Best Crypto Web3 Daos Bankless Bankless Dao Podcasts (2025)

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Membership Transition and March 2 Staking Deadline for Legacy Members plus Upcoming Events | with TrewKat and TheThriller 46:21

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In this episode, Droste hosts a discussion with Trewkat (Miss Katrina) and Adam Miller (The Thriller) about Black Flag DAO's new membership structure and legal entity formation. The conversation, originally recorded as a Twitter Space on February 18th, covers the transition from BanklessDAO, new membership tiers, staking requirements, and upcoming …

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DAO Experience Roundtable | A candid conversation on working and building in Web3 1:01:31

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In this episode of Making Bank, host Droste leads a roundtable discussion exploring the evolving landscape of DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations), examining both successes and failures in the web3 space through the lens of organizational behavior and human coordination. Our distinguished guests bring perspectives from academia, developmen…

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"52 Pickup" - Where Are We Now: History and Transition in 2024 with Rowan and ZFi 1:03:41

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BanklessDAO is undergoing both a name change and a redefinition of purpose. Helping frame and steward this set of challenges is a six member Transition Council formed earlier this year: Hiro Kennelly, Trewkat, WinVerse, Coffee Crusher, Rowan and ZFi. This episode seeks to encapsulate both the origin story of our organization and get you up to speed…

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BanklessCard is Shipping! | DAO launch partners and more with Links (Al Mithani) and NFThinker (Chris Biele) 32:47

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Today's guests are Al Mithani and Chris Biele, aka Links and NFThinker. They're here to share some exciting news about Bankless Card, a core project at BanklessDAO. BanklessCard https://banklesscard.xyz/ NounsDAO https://nns.xyz/ Timestamps 02:20 Ship status and initial feature set 05:40 So you’re partnering with a… bank? 08:50 Rewards and opportun…

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Reflecting on BanklessDAO and Life | Bill Ford aka The Marvel 1:28:23

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Today’s episode marks our 50th show since we relaunched it in February of 2022. Over these nearly two years, we’ve stayed true to our mission: offering a window into the people of BanklessDAO and the projects they are working on that drive their passion in exploring web3 technology and culture. Though a large percentage of our contributors are U.S.…

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49: DAO Law, Insights from a DAO Lawyer (Not Advice) 1:01:06

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MUNG Legal is the First Dedicated Blockchain Law Firm in Hong Kong founded in 2018. Their niche legal advisory lies in the sector of Blockchain, Cloud, AI and Data Technology, Biotechnology & Life Sciences, Art Auction, Art Frauds, and Art Tech, which includes NFT. MUNG has proven itself to be a valuable partner with tech, biotech and art tech entr…

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All About TLBANK with IcedCool 58:57

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IcedCool is a longtime core contributor at BanklessDAO and has been with BanklessDAO since its inception over two years ago. Iced has contributed in multiple areas including the Developer Guild and Operations, as well as Treasury & Tokenomics. He previously appeared on Making Bank to discuss tokenomics and a bit of his personal story on Episode 39 …

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48: Crowd Owned Sports Teams & The Future of Professional Sports // Krause House 54:33

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Krause House is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) governed by a community of fans, basketball lovers, and purists. Their goal is to purchase & operate an NBA team as a DAO. Today, Krause House is the first DAO to buy a professional basketball team as owners of the Ball Hogs, an American men's 3-on-3 basketball team that plays in the BIG…

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Mosaic | Manuel Maccou, Founder 36:21

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Today’s guest is Manuel Maccou. Manuel first appeared on the show a little over a year ago on Episode 18, released July 5, 2022. Today he joins us to talk about Mosaic, a distributed knowledge network he founded and is building. Mosaic is a question and answer platform that helps you accelerate your understanding of complex topics by giving you dir…

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47: Bankless DAO, Educating the Masses, & DAO Sustainability // Links 43:21

