Off the Chain is the backbone for storytelling across builders, creators and collectors across Web3. Each episode dives into how these technologists use the power of blockchain to build businesses and foster creativity.
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Scott Lawin, Co-Founder & CEO at Candy Digital, on Bringing The World's Largest IP Owners into the World of NFTs
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Scott M. Lawin is a Co-Founder & CEO of Candy Digital, Inc., a next-generation sports and culture digital asset platform, providing authentic objects and experiences that deepen fan engagement and connect people to their passions. Candy Digital is an official digital collectible partner of Getty Images, Major League Baseball, Netflix, the Race Team…
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Matias Dorta, CEO & Co-Founder of AssetDash on Building The All-In-One Portfolio Tracker For Investors & An Asset Based Reward Program
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Matias Dorta, is the CEO & Co-Founder of AssetDash. What initially launched as a product to track all stocks, cryptos, NFTs, DeFi, and private equity investments in real-time has continued growing with the release of new products to incentivize users further to participate with the platform. Most recently, they launched DashDeals. DashDeals applies…
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Shannon Snow, COO of World of Women, on The Playbook to Bringing the Brand to a Global Audience
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Shannon Snow is the Chief Operating Officer of World of Women, one of the world’s leading NFT brands with over $400M in trading volume. Prior to joining World of Women, Shannon led the Entertainment division at Meta, helping entertainment, media and sports companies move into the metaverse. She spent over a decade at Google building and leading tea…
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Gary Vaynerchuck, on the Current State of Web3, How to Grow Adoption and Scaling VeeFriends
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Gary Vaynerchuck, aka, Gary Vee is a serial entrepreneur, CEO of VeeFriends, Chairman of VaynerX, CEO of VaynerMedia & 5X NYT Bestselling author. He has been a leading voice of Web3 technology, with a goal of getting its capabilities into the hands of billions of people across the world. While I've known Gary for a few years, getting him on the pod…
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Dee Goens, Co-Founder & COO of ZORA, on Bringing All Media On Chain & The Power of DAOs
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Cofounder and COO of Zora. Prior to Zora, Dee worked at Coinbase launching brand partnerships and influencer marketing programs, including the first brand partnership between Coinbase and the NBA Zora's mission is to make it easy for anyone - artists, creators, writers, developers - to bring their creativity onchain. Zora has built many easy-to-use…
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Gigi Graziosi, Senior Metaverse Producer at Decentraland, on the Future of Fashion in the Metaverse
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Dr. Giovanna is a Senior XR and Metaverse Producer at Decentraland Foundation and Head of Metaverse Fashion Week. She has more than a decade of experience in digital design and the XR industry. Dr. Giovanna led the production of MVFW22, which hosted more than 70 global fashion houses, designers and artists and was one of the platform's most success…
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Amanda Gadbow, Culture and Community Lead at PROOF, On Building a Flourishing Community
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Amanda is the Culture and Community Lead at PROOF. After 10 years in a public sector communications career, she left to pursue her passion – community building. She now has the privilege of working with the best community in web3, PROOF, working on developing its culture and putting community-led initiatives into action. Amanda is also the Co-Found…
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Tara Fung, Co-Founder & CEO of Co:Create, On Going Beyond The Drop With Fungible Tokens
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Tara Fung is a Co-Founder & CEO of Co:Create. Co:Create’s mission is to help Web3 projects scale beyond the drop by allowing businesses to create, manage and monitor native tokens using configurable smart contracts and an easy-to-use dashboard. In addition to providing the tools and infrastructure for Web3 brands to issue native tokens, Co:Create a…
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Matt Smolin, Co-Founder & CEO of Hang, on the Future of NFT Based Loyalty Programs
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Matt Smolin is an entrepreneur, and is currently a Co-Founder & CEO of Hang. Hang, the first Web3-powered membership platform that supercharges loyalty and reinvents how brands interact with their customers. Hang’s membership platform offers brands an alternative path, a path to building long-lasting relationships with their customers in a more sus…
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Jim Daily, Co-Founder & CEO of LinksDAO, on Reinventing The Golfing Experience Using Web3 Technology
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Jim Daily is a Co-Founder & CEO of LinksDAO. Jim is a seasoned ad-tech exec with scaling companies to hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue and overseeing hundreds of employees. Post leaving the ad-tech industry, Jim changed course (no pun intended) to develop LinksDAO, a global community of golf enthusiasts in web3 reimagining the modern golf…
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Sam Andrew, Founder of Crypto Clarity, On The DOWNFALL OF FTX, SBF & Alameda Research
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Sam is the author of Crypto Clarity. He publishes in-depth research on protocols and crypto market developments. He takes a seasoned investors' approach to crypto. Sam previously spent 8 years on the investment team at BlueMountain Capital, a $22 billion hedge fund. Over the weekend, Sam went DEEP into the downfall of FTX, SBF & Alameda - providing…
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Jeff Kauffman, Founder of Founder of Parachute / JUMP, on Community Building for Web2 & Web3 Marketers
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Jeff Kauffman is the founder of Parachute and creator of JUMP, a tokenized web3 community for those in the marketing and advertising industry. Every week, the community co-creates an industry brief and publishes it to JUMP's Newsfeed within jumpcommunity.xyz. Prior to JUMP, Jeff spent 15 years building digital and social strategy services for globa…
