroes. So beginning in issue three, we're going to sort of merge the two worlds of punks comic and medic hero.

And there's the potential that there may be some offshoot comics as well. But, um, yeah, I, I think it's going to be really fun seeing the, those two worlds intertwined and, uh, in the interim, we're going to be releasing this project called origin stories, which will be, you know, every two to four weeks, we'll be sort of like.

Like a backstory on maybe a more minor character, uh, origin stories, being a nod to origin city, which is where the headquarters of the pixel vault is, uh, in crypto voxels. So, um, that's going to let us sort of interact with the community more frequently, really build the IP, um, in a serious way as we look to develop, you know, animated series and whatnot with traditional media partners.

So, um, I think that that's going to be a really beneficial thing as we build out the comic and the lore there. Uh, and you'll see a lot more backstory on the heroes and the pumps themselves love that. Can you share any details on how different heroes will be utilized in the game? Uh, specifically speaking of, you know, ones from different planets, uh, any advantages or disadvantages, disadvantages that the.

Yeah. So, uh, the virtue Mount has talked about this quite a bit. We don't want to create a situation where it's like a pay to win mechanic. We want to reward, uh, our early collectors in a way that it distinguishes the character in game and maybe provides like a very minor benefit. But, um, you know, there are also intelligent ways that, you know, maybe they earn at a, at a higher rate.

So with the, the play to earn mechanics that are becoming popular, that you see with ACCE and stuff, you know, maybe the identities and sidekicks, uh, are able to have, you know, a small advantage in that realm as well. But overall, you know, you can think of it as like a skin, like a very, um, high level notable skin, uh, being sort of, uh, at the, at the very forefront of developing this game.

Um, As part of that, right. We wanted to tie them to these planet tokens because for these original identity holders, it's not just about driving value to their identity and Ft. Right. They're also very much an owner developer participant in the game itself. So as the game succeeds, so to do these early NFT holders, so it was important for us to sort of tie those together so that it wasn't kind of like a diluted experience as we expanded the game verse and whatnot.

But, um, yeah, try trying to make it so that future entrance can, can still get into the game and have fun. We don't want to take the fun out of it, or it won't be a success. So, you know, there's a balancing act there, but I think having these early holders also have Dow tokens is a sort of an important aspect in, in balancing the reward system there.

Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, one thing we've noticed teas lately, and I'm sure you've seen this G funk is that the NFT space is moving so fast and people are, you know, looking for news updates on a daily cycle. They want, you know, the next big project they want the immediate reward. So what is it like, you know, to take the long route here building with one of the largest teams in NFT is when the NFT world is kind of moving more to the short term side of things.

Yeah. I mean, it's tough and I I've been tweeting a lot about this in the last couple of weeks. I mean, you're seeing like a lot of really prominent NFTE sort of personalities talking about being burned out in. You know, it's real. I mean, I feel the need to sort of like constantly be providing updates and, you know, people put a lot of time, effort and money into this project.

Right. So I take that extremely seriously, but you don't really want to be building, uh, a business worried about the floor price of an NFT. Right. So, um, you know, the people that bought punks comic right, as it sat there on the shelf for five weeks, ultimately it's, uh, you know, 50, a hundred X on, on their original, uh, purchase.

Right. So, you know, if ultimately you try and sort of block out the noise and understand that there are going to be peaks and valleys in every cycle and try to just keep like a mid to long-term viewpoint on this. Um, you know, right now the floor is down, right. Uh, across most projects and, you know, I have people.

You know, messaging me all the time, sort of in a panic, but it's like, you know, if, if they knew the meetings I was taking every day, I'm sure they wouldn't be panicking. Right. But like, that's also not how you run a business. So, um, you know, just, just, I think patients will be rewarded. Uh, certainly the partners that we're working with are working at like a breakneck pace for these traditional corporations, but it's not like how NFTs work.

So trying to balance it, trying to give people sort of like a peek behind the curtain, as much as I can. Um, while remembering, you know, it's about the long game don't give into the FID, just like keep building, but it's hard. Uh, Yeah, definitely. Um, so, you know, you mentioned that people who bought comic, you know, saw a big return, right?

50 X, a hundred X. And with that said, it may have priced some people out of, you know, the pixel vault ecosystem. So there was the recent planet launch. Why was it important to offer access to people who maybe missed out on comics and pixel vault before, you know, the opportunity to buy into the planets at the lower tier?

Yeah. So I mean, as much as we love rewarding our existing community, and we've done that a bunch of times already, uh, you know, expanding into this game versus, I mean, ultimately there will need to be hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people in this game burst to be for it to be truly successful.

Yeah. I don't think you're, you're seeing, I think you need to connect meta mask to see like the updated numbers, but, um, Yeah. So, I mean, we wanted the price to be low enough for new people to join the community. Uh, obviously that was a very common question. I would get on Twitter discord, like, Hey, I'm interested.

But you know, I think at the, I think right now, like the comic has seven and a half feet or something. Right. Um, it's a ton of money. So, um, you know, pricing the lowest comic or the lowest planet at 0.5, either giving them the opportunity to get now two different planets, right. Whatever they meant. Plus Jupiter, if you follow it along with that story and lower that we developed there, uh, that was, that was kind of fun on Twitter.

Um, but yeah, two planets and ultimately two sidekicks, again, all of these original participants in the ecosystem, we wanted them to, to ultimately have a character that they could use engaging. You know, if you're taking the time resources, effort to build the game, like you should probably have a character.

So, um, yeah, I mean, for 0.5 east, you can participate in two different planetary Dows and have either two different sidekicks or an upgraded sidekick, uh, with the burn mechanism there, you know, ultimately companies need to grow. Uh, we can't always just sort of reinforce the existing community. So we tried to have like a huge supply again, to avoid gas wars, to let anybody that wanted to get in in, um, and then find like interesting ways to create a deflationary supply with that Jupiter mechanic.

And then ultimately whatever doesn't sell we'll, we'll be taken back to the uptown, which is sort of this like central governance mechanism for the game. And the community will decide when they want to sort of release future trenches for, for funding, the development of the game. Perfect. You mentioned side.

Is there, I want to talk a little bit about this. So, um, can you share any update on the timeline for when sidekicks will be released and talk a little bit about leveling we'll work, um, with being able to burn kicks? Yeah, so the sidekick mint pass will be coming soon. So that'll probably be the first couple of weeks of November.

So similar to what we did with the generative identities, you'll first get them in pass, um, to the community based on what you're holding. Uh, and then later you'll be able to burn that and then pass for your sidekicks. Um, so the sidekicks themselves, I would say are probably not until Q1 of next year. Um, given the larger supply of sidekicks, uh, it's going to take some time.

Uh, we, we do have like a fun way to interact with the community coming up in the development of these sites. Um, and then to your point, there's also going to be this fun sort of deflationary mechanic where you'll be able to level up your sidekick. So right now the concept is five different levels of sidekicks and we haven't finalized the total burn counts, but whether it be one to five minute passes or one to 20, um, there's a chance we, you sort of scale it, interestingly there, but, um, yeah, again, creating an environment where the community shapes the ultimate, uh, experience and ecosystem, uh, is, is really important to us.

So seeing, you know, how people want to play it, right. Do you want five low-level sidekicks or do you want one premium? So it'll be fun to see where the final numbers end up. I assume, um, you know, the, the maximum supply was something like 115,000. The way we're creating it was to try and get down to somewhere around a 50,000 number, but, you know, we plan and the community does what it will.

Uh, so it's, it should be interesting. Awesome. Uh, one thing that, you know, pixel vault, uh, become known for is adding surprise value to mentors. So, you know, we saw punks comic mentors get a mint pass for a, met a hero, met a hero, met pass holders, had the opportunity to win a free core hero. Um, you know, and now the planet mentors also getting a free Jupiter planet and sidekick.

Can you talk about, you know, why this is important and how it adds value to those early adapters? Yeah. So, I mean, from, from a price perspective, obviously every time we, we reward the community, obviously the price of everything reacts. Right. So, so that's awesome to the existing community, but from more of like a structural standpoint, right?

Like. As we release things into the community, who does it make the most sense to, to have those items go to, you know, ultimately a lot of them will sell in the secondary and take some profit along the way. And in turn that expands the community to those people that are picking it up on secondary. But you know, you really do want to reward those people that are actually helping you build the thing.

Um, again, turning back to those five weeks of sleepless nights where I was like, well, you know, did I make a mistake? Um, yeah, I was literally all in with everything I owned, uh, to launch this project. Uh, and then some honestly, so, you know, it it's, it's been a wild year, but like I take these people's support, like incredibly seriously and to heart.

So, you know, wanting to see the community sort of succeed alongside the project just makes sense, providing these reward metrics. And also, you know, it defeats kind of like the gas wars and the bonding and all of that. So finding interesting ways to here and there expand into a public sale, but for the most part, trying to reward existing community and we have some more stuff up our sleeve, but I'm going to leave people to speculate.

Nice. So G funk Dow is a term that we're hearing in NFTs a lot lately. Um, I'm curious to hear, can you tell us a little bit more about the Dow and the pixel vault, you know, like when will voting begin and, uh, you know, where are they being set up? Yeah. So, uh, so the, the founders dial, right, which is sort of our art Val, but really kind of like a, a core community of like long-term collectors.

I mean, I don't really know that any NFT project was, was interacting with a Dow in that way when we launched it. But certainly you're seeing them like everywhere now. And I mean, our, our game vers, you know, they're, they're 10 they're alone. So, um, I don't, I don't know if you've been following sort of the drama with the moon, the moon bird, but 17 people, uh, tried to interact directly with the contract, ended up burning their comics, just poof gone.

Uh, and that's like 30 K a pop. So, uh, that will be the first use case for, for voting for any of these Dows, uh, we're going to get the moon voting up and ultimately the community of token holders for the moon will decide, you know, if they want to make them whole with this supply, we've set aside of 17 moons.

Um, and you know, I have some opinions in that. You know, most of these people weren't flippers, right? They were just like sort of panicked that they were going to get locked out because the button wasn't working for a couple minutes, I was telling them like, just wait, it's fine. You'll be okay. But you know, people will do what they will.

FOMO is a hell of a drug. So, uh, we're going to get this vote probably initially using a mechanic, like snapshot. And then ultimately we're going to, to develop like a custom UI experience across all of our Dows and that's something the virtue not has spoken about a lot. Um, so that's something that's going to be built sort of in conjunction as, as we're building out the game verse, but probably initially, um, snapshot through our website and, uh, and then more of like a custom build over time.

But, uh, I would say that all of them should be up in the next few months. Um, they all have already been established. Uh, from a legal standpoint with R R from Fenwick and west who have done just like an awesome job given sort of the unique nature of these 10,000 interacting with one another. But from a, from the technical implementation standpoint, that's going to be, um, like a primary focus after we get staking out for, for the Medicare identities and the comic here in, I dunno, roughly the next two weeks.

Nice. Do you see the discord community for the Dows, uh, being able to expand to more channels for more complex coordination and projects in the future? Sure. Yeah. So we just recently opened up a planetary channels. Uh, so we had only ever had two channels, sort of the main, uh, non gated channel. And then the things about founder's Dow channel, which you had to have the founders token to get in.

Uh, and now you can get into these gated, uh, you know, earth Pluto. Um, so, you know, we see a lot of interaction happening there. Um, but ultimately, you know, we would like it all to be built into sort of like a cohesive voting experience. I mean, with what you see with snapshot, I mean, there are, there are ways for the community to interact there, but it's, it's all a bit limited.

Right. Um, Erin and we're early days. I, I actually think what Snapchat has is really great, but finding ways to make it a more social experience I think is going to be really important for Dows moving forward. Um, so, you know, we're going to try our hand at that. I am sure there will be, uh, more products and services that come along on the way, but, uh, trying to find ways to allow the community, to like really interact in the decision-making is going to be hugely important in the development of the game among other things, uh, We're going to try our hand at that, but at the outset here, there'll be snapshot.

Right. Um, there's a lot of game theory around picks of all products, you know? So how do we explain the punks comic, the fund, the founder's Dow, uh, you know, a Metta here on the planets to someone that is just joining the NFT world. Like what's the best way. Yeah. I mean the rabbit hole is deep here, so this could take a second, but, uh, I would say that it's, it's a project based around IP, right at its very core.

What picks of all aims to do is develop IP in the web three environment in a way that not only will the company succeed, but so will the community. And along that journey, um, your faced with choices for how you want your collection to, to be tilted. Do you want to have exposure to this very unique collection?

And participate more broadly along with, you know, 5,000 of your closest friends and really everything takes them all. That's the founders. Now that was the choice to burn the comic for the founders now, or, you know, do you want to have more of a direct control over some Lords as it relates to the IP in the punks tokens, right?

These factionalized 16 crypto things. Well, that would be staking the comic and some of the people in that route, it wasn't even so much that they wanted the punks tokens, but they really wanted this physical. So there's the physical comic that will be shipped. Uh, and the fulfillment for that is going to start probably in early.

Um, so if you can state the comic, you can collect your physical and, you know, we hope that to be like a really cool collector's item. So I'd say staking and, you know, ownership over, uh, really everything as it pertains reward wise is, is directly going to you. Uh, that would be the comic route. Then you also recently had this opportunity to burn for the moon Dow.

And the moon Dow is, is sort of the same concept as the founders now, but applied to the game verse, right? So this is again, this like really loyal community of supporters who had to make this choice to burn a seven and a half east comic that they also were probably holding for quite some time. So we see the moon functioning in kind of like a similar.

Not necessarily governance because they're all equal, but kind of like, uh, having a really long-term perspective for the overall benefit of the game and the universe, um, that was the choice to burn the comic for the moon. And then each of these planetary Dow tokens, you know, you have direct exposure into the ultimate success of a gaming platform that we're trying to build together.

So, you know, you see products like sandbox, right? Uh, you see a lot of teasers. I, I think they're releasing soon, you know, not convoluted hopefully, but, um, ultimately all of those rewards flow back to sandbox and in a mocha, right. Um, here, what we're building together will actually flow back to the community.

So I think it's a really cool sort of technological and sociological experiment for the power of what web three can do, uh, Dow. Um, three NFTs, really trying to leverage all of these technologies in a way that I think is pretty clearly the direction for the future, but just doing it at kind of like this early stage in their development.

And then the medic heroes obviously are a really awesome way to actually be able to play in that game, but also participate in kind of like the comic ecosystem, given everything that we're doing there to, to develop the IP with, you know, traditional media partners, whether it be like a Netflix or a universal or, or whomever, we ended up deciding to partner with, um, you know, trying to get like an animated series.

That's, that's distributed more broadly to bring, you know, hopefully new people, not only into NFTs, but into the technology. Um, building value behind that IP. Uh, so that's kind of like the happy medium, I would say is the Medicare regenerative identities, because you get to participate in both the game, but also kind of the traditional IP path of the punks chronic well said, man.

And the game theory is what makes NMT so fun. So I'd love to hear how, you know, there's so much game theory here. Um, let's kind of switch a little bit, so, you know, let's talk a little bit about, you know, if you've been in the NFC space for a while, you've most likely heard of beanie, you know, so is anybody watching, how did your relationship with the beanie start and how's your relationship currently?

I know he is now an advisor to picks the vault. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, none of this would have been possible without him. I mean, I I've talked pretty publicly that I in crypto as of last November, so less than a year ago, I had 20. Right. Uh, and, and now we have like this very successful business. So I'm like really grateful that, that he saw the vision of what this could be.

Um, he put up something like $3 million in assets to make the founders now and all that collection of punks possible, which was really kind of the core of what the comic was. Right. We needed these fractionalized punks in order to sort of build this story, this decentralized Disney kind of project, um, and how we met, I mean, uh, in kind of like, I think he had just made a trade with prank C uh, on Twitter.

Like he had only like a hundred, 200 followers. Uh, and I messaged him the, the original interaction didn't go very well. Uh, you know, he was kind of a Dick and, but I stuck at it. Like, I thought that he knew some things and I was trying to learn at that point in time. Uh, and, you know, we sort of built a friendship, um, and then sports cheetah, Preston, another one of our original partners.

Um, he and I had had, uh, started to buy some NFTs together early this year. We had a crypto punk together. Uh, and then we decided we wanted to buy this, uh, this oiler beats. Oh, gee, I don't know if any of you are familiar with oiler beats, but um, really cool economic model. Uh, and you know, it's popped up here and there, we're actually planning to use some of that model, uh, with issue two and some of our collectible covers, but it was like this, this huge project that was kind of like the hot project of the moment.

Um, each of these OGs generated a royalty, right. And I think the first four days before they announced. Series two of enigma. Uh, we made like Tenny 70, 75, 8 in royalties, just off holding this NFT in, in four days. Um, so, uh, Preston and I decided that we wanted to buy this OJI from beanie beanie was selling it for a hundred eighth because he wanted to buy the LP one.

