

Zima Red
Andrew Steinwold
Speaking with the founders who are building our future with the bleeding edge of technology
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Mar 16, 2022 • 1h 11min
Peter Ing - Guilds Are The Small Businesses Of The Metaverse - Zima Red ep 108
Peter Ing - Zima Red ep 108
My guest today is Peter Ing. Peter is the founder of Blockchain Space which is a platform and tool that allows play-to-earn guilds scale and operate efficiently. Do be more specific blockchain space is used by guilds to help with
Onboarding
Community management
Player performance
Payroll
Benchmarks
Data feeds
And more. A true SaaS solution for the modern day web3 startup.
Hearing Peters background of Finance, Fintech and startups, its like he was born to build Blockchain Space.
Our conversation is not only a lesson in all things web3 gaming and play-to-earn but also a deep dive into all the painpoints that guilds face. Although many would consider web3 gaming a small market today, there is little doubt that this will become a multi-billion dollar market as gaming acts as the gateway into the wider crypto ecosystem.
Please enjoy my conversation with Peter
https://twitter.com/petering_
https://twitter.com/Blockchain_SPC
https://twitter.com/AxieAcademy

Mar 14, 2022 • 1h 2min
Beryl Li - The Evolution of Play-To-Earn - Zima Red ep 107
My guest today is Beryl Li. Beryl is a co-founder of Yield Guild Games, aka YGG. YGG was the very first play-to-earn gaming guild and has achieved huge success. Today, guilds are ubiquitous across the metaverse but hearing from Beryl how YGG started and where they are headed is extremely exciting.
It is also amazing to hear Beryl’s stellar background from working at the successful Philippines-based crypto startup coins.ph, to working with major banks and financial institutions like BlackRock.
It this type of background and experience that is needed to operate and scale YGG to be the number 1 leader in the P2E ecosystem.
Please enjoy my conversation with Beryl.
https://twitter.com/berylchavezli
https://twitter.com/YieldGuild

Feb 27, 2022 • 58min
Bernadine Bröcker Wieder - On The Forefront of Art & Tech - Zima Red ep 106
My guest today is Bernadine Brocker Wieder. Bernadine is the founder of Vastari & Vastari Labs.
Vastari is focused on helping the traditional art world showcase art globally via museums, exhibitions and more. Vastari Labs is the web3 focused arm that acts as the bridge between the traditional art world and the metaverse.
Bernadine has deep experience in the art world and has always been looking toward how to utilize technology to improve art since day 1.
During our conversation we cover Bernadine's impressive background, the current state of the global art market, how NFTs are impacting the art world and even topics like how art is valued.
For everyone that wants to learn about the intersection of art and technology, this is the episode for you.
Please enjoy my conversation with Bernadine
https://twitter.com/bjkbrocker
https://twitter.com/Vastari_
https://twitter.com/vastari_labs

Feb 25, 2022 • 60min
Andy8052 - Fractionalize Your NFTs With Fractional - Zima Red ep 105
My guest today is Andy. Andy is the founder of Fractional which is a platform that allows users to buy, sell and mint, fractions of NFTs.
Andy is a part of the MakerDAO mafia and a total legend. He has been super active in the cryptosphere since his initial entry and has been nonstop building ever since
He is also considered someone that has great takes on twitter and gives it to ya straight. His authenticity combined with his crypto-knowledge is what makes this conversation such a a great one. If you are looking to learn about the markets, how to build a company or how to fractionalize your NFTs, then you have come to the right place
Please enjoy my conversation with Andy
https://twitter.com/andy8052
https://twitter.com/fractional_art

Feb 21, 2022 • 55min
Alex Svanevik - Nansen: NFT Alpha Via On-Chain Data - Zima Red ep 104
My guest today is Alex Svaneik. Alex is the founder of Nansen which is a blockchain analytics platform that allows users to have deep insights into on-chain data.
We go through Alex’s impressive background and the reason he started Nansen. It is super interesting to hear Alex’s entrepreneurial journey from ideation to execution
What was also surprising is how important on-chain data really is - a fact that dawns on me during our conversation. There is an incredible amount of insight and analysis that can be performed on on-chain data in order to generate returns, something I know all of you are deeply interested in.
While speaking with Alex you can tell that Nansen is going to be a monster. Especially because they recently announced that they raised a huge $75m round and are quickly approaching unicorn status.
Please enjoy my conversation with Alex
https://twitter.com/ASvanevik
https://twitter.com/nansen_ai

