Watch the video episode here https://youtu.be/Gh-skb_Q7Yg Welcome to Episode 50 of NonFunGerbils, featuring the exceptionally creative Hueviews, a tactile artist known for her diverse body of work. Celebrating a milestone with her 1200th consecutive day of creativity, Hueviews shares her journey from photography and paper collages to embracing the …

Watch the video on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ud2PVP4FMY Welcome to Episode 49 of NonFunGerbils, featuring Anjali Young, a pivotal figure in the realm of online community engagement. Anjali's impressive trajectory in the crypto world spans from moderating a massive 60,000-member Facebook community to establishing Collab.Land, a vital …

Full notes available at: https://nonfungerbils.com/podcast/48-giselxflorez We are thrilled to host GiselXFlorez - Artist in Light - with a lifetime of experience exploring a broad spectrum of mediums to create and connect with ART, which is in itself is many things. In this episode, we dive deep into the heart of art, discovering its profound conne…

Summary: We welcome Joe Wait to discusses his thesis on censorship resistance within Ethereum and its broader implications for the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The conversation delves into the value of decentralisation, the Tornado Cash incident, and the challenges and debates within the blockchain space. Joe exposes some thought provoking issues with…

We spent the week in Lisbon at the NonFungibleConference and collected interviews with the following amazing people: 5.40 Trevor Jones Castle Party Gerbil announcement 8.47 Lapin Mignon & Fanny Lakoubay 12.19 Toxsam - VIPE 16.01 Orlando - NFTees.com 18.47 Eleonora Brizi 20.30 Violet Jones 24.42 George Boya, Eclectic Method, Arthr & Skeenee 31.06 Ca…

We welcome John Karp of NFT Factory, NFT morning and the Non Fungible Conference in Lisbon. John is a delight to chat with and a fountain of knowledge. We covered so much about the NFT space, the Art space, What is ownership, Royalty wars and much more. He also gave us a peek into the upcoming Non Fungible Conference thats happening at the beginnin…

We welcome Eirik Ulversøy AKA Kitten Mittens OG Cryptokitty breeder and whale with over 200,000 kitties Founder of TradFiLines and Ordinal flairs. We delve into Ordinals on Bitcoin, what they are, the experience and what it’s like to have the value of your project rocket overnight We announce the winner from our competition for #TheOrdinalGerbil ht…

Introducing Season 2 of the NonFunGerbils Podcast We welcome Rudem00se to the team Outlook for 2023 in NFTs ChatGPT and the new impact of AI New Gerbil We open up the competition to author and win #BraveNewGerbil Submit your entries to https://twitter.com/nonfungerbils with the tag #BraveNewGerbil or reply to our announcement tweet. Security Guide …

George was called away last minute for this one so Dr Dion W stepped in to help. Also known as @DionwNFT on Twitter, he is a data scientist and works for MyNFT. Today we focus on security with Jonathan Wilkins, previous CSO of Blockstream and currently founder of Cloaked Wireless. Cloaked focuses on solving sim swapping attacks in the space by crea…

We speak to Tagachi, a Solidity developer and security researcher with decades of experience as a Coder for 27 years, Involved in SecOps and Intel for 22 years and has worked on projects acquired by the likes of Google, Facebook and CISCO. We focus on Security and in particular wallet security covering what tagachi deems as best practice from a hyp…

George wasn’t able to make it to this episode so we bought in guest interviewer Christian Miles who has worked in and out of the tech industry since 2000 in sectors such as banking, logistics, e-commerce and now web3 where he is building infrastructure on the FLOW Blockchain with his company Find.xyz. Christian has also run therapeutic children’s h…

Today we welcome Adam B Levine of 330ai, a true original gangster of Bitcoin education having founded Speaking of Bitcoin (formerly Lets Talk Bitcoin) along with a number of other projects. We also welcome Freya Stevens of Likvidi who are connecting the world of carbon credits to the NFT space. This was a really fascinating conversation around carb…