And, uh, it was my anniversary with my now fiance, then my girlfriend. And, um, we, so we're at dinner and beanie has decided, okay, like, he'll, he'll do this deal with Preston and I for a hundred eighth. Um, and like Preston's on a zoom with beanie I'm at dinner. Uh, for my anniversary, I have the email that I need to send to beanie my phone dies.

Uh, I'm like up at the, uh, Like the, the front desk, trying to get them to charge my phone and, and Preston and beanie are just like, you know, chatting on, on zoom. Uh, obviously trying to keep the deal alive because, you know, beanies, uh, beanie is a pretty tough negotiator at times. So he was like, all right, well, like if you can't do the deal, then like it's off, it's off.

Um, and so Preston was like keeping it alive and, uh, we ended up making the deal with him. Ultimately, I don't really know how, how that's turned out. At one point in time, we got an offer on that, whether it be for like 368th or something, we still hold it right now. But, uh, that was the start of the relationship really between, uh, Preston beanie and myself.

And it was during kind of those conversations that we, we started talking about this idea of building IP behind these crypto punks and, and that's how really we got his investment into the project. And the rest is this. Love it. That's always wild times. Yeah. Yeah. Love them or hate them. You know, Beanie's an awesome person to keep an eye on.

I always loved his thoughts. His tweets always keep me entertained and speaking. It's never boring. That's for sure. Speaking of tweets, he tweeted something earlier today, which we'll pull up on the screen right now. Uh, and that's going to lead me to my next question. Is your BGL D thing? Yes, exactly. So, well, yeah, so I, I had not spoken with him prior to him tweeting this.

So, you know, when, when blue had come out, um, you know, I, I think it's like a very fun community, right? Uh, there's a lot of like really positive people in the blue community and the BGL D thing. There was like a conversation that beanie and I had had about, okay. You know, maybe if, if blue holders or BGL D hold.

They had started to like come into the pixel vaults ecosystem and, you know, they were contributing a lot. So I thought, okay, you know, like let's find a way that maybe we can welcome them into the ecosystem and you'll see my tweet there. Um, and then the BGL D dev rubbed. Right. Uh, and that, that had nothing to do with beanie.

And I know he takes, he takes a lot of, uh SMACtalk. I don't know if this is a PG channel. Uh, but yeah. I mean, people talk a lot of trash to him on Twitter about BGL. And I know that he had nothing to do with that. Rugging, I mean, he still has like, I know 5 million tokens or something, but, uh, I don't know if we'll ever do anything with BGL GLD, you know, frankly, I don't really want to associate with BGL D because of that rug.

Um, but the bloop community, I, I liked, uh, I think there's good people in the blue community. So, you know, I would like to find a way for us to do something nice for them since I, you know, at that point in time when I said it, you know, I mean it, and I'm a man of my word. So, uh, I would like to find a way for us to do something for them since a lot of them have now become like really long time supporters of the project that I interact with a lot in discord and on Twitter.

So, you know, if we can find a way to do that in a way that's like true to pixel vault, you know, we're not going to be doing any sort of like weird blue type text, uh, stuff, but something true to rip, uh, where. We can somehow reward them and, and welcome them into the community. I'm all for it. But, you know, the thing would be GLD is, is unfortunate because I know a lot of people thought when it was high and then that dev rubbed like, like the entire, the entire reserve of Eve.

So, you know, it's, it's kind of a tough spot because I know he, he really cares about the people that sort of like followed his advice and, you know, granted, he says it's worthless, but you know, I, I know he really cares about the perception of the project and I know he wants to see it succeed. So, you know, if we can do something to, to, you know, work with that community in a way that's true to pixel vault, you know, I'm, I'm happy to do it, but I doubt it'll be through BGLB.

It would more likely be just like something in partnership with glutes. Um, But it would be something like that's like actually just like a pixel wall project that maybe we can reward blue folders with. Got it. Nice. So, yeah, we'll definitely keep our eyes on that. Um, you know, speaking of, you know, following, uh, how do you manage to discord?

You know, there's such a big following for the pixel community. Uh, you know, how often are you in the discord as well? Yeah, so, uh, I would say I'm pretty active in the discord granted, like the last few weeks, I, I haven't been able to interact a ton. Um, but I do, anytime people tag me, I do try to answer, but, uh, Podemus is, is our community manager.

He he's like a Saint he's in there all the time fighting the good fight, uh, dealing with the fighters. Um, So, you know, he leads a team of like really amazing, uh, community mods. We have too many to name right now, but I love you all. Uh, and yeah, I mean, I think that the, that the discord is like an amazing resource because the project is so complex and we do have so many different things happening at a given time that if you're not in the discord, I can see how people get lost, you know, so finding ways to improve our communication, you know, these weekly spaces, um, I was thinking of maybe having something on the website where it's kind of just like a running list of updates, because I mean, if some of these things, if you tweet it, I've seen beanie do it before.

And it was like 25 tweets long or something trying to explain what was happening. So I don't really think that's the way, but, you know, finding ways to have a running update on our website and through Twitter is important and, you know, definitely. Head into the discord. I mean, if you can get a founder's doubt token, I know the price is down right now.

I mean, I'm biased, but seems like a really good deal to me, the alpha and just that channel pays for itself. I mean, we have people that started with like one Ethan now have bought board apes and punks and stuff just off the basis of the different projects that they're flipping in, in the founders now channel.

So it's a really vibrant community and there, uh, love those people. I, I highly suggest getting in that channel if you can afford it. I agree. Love it. So one of the things we we've talked about, you know, in reference several times during this interview was a deal that pixel vault signed with w M E so that's something we're seeing more and more now in the NFT space we saw, uh, you know, crypto punk's parent company signed with UTA.

So I guess my first question here is, you know, uh, how soon will we see announcements on the TV and film side of things for monetization? You mentioned that things, you know, are you, you know, you're constantly talking, is that something that's going to be communicated, you know, through the founders discourt first?

Or will it be, you know, public information through press releases with these potential media partners? Yeah. So, um, I would say that that's really my primary focus right now is finding us a game development partner and a partner for developing the IP. Um, For example today I met with like a really amazing, uh, former top level executive at universal and Dreamworks.

And he's interested in coming on and sort of leading a team to, to actually develop the IP into an animated series, feature film, et cetera. So, you know, we're speaking with, uh, the who's who of, of Hollywood trying to develop a team, my personal background, I've worked in the entertainment space, but more of like support services, so communications, uh, financial tools, et cetera.

So I very much know what I don't know. And if we're going to be successful in developing this IP, I think we really need a seasoned, uh, production, executive producer type person. Um, so I'm actively taking meetings in that regard. And then shortly thereafter we'll be working with, um, I would be working with that person to try and find us, uh, a seasoned television or.

Uh, which has obviously different than a comic writer, but, um, you know, they're all going to need to be very much intertwined together. Right. So, uh, actively building out the creative team and, uh, yeah, I mean, I I'm, I couldn't be more thrilled with the conversations that are going on behind the scenes and, uh, you know, to all the flutters, like good luck, uh, cause I'm building.

So, uh, you know, I'll be here, rain or shine, uh, bear market bull market. Uh, it takes a while it's not going anywhere. So, uh, really, really excited for what the future is going to have love it. So, uh, you know, you mentioned your media background, so I'm guessing that w M E was not the only, uh, rap considered here.

What did that process look like? And maybe, you know, why was w M E picked over some of these other talent agencies for pixel. Yeah. So, uh, we took meetings with just about everyone. Um, uh, well I guess all of the large players, uh, in the agency space, we didn't speak to UTA, uh, who represent larval labs just because, you know, ultimately we're going to be developing kind of like a similar IP.

I really don't know what they're planning, but, um, we spoke with all the other major players and I wanted to get a sense for sort of their vision for the space. And, um, you know, I was also really impressed with CAA. I know they're doing a lot to, to build out kind of like an NFT division, but ultimately what really sort of differentiated WME for me.

Um, so Chris Jackman, he, he's kind of like, um, a leader in strategy for WME. Um, and first off to have like a CSO. Your call, your first meeting shows like some of the degree of, um, you know, seriousness with which they're taking your project. So, you know, having senior level executives on all of our initial calls was, was really impressive to me that they, they take the time and effort to do so.

And he's actually stayed like very highly engaged. So it's not just like a lip service that they're paying you off the bat, uh, too with WME. Um, you're not really just dealing with one agent you're dealing with subject matter expertise, uh, across a variety of verticals, right? So we have someone who is in like legacy publishing, whether that be comics, books, et cetera.

We have someone whose sole responsibility is television. We have film, we have, uh, like digital media. We have a gaming agent. You really have like a team of people that are going out and developing business for you. And, uh, while our team is now 18 people strong. I mean, having all of these people whose whose sole incentive is to develop business for you.

I mean, that's the only way they make money. They don't collect a check from us otherwise, uh, is really powerful. Right? So I think having subject matter experts makes a difference, but really sort of the key, uh, and touching again on this conversation with Chris, uh, in strategy for them, they don't look at pixel vaults as an NFT business, which I think pretty much everyone else.

Yes, NFTs are sort of the, the core of our business and what will allow us to differentiate ourselves from traditional media players. But ultimately we're an IP business leveraging kind of next generation technologies, right? We're still approaching IP in a way that is very similar to what these legacy institutions are doing, but we're doing it in a way that actually benefits the broader community, develops the IP for the benefit of all, uh, and sort of this collective mind, uh, of our community, all working together to develop this IP, I think is going to be tremendously disruptive to, to sort of like legacy institutions.

Um, I mean, you've seen, uh, Amazon and Netflix already disrupt what the traditional studios were doing. And I think this is the next logical progression of where that's going. And, uh, I, I touched on this a bit earlier. The, the opinions are different now, even in these legacy institutions, like nobody wants to be blockbuster, you know, they don't want to be disrupted again by the Netflix and Amazon of the world.

So people are taking our conversations very seriously. I think there's a lack of, of new IP. I mean, you know, the, the Harry potters and, um, you know, game of Thrones of the world have really been few and far between, uh, over the last, I'd say decade or two. I mean, Harry Potter now came out, I don't know, 25 years ago.

So you're seeing, um, a lot of, sort of repeat. You know, fast and the furious one to eight, 10, right? Exactly. I mean, they're cool. Like they're fun movies and $300 million movie is nothing to scoff at, but, um, there's a, there's a shortage of IP. And I think that you're going to see these traditional media players starting to look at the NFT space as kind of like these niche, but very strong and loyal communities where actual new IP is being developed, whether it be us or dates, et cetera.

Um, cool cats, you know, some of the other leaders in the space. I think, I think all of us are going to be successful in, in one way or another in developing and disrupting some of these traditional business. Awesome. You know, so one of the things we always try to do on here, we already got a ton of information from you.

Some updates on the timeline, you know, you're talking about taking meetings and all that different stuff, but I always try. So my question is, can you give the Benzinga audience one sneak peek detail about the Metta hero universe that hasn't been revealed anywhere yet?

Well, I mean, I would say that that was like a pretty big, uh, hint that I just dropped a minute ago. Right. Uh, bringing on, uh, an executive to, to develop this, this Medicare IP. It, uh, obviously it's going to tie to the pumps because it all works together, but you know, someone. Uh, sort of grew up under Steven Spielberg in the very early days of Dreamworks and his led like multi a hundred million dollar projects being interested in, in leading our IP.

I mean, if that's not bullish for our project and the space more broadly, I don't know what it is, but people see the value in what's being created here. And, uh, you know, this, this was the first, the first like big meeting, uh, bringing someone in house. But, uh, uh, I mean, I, I couldn't have been more impressed with that, with that call.

And I think it's really indicative of the direction that, um, you know, these conversations are going to go with WME. Making introductions across a variety of verticals tonight, I'm meeting with their gaming department. So, uh, yeah, really excited. But I think that if, if, if that meeting that I just spoke about is any indication of sort of the other people that we're talking to in, in traditional media to develop the project.

Like, you know, there, there are, are big household names that are, that are looking at, uh, developing the medical IP. So very, very bullish on the future. Perfect. We, we love the hints here. I love that. And the way you painted that too, you know, I just, you know, it's, it's so clear. I can see it in my head. Now we've seen a lot of, you know, YouTube and influencers take on movie roles to get more viewers.

I can totally see that happening with NFTs where, you know, the IP is going to be so important for, you know, to drive such a large audience. So, dude, I'm so excited for. Yeah. I mean, you know, as the IP succeeds in the broader media, obviously that returns value to the NFTs, but also we're definitely going to be finding creative ways to give exclusive content to NFTE holders, uh, you know, participation in events.

Uh, you know, there there's a whole host of different ways, but, uh, you know, focusing on, uh, driving kind of like the mainstream attention. While, uh, you know, making sure to reward that kind of like initial community of builders will be our focus moving love that. Uh, so between punks comic Mehta heroes and the planet sales, uh, pixel vault has done over 48,000 Ethereum in volume, top 12, all time on open seat with about over four with about over 5,000 unique holders.

Um, so what advice? Yeah. Secondary, what advice would you have for new projects launching today? Right. So in a market that's, you know, getting oversaturated, it's such a fast moving market, uh, what advice would you give to someone that wants to, you know, join that FTE community as a creator? Yeah, so, I mean, I first off, I think, you know, hearing those secondary numbers, I mean, I, I'm sure that stood out to groups like WME, right?

If you're in a legacy business and you're seeing how much more effectively things can be monetized in a web three environment, I mean, you'd be stupid not to pay attention in terms of. Uh, new projects, new collectors. I mean, I think everyone that, that has found the most success has brought something unique to the table, right.

While yeah, you can probably make like $3 million doing like a copy paste project that, you know, fades into oblivion in a few days, if you're doing something unique and actually dedicated and involved with your community and, and, you know, looking at things from like a long-term mindset, right. Again, I'll point to the cool cats and board apes.

Like I, I know for sure that those are teams of founders that like take the longterm success of their projects seriously. Uh, just like we do. So, you know, I think it's pretty clear, uh, when, when evaluating these projects, what, what people's intentions are. I mean, even if it's not a rug or something, even if the people like.

You know, well-intentioned and the founders are in chat. If really all they're doing is another, just like random PFP, you know what what's going to differentiate that long-term like, why is the market going to appreciate that project in one year, five years, 10 years. Right. So I think focusing on creators that are bringing something new and unique to the table, whether that be tech or, you know, vision for what can be done with the IP, uh, or even just have like a really unique community of supporters.

Um, I think that's sort of like the key, the key when evaluating new projects and what will, what will make successful teams moving into the future? Love that. So we've seen a picks of all cool cats, bore. Dave's a lot of these projects that started a couple months ago, you know, they've become blue chip. Do you have any projects that you like right now that are on their way there, or that are fairly new or that you've seen so far in the last couple weeks?

I don't mint a lot of projects these days. Um, I'm just like way, way too busy to even follow the mania. Um, but like, I've been following a handful of, uh, like photography projects. Um, so, uh, obviously twin planes was really awesome and now, you know, uh, Justin's kind of like blue chip, uh, Dave, uh Krogman I always mess up his last name would drive.

I mean, he, he, I didn't know it at the time, but he talked about how pixel vault and punks comic and like the weird mechanics were sort of inspiration for some of the things he was doing there. And then, uh, like where my vans go or whatever that guy that is just like taking pictures at like insane Heights and stuff.

Um, yeah. That's, I mean, those, those pictures make me nervous. So I think that you're going to see. A new crop of, oh, a cat simmered. I want to say her last name is, uh, with like sort of the outdoor landscape things. And she did like a really cool project. I don't know, a couple months ago where the winner would get to do some sort of like cool outdoor excursion with her.

So I, I think photography is going to be a thing that you're, you're seeing, uh, gain a lot of traction here. Um, you know, hopefully it's not just PFPs into oblivion, but I mean, again, it doing new things that inserts risk, right? Like if you could just do a copy paste PFP and make $3 million, like, like why do a comic that's going to sit there and nobody is going to get for five weeks, right?

Yeah. You have to have the vision. So again, you know, find founders that really believe in what they're doing and are doing something unique. I mean, yeah. Look at these photos. It's so. Uh, I, I was looking, I mean, it's already really expensive, so I kind of missed the boat. Um, but yeah, I heard, I heard some of his backstory, I think he's like former special ops or something.

Um, yeah, so he, and he's just climbing these things with, with like no harnesses, nothing. So, you know, more power to this guy. I, I hope, I hope he stays safe, but pretty cool collection of photos. I love that. Awesome. Well, G funk that did it for questions from myself and mass and some of our Benzing a team.

Uh, if you've got a couple minutes, we could try to rattle through some chat questions real quick. Um, I know we're already past three here, so only if you have time, um, we'll try to go fast here. So we had a question from Teresa. She said, well, the opportunity to win a core ever come up again, outside of the mint pack.

Oh, okay. No, uh, ever come up again. Yes. In November, the core giveaways will start again. Um, but no, you will need a med pass to get those cores. However, we do have kind of like a, another sort of core, like project coming up, that's tied to the planets. So, uh, you know, that's going to be something that the community can speculate about, but, uh, ODS and Chris are, are very much in the weeds there.

