Mint Podcast by Adam Levy

Mint Season 4 episode 27 welcomes Ben Lakoff, co-founder of Charged Particles, which is new protocol that lets you put digital assets inside your NFTs. Now, ordinary NFTs (think neutral molecules) can contain a digital "charge" inside — ERC20, ERC721 or ERC1155 — giving you the unprecedented power to create nested NFTs.In this episode, we discuss how creators can tap into the variety of use cases presented by dynamic NFTs and their upcoming NFT drop, Particlon.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Ben Lakoff: https://twitter.com/benlakoffMore on Particlon: https://www.particlon.xyz/Charged Particles: https://www.charged.fi/Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 26 welcomes Yury Liftshits, Founder and CEO of SuperDAO, an all-in-one DAO formation platform that recently raised $11.5M in seed and pressed funding. Before Superdao, Yury has started four companies with one major exit, is a YCombinator alum, Ph.D. in Computer Science, and was teaching grad-level cryptography courses even before Bitcoin was invented. A long time ago he also won two gold medals at International Math Olympiad. In this episode, he shares why creators should leverage DAO models to build fan clubs, and why owning your monetization channels and incentivizing aligned participation is the future foundation for building a community.In this episode, we talk about:00:00 - Intro02:05 - Yury’s Previous Startup: The Discord Killer05:39 - How Yury Got Started With DAOs17:16 - Building Products In Web2 vs Web322:57 - Thoughts on The Emergence of Creator DAOs31:53 - How To Do an SEC Complaint Token Raise (Not Legal Advice)33:41 - Strategies for Generating Revenue in DAOs42:59 - Why Creators Should Build DAOs to Monetize Super Fans48:35 - DAO Trends for 202254:26 - OutroI hope you enjoy our conversation.Yury Liftshits: https://twitter.com/yurylifshitsLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 25 welcomes Richerd Chan, Co-Founder at Manifold, Punk #6046, Professional NFT Degen, and smart contract artist. Manifold enables web3 creators to have true creative ownership, preserve on-chain provenance, and interoperate with all major NFT marketplaces. The company is known for building some of the top creator drops in the early NFT days alongside leading figures like Mad Dog Jones, Jay Z, pplpleasr, Steve Aoki, and FVCKRENDER, to name a few.In this episode, we talk about:00:00 - Intro00:20 - How Do Creators Get Started in Crypto08:51 - Richerd’s Thoughts On Why NFTs Took Crypto Mainstream10:51 - Richerd’s Inspiration Behind Starting Manifold15:02 - Are There Benefits That Come With a Self-Sovereign Contract?19:46 - Richerd’s Thoughts About the Creator’s Class That Has Yet to be Impacted by the Web3 Primitives21:28 - Richerd’s Point of View On Music NFTs23:43 - How Collector Stats Can Enable Creators to Build Their Audience28:23 - $9.5 Million Crypto Punk Offer37:06 - The Future of NFTs and Crypto40:28 - OutroI hope you enjoy our conversation.richerd: https://twitter.com/richerdLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 24 welcomes Alec King, an independent artist from Denver, CO and resides in Los Angeles, CA. Following his EP's, "Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2" he released his debut album "Everything's Backwards." Alec is gearing up to release a single every other week until a meteor takes us all out. Since leaving his label, he's taken a dive into the music NFT/web 3 space. Right before the pandemic, he went on tour as direct support for Kiana Lede across the US and Canada.We mainly shoot the shit in this episode, but we got to uncover a lot of his journey transitioning from Republic Records into now being an independent artist trying to own and monetize his audience using crypto primitives.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Alec King: https://twitter.com/aleckingmusicLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 24 welcomes the two co-founders of Catalog.works, Mike Mckain and Jeremy Stern. We had fun recording this one in person during Eth Denver where we got to explore how they’re enabling a new era of valuing music for what it’s worth. They’re legends and the music NFT movement wouldn’t have been possible without them and their hard work.In this episode, we discuss:00:00 - Intro09:29 - What Is Catalog?10:32 - What the Curation Process Looks Like Getting On Catalog as an Artist16:59 - Music Industry On Chain; What Happens When One Uploads Someone Else’s Song On Chain?21:36 - Does the Music Industry Need Its Own Protocol?28:20 - What Does Streaming Look Like Through Collecting and Owning Music NFTs?34:10 - Outro…and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Jeremy Stern: https://twitter.com/jzstern?s=11Mike Mckain: https://twitter.com/mmckain_?s=11Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 23 welcomes two-time Grammy award-winning producer !llmind who shares his motivation for launching Squad of Knights and argues why beats, loops, and sample packs need to be on-chain.In this episode, we discuss:00:00 - Intro09:24 - Understanding IP On Chain12:23 - How to Eliminate People Sending Files to One