Rehash: A Web3 Podcast

On this special bonus episode of Rehash recorded live in Denver on March 1, 2024, we’re speaking with Dylan and Tyler, co-founders of Crypto The Game, as well as Richie and Tina, two finalists from Season 1 of CTG.

Dylan and Tyler share behind the scenes secrets on the creation of Season 1 of CTG, including how they came up with the challenges, issues they had to tackle in real time, and unexpected things to come out of the game.

Richie and Tina then share their perspective of CTG as not only players, but finalists. They share their very different strategies throughout the game, building alliances, and what they would do differently next season.

Finally, Dylan and Tyler reveal some alpha on what you can expect from Season 2 of CTG, which will be launching soon.

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LINKS

• Crypto The Game: https://cryptothegame.com/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:22 What is Crypto The Game (CTG)?

3:10 Backstory of CTG

4:24 Why crypto?

7:43 Creator expectations vs reality

11:49 Origin of challenges

13:25 Winner predictions

17:59 What the creators would change about Season 2

18:49 Finalists’ perspective and strategy

46:36 Follow Dylan, Tyler, Richie, and Tina

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On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Richie Bonilla, founder of Forage, about onchain distribution and culture, how to introduce new consumer behaviors, and thinking beyond skeuomorphic models. 

Richie is a repeat guest who previously made an appearance on Rehash almost a year ago in S4 E7 where he talked about the future of independent work. 

Today, Richie is working on Forage, the easiest way for people to discover and support their favorite onchain projects. You’ll hear us mention his new product as Quests in this episode, but since we recorded this episode, the product has actually been renamed to Forage and you can find it at forage.xyz.

In this highly conversational episode, Richie and I talk through traditional models of distribution in media that have failed us and left a bad taste in our mouth and propose new models of onchain distribution that break down a lot of the assumptions we’ve made about concepts like advertising and ownership.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:17 Problems with traditional distribution models

9:04 How do we introduce new human behaviors?

23:39 What is onchain culture?

34:51 Onchain distribution and growth

43:00 What is Forage? (prev: Quests)

50:51 Will BTC/ETH reach ATH in 2024?

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On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Irina Panovich (aka aiio) about non-linear models for cultural production, the importance of physicality and play when exploring emerging tech, and the importance of experimentation in crypto.

For the last five years, aiio has been experimenting with an arts and tech collective in Copenhagen called 320 Colab, testing out various theses relating to funding for artists and creatives. This is her first time sharing publicly on a podcast about her experiences and learnings from that experiment.

We talk a lot in this episode about experimenting in crypto, especially with community and culture, and aiio shares some key learnings and advice for building a community around foundational values and using human centered design.

She also gives us a sneak peek into a new project she’s working on right now that will be launching soon - a new podcast with UFO that she’ll be using to experiment with new forms and models for podcasting.

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LINKS

• Liminal State: https://liminalstate.bandcamp.com/
• UFO Ep 47: https://ufo.mirror.xyz/Pifu_UYAW7nvMVkCmLY7y84rzF9er_cuqFaRzvf6DTI
• Additional reading: 
  • Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wrigley 
  • Radical Friends: Decentralised Autonomous Organisations by Ruth Catlow and Penny Rafferty and Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain by Ruth Catlow and friends 
  • The Archipelago Conversations by Édouard Glissant and Hans Ulrich Obrist 
  • After the Internet. Digital Networks between the Capital and the Common by Tiziana Terranova
  • The Carrier Bag of Fiction by Ursula Le Guin 
  • The Dawn of Everything by David Græber 
  • Oneness v the 1% by Vandana Shiva 
  • The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin 
  • Science in Action by Bruno Latour 
  • Future Art Ecosystems 3: Art x Decentralised Tech by https://futureartecosystems.org
  • Social Avalanche: Crowds, Cities and Financial Markets by Christian Borch 
  • The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli 
  • The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:06 How aiio got involved with 320 Colab

10:56 Non-linear frameworks for artists’ monetization

15:11 How aiio would run 320 Colab differently today

19:14 How important are in person experiences?

24:13 The importance of play in tech

27:42 Resources for community builders

30:14 How to build culture better

40:42 aiio’s new project

44:27 Will ETH/BTC reach ATH in 2024?