So that's going to be really cool and tied to the lore of the planets. There won't be as many, but a really cool set of characters. So yeah, finding new ways to reward collectors, but know that that original set of 146 cores is only going to be going to the mid pass holders, which I think there's like, I dunno, 4,000 or so.

Awesome. And then you, you mentioned snapshots before we did get a question from yogis in the chat. When will this, uh, pixel vault set snapshots be taken? So just any comment on maybe the timeline or how that will be communicated to everyone. Yeah. So we're going to be taking the planet snapshots for the sidekicks, uh, like the first week of November in terms of the sets.

So the, the sort of Genesis set being tied to the giveaway of the earth tokens. So again, that'll be like first week or so of November, and then kind of that, that like longer term sort of dangling carrot for the sets with the ultimate conversion, to a doubt, a public Dow for pixel vault itself. Uh, I mean, that's gonna take some time, you know, couldn't take a year, but the plan is for next year to formerly convert, to adapt.

And similar to what Sr did, where, you know, existing holders, people that have participated in the community to work, to reward those people. The PV Dao token will not be sold anywhere. So it's just going to go back to our original collectors and they'll have a stake in how the business is run. So, uh, really excited for, for that ultimate future.

Um, and that's sort of like the long-term benefit of these sets. Awesome. And then we have power the game currency. Uh, the question from Ben is will that be public or only available in the pixel vault ecosystem? Well, so, I mean, ultimately you'll be able to trade it like on, on sushi or whatnot. Um, but it's not a token that will ever be sold.

So, uh, it's, it's going to have a specific allocation to the identities. It will, there will be an allocation to the sidekicks, which will be also good, but not as good as the identities. Um, and then. Uh, the remaining tokens are going to flow to the uptown, which is sort of the governance mechanism for the gaming platform.

And that will decide, uh, based on a vote of the planets, um, how, and when they want to distribute the rest of those tokens, there will ultimately be a billion pound tokens. Um, and we'll be releasing more information here pretty soon, uh, because state game for, for the identities is going to start probably in the next two weeks.

Nice. So we have a question from Scott here who, uh, he's asking, you've mentioned, you know, the burnout being real and then another T world, uh, do you take personal days off? And if you do, how do you keep your mental health strong, you know, throughout these crazy times and then if T space? Yeah. Uh, unfortunately I, I, I mean, I've basically taken no days off.

I don't, I don't think there's ever been a day since this started, that I've unplugged. Uh, even, even the trip where I got engaged. I mean, I was like working that morning, so, you know, I try and find, uh, bits and pieces here and there where I can unplug for a few hours. I know beanie gives me, uh, a lot of grief over, you know, tweeting about sports, but, you know, even if I'm working right, if I'm watching sports, it gives me kind of like a little bit of a way to unplug.

And so I, I find that to be kind of like a useful mechanism to unplug, you know, get out, hit a bucket of golf balls, um, you know, exercise, you know, do you gotta do things to unplug, even if you're not going to unplug for extended periods of time, but that's it. I, I totally get that. You know, some people need to step away for, for more time than that.

And certainly I'm a. It feels like I've aged like 50 years in the last six months. But, um, yeah. I mean, finding some time in your day to unplug, I think is important, but I mean, with, with how fast this is growing, I, I really can't step away even for a day, so yeah, it's crazy. But they're trying to push through.

Yeah, no, I completely get it. Uh, definitely want to just get some movement and stuff. Some balance is always healthy, but yeah. Another question from Scott here. Yeah, exactly. Another question from Scott here is, uh, he's curious to know, has any of the team met in real life? Uh, you know, given that NFT communities largely exist on Twitter and discord?

Yeah. So. Preston, who again was, uh, was one of the founders of punks comic. Uh, he and I met on Twitter about, uh, 10 years ago. Uh, but then have since become like in real life friends, um, I have met some, like other members of the community in LA. We had like a meetup. I met, uh, Justin Arsano hunter, um, you know, Jacob, uh, the NFT attorney, like a big group of people, uh, in LA there's, there's actually like a pretty tight knit group of people there.

But for my, my pixel vault team, unfortunately we haven't had the opportunity to, to meet yet in person. Uh, I do have a ticket for NFT NYC and the virtual, not he, I got him a ticket as well. I don't have a flight or a place to stay yet, and I'm not a hundred percent sure I'm going to make it. But, uh, that would be, I guess, the first opportunity for me to meet anybody else.

The pixel wall team. I've had a lot of video chats with everybody on the team, but not, not face to face yet. Right. Uh, last question here from the chat. So if you had one choice, uh, you know, if you, if you had one comic, would you burn it for a moon Dow or hold the comic as a collector? That's really tough.

One comic. Um, I mean, I love the moon. I think it's an amazing token, but if I had just one comic, I would keep the one comic that's like,

yeah, we come with the hard getting questions here. So yeah, I mean, I think the moon Dal is going to be like immensely valuable for the development of the game. So if I had to, I would definitely burn one of them for the moon Dow, but since like ultimately everything in the ecosystem. All was kind of like birthed by that original punks comic.

I mean, I told you like my whole life was on the line, uh, with that comic. So it holds a special place in my heart. And, uh, I'm glad it worked out to say the least, gee Frank, before we let you go. Um, some of the discord was following along and we had to share this comment, uh, when G funk smiles, it makes me smile too.

You've got a lot of loyal fans out there. We also had a great comment in our chat here. Um, you know, as someone who talks about stocks, a lot, myself writing for Benzinga, we all know the name, Elan Musk, well, and someone compared you to the Elon Musk of NFTs. And I love that comparison. You know, I, I know you use the Willy Wonka one a lot, but I love the NFT.

Elon Musk being G funks. Yeah. I mean, I, I certainly have, uh, my, my hands in, in many different baskets like Ilum does, but I'm not going to pump those. So that's what that's, that's where the line is drawn. The line is drawn. No dope, no shit coins here. So, uh, awesome. Well, G funk, uh, we kept you longer than, you know, what we probably told you originally.

So we appreciate you going the extra time with us. We got through all our questions and then some, you know, as someone who again has been following the NFC community and you know, is fully invested and loves it. This was a great interview. We look up to you. Um, so we appreciate your time and we'd love to have you back on, you know, whenever there is new news and we get some more of that pixel vault, uh, ecosystem news pumping later this year, Any opportunity to come back out to that, that theme music I'm here.

Uh, maybe, maybe we'll make a new one. We'll have to, well, every time you come, we'll just have to add another song. So. Awesome. Well, thanks so much for joining us on the roadmap and we look forward to seeing you soon. Thank you. Awesome. Well, mass, I mean, we're, we're starting to run out of time here. We got the next show coming up at three 20.

So we have about seven minutes left. What do you think? Should we run through some news real quick? I mean, there's a lot to unpack from that interview too. I mean, uh, I loved it. I mean, G funk again is such a big voice in the NFT community. And this is someone whose you heard him say, right? Put everything in.

He pours his heart and soul into this project. And you know, that, that question we had about, you know, so many people looking for a short term NFT, right? They want immediate wins. When's my next mint. When's my next airdrop. What am I getting for immediate value? Pixel vault has delivered, but they have a long-term plan.

And I really liked that approach. And I think, you know, as we talk about NFTs, maybe not lasting forever, this is one where you look at and you say, this has got staying power. Absolutely. Well, first of all, shout out to G funk and a PV community. This has been probably one of my favorite interviews so far, uh, so much good info.

I'm probably, I'm probably going to replay it back and listen to it a couple more times. Uh, but yeah, exciting times, you know, so, uh, you know, seeing him just, you know, double down on the long-term growth of the project, it makes me bullish on entities. You know, they're not looking for short, you know, quick pump.

And I love seeing that. Yeah. And I mean that community, right. We saw it show up in the chat we had discords following along, watching this interview. I'd love that, you know, there, there is a lot of loyal fans out there and that's something, again, we talked about on our very first episode of the roadmap, right?

What do you look for in an NFT? You know, when you're looking to mint it or buy in you, Y you know, a project that has demand, but you also want a project that has that community, right? Because without the community, what happened. Yeah, it may take off, you know, pre reveal or post reveal, but then we see, you know, the floor drops out.

People leave the discord, they, you know, the interest goes away. I'd much rather be in one, you know, where maybe the floor isn't as high as it's been today, but it's got that lasting power in that community behind it. So I love, I love pixelated. And you want a great team running it. Right. So one thing I've realized is I'm not a big fan of anonymous teams so far as of late, just because of all the quick pump and dumps.

I do love seeing, you know, how G funk came out here. He showed himself, uh, you know, that makes me even more bullish on projects when people do that. Yeah. And talent representation matters. I mean, we talked about that with, you know, board apes, right. And, uh, crypto punks, both getting deals. Right. And now we have pixel vault, you know, signing a deal with w M E N S G funk said, he's got a media background.

So, I mean, it's not like he's new to media and getting into film and TV, but he was able to take these meetings with multiple talent agencies kind of pick, you know, Hey, and I love that comment about how, you know, w M E saw pixel ball, you know, maybe not as an NFT company, but as an IP company in an IP opportunity.

That's what, you know, he tried to build from the start and it shows now what that talent. Exactly. Absolutely. Chris, um, should we run through headlines? So we have time for that or, I mean, we can try real fast. We're probably not going to get to them all, but I mean, again, this interview was just so exciting.

So mass it's Tuesday. So last week's top 10. We always like to talk about the top 10 a little bit. Um, Axion infinity. I mean, uh, uh, you know, stop me if you've heard this one before Axion infinity was number one on crypto slam $120.8 million in sales volume, makeovers number two, cashew Kings three, crypto punks, mutant Katz, art blocks board eight yacht club NBA top shot came in eighth place.

That's the one I want to. $13.9 million in sales volume, up 135%. I mean, you heard G funk mentioned top shot, right? And we had the blue team on right. Hunter, Dylan Tropo. They all talked about how top shot was kind of, you know, one of the first projects that they got in. So they launched the, run it back 2005, 2006 pack series on Friday packs were $169 each.

I didn't get one because I didn't have a good enough spot in LA. But Dwayne Wade's Vince Carter, Tracy McGrady, Kevin Garnett, Shaquille O'Neal, Tim Duncan, Alan Iverson, Chris Paul. Those were some of the names available for the first time in these, you know, vintage packs, hard to believe that 2005 is considered vintage.

Um, but I mean the, the moment, I mean, Alan Iverson moments are going for $2,700, Dwayne Wade's for 2000. So again, if you are able to get one of those packs, I mean, you, you had a chance that a good profit and NBA season starts, uh, you know, this week. And, uh, I think, yeah, tonight, right. Top shot, I think is peaking again at the right time.

I mean, we saw that momentum fade in February, uh, or after February, but now it's starting to come back. Uh, what do you think exciting? You know, it's interesting to see how many people join the NFT community because of top shop, you know, like you said, any most guests we have on, we asked them, how did they get started?

It's through top shot, which is pretty cool. Awesome. Well, we talked about Coinbase the other day. What can you tell me about Coinbase NFTs mass? Yeah, so we'll probably be our last headline here at Coinbase now has over 2 million signed up. Uh, you know, so that's huge. We have the VP product of Coinbase. He tweeted out something here, which we'll pull up in a second, which he said, you know, it's open for all creators.

Uh, you know, creators and creativity can manifest from any place in the world. Uh, they're building an open marketplace where any creator will be able to join, create their profile, build the community and sell their NFCS. So they're really tackling that social aspect, right? Every NFT will be minted on chain.

Uh, from day one, you can take your NFT anywhere you want sell any NFT. If you already have your NFP minted someplace else, you can easily list them on Coinbase. I have T marketplace. If you prefer, you can also easily mint on Coinbase NFT. You can take then take those NFTs to any other marketplace of your choice and sell.

So if you prefer, there's no lock-in, which is cool. Uh, collectors will be able to buy an NFT using their preferred self custody wallet, you know, metal, bass, Coinbase, whatever, uh, or simply by signing where the custodian Combet Coinbase account, which is huge because then you just have your Coinbase account already there.

Uh, and then money will work too. So you can probably use, you know, fi up. So we'll see how that works. Uh, one interface for cross chain NFTs, we will start with the theorem chain and then our vision is to build single interface that allows collectors to buy any NFT from any chain that is big right there.

Yeah. There's a lot to unpack from that tweet, right? I mean this thread, I think the biggest points for me are, um, you know, that you can use your existing Coinbase account. Maybe rather than having a wallet also fee. And then the talk about the different coins. That's something I brought up when we first talked about this, you know, obviously we talk a lot about a theory based NFTs, but there's also, you know, Solana and other projects.

And I think, you know, if Coinbase integrates those, we may see those become more popular, um, down the road. Well, what do you take away from this Coinbase discussion mass? This is a big step towards mainstream adoption of NFTs. Yeah. Seeing how easy it's going to be for people that already have a Coinbase account, seeing how easy it's going to be for people that already have an open seat, you know, portfolio to transfer back and forth.

Uh, you know, just making it easy, I think is a key. And they're doing a great job at that, from what it seems. So I'm excited for that. Yeah. I mean, Coinbase is going to bring a ton of people to market. I mean, w we just talked about it mass, right? NBA, top shop brought a lot of people to market. And one of the things that top shot did right, was they used flow.

So you didn't have to worry about gas wars and also you could use your credit card. To purchase those packs. If Coinbase can do a similar approach, you're going to see new people, right. Get in. Cause you don't have to worry about wallets, a theory of gas, war, stuff like that. So maybe, you know, I mean, we're, we're still early, right?

We are going to make it. Coinbase is going to be a big event guys. We are out of time before we leave though mass, as I said at the start for anyone who doesn't follow Benzinga on Twitter, didn't see our posts. Hasn't read my article about this week's guest. Who do we have coming on? Thursday's show this week.

There's this episode's going to be one of my favorite. So far, we have the founder of our block, snow fro joining us. Uh, you know, this is going to be one of my favorite episodes. I'm a big art blogs fan. I have so many questions already. I want to ask. So make sure you guys tune in for that. It's going to be pretty good.

Yeah. I mean, talk about a big week, right? Pixel all an art block, same week. We've had some huge interviews before mass. I don't think we've ever had to as big in the same week though. Um, so if you're new out there, I mean, this, this is just the beginning, right? Make sure you come back to the roadmap on Thursday.

I mean, look at that squiggle there. Benzinga art, black squiggle there on the screen, but we're out of time, but coming up next, guys, we have at the close. So you're going to have Spencer and Joel talking about the top moving stocks of the day. If you are interested in stocks and then I'm excited mass at four o'clock.

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Hey everyone. Welcome to the roadmap. Benzingers new NFT show. The last few episodes we've had some great interviews. We've had the teams behind the Vogue collective robots dose, the dose pound only forest crypto. And the blue team, we've also done some NFTE giveaways and plan on doing those in the future.

So stay tuned for more great giveaways. We've got a great show today. Joining us. We'll have the co-founder of referable, and we'll also dive into the news and some current and upcoming drops and events to talk about, but without further ado, everyone, this is the.

All right. What's up everyone? Yeah. Welcome to the roadmap. Benzing us new NFT show. We currently air Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2:00 PM. Eastern time. We're working on getting more showtimes cause I know everyone on. Wants more NFT coverage. So if you guys would like fencing to add more NFT shows, go ahead and hit one in the chat and go ahead and smash that like as well.

So we can get started up. Let me go ahead and bring on my cohost mass mass. What's going on with. Yo what's going on, Chris? How you doing today, man? Doing great. I mean another exciting week, right? There's so much always going on in NFT lay on there's mints every day there's events, every day. There's, you know, uh, new NFT drops for existing products.

There's new roadmaps put out. There's just so much going on out there. Absolutely. Well, first of all, the shout out to the chat, I'm looking at it right now. It looks like we have some. Does he dragon, uh, owners in there. So shout out, you know, thumbs up really quick. Let's get the show going. Uh, so shout out to them.

We have some amazing headlines to get to today and yeah. Yeah. We're going to have to dive into dragons in a minute. Uh, it looks like that community is showing up in full force today, uh, mass it's Tuesday. So one of the first things we like to do is talk about the last week, right? So I want to talk about last week's top 10 in sales volume real quick.

No surprise Axion infinity and leading the way again for the third straight week sales of 109.0 million. Then we had crypto punks. Number two, art blocks. Number three, again, no big surprises. The big surprise was cup cats, right up cats coming in fourth place, 16.9 mil. Sales volume of 3300%. Um, that was the big gainer and then cool cats at five board apes at six mute Napes at seven and then the other big gainer, lazy lions that eighth lazy lions up 36%.

They did have a NFT drop that we'll talk about in a minute. So they did see some heavy volume from that. And then mass, I went and I looked past the top 10 and the other big surprise. Was NBA top shot. They had sales value of 6.8 million last week up 91.8%. Um, I think they were 14th place. So again, not in the top 10, but a nice increase.

That was a project we highlighted last week that it was gaining some more, uh, you know, steam getting back up and running. NBA, top shots forth all time with sales volume of 720 million. So nothing to sneeze at here. That's our top 10, uh, mass let's get into some, uh, recent mints and events. Uh, tell me about these galactic apes.

