Base Layer will be providing insights from founders and investors in the base layer of cryptoassets. Simplifying complex projects and the technology being developed, from interoperability to relayers and more - who is building the future, why are they and how are they doing it.
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Base Layer Episode 237: Brooks Brown from NOR discusses building Web3 games for players
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What an amazing, fun, and thought-provoking chat I recorded with Brooks Brown, Creator at NOR. Brooks has an amazing history, ranging from working at Lucas Arts to the production team of Avatar. His team is world-class as well and they are building one of the best new games in Web3. What makes a great game? How do you build digital asset economic s…
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Base Layer Episode 236: Christian Dittmeier, Co-Founder of Evaluate Market on creating the an NFT Portfolio tool for the masses
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Christian from Evaluate Market joins me to discuss their work on building one of the best and easiest to use NFT Portfolio tracking tools in the world. Evaluate.Market allows NFT collectors to track and manage their portfolios and discover new projects across multiple NFT marketplaces and blockchains. Since March 2021, the website has had over 1 mi…
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Base Layer Episode 235: Ian McMilan, Chief Growth Officer @ Mojito on creating NFT strategies with iconic businesses and brands
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It's been a while, but the show is coming back more frequently! Ian joins us from Mojito, which grew to fame by building the Metaverse Marketplace for Sotheby's in 2021. We had a great conversation about how iconic businesses and brands are working with Mojito to think about and deploy their NFT and Metaverse strategies. Why? There are billions of …
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Base Layer Episode 234: Joao Borges & Matt Rutledge, founders of BAYZ on the future of Web3 Games & Guilds in Brazil
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So happy to have Joao and Matt on the show to talk all about BAYZ! We got to meet the team last year as they started to build one of the best play-to-earn gaming guilds in the world that helps members earn money by playing video games and being part of a global gaming community. We discuss their focus on e-sport influencers (some big news there) an…
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Base Layer Episode 233: Matty Taylor from Solana Labs on the evolution & importance of hackathons in Solana
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What a great show! Matty joins me to discuss how Solana has been able to grow with the use of some of the most exciting and involved hackathons in digital assets. We also discuss their use of "hacker houses" which aim to help developers learn key coding languages in Solana development. Lastly, we discuss Riptide, their newest hackathon that already…
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Base Layer 232: Michael Kong, CEO of Fantom Foundation on what's been driving interest in this Layer 1 blockchain
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Michael joins us for a great dive in Fantom which, according to Michael, is a high-performance, scalable, and secure smart-contract platform. It is designed to overcome the limitations of previous-generation blockchain platforms. Lachesis, its revolutionary aBFT consensus mechanism, allows Fantom to be much faster and cheaper than older technologie…
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Base Layer Episode 231: Brian Flynn, Co-Founder of Rabbithole on building the resume of Web3
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Brian joins me on Base Layer to discuss one of the most interesting projects in the digital asset ecosystem currently, Rabbithole. In this portal, one learns how to use varying functions in digital assets, from staking digital assets on DeFi platforms to buying your first ENS (Ethereum Name Service). A user goes on "quests," and as they do, they es…
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Base Layer Episode 230: Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder of Chainlink on Web3's path to dominance
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Always great to have Sergey join me on the show to talk about Chainlink's role in various sectors, whether DeFi, Gaming, and in this case, Web3. This has been a topic of heated exchanges between those in digital assets and those defending Web2, such as the founder of Twitter. Sergey discusses how and why Web3 will evolve to become the dominant forc…
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Base Layer Episode: 229 YGG SEA, the First sub-DAO of YGG, Bringing Players in Southeast Asia into the Metaverse
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Three leading YGG SEA executives - Evan Spytma, CEO & Co-Founder, Irene Umar, Co-Founder and Indonesian Country Manager, and Daniel Wang, Chief Investment Officer join me for a conversation about their mission of creating one of the largest and most sustainable P2E virtual economies in the world. YGG SEA provides a bridge between games and players …
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Base Layer Episode 228: Krystal Yang Founder of Ignite Tournaments on the World's First Play-to-Earn Mobile Esports Tournament Organization Platform
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Krystal Yang joins me for a conversation about her journey to founding Ignite Tournaments, one of Arca Endeavor's investments. Ignite Tournaments is a tournament layer platform that sits above a native blockchain game deployed in mobile format. The platform combines esports tournament organization, streaming services with instantaneous payouts in c…
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Episode 227: Fvckrender, from Lebron to Dior, what it's like for one of the most sought after NFT artists
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It's been a while! A lot of shows coming out soon, so be on the lookout. Today we put out a show we recorded with Fvckrender, one of the most sought-after NFT artists today. Has worked with clients like Lil Nas X, Lebron James, Puma, Christian Dior, and Spotify, while being featured at Christie's and Sotheby's. We delve into his background as well,…
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Base Layer Episode 226: Peter Ing, Founder of BlockchainSpace on enabling payments in the Play-to-Earn Ecosystem
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Peter Ing joins me for a conversation about his past experiences and his journey to founding BlockchainSpace, one of Arca Endeavor’s investments. Blockchain Space is a gaming accounting and payments software firm that provides player management and in-game financing tools. Peter has 15 years of experience in FinTech and remittance firms, and has be…
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Base Layer Episode 225: Nick Emmons, Co-Founder of Upshot on Decentralized Sources of Truth
