Creating Onchain Media with Pods — Lucas

Ven Gist is a philosopher of networks, designer of worlds. Researcher at The Open Machine which is a publication for the generation of experimental cultural and conceptual compliments to the decentralized web.He's an early member of MetaCartel, an org which funded many projects to develop open source technology and experiment with DAOs. Now working on Guild Guild. A locus of coordination for Creating, Stewarding, Enabling, and Studying Guilds.We talk about the open source movement. The historical context for where we are today. And what's coming up heading into 2025, where Ven is helping to stage Cosmolocal Playground in Amsterdam in the Spring.___ UFO Sponsor Resources🏙️ Towns — A feature-rich, onchain messaging experience that’s fully owned by its members. You build the space, set the rules, and make money. Build your community at towns.com↑ Higher — A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. Higher is a lifestyle. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net 🌐 International Meme Fund (IMF) — A DeFi protocol for borrowing $MONEY against your memecoins with $IMF serving as the protocol utility and revenue token. Learn more at internationalmeme.fund___@[email protected]@hollinsFor more episodes, go to ufo.fm

Sean Bradford is an artist, musician and creative technologist. Founder of ORIGIN STØRIES, a creative tech studio producing custom AI-powered tools for co-created experiences.He's lived many lives. As a vocalist and recording artist signed to a major label. Performing on Broadway. A DJ who spent a lot of time in Berlin, before moving to Stockholm and now Amsterdam. A crypto native, deeply immersed in AI and generative systems.Exploring how these creative tools can be used to transform relationships and enable world building between artists and audiences.___ UFO Sponsor Resources🏙️ Towns — A feature-rich, onchain messaging experience that’s fully owned by its members. You build the space, set the rules, and make money. Build your community at towns.com↑ Higher — A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. Higher is a lifestyle. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net 🌐 International Meme Fund (IMF) — A DeFi protocol for borrowing $MONEY against your memecoins with $IMF serving as the protocol utility and revenue token. Learn more at internationalmeme.fund___@[email protected]@hollinsFor more episodes, go to ufo.fm

Lucas is the Founder of Pods. A new way to publish, discover, and own your favourite podcasts. The place for bringing your podcast onchain.He's also Co-Founder of Fire Eyes DAO, a collective of crypto-natives who designed token economic and governance systems for projects including Optimism, ENS and Gitcoin. And was also an early employee at Bankless.We talk about what we've learned from a few years experimenting with onchain media. How minting works like a broadcast signal. And creators using platforms like Layer3 and Boost to amplify distribution by offering token incentives and rewards for people to collect their content.___ UFO Sponsor Resources🏙️ Towns — A feature-rich, onchain messaging experience that’s fully owned by its members. You build the space, set the rules, and make money. Build your community at towns.com↑ Higher — A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. Higher is a lifestyle. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net 🌐 International Meme Fund (IMF) — A DeFi protocol for borrowing $MONEY against your memecoins with $IMF serving as the protocol utility and revenue token. Learn more at internationalmeme.fund___@[email protected]@hollinsFor more episodes, go to ufo.fm

JAKE is a pseudo anonymous internet creator. Going with the classic blue, colour code #0000FF as his pfp. Host at POD OF JAKE where he’s interviewed almost 200 guests over 4 years. Most recently Jacob from Zora and others such as Vitalik Buterin, pplpleasr and Mark Cuban.Writer at BLOG OF JAKE, where he’s published about creativity and writing, documenting his experiences as a podcaster, observing what’s happening on the internet, reviewing crypto news, thinking about how to learn and build.JAKE is also the founder of Base Colors, a new onchain collection where you can mint unique colour codes on Base and give them a name, an interesting primitive which many people are starting to play around and experiment with.We talk about the benefits of writing online. Go behind the scenes experiences of hosting a podcast. Thoughts on the crypto scene, Bitcoin and pseudo anon identities on the internet, decentralized social like Farcaster, and thinking too much about Colors.___ UFO Sponsor Resources↑ Higher — Higher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net 🌐 International Meme Fund (IMF) is a DeFi protocol for borrowing $MONEY against your memecoins with $IMF serving as the protocol utility and revenue token. Learn more at internationalmeme.fund___@[email protected]@hollinsFor more episodes, go to ufo.fm