Yeah, so we had a stealth drop this weekend, galactic apes. They dropped no marketing. They shut down their discord. They didn't post anything on Twitter. Uh, they have a Genesis drop, which is around a hundred pieces. They launched before board apes. And I think the floor for those was around 15. I think it's definitely much higher now.

So there was some sort of substance there, but they dropped 10,000 pieces. I think it was it. What? Saturday night they sold. Yeah. Sold out in five minutes and then just the hype after that has been absolutely insane. I'm a big fan of the art. If you look at them, they're pretty cool. Um, yeah, so the floor is around one eighth right now.

And you know, there's some sort of gamification they're doing where you have to collect, you know, the apes, they have three different types of IOPS. They have gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees. You got to collect all three to play the game. Which we're going to see soon what they mean by that. But a lot of hype here.

Were you able to meet Chris or have you followed up with them? I followed this project. I wasn't able to mint. Um, the timing just didn't work out with that contract, but I mean that this artwork looks great. And I like the fact that there is three different classes, you know? Having that gamification, you know, wanting people to collect all three or have more than one ape, I think could provide, you know, some additional value.

Um, this is a project where, you know, it's one east now and I think the, the flipping's done. And I think this one could have, you know, some long-term lasting value. So I'm definitely looking at it, you know, as more of a long-term play here. Uh, I think the value is going to increase. Absolutely. Yeah. And then I know something big happened yesterday.

Do you want to tell us what that was? As far as we had a big slab? Ah, changes. Yeah. I mean, we always talk about celebrities on the show. Again, celebrities don't make or break a project, but when you get a big name to attach themselves to your project, especially if it's as well known as Shaquille O'Neal Shaq himself.

15.5 million followers on Twitter and he changed his profile picture to a creature creature world, a well-known, uh, NFT project and mass, no surprise here in the last 24 hours, creature sales $6.2 million. Number four in sales value on cryptos Liam and sales value of 1000. 144%. That is the shack of fact.

And this one's got some other big names in that too. I think Gary V owned some, um, you know, and some other big celebrities. So this isn't a first one. The floor price is 2.35. Now on these, um, I think it was a well under two before, more like closer to one. Um, I mean, and these sales just took off yesterday.

I mean, this is kind of a different one, right? We, we haven't seen as much artwork like this, so I, I like it. And Shaq didn't really make an announcement. Right. He just changed his profile picture so that there's a chance he could put out a tweet or say something about creature and that could, uh, bring even more value.

What do you think? Yeah, that's the crazy part, right? He didn't make an announcement. He didn't say anything. He just changed his profile. And that's it. And you know, and that's so crazy that that created this wave of FOMO, you know, big whales started buying after that and the price shot up. I forget what it was at before, but it's kind of substantially.

Um, so yeah, if he does shout out, we don't know if there's a collaboration. We don't know anything. We don't know if he's just a fan. If it was paid, we don't know anything at all. So it's going to be interesting to watch for the next couple of days. I liked the art, uh, creatures, you know, th I think it's different.

I think it's definitely blue chip material. So we'll see where that. Um, another big mint that happened yesterday. So it seems like we're in the cycle of cute profile pictures now. Right? So a lot of these cute profile picture NFTs. Going through the moon here. And we had a big one yesterday, winter bears.

Uh, were you able to meet those Chris? You know, I wasn't, I'm sad to say that I was actually on a call with a team member here at Benzinga. I saw the activity picking up and by the time I got off the phone, these things had already sold out gas was running crazy, but I mean, it shouldn't come as that big of a surprise, right.

Once people saw this, this cute profile that is, you know, the, the hot play right. And look at that. I mean, a 0.2 floor, I think it hit almost 0.3 yesterday. Um, you know, and these were cheap to mint, right? So this was a, a nice project for anyone who was able to, uh, to catch that move there. Exactly. And it seems like, you know what it is, it's a FOMO from cool cats, you know, these all kind of resemble or seem inspired by cool cats.

Cool cats at ten eight floor this weekend, there was a big celebration. It was trending on Twitter. So it's no surprise that people are priced out of that. They're trying to find, you know, projects that are cute, like this, and you know, can build community. So community is a big part. Plus the cute profile picture.

Definitely. So then the next project I'm scared to talk about. Cause the chat might start going crazy, but we have, we have dizzy dragons. So dizzy dragons, they announced an update to their roadmap. Right? We are the roadmap after all. That's one of the things we still look at, you know, on these projects. So I remember watching this project when it was like 0.0 3.04.

They did a fusion where you could merge together to have your dragons sweats, a deflationary project. Right? So there's 6,000 of them right now. The floor is 0.19, and they're actually still fusing through, uh, Thursday the 30th. So that's going to be the last day that you can fuse under the current road.

And then they announced that they're expanding that busy universe and lower with a new collection. So if you own a fuse dragon, you will get a free claim to the new collection. So right now, if you were to buy two dresses, Fuse them together. You're going to get a free mint on that next project, a mass, you know how much I like, you know, the, the roadmaps and I like buying into these projects where you get a new NFT out of owning.

I'm a big fan of that reward system. I think it provides good value. So here you have two things, right? You have deflationary, there's going to be less dragons out. To getting a new claim to me, that's a win-win. So, uh, I I've been looking at these dragons, hopefully I'm not driving the price up too much right now talking about them.

Cause, uh, this is what I, my watch list. What do you think mass? Yeah, so I'm a big fan of deflationary, uh, you know, roadmaps. I like to see less supply or just, you know, ways to reward early community members. And you know, we're still so early in that of T world that doing this, you know, as the projects take on, you know, as more people join.

There's less supply, more demand your award people, that huddles. So I love it. And I liked the art. It's pretty cool. Yeah. I'd love the art and it sounds like maybe we need to have the, the dizzy dragons team come on a future show and tell us more about the roadmap in this artwork. So if you're out there, hit us up on Twitter, let us know, and we, we can get Drizzy, uh, you know, with everyone on this.

Let's do it. Um, so speaking of, you know, drops, we have not, uh, not fungible bones. You've seen those Chris. I have, they were kind of cool look and right. Cause they were kind of unique. Um, you know, something I hadn't seen yet, um, you know, the skeleton. So we also have a bit of a Halloween theme and mass, these things got hot in a hurry.

This is a 10,000 NFT project. The floor is point to, um, you know, this was a cheaper project to begin with that people just said, no, I, I, this one might've been free. This one just shot up in a hurry. And it got a ton of attention. Exactly. And just, yeah, like you said, Halloween's coming up. This seems like a perfect Halloween, like huddle play.

Look at that 180 7 eat. That's crazy. Yeah, we might, we might have to do a show on, uh, some Halloween NFTs cause man, I I've been lucky. I I've been thinking, Hey, what's going to be the next, uh, NFTs that everyone, you know, circles around for, for Halloween. We're already seeing some move up. Uh, but I think there's a couple more that could be going.

So, uh, stay tuned for that. A future show here. Um, maths, we've got, uh, another. You know, well-known project, lazy lion. So lazy lions, the mint price was 0.05. They sold out in less than five hours. And these things, they recently dropped a bungalows, which were free for all holders minus the cost of gas. Um, and look at that floor price, the floor price to two on these now.

I mean, and you heard me say 0.05 to mint that I've seen lots of people with this. I'll picture, which again, that's part of the, that's part of the, you know, the big, uh, you know, bull case for NFTs, right? With some of these ones that are animals. They're cute. They do well as a PFP, as you want to see a lot of people that have them as their PFP.

Yes. I've seen a lot of lions out there and I think they look cool. Right? I mean, great artwork. You've got some different, uh, traits there. I mean, the, the cigarettes, the different hair color, you got hats on some, I mean, we got the beanie hat there and then the bungalows right there. I mean, that's kind of cool.

Right? Where's your lion going to live? You get a free mint of a bungalow for your, for your lion to, uh, to live at. So a nice reward again for the. Yeah, that's a great point, you know, and I've the lays line community. I see them everywhere. You know, like you said, profile pictures. I see so many of those on Twitter, on divert.

And to me, that's a strong sign of the community. So that's really cool to see.

Awesome. Well, I, I, I know we've got one that is on referable. Let's save that one for when we get into our interview. Mazza art blocks. We talked about it last week, right? The Cromey squiggles. Did you happen to see that there was another big sale for the Cromey squiggles? Yeah, there was a big sale. I think it was me crummy squiggle 4 6, 9, 7 for 945 Eve, which is around 2.8 million.

Uh, there's been big sales in the last week or so, which is interesting. Cause you know, art blocks has, you know, there was a slight dip in the last couple of weeks. So it's interesting to see, you know, the squiggles going for these all times. I mean, those things just continue to, you know, set records and, you know, $2.8 million for a crummy squiggle that that is insane.

And art blacks continues to do more and more drops a mass. How about alpha Betty? Right. We had alpha Betty team on not too long ago. And we saw that floor price rise over the past couple of days. We did see some well-known traders and discords, you know, circle around this, but also. Alpha Betty announced a Dow, right?

So current and future owners of alpha-beta will own part of the Betty Dow where they will get 2% of secondary sales. And then that Dow also owns 132. 29 coloring books, a mutant eight yacht club, five east and another one east in other NFTs. Uh, you can see some of them in that picture there, um, mass, I'm a big fan of the Dow, uh, component too.

So what do you think of this? Uh, alpha-beta news. Yeah, we liked the Betties and shout out to the team. We had them on a couple of weeks ago, such a great team, and to see them, you know, bring the doubt to life is pretty cool. Yeah. I mean, I love the work. I think it's a great longterm play. They've been around for some time in the NFT world.

So seeing them have a nice bounce back and trending again. And then mass, have you ever heard of these, uh, the, the bras, this is on rare trouble. Um, Alyssa, if we can get that artwork up, this is an interesting one, right? So we're going to talk to Alex from repairable and I hadn't heard of this project, but I recently found it.

I like the artwork. What do you, what do you think of that matters? I mean, these are kind of cool looking. Yeah, they are, uh, the bras. Let me see, I'm looking at them now. Let's see. Yeah, they're pretty cool. Yeah. So we're going to have to do more research in that, or maybe get this team, get this team on. I mean, I haven't seen anything, you know, exactly like this, which I'm always a fan of, you know, uniqueness, something different.

And again, you can find these on referable looks like they are auctioning off right now. Um, you know, so, uh, We do have an interview to get to. So I'm super excited. Uh, we get to talk to Alex niqab, the head of product, and co-founder from rare trouble. So in the south further ado, let's bring on Alex, Alex, welcome to the roadmap.

How are you doing? I'm doing great. Thank you guys for hearing me today. I'm so excited. Yeah, we're excited to hear more about referable. Of course, referable is a well-known NFT platform. Uh, but we want to dive into, to some of the specifics, but first off, Alex, can you just tell viewers who may not be familiar with referable?

You know, what is rare ball? Variable is all about creating, selling your own NFTs. So we started two years ago as the platform where anyone could create an MTS back then that was a luxury. Uh, every platform was closed out. To pass the B VIP, uh, invite system, get yourself verified, button variable, like everyone was able.

So it's like everyone welcome NFT marketplace. And we are really into the yellow and fun and playful stuff. I guess this, this part of, of the world, uh, being, being nice design UI UX is what excites us a lot in the NFC space. Perfect. Well, uh, you know, we talk a lot about big NFT projects, um, you know, celebrities or well-known projects that launched they mint strong secondary sales.

Can you tell us about some of the most successful projects that have launched on. Yeah, uh, Justin, this weekend, we had the large drop by . Uh, you can find it in the, uh, in the top collection section, uh, and the hot collection section, uh, they met 700,000, uh, just out of the five or 600. So that basically was like 30.

Is there item in the auction? Uh, you can see them all over the world is the famous boys collection, uh, all over the Twitter. Uh, like a lot of, a lot of guys in Twitter have that on their avatar. I think STANY from RV. The protocol, the defy protocol has one on his avatar, so pretty famous one. Uh, and also the previous ones, a big one, probably.

No. He ate a person who launched the nuts 10 K, but 8,888 K and T eight collection, uh, of his devils. So he is like long time variable user. He made several consecutive drops of a hundred, 150,000 doors, uh, over and over again with love him so much. I own one. Awesome. Well, we do know that there are, you know, uh, some other NFP platforms out there.

I won't name any, but Alex, can you tell us, you know, how is referable different than some of your competitors out? Yeah. So first of all, verbal was always really appealing to the creators. So we have an extended minting functionality. You can mint NFTs with images, gifs, MP3, MP4. She cannot unlock about content.

You can, you can check the arbitrary Royal. So like 50%, 30%, the way you want build that into your item and, uh, obviously customize your profile. So it of these was like, uh, get to the leaderboard. It always was about the creator himself. Follow a lot of social aspect on the platform and you have the whole following feed where only the items from the people who follow are displayed.

So we love this, this social aspect. Love that. So I have a question for you as far as target audience and customers a little bit more into it. Um, you know, so how do you guys go about finding your ideal customer or target audience as of now considering, you know, all those other NFT platforms are popping up and you guys have been around for a while, which is great.

Yeah. We've been around for awhile. Uh, I think our best, our best strategies to be in community. Uh, we are known as community owned and community operated platform. We launched a governance token a year ago, but that's another story, but basically, uh, it's just always be on the spotlight on Twitter. We do have a BD guy, guys that are on the lookout for everyone for big drops, the French Montana team, uh, recently, uh, Sold out there.

They're physical sneakers and there are some digital left. You can check those out. Um, Um, our, our target audience is basically the more consumer-based the more mainstream audience, biggest, uh, we design variable to be simple, to be easy to use and fun. And that's why we're looking for people who just want to do something fun for their audience.

So not to be like highly transactional, um, but more like cultural spectrum. Love that. And that's a great point. You actually talked about my next question, which was the governance token. So a variable has a governance governance token called Rory. Can you tell us a little bit more about that? Yeah. So we'll launch that.

Uh, again, we, we started as the most open platform and basically that was another step in becoming even more open. So we'll launch the governance token about a year ago in July, 2020. And that was a massive success. We were amongst the first like 10 projects that launched the liquidity, uh, mining, uh, Um, but, uh, defy projects in their case, like waging mining is like I supplied capital.

Uh, whereas in the NFT project, in the marketplace, uh, liquidity is the supply and demand on the marketplace. That's why. Rewarding suppliers and demanders and the marketplace. So basically buyers and sellers, and we distribute governance rights over the platform to the buyers and sellers that how you're you basically receive a cash back on every deal that you've made it where I's like from 5% to 20% on the G on the volume now, uh, at, at, at the time we started, that was a hundred percent.

So basically everything was for. So that's the process of progressive decentralization of the variable of the variable project. You earn the ownership over that, and there is the Dow. Uh, we recently launched a product called. Uh, which is basically all the tech behind terrible that allows you to spin up your own NFC project, your own NXT experience much more faster than if you build that ground up.

And the protocol is directly governed by the Dao completely built upon this open principles. Um, open-sourced community owned, uh, while, while bearable.com is just one of the apps on top of. So there is a buyer, but ACA system. And the very token is basically the key to that. Love that. So the goal of variable is to evolve into a full-on Dow then.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Full on down. It's already there. It's not in yet in its best, uh, governance forum. So, uh, we do have, we do have a signaling era right now, which is basically like a multi-six snapshot voting, which has gas lists. And it's early. If you want to participate in the variable Dougie like Jordan, it's a really, never been a better time to do that.

Let's go love that. Shout out now. Never a better time. We are gonna make it. Uh, Alex, uh, it was announced, uh, earlier this year when rarer BL uh, raised money that there was a partnership with dapper labs, the company behind NBA top shot. Can you give us an update on the, this partnership with dapper labs and what it means for referable?

Basically, it means wearable that the flow blockchain is the next blockchain we are going to adopt, uh, the work isn't. They have a development, uh, it takes a lot of thought process to understand how do we combine two blockchains on the same path for him because they have different wallets and we need to not confuse the user with like, where, where do I go to, to get an item?

And there is this, this. Big development under undergoing these days. Uh, I cannot yet say what they were going to launch, but it's, it's, it's basically a bit the next blockchain that we're going to and did that prolapse. Uh, absolutely amazing team. They have absolutely amazing blockchain. Um, now gas prices almost it's really chip, uh, really environmentally friendly.

Well, the team behind cryptic curious, aversely knew how to build a blockchain for NFTs in June referable raised money in a new funding round. Can you tell us, do you know why the decision to, to raise money then? And what will it go towards? Yeah. So it's been a really fruitful year for variable in, in just January, 2021.

Uh, we're braced, uh, as serious. See it from, from Coinbase ventures, going fund a and one K KX, all those, uh, all those amazing funds. And later, just like five months later, we raised another 14.2 million led by when rock and coin. So, uh, they, if it's basically the. The traction of the, of the market, uh, uh, which, which resulted in, in our understanding that we need to scale the platform.

We need to scale the team. We need to, to hire a lot of, a lot of new team members and, uh, well, That always investments always go to the team members, uh, because you, you need, you need to have a lot of people to integrate new blockchains, very simply integrated credit card support. So the Moto is best. It's like, um, we're, we're going to be the best platform for mainstream.

It's really easy to use supporting environmentally friendly blockchain. I'm going, multitasking, going to L tools, supporting credit cards, simplified log-in flow, all sorts of things like that are are for this. So at the time of that funding round, I saw an article that mentioned rare bull had $150 million in sales over an 18 month period.

Is there any, a revenue or user metrics and figures that you can share with us to, to update viewers? Yeah. So the tutorial sales, the total sales, which are, uh, sit at the level of 212 million doors, uh, it's, it's a crazy number. I never, I never have thought that we will get out, uh, that crazy in just a couple of years.

Uh, and with the 30 days, uh, numbers of, of, uh, 20 and 18 million over the past two, uh, respectfully. Um, so that's, that's pretty great. Um, again, where we're doing almost a million door per day, uh, in, in, in sales, um, and, and support a lot of creative. Perfect. So Alex, you know, we are an NFT show, but of course, Benzinga right where I am employed where a stock stock market news site.

So one of the questions I have to ask, you know, is, is referable considering an IPO? Is that in the long-term plans? And maybe how close is referable to getting there? Oh, yeah. Uh, it's a really great question. Uh, we have not thought about that yet properly because obviously we have a, we have a governance token.

We are moving towards a Dao. And in the same time we have a, a front-end app, which is a private company that can go public. Um, and basically the understanding of are we going public or are we going to full downside on with all the. It's unclear yet.

Absolutely. So I wanted to talk to you a little bit more. Can you tell us a little bit more about the new project? Uh, the protocol. Yeah. Uh, I'm, I'm, I'm really glad that you asked. So this have been, uh, the result of basically our six months of work. Well, actually of all the two years of work, biggest, what we did is we've taken out the infrastructure behind.

So the smart contracts for creating items, the smart contracts for selling and buying items, the smart contracts for royalties, uh, the tool, which is like 90% of all the code, uh, of the protocol. Tracks all the provenance, like what happened with each NFT when it was born to whom it was transferred when, and for how much that was sold, what the activity is, what are my NFT is what are the NFT insights and collection are?

So this is whole like trading infrastructure. Behind variable. We, we took that and separated that into a new project, which has variable protocol. So for everyone who wants to start their own NFT project, it, it became much easier. We basically spent two years developing. Uh, our own and we know how hard that is, and that's why we, we, we made that for the community.

So it's built on this open principles, open source community govern, as I mentioned. So we provide certain guarantees to the people right now. There is no, like, there is no open source indexing tool available on the market that supports all the NFTs out. So if you're building a wallet for example, and, uh, you want to show your, your customer, uh, what are the NFTs that belong to that particular wallet?

You need an indexing tool that will tell you like, yeah, we know you, you can just go to blockchain and quieter. That information is like spread say in across the whole blockchain and the really, really thin layer. And we aggregate that and provide that to the. So for all the developers that want to build their project, it's, it's an awesome set of infrastructure.

That's awesome, man. I love that. Can you tell us a little bit more about the revamped secondary trading? Thank you. Thank you for asking that too. So, uh, obviously in, in, in spite of this, uh, uh, 10 collections, PFP projects, uh, uh, craziness, that's going on. Uh, we, we went and revamped the whole, the whole experience of trading that collections on variable.

So, uh, basically it starts, if you're a collection owner, you can go to variable, you can find that collection, you can claim ownership over that. You can set up avatar, you can set up a cover image over that. You can set up a and multiple awards. So like, let's say I want to put the 1% or community treasury.

I want to put 0.5% to offset environmental impact of my collection. So set up multiple royalties and spread out the word about this collection to be traded on variable also were released the top collection section, which is now on top of the whole website, which shows you all the leader board of the.

The coolest collections and, uh, we track data not only on variable, but on the whole blockchain there. So if a collection originated like 20 million, somewhere on other marketplaces, we, we, we put that data into the leaderboard. So you can find the. Leaderboard of collections on variable, you can click and collection.

You can trade that collection. We, the filters by trades, uh, various types of filters, price low to high. Uh, you can now like soar this and get the floor pricing. I know that sounds basic, uh, for a lot of people. Uh, this is a available ranger at some other places, but we've been always, uh, about, we've been all this marketplace about creators, and sometimes I speak to people and they, oh, I never knew that you can trade secondary and variable at all.

So I decided that they want to unpack on that you can't trade secondary and variable, and that's been an awesome experience. Love that. Yeah. So the NMT space right now, I mean, has just gone completely parabolic in the last couple months. What can variable do or what is it doing or what's going to do to, you know, kind of establish its spot.

And then if T markets, you know, moving forward, Yeah. Uh, basically we stand really highly on this decentralized approach is really important. There is not many decentralized players out there. Protocol is a big play there, uh, on the marketplace layer. Uh, we are building a tool for the generator of art projects.

Uh, so if you want to launch in new collection, uh, and you don't have a technical team that would help you to code or. Uh, you can approach variable and we might help you to launch this. Uh, so this, this is a nice addition to the team, but, uh, overall, along along the lines, we want to be open. We want to be decentralized and we want to be fine, fun and joyful in approaching the market.

Uh, obviously going multi chain with all the new blockchains that popping up is the big part of our stress. Exactly. That's actually a great question. The salon or the car donno, any implementation of that? Any time. Uh, it's actually really interesting that you named this tool. I know Solano is hugely popular these days, just because everybody tried to scale blockchains by dividing them into shards by sharding and Solana said, no, we weren't going to do.

We're going to have one just really fast and strong blockchain, uh, that, that, that played out really well for them. Uh, so Salana is, uh, in, uh, in thoughts we haven't started that, but we are really looking over this Allana and for Cardona, uh, I think it's one of the most esoteric blockchains out there. Uh, it doesn't have a lot of.

The stays, they just really sparked contracts. So we haven't even approached that. The things we're looking on is flow, uh, teases polygon, uh, in polka dot. There is Moonbeam, uh, it's an EDM compatible power chain of polka dot. Uh, we're we're looking over those, uh, those changes. Awesome. Awesome. Well, Alex, I mean some great answers there.

One of the questions we always like to ask here, you know, we, we try not to, to shell too many projects, but we have to ask people when they come on, what are some of your favorite projects that you own, or that you've kind of followed along the story? Um, in. Uh, it's a, it's a really good question. So I think I cover it.

Some of them, uh, my, my, my probably all-time favorite is kid eight, uh, projects with DeVos. Uh, I really liked the aesthetics. It's like a bold and fun, uh, and, and the little, uh, and the little, uh, I don't, I don't have a correct for it. So. Yeah, the cure is I participated in auctions couple of times and never made it, uh, just because there was always a lot of guys who wanted that, uh, and, and were willing to fight better than me.

Uh, this, this has been like absolutely amazing. I love this. So, uh, as you can see, there is not many available in the secondary sales. Everybody has got them, put them for sale like 4,000 years. Um, but you might try to get some, to get some, uh, beats. Yeah, there they are on screen. Those those look great. Uh, we've talked about kid eight before we're looking to maybe have him on the show in the future.

Love this, uh, artwork and these style projects. So Alex, a great shout out. Uh, well, this was exciting, you know, I can honestly say, you know, I didn't know a ton about rare trouble, but now I think I'm up to speed. Um, I love the Dow component. Uh, I think that could be exciting for the future. So I'll be checking out referable later today.

Um, so again, Team joining us on the show. Alex, sail, niqab, the head of product and co-founder of referable. Alex. Thanks so much for taking time out of your busy schedule and joining us on the roadmap today. Thank you, Chris. And that's been exciting to be here. Awesome. We'll see you soon. Thanks Alex. All right guys, another exclusive interview here on the roadmap.

I mean, mass that's exciting, right? To hear about referable and NFT platform. One of my favorite things was that he said that the platform was built based on what the creators. All about people who want to mint and create NFT projects, they support the artists, they support the creators. Um, and then also that talk at the end, right.

About, you know, when you asked about, you know, Solana and some of these other platforms, I like the dapper labs integration coming soon, the flow blockchain. So some exciting times ahead. What do you think. Yeah. You know, variables interesting because like you said, it's for the creator. And that's actually, how I heard about wearable first was from an artist, you know, a very low key artists, you know, semi has worked through terrible, wanted me to check it out.

Uh, so it's interesting now that NFTs have blown up, you know, gone parabolic to see, you know, these competitors and seeing what they do to differentiate, you know, Their market share in that Ft world. So arable is one of those that has been around for a while, and I'm excited to see where they go with all the Dow and the token.

Definitely. Well, it looks like the chat loved the interview as well. And again, shout out to the dizzy dragons team for joining us today. Um, I also saw a fun comment from a lion owner saying maybe they should put their lion in their Disney dragon bungalow. Um, so maybe they own both projects out there.

Guys it's time. There's that comment there from Michael, uh, guys, it's time to talk about some upcoming items, right? So let's talk about some future. Let's talk about some reveals that we're going to get. So if you have projects out there, you want us to look at, um, you know, again, we're not here to shell, this is not financial advice, but we love looking at projects we know or don't know, and also seeing some of the artwork.

So mass I bought into a project yesterday called. Bastard penguins. Right? So bastard penguins. I got some of these and they are going to reveal two night at 8:00 PM Eastern time, I believe. Uh, are you in this project and what do you think about. Yeah, I'm into these as well. Um, you know, it's cute profile picture season, so it looks like, you know, all the cute profile pictures are mooning.

So definitely I mentioned a couple of these. I will be keeping up with the reveal. I do like how they look, you know, they're, they're pretty cute. They're pretty, uh, profile pic worthy. So yes, I will be tuning them for these. What are you hoping for any traits? Any specifics there? I like that beanie hat. The Spiderman looking one and a Bart Simpson looking one that I had my eye on, but again, and then also mass.

So yeah, go ahead and answer that. And then we gotta talk about their, uh, their giveaway. So what traits are you looking for? Like the power ranger, one man, one shirt. My kids love Powerade, dude. I would love that. Yeah. Speaking to the giveaway. Yeah. Tell us a little bit, a little bit more about that. Yeah. So, I mean, we've talked about projects, right?

That do you know giveaways? We had secret society, a whales talk, right where they gave away a board. So bastard penguins will be giving away some, some money, right? Cash, money to a couple of winners. And then also a Tesla. They are giving away a Tesla to one bastard penguin owner. They took their snapshot earlier today.

I believe so mass, you have the chance to win a Tesla just for getting one of these cute penguins. So fingers crossed. But if I, if I win that Tesla, I'm going to be pretty good. Exactly. Yeah. That's interesting to see that. Um, so is it, I'm curious to see if it's per wallet or if it's per, uh, ping when that you own it's one per penguin.

One entry per penguin is what I read in the discord. So we'll, we'll see if that ends up being true. Cause that gives me a more than one. A exactly. Interesting. And then, so we have, they are unveiling tonight and then we have the bears, right? Bears minted today. What were those called? The bear season bears.

Yeah. So we had a bear market bears. That's a fun name, right. And this was kind of cool artwork. And the thing that caught my eye mass, uh, this project didn't have a ton of followers on Twitter or in the discord, but then there were some articles circulated, right? That the artists of this project actually drew a comic for the new Yorker, a well-known magazine.

And his story is that he lost his cool cat. He had it stolen. So he modeled this project after the cool cats. Right. And you mentioned that earlier on the show, right? There's a lot of projects out there. A lot of FOMO people looking for the next cool cats. Right? So this project meant to today. And it didn't have a lot of steam at first, but then it blew up in a hurry.

Right. We saw gas hit, I think almost 400 as this thing started selling out towards the end. Um, I liked the artwork. I I'm curious to see, it sounds like the reveal is going to be in 24 hours. So I do own some of these, uh, this was 0.03, five to mint, and we're at a floor of 0.06. So a decent return right now.

If you got in on this one, Um, what do you think of this one? Mass? Yeah. So again, yeah, there are definitely remind me. I can tell they're inspired by cool cats, but actually, you know, they're inspired by cool cats, but they have their own unique style to them. It's not a complete rip off, which I like. I actually liked these a lot.

I like the T the computer one looks pretty cool. The gas masks one looks cool. One that, uh, they compared to a breaking bad. It was a breaking beer. They called it with the mass. So I like that. I mean, I'm a big fan of breaking bad. I watched that whole show. So to get a bear, you know, along that lines would be kind of cool.

So I own some of these and I'm excited, uh, another, uh, you know, mint that happened today. That again, started out slow. And then it sold out in a hurry and that's why, you know, sometimes it pays to be early. Uh, you know, if you have the time to be on Twitter, be in these discords, uh, it can pay off, uh, with getting in to some of these projects.

So we also have, uh, sub docs, right. Sub docs on September 30th. So that is Thursday. This week, they are dropping king from. So you will be able to claim, um, if you are a duck holder, there's also going to be a public sale. Um, so I, I kinda like this, right? You, you own a sub doc, you're going to get a frog, uh, that picture down below.

Um, and your claimed frogs inherit, inherit your duck traits. Mass. That's a question we've asked a lot of these teams, right? When we had on, you know, doge pound when we had on crypto dash. When they normally do these new NFTs, it's a random draw. Right? You don't get any traits from your existing one. Sub ducks is going to do it the other way.

You're going to get traits based on your current holding. Uh, I'm a fan of both ways. I don't know which way I prefer you have thoughts on this math. Yeah. Um, it's interesting. I think. Helps, you know, current holders and the other strategy is to bring in new holders, right? So it seems like this strategy is rewarding.

Current holders, a little bit more, uh, you know, that bought the rare ones that have been able to, you know, build the community. It's interesting. Cause sub ducks was one of the first projects. When I first got 10 FTEs, it was sub ducks and cool cats. Those were like, you know, below one eighth floor and it's crazy to see them grow so much so quick.

So I'm a big fan of them and what they're doing so far. So I will definitely try to snipe a couple of. And then right before the show started, or actually when the show started, we did have a drop mass that I was watt. Didn't get into tropical turtles. Did you hear of that one? Cheers out of this one yet, but they had a pretty big following on social media.

So I'm curious to see, um, if this one sold out and what kind of reaction it got. Um, I don't see a tweet from them that it did sell it. Um, 0.03, five per turtle. Um, but this was a project I was watching cause mass, I mean, it's got that cute factor. Right. And we know how well that does. Um, yeah, so it looks like it did not, uh, catch on as quick as people thought.

So it looks like a still in progress. So, um, anyone out there in the chat start trapping those projects in mass. Are there any other upcoming mints or events that you're watching that we didn't get to, to. Um, you know what it's interesting now because I've realized a lot of these projects that are successful, they're stealth drops, you know, they're, they're not marketed, they're not promoted anywhere.

They just happen at a random time. So no, there's nothing specific, but I feel like the way the most successful projects right now have been stealth drops. So I will keep my eye out for those, because there's just so many projects going around. What about, yeah. Yeah. You know, that's the biggest thing is that either the stealth drops or these ones, like the bears, right.

Where maybe it was on a calendar, but it wasn't on a big calendar. It wasn't widely circulated, but then it takes, you know, some different community artwork, seeing the roadmap, seeing the cute factor, right. To really get the momentum going. Um, you know, that's how I found out about. The bears today. Um, the bastard penguins, you know, I didn't see them on a big calendar.

It was just a, you know, finding it through the community. Right. Which we're all about, uh, shout out. Ruelle in the chat room L asking about dark horizon. I do not know this one, that artwork though, in that PFS. Looks pretty cool. Uh, so Ruelle saying I love the art I saw from it. Ruelle give us a, some more info maybe while we're looking up.

I'm guessing this one has not minted yet. Do we have a date of October? Okay. Mass. What do you think of that artwork? I mean, it looks, you know, similar to some projects, but I think it's a different enough. Yeah, definitely get into Oni, a Omni more five for this one. Um, you know, they're cool. I like them. I would look more into the roadmap and seeing the community.

I liked them a lot for sure that the color pops, I think the color with these are pop a little more to me, just looking at them for. Just outside point of view really quick. What do you think of? Yeah, yeah, Andrew, I'll say in, uh, October 10th is the mint date. So we're going to have to add that to the calendar.

Um, I'd like that, you know, we've got some time to do the research and look, um, I liked that color. I feel like those colors pop, especially the ones where like the face is purple and the moon behind is purple or green and green. You know what I mean? The color on the color. I kind of like. Yeah, exactly. And I think the question is, you know, what would make a good profile picture.

Right. And then if it's, yes, then it's most likely going to do well, you know? Yeah. I mean, that's the big thing, right? Or are we back to Oni and you know, some of the big artwork projects being profile pictures, or are we full in, on the cute factor season math? Another thing we didn't talk about, and I don't know if you saw this, um, I know someone shouted it out.

Discord. I wrote an article about it. Discord changed to where, if you are a nitro member. So if you pay the monthly fee of either 4 99 or 9 99, you can now change your discord profile picture in each individual discord, the. I did see that. And I think that's really awesome because we're involved in so many communities.

