Next Creators

Alejandro V. Betancourt (AVB) is co-creator of NEAR Misfits, a generative pfp project on NEAR Protocol launched in collaboration with TENKBay. In this episode Alejandro talks with Sasha about: 

• What makes a successful successful NFT PFP project

• Studying law at university

• How NEAR Misfits has evolved

• How the value of an NFT isn't just in the "JPEG"

• One thing people don't think about with their NFT project

• Advice for creators thinking of launching their own NFT PFP

Episode links:

Alejandro (AVB): https://twitter.com/AlejandroVBeta1

NEAR Misfits: https://nearmisfits.com/

TENKBay: https://tenkbay.com/

Wild User Interviews Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/243F5C7ESNgjjf9mr6y4a4?si=O9T3YNVgSeGQ_fRMMcl38w&nd=1

Balaji's The Network State: https://balajis.com/the-network-state-book-a-crosspost/

Zeitwarp artist: https://twitter.com/zeitwarp/

Orrin Campbell is founder of QSTN, an emerging Web3 data platform looking to disrupt the advertising industry by giving individuals power and control over their data. In this episode Orrin talks with Sasha about: 

• Going on Doctor Phil as a cyborg from the future

• What Neil Degrasse Tyson had to say about web3

• How he discovered and joined the NEAR Protocol ecosystem

• Why Web3 is a technological revolution in the same sense the internet was in the 90s

• Wanting to be an architect growing up

• Best entry points for people new to #web3

Episode links:

Orrin: https://twitter.com/realorrin

QSTN: https://qstn.us

Neil deGrasse Tyson interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImdmYU6ykCo

Orrin Interview with Mintbase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3YhSJZJoTQ

 Coin Bureau NEAR Protocol overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r61UszUFwNY

Sasha Hudzilin: https://twitter.com/AliaksandrH

Human Guild: https://humanguild.io

Eric Benz is a contributor to CannaDAO, a decentralized, member-governed platform for cannabis growing and operations. He was formerly CEO of Changelly,  a non-custodial instant cryptocurrency exchange. In this episode Eric talks with Sasha about: 

• What are the problem within the cannabis industry 

• How people started associating negativity with cannabis 

• Web3 DAO tooling

• Education within the industry

• Navigating legal issues with web3 and cannabis

Episode links:

Eric Benz: https://twitter.com/cryptobenz420

CannaDAO: https://www.cannadao.org

Pandu Sastrowardoyo is Founder of RealityChain, CEO of DeBio Network,  and Initiator of Myriad Social. Reality Chain is a Metaverse-as-a-Service platform, helping you manage your metaverse and allowing you to integrate with a host of different blockchains. Pandu talks with Sasha about:

• Fighting for the legalization of crypto in Indonesia

• Making more experiments in web3 outside of defi

• Why the metaverse should focus on social immersion and shouldn't replace your real life

• Losing her land in Second Life

• How web3 social projects can cross into the mainstream

Episode links:

Pandu Sastrowardoyo: https://twitter.com/decentricity

Reality Chain: https://www.realitychain.io

Myriad Social concept doc: https://myriad-social.github.io

Software Architecture Conference Talk on Architecting Genomic Blockchain:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARd8EqGfp88

Tour of PicoVista Museum of Computing @ Second Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Swa5X3jZA

Somnium Space: https://somniumspace.com

Crypto Voxels: https://www.cryptovoxels.com

Kenny Yeglinski is founder of Drawstring, an NFT launch platform and secondary marketplace built on NEAR Protocol. In this episode Kenny talks with Sasha about: 

• Building his first multi-million dollar business with a trampoline park

• Working with artists Snoop Dogg and DMX 

• Getting introduced to NEAR Protocol

• NFTs being a new way to create fanbases for artists and creators

• How to shift the negative sentiment around NFTs

• NFTs being your gateway into the web3 world/metaverse

Episode links:

Drawstring: https://drawstring.io

Drawstring Twitter: https://twitter.com/drawstring_nft

Aliaksandr “Sasha” Hudzilin: https://twitter.com/AliaksandrH

Human Guild: https://humanguild.io

Jean-Daniel (Danny) Gauthier is CEO and co-founder of Myriad Social, Myriad is a decentralized social platform, where you can browse native content or content coming from mainstream social media. Myriad bridges Web 2 and Web 3, and does it through incentives, rewards, and monetization for all creators. In this episode Danny talks with Sasha about: 

• Growing up broke

• Why it's inevitable that social data and web3 will mingle together

• Having a soverign digital identity and inventory

• The future of social in web3

• Letting community decide what to show instead of an algorithm

• Will websites & the metaverse be fragmented like today's social networks?