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Alex Salnikov, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer Of Rarible, On BUILDING in a Bear Market
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Alex Salnikov is the Chief Strategy Officer and co-founder of Rarible. A blockchain trailblazer and an active developer in the crypto space since 2012, Alex previously served as the chief technology officer of CoinOffering, the first company to offer its shares in the form of blockchain assets. Rarible is a leading community-centric, aggregated mar…
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Richerd, Co-Founder of Manifold, on Pushing Forward Creative Sovereignty for Creators
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Richerd is the co-founder of manifold.xyz. Manifold builds products that empower creators in the evolving world of Web3, and have been critical to the growth of the ecosystem. Richerd and the team at Manifold believe creators should not only own their work but they should have access to the tools to create new experiences for their audiences. Since…
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Chris Torres, Founder of NYAN Cat, on Meme's Role in Society
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Unless you have been off-grid for the past 10 years you have surely come across Nyan Cat, one of the world’s most recognizable memes. Chris created this character exactly 10 years ago as part of a charity drive, and most recently sold it as an NFT for 300ETH. While the word ‘meme’ is linked with “internet jokes,” this conversation with Chris clearl…
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Andy Chorlian, Co-Founder & CEO of Tessera, on Fractionalized NFTs
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Andy Chorlian is a Co-Founder & CEO of Tessera. Tessera is the place to own and govern NFTs, together. More specifically, the focus is to fractionalize ownership of an NFT, lock it up in a smart contract and allocate tokens that represent ownership of an NFT. The team's vision is to help build a world where anyone can have the opportunity to collec…
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Julien Genestoux, Founder & CEO of Unlock Protocol, on Membership Based NFTs
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Julien Genestoux is a serial entrepreneur and the Founder & CEO at Unlock Protocol. Prior to Unlock, Julien built Superfeedr, the leading RSS feed API for both Subscribers and Publishers, which was acquired by Medium. Unlock is a protocol developers, creators, and platforms can use to create memberships & its goal is to ease implementation and incr…
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Wil Lee, Founder of The Littles, on Building The Mario of Web3
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Wil Lee is a Vancouver based entrepreneur, and currently the Founder of NFT Project, The Littles. Since selling out the collection of 10,000 in the first two minutes, The Littles has continued their incredible growth. Most recently, TIME Studios, the Emmy Award-winning TV and film production division of TIME, announced an original children’s series…
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Jonathan Moore, Investor at TCG Crypto, on Web3 Investing
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Jonathan Moore is an investor at TCG Crypto, focusing on the firm’s investments at the intersection of consumer and crypto. TCG Crypto is an early-stage fund with investments in Rabbithole, Hume, Flamingo DAO, Arkive, Medallion, Altered State Machine, Draup, Tribute Brand and more. Jon's investment career started relatively early: He co-led an impa…
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Franklin is Bored On Amassasing One of the Largest Collections of Bored Apes
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Some know Franklin is Bored as a Structural Analysis Engineer, most know him as the owner of 60 Bored Apes (yes, you read that right) & and an expert NFT trader. With the least expensive Ape going for roughly $130,000 at the time of release, you can take a guess at the value of NFTs Franklin has amassed. Whether you’re a small-time flipper or want …
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Jess Sloss, Chief Instigator of Seed Club, on Tokens, DAOs and Driving Value
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Jess Sloss is the Chief Instigator at SeedClub. Seed Club is a DAO that builds, supports, and invests in tokenized communities - providing mentorship, thought leadership, and programming to help communities bring the future value of their collaboration, creativity, and connection into the present and turn their social capital into digital assets. J…
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Vinnie Hager on Merging Physical with NFT Art
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Vinnie Hager is an American artist and designer, focusing his efforts across all mediums, including, of course, NFTs. His journey began in Maryland, and his work is now recognized across the world. Vinnie's NFT project, Letters, is an art-focused NFT collection that features 1,000 hand-illustrated one-of-one artworks. Each artwork is uniquely title…
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Chris Maddern, Founder of Floor, on Building Products for Current & Future NFT Holders
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Chris Maddern is a serial entrepreneur, who is currently building Floor, a tool to make NFTs understandable and accessible. With a recent fundraise of $8 million, led by 6th Man Ventures (Mike Dudas, Serge Kassardjian), joined by B Capital, Worklife Ventures, Collab+Currency, Hannah Grey, Crypto.com Capital, Exponent Capital, Eberg Capital, Floor o…
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Dave Krugman on Crypto Art's Ability to Align Incentives with Communities
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Dave Krugman is a New York based Photographer, writer, and cryptoartist, as well as the founder of ALLSHIPS. He is deeply passionate about the interconnected ecosystems of web3, and how these systems hold potential to unlock endless possibilities for people who are inclined towards creative careers Through his unique artistic perspective and abilit…
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On this podcast we’ll be talking about digestible use cases of the blockchain and how it fosters new business and creative ideas. With this new technology, and what we now call, Web3, comes stories from a new generation of builders, creators collectors and investors across the industry - all using the tech in different ways to build their version o…
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