Web3 Galaxy Brain 🌌🧠

On this episode, I’m joined by Luke (aka @worm_emoji) and Adam Ludwin, co-founders of Context. Our conversation focuses on mint.fun, their nft mint aggregator. Mint.fun is the best place to see what’s minting right now. The site prominently features a list of the NFT collections that have been minted on the most in the last hour on Ethereum. The site generates mint buttons at every popular price point for all ERC721 and 1155 collections that are not yet sold out. Luke, Adam and I discuss their observations since creating the project, future product design ideas, and perspective on the future of NFT primary sales. Jacob Frantz from First Mate drops in jam on NFT mint analytics. I was excited host Luke and Adam, who are building some of the hottest social NFT experiments in the world right now. It’s a privilege to be able to speak with builders about their current projects as they invent them. I hope you enjoy the show. Topics Discussed - Meeting each other at Byte - Context and its indexer - The open source indexer market - Why it’s safer to mint on an aggregator than on a mint site - Forecast: Aggregation of the primary nft market - NFT native culture - New features in mint.fun: twitter integration, claimable mint pages, allow list/mint gate features, visually similar collection search - Future ideation: memetic lineage attributin - Adam has spent 9e on mint.fun - Interesting analytics: mint.fun users mint 5x average mintooor - Luke’s screenshot collection: mint.luke.cat

On this episode I’m joined by Jasper and Thomas, the co-founder developers of Arcadia Finance. Arcadia is a forthcoming lending protocol whose modular contract architecture will allow users to deposit any onchain asset into a user-controlled vault, and withdraw a credit line against it. Arcadia lets users combine several types of collateral into a single basket, and for loans to be borrowed against the cumulative value of the vault. A vault could contain NFTs, fungibles, and future asset types that have yet to be invented. Jasper and Thomas explain how this architecture allows for risk diversification and even more sophisticated funding strategies in the future. I had an exciting conversation with Jasper and Thomas. Topics Discussed • Lido Staked ETH vs Rocket Pool staked ETH  • Jasper and Thomas's MEV Arbitrage strategies and tactics • Gas optimization strategies for Contract Addresses and Function Selectors • NFTFi arbitrage strategies for NFTX and NFT20 • What is Arcadia Finance  • How does Arcadia work from a borrower's perspective?  • Arcadia: long term vision  • Comparison to EIP-4626

On today’s episode, I’m joined by Wijuwiju and Anna who are building Interface, a human readable social web3 feed. At the time of recording, Interface is an iOS and Android app that lets you follow wallets and scroll through an infinite feed of their recent activity. It’s a great way to see recent swaps, mints, and transfers, and over time the team is developing richer indexing and transaction parsing, to show things like Snapshot votes, Mirror blog posts, and their most recent feature, Gnosis multisig signatures. Anna and Wiju describe how they found their passion for decentralization, their process for fundraising and building web3 apps in public, and their long-term plans for building a sustainable public goods DAO that generates revenues for token holders. This is a great team and an episode not to be missed. Topics Discussed - Wijuwiju learned about crypto through Juan Benet and found the decentralized, anti-censorship enabling properties interesting. He started with Bounties for Balance wallet, writing Uniswap Letters and working on Doin Gud NFT market. - Anna met Wiju in 2020, worked on Uniswap Letters POAP’s. - Interface is trying to make activity associated with your public address discoverable and comprehensible - Interface’s intention to open source their transaction labels so they become trustworthy public goods rather than a proprietary black box - Wallet aggregation, good idea or bad idea? - Do people follow ENS addresses or wallet addresses? What’s the upgrade path? - Interface’s revenue model and DAO plans

