Jess Sloss and Cooper Turley: Social Tokens Are Rearchitecting Community and Social Engagement

Jan 26, 2021

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Chain Reaction Hosts Tom Shaughnessy and Piers Kicks host Jess Sloss, of Seed Club, and Cooper Turley, of Audius, to discuss social tokens and their must read 2020 social tokens post.

Social tokens are a nascent and budding opportunity in crypto and frankly, there are limited sources of information right now. To combat that and unveil the opportunity we had on two experts to help educate the Delphi Community on social tokens and their importance. The four talk numbers, use cases, key launches, what’s ahead, the differences between social and DeFi tokens, and much more.

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Show Notes

(1:27) – (First Question) – What was the impetus to write a Social Token year in review?

(2:25) – The start of Social Tokens.

(3:44) – What’s the most prominent Social Token that’s launched?

(8:35) – The difference between a Social Token and a DeFi token.

(12:40) – The difference between launching a Social Token and Yield Farming a DeFi Token.

(15:42) – Using Social Tokens to reward people for automating tasks.

(17:29) – Thoughts on Gaming.

(19:45) – Thoughts about Social Tokens being used by the Traditional World.

(23:07) – Social Tokens, a new emergent type of culture and brand.

(26:28) – What was the biggest Social Token that you guys have aped into?

(30:06) – Concerns about Human Risk.

(32:54) – Thoughts about the Security around Social Tokens.

(34:11) – Is there anyone specific who would be a good fit in Crypto to launch a Token?

(36:08) – How to attribute value from other people to these tokens when a lot of the value is more qualitative than trackable metric-wise?

(37:45) – Specific examples.

(41:28) – Where Social Tokens fit in on a work level for Crypto people/ More Collaboration or More Competition.

(43:00) – Thoughts about the Synergy of DeFIs, NFTs and Social Tokens.

(46:10) – Jess / Seed Club.

(47:18) – Cooper / Audius.

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Resources:

Jess’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/thattallguy
Cooper’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Cooopahtroopa
Tom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119
Piers's Twitter: https://twitter.com/pierskicks
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