45:32 Follow aiio

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On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Eshita, Head of Strategy at Astria, about the current state of crypto infra, why developer tooling is lagging, and we get to the bottom of what shared sequencers are.

After spending a couple of years researching the crypto ecosystem, Eshita started to feel like a bystander and wanted to become more of an active participant in the ecosystem, so she recently joined Astria to help build out their shared sequencer network.

Astria allows many rollups to share a single decentralized network of sequencers, which increases censorship resistance and enables faster block confirmations, all while allowing each rollup to maintain their own sovereignty. 

We then zoom out a bit and look at crypto infrastructure as a whole, and Eshita shares what she believes to be some of the most important pieces in the infra space right now as well as areas where she hopes to see more development and innovation moving forward.

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LINKS

• The Myth of the Infrastructure Phase (USV): https://www.usv.com/writing/2018/10/the-myth-of-the-infrastructure-phase/
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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:03 How Eshita got into crypto

6:33 From researcher to operator

7:30 What are shared sequencers?

19:46 Current state of crypto infra

28:28 What are modular blockchains, and what is Celestia?

35:20 Will infra still be the focus of the next cycle?

39:06 Eshita’s bullish predictions for ETH/BTC ATH

40:41 Follow Eshita

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On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Julia Lipton, Founder and General Partner at Awesome People Ventures, about unlocking latent potential in humans, finding product market fit in web3 communities, and the most important things happening in the global landscape right now.

In many ways it’s surprising that it took us until Season 7 to bring Julia on the podcast because she has actually played a part in Rehash from Day 0 as you’ll hear us talk about at the beginning of this episode. Julia is an investor, connector of people, and all around one of the kindest and most generous humans I’ve encountered in this space.

In this episode we start out by talking about DAO Masters, a project she crowdfunded through Mirror that ended up winding down last summer, and what she learned about the give-get equation through her experience there. She wrote a really thoughtful Twitter thread about the give-get equation that I’ve linked in the show notes and would encourage you all to check out, especially if you’re someone working in or adjacent to the DAO ecosystem.

We then get into a discussion around why there’s so much latent and unused human talent floating around in the corporate world and what people have been doing about it, such as flocking to freelance and contract work, or even to DAOs. Obviously DAOs aren’t perfect and are far from it, but Julia shares some strategies she thinks could be implemented for DAOs to be more effective in their operations while maintaining the same draw they have for people today.

Finally, we talk about what Julia is most focused on in the global landscape with crypto and nintynick chimes in with a question about progressive decentralization.

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LINKS

• Give/get equation

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:10 Julia’s involvement with Rehash from Day 0

4:34 Why DAO Masters shut down

10:29 Communities as products

17:04 Why human talent is so underutilized in corporate world

22:25 What v2 of DAOs might look like

26:46 Awesome People Ventures and Awesome People Talent

31:31 Global landscape for freelancers

32:23 Development of global currencies

37:15 Types of projects Julia is focused on in 2024

39:45 Progressive decentralization

42:25 BTC/ETH ATH 2024

43:17 Follow Julia

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On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with 13yearoldvc, Ecosystem Lead at Eigenlayer, about how she studied 50 projects a day to identify trends as a VC, why she now enjoys building more than investing, and what it is about Eigenlayer that she believes makes it a really special one of a kind project.

“If you can’t explain it to a 10 year old in 2 minutes or less, don’t own it.” -Peter Lynch

Few people in web3 are very good at explaining crypto and blockchain concepts in a way that’s easy for mainstream consumers to understand (myself included), but 13yearoldvc is different. She came into this episode loaded with analogies that make complex topics like staking and data availability and seemingly complex projects like Eigenlayer easily understandable to a 10 year old.

On a more personal note, she shares how she found her ikigai with her work at Eigenlayer now and her best advice for others to find their ikigai. She also shares her best advice for others who want to succeed as a VC or as a builder in web3 or both.

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• Eigenlayer Blog: https://www.blog.eigenlayer.xyz/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:25 The story behind 13yearoldvc’s name

4:21 Why 13yearoldvc hated being a VC

8:46 Does 13yearoldvc still invest in crypto?

9:09 Why 13yearoldvc wanted to work at Eigenlayer

13:19 Stakers and operators 101

16:17 What is Eigenlayer? (ELI5)

18:44 What does an Ecosystem Lead do?

