In this episode, I'm joined by four exceptional guests. Jiran Z is a blockchain sleuth and nft mev brain, Andrew Thurman is a journalist who has worked at CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, and now Nansen.ai. Nodar Janashia is the creator of DeFi Zaps and co-founder of crypto dashboard Zapper. He and Igor Yuzo, the host of the Web3 Frontier podcast, are co-founders of DeFragFinance, a new NFT loan protocol.

In this episode, Jiran, Andrew, Nodar, Igor and I jam on EthDenver, NFT burnout, and DeFragFinance's approach to NFT lending.

A small note: This episode was recorded in March 2022. I'm working through a backlog of episodes, so please keep in mind that any comments made about the state of the market might be a little bit unawares of what's happened since.

Host: @nnnnicholas Producer: @filipv_

Topics Discussed

• $MAGIC and TreasureDAO
• Smol Brains
• TreasureDAO team
• Trove
• Treasure Bridgeworld
• Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths
• Defrag
• Black-Scholes Model
• Put Options
• APR
• DefiZap
• DefiSnap
• Zapper Zaps
• StockX Vault
• USA vs Russia in Ukraine
• PrimitiveFi
• EthDenver

Timestamps

0:00:00 Intro

0:00:11 What is Smol Brains?

0:05:21 What is Treasure DAO?

0:10:19 Nuclear war and NFT burnout

0:14:02 A deep dive into state of the NFT market

0:43:27 DeFrag Finance overview: collaterizing with NFTs

1:08:38 NFT Analytics and Tooling

1:20:22 ETH Denver and conferences

1:27:23 Audience comments and questions

1:30:19 PrimitiveFi, the NFT <-> DeFi connection

1:33:18 NFT Market Cap

1:35:28 Crypto vs Traditional Institutions

1:55:53 Long-term, "real world" value of NFTs

2:05:33 Public Education and Investment

2:09:29 Outro