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Nick joins me for a fascinating discussion on Upshot which is a question and answer protocol. It leverages a new field of mechanism design called peer prediction to incentivize people to answer questions honestly. Its purpose is to reliably and efficiently pair honest answers to questions. This enables and improves a number of exciting use cases su…
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Base Layer 224: Carson Cook, Founder of Lattice on creating the Bloomberg Terminal for Digital Assets
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Carson, a multi-time founder, joins us on Base Layer to discuss all the things they are building at Lattice, Arca Endeavor's second investment. Lattice brings the Bloomberg "RFQ" function (request for quote) to the world of digital asset trading, which is aiming to optimize price discovery and removal of human error. This should be a pivotal moment…
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Base Layer Episode 223: Michael Wagner, Co-Founder of Star Atlas on why this has become one of the most talked about play-to-earn games
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Michael joins us to discuss Star Atlas, one of the most talked-about P2E, blockchain-based games coming to market. Star Atlas is a virtual gaming metaverse based in the year 2620. The metaverse introduces a unique gaming experience through the combination of both traditional core game and blockchain mechanics, which Michael discusses along the jour…
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Base Layer Episode 222: Pat White and Amy Kalnoki from Bitwave: Helping to Understand Tax in DeFi
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Pat White and Amy Kalnoki join me for a special Base Layer episode as we discuss Bitwave, a tax and accounting platform that digital asset projects are flocking to. Why? Bitwave has developed special tools to focus specifically on the implications of DeFi activity like staking, yield farming, and more. Bitwave is the first investment in our new ven…
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Base Layer Episode 221: David Nage (me) and Rayne Steinberg (CEO of Arca) about big news
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Today, a big show highlights some work we have done at Arca, the firm I have helped build over the last three years. Rayne Steinberg, our CEO, joins me on the show today to navigate the news we are dropping and what it entails for the future. Fascinating stuff - I can't wait for you all to listen!By David Nage | BlockWorks Group
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Base Layer Episode 220: Scott Lawin, CEO of Candy Digital on changing the world of Sports Collectibles
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Scott, the CEO of Candy Digital, recently came on Base Layer to talk about building one of the most interesting NFT based sports collections to date. The world learned about sports NFT's via NBA Top Shot, but what Candy is building is different - adding experiences like throwing out the first pitch or being able to meet the players of the team you …
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Base Layer Episode 219: Ahmed Al-Balaghi from Biconomy on making Web 3.0 frictionless & mainstream
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Ahmed joins me on the show for a great discussion on the build-out of Biconomy, a project I was lucky enough to know about in the earliest of days. Today, Biconomy seeks to accelerate web3.0 adoption by making all its components more composable, interoperable & usable. Tomorrow, Biconomy is the foundation of how transactions and chain interaction t…
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Base Layer Episode 218: Zach Burks, CEO of Mintable on running one of the first NFT marketplaces
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Zach joins me on the show to talk about his road to helping build Mintable, a marketplace where people can find, sell and mint their own NFT's. We talk about the "mom experiment" -- creating a user interface that eliminates some of the technical complexities so more people outside the box could enjoy participating in this new world. We also talk ab…
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Base Layer Episode 217: Sebastien Borget, Co-Founder of The Sandbox on the era of Blockchain Gaming
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Sebastien, the co-founder of The Sandbox, joins me for a must-listen on the state of blockchain-based gaming. Over the past two years, this industry has seen exponential growth, from daily active users (DAU's) of some games eclipsing 1 million players to new metaverses that should make any diehard Minecraft or Roblox player take a look. Listen to a…
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Base Layer Episode 216: Alex Svanenik, Founder of Nansen on analyzing 90M+ labeled Ethereum wallets
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Base Layer is back with Alex Svanenik from Nansen, a research platform used by professional investors in Digital Assets. With Nansen you can see where funds are moving to, identify new projects or tokens, and trace transactions down to the most granular level. Listen in on the three-year journey to build this platform and where it's going in the fu…
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Base Layer Episode 215: Derek Yoo, Founder of Moonbeam on creating interoperability for Web 3.0 and beyond
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Derek joins me on the show to talk all about Moonbeam which is a blockchain project built back in January 2020 as a way to tackle cross-chain interoperability challenges, it is an Ethereum compatible smart contract parachain (and we discuss what that means) on Polkadot. For those who are not familiar with Polkadot, it is a multi-blockchain platform…
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Base Layer Episode 214: Pablo Gonzalez, Co-Founder of Bitso on building the onramp to Digital Assets for the LATAM region
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Founded in 2014, Bitso, the Mexico City-based company offers multiple cryptocurrency products and services to more than 2 million customers across Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. Pablo Gonzalez, the Co-Founder of Bitso joins me to discuss their offering which includes: the Bitso App which lets users buy, sell, send, or receive bitcoin and 8 other cr…
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Base Layer Episode 213: Gabby Dizon, Co-Founder of Yield Guild Games on building the employment agency of the Metaverse
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Gabby joins me for one of the most inspiring conversations I've had on the show to date. In late 2020, Yield Guild Games set out on a mission to introduce as many people as possible to the concept of play-to-earn. Just eight months later, they have witnessed countless life-changing success stories as a result of the money earned by playing NFT game…