22:50 13yearoldvc’s honest take on data availability 

27:57 Fundamentals and pumpamentals

29:30 Finding ikigai

33:51 How to prepare yourself for the next bull run

35:15 Telegram bots

39:21 Questions from Twitter

42:13 ATH for ETH and BTC in 2024

46:32 Follow 13yearoldvc

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On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Gabriel, founder of Mochi, a coordination game for autonomous worlds.

AI and blockchain are two buzzwords anyone operating remotely adjacent to the tech space has heard a lot of in recent years, but we haven’t heard much of the two concepts operating together.

Gabriel believes there’s actually a strong case for AI and blockchain to operate together, and in this episode he shares why he believes blockchain and crypto can have a strong impact on AI and provides a plethora of fascinating examples and future use cases for the two to interoperate.

We then get into a discussion about autonomous worlds - how Gabriel defines them, what they unlock, and why they might be the next evolution of DAOs.

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• Mochi: https://mochi.game/
• Botto: https://www.botto.com/
• Eternal Garden: https://eternal-garden.xyz/
• DreamTensor: https://www.instagram.com/dreamtensor/
• S5 E5 | Onchain World Building w/Peter Pan: https://rehash.mirror.xyz/GKqi1D_RMV_96mAUixdeRVDLUrRVr9lLFKtRrKDB4Ok

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:48 How do blockchain and AI work together?

10:48 Barbenheimer Meme Bomb

17:09 Implications of onchain AI on real world scenarios

20:47 What are autonomous worlds?

28:23 Are autonomous worlds the next evolution of DAOs?

31:02 Real world applications of autonomous worlds

35:16 Questions from Twitter

44:12 Gabriel’s predictions for ETH/BTC high prices in 2024

46:43 Follow Gabriel

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On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Birb aka Chairman Birb Bernanke aka bonecondor on Twitter all about the new Bitcoin ETF and best security practices in crypto.

Birb started her career in TradFi and was a product manager for a number of years before joining OtterSec, a blockchain security audits company. We start out by talking about the Bitcoin ETF, and Birb patiently answers a lot of my very basic questions, like what is an ETF and how is it different from index funds, before we move into more interesting questions like is this a good move for the crypto industry overall and what does this tell us about how the SEC will be treating crypto companies in 2024.

After we figure out what a Bitcoin ETF is, we get into a discussion about security best practices for DeFi protocols and other companies building onchain. Birb shares her best pieces of advice for organizations and for end users to avoid scams and hacks and gives us an inside look into what really goes on behind the scenes of some of these hacks.

On our first episode of Season 7, we’re speaking with DeFi Beats aka Johnny Gabriele about how to not get rekt in crypto, why WAGMI is not dead, and his best pieces of advice for newcomers to the crypto and blockchain space.

DeFi Beats is an advisor, investor, DeFi power user, good listener, and self admittedly terrible speller.

He initially had his sights set on getting his PhD and becoming a professor, but when that plan fell through, he found himself in a unique job as part management consultant, part podcaster, and part therapist where he helped numerous people find solutions to problems they were facing across a wide spectrum of areas - from air conditioning to figure skating to life threatening medical conditions.

Today, he has rechanneled his eagerness to help into helping onboard people to the blockchain space and saving people from getting rekt by their inner degenerate. He’s currently building out an AI chatbot called The Crypto Professor that’s designed to help newcomers learn about crypto and stay safe while exploring the space.

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• Stand With Crypto: https://www.standwithcrypto.org/politicians

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:03 DeFi Beats’ background

13:47 How DeFi Beats discovered blockchain

18:03 How to get politicians to pay attention to crypto

21:07 Crypto onboarding AI chatbot

24:02 DeFi Beats’ biggest lessons learned for newcomers

28:46 How to find new friends in crypto

36:03 Fixed vs non-fixed mindset

40:57 Questions from Twitter 

45:52 BTC/ETH price predictions for 2024

47:03 Follow DeFi Beats

On this bonus episode of Season 6, we bring back some of your favorite Rehash guests from the past to share their perspectives on what happened in 2023 and what they are most bullish on moving forward to 2024. Hudson Jameson (S6 E5), Sirsu (S5 E1), Maya Bakhai (S5 E3), and Stefen Deleveaux (S2 E11) join us to wrap up the year from a wide array of perspectives, including DAOs, gaming, technical, and VC. 