Another; Sending the NFT and Integration15:56 - !llmind’s Point of View on Web Three and Web Two19:08 - Why do Beats, Loops, and Sample Packs Need to be On Chain?25:00 - How to Track Payments On Chain?27:09 - Who Does Web Three Work Against in the Music Industry?29:13 - Why !llmind is Starting Squad of Knights45:23 - How do People Gain Access to !llmind as a Producer and Mentor?48:03 - Community Building in Crypto Around NFTs52:16 - Roadmap Project Launch01:02:39 - Outro…and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation. !llmind - https://twitter.com/illmindPRODUCERLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 22 welcomes music NFT collector and crypto OG Cooper Turley (aka Coopahtroopa). He rationalizes his conviction for spending 100 ETH on music NFTs to date. He came by my hotel during Eth Denver for our first in-person conversation, making this session the longest episode in Season 4. There’s just too much alpha in one sitting, I hope you can handle it.In this episode, we discuss:00:36 - Intro03:56 - Music Projects Dominating The Space07:08 - How to Price a Music NFT 11:17 - Why Treat Music NFTs as Collectibles14:18 - How to Get Started as a Music Creator15:34 - Understanding the Music NFT Movement21:26 - Web3 Protocols in the Music Industry24:58 - Getting Started at Audius28:18 - Building Funnels to Grow Your Collector Base35:04 - What is LA’s Crypto Culture Like?37:46 - Web3 Music Platforms and Opportunities48:26 - How to Create Digital Emotional Experiences Around Collectors50:29 - End Goal with Collecting 100 Eth Worth of Music NFTs58:30 - Open Sourcing The Entire Music Industry01:03:22 - Music Streaming in Web301:04:46 - The Consumption Layer of Music NFTs01:08:31 - Tokenomics: Risks Associated with Overwhelming Artists and Fans01:21:19 - Daniel Allan and Designing Overstim’s Tokenomics01:24:13 - Building Bridges Between Web2 and Web301:28:18 - Outro…and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Cooper Turley - https://twitter.com/CooopahtroopaLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 21 welcomes Queen George, the modern jazz-pop artist who’s been publicly, yet thoughtfully experimenting with web3 primitives since April 2021 in an effort to find and build a collector base.We explore a new funnel and interesting case study on how she growth hacked *120* collectors by minting tickets as NFTs for her live concert at Eth Denver.In this episode, we discuss:02:00 - Intro07:36 - The World of Crypto Experimentation13:49 - NFT Ticketing, Metamask, and Eventbrite20:17 - Your New Single “If I Ever Go Down”30:30 - Crypto QR Codes; The Funnel33:52 - Why Doing Tickets as NFTs is Important37:09 - How Crypto Provides Better Fan Based Data To Artists45:57 - What are the Biggest Challenges Getting into the Space?49:25 - Building a Mainstream Audience50:47 - First Time at a Crypto Conference; Biggest Takeaways53:57 - Queen George’s Thoughts on Web359:12 - Outro…and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Queen George - https://twitter.com/iamqueengeorgeLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 20 welcomes Mark Dawson, co-founder of Quixotic, the largest NFT marketplace on Optimism, and MusicFund, a community that finds, funds, and supports up-and-coming artists.This conversation took place during Eth Denver so there’s a lot to unpack from the week itself, let alone all the cool stuff he and his co-founder are building, so let’s just dive right in.In this episode, we discuss:01:08 - Intro07:05 - How Do Creators Get Started in crypto?12:55 - What is Quixotic trying to solve?17:45 - NFT Derivatives and Copy-cat projects19:11 - About MusicFund23:21 - Current State of Music and Web336:52 - 2022 is the year for Layer 2s38:03 - What is Layer Two Community Culture Like?40:39 - The NFT Landscape in 202242:12 - The Most Interesting Music NFT Use Cases46:37 - Mark’s Thoughts on Web3-native Music Royalties 48:40 - Outro…and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Mark Dawson - https://mobile.twitter.com/web3markLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Mint Season 4 episode 19 welcomes Dwight Torculas and Garrett Hughes, co-founders of the music NFT marketplace, Mint Songs.In this episode, we discuss:01:53 - Intro 05:38 - Mint Songs13:59 - Data-first Community18:17 - Can NFTs help define the future of music?36:05 - Collection and Ownership38:54 - How to Convert fans into Collectors?43:23 - The On Chain Revenue Model47:43 - What is Metadata?57:42 - How does a new artist get started? 1:06 - How do you price an NFT?1:25 - OutroI hope you enjoy our conversation. Dwight Torculas - https://twitter.com/dorculasGarrett Hughes - https://twitter.com/_garretthughesLearn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint---------------------------------------------------------------------------Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episodehttps://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4---------------------------------------------------------------------------Support Season 4's NFT sponsors1. Coinvise - https://coinvise.co/2. Polygon Studios - https://polygonstudios.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io