In this throwback episode, I’m joined by Oliver Zerhusen, Decentralized Governance coordinator at Graph Advocates (previously Graph Protocol), and Ross Campbell, legal engineer at LexDAO and KaliDAO. In this episode, Oliver explains how The Graph’s $GRT tokenomics incentivize subgraph indexing and how The Graph’s 4 core teams are organized. Ross explains why it’s so hard to work with lawyers, and we explore cool DAO related contracts like Radicle Drips, DictatorDAO, Aragon Optimistic Governance, and Moloch’s concept of the Ragequit. Topics discussed: Graph token $GRT Delegators, curators, and indexers The Graph’s 4 core teams Protocols that are jurisdictions Synthetix governance Enzyme finance’s 3 subcouncils Why it's so hard to work with lawyers Common and Civil law vs crypto law Radicle drips DictatorDAO BoringCrypto Aragon optimistic governance Ragequitting

In this episode, I’m joined by three voices in the ETH liquid staking space. WalshyNFG works on business development at Lido, Crews works on product and growth at Index Coop, and Leo Glisic is a blockchain watcher who is active on Twitter. This episode is all about Lido Staked ETH, Index Coop’s leveraged icETH, and more. Topics discussed: -  Lido Staked ETH -  Rocket Pool ETH -  Index Coop $icETH -  Leo’s thread on icETH

On today's episode I'm joined by Peter Kieltyka, CEO of Horizon Games, creators of blockchain trading card game Skyweaver, Jamal Raees, Blockchain Strategy Head at Wyre, and Craig Lou, Project Manager at Wyre. This episode is all about Smartramp, Wyre's new fast fiat onramp, and how its enabling more players to get started playing Skyweaver. Smartramp is an API that lets people interact with EVM smart contract functions directly from a Credit Card transaction. We also discuss Horizon's Sequence smart contract wallet, and Niftyswap, their ERC-20 to ERC-1155 AMM DEX. Topics Discussed @peterk, CEO at Horizon Games @cryptocraigl, Blockchain PM at Wyre @jamalwyre, Head of Blockchain Strategy at Wyre Sequence Wallet Wyre Wyre Smartramp

The conversation opens with a recap of the Curve wars and the fascinating relationship between yield emission governance tokens and staking aggregators like Convex. The conversation then turns to veBanny, the work-in-progress staked Juicebox ($JBX) token and the many intriguing designs active contributors are considering. Topics Discussed · @Mr__Goldstein - Juicebox Contributor · Juicebox - A programmable treasury for community-owned Ethereum projects · @squarishbread -FinTech PM and defi thinker https://teachmehowtodefi.substack.com/

In this episode, I'm joined by Devan Non, Ape Dev, and Jiran for a fascinating discussion all about NFT MEV. MEV, or Maximum Extractable Value, is the value that can be extracted from block production in excess of block rewards and transaction fees. Two of today's guests, Devan Non and Ape Dev, are a professional MEV searcher team. They observe the mempool to find arbitrage opportunities that they can act upon for profit. In this very special episode of Web3 Galaxy Brain, they reveal their techniques for NFT MEV and explain why they've decided to return to fungible MEV. Blockchain sleuth and etherscan expert Jiran lends his domain expertise to deepen this exploration of the NFT MEV landscape. It's extremely rare to hear MEV operators discuss their techniques. I was especially grateful for the opportunity to speak with today's guests. I hope you enjoy the show. Hosted by @nnnnicholas Produced by @0xmatthewb and @0xbrileigh Topics Discussed Flashbots Risks as an MEV operator and overall strategy Flashmint DrBurry Cool Cats NFTx Killer GF NFT by Zeronis OpenSea market making Mevcollector Chainstride Flashmint, an order book for mint passes Wintermute Paradigm - A Guide to Designing Effective NFT Launches Superplastic: Supergucci Worm_emoji Mark Zuckerberg’s Sister Sings Crypto Drifter Chapters 00:01:35 What is MEV 00:03:47 MEV scene 00:04:50 MEV risk and strategy 00:07:30 Arbitrage opportunities on marketplaces 00:09:30 Botting hyped drops 00:14:26 Flashmint, the difference between MEV and trading 00:18:20 Types of botting at different stages of an NFT project pipeline 00:21:21 Devan Non saving gas and flashbots 00:27:00 Manipulating the market 00:29:24 Tools for MEV 00:34:10 What is Flashmint 00:40:54 Market making 00:49:25 Devan Non’s favourite NFTs 00:55:05 MEV on other chains 00:55:46 Ape Dev and Devan Non working in Ethereum before MEV 01:00:52 MEV culture 01:10:30 Drifter