This episode was a ton of fun to record and hopefully just as fun to listen to. It’s filled with great insights as well that, when combined, paint a holistic picture of where the Ethereum ecosystem stands today.

Stay tuned for announcements on upcoming guest elections for Season 7 and fun new plans for the new year. Also, if you’re interested in sponsoring Rehash, please check out rehashweb3.xyz/sponsor for more information or reach out at rehashweb3@gmail.com. 

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Stefen Deleveaux: https://twitter.com/stefdelev

LINKS

• DAOs, DACs, DAs, and More by Vitalik Buterin: https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/05/06/daos-dacs-das-and-more-an-incomplete-terminology-guide
• DevCon0 Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJqWcTqh_zKEjpSej3ddtDOKPRGl_7MhS&si=NpCuno1DBufA_xYm
• Oasis Onchain: https://www.oasisonchain.xyz/
• Past guest appearances: 
  • S6 E5 | Ethereum Secrets & Avoiding Burnout w/Hudson Jameson: https://rehash.simplecast.com/episodes/s6-e5-ethereum-secrets-avoiding-burnout-w-hudson-jameson
  • S5 E1 | Competition, Community, and Culture w/Sirsu: https://rehash.simplecast.com/episodes/s5-e1-competition-community-culture
  • S5 E3 | Adding Spice to Venture Capital w/Maya Bakhai: https://rehash.simplecast.com/episodes/s5-e3-adding-spice-to-venture-capital-w-maya-bakhai
  • S3 E11 | DAO Governance, Tooling, and Culture w/Stefen Deleveaux: https://rehash.simplecast.com/episodes/dao-governance-tooling-and-culture-with-stefen-deleveaux

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

5:48 VC summary of 2023 crypto

11:33 DAO update 2023

22:43 Raising money in 2023

25:33 Technical recap of 2023

37:33 Consumer crypto is winning

39:43 What our guests are bullish on in 2024

48:26 Oasis Onchain

52:28 Rapid fire round

56:21 Game: Categories

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On our final episode of Season 6, we’re speaking with Dan Hunt, co-founder of Foster, about deliberately developmental organizations, how we can help individuals within an organization grow individually while also growing together, and some practical strategies for overcoming common challenges faced in decentralized organizations.

Foster is a collaborative organization for editorial and writing support, and also deeply involved in several other communities across the crypto and web3 space where he’s helped facilitate the human and relational side of each organization. 
 

This episode contains equal parts theoretical and philosophical principles, as well as practical and actionable steps any leader or member of an organization can take to strengthen the culture within their organization.

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• Dan’s Substack: danhunt.substack.com 
• An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization by Robert Kegan: https://www.amazon.com/Everyone-Culture-Deliberately-Developmental-Organization/dp/1625278624
• Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux: https://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Organizations-Frederic-Laloux/dp/2960133501/ref=sr_1_1?hvadid=580766137634&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9033780&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=11010857034710310604&hvtargid=kwd-73133255316&hydadcr=21905_13324233&keywords=reinventing+organizations&qid=1703114589&sr=8-1

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:40 Common challenges in decentralized organizations

5:37 How to spot a cult leader

9:10 Becoming ourselves, together

13:13 Conflict resolution in DAOs

19:04 Resources for communicating and organizing better

24:10 The deliberately developmental organization framework

31:56 Best practices for developing values in an organization

38:23 Best way to scale a deliberately developmental organization

43:50 Follow Dan

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On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with David Phelps, co-founder of JokeRace, about fun ways to gamify governance and his biggest takeaways from recent conferences he attended on the current state of crypto and what we should be focusing on in this space in the near future.

This is David’s second appearance on Rehash and will be a bit of a sequel to the first one, so if you’re not familiar with David or JokeRace, pause this episode and go back and listen to S3 E2 from September 15, 2022 first for context on what you’re about to hear in this episode.

JokeRace is a contest platform for communities to make, execute, and reward decisions. Rehash has been using JokeRace since its early days to help decide which guests appear on the podcast, and you can learn more about that on our website at rehashweb3.xyz. 

Speaking of which, our next round of guest nominations will be starting right after the holidays in early January, so make sure you’re following us on socials and subscribed to us on Mirror or Substack to make sure you don’t miss any announcements on that.

