Why Creators Should Own Their Minting Smart Contracts

Mar 15, 2022

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Mint Season 4 episode 25 welcomes Richerd Chan, Co-Founder at Manifold, Punk #6046, Professional NFT Degen, and smart contract artist.

Manifold enables web3 creators to have true creative ownership, preserve on-chain provenance, and interoperate with all major NFT marketplaces. The company is known for building some of the top creator drops in the early NFT days alongside leading figures like Mad Dog Jones, Jay Z, pplpleasr, Steve Aoki, and FVCKRENDER, to name a few.

In this episode, we talk about:

00:00 - Intro
00:20 - How Do Creators Get Started in Crypto
08:51 - Richerd’s Thoughts On Why NFTs Took Crypto Mainstream
10:51 - Richerd’s Inspiration Behind Starting Manifold
15:02 - Are There Benefits That Come With a Self-Sovereign Contract?
19:46 - Richerd’s Thoughts About the Creator’s Class That Has Yet to be Impacted by the Web3 Primitives
21:28 - Richerd’s Point of View On Music NFTs
23:43 - How Collector Stats Can Enable Creators to Build Their Audience
28:23 - $9.5 Million Crypto Punk Offer
37:06 - The Future of NFTs and Crypto
40:28 - Outro

I hope you enjoy our conversation.

richerd: https://twitter.com/richerd

Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

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