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Bankless DAO was founded by David Hoffman and Ryan Sean Adams on May 4th, 2021, when they airdropped 35,000 BANK tokens to each Bankless premium subscriber. Following the true ethos of decentralization, they stepped back and let the DAO take shape. While their media company, Bankless LLC, continues to operate as its own media node, the Bankless bra…

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Bankless Japan, Women in Web3, and WonderVerse | Ed On (aka JackAlpha) 41:09

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Today’s guest is Ed On, aka jackalpha in Discord. Ed studied civil engineering, so he’s a bridge builder in the literal and metaphorical sense. Just prior to getting into web3, he worked as a web2 product manager at Samsung. Ed is on the core team at Bankless Japan, part of the IMN or International Media Nodes at BanklessDAO. He also works on Wonde…

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Bankless Card: the Affinity Card for DAOs | Project update with Al Mithani (aka Links) 36:41

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Today’s guest is Al Mithani (aka Links), Project Champion for Bankless Card. Bankless Card seeks to bridge the user experience chasm between web3 and the real world safely and easily. Frequent listeners of the show know that we highlight people and projects within BanklessDAO as well as partner organizations that align with our mission and ethos. B…

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46: The Dfinity Foundation & The Internet Computer // Kyle L. 48:44

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The Dfinity Foundation is a nonprofit organization that was created to support and promote the development of the Internet Computer, a decentralized computing network. The Internet Computer aims to provide a secure and scalable platform for building and hosting applications, services, and websites without relying on traditional centralized infrastr…

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45: Kleros, the Justice Protocol // Guangmian Kung 48:08

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Kleros is a decentralized dispute resolution protocol that uses blockchain technology to provide a transparent, efficient, and affordable way to resolve disputes. The protocol is built on the Ethereum blockchain and uses smart contracts and a decentralized network of jurors to arbitrate disputes. With Kleros, anyone with an internet connection can …

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Allyn Bryce (aka Liquidiot) on The Rug, his contributor journey at Bankless DAO, and personal creative projects in Web3 1:11:37

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Today’s guest is Allyn Bryce, known by many (or most) online as Liquidiot. Allyn is man of many talents. He’s a voiceover artist, audio engineer, photographer, video editor, occasional English teacher…. and a father of three. In web3, he’s using his talents working on media projects at BanklessDAO as well as several spin-offs like The Rug, a web3 s…

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44: DAOPlanet & DAODenver // Steve Echtman & Elijah Spina 48:10

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Today’s guests are Steve Echtman and Elijah Spina who are both representing DAOPlanet. DAOPlanet holds the vision of greater representation for individuals within communities, organizations, businesses, and the entire world — achieved through the integration and proliferation of DAO principles and Web3 tools. As demand increases for more autonomy a…

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SalmanNeedsAJob member interview 59:38

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Today's guest goes by SalmanNeedsAJob on socials. He joined BanklessDAO in late 2021 and has been deeply involved in the community and multiple projects for over a year. A couple of notes before we jump into the episode: Our conversation was recorded in December 2022 so a couple of relative date references are off. Also since then, Salman has launc…

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Above Average Joe | Intersection of DAO Compensation and Incentive Alignment 44:40

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Today’s guest is none other than Above Average Joe, a Bankless DAO OG who’s been at the center of building community since its earliest days. Joe has been involved in the crypto space since 2013 and is now focused on compensation and incentive alignment at the organizational level. He last appeared on Making Bank in August of 2022, when Miss Purple…

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Talking Türkiye with RayBankless | Earthquake Relief 27:56

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Koray, who goes by RayBankless.eth, is a core contributor at BanklessDAO and Bankless Türkçe. This is his second appearance on the show. Koray joins us today to discuss two topics. One, an update on his work with Sobol as a DAO Cartographer at BanklessDAO. And two, the Giveth campaign he just launched in conjunction with Bankless Türkçe earthquake …

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43: Network State in a Van // KiftDAO 37:28