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• David’s first Rehash appearance (S3 E2)
• ArbitrumDAO contest on JokeRace
• Solana Thesis by Ryan Watkins
• David’s Substack

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:03 Updates on JokeRace

4:28 Downvoting

5:55 Rehashing David’s first appearance on the pod

6:19 ArbitrumDAO grants contest

8:54 Executability feature

12:46 Fun, new use cases for JokeRace

22:48 Biggest takeaways from DevConnect Istanbul and Art Basel 

36:20 Crypto projects David is most bullish on

38:44 Cats of Istanbul

40:18 David’s best joke

41:32 Question from the community

42:44 Follow David

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On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Ravi Bakhai, founder of Hypeshot, about why livestreaming is a compelling medium across so many industries, what a crypto-enabled live streaming platform unlocks for creators, and future livestreaming trends we can expect to see in the next five years. 

Even though livestreaming has technically been around since the early 1990s, with the very first livestream taking place in 1993 when a few employees from Xerox PARC in California decided to livestream their buddies’ band performance, livestreaming didn’t really pick up steam until the late 2000s or early 2010s when YouTube launched livestreaming and Twitch was born. 

Since then, livestreaming has seen a slow but steady growth, primarily in niche communities. More recently, however, livestreaming has been seeping into a wider array of industries and creator types. Now we’re not just seeing gamers streaming on Twitch, but we’re also seeing artists, musicians, and other types of creators in the streaming scene. On the opposite end of that spectrum, we’re seeing big corporations building livestreaming into their corporate marketing and communications strategies as well.

Ravi also shares the latest on Hypeshot, the crypto-enabled live streaming platform he’s building, as well as how some of his favorite streamers have been using the crypto elements there. Finally, we riff on some serious and some not so serious use cases we’d like to see on Hypeshot in the future.

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• “Life is Non-fungible” Ted Talk (Roham Gharegozlou): https://youtu.be/u894J50AqOs?si=9cHa9r15HVK6eZvA

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:29 Origin story of Hypeshot

6:25 Free to consume, valuable to own

7:33 History of livestreaming

13:35 Monetizing from livestreaming

14:35 What crypto unlocks for livestreaming

18:11 Hypeshot vs Unlonely vs Livepeer

20:21 Distribution in web3 media

23:10 Ravi’s favorite Hypeshot streamers

23:42 New use cases for crypto-enabled livestreaming

27:28 Future of web3 livestreaming

32:49 Who Ravi wants to hear on the podcast

33:39 How Ravi crypto pills his friends and family

36:35 Follow Ravi

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On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Brennan Mulligan, DAO Program Manager at SuperRare Labs, about effective leadership strategies in DAOs, new spins on progressive decentralization, and Brennan’s new ultrarunning career.

If you’re a DAO operator or a facilitator or manager in any organization, you’ll really enjoy this episode and learn something new from Brennan. He shares so many insightful learnings from his time in DAOs and pulls from his background in cognitive science to really understand the ways in which people and organizations function.

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• Anticapture by Spencer Graham: https://spengrah.mirror.xyz/f6bZ6cPxJpP-4K_NB7JcjbU0XblJcaf7kVLD75dOYRQ
• The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman: https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
• Hats Protocol: https://twitter.com/hatsprotocol
• ATX DAO: https://twitter.com/ATXDAO
• RareDAO: https://twitter.com/rare_protocol
• SuperRare Forum: http://forum.superrare.com

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:38 Brennan’s background in DAOs

6:26 Have Brennan’s feelings toward DAOs changed?

7:39 Brennan’s definition of DAO

9:07 What is “capture resistance”?

13:25 Brennan’s biggest learnings from organizing people in DAOs

21:31 Balancing inclusivity with productivity in DAOs

29:15 Trust enables centralization

35:09 Progressive decentralization

38:35 DAO compensation models

47:17 Ultrarunning and the human body as a DAO

55:28 How Brennan crypto pills his friends and family

56:13 Brennan’s podcast guest nomination next season

56:47 Brennan’s favorite tech drama

58:31 Follow Brennan

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On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Magenta Ceiba, Principal Systems Architect at Bloom Network, about how we can use blockchain tech to empower local communities in their grassroots ecological efforts, where Magenta sees the future of regenerative finance going, and how to best organize communities in a decentralized yet still well managed and organized way.

