Today we talk to Sangmin Seo (Sam), Founder and Head of the Klaytn Foundation, an open-source public blockchain for all who wish to build, work, or play in the metaverse. With main net launched in June 2019, it is one of the largest blockchain platforms in South Korea and is now undergoing business expansion from its international base in Singapore.  Sangmin and Jamie Burke discuss the South Korean blockchain scene, building a blockchain for the metaverse, NFTs on Klaytn, Opensea integration, the importance of game production on-chain, mass adoption of Klaytn, Kakao, and high-performance computing.  ------------ Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth. Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://ov.click/pddsbcq122 Questions? Join our community: Discord - https://ov.click/pddssodcq122 Telegram - https://ov.click/pddssotgq122 Twitter - https://ov.click/pddssotwq122 LinkedIn - https://ov.click/pddssoliq122 More - https://ov.click/pddslkq122 For further Open Metaverse content: Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://ov.click/pddsmcq122 Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://ov.click/pddsdfq122 Check out our portfolio - https://ov.click/pddspfq122 Thanks for listening!

Today we're joined by Keyvan Sadeghi, founder and CEO of Functionland, which aims to end the rental web by creating a decentralized cloud alternative, Blockchain-Attached Storage (BAS), that solves the ‘paying problem’ for users and open-source developers. On this episode of The Metaverse Podcast, Jamie Burke talks to Keyvan about Protocol Labs, IPFS, the challenge of sovereignty, protocols, dev tools, recurring yield on app-usage, and using crowdsourcing to prove consumer demand. ------------ Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth. Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://ov.click/pddsbcq122 Questions? Join our community: Discord - https://ov.click/pddssodcq122 Telegram - https://ov.click/pddssotgq122 Twitter - https://ov.click/pddssotwq122 LinkedIn - https://ov.click/pddssoliq122 More - https://ov.click/pddslkq122 For further Open Metaverse content: Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://ov.click/pddsmcq122 Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://ov.click/pddsdfq122 Check out our portfolio - https://ov.click/pddspfq122 Thanks for listening!

On this episode of The Metaverse Podcast, we are joined by Leemon Baird, Founder & Chief Scientist of Hedera Hashgraph, the most used enterprise-grade public network by combining high throughput, low fees, and quick finality - achieving the highest grade of security possible. Today, Jamie Burke and Leemon return to talk after their Base Camp Accelerator partnership, covering the creation of their distributed ledger technology, how Hedera fits into the Metaverse revolution, the importance of HBAR, smart contracts 2.0, creating honest advertisers, and more... ------------ Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth. Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://ov.click/pddsbcq122 Questions? Join our community: Discord - https://ov.click/pddssodcq122 Telegram - https://ov.click/pddssotgq122 Twitter - https://ov.click/pddssotwq122 LinkedIn - https://ov.click/pddssoliq122 More - https://ov.click/pddslkq122 For further Open Metaverse content: Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://ov.click/pddsmcq122 Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://ov.click/pddsdfq122 Check out our portfolio - https://ov.click/pddspfq122 Thanks for listening!

We believe the next phase of growth in the evolution of DeFi will come not from better integration into the existing financial system, more regulation or real-world assets and CeFi, but instead, by unlocking digital value already native to the Metaverse. For today’s SPECIAL EPISODE, we bring you our very own Jamie Burke with the audiobook version of our follow-up to The Open Metaverse Thesis, 'MetaFi: DeFi for the Metaverse' readable here: https://outlierventures.io/research/metafi-defi-for-the-metaverse/  ------------ Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth. Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://ov.click/pddsbcq122 Questions? Join our community: Discord - https://ov.click/pddssodcq122 Telegram - https://ov.click/pddssotgq122 Twitter - https://ov.click/pddssotwq122 LinkedIn - https://ov.click/pddssoliq122 More - https://ov.click/pddslkq122 For further Open Metaverse content: Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://ov.click/pddsmcq122 Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://ov.click/pddsdfq122 Check out our portfolio - https://ov.click/pddspfq122 Thanks for listening!

In this episode Arinze Clifford of Outlier Ventures goes through 5 of his favourite moments from our last Diffusion Digital event with a little bit of context in between. If you found these discussions exciting you can sign up for our March event at https://ov.click/pddsdfq122 ------------ Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth. Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://ov.click/pddsbcq122 Questions? Join our community: Discord - https://ov.click/pddssodcq122 Telegram - https://ov.click/pddssotgq122 Twitter - https://ov.click/pddssotwq122 LinkedIn - https://ov.click/pddssoliq122 More - https://ov.click/pddslkq122 For further Open Metaverse content: Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://ov.click/pddsmcq122 Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://ov.click/pddsdfq122 Check out our portfolio - https://ov.click/pddspfq122 Thanks for listening!