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Kift DAO is a non-profit that aims to purchase real estate for the use and enjoyment of the Kift community. It is controlled by NFT holders, who select and vote on proposals, including which real estate properties to buy. Their mission is to create inclusive, community-owned gathering spaces for people who choose to live communally and work from an…

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42: Structuring a DAO // Origami DAO Launcher 35:36

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Matt is one of the Co-Founders of Origami, which helps ambitious communities create the world’s most valuable DAOs. Origami supports these groups through their open and effective framework for growing DAOs. Matt and his Co-Founders got together to talk about crypto projects, fun NFT investments, and what would happen if networks could be owned and …

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Making Bank: Thanking Crypto Communities with ThriveCoin | Daniel Jacobs, CEO 42:15

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Today’s guest is Daniel Jacobs, CEO and founding member of ThriveCoin. The purpose of ThriveCoin is simple. ThriveCoin supports crypto communities that want to thank their members who make valuable and meaningful contributions. Daniel has previously built and scaled two “Contribution Economies“, and in his words, Opportunities to build something th…

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41: Impact DAOs & the Impact DAO Book // Deepa Chaudhary 36:40

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Deepa Chaudhary is a Builder in Impact DAO Media and they have written the Impact DAO Book. It is a book written by a DAO for those who want to build their own DAOs. An Impact DAO is focused on creating positive externalities. In other words, its purpose is to improve the lives of people and the planet. Impact DAOs offer a radically new way of orga…

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40: NFT Communities & DAOs // Arvin Khamseh 49:17

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Arvin Khamseh is a globally recognized thought leader in the crypto space. His impressive background in investor relationship marketing for public companies combined with his success in NFT marketing has led to an international reputation for excellence. Since successfully selling out an Italian artist collection in 2021, Arvin has consulted with m…

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Making Bank: Trewkat member interview 49:43

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Trewkat, or Katrina, is an academic librarian from Australia. She joined BanklessDAO in late August of 2021 and quickly became a contributor. Today, she’s an active contributor in the Writers Guild as well as an editor for Good Morning News or GMN, “the world’s first on-chain newspaper.” Discord: Trewkat#1933 Twitter: https://twitter.com/trewkat Me…

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39: DAO Infrastructure and Network State Blockchains // JUR 32:58

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Today’s guest is Alessandro Palombo, the Founder of Jur, which claims to bring power back to the people with a blockchain for building new societies for governance, systems, and network states. Jur is developing a Layer 1 blockchain network on Polkadot that will provide tools for creating new societies including governance services: passports, gove…

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Making Bank: Tokenomics at BanklessDAO with IcedCool 42:18

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Today’s guest is IcedCool. Iced is a Bankless DAO OG, and went full-time DAO in 2021. He brings a broad understanding of information technology and software development, and has managed a number of IT, DevOps and software development projects throughout his career. Prior to getting into web3 and DAOs, he was responsible for the IT department of a l…

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38: Empowered Communities, a DAO Ecosystem Conversation // AstroDAO 36:45

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Our guest for today is Jordan Gray, the ideator of AstroDAO. AstroDAO gives everyday users access to advanced tooling through a simple interface. AstroDAO is also flexible enough to give crypto native power users unlimited possibilities. The AstroDAO community is a vibrant ecosystem with hundreds of active organizations. They are building a new eco…

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Making Bank: Samantha Marin and Brandon Nolte of Quorum 49:42

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Today’s guests are Samantha Marin and Brandon Nolte of Quorum. Sam and Brandon met over a year ago through BanklessDAO, and quickly developed a rapport. They have since joined forces to form Quorum. Sam is part of the communications and growth team for Aragon, a framework for on-chain DAOs. She started her DAO journey in BanklessDAO as the talent s…

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Making Bank: Portable Benefits and Wiping away Medical Debt with Opolis and Rainbow Rolls | KittySlasher 52:15

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Today’s guest goes by KittySlasher online. He’s a member of Bankless DAO, and a core contributor at Opolis. Kitty has spent the past 15 years climbing the corporate ladder in telecommunications, and this led him to see the flaws in the current work model and on to a search for something different. That’s when he found web3 and Opolis where he now s…