Bloom Network is a community network that helps people find and participate in grassroots climate and social repair wherever they live around the world. They’ve implemented various aspects of blockchain technology and web3 concepts to fund their network and their people through retroactive funding mechanisms and community tokens, and they take a balanced approach to governance that any DAO or online community can learn from.

Magenta mentions a number of projects and resources in this episode, and I’ve tried to link all of them in the show notes, so if you’re interested in learning more about the projects she mentions in this episode or are looking for reputable nonprofit organizations that support various ecological causes you care about, be sure to check out the links in the show notes or on our Mirror or Substack pages at rehash.mirror.xyz and rehashweb3.substack.com.

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LINKS

• Donate to Bloom: https://bloomnetwork.earth/donate
• Diamante Bridge Collective: https://bloomnetwork.earth/diamante
• MUDA: http://muda-oe.com/
  • Token model: https://medium.com/cambiatus/muda-experimenting-other-economies-based-on-happiness-and-abundance-b31441f42f0d
  • CSAA program: https://bloomnetwork.earth/view/community-sustaining-art-and-agroecology-3fff039bb089
• Climate Justice Alliance: https://climatejusticealliance.org/
• Swarmwise: The Tactical Manual to Changing the World: https://www.amazon.com/Swarmwise-Tactical-Manual-Changing-World/dp/1463533152
• Giveth: https://giveth.io/
• Full list of projects on Bloom: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13sVkqMNsnOgBoRnTaLYms9WkTcGGJWDWY8L0LLwmm4s/edit

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:54 What is Bloom Network?

8:38 Transitioning from co-op to DAO

12:45 Tokenomics model for Bloom

19:44 Empowering the community to take action

29:08 Examples of real world impact through Bloom

32:35 Nature-backed NFT

34:11 The future of ReFi

38:44 What we don’t know about climate change

41:30 Resources and links for where to donate

45:23 Who Magenta wants to hear on the podcast next season

46:28 Follow Magenta

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On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Luca Netz, CEO of Pudgy Penguins, about how to take crypto to the mainstream, strategies for building for longevity, and Luca shares some alpha on the biggest mistake crypto founders make that results in the demise of their project.

Pudgy Penguins is an NFT pfp project on Ethereum that was launched in July 2021 and purchased by Luca in April 2022 for 750 ETH, or around $2.5M USD.

Pudgy Penguins is really the only NFT project to have reached the mainstream in any meaningful way, with their figurines and plushies now being sold in Walmart stores across the country. 

They’ll also be debuting a couple of new things they’ve been working on soon, namely Overpass and Pudgy World, which Luca shares more about in this episode.

If you’re a Pudgy Penguins holder, you will love this episode, and if you work in crypto in any capacity, you’ll be able to learn something new from Luca that you can put into practice straight away to help you find success in this industry. 

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LINKS

• Pudgy World: https://lobby.pudgyworld.com/
• Overpass: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pudgy-penguins-ceo-unveils-licensing-140922249.html
• Shark suit: https://x.com/pudgypenguins/status/1671987835518480386?s=20

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:55 Why did Luca bid on Pudgy Penguins for $2.5M?

5:26 Necessary ingredients for success

12:19 Growing an existing community vs building a new community

17:38 How to maintain culture through a bull run

23:57 Why toys?

26:54 Are toys crypto native?

31:11 Luca’s advice for NFT projects

35:43 Updates on Overpass and Pudgy World

39:02 How to license your Pudgy Penguins NFT

43:05 Pudgy Penguins rapid fire

43:27 Luca’s top 5 NFT projects to keep an eye on

44:58 How Luca crypto pills his offchain friends

46:06 Follow Luca

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On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Ethereum OG, Hudson Jameson, about his experiences and learnings from actively working in the Ethereum ecosystem since 2015, as well as his personal story of experiencing burnout and his journey with mental health.

Hudson is a developer who first learned about Bitcoin in 2011 and went on to create and launch the blockchain program at USAA in 2014 and join the Ethereum Foundation in 2016, where he worked until 2021. In 2019 while working at the Ethereum Foundation, Hudson also co-founded the Ethereum Cat Herders, an educational platform and research hub that supports the Ethereum Network.