On this episode of The Metaverse Podcast, we are joined by Nate Alex, creator of ChainFaces, and CMO of Secret Project a group working towards innovation on-chain and combining new systems with social experiments and market mechanisms with a goal to continually build fresh experiences through NFTs. Today, Jamie Burke and Nate return to chat after their NFTS.WTF collaboration, and discuss the importance of experimentation with new technology, NFT use-cases, deflationary pressure, the pressures of a NFT community, making a project stand out, ensuring NFT metadata is entirely on-chain, and the future of ChainFaces.  ------------ Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth. Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://ov.click/pddsbcq122 Questions? Join our community: Discord - https://ov.click/pddssodcq122 Telegram - https://ov.click/pddssotgq122 Twitter - https://ov.click/pddssotwq122 LinkedIn - https://ov.click/pddssoliq122 More - https://ov.click/pddslkq122 For further Open Metaverse content: Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://ov.click/pddsmcq122 Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://ov.click/pddsdfq122 Check out our portfolio - https://ov.click/pddspfq122 Thanks for listening!

Today, we talk to the CEO and Founder of Ex Populus, Tobias Batton. Ex Populus is working with the next generation of content creators to help enable their vision, by partnering with them as a world-class publisher and business partner, with current work including LAMEVerse, Iron Pigeons and GigaUnits. In this episode of The Metaverse Podcast, Jamie Burke and Tobias discuss the evolution of mobile gaming, paid items in video games, the Steam Community Market, building games with NFTs, the future of Ex Populus, and the infamous Horse Armor DLC. ------------ Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth. Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/ Questions? Join our community: Discord - https://discord.gg/xT4Jm7nYtm Telegram - https://t.me/outlierventures Twitter - https://twitter.com/OVioHQ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outlierventures/  More - https://outlierventures.io/links/ For further Open Metaverse content: Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://outlierventures.io/podcast-overview/  Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://diffusion.events Check out our portfolio - https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/ Thanks for listening!

Today on The Metaverse Podcast, we talk to Esther O'Callaghan, founder of hundo.careers, a progressive jobs platform designed to connect forward-thinking employers with Gen Z talent, with the intention of ending youth unemployment, due to a broken recruitment industry model.  Esther and Jamie Burke discuss being a female founder, growing up in Blackpool, the breakdown between education and work structure, CVs being useless for assessing youth for work, the importance of educational boot camps, utilising Web3 for the hiring process, utilising P2E for 'learn to earn', and more! Don't miss this episode.  ------------ Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth. Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/ Questions? Join our community: Discord - https://discord.gg/xT4Jm7nYtm Telegram - https://t.me/outlierventures Twitter - https://twitter.com/OVioHQ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outlierventures/  More - https://outlierventures.io/links/ For further Open Metaverse content: Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://outlierventures.io/podcast-overview/  Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://diffusion.events Check out our portfolio - https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/ Thanks for listening!

On this week's episode of The Metaverse Podcast, we're talking to Ben Lakoff, Co-Founder of Charged Particles, a new protocol that allows users to put digital assets inside NFTs - ERC20, ERC721 or ERC1155 - giving creators the power to utilise 'nested' NFTs. Ben and Jamie Burke discuss Ben's background and origin, DeFi intersecting the NFT marketplace, the loneliness of being an entrepreneur, NFTs holding smart wallets, games changing through MetaFi, generating interest through digital assets, working on the bleeding edge of decentralised technology, and more.  ------------ Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth. Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/ Questions? Join our community: Discord - https://discord.gg/xT4Jm7nYtm Telegram - https://t.me/outlierventures Twitter - https://twitter.com/OVioHQ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outlierventures/  More - https://outlierventures.io/links/ For further Open Metaverse content: Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://outlierventures.io/podcast-overview/  Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://diffusion.events Check out our portfolio - https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/ Thanks for listening!

The last of our NFCastle recordings, we talk to Jon Victor, Product Manager at Protocol Labs, an open-source R&D lab primarily focussed on the Filecoin network. They build protocols, tools, and services to radically improve the internet. Today, Jon and Jamie Burke discuss the fundamental resource of the internet, waking up to work in Web3, creating implementations of IPFS, cheapening storage through through the crypto-economic model, building protocols without extensive upfront work, and more.  The Outlier Venture's Filecoin Base Camp reopens for their second round of applications soon, if you're a startup looking for your next step, check it out here: https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/filecoin-base-camp/  ------------ Whether you’re a founder, investor, developer, or just have an interest in the future of the Open Metaverse, we invite you to hear from the people supporting its growth. Outlier Ventures is the Open Metaverse accelerator, helping over 100 Web3 startups a year. You can apply for startup funding here - https://outlierventures.io/base-camp/ Questions? Join our community: Discord - https://discord.gg/xT4Jm7nYtm Telegram - https://t.me/outlierventures Twitter - https://twitter.com/OVioHQ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/outlierventures/  More - https://outlierventures.io/links/ For further Open Metaverse content: Listen to The Metaverse Podcast - https://outlierventures.io/podcast-overview/  Sign up for our quarterly live events at - https://diffusion.events Check out our portfolio - https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/ Thanks for listening!