How NFT DAOs Could Shape the Next Blockbuster, Fund Poetry and Change VC - Ep.315

Dapper Collectives CEO and Friends With Benefits founder Trevor McFedries joins Unchained to discuss social tokens, NFTs, the creator economy, $FWB, VC snacks, DAOs, Cooper Turley, and more. Show highlights:

• Trevor’s past, which includes a top 10 album, working at Spotify, founding Brud, creating Lil Miquela, and, of course, falling down the crypto rabbit hole
• what Trevor’s vision for Dapper Collectives is
• what type of activities DAOs will facilitate in the future
• why Trevor is so excited to be working with Dapper Labs and Flow
• what Friends With Benefits is and how the $FWB token works
• what sort of tokens make up the Friends With Benefits treasury
• why venture capitalists who want to be involved with Friends With Benefits need to have a good snack game
• why Trevor is not worried about $FWB becoming a security
• what plans Friends With Benefits has in store for 2022
• Trevor’s response to Friends With Benefits suspending co-founder Cooper Turley regarding 10-year old racist and homophobic tweets
• what can be done to onboard a more diverse demographic to crypto
• how Trevor defines the passion/creator economy
• what Trevor is looking forward to in 2022 regarding NFTs, DAOs, and social tokens

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Episode Links

Trevor Mcfedries

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatdotcd 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-mcfedries-0a5285a8/ 

Work

• CEO - Dapper Collectives
• • Decrypt write-up: https://decrypt.co/82517/dapper-labs-nfts-daos-collectives-brud 
  • Announcement: https://medium.com/dapperlabs/the-future-of-x-is-decentralized-bb3245faf1b1 
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• Founder → Brud
• • Twitter: https://twitter.com/makebrud
  • Website: https://www.brud.fyi/ 
  • Lil Miquela: https://www.instagram.com/lilmiquela/
  • Acquisition by Dapper Labs: https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/04/nft-startup-dapper-labs-acquires-virtual-influencer-startup-brud/ 
  • AI Influencers: https://mailchimp.com/courier/article/ai-influencers/ 

Friends With Benefits

• Basics
• • FWB website: https://www.fwb.help/ 
  • Mirror: https://fwb.mirror.xyz/ 
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/fwbtweets 
  • FWB Etherscan: https://etherscan.io/token/0x35bd01fc9d6d5d81ca9e055db88dc49aa2c699a8 
  • CoinMarketCap: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/friends-with-benefits-pro/ 

• Background Reads
• • Trevor’s role: https://consensys.net/blog/codefi/friends-with-benefits-a-new-model-for-social-tokens-on-ethereum/ 
  • a16z investment: https://a16z.com/2021/10/27/investing-in-friends-with-benefits-a-dao/ 
  • FWB deep dive: https://ra.co/features/3914
  • Intelligencer write up: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/whats-a-dao-why-your-group-chat-could-be-worth-millions.html 
  • Coindesk write up: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/11/09/the-social-token-network-rally-friends-with-benefits-and-the-future-of-branding/ 

• Cooper Turley removed from DAO
• • https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/01/15/crypto-influencer-cooper-turley-removed-from-fwb-over-2013-bigoted-tweets/ 
  • • Backlash to removal: 

• https://twitter.com/mewn21/status/1482202603563798530

• WHALE treasury tokens
• • https://snapshot.org/#/friendswithbenefits.eth/proposal/QmWnifY3KD5ECJNtQ23m9GHt2oQ1McA3T4DEEpFarPy9jW 

Additional Links

• Sound.xyz
• • https://www.sound.xyz/ 
• Catalog
• • https://beta.catalog.works/
• Daily Ape on DAOs: https://thedailyape.notion.site/DAOs-95332c7ab79c49dc89f9a72c628dfeb8
• Social Tokens: 
• • Cooper Turley:
  • • https://coopahtroopa.mirror.xyz/DYSs-mhdJi1uXZTaiyJfwiFZYAF9kRK6yBsAplk6A68

• Linda Xie:
• • https://linda.mirror.xyz/4PDBWBMpFFPVEsP5EGgg5to2AyEpEHEXasq_K0b-yYk 
• Forefront: https://forefront.market/learn/social-tokens 

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