George and I recently got back from the Non-fungible Conference in Lisbon. What a fantastic week it was, we met wonderful people, had amazing dinners and stimulating conversations. It was quite something to have such a broad range of people with the unified focus of NFTs all in one place. I kept a dictaphone with me and caught up with some key figu…

We are delighted to be here and joined today by Conlan Rios of the revolutionary platform ASYNC.ART. where you can design your own programmable and interactive art, generative collections and music. We have a fantastic chat exploring the following topics: The early Cryptovoxels days Hybrid metaverse platforms NFT culture and how it has changed Conl…

We chat to David Lucatch of Liquid Avatar and Oasis Digital Studios. We learn about David's approach to digital identity and how he is pairing real life identity with online identity along with the implications of identity verification in the Metaverse. https://oasisdigitalstudios.com/ https://liquidavatartechnologies.com/ https://ca.linkedin.com/i…

Today we welcome Bruno from RMRK which is NFT LEGO on the Kusama Blockchain that gives infinite extensibility to it's NFTS Bruno is deeply rooted within the Web3 and Polkadot ecosystem and runs dotleap.com with it's fortnightly newsletter on everything Polkadot, Substrate and Kusama We cover so much mind bending NFT brain food in this episode, you'…

Welcome to the NonFunGerbils and the Digitally Rare Podcasts We have come together to have a good old chin wag about the wider NFT space with a focus on art and the recent PFP project craze Digitally Rare was the first NFT podcast with their original episode airing July 2018. Jonathan and Matt are super fun and insightful, we hope you enjoy this as…

Sillytuna has had recent notoriety after selling his Covid Alien Cryptopunk for $11.7m at Sothebys, he is a developer, founder and a serious OG in the crypto space. We have an insightful chat about NFTs discussing: The road to mainstream for NFTs The problems to be resolved before the next hype wave The Future problem of Malicious SPAM NFTs The nee…

We are joined by one of the highest profile supporters of the NFT community and serial entrepreneur - Paris Hilton. The self described ‘undercover nerd’, one time collector of POGs, Pokemon and beanie babies, and successful business woman with 19 product lines, Paris Hilton discovered the world of crypto in 2016 and as she delved deeper into NFTs, …

We are joined by Matt and Kyle from Piñata which is essentially the core IPFS pinning service in the space. We take an awesome dive into what IPFS actually is, how it works and why it’s an important tool for storage and distribution of data on the web. We then cover NFT metadata, where are the images and descriptions and all the data associated wit…

We are joined by Jonathan Levine, an entrepreneur in the daily fantasy sports industry and representative of a small group of investors including Jonathan Bales and Peter Jennings and Adam Lefkoe who have entered the NFT space with a bang buying a number of high value NBA Topshots amongst other collectibles and art. We get an insight in to their in…

Today we welcome back Alan Carr, game designer for Dapper Labs and legend of the NFT space. We deep dive into NBA Topshot, what it is and everything that has happened around the phenomenal growth it has seen this year. At the end we read out some NonFunGerbil stories written by you, announce the winner for Baller Gerbil. We also layout our next com…

Today we are joined by an OG investor in the space and the founder of Proof of Attendance Protocol Patricio Worthalter. Patricio tells us the fascinating story of how he originally got in to the space after sorting out a ransomware payment in Bitcoin and finding the whole process so enjoyable! he speaks of the building of POAP, the difficulties and…

We speak to Jigsaw of Seen Haus, a very new project taking on the task of pairing the digital and physical with their auction house. We get down into the details and explore the whole concept. We thought this was a really interesting chat and would love to know what you thought. Tweet us @NonFunGerbils https://seen.haus/ https://nonfungerbils.com h…