In this episode, we start off by talking about some of Hudson’s learnings from his time in Ethereum, including what he believes to have been the most pivotal moment in Ethereum history, how the community and culture around Ethereum has changed since 2015, and the biggest learnings from mistakes made during Ethereum’s time that other blockchains or crypto projects can learn from today.

We then get into his takes on the current state of Ethereum and L2s, how he sees L2s interacting in the future, and a new whistleblowing use case for blockchain tech that he would love to see get built out.

Finally, we wrap up with a conversation on dealing with burnout in crypto as Hudson shares his own burnout story that landed him in a mental hospital twice and inspired him to get much more involved in his own mental health journey. It’s a story that is all too relatable to those working in crypto, and Hudson shares his honest and raw thoughts on what we can do to protect our mental health while working in crypto, as well as what institutions and employers can do to support individuals.

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• Hudson’s blog: https://hudsonjameson.com/
• The Infinite Machine by Cami Russo: https://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Machine-Crypto-hackers-Building-Internet-ebook/dp/B07X8HS2WC
• The Cryptopians by Laura Shin: https://www.amazon.com/Cryptopians-Idealism-Greed-Making-Cryptocurrency-ebook/dp/B08Y8MQ66Z
• Blog on what “Ethereum alignment” means: https://hackmd.io/@abdelhamid/ethereum-alignment
• DEVCON: https://devcon.org/en/
• The Plasma Paper (2017): https://www.plasma.io/plasma.pdf
• SEAL project updates: https://twitter.com/samczsun

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:19 Hudson’s favorite things

4:53 Most pivotal moments in Ethereum history

5:38 Biggest mistake in Ethereum history

9:55 How culture and community in Ethereum has changed since 2015

16:00 What does “Ethereum alignment” mean?

18:08 Most overlooked aspect of Ethereum

19:53 Hudson’s most fond memory of his time at the Ethereum Foundation

22:07 Technical knowledge that non-technical people should have

25:14 Hudson’s product review of Ethereum

26:27 State of L2s

32:19 Whistleblowing blockchain app

34:37 Hudson’s mental health journey and burnout story

40:30 How to avoid burnout in crypto

46:29 How crypto companies can support their employees’ mental health

52:06 Hudson’s final thoughts

54:15 Question from the community

56:00 Follow Hudson

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On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with María Paula Fernández, co-founder of JPG and a true OG in the NFT space, about living through another bear market, how to be a good web3 art curator, and new blockchain art projects that should be on your radar.

We catch up on what MP's been up to since our last recording together and how she’s been feeling amidst yet another crypto bear market - and notably one that feels different from previous bear markets she’s lived through. Even though overall sentiments are a bit low, I can always rely on Maria to bring some humor into the mix, as we come to the shocking realization that Michael Lewis is in fact the new Tom Cruise (tune into this episode and you’ll hear what I mean).

We then dive deep into the world of art curation and what the role of a curator is, especially in the web3 world. MP believes a good web3 curator is a good storyteller and a good educator, and we look at a new JPG exhibit, Generative Art Beyond the Algorithm, as an example of good curation.

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• September 2021 interview with María Paula on The Unstoppable Podcast: https://youtu.be/EuhPFMecezY
• S4 E6 | Art You Can’t See w/Sarah Meyhoas & Mitchell Chan: https://rehash.mirror.xyz/-aihBv_hJwt8iWd91XubvPMs_GQxt4sX2GUAWW-hCKk
• Web by Jan Robert Leegte: https://web.leegte.org/
• Stevie P: https://steviep.xyz/
• Sacra Famiglia by Ann Hirsch: https://www.sacra.family/
• Dear Scammer by Ann Hirsch: https://www.hiddengems.fyi/p/dear-scammer-letters-by-ann-hirsch
• The Boys of Summer by Mitchell Chan: https://chan.gallery/boysofsummer/
• Bitchcoin by Sarah Meyohas: https://sarahmeyohas.com/bitchcoin/
• Crypto Certs by Ed Fornieles: https://www.edfornielesstudios.com/
• GALLERY: https://twitter.com/GALLERY
• Generative Art Beyond the Algorithm: https://naturalstatic.jpg.space/exhibition
• Natural Static: https://naturalstatic.jpg.space/
• Social Contracts: https://socialcontracts.jpg.space/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

4:32 How MP stays up to date on SBF drama

8:32 Is there still too much toxic positivity in crypto?