Jamie Reddington is an electronic music producer, consultant and lecturer from London who recently released his debut album Scenes.His music is shaped by hiphop, UK dance music and soul. Leaning into telling stories, with textures and samples captured from his phone, featuring the sound of his daughter’s heartbeat.The record was released as a co-creation. ‘Over 350 memories were submitted and turned into Scenes, capturing a moment in time. People stopped, took time out of their lives and engaged in a process that connected music and emotions.'We talk about the past, present and future of music on the internet. What's most interesting for artists right now?___ UFO Sponsor Resources↑ Higher — Higher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net 🌐 International Meme Fund (IMF) is a DeFi protocol for borrowing $MONEY against your memecoins with $IMF serving as the protocol utility and revenue token. Learn more at internationalmeme.fund___ @[email protected]@hollins For more episodes, go to ufo.fm

Gami and Clouted are core contributors from International Meme Fund (IMF) and $MONEY. Their team believes it is now crucial to have native liquidity and financial infrastructure for the meme sector.They're both from Sydney and have shared interests in defi financial engineering, game theory and the memecoin phenomonen.We talk about financial nihilism. Memes as emergent properties of the internet. Why do some meme assets succeed when the vast majority fail? How do you choose the tokens that go up? (no financial advice). The internet is stranger than you think. ufo.fmnews.ufo.fm SPONSORSHigher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net International Meme Fund (IMF) is a DeFi protocol for borrowing $MONEY against your memecoins with $IMF serving as the protocol utility and revenue token. Learn more at internationalmeme.fundLore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz.

Nadia Piet is Founder and Creative Lead of AIxDESIGN, a global community conducting critical AI research for the benefit of people, not profits. She's a designer, researcher, organiser and faculty member at ELISAVA's Design for Responsible AI.We talk about AlphaGO and Move 37. AI models being trained on creative assets without permission. And what's causing the rapid improvement of generative AI such as DALL-E and Midjourney?In the face of constant change, what are constructive ways to be thinking about AI? ufo.fmnews.ufo.fm SPONSORSHigher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net International Meme Fund (IMF) is a DeFi protocol for borrowing $MONEY against your memecoins with $IMF serving as the protocol utility and revenue token. Learn more at internationalmeme.fundLore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz.

Dave Bachinsky is a professional skateboarder, woodworker, and visual artist based in Carlsbad, California.In 2020, he launched a visual collection called Roll Forever featuring videos filmed with a drone from a bird's-eye view, observing a skaters' line in a pool or skate spot and edited to loop indefinitely, as if the line never ends. His new project Changing Tides was minted on Highlight. Dave is super early bringing skateboarding to the crypto, NFTs and new internet scene.We talk about life as a pro skater, kickflipping El Toro 20 stair and competing in Street League (SLS). How the industry, scene and culture has evolved over the years. And how things look in 2024 with skateboarding returning in the Paris Olympics. ufo.fmnews.ufo.fmkarma.ufo.fm SPONSORSHigher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net International Meme Fund (IMF) is a DeFi protocol for borrowing $MONEY against your memecoins with $IMF serving as the protocol utility and revenue token. Learn more at internationalmeme.fundLore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz.

Simona Pop is joyfully subverting the status quo. Host of /therapy on Farcaster. Writing and giving talks around building with intention and how existing trauma and socio-economic conditioning can hinder our ability to build something different.She's an advisor at Optimism helping to build the Superchain. Public Goods Steward at ENS DAO and one of the first people we met in crypto attending Ethereal Summit in Brooklyn in 2018.Simona's been a member of the UFO network since the very beginning. We hear something about an upcoming radio show?ufo.fmnews.ufo.fmkarma.ufo.fm SPONSORSHigher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.netLore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz.

Malcolm Levy, Raf Katigbak and Greg Liburd are co-founders of Refraction. An artist-owned community leading the next wave of digital art, music and culture — online, onchain and IRL.They all have extensive backgrounds in media, culture, festivals, films, brands. As artists, designers, writers, producers and creative people. Raf was early at VICE. Greg did a bunch with Jordan. Malcolm was the Director of the New Forms Festival 2001-16, and Curator of CODE Live during the 2010 Olympics Games.Today we reveal that Refraction and UFO are teaming up via our radio station. And exclusive alpha is shared for the future of Refraction for the first time on this show. ufo.fmnews.ufo.fmkarma.ufo.fm SPONSORSHigher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit higher.partyParagraph is where you can create, distribute & monetize - on your own terms. This publishing platform enables creators to mint posts as collectible content and send token-gated newsletters directly to wallet addresses. To get started with these radically powerful tools, visit paragraph.xyzOPEN has built state of the art onchain ticketing infrastructure that puts artists, organizers and fans back in control. Anyone can participate in the ticketing revolution through the DAO of creators, builders and token holders. To join the onchain tickets movement with OPEN, head to onopen.xyzLore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz.