This week we’re talking about NFTs — that’s right, non-fungible tokens and we’re joined by Mikeal Rogers, who’s leading all things InterPlanetary Linked Data at Protocol Labs. We go down the NFT rabbit hole on a very technical level and we come out the other side with clarity and a compelling use of NFTs.

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Featuring:

• Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Non-fungible token
• NFTs on SNL
• NFTs, explained
• Palm, A New NFT Ecosystem and Studio for Creators
• Filecoin - A decentralized storage network for humanity’s most important information
• Heart Shaped Me from Carly Chaikin
• NFT.storage
• Magic Link

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