Mint Podcast by Adam Levy

Mint Season 2 episode 2 welcomes Neil Harbisson and Pol Lombarte, two biohacking artists leveraging NFTs to remotely alter their bodies. Cyborg-artist Neil Harbisson was born color blind but he can ‘feel’ and ‘hear’ colors, thanks to a WiFi-enabled bone-conduction antenna that is permanently implanted into his skull. Together, Neil and Pol experimented with a new state of NFTs where the buyer can directly send colors into Harbisson’s head. On the side, his friend, Pol Lombarte sold ‘access’ to his heartbeat as an NFT where the buyer can alter his heart rate from afar at any point in time of the day.In this episode we talk about the early days of transitioning into a cyborg, the curiosity behind selling access to one’s body, fears and concerns behind this level of biological manipulation, how much he’d consider selling the NFT for, the vision behind this level of experimentation, and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Don Diablo is an industry-defining NFT artist, Dutch DJ, record producer, musician, and songwriter of electronic dance music who is known for his electronic style of production and vocalizing in most of his songs. He led a multi-industry career ranking sixth in the 2020’s top 100 DJs by DJ Mag, as well as amassed millions of dollars in sales for his crypto-inspired fine art.In this episode we talk about the origins of his early inspiration into music, how his dad plays a major influence throughout everything he does in life, his career as a top 10 global DJ, how he broke into the NFT space, getting featured at the iconic auction house Sothebys, his latest NFT drop, and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 1 episode 11 features Dave Young - a serial entrepreneur and an indie game developer with over 15 years of experience. Using game tech combined with complex full-stack backends, Dave has founded and created teams to build complex products, like ScreenBlazer, Magnus Rush, and Announcr.On this episode, we discuss how he’s helping fund school supplies for the youth through his social token, his framework for deriving value and utility, the 12 projects emerging in his ecosystem surrounding play token, his approach for communicating cryptocurrencies to teachers, students, and parents, why he’s so bullish on social tokens, and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 1 episode 10 features American entrepreneur and author Peter Shankman. He is best known for founding HARO, an online service for journalists to gather feedback from the public. His fight for creating more positive awareness around ADHD has led him down the rabbit hole of monetizing his community through $SHANK coin.We talk about the launch of his new book and how he's incentivizing his audience to get access to that book by holding $SHANK tokens. Peter breaks down some tips to future creators who are exploring the path of launching their social token and what he wishes he had known before doing going live with $SHANK.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 1 episode 9 features Matt Mcdonald who is the lead vocalist and guitarist for The Classic Crime - a rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 2004. After leaving a record label in 2011, TCC pioneered the use of crowdfunding and other middle-men bypassing tools, continuing to make music, content, and community experiences for supporters a decade later. Their latest experiment with crowdfunding comes in the form of their social token - $CRIME, ticker C R I M E.In this episode, Matt and I look back on the early days of Kickstarter crowdfunding and how it compares to today’s ICO and IDO models that persist throughout the cryptoverse. We also chat about his frameworks for utility generation, how he’s onboarded his existing fan base to hold his band’s social token, how platforms like Facebook and Instagram help build their audience, but stripped them away from their power to monetize them, and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 1 episode 8 features Cooper Turley is actively shaping the Creator Economy through projects like Audius, Friends with Benefits, and PleasrDAO. He advises Variant as an operator and investor and works with teams on token launches and governance through Fire Eyes DAO.On this episode, we talk about his recent article mapping out the current DAO landscape. With 100s of DAOs in existence, he argues which ones he thinks will outpace the test of time, his point of view on how crypto is revolutionizing the music industry, why he’s betting big on DAOs, and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint----show notes----DAO Landscapehttps://coopahtroopa.mirror.xyz/_EDyn4cs9tDoOxNGZLfKL7JjLo5rGkkEfRa_a-6VEWwHow To Launch A Tokenhttps://forefront.news/blog/how-to-launch-a-token

Mint Season 1 episode 7 features Harrison First is an American songwriter and producer. He works producing for other artists in addition to his own solo works through his independent label JNRY FIRST. He is one of Ängie's best friends and a frequent collaborator. He’s also the creator of $FIRST coin.On this episode, we talk about his methodology for creating a token-gated audio library aimed at supporting NFT artists who need quality audio for their drops, his view on how social tokens will take the music industry by storm, how he thinks about the utility of his token, his bet on himself for being an early crypto adopter, and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 1 episode 6 features Jeremiah Owyang who is an advisor to Rally.io, an active angel investor, and is well recognized by both the tech and media industry for his grounded approach to deriving insights through rigorous research. He’s also the creator of the social token $JOW has achieved dominant placement on the social token charts.On this episode, we talk about his early insights into watching the rise of Facebook, Instagram and other web 2.5 platforms and why they’re prime for disruption, how he became successful at building social communities, why he’s so bullish on social tokens, his views on the future societal implications of creator coins, his approach for thinking about utility frameworks for creator coins, and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 1 episode 5 features WhaleShark, a social entrepreneur and investor with a focus on disrupting the status quo, whose work is widely known for the successful $WHALE community. He's a prolific advocate of NFTs, social tokens, DAOs and much more with an impressive track record of managing 3 different social token communities.On this episode, WhaleShark and I discuss his latest project Elite also known as the ticker $1337, his vision for creating digital clothing dedicated to gaming communities, or as he likes to call it, metawear, his learning points from starting the most successful social token project, WHALE, his views on the future societal implications of creator coins, and so much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint

Mint Season 1 episode 4 features Bomani X, A Black guitarist, singer-songwriter, and celebrity digital strategist who has worked with Jill Scott, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Wyclef, and more. He’s also the founder of Lit.Spins and was selected as Clubhouses’ icon for the longest time.More recently, he’s known for his social token $BOO and in this episode, we talk about how social tokens will revolutionize the music industry, his vision for $BOO, how he’s created a utility for token holders by playing games on Clubhouse, and much more.I hope you enjoy our conversation.Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint