Patricio Worthalter's story is an inspiring one. He stumbled into cryptocurrency early on while running a tech support business. One of his clients suffered a ransomware attack for which the ransom was payable in Bitcoin. The result was Patrici

#69: Franky Nines, A seasoned technology creative launches SupDucks

Sep 22nd, 2021 35m 25s

When SupDucks launched in July there was a lot of hype around the launch and it sold out instantly. It was likely due to the fact that the team had extensive experience in the technology ecosystem and Franky, the creator of the SupDuck characte

#68: Victor Mosquera, From Colombian musician to Canadian NFT artist

Sep 16th, 2021 42m 11s

Victor Mosquera grew up in Colombia and has been creative for as long as he can remember. However living in Colombia didn't make it easy to succeed. In the midst of attending university he decided that it was smarter to take a year off and spen

#67: Anonymoux, Trading his way to a dream NFT portfolio

Sep 15th, 2021 31m 58s

Anonymoux started with quite the advantage: a portfolio of over 50 Cryptopunks which he acquired back in January. However fortune favors the bold and his sizeable investment has converted into a much larger one. He consistently has some of the

#66: Jack Butcher, Monetizing infographic visualizations with NFTs

Sep 13th, 2021 40m 42s

Jack Butcher spent years in the ad agency world when he began creating visualizations based around some of his favorite books. His hobby quickly materialized into a full-time agency. Now with NFTs he has found his calling having sold dozens of

#65: Kyt Janae, Growing a thriving collector community at Foundation

Sep 7th, 2021 49m 16s

Kyt is both a world class 3D designer and business person. After running an agency for years she decided to transition into the NFT world full-time. Initially it began with some drops of her own NFTs but it quickly began taking over her life as

#64: Ben Jammin, A Daily Fantasy Sports Operator goes all in on NFTs

Sep 6th, 2021 36m 40s

I keep coming across Ben Jammin on Discord, Twitter, and elsewhere and I had to have him on the show. He's the creator of Dizzy Dragons and is now running a growing NFT agency to manage discords, communities, and more. In this episode we dove i

#63: Jess Sloss, Operating at the forefront social and community tokens

Aug 31st, 2021 50m 2s

This has been a long time coming but Jess Sloss is operating at the front of social tokens. In addition to being advisor to Rally.io, Jess has created an incubator for entrepreneurs to develop their own community tokens. He knows the ins and ou

#62: Chad Knight, From pro skateboarder to professional 3D artist

Aug 28th, 2021 32m 25s

Chad Knight was made for this moment in time. He has been toying with 3D software for a long time but it quickly manifested into much more than a hobby. It started with skateparks and shoes, including a stint at DC Shoes and Vans. Now he's Head

#61: Gabby Dizon, From gaming developer to play to earn empire with Yield Guild Games

Aug 24th, 2021 42m 26s

You may have heard of NFTs but while the current social media craze is all about profile photos, the play to earn space is also heating up in a major way. Axie Infinity is at the forefront and Yield Guild Games is the largest franchise across n

#60: NiftyNaut, From physicist to Cryptopunk to crypto founder

Aug 23rd, 2021 36m 14s

NiftyNaut has been in the crypto space for a while but he only recently decided to go all in. As the founder of NiftyHorde his team recently launched Swap.kiwi, a platform for safely exchanging your NFTs with another party at a very low cost. I

#59: Karsen Daily, From Vermont to LA on the NFT rocketship

Aug 21st, 2021 37m 17s

Karsen Woods aka Karsen Daily was responsible for pushing Superplastic into the world of NFTs. Riding the NFT wave on Clubhouse back at the beginning of the year, she became obsessed like most of us and has found her path to full-time NFT land.

#58: Sophisticated Art Speculator is back for The NFT Degens

Aug 20th, 2021 1h 12m

I brought Nick Kneuper back on the show once again and we literally just degened out. If you are looking for one of my normal interviews this most definitely isn't it. We dove into the past month since I last had him on, talked about our wins,

#57: Robbie Trevino, From career artist to living off his invented universe

Aug 16th, 2021 45m 56s

Robbie Trevino has had quite a career out the gate doing professional design for Magic the gathering, Xbox, and more. However after taking time off and dealing with a chronic illness he found NFTs. In this episode we discuss his career in art,

#56: Twobadour, From journalist to one of the largest NFT portfolio managers

Aug 12th, 2021 40m 32s

Earlier this year when a Beeple piece was sold for $69 million it took the art and NFT world by storm, setting off the largest NFT art bull rally to date. However the team behind the project was focused on on the massive purchase but instead th

#55: Alex Atallah, Behind the scenes of the world's largest NFT marketplace

Aug 10th, 2021 29m 18s

Alex Atallah is the co-founder and CTO of Opensea, the largest marketplace for NFTs today. For context on the company, Opensea did $325 million in volume in July 2021 and in the first 10 days of August have already done $578 million in transact

#54: Bitlectro Labs, From professional musicians to professional NFT artists

Aug 9th, 2021 45m 41s

When the Bitlectro Labs team released Dreamloops earlier this year it was a major hit. In an ocean of avatar projects DreamLoops is goes against the grain. What they created was a project that I both am a collector of and find absolutely fascin

#53: Conlan Rios, Pushing the limits of NFT art at Async

Aug 6th, 2021 39m 48s

Conlan Rios went from being a virtual land landlord to artists to building a platform for those artists to sell dynamic forms of art. That platform, Async, now has hundreds of artists on it and includes a lot of well known names including Mike

#52: Leandro & George of NFT Studios, From designing BMWs to digital assets

Aug 3rd, 2021 34m 14s

Leandro and George both went to design school and came out focused on designing real world objects. However when Cryptokitties launched in 2017 it began to fascinate them. One thing led to another and today they have a team of over 50 designing

#51: Janine Yorio & TJ Kawamura, The metaverse real estate developers

Jul 30th, 2021 39m 7s

You wouldn't expect to have a full blown real estate development firm operating in the virtual world but here we are! The thesis of Republic Realm also makes A TON of sense. Janine Yorio & TJ Kawamura are partners running an investment fund and

#50: Roger Dickerman, From fitness entrepreneur to NFT art historian

Jul 28th, 2021 44m 12s

Roger Dickerman has had quite the entrepreneurial journey and when you listen to our conversation it's clear that I'm a big fan. Roger and his wife have been running a fitness & wellness business for over a decade when Roger found his calling.

#49: Alex Masmej, From social token to NFT social network

Jul 26th, 2021 40m 20s

Last year Alex Masmej got a lot of attention when he decided to tokenize himself. Less than a year later he had become a significant player in the NFT space with the launch of TryShowtime, a social network for artists and collectors. In this ep

#48: Joe Saavedra, Memorializing video NFTs with physical displays

Jul 23rd, 2021 41m 54s

When Beeple's Everydays auction rocked the art market back in February, there was one aspect that dramatically differentiated the pieces: physical displays. Infinite Objects was the company behind those displays and has since partnered with a n

#47: Sam Brukhman, Bringing classical music into the future with NFTs

Jul 21st, 2021 49m 13s

Sam Brukhman is the mastermind behind one of the most creative NFTs I've come across, Betty's Notebook. The project, which cover 15-year old Betty Klenck's documenting of what appears to be Amelia Earhart's distress calls before her disappearan

#46: Kevin Wu, From digital accessories to metaverse manufacturer

Jul 17th, 2021 30m 50s

Kevin Wu has been making physical accessories for digital products like phones and crypto hardware for years. However he recently entered the NFT space and has experienced some great success by selling out his first project, Graycraft, which me