Wizard of Dapps

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• 🤹‍🌲🏹 The realities of deploying dapps in real-time environments for crypto native experiences (crypto fortune cookie, burner house party, web3summit app +)
• 🦘🦘🦘Australian buzzwords and banter

PoolTogether & Brendan Asselstine

Episode: We dive into MakerDAO's transition into full-fledged decentralized organization with the former Head of Community, Amy Jung.

We banter everything NFTs + Avastars + NFT42.

Hangouts :)

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• What is a programmable Art?
• How Async art is changing what Art can become

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• Aave originally as ETHLend since late 2016
• Building DeFi before the world of stablecoins
• How protocol design decisions are made with Aave

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• The founding story of Compound Finance and prior ventures
• Compound's early game plan for tackling DeFi, 2017 mindset vs. now
• Vision for community governance
• Ethics surrounding building financial applications

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• All things Kenny: crypto culture, web 2.0 vs. 3.0, digital <> hyperlocal
• How communities emerge, their life cycles and how they evolve
• Reflecting on early MakerDAO culture and the early Ethereum community

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• How cryptovoxels won over the hearts & minds of the NFT crypto artists community
• All things blockchain VR & Metaverse and what is exciting today
• Metaverse makers mastermind's efforts to bridge the VR & Crypto community

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• 🦅💎⚖️ The early realities of digital jurisdictions
• ⚔️🦄🚀 Retrospective on the launch of Aragon Court
• 🧚‍♂️👑🐙 How human arbitration can scale decision making

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• 💦🌴💬 What might DAO based crypto social look like?
• 👹🌶🐙 2nd order effects of DAOS: Moloch, MetaCartel, RaidGuild
• 🔨🧪⚗️Abridged's pivot from DApp SDK to DAO-Ops

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• 🌱🧱☀️ What its like iterating on a DAO
• 🏰💰🌴 The strengths and realities of community governance
• 🔫🤖🛡 Advice for first-time dapp developers

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• 📲 If creators own IP and content rights. Who owns curation? 
• 🔮 What gives NFTs their value? Why do they foster more meaningful human relationships?

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• 👹 Reflections on Moloch DAO and the next steps for iteration
• 👑 Design philosophies of Venture DAO (legal and engineering)
• 🌿 Moloch's natural legal innovation with minority protection

Venture DAO

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• 🗳⏰⚖️ The various use cases of prediction markets
• 💶🦅🌏 Gnosis's larger vision for the Sight prediction market

Sight

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• 🏛💻🔖 ENS's vision and north star goals, bridging with DNS 
• 📣🤑💸 ENS Auction sales, governance

Orochi DAO

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• 🎩👹🐍 The process of forking Moloch DAO
• 🐑🎢🥳 The journey of a DAO and the potential of community unlocked

Orochi DAO

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• 🦑📲✨ UX as a platform and super-app
• 🏓🌵🎯 The reality of our current day ability to articulate clear crypto value propositions

Drew Harding & Pillar Project

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• 🍣 Solving for use facing DeFi UX
• 🥬 The process of boostrapping a borrowing & lending market
• 📊 Locked value, metrics and the pitfalls of DeFi

Kyle Kristner & bZx

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• 🌳 The first user interfaces of Ethereum and the story of Mist, the first Ethereum browser
• 🚡 Lessons learned from being one of the earliest designers in the Ethereum community

Alex & Universal logins

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• ✈️ Solving mid-flight post-launch bugs and measure for a live crypto game
• 💎 How are users establishing rules of percieved value within the clovers game economy?

Billy Rennekamp & Clovers

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• 🏘 Light, lean & incrementally decentralized dapps
• 🌴 Users don't need to care about decentralization with user-owned contract wallets
• ✨ Building an addicting dapp

YoloRekt and Yogesh

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• 🎧 Solving the misalignment of existing web 2.0 creator communities
• ⛵ Abstracting crypto and on-ramping existing communities to web 3.0

Audius (now live and launched)

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• 📈Interest based business models
• 🛠 State of UX infrastructure

PoolTogether & Brendan Asselstine

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• 🛶 Creating Ethereum's first RTS eSports game via cryptowars
• ⚔️ Addressing today's challenges that crypto game companies face

Cryptowars & Matias Nisenson

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• 🎟 Lessons learnt from piloting NFT artwork as conference tickets
• 🧩 The composability of NFTs and how they can fit in with other systems

Mintbase & Nate Geier

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• 📷 Using a proof of work game to crowd source puzzle solutions
• ☘️ Understanding value from first principals with uniquely interpreted art collectibles
• 🧩 More conversations on composability!