And I wonder if they did that strictly because of that. I think so that was the article I wrote mass was if, if you're big and NFT is right, so discord started, you know, it was heavy in the video game community. Then it was, you know, big for stock trading communities. And now. We know all too well, right?

That it is so big for NFTs building communities. So I think this is huge, right? Because you know, if I'm in a bunch of different discords, but I own a bunch of different NFTs. How do I pick which one I display across all the discords I'm in. Also, if you're trying to be a loyal member to a distance. But they see that your profile picture is a different NFT project.

I mean, I've had that happen, right? How does that look? But you can't just make it, you know, F you, do you want to be in more than one discord, so you can't just make it one profile. So now if you pay, which, I mean, I think it's worth it, right? Because you also get server boosts, you get unlimited discords. I mean, I know I've hit that right.

Where you hit a hundred discords and you can't add anymore, but to be able to change your profile picture, right. Why not show off the NFTs you bought. I mean, isn't that part of, you know, having that, that wallet with all these different MFTs is the value, the rise in growth and also the, the show off factor.

Exactly. No, that's awesome. Actually, one other thing I want to talk about, we didn't talk about, did you see Joe Rogan who was talking about apes in his last episode yesterday, he pulled up a picture of an ape and started talking. I didn't which, which eight he was talking about how board apps. Yeah. Yeah.

He was just kind of going to over the price and, you know, he was, he, uh, caught, you know, just screenshot at it type of thing. He wasn't really a big believer, which just shows us how early we are. You know, I still think public perception of NFTs are, you can just screenshot this or just, you know, a left click, right.

Click save. Uh, so it was interesting to see. Yeah. Uh, I'm seeing a comment here from Omar in the chat thoughts on hall of fame, goats, mass. I remember when these came out. Um, I don't know if you know these, but it is one of the artists behind board apes. Right. And he also recently launched the vampires. So well-known artists in the NFT community.

Um, I was surprised that these didn't really take off when they were launched. We have a floor right now. Point. Oh five. What do you, what do you think a goats? I think I also saw recently that they were working on an updated, a roadmap or maybe a fusion or a new something. I'm going to have to look at this, but what do you think of hall of fame?

Goats, funny story. Sorry, this was actually one of my first like couple of live, live mints. You know, this is one of my first live mints that I did when they launched back in July. Um, you know, the original roadmap was, I think they were going to do a festival or something like that. And I just think it got, they got lost with all the new hype coming on.

They kind of got slept on, but, you know, I liked the art, you know, I, I w I'm curious to see what the roadmap is. And the thing about these NFTs is we go through cycles, right? So these goats may end up pumping a week or a month or a year from now, who knows, considering the fact that board Dave's has become successful and they have ties to the artists.

That's. Yeah. I mean, definitely helps to have, you know, the artist of one of the biggest projects out there. Um, you know, the vampire one had a huge discord, a huge demand, right. Based on him being in the project. Uh, yeah, we're going to have to check out the roadmap of hall of fame, goat lodge. Um, cause there could be something there.

Um, well that is just going to about do it for our show today. Coming up after the roadmap Benzinga is premiering an education video on short selling. I know that's that evil phrase right in the stock market, short selling, but we're going to give you some education on short selling and why investors should maybe look at that new avenue mass.

We do not have a show on Thursday at 2:00 PM Eastern time because Benzinga is hosting a healthcare conference covering health care. But I'm thinking maybe when that health care conference and should we whip up at a live episode of the roadmap at like 5:00 PM Eastern time? What do you think? You think the community out there wants that?

Should we ask for some votes? Yeah, I'm curious to hear some votes. We'll ask community. Definitely. You're watching. And you want us to do a show later in the day on Thursday, thumbs up, leave us a comments. Um, you know, there's just so much going on in that empty world, Chris, that when you miss a day, it feels like you're missing so much content to talk about.

So yeah, I think the community will be down for it. Yeah. So guys smash the like and press one in the. Uh, see us Thursday at 5:00 PM. Eastern time. When the healthcare conference ends, you heard mass and I talk and headlines and some of these upcoming mints, right? I said Thursday, September 30th, a couple of times.

That's Thursday. If we don't do a show Thursday, you won't hear from us again until next week. So we're going to miss out on some stuff while it looks like there's a lion out there that wants to see us Thursday. So let us know, leave comments in the video. Um, after this airs as well and hit mass and I up on Twitter handles are there on the screen.

Also want to bring up our roadmap. Uh, Twitter, if I can find it here as well. Um, but, uh, another great show, right? Exciting times for NFTs. There it is at the roadmap BZ our, our Twitter account, and then also follow Mazza. And I, and let us know if you want to hear more from us on Thursday. Mass happy trading out there.

I know we'll be talking over the next couple of days and hopefully we will see the community on Thursday at 5:00 PM Eastern time. Absolutely. Yeah. We're always looking for new projects. I mean, me and Chris constantly talk every single day about new projects coming up. So if you know any, let us know on Twitter, uh, we're always on the search, so I'm excited and we will see you on Thursday.

Awesome. Bye everyone. Take care.

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Hey everyone. Welcome to the roadmap. Benzingers new NFT show. The last few episodes we've featured some great interviews and some great teams we've had on the Vogel collective robots dose, the dose pound only forest crypto dads and the team behind blue. We also did our first NFT giveaway stay tuned for future NFT giveaways.

We've got a great show today. We're going to have on young investor, we're going to be talking whales. We're also going to be running through headlines of the top NFT projects out there. Stay tuned. This is the road.

All right, guys. Welcome back to another great episode of the roadmap. Benzingers NFT show that airs Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2:00 PM. Eastern time looks like we're getting a lot of viewers on over from our last show. Let me go ahead and bring on my cohost mass mass. What's going on, buddy? Yo, yo, yo, what's up Chris?

How you doing? Doing great. Doing great. On another great episode, we've got, we had a great one on Tuesday with the team behind blue. We're going to talk about that a little bit later on recap that for anyone who missed, if anyone did miss that, I would encourage you to go back and find that episode. That was definitely a fun one that we've done a very fun conversation and also some great education.

But again, we'll get into that later. I do want to go ahead and bring on our guests. He is actually been on the show before we have a young, young investor joining us. He's here to talk again about some NFT projects that he loves and also give us some new news. Um, so I hope everyone out there is excited without further ado, young investor what's going on.

Hi. Of course we're, we're happy to have you back. You know, one of the projects that you talked about last time you were on was secret society of Wales and, you know, I'm seeing some big sales out there in whale land. What can you tell us about, you know, the recent activity in this project? Yeah. So what I'm seeing with Wells right now, so you've got a 0.1 floor and we had a guy called bus, you know, I've talked to him a few times actually.

And last night you went, I think he brought, I think it was almost a hundred. And then we've had a load, more sales off that loads, more expensive ones, you know, and they'd have their people started to jump. So, you know, the thing which I think has changed now is when you look at the sips that it was know it's been like this for a while.

Now, the floor now has a 0.1, but we're seeing, um, I think we just had a cell it's 9 3 8 8 4 1 9 0.28 eighth. Sorry. So you've got, say four 90 selling. You've got 0.1 floor. And we also had sales. I think it was, uh, I've got some hair, some semi we've got, we got 13. Brief, we've got loads of twos at a few bonds in last thought, their last 72 hours throwing out a project saying a Vera, you know, lot of traction on terms of the more expensive ones I personally listed to, um, to, you know, no one takes profits and also to roll in some floor Wells.

It's bought some before. I know I had one where I went for sell previous sweatshirt and was a few weeks ago that took about four days to sell these both within two hours right now, you know, they're not attraction, the amount of liquidity, which they've just gone to projects and. There's a 5% royalty, which we'll go into community bullet that will be for future giveaways and all that kind of stuff.

And the important thing to stress and I want to make clear now is we just had these, what we're doing. I didn't have elections for Wells. We brought a load of community members from not just being in the main chat, not just being in the cigar club, being at a private chat, the whole. That bringing in we've now got a guy called Julia I've talked to many, has for know, probably watched by now, shout out to Julian, you know, Julian's now taking over the Twitter.

He's got tons of cool ideas. We, you know, we've been screaming about it. Yeah. And they bring them those community members. Now it's not just about, you know, the main freeing or the founders, you know, especially big job. It's about the whole community, the whole community plan. Next step. We've also got some which we have the floor sweep.

So this be our second floor sweep. So the Wells will vote on four projects that were voted on two days ago. So the top four are now going into a final. And whichever is selected in most voted by the community on their discord server. And that project will mean that the Wells will go and spend funds that are up 10 to 15.

If the community wallet to bike a floor of a collection, these scripted dads, I think there's a few others. I think the lowest one right now with the floors at 0.2, five, they proved he did that for rumble. Kong's outside of that, really amazing. That really started kind of a thing between us, a rubber concierge kind of close Parship, you know, this is second floor suite for us, you know, there's tons of things coming up for this project.

That'd be buying a few at the moment. Yeah. I think I've got 28 Wells, 27 Wells. See, I'm pretty bullish on this project. Yeah, so young investors. So tell us a little bit more about how did you find this project and why do you love the project so much? Yeah. So this is a project, you know, this has been around for just over a month.

I'd say maybe a month and one week, two weeks now. And yes, it hasn't been out for long at all. I think it started on the August 15th. So we study started to rise up since then. I think the mic was at 0.05 and it went down to zero two. when I found out about this project and I was browsing NFT long years before I've gone, like super heavy set, left, easy a few weeks.

So I'm looking and looking for different projects. Here I go onto their desk scores and I start reading about Wells. I started doing research on them. I really like what I see upcoming. What was that? The ball lake drove where they gave away one board, eight S you know, that was a really big truck loads of people.

That project is a really fantastic move. In my opinion, we, I think they brought a about 25. If that board eight, you know, uh, about a few weeks back, that was a really smart move from community bullet. So you went out and tried to buy a hundred F you know, or a 35 F uh, maybe it's actually 15 ball eight, then they'll not to afford it.

You know, this one was, I think it will rarer once the ball later, I think it was worth around 150 to $200,000. A hundred percent had offers there's offer for 150,000. So very kind of interesting giveaway for them. So I went and I brought four floor whales at the time, so they selected five whales along with they get when they have other stuff as well.

And alongside that gear waist, they selected five whales. And to go to the final draw, one of mine, you know, Some kind of miracle, I guess you'd say, you know, got selective. So I traded that for 2028 whales. I've sold a few cents. I mean, I think I've sold around $1,000 worth today. I might roll that back into the floor, but actually I think it's a bit more than that, but 0.6, eith I sold today and I'm going to roll that back is for some other projects, maybe just put some in.

Something like, yeah. Some stable coins or something, you know, just do the research from that. But yeah, so obviously professional what we have, which happening, and that's really how I found the project, the discord, you know, it's one of the best discourse I've ever seen. I've been a few discos for, you know, people send me invites constantly, you know, the amount of invites I get from people.

It's kind of crazy at the moment I go to , you know, first you're greeted with is not always, I'll say the nicest, nicest person coming forward from the, obviously if you ask the question, this community is actually phenomenal, you know, incest as you come in and you can really ask any question you want, everyone's there to help you.

I mean, I've never really seen any kind of time playing that anyone's ever shut down some questions as a judgment frequent air travel. But people ask that as a question. So your let's see your view to theorem. You asked something about gas, you know, cause because gas supply for different projects, that was one before.

So for example, I think the question was if I buy something for $10, an eighth is gas the same, you know, people go out. So that's the item community also really stands out combined with the liquid received recently and the community they'll take care of project. I really didn't think this as a collection with big things.

Tell us more about the gold whales. You know, that was the tweet I saw with secret society had some recent sales of the gold whales there, and it looks like on open. See, there is a total of 49 whales that have the gold skin. Um, this is a pretty cool trait. Uh, have you owned any other gold ones or is that something you're looking at?

All I want to wave on say bad, Chris, but I'm going to get one. I'm going to get one. I promise you that I'm going to get what it said. Difficult to sell. If y'all sell a few, if I have to spin something off, I've got skin selling your firewall. I will go through Ella. I promise you at some point a Goldwell sorry, but yes.

So the gold Wells we've see extreme liquidity. And the third worst, I believe is the fifth, fifth of thirds. So for 9.28 east to bass sales, I think that the large saliva, the country 9.28, as you know, almost I think over 20,000, $30,000 for these Wells. And you're wherever that. So, yeah, we've had that large amount liquidity in the golds.

Tons of it snapped up recently. And especially, I think we've seen the floor now. I think lowest, last time I checked this may occasionally last hour or so, but the lyrics go well, well, I think it was 2.48. You could buy one for, and if that was sold, then it goes to up to 48th floor, if you want to buy one.

So right now, you know, go one to other rarer where the crib. As the French may say, yeah. You know, they go, well, is the kind of the thing to have, if you've got one, you know, they were amongst very, a small amount of club of the golden has been there. That is the thing, you know, many people Tonja, aren't going to get one to support, love it.

Young investor really quick. So for people watching, I mean, I know, uh, two questions. How old are you and how did you get in Tennessee? Totally. So 13 years old and you know, off the socks, you know, I've always had an interest in cryptocurrency. I have a small outlet queen. I got involved in Ethereum a few months ago.

This is probably six months ago. I think I had a point where these, I think my first major, I think, where I started spending that money, um, was when the grain and the multi-verse of Greg's came out. I took the bet and I brought about the mint quite subpoint freight. I sold it for. One quick one. I think it was around just, just over 40 hours later.

That was my first really successful flip. I've got a few projects, sits down, including Wells. I was really drawn to it. Just like. Once he probably trusts his socks and woven you always gonna look into cryptocurrency. I love what I saw. Um, I've been on a pump show before, if you don't who he is, you know, he's a big, big Bitcoin bull.

So I've spoken to a lot of crypto enthusiasts in space, your liners, you know, your people, he know who are the theories that quite have it all really see, I spoken to him all that really, you know, my channel, whether it's for Twitter, DMS, or had a few private calls and some people would be IB talking about.

See, I've really talked to tons of people from the crypto space. There are a lot of research myself and that's how I really got into it. Nice. Awesome. So you mentioned, you know, what secret society of Wales, the, the floor sweep on other projects. That's something that really interests me here. And you mentioned that there's, you know, four finalists.

So is it everyone who owns a whale you said, gets to vote in the discord then? Uh, what happens to those NFTs that are bought up by a secret society? Okay. So the four we currently have, which a selector, I think there was a 10 let's narrow down to the final four at four, which the community voted on that's crypted as a, some of them.

Um, CSS down to final force, a for sort of happiness push up on this, selected their community, but we will go spend 10, 15 F on that, on that one project. And then they will, they give away the goods they're brought to us to wear holders and see, you know, you've got to have your Weldy listed for that, I believe.

But yeah. So there'll be giving you a way to run the world. Yeah. So it's a kind of fun project. Really. There's lots of giveaways, lots of give back to the community and lots of people wanting to hold, you know, lots of incentivization. So yeah, I re I believe this was one of the many benefits of secret society of Wells.

I do believe, you know, as many more thoughts, as many more great things to come for this collection. Awesome. Well, Zach, it looks like they're loving you in the chat. I know you've got some loyal viewers that tonight. To hear from you. We also have some news that you teased on Twitter a little bit. Uh, are, are you ready to go ahead and make that big announcement here on Benzinga as the roadmap?

Go for it and use the floor. The floor is yours. Let's hear so in about two to three weeks as already be 31 out of the 80 drug, I'll be launching a project similar to be friends, but in my own way to Gary V if you don't know, he's one of these many people, investors, so many startups previous needs from those, I think you called the rags to riches people.

So we launch a project. We'll be friends, the friends, all hand drawn by have animals. And this will give you access to the column in 20 21, 20 22 and 2020. So the concept is big about what he's going to speak. And he's got a load of guests let's give exclusive holders only to attend. So I'm not sure my old project called Zack safari.

I was originally planned to do something different to animals, but I've been drawing. I feel like animals are something more people can relate to. And let's say, you know, different people and stuff like that. So just have decided to go animals, at least going to be honest from what a wide range of round the world, it's gonna be 80 of them altogether 500, or I think I'll go, I've already done about two to three dress.

Each for each one has seen a lot of efforts going to go into this. So each of these animals that shall be launching will give access to number on a private discord, you know, persuaded by. Uh, et cetera, et cetera. So in total the 80, which would be sort of 0.05, if they also, which I think they will last approximately Flores, I will be keeping lolly.

Obviously it would be financial advice for obvious reasons to be, I'll be taking Willie for that. For three, we left the community. The plan is to buy 20 of NFTs from another projects, other projects, and there might be two or three projects that you're going to get out. We're aiming what I may mean to be getting these as 0.03.

Floor and will we give away 20 of them? Uh, so I think that's approximately 0.6, eight or something like that altogether. So then with also the, I lost, we giving away possibly something like a cryptic that this is not set in stone in any way. I allocated approximately 1.3, two for one, and it which will also be given away to random.

So holidays are really poor people. When people buy it's a lot back to community, give a lot back to, you know, all the holders you do give ways, make it exciting. It's not just one of those projects where you know people on Twitter, you know, they go Photoshop their face onto it is abandoned. It goes to nothing.

This is gonna be a portrait. A lot of their fencing and all sorts of that, you know, that one will be selected to rabbit hole as that will be something where obviously more, you own a better trance. You will have a wedding that is I'm possibly looking at crypto dads at the moment. That's my preferred option.

And after all of that left over, there'll be money left in the community while. Which will then be allocated for planning to a $200 giveaways pop up to have holders and pay possibly a $100, one, two, and on the holders of hard to keep free of them for future giveaways. So, you know, not the holders, but yeah.

So the idea is give back, you know, plenty of your waste, plenty of things come in, you ethic coming in on my end, you'd ask me questions, you know, really. So those people need been supporting me for a while now. Yeah. It's going to be exciting in my opinion, it's not going to be one of those things that you know, is that not necessarily, that's just abandon it.

It's going to have a lot of effort go into any, I think it's going to really reward holders going into future. How many pieces are dropping and is there a way to get listed? I think that's what people want. Alright, so I'll be 80 dropping and he wants to be on the white list. I'm not going to do a traditional mint.

I'm just going to listen to the open sea by more than happy. About two hours before launch, she has a list of specific people. So he wants to be on the wait list. DME tells me how many you want and we'll work something out if you want to be on it before the rest of the crowd. And we'll we a whale NFT or my end.

See, that might be one of the more preferred places by some people

Those are going to go fast ban. Yeah. 80. That's a, that's a low number compared to some of the ones that we've seen. And you said, so is it going to be 80 different animals? 80 different animals. Everything is unique. One-on-ones all the ones that I've already dropped. 31 of them. I've been waking up at six every morning to do it.

Yeah. So, no, it's no school, no schoolwork right now. This is your homework is drawing NFT. Yeah,

man. I mean, the chat is loving it. Yeah, there there's, there's a lot of people in here that, that want in on this project already. Um, you talked about, you know, the private discord, um, you know, in some of the other benefits, uh, I liked the comparisons to V friends, Gary V I mean, that's a project we've followed a lot.

We've talked about. You know, where where's the inspiration, you know, obviously you followed the NFT space, but what really led to you wanting to, you know, create and manage your own NFT community. Yeah. Oh, I'm a big believer in, you know, I don't want to have any regrets, you know, three months down the line, if LSTs flopped, they flopped, let's say, you know, I don't have any regrets not going forward.

It's like, you know, not pushing this stuff, like, Hey prevention, a few months down the road, it'd be like, oh, I wish I did it. I wish I put the effort into it. I, you know, I wish I gave it a shot. So this discord is going to be for you. If you support me, you come on this, this will be, there'll be three free channels.

And if you want to, and you open the. You can use the club land bot, which when I saw a discord Stu how do you can come in? And in this private area, you'll be able to ask me any questions. I was very active in it has there. You had to remember Sarah 80 of us, you know, it's going to really be kind of wall-to-wall for me.

If we're going to be talking all the time, I'll be sharing my moods, sharing what I'm doing. And they were talking amongst each other about our trade moves. Whereas that may be other maybe. And if he's read that maybe stocks and we were talking a lot about that, there'll also be, I forgot to mention too, approximately one to two episodes per week.

This most likely be all audio only, or. Um, yeah, I think I'm going to be duke all your own yet starts easily. Two exclusive episodes for holder's week. I'll be talking about stocks, entities, whether it uses whatever's on my mind at the time set up your two exclusive episodes to the whole of the week. And this is all guaranteed five months.

Almost probably extend that five months is just by one guarantee. And also you're not going to guarantee anything forever for obvious reasons. CFO month start upright, extend it to then eight months after that, depending on, you know, how. Yeah, for some random reason, I changed complete interest, you know, which I found very doubtful that I've seen it as I've been doing this for over a year and a half now.

But yeah. So any event that's guaranteed five months, Hey, come and join us. You know, we'll most of this most likely be going on for a while and come and get that chance when that crypt to that or whatever that may be. Get that chance when there's 20 others in the giveaway, they come in talk, you know, I think it's going to be really exciting projects.

I think it's gonna be really cool if you wants to be on the white list, DME on discord or on Twitter or the twisters at investor to that is amazing, man, your Genesis piece. I mean you're 13. This seems like there's going to be a lot of demand, 80 pieces. So the best way to find out is to DM you on discord.

Twitter. Was there going to be a public. Uh, when they launch, or just talk to us a little bit more about. Yeah. So you can follow the Twitter for this specifically, which is at Zack safari. I've got the Twitter handle as well, which is great. For some reason, it wasn't really taken. So you can go follow me on there.

There'll be a weekly updates on that. I'll be doing a YouTube video on my channel, which will explain it all a much deeper, much further detailed in about a week. So, you know, we want to iron out. We want to get the 8,000 draw the most somehow drawn it begin uploading. And then if you do want to, I'll give you a B on the white list.

I'll give you a good three to five hours for everyone else. So DME, if you do want that, yeah. It's going to be really exciting and know I'm really pumped about. There's a question in the chat about the price. I just want to make sure I heard right. Point zero three was what you said for the price. Alright.

We're selling. Yeah. So it was somebody that 0.05. It's gonna be really cheap at the start. We may do five extras, which we'll be selling for 0.1 to 0.2, depending on these, we'll give you access to a monthly call with me or something like that. Yeah, we haven't, that's not sensitive. Yeah, we won't get out of alignment.

We want to go with them suddenly low and kind of sums of lectures. Everyone gets a chance, you know, you don't need to be someone with, you know, put five OLIF, you know, as that may be in your wallet, everyone gets a chance. Everyone gets a chance to participate. If you're there for. Oh, should he be able to get yours?

You're you're avoiding gas wars, just listing them correctly on open. See, I like that approach. So we definitely talk about gas, a lot on the show and all the gas wars and, you know, pricing people out of projects. So I like that approach here too. You know, I've been talking to a few people, plus wherever it's carried on the traditional med number one site, easier to listen to the open seat, you know?

You don't need, you have people in gasoline get specific ones that each project there's going to be. None of that it's gonna be first come first serve. If you want to be on that wait list, DME, and you can buy that. The forehands be at 0.05 each, maybe some 0.1, but I highly doubt it. So it'd be 80 all hundred by me.

And yeah, I'll be around approximately teach three weeks where we launched in that collection safari. I think it's gonna be really big and I'm really excited. Are there going to be any rarities of the pieces or is there, are they all going to be judged the same way? How are you doing that? That we're going to be judged to say way, you know, wherever, you know, for plenty Wells will be interested to you.

The whale, I think we'll be well, the, uh, regardless one of the railroad wants, obviously anything that I'm in, they may, it regarded as the railroad, but you know, all be judged. Say they're all gonna be hydro by me. Don't expect me to make something beautiful. Tons of art, you know, I'm not great at heart, but yeah, as much.

I mean, we've seen that we've seen the V friends. They're not exactly a, you know, Picasso's or anything. So, uh,

all right, well, we've got the Twitter handle up there for you, and also for that new project. Um, again, DM you either on Twitter or in discord are the easiest ways to get ahold of you and, you know, find out more and get, uh, you know, a white listed, uh, anything else, uh, you know, to share about this exciting project.

Yes, you know, that's about all, but, you know, I really do believe in a project which I make one, he felt free. It's going to go towards the community, you know, depending on our secondary sales liquidity, I do not expect a huge amount of staff myself as, as only be an 80 head. So I, prior to when we flipped over for the community, so you can plenty of giveaways, plenty of Eve you've wasted the hundred, 200, 300.

There's going to be plenty of tracks. I'm probably know where I saw the holes of a wind, something at some point, you know, I've already got a few deals on twists. I'll replying to everyone. We'll get you on the white list. Yeah. DML twists has to be on the white list. All the details of said it's kind of, uh, to really get to the core basics.

You know what we're doing? It's basically going to be access to a discord where we can talk. You can ask questions or post all my stock NFTs and buyers buy and sell alerts on obviously not financial. You're also get access to giveaways to start with. We give away 20 random projects, which I'll be selecting, which I like.

That'd be our average, approximately 0.0 free each breaches and FTS to be 20 giveaway. And it would all speak in a way, one with a max budget of 1.3, two dads or something else. So it's clearly distinct specialty. We're trying to give back to the holders. Yeah. That's gonna be plenty more things to come down the line.

I wouldn't worry about that.

Awesome mass. Any other questions for Zach here? Um, question about white lists. So it seems like the demand's going to be there, man. I mean, your first Genesis piece, 80 pieces, you know, everyone's going to want some of that. So how are you going to do white lists? If you get more than 80 DMS, is there any strategy or, or how?

Cause I know the demand is. You know, you're, you're a genius man. You're 13. You're killing it. Yeah. Look, you know, I do. I think there's a chance it might go over, but I think if you do get on the white list, I'm pretty sure you will get a guarantee spots, you know, coming to the army now.

If you're interested.

Oh man. Our viewers, our viewers getting a, a great exclusive here. So Zach, uh, you know, thanks again for coming on the show today. We'd love hearing about, you know, projects like. and also getting that exclusive and, uh, talking about Zack safari, NFT and exclusive here on the roadmap. Uh, Zach, we're definitely going to have you back on and look forward to hearing more about this project in the future.

Yep. You know, sex. I mean, it was always, I'll be getting, but everyone in the next day or two, see how we'll get everyone on the whitelist. She's interested. My twist is ask investors. It says a Dasha on that, or just look up young investor too, and I should pop up and you can also follow my empty collection, uh, exclusive Twitter account for that at Zack safari.

I've that's in my pin tweet anyway. So you can go see that if you want to also fill in that for, um, updates on like the, um, every few days. Yeah. 31. So, you know, we're very nearly there really give us about a week and you know, we'll be there and yeah, it's gonna be real excited. We gonna have, you know, looking forward to create such great community 0.05, no mint or low gas walls.

It's all gonna be less than open. So. Awesome. Well, we got to let you go. Cause we got to let you answer all those DMS you just got and also get to drawing those other animals. So Zach, thanks again for coming on the show and we'll talk to you soon.

Thank you. Awesome. All right, well, you guys heard it here on the roadmap. I'm going to leave that Twitter handle up there for a minute. Again, that SAC young investor. At investor underscore too. And then also the new NFT project at Zack's safari, Zack with an H a mass. I mean, we got the exclusive here on the roadmap.

Uh that's that's a cool project. I'm a little surprised only 80. Um, I think there's going to be some demand there, so, uh, we'll have to follow along with that. Absolutely. And young investor, dude, he's only 13 that always, you know, I'm still mind blown every time he comes on he's so well-spoken such a smart kid, uh, his Genesis piece, 80 pieces, man, if you can own that, that's a huddle for sure.

Yeah. I mean, look at the chat. Absolutely loves him. I'm reading through all these comments and also all the people that have already DMD him. Like you said, mass. I mean, I think maybe he gets 80 responses today. So if you're not watching our video live right now and you're watching it on replay, just to remind you.

This is why you watch the roadmap live at 2:00 PM Eastern time, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Cause you never know what information you're going to get on the show that could help you, you know, going forward. So, uh, you know, mass, uh, that was, that was a big one. Right? I don't know how to follow that up. Uh, but let's go ahead and get into some headlines and talk about.

Some items that have been announced in NFT land, things that are moving. So, uh, I'll start here. You know, we had the crypto dads team out not too long ago, right? That's a big project, widely followed. Uh, they teased for the first time, some pictures of crypto moms. So again, if you missed the show we heard from the team, every dad holder is going to get one mom that's one per wallet.

So no matter how many dads you own in a wallet, you only get one. But they teased artworks. So these are the first formats that they teach. Uh, I like 'em right. That they've got some unique, I mean, look at the curlers in the hair, in the bathroom. I mean, they've got some cool characteristics and again, I mean, mass, they told us on the show, right.

That these are going to be random, right? It's going to have no bearing over what dad characteristics you have. You're going to be able to mint a mom and it's going to be completely random. Uh, But they don't have a timeline set yet, no date, but the fact that they're showing off the artwork and saying that, you know, sneak peaks, I think this is a project to keep on watch.

Yeah, I'm going to be honest. I liked the moms a little bit more than that. It's just looking at these here, you know, they're cool. Um, yeah, the crypto dads team, they they're doing it right, man. They know how to market, they know how to build community and they know how to continue to bring value to holders.

So absolutely keep an eye on, on this one here for sure. Um, another big thing that hit this week was the board ape yacht club roadmap, 2.0, did you see that Chris? I did. I mean, we saw it briefly on Tuesday show, right. When we had the blue team on and you know, there's so much to take away from, from this picture.

Right. Because there's that picture? I mean, the roadmap, I feel like there's so many clues buried in there. That like, I can't even begin to think of all the things, but I mean, you have a, a real yacht, right? They're talking about doing a real yacht party. They're talking about building, you know, the Soho club of Miami for, for ape owners.

Um, there's also that picture there of a, a robot. Looking dog leg. And there's been some, uh, you know, speculation and rumors. Maybe we get some, uh, meal dogs coming soon. What do you think as you think that's a, a, a, a guarantee here? Is that just kind of a speculation? Um, it's a speculation, but I've been talking to a lot of board ape owners and they seem to all believe that they're coming fairly soon.

So something to keep our eye on as well. Um, dude, I love the roadmap. You know, there really are setting the standard of blue chips and you know, you can see this, the clubhouse, the yacht. I mean, I want to own an ape, you know, I just I'm just priced out, but I would definitely want to own an ape looking at this.

It's crazy. Yeah. And I was looking at the floor prices and the volume to see if this roadmap, you know, pumps a little bit more demand and it looks like board apes. Um, you know, in the top 10 for the last seven days, um, looks like the floor on a kind of club is three. And I think on apes, it was 37. So it doesn't look like we saw, you know, a ton of increased since the roadmap came out.

Um, but again, I mean, this is a high price project, so it's not like, you know, you're, you're gonna see the immediate reaction. Cause you know, you got to have some liquidity to get into a, you know, to get an ape, but. You talk about the blue chips. We talk about the big projects. I mean, board apes, I think this, this picture and this roadmap just goes to show that this is a project that has some lasting value.

Um, you know, and again, it's called roadmap 2.0, but I think there's more roadmaps coming in the future too. So, uh, exciting times. Absolutely. Awesome. Well, what do we got next? We have, oh, so dapper labs. I mean, this is a big one, right? So my first NFP project I got into was NBA top shot. Um, I think many people out there got exposure that way too.

So they announced a new raise, right? So they raised money, um, valuing the company. Let me put it up on screen. So dapper labs raised 250 million at a $7.6 billion valuation. So dapper labs, they make flow block chain, which powers NBA top shot. They also recently launched w NBA moments as well. They also just announced a deal with Liga, right?

One of the biggest soccer leagues in the world. So they're going to put out moments for Liga. They also have a deal with the UFC. So we're going to UFC moments in the future. Right. So, I mean, who wouldn't want to own, you know, a Conor McGregor, you know, rookie moment, right. And then also they have some Dr.

Seuss IP rights, so they can put out Dr. Seuss NFTs. I mean, this company, they've also got a plate. Some games, right? Some play to earn games that are coming out on the flow block chain. So, I mean, to me, this is a one-stop shop, right? They have, you know, NBA top shot, they have crypto kitties. They have some of these other projects, but they also own that blockchain that other companies are using to create NFTs on top of it.

So I think that's what brings some of the valuation here. And I also want to highlight. Uh, if you can put it up here, there was a tweet that the CEO of dapper labs put out on August 31st and he said, good news for NFTs. Everywhere is NBA top shot and dapper studios just getting warmed up. And in that tweet, there was a basketball emoji.

There was a soccer ball in motion. And there was a football emoji, so they already have NBA top shot. They just announced a deal with LA Liga. There's still a football in this side, this tweet, a mass. What do you think? Uh, I, I got to say, I think that's some foreshadowing that we're going to get some, uh, football NFTs from, from dapper labs.

Yeah. I mean, absolutely do. That's interesting. I'm excited for that. I can see that happening. Uh, my thing is, so where does college come into this? You know, do college sports and teams, do they start doing NFTs? What do you think? So some of the colleges have signed some smaller NFTE deals, but I think it gets real.

It's too hard for someone to grab all the teams. Right. And do the whole NCAA, because they all have like different like licensing partners, different, you know, brands, uh, marketing deals and stuff. So I feel like they're all just going to levitate to these like individual one school deals. I think there was actually the sec, I think did announced a D.

Um, for their entire conference, but like, as far as like, you know, big 10 schools here in Michigan, like I think they're just doing their own. Um, but I mean, that's huge now, right? With the name, image and likeness where college athletes can make money off of these NFTs and off of these brand deals. That's a great, great point here at MAs.

Uh, you know, also we've talked about, you know, NFL before where the NFL told players that they couldn't do individual NFTs, the teams could do individual, but some of the players have done their own and the way they work around it, right as they just don't have their, their team logo or the NFL logo in the NFT.

