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Ethereum Daily
A highlight from Farcaster Is Migrating To OP Mainnet
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup. Here is your latest for Tuesday, August 22nd, 2023. Farcaster announces plans to migrate to opmainnet, Balancer discloses a critical vulnerability, Starkware open sources its Starkprover, and RISC0 introduces its Zeth ZK EVM. All this and more starts right now. Farcaster, a decentralized social media platform, announces plans to migrate its identity and storage contracts to opmainnet. The Web3 social platform currently uses Ethereum mainnet for its identity system. Farcaster stores most of its data off -chain in specialized servers called Farcaster Hubs. Farcaster also said it plans to roll out its platform for all users after the migration. The platform is currently invite -only. Dan Romero, the founder of Farcaster, highlighted the existing ecosystem of apps on the OP stack, including Zora, Base, and Ethereum Attestation Service, as a reason for the transition. Farcaster has over 15 ,000 registered users. Balancer disclosed a critical vulnerability that impacts certain V2 pools on Ethereum mainnet, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Avalanche, Gnosis, Phantom, and Polygon ZK EVM. The DEX is urging users to promptly withdraw their positions from the affected pools. Balancer also executed emergency mitigation measures safeguarding 80 % of the affected funds. Pendle Finance noted that three of its own pools are impacted by the Balancer mitigation measures. The remaining funds that remain at risk account for 4 % of Balancer's total value locked. The vulnerability has not yet been exploited at the time of recording. Balancer still recommends users with funds in the mitigated pools to migrate their positions to safe pools or withdraw their assets altogether. Users can connect their wallet to Balancer to check if their position is impacted. Starkware announced that it will open source the codebase for its Stark Prover, which has also been renamed to the Stone Prover. The Prover compresses transactions and generates proofs for Cairo programs. The Prover has been active since June of 2020, proving transactions for apps like ImmutableX and Sorare. The code will be introduced during StarkNet Summit on August 31st. The release aims to promote transparency and contribute to scaling Ethereum. Developers can use the Stone Prover to generate proofs, build new apps, and further innovate. Starkware also plans to open source its infrastructure for the StarkNet stack. Blockchain infrastructure provider RISC -0 introduced Zeth, a new open source solution for generating ZK proofs of EVM and Ethereum blocks. RISC -0 coins Zeth as a Type -0 ZK EVM, placing its own pin on Vitalik's chart of ZK EVM types. According to RISC -0, Type -0 has all the benefits of Type -1 but without slow proof generation. The Prover is built on the RISC -0 ZK -VM in Rust and uses the Bonsai ZK coprocessor. Zeth can be used to proof signatures, account states, block construction, and EVM opcodes. The Prover verifies the validity of Ethereum blocks without relying on validators or sync committees and handles block construction steps within the ZK -VM. And lastly, Aave v3 is now live on Base, allowing users to borrow ETH, USDC, and CB ETH against Wrapped Ether Collateral. Users can currently borrow USDC at a 1 .3 % variable APY. Base, an OP Stacked Chain by Coinbase, holds over $238 million in total value locked, making it the 5th largest rollup by TVL. Base is also leading all rollups in addition to Ethereum mainnet by the number of transactions. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. You can also support ETH daily by supporting our Gitcoin Grant by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash gitcoin. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
Coronavirus
A highlight from Farcaster Is Migrating To OP Mainnet
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup. Here is your latest for Tuesday, August 22nd, 2023. Farcaster announces plans to migrate to opmainnet, Balancer discloses a critical vulnerability, Starkware open sources its Starkprover, and RISC0 introduces its Zeth ZK EVM. All this and more starts right now. Farcaster, a decentralized social media platform, announces plans to migrate its identity and storage contracts to opmainnet. The Web3 social platform currently uses Ethereum mainnet for its identity system. Farcaster stores most of its data off -chain in specialized servers called Farcaster Hubs. Farcaster also said it plans to roll out its platform for all users after the migration. The platform is currently invite -only. Dan Romero, the founder of Farcaster, highlighted the existing ecosystem of apps on the OP stack, including Zora, Base, and Ethereum Attestation Service, as a reason for the transition. Farcaster has over 15 ,000 registered users. Balancer disclosed a critical vulnerability that impacts certain V2 pools on Ethereum mainnet, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Avalanche, Gnosis, Phantom, and Polygon ZK EVM. The DEX is urging users to promptly withdraw their positions from the affected pools. Balancer also executed emergency mitigation measures safeguarding 80 % of the affected funds. Pendle Finance noted that three of its own pools are impacted by the Balancer mitigation measures. The remaining funds that remain at risk account for 4 % of Balancer's total value locked. The vulnerability has not yet been exploited at the time of recording. Balancer still recommends users with funds in the mitigated pools to migrate their positions to safe pools or withdraw