Billy Rennekamp & Clovers

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• 💑 How NFTs and tokens are deepening contextual relationships
• 🎭 The weird and exciting paradigm of composable digital scarcity

Nexus Mutual & Hugh Karp

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• 🛡 How to buy insurance for smart contracts today 
• ⚖️ Using DAOs to form curated judgement for insurance
• 🌾 Enabling insurance in under served and inefficient markets

Nexus Mutual & Hugh Karp

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• 🥕 Propagating social networks through incentives 
• 👩‍❤️‍👩 How to build intimacy between internet strangers
• 🧲 How web 3.0 can change internet social graphs

Cent & Cameron Hejazi

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• 📅 Why is there a coin & a dapp that only works on Wednesdays?
• ⏳How time restrictions can augment reality to create digital scarcity

Wednesday Coin & Mike Vargas

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• 🌎 Using game worlds as an integrated portal to DeFi and Web 3.0
• 🎮 How Axie built up its gamer and developer  community
• 💬 The importance of Axie's discord community chat 

Jiho & Axie Infinity

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• Virtual clothing, and the decoupling of status and value with the physical world
• Digital avatars and altering reality through digital scarcity
• Origins of how Cryptokitties came to be and the birth of the kittyverse
• Fully exposing what Web 3.0 has to offer vs. hiding and abstracting complexities away

Benny Giang

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• Tuning product abstractions with various user personas
• The journey of the Burner wallet from Devcon4 to ETH New York
• Bottom up identity systems that are now possible
• The need for faster and tighter iteration cycles for web 3.0

Austin Griffith

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This week we talk to Philipp from ImToken about...

• how the ICO boom of 2017 facilitated growth
• user feedback and use cases
• where ImToken is going

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This week we talk to Tom and Brian from Unlimited Tower and talk about...

• building on EOS
• the developer experience on different chains
• the inspiration behind the game and how it works

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Bunz is a marketplace that allows users to trade goods and services locally using their data backed token currency: BTZ. With over 300,000+ users, and 3.5 million transactions facilitated within the last year, Bunz has begun to experiment with ethical data advertising business models — working closely with their initial clients which include Lyft, Wealthsimple and Koho. We talk about... 

• The journey of Bunz as it started out as a bartering app and it's evolution of the project as it introduced a native marketplace token currency
• It's experimentation around user engagement and web 3.0 driven ethical advertising models
• Crypto on boarding and how they started off as a centralized system, looking to decentralize gradually over time
• How Bunz is looking to introduce elements of consumer side DAO governance of upcoming features  

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This week we talk to Bevan Barton of Peepeth and talk about...  

• The evolution of Peepeth's architecture and tech implementation as one of the earliest Ethereum dapps
• How Peepeth is more than just a twitter clone, and what it is building
• How Peepeth uses ML to prevent people from using profanity on the platform 

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This week we talk to Devin Finzer of OpenSea and talk about...  

• OpenSea's first customers, platform power users and NFT games using the marketplace  
• The marketplace's unique revenue share business model with NFT developers  
• Open game economies, DAO-ifying OpenSea and open game economies  

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This week we talk to Sowmay Jain from Instadapp where we talk about...

• How Instadapp cut down the process of opening a CDP from 12 transactions to one
• The direction of Instadapp 2.0, implementing a fee based business model 
• Problems with engineering web 3.0 products on Ethereum and tech stack

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During this episode, we will be talking to the team of Radi Cards, a dapp that allows you to send NFT e-cards / post cards along with custom messages, ETH and DAI. Over the periods of Christmas and Chinese New Year, over 850+ NFTs post cards were gifted through Radi Cards. We dive into what they managed to engage the community with their project, what worked well with user activation and what didn't. 

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