We are joined by John Linden and Rudy Koch of Mythical Games John and Rudy are part of the super star team that setup Mythical and have bought us the game Blankos Block Party This interview was great fun and at the end we read out a couple of the entries for Elf Gerbil and announce the next NonFunGerbil giveaway and competition. Please excuse some …

We are joined by Jesse and Dan of Aavegotchi. An ambitious project bringing collectibles, gaming, art, metaverse, DAOs and DeFi and maybe even hardware all together in one cohesive system. At the end we unveil RugPullGerbil and read out some of the fantastic entries you sent us as well as set the next NonFunGerbil challenge ready for the holiday se…

We are joined for a second time by Zach Burks, founder of Mintable the token minting platform. Zach is here to tell us about the long awaited Mintable 2.0 which brings a whole new kind of Platform and Marketplace to the NFT world and introduces some unique features and approaches such as their DAO, whose governance tokens are NFTs. https://twitter.…

We are joined by Aleksander Larsen, co-founder and COO of Sky Mavis and Axie Infinity. This turned out to be an epic 2 part conversation. In part one we go over everything Axie Infinity past present and future, NFTs, Gaming, play-2-earn, crypto, incentives, adoption, virtual worlds, scaling, DAOs, Art, and all the things The second part, which foll…

We are joined by legendary artist and all round creative Alotta Money. In this inspirational episodes we get an insight into Alotta Money’s journey into and through the space, we take a dive into the NFT art scene and get some great advice for upcoming and established artists looking to tokenise their art. At the end we read out some amazing Farmer…

We are joined by the artist known as Robert Alice, who has spent 3 years creating the epic set of paintings known as ‘Portraits of a mind’. These contain within the original Bitcoin codebase which has been distributed between the 40 works. Next week we see work number 21 go on auction along with its accompanying NFT at the renowned auction house Ch…

Today we are joined by Ben Nolan, the founder and lead developer Cryptovoxels. We dive into: - the long-term vision for virtual world - upcoming features and development - the funding model - VR - sharding - scaling and much more.We really enjoyed this conversation, we hope you do too. #ForkingGerbil #FarmerGerbil https://twitter.com/bnolanhttps://…

We welcome Hackatao and their official speaker Eleonora Brizi. We have been working together with Hackatao and you our listeners to come up with a very unique creation, Pending Gerbil. Hackatao came up with the Name, you, came up with the back stories and we announce the winner at the end of the show. We took this opportunity to discover more about…

https://youtu.be/aErrChG5oAs https://nonfungerbils.com/podcast/18-artur-sychov-immersed-in-vr In our first video episode we enter Somnium Space for an interview in Virtual Reality with Somnium's founder and CEO Artur Sychov. We find out: - how Somnium started - what you can do in the virtual world - what's in development - the future of Social VR w…

We are joined by Joseph Delong, Senior developer at Consensys with the TXRX team researching and implementing Ethereum 2.0. We delve into the plan for ETH 2.0, how it’s going to work and what the implications are for NFTs and composiblity. At the end we read out some of your brilliant Liberty Gerbil entries and then have an extra special announceme…

This is an exciting episode is because we’ve got an exclusive first look at a project that’s been in stealth mode for the last 2 and a half years. Cryptographs are one-off creations, made by icons and artists that are immutable, and generate ongoing revenue for charity. Immutable in this case mean that they’ve bought a new kind of immutability to E…

Today we welcome the renowned NFT collector known as Whaleshark This was an epic conversation where we hear about Whalesharks story, $WHALE token and take a deep dive into the vision behind it. We also cover many other topics including community impacts of the socialisation of collections, why scarce digital art is the medium for this generation of…

Today we are Joined by Rizzle and Nate of NFT42 to discuss their upcoming iminent launch of InfinFT, A platform for minting fully onchain NFTs that’s pushing the space forward with new options for artists to mint their works. We discuss this in detail and also cover many topics including the recent Cryptovoxels meetups or WIP’s that are organised b…