In this episode, I'm joined by @remnynt, creator of onchain NFT collections vibes.art and the reliquary. We chat about remnynt’s background as a mobile game dev, his transition into generative NFT art, and the influence of Artblocks, Terraforms, and Corruptions on his practice. We dive into vibes.art, his first on-chain Javascript based collection, and the reliquary his latest creation, which combines his interest in on-chain generative art and fantasy RPGs. I've never seen anyone use source code to tell a story in the way today's guest has. It was great chatting with remnynt about games, art, life, and code. I hope you enjoy the show. Hosted by @nnnnicholas Produced by @0xmatthewb and @0xbrileigh Topics Discussed Square Enix Etherians Loot Artblocks vibes.art, remnynt’s first contract on mainnet (contract) Tyler Hobbs - Fidenza Hahnemühle archival paper Schrodingerpepe (aka Schroepepe) vibes deploy transaction terraforms by mathcastles Earthbound Jolteon Relics transmutation interface Corruptions by Dom Hoffman Chapters 00:01:40 remnynt’s past experience 00:05:00 Facebook games audience? 00:06:20 remnynt’s entry to NFTs 00:07:53 Vibes.art contract 00:11:30 Vibes.art process and colour theory 00:13:18 Prints in genesis collection 00:14:28 Open Vibes 00:15:40 Math for creating gradients and textures 00:17:43 Vibes contract deploy 00:19:00 [the reliquary] 00:22:10 remnynt’s connection with Earthbound 00:24:18 Built-in controls in [the reliquary] 00:25:43 Save your drawing permanently 00:27:09 Transmuting your Relic 00:29:00 Jolteon 00:30:21 Contact lore and growing the project 00:33:49 Imagine colours & upgrading 00:37:00 integrating randomness on-chain 00:38:52 Relic updates 00:41:50 Playing to earn and playing for pleasure

In this episode, I’m joined by solidity devs w1nt3r and Tyler Angert to talk about button.lol, watchfaces.world, and onchain SVG. Button.lol is a website with a single button that holders on the optimism network can click once every 6 hours to collect points. watchfaces.world is an on-chain SVG time piece NFT collection. Each NFT is customizable at mint time and will forever display the current time through the use of on-chain SVG rendering. While telling the story of watchefaces world, w1nt3r also tells me how he built an on-chain hot reloading SVG which is helping on-chain SVG devs tighten the visualization prototyping loop for new collections. Hosted by @nnnnicholas  Produced by @0xmatthewb and @0xbrileigh Topics Discussed Loot Rings Jeremy Goldberg, designer of Rings rainbow.me Rings for Loot Webeverse Watchfaces.world Winter Hot chain SVG on Gitbhub AMG and Mercedes Benz engine plaque Biograph Girl SourceCred Button.lol Chapters 0:00:00 Intro 0:01:10 Winter and Loot Rings project 00:03:45 The story of watchfaces 00:05:40 Developer Productivity Tooling made for watchfaces 00:06:19 What is watchfaces world 00:08:15 developing tooling on-chain vs using p5.js or other language libraries 00:12:16 Building hot re-loading SVG’s from a solidity contract 00:19:10 Upgrades to the second collection 00:19:32 Re-engraving the watches 00:23:51 High end watches valuation 00:25:25 Tyler’s Watch collecting experience 00:27:00 Craftsmanship under old luxury car engines → link? 00:30:05 Biograph Girl and cinema in North America in 1910’s 00:35:30 SourceCred 00:36:30 Button.lol