Right. They can put out an NFT of themselves. It's their they're themselves. They can't get black from doing that, but they can't advertise the NFL or the T. Yeah, which I think with that being said, I think the NFL has been working on a NFTE deal. And I wonder if it's been dapper all along. So, I mean, we'll get new soon, but I mean, uh, NBA top shot starting to get some more life.

Uh, you know, that project seemed like at peaked in February and then really felt like. But I I'm seeing prices start to go up interest in pack drops, go up. Uh, I've been heading over to top shot, doing a little bit of a, you know, looking around and stuff again for the first time in months. I'll be honest.

So, uh, I, I think this funding round by dapper, I mean, I, I, it's pretty exciting for that company. Love it. So moving forward here with the news. So if you miss Tuesday's episode, we had the bloop founders, hunter, Dillon and Tropo stop. Um, and it was a great episode overall, Chris, you know, they dropped a lot of gems, but speaking of top shop, they topped, they talked about top shop being the gateway, 10 of teas for them.

And you seem like that was a gateway for you. So, you know, what do you think about that? Yeah, I mean, I loved hearing from people who I respect in the NFT community and who are behind some of these big projects, say. Yeah, I got my start from top shot. Like, I mean, I think that's a perfect gateway, right? Uh, you can buy top shots with a, you know, a credit card or a debit card.

You don't have to mess with a wallet, a theory. Um, you can pay, you know, with USD, right. And you also, I mean, the moments are cool, right? It's a video highlight of an NBA moment. I mean, I love that as I collected cards as a kid. So to me, it's just like trading cards all over again. I think the thing that really didn't top shot and hunter and Dylan talked about this, right?

With supply and demand, they put out too many. Once the supply increased people didn't want to buy these packs anymore because the demand wasn't there and they weren't able to sell for profits anymore. And I saw that firsthand, right. You used to be able to get in line, buy a pack. And if you were one of the lucky people who got up.

You could flip those moments so fast and make a profit, or you could hold those moments. And during the season, you know, resell them for a better profit. So there were opportunities and now, I mean, it kind of fell off, but like I said, I think it's, it's getting some life back, but I really liked them talking about, you know, top shop being kind of a gateway.

And again, we give out, you know, some education on the show and talk about, you know, where people should start top shots. One of those places where if you're new to NSF, You don't own crypto, you don't have a wallet. Maybe take a look at top shot. Right. And see what the moments are all about. Uh, you know, as hunter said, you know, grab a notebook, write down some stats, write down some prices, do a little research, but I think top shots, a great way for people to get.

Absolutely not. It's gonna be interesting to see if the NFL does make a deal with top shot and just seeing the whole, it seems like the sports worlds and the NFT world seemed to be collabing a lot more than I anticipate. Yeah. And I mean, the other thing I really liked about Tuesday, right? We talked all about blue, right.

For a while, but we also talked just overall NFT market. Right. And their thoughts on, you know, are we early, you know, are we gonna make it right? That, that old phrase, we hear so much. And I really liked hearing again from people, you know, that I respect in the NFT community, you know, talking about being early and also they gave us some education mass.

Red flags and projects, what to look for, you know, betting on the horse or the jockey different approaches, you know, to NFTs getting into discourse first. Right? That's something we talk about, right? Join the discord. See if people are, you know, you heard Zach right. Young investors say that he loved the whales.

Because people could go in there, they could ask questions without getting shamed, right. They weren't getting yelled at, or, you know, called dumb for asking these questions. So again, if you're new to NFTs, find the discourse that welcome new people find, find the good communities out there. Uh, mass, what else did you take away?

You know, from this interview with these three grades. Absolutely. You know, and the thing I took away the most is that sometimes, you know, projects may be quiet, but it doesn't mean they're not working on anything. Right. A lot of times in the NFC world, they talked a lot about the roadmaps, right? And they don't like projects that have this, you know, perfect Polish roadmap, you know, it's selling you a false dream.

And I agree with them, you know, it's, we're still so early that a lot of these projects want to promise you everything and they don't deliver. I'd rather be with a project that, you know, build with you and, you know, they're working hard behind the scenes and they're building little by little and just working on the community aspect of things as well.

So I like that, you know, so many products offer you everything and we haven't seen anything be delivered yet. So always keep an eye for that. That's what I took from that. Yeah. I, you know, I love that, man. I definitely like that too. I mean, ultimately our show is called the roadmap. Most NFT projects have a roadmap, but again, You can put anything on paper, on the internet, right.

It doesn't mean it's going to be true. And also I kind of like the projects that, you know, uh, under promise and over deliver, right. Instead of the opposite, right? The, the worst thing you can do is promise the world and say, If we a hundred percent sell this out, you're going to get, you know, 15 free airdrops someone's gonna win, um, you know, a bunch of free Ethereum.

We're going to buy a board ape and someone's going to get that. And I mean, just all these different things, right. It's cool. When projects, do you know one or two different things at a time, but once you start, you know, listing unrealistic things, I mean, I know there was, and I'm not going to name names and I don't even remember, but there was one project I know.

Uh, w we mentioned and talked about it in a different discord, uh, where it was like they were going to give away a theory. Um, it's a, you know, every holder and all this, and once you started doing the math, it was like, wait a minute. There's not enough Ethereum to give everyone this a theory of how are they going to do this?

And as soon as you start to question something like that, and it's too good to be true. It probably is too good to be true. So, uh, I definitely love that advice. So a great interview again, if you guys miss that, that was our show on Tuesday with the team behind blue. But again, we didn't just talk blue. I mean, we had a fun time talking about blue.

Don't get me wrong. That was some fun conversation, some fun keywords, but, uh, we also talked just over. NFTs. And then also talked, you know, about, um, there start with, uh, NBA top shot. So a math, one of the upcoming NFTs that we've talked about. Uh, I think we mentioned it before on the show we have, uh, makeovers, right?

So this is a hyped hyped project. Uh, no release state that I know of yet, they still haven't decided a hundred percent on, you know, white list or not they're discussing. Over a hundred thousand members. It hit on Tuesday and mass. This isn't even a 10,000 project. They're missing 8,888. I mean, I'm pretty good at math, a hundred thousand people, 8,888.

MCAS. Those numbers don't add up. What's going to happen here. So this drop is probably the most anticipated drop that I've seen since I've been in NFTE. Um, their discord is absolutely insane. So I, it seems like the team is trying to find a fair way to do this. I've seen them talk about raffles, you know, maybe raffling out, you know, doing not gonna, they're not going to do a complete, like normal drop cause gas would probably be like a million, you know?

So how is it fair? Cause people are gonna want this. Um, so I think they're doing a raffle sometime at beginning of October, I believe. But yeah, man, if you get one of these, you have essentially. Gold, you know this, I mean, they're awesome. Just look at the artwork. It's absolutely insane. Yeah. I mean that, that artwork is what drew me into the project.

And I, I don't even remember how many members were in the discord when I joined mass, but I feel like, I feel like it was early and there was already over 10,000. I mean, that's how I knew this project. Like when people first started mentioning it or I first heard of it, there was already over 10,000, I think, in the discord.

So I wasn't even that early as I would have liked to be, but I think definitely they need to come up with a way to do this a raffle, or I love the. Eh, that looked kind of Lego Ash. Right? They've got some Lego ones. I love that. I mean, a kid who grew up playing Legos, my kids all play Legos. I think that looks awesome.

Um, the colors on these really pop too. Yeah. There's that? There's the Lego right there. That's the one I want. I'm not going to be able to afford it. I'm sure. But if for some reason I'm able to get a maca and I was able to get this. I mean, that is the one. But I just think it is the coolest one in this slide.

Uh, I, I mean, mass w w the sevens Oni , uh, what other projects? I mean, had huge gas. I mean, I can't even think of what this would compare to those other, those other. And this would be the next level. This would be absolutely next level. So I think they've realized that and you know, again, hopefully I last, I heard they're doing a raffle, which each person commit to, so that means, you know, yeah, 4,000 ish people get one, maybe flip one in secondary and hold one.

But yeah, this will be one to watch and I can't wait to come back and report on what we see. And I sh I'm sure we'll both try to get in on the raffle if there is one. But yeah, this is the drop to, to see if you are an NFC. This is one to watch or at least try to get into. Absolutely awesome. Well, Matt, as you were telling me, before the show started about art blocks, I know art blacks is a project that you are pretty passionate about.

You've owned some of these art blocks. We had a huge sale, I mean, and I can't even believe that this sale that you were telling me about mass. So go ahead. Give our viewers the details on this recent art black sale. So first of all, it seems like a lot of empty space, the space as a whole, they just want to buy and flip right away.

Right? So this is a perfect example of why, you know, sometimes you may not want to flip something right away. So this person bought art blocks. He bought it for 0.2, five Eve, which was around $1,233. He's sold it for 922.5 E, which is around 2 million, $976,000. So he held this piece for eight months and one day.

And he profited $2,745,000. So think of how hard it must've been to not sell this piece when it 10 X, 15 X, 50 X, you know, diamond hands. So this just shows us, you know, 6, 7, 8 months from now, there may be some pieces that we may have flipped that if we held onto could bring the same amount of returns.

So always know what you hold, do some reasons. You know, this piece is awesome. I own a squiggle myself and I did not plan on selling it anytime soon, but through this is awesome. Yeah. I mean, man, there's a lot to unpack there. Right? Cause we, we talk all the time, you know, about having liquidity. And one of the things about having liquidity is that sometimes you have to sell, uh, and I also encourage taking profits, right?

I'm a big firm believer in that coming from stock market, you know, where it's okay to take some profits. So I feel like the. The only happy medium here is if you have the money is to buy more than one of a project. Right. And then as it runs up, you know, you maybe sell one and keep one. But even that, I mean, if you sold one of these and kept one, you'd still be missing out on a lot of money, but I feel like at least maybe then you took profits and you still own.

I mean, what's the strategy here, mass? How do you, how do you play both sides of being liquid and also holding on to the pieces? I mean, are you just trying to figure out what you think blue chips are and hold those? Or are you trying to hold a little bit of everything just in case? Yeah. At the end of the day profits profit, right?

Whether you 10 X, two X doesn't matter, you may profit, which is. Um, I think it just comes down to doing your research and if you really believe in a project, right. And project like art blocks, this was the first drop the squiggle, uh, you know, it's an iconic piece. So, you know, sometimes things like that.

You may want to hold and maybe risk losing some liquidity for, but if there's a lot of uncertainty on projects and things that you're sure you should take profit, but absolutely like you said, if you can buy two or three of a piece and take profits along the way, I think that would be a lot more. Easy on the mind then, you know, selling and looking back, you know, and potentially missing on gains, but still profits profit.

Right. Definitely. I mean, that's, that's a big sale, uh, out there though. Mass, a great piece of content there. I want to talk about doge pound. We had the ghost town team on the show twice and mass. I don't know if you saw this tweet, but they put out a tweet talking about their launch pad. And one of the things that they're doing is that they are, um, uh, I forgot where that picture is.

Uh, they're giving early after. To some new projects and some other mint. So essentially if you own a dose pound, you will get early access to several other NFT products. And that's a trend we're starting to see more and more mass. I mean, V friends is doing it. I think you said AA is doing it. We're seeing a lot of these widely followed big community projects, trying to offer something, you know, for their holders.

And one of the ways, instead of doing their own, airdrops their own new projects. You find other projects and kind of partner with them and essentially grant your holders. Some white. Capabilities here. What do you take away from this mass? I mean, is this a new trend here to stay for these well, yeah, first of all, shout out to the doge pound family community.

They're awesome. You know, they seem to always be leading the way as far as, you know, any CS go. So seeing them do this as huge. Yeah. The friends kind of set that trend where, you know, it's almost like membership access to drops and I love that. I think this is something that offers more value, more utilities.

It seems like the utility NFTs have done well so far in the last couple of weeks when we've had a slight, you know, a downtrend in NFTs. So utility aspect of this is huge. You know, now I own a doge pound, not just because I liked the art, not just because I liked the dogs, I own it because it brings me extra value by holding.

I'm not going to flip it because I hold more value holding this than I would flipping it. So it's an interesting, uh, move. I think it's here to stay. I think only certain projects will succeed at this because only certain projects will have the leverage to do this though. Yeah. I mean, I think that's the key, right?

Is like, if you're a new NFT project, you want to be able to offer your own community, your discord, something, but also to gain interest, you could partner with someone like the dos pound here and give that early white list. You got to balance it, right? Because you want to make sure you've got enough for a presale for your community, a presale for a different community and also for a public sale.

I mean, that's how some of these projects, you, you know, you you're successful or not. It's based on that interest in the public sales. So I like it, it makes me even more bullish on dose pound, which, I mean, I already loved the dose pound. Um, But I think getting that access to other projects, I mean, that's, that's an underrated catalyst.

You can't really put a price on that. Right. So if you own a dovish pound for a, you know, 0.9, eith, are you paying 0.9, ease for the dose? Are you paying it for that early access? Are you comboing and getting, you know, the best of both worlds? I think it's the best of both worlds. Exactly and that's cool too.

Cause you can just pick up one at the floor and still get the same access as someone that owns like the rarest one too. So I'm curious to see how that happens with the value of these pieces to yeah. Awesome mass, any other, uh, you know, projects or mints or anything out there, you know, that you have been watching or are watching, uh, you know, coming up.

I know there is broadcasters they're unveiling today at 5:00 PM. I know. Do you have any other. I do. So I bought two broadcasters, uh, from the pre mint, um, not myself, but from open, see the secondary. Um, and then they were supposed to unveil yesterday and they did a 24 hour delay mass, which I'm not a huge fan of.

But I'm, I'm holding them. And at five o'clock today, hopefully we get the unveil. I mean, I liked the artwork I'd like to this project. Uh, but again, this is a smaller one. I only own two. Um, but we'll see what happens. So, uh, yeah, absolutely time magazine did a drop earlier today and they're doing an unveil later today.

So that's interesting because they're big, uh, you know, they're a big community and it's interesting to see them get into this space. Yeah. I mean, time has been all over this, right. And the one of the leaders at time as bullish on NFTs. And I think that really helps. I mean, we talked about that recently with draft Kings, right?

The, the co-founder of draft Kings. He owns an ape he's bullish on NFTs. So what happened. Draft Kings becomes bullish on NFTs. They buy a crypto punk, they buy a board ape. They give them away as prizes. You know, when these big companies get into NFTs, I mean, look at like Anheuser Busch, right? They bought an NFT.

Visa right. Visa buying a crypto punk. So yeah, time magazine launched some NFTs earlier. I mean, huge gas wars, huge secondary sales. They also have that partnership with cool cat. So, I mean, they are pretty bullish here on NFTs. And I think, you know, again, magazines kind of went away. Everything shifted to digital and I mean, talk about a way to keep your brand relevant and going to capture on this NFT trend.

So I think time's doing the right thing. Absolutely. This could be a huge catalyst to bring the next wave of NFT, you know, consumers. So it's exciting to see this. I can't wait to see how this plays out. Yeah. Well, mass, after our show ends in a couple minutes, we actually have a premiere coming up here on Benzinga and it's NFT related.

I, I don't know if you have seen this mass. I saw this Tik TOK that Benzinga put out. We actually did interviews with people on the street, in Detroit, not myself, but some of my teammates. And they actually talked to people about NFTs, including those popular rocks that were sold for millions of dollars.

Right. So, uh, let's go ahead. Let's play a brief trailer on what people are in for at three o'clock with our full premiere episodes. Let's do it. I'm a rock. So this isn't NFT right here. How much do you think this sold for $10,000, higher, 30,000 higher, a hundred thousand higher, 700,000 higher, 1.3 million.

What did he say for a picture of a rock for a picture of a rock? Just a picture of a rock.

Uh, mass, what do you, what do you think? I mean, uh, crypto rocks, uh, they had some big sales and I, you know, I, I love it and I hate it right. Because I love it, that it brings attention to NFTs, but also I hate it because I feel like it makes people just hate NFTs and think they're a waste of money and have no value.

So, uh, you know, I'm excited to watch this episode though and hear what people have to say about NFTs, uh, you know, Who maybe don't know anything about. Exactly. This is premiering on YouTube or Tik TOK or both on YouTube. So right after our show ends, don't go anywhere, guys. It's going to redirect and it's going to be our premier of Benzinga.

Again, it's just a 30 minute episode of us interviewing people on the street, including asking about NFTs. Mass. We're going to get kicked out of here in a minute. Uh, we'll be back next week, Tuesday and Thursday with shows at 2:00 PM Eastern time. I know we've got some interviews. Uh, we've got some exciting things coming for the show, right?

So, uh, I, I mean, I hope everyone is enjoying our NFT content. Again, press one in the chat. If you want more NFT content from Benzinga and also please subscribe to the channel and smash that. Absolutely. So woman, some stuff through the weekend and come back on Tuesday of reports. So we'll see you guys then.

Yeah. Hopefully we've got some pictures to show off of some new NFTs mass, so great, great teas there. So we will be back, but again, guys, don't go anywhere. We have that premiere coming up next, uh, take care of everyone and we will see you next week. See.

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