Alan is a general legend in the space, he was co-founder of Kittycalc, product lead for Cryptokitties and is now focussed on the design and implementation for NBA Topshot. The NBA’s official digital collectibles and game coming out soon on Flow. Topics we dive into: The backstory of Alan NBA Topshot overview Game mechanics Surprise and Delight Recr…

Peter Siemens is a Software Engineer and leads on clientside software and development tools for Flow - Dapper’s new blockchain solution. We cover details about Flow, it's structure and how it’s doing things differently. New NonFunGerbil coming next episode https://www.onflow.org/ https://medium.com/dapperlabs/introducing-flow-a-new-blockchain-from-…

We are Joined by Jesse Johnson of Bullionix. Jesse is creating NFTs that are backed by gold bullion via Digix Gold. This is a new and exciting use case of NFTs and we have a great conversation finding out all about it. Please excuse the technical issues that we ran in to during this episode, there are a couple of 2 second gaps in the first half of …

Today is the very long awaited launch day of Decentraland so we’re joined by Matty of dclblogger.com to get us up to speed on whats happening in the Decentraland space. Matty is an investor, land flipper, and well known community member within Decentraland. He runs a blog surverying the NFT trading markets and helps people understand the landscape.…

Welcome Nate Hart, creator of Chainfaces. A Generative art project on Ethereum that launched last week and went viral within the NFT community. We chat to Nate about who he is, how this project came about and why randomly generated immutable ASCII faces are so compelling. Stay tuned at the end, we give away DeFi Gerbil and announce the Next NonFunG…

Julien Genestoux the founder and CEO of Unlock is deeply rooted in content delivery having founded Notifixious the company behind SuperFeedr, then moving on to become lead engineer at Medium. Now with Unlock Julien is offering a new way for creators to monetise their content using NFTs for access control. Unlock - https://unlock-protocol.com/ Julie…

Happy New Year everyone. Today our guest is Angela Dalton, CEO and co-founder of Signum Growth Capital. Angela has 20 years experience in global capital markets, she served as managing director at three investment banking firms (UBS, Evercore and Guggenheim) before working as a senior partner at Signum Global Advisors where she spends her time at t…

Welcome to Episode 6 of the NonFunGerbils podcast Today Zach Burks joins us for a chat. Zach is the co-founder and CEO of Mintable - a platform that we use to batch mint our Gerbil NFTs. Zach gives us an insight into what it’s like building a platform like this and gives us some teasers of the big changes that are coming in the new year with their …

This is our first inter-month episode We are very pleased to present to you our conversation with John Crain of SuperRare. John is a software engineer and previously worked at Consensys and went on to found Pixura and build SuperRare, a market for art NFTs. John gives us his insights into: The crypto art market Branching out into the wider art worl…

Today we’re joined by John Watkinson of LarvaLabs, John is the co-creator of the Cryptopunks, which was the first NFT project on Ethereum and the inspiration for the ERC721 standard. He also created Autoglyphs which is the first fully on-chain generative Art NFT project as well as many other varied and creative non-blockchain applications. In our c…

Today we’re delighted to bring you our conversation with Vinay Gupta. Vinay has a varied background as a futurologist, advising on disaster planning and state failure solutions, he designed the open source disaster relief shelter the Hexayurt, he was a first generation cypher punks, release coordinator for the launch Ethereum. Now he brings all of …

We are joined by Jake Brukhman of Coinfund. Jake has an extensive and varied background coming from a base of Mathematics and Computer Science, He’s deeply embedded in the crypto space and is an investor, artist and curator in the NFT Art world. We had brilliant conversation about many aspects of non-fungible tokens and art including: How NFTs make…

Today we’ve got Owen Barnes joining us. Owen has been involved in the crypto space since 2012 and is a full stack developer, speaker and independent advisor to blockchain startups. We have a fascinating conversation covering the state of crypto today and the outlook for the future. We cover where non-fungible tokens fit in and why they’re so intere…