Episode links:

Myriad Social: https://www.myriad.social

Myriad Social Github: https://github.com/myriadsocial

Product Walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwXF1p9edno

Human Guild: https://humanguild.io

Aliaksandr “Sasha” Hudzilin: https://twitter.com/AliaksandrH

Stipe Plejić (CEO) and Milan Mašanović (COO) are creating Endemic, a new NFT marketplace "with a soul." They want to provide exquisite art to the crypto world but also to give real world artists exposure to this newly opened market by building online and offline community while curating unique art. In they talk with Sasha about: 

• Why social components are important in an NFT marketplace

• How the world's best art galleries take 60% from an artist and why Endemic isn't doing that

• Attracting more artists to NEAR Protocol who've only used Ethereum marketplaces

• How do you build for artists versus NFT and art collectors

• The importance of digital ownership for the future

• How Discord & Telegram channels are early beginnings of the metaverse

Episode links:

Stipe Plejić: https://twitter.com/stipeplejic

Milan Mašanović: https://twitter.com/miki_mali

Endemic App: https://endemic.app

Endemic blog: https://endemic-app.medium.com

Croatian Blockchain Association: https://twitter.com/stoneblock_hr

Aliaksandr “Sasha” Hudzilin: https://twitter.com/AliaksandrH

Clarian North is a musician-producer and founder of Tamago, a decentralized music streaming platform built on NEAR Protocol. Clarian has also worked as a head engineer for major brands and indies alike from the ground up, including Universal, Redbull, FOF, along with Grammy nominated and Award winning productions over the past decade. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: 

• Being obsessed with recreating the sound of records

• What is the role of a music label

• Why the monetization model of current streaming services drives incentives away from artists

• How do musicians currently make money 

• Sovereignty of finance and how communities can decide what is promoted on a platform

• How music, blockchain, and cyberpunk belong closer together than most people realize

Episode links:

Clarion North: https://twitter.com/clarianmusic

Tamago: http://tamastream.info

Tamago Twitter: https://twitter.com/tamago_stream

Tamago Telegram: https://t.me/tamago_official

Human Guild: https://humanguild.io

Aliaksandr “Sasha” Hudzilin: https://twitter.com/AliaksandrH

Tabea and Nuno are founders of Muti Collective, a collective to support creatives by providing resources, funding, and community to help them keep making their art. They also help creatives navigate their entry into Web3 from Web2. In this episode they talk with Sasha about: 

• Working directly with artists to empower the local economy in Portugal 

• Streaming live music and events in the Metaverse

• How you can build a community that is more transparent and collaborative

• How you don't need to have money to get started in Web3

• Is sentiment changing around Web3 with artists

• The connection between art, creativity, and web3

Episode links:

Muti Collective: https://linktr.ee/muti.collective

Muti Collective in Cryptovoxels: https://www.cryptovoxels.com/play?coords=NE@763E,112N,12U

Bom Beijo live music event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO6gdBbZX-w

Nuno: https://linktr.ee/smokedfalmon

Muti on Mintbase: https://www.mintbase.io/store/muti.mintbase1.near

Isaac Sixtus Chizaram is a full-time desinger at Hovercast, a toolset for streamers, broadcasters, and brands creating interactive live streams. He's also worked on the Human Guild brand refresh and is involved with other open-source design communities. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: 

• Balancing time in doing both Web2 and Web3 work

• Communities he'd recommend joining

• Getting out of creative blocks

• The state of Web3 in Nigeria

• Advice on dealing with rejection

• Value of community in-person events

Episode links:

Isaac Zara: https://twitter.com/isaaczara_

Web3 Designers: https://www.web3designers.org

Human Guild: https://humanguild.io