13:45 What successful NFT projects all have in common

15:56 MP’s favorite NFT projects

19:20 Market Makers event in Berlin

26:06 What makes a good web3 art NFT curator?

37:51 Generative Art Beyond the Algorithm

41:26 Natural Static by Jonathan Chomko

47:03 Where MP sees NFTs being in 10 years

49:22 MP’s favorite crypto drama

51:49 Follow MP

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On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Steph Alinsug, founder of VESSEL, the launchpad for onchain media. We talk about what onchain media is, how we can rethink advertising, and what companies can do with more relevant information on their users.

Steph is one of the few repeat guests we’ve had on Rehash. The first time she was on the podcast was almost exactly one year ago in November of last year, and you can listen to Rehash S3 E10 for more context on her thinking around how web3 media has evolved over the last year.

As it turns out, onchain media refers to so much more than simply putting pieces of media onchain, and its effects can be seen and felt across a wide berth of marketing, advertising, and branding initiatives for individual creators and large corporations alike.

Steph challenges us to rethink what we know about advertising and keep an open mind to new, value additive forms of advertising that can actually benefit consumers instead of the value extractive forms of advertising we’ve all grown to know and not love. She paints a picture of what the marketing stack could look like for companies in the future and the ways in which onchain media can help companies better understand their customers so that they can, in turn, provide more targeted value to their most loyal supporters.

If you work in the marketing space or if you’re a creator or founder, you won’t want to miss this episode as you’ll learn a lot of innovative concepts to help you rethink your brand and marketing strategy.

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LINKS

• S3 E10 w/Steph Alinsug: https://youtu.be/Hgix7aBdgOk?si=_fBzKKwqrtYPdWkQ
• Thinx Ad: https://s3.r29static.com/bin/entry/d4c/640x427,85/1493957/image.webp
• Onchain Summer: https://onchainsummer.xyz/
• Lens: https://twitter.com/LensProtocol
• Farcaster: https://twitter.com/farcaster_xyz
• The Box (Decent): https://www.decent.xyz/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:11 How Steph’s thinking around web3 media has evolved over the last year

3:48 What is onchain media?

4:25 Why would media need to be onchain?

9:55 How Glossier could benefit from onchain media

12:06 How onchain media can benefit podcasters

13:15 Onchain advertising

18:10 Twitter question from Rob (Ambire)

21:24 Future of onchain media

26:32 How to achieve our ideal media future

30:51 Everything you need to know about VESSEL

37:31 How Steph crypto pills her friends and family

40:43 Follow Steph and VESSEL

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On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Laura Jaramillo, CEO and co-founder of SONA, about helping artists build a more sustainable revenue, designing fail proof protocol incentives, and using music to onboard the next billion users to crypto. 

Like many of us, Laura’s journey into crypto was a winding one with many seemingly mismatched pieces that somehow all came together and are contributing to her work at SONA today. After turning down a deal from a major record label at age 16 to become the next Shakira, Laura decided to pursue furniture design at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), which eventually led her into product and protocol design and designing what is now SONA, a platform to help musicians monetize their music in a different way. 

We do a couple of deep dives in this episode - the first one on how to build a sustainable revenue for artists by implementing crypto and DeFi primitives into a music streaming service, and the second on how to design the most effective incentives for a protocol that’s resistant to spam bots and token miners.

We also talk about her new project, SONA, the super random way in which she met her co-founder, TOKiMONSTA, and Laura and Diana have a full circle moment when Diana realizes that a party she had attended almost a year ago during Art Basel was in fact a party put on by Laura and TOKiMONSTA to celebrate one year of their meeting and the birth of SONA.

If you’re a musician or creator or any kind, or if you have any interest in the creator economy from any angle, you’ll want to listen to this episode. To get exclusive access to check out SONA and sign up as an early user, fill out the typeform linked below.

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• TOKiMONSTA
• Friends With Benefits

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:05 Laura’s background

9:12 Rejecting a music label at age 16

14:44 History of music consumption

17:33 How monetization works on SONA

21:27 Why is SONA a protocol and not just an app?

23:33 How to design a generous protocol

29:09 Web2 vs web3 incentive design

32:13 Origin story of SONA

39:43 How Laura onboards friends to crypto

44:56 Follow Laura and SONA

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