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37: The CoLiving Connection to the Network State // Dakotah Apostolou 40:55

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Dakotah is the CEO of Cohere. A designer of buildings, communities and businesses, Dakotah's training has informed his passion for using built environments to create regenerative systems that restore the health of ecosystems and communities. Cohere is a member-owned network of conscious co-living communities located in seductively remote areas of t…

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Making Bank: iSpeakNerd member interview 1:00:14

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Today’s guest goes by iSpeakNerd pretty much everywhere. He joined Bankless DAO at the end of November 2021, where he immediately jumped into the Writers and Education Guilds, and soon found himself developing content with the Bankless Academy team. ispeaknerd’s background is in physical science and education. Today he helps with the operations and…

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Making Bank: JengaJojo on DAO Stewards, SAFE delegated governance, project funding framework 32:11

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Today’s guest is JengaJoJo. Jenga joined BanklessDAO in July of 2021, initially becoming active in the translators guild. Among other things, he’s involved with the bDAO Global Events team, where we partnered with 8 events in Season 5 alone. He’s also involved with the newly-formed DAOStewards initiative inside bDAO, which seeks to govern public go…

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Making Bank: Siddhearta of Writers Guild on DAOs as playgrounds for personal growth 37:39

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Today’s guest goes by Siddhearta on Twitter and in Discord. He’s been with BanklessDAO since its inception and quickly found a home in the Writers Guild. Siddhearta is currently the Writers Guild coordinator and the BanklessDAO newsletter team project coordinator. Discord: siddhearta#9802 Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xSiddhearta Linktree: https://…

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36: The IRL Gap Between Traditional Cities & Digital Startup Cities // Angelo Alessio 36:24

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Angelo is the Founder and Protocol Architect at build_cities. The build_cities mission is to build, accommodate, and invest in a collective of innovators vested in the best interests of their respective localities. They are starting with a decentralized network of coworking spaces organized via DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) frameworks…

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Making Bank: DoinGud, ThriveCoin, List of DAOs, and Chippi 26:22

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A conversation about successful DAOlationships – Web3 and DAO relationships. DoinGud, ThriveCoin, List of DAOs, and Chippi are all discussed in the context of community and building (buidl-ing) together with a purpose. Senad Discord: Senad.eth#8782 Twitter: NFThinker Discord: NF Thinker#2814 Timestamps 00:00 - 2:00 Intros Senad is a “DAOplomat” at …

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Making Bank: DAOlationships and CRM with Senad and NFThinker 39:46

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Today’s episode is Part 2 of a two-part conversation with guests Senad and NFThinker, both of whom are on the DAOlationships team at BanklessDAO. In last week’s episode, we discussed the ConsenSys relationship and onboarding proposal. In this episode, we discuss business development in Web3 more broadly, and the challenges and opportunities that li…

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35: Building the Crypto Capital of the World // Denys Troyak 45:08

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Our guest for today is Denys from Satoshi Island. Denys is head of operations for all things on the ground, taking care of the arrangements needed for the physical development of the island. Satoshi Island is a 32 million square foot private island, located in the tropical paradise of Vanuatu, tucked between Australia and Fiji. The island, which is…

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Making Bank: ConsenSys x DAOlationships with Senad and NFThinker 19:50

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Today’s episode is Part 1 of a two-part conversation with guests Senad and NFThinker, both of whom are on the DAOlationships team at BanklessDAO. They join us today to discuss a timely topic, the onboarding of 50 employees from ConsenSys to learn about DAOs and BanklessDAO in particular. We discuss the ongoing original and follow-on proposals that …

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Making Bank: TalentDAO, DeSci and more with Saulthorin 55:51

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Today’s guest is Saulthorin, aka BanklessChick.eth. Sauthorin has a professional background focused on graph analytics in the context of social networks. She joined BanklessDAO in July of 2021, becoming active first in analytics, and is currently an elected role holder on the Governance Solutions Engineer or GSE team. In her ‘spare time’, she launc…