Feb 17, 2022 • 1h 19min
Josie, Ben & Chris - CyberBrokers: Foundations Of A New Universe - Zima Red ep 103
My guests today are Josie, Ben and Chris. This is a special episode because not only is Josie my wife, but she is also creating a project called Cyberbrokers, which is a series of 10,001 fully on-chain art collectibles. CyberBrokers serve as the foundation for an entire ecosystem that is going to be part story, part game and part experience.
It is incredible to hear the team's story as not only are they all OGs, but they have created this elaborate backstory that explains the lore of the CyberBrokers universe and really brings the project to life. It is also exciting to see how they are pushing the technical boundaries of NFTs by putting assets with exceptionally high-level of detail, on-chain.
It is always amazing speaking with teams of this caliber and I look forward to watching what they build going forward
Also Josie wanted me to remind everyone that the last day to sign up for the CyberBroker allowlist is Feb 18, midnight. Its open to all and anyone can sign up
Please enjoy my conversation with Josie, Ben and Chris.
https://cyberbrokers.io/
https://twitter.com/CyberBrokers_
https://twitter.com/josiebellini
https://twitter.com/cybourgeoisie
https://twitter.com/m3mnoch

Feb 15, 2022 • 1h 3min
Noah & Ian - Parcel: Building The Platform For Experiences In The Metaverse - Zima Red ep 102
My guests today are Noah & Ian from Parcel. Parcel is the go-to platform for virtual real estate & experiences, think Zillow but for the metaverse.
I loved chatting with Noah & Ian, not only to hear about their story but also the manner in which they view virtual real estate.
We can think of virtual worlds not like cities, but more like experience platforms. Experiences can be built on every parcel of digital real estate and these platforms will eventually evolve into something like user-owned and governed social media. A much brighter vision than where social media sits today.
Hearing Noah & Ian’s entrepreneurial journey is exciting and inspiring - I hope it encourages more to jump in and start building as it is people like Noah & Ian, the builders, who keep driving the space forward.
Please enjoy my conversation with Noah & Ian.
https://twitter.com/ParcelNFT

Feb 7, 2022 • 48min
Ori Levi - Creating The “Binance” Of NFTs - Zima Red ep 101
My guest today is Ori Levi. Ori is the founder of NFTrade which is a decentralized multi-chain NFT marketplace, indexer, and platform.
I often call NFTrade the “Binance” of NFTs because they ship lighting fast and they offer a plethora of NFTs from every chain.
Hearing how Ori operates and builds NFTrade is inspiring to say the least. Launching mid-last year they have already become the most popular destination for certain chains like Avalanche and offer different products like NFT farming and staking.
Ori’s perspective on the market is super insightful and he is seeing the full market picture vs just focused on a singular chain - having insights like that can open some series alpha opportunities.
Please enjoy my conversation with Ori
https://nftrade.com/
https://twitter.com/NFTradeOfficial
https://twitter.com/phirex

Jan 27, 2022 • 1h 19min
Sarah Meyohas - Creating Bitchcoin, NFTs Before NFTs in 2015 - Zima Red ep 100
Today is a special episode because not only do we have one of the most OG artists who created NFTs before NFTs even existed, but it is also the 100th episode of Zima Red! When I started this in 2019 I had no expectations on doing this for over a few months and now, 2 years later, I am looking forward to keeping this up for the next decade. So incredibly happy to be able to talk to the smartest and hardest working people in the NFT world and enable everyone to learn alongside me.
Alright enough of that, let's get to Sarah.
My guest today is Sarah Meyohas. As mentioned before, Sarah is a legend. A creative with a financial background, she has been on the forefront of art and tech since her college days and in 2015 she created an amazing project called Bitchcoin. With a deep interest in bitcoin she understood that there had to be some sort of mechanism to combine art and the blockchain - today that revelation is obvious but back in 2015 it had never really been done before.
Launched on her own blockchain, Bitchcoin was created as an artistic experiment and expression and of art, feminism and finance.
What I find extremely fascinating is that Sarah “revived” and ported over roughly 3,300 Bitchcoins to Ethereum in 2021 so they could live forever, as the blockchain she originally created was no longer operating. A unique method to preserve these historical asset that exists entirely in digital form.
This conversation had it all - an incredible creative and innovator who shares her deep passion for art, finance and technology. I hope you enjoy this one as much as I did.
Please enjoy my conversation with Sarah.
https://twitter.com/SarahMeyohas
https://sarahmeyohas.com/bitchcoin/

Jan 18, 2022 • 1h 34min
Sillytuna - The OG Who Sold A Punk For $12m AND Can See The Future - Zima Red ep 99
My guest today is Sillytuna. Sillytuna has to be the OG-iest OGs out there. He is a game developer who got involved in bitcoin in 2012 and hasn't looked back since
He is the creator and founder of numerous different projects and has done some really exciting things. From starting an NFT card game back in 2016, to his new project called Soulcast, and in 2021 he even sold an alien Cryptopunk for $12m dollars.
This episode is like a masterclass in the history of crypto, NFTs, crypto gaming and what the future of this industry holds. It was an absolute pleasure speaking with Sillytuna because his past experiences can teach us a lot about what to expect going forward.
Before diving in, I will leave you with an exciting quote “We’ve got decades to go. We are the internet in 1994.”
With that, please enjoy my conversation with Sillytuna
https://twitter.com/sillytuna