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34: A Parliament of DAOs & Network States // Ankit Bhatia 43:18

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Ankit and Rob are Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Sapien Nation. Ankit has a passion for understanding the status quo and shaping social systems to be more aligned with nature, culture, and human-centered technology. He graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley and quickly fell in love with the ethos, design, …

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Making Bank: Bankless Advisor with Steve Larsen of PlannerDAO and Jacob Benson aka Coffee&Crypto 41:44

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Bankless Advisor will equip a generation of financial advisors with the education, technology and legal tools to introduce one billion people to the Bankless life. They have an agreement with a company that provides Defi software for financial advisors who will whitelabel and revenue share with Bankless Advisor. Today’s guests are Jacob Benson and …

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Making Bank: Writers Cohort with Grant Nissly 35:09

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Today’s guest is Grant Nissly. Grant is a writer with the BanklessDAO Writers Guild and the founder of Taptive.xyz. Taptive helps communities grow with the power of writing-focused cohort-based courses. Grant joins us today to discuss the Writers Cohort at Bankless DAO. Discord: Grant#2959 Twitter: https://twitter.com/grant_nissly Taptive proposal …

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33: Metaverse and Network State Synergy // Mayur Mistry 36:23

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Mayur Mistry is the Founding Member of ArchiDAO. He is also one of the lead web3 developers working on decentralized city infrastructure, fractionalized real estate, and open-source tools at CityDAO. In ArchiDAO, they aim to push the boundary in the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Industry with a blockchain and web3 native approach. Mayur …

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Making Bank: Tony Stark member interview 30:08

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Tony Stark joined BanklessDAO right around the genesis of BanklessAfrica and began his journey working on the BanklessAfrica website. He has been serving a role as BanklessAfrica Tech Steward since, and is now also part of the Mad Hatter Management Crew. In this episode, Tony Stark joins salmanneedsajob on an episode of Making Bank, as Tony tells u…

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Making Bank: Orange Protocol with Humpty Calderon 32:20

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Orange is a reputation and trust minting protocol that aggregates data and Web3 reputation models to generate comprehensive reputation proofs in the form of Verifiable Credentials and NFTs. It can be used to objectively calculate and assess the "reputation" for a Decentralized Identifier (DID), and associated wallet addresses. It takes multiple dat…

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32: Decentralized Education & CityDAO University // David & Scott 56:40

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Here with us today are two of our fellow CItyDAO citizens David and Scott. In this episode, we talked about topics related to the traditional education system, Web3 education, the CityDAO Academic Conference, and the network state. The CityDAO Academic Conference will be held virtually (on Zoom) on Sept 3-4, 2022 from approximately 11:00 am - 5:00 …

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Making Bank: Bankless Card with Links and NFThinker 33:03

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Today’s guests are two of the core team members on the Bankless Card project. Links is project champion and NFThinker is an original founding member. BanklessCard is a debit card for DAO contributors, by DAO contributors. Still in development, BanklessCard aims to allow cardholders to earn governance tokens in their DAO of choice. Links is a self-d…

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Making Bank: Miss Purple member interview 43:59

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Miss Purple is a writer, voiceover artist, and radio host based in Lesotho, Southern Africa. She is a self-described science nerd and a host on Bankless Africa podcasts. She joined BanklessDAO in January 2022. Timestamps 00:30 Intro 01:27 Jumping into the Web3 space 03:08 Why BanklessDAO 05:07 Forming relationships 08:27 Figuring out how things wor…

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31: Uniting Africans Across the Globe with a Digital Nation // Eche Enziga 46:23

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Today on our CityDAO Podcast episode, we had another enriching discussion about network state with our amazing guest, Eche Enziga from Afropolitan. In this episode, we will learn more about the story of Afropolitan, their vision and goals, and other interesting issues about the network state. Afropolitan aims to create a Digital Nation that will en…