their assets altogether. Users can connect their wallet to Balancer to check if their position is impacted. Starkware announced that it will open source the codebase for its Stark Prover, which has also been renamed to the Stone Prover. The Prover compresses transactions and generates proofs for Cairo programs. The Prover has been active since June of 2020, proving transactions for apps like ImmutableX and Sorare. The code will be introduced during StarkNet Summit on August 31st. The release aims to promote transparency and contribute to scaling Ethereum. Developers can use the Stone Prover to generate proofs, build new apps, and further innovate. Starkware also plans to open source its infrastructure for the StarkNet stack. Blockchain infrastructure provider RISC -0 introduced Zeth, a new open source solution for generating ZK proofs of EVM and Ethereum blocks. RISC -0 coins Zeth as a Type -0 ZK EVM, placing its own pin on Vitalik's chart of ZK EVM types. According to RISC -0, Type -0 has all the benefits of Type -1 but without slow proof generation. The Prover is built on the RISC -0 ZK -VM in Rust and uses the Bonsai ZK coprocessor. Zeth can be used to proof signatures, account states, block construction, and EVM opcodes. The Prover verifies the validity of Ethereum blocks without relying on validators or sync committees and handles block construction steps within the ZK -VM. And lastly, Aave v3 is now live on Base, allowing users to borrow ETH, USDC, and CB ETH against Wrapped Ether Collateral. Users can currently borrow USDC at a 1 .3 % variable APY. Base, an OP Stacked Chain by Coinbase, holds over $238 million in total value locked, making it the 5th largest rollup by TVL. Base is also leading all rollups in addition to Ethereum mainnet by the number of transactions. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. You can also support ETH daily by supporting our Gitcoin Grant by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash gitcoin. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast
A highlight from Base: Coinbase's New Layer 2 Kicks Off
"Jesse Pollack is the creator of BASE, a layer 2 scaling solution from Coinbase which launched last week. BASE has quickly become a trending topic and a trending chain this summer, attracting more than 200 million of value in its short life. Coinbase is the world's second largest crypto -centralized exchange by volume and now it's moving to the on -chain world, so it's worth watching. In our conversation, we will dive into the origin story of BASE, why opt for a layer 2 and not start a whole new layer 1, why go for optimistic rollups, how BASE is unique in the already crowded layer 2 space, their decentralization roadmap, and more. Before we get into it, let's hear an introduction to BASE from Jesse. BASE is an Ethereum layer 2, it's being incubated by Coinbase and decentralized out over the next few years. The key thing that BASE does is it lets you run all the same applications that you know and love on Ethereum, but at anywhere between 10 and 100 times cheaper price. So that stablecoin send or the trade or the borrow that you're doing on Ethereum right now that might cost dollars or tens of dollars or hundreds of dollars in peak kind of demand moments, that's going to cost cents or tens of cents on BASE. And so the goal there is really to take this incredible kind of suite of applications that started being built on Ethereum and make them accessible to everyone. So I think that's the kind of core value prop of BASE. It's bring the on -chain world in a format that everyone can access. Of course, there are already a few layer 2s out there. We've had the founders or developers of many of them or at least the biggest ones in the podcast already. There's different flavors of them. The CK is optimistic, Rolla and everything else. So why build yet another one? What's special about this? Yeah, absolutely. And the first thing I'd say is generally our feeling is that it's going to take all of us. You know, when we kind of started thinking about building BASE, I think the key insight that we had that led to us building BASE was that there's going to be many layer 2s that scale Ethereum, almost like the original kind of theory of scaling vision, rather than there just being one layer 2, we think that many of these things are going to kind of work together to provide more throughput, more capacity to Ethereum and help bring a billion people on chain over the next decade. And so what we're doing here is we're really kind of throwing our chips in. We're saying, hey, let's put Coinbase resources, let's put Coinbase energy and let's put Coinbase users into this new decentralized on -chain economy. And let's do that by building BASE, which is an open decentralized layer 2 that's built on the OP stack, which means that it's going to have more interoperability and connective tissue with all the other OP stack chains like OP Mainnet and Zora and Public Goods Network. And let's use BASE as a bridge where we can take all the Coinbase users and all the future Coinbase users, move them from the off -chain world on -chain with BASE, and then support them to go explore the incredible new products, applications, experiences that are being built on BASE and being built on other layer 2s, Ethereum and kind of everywhere else in the on -chain economy. And so that kind of connective tissue that connects Coinbase in the off -chain world into BASE and the broader global crypto economy, that's really the why behind us doing this. We want to bring the world on -chain and this feels like the kind of obvious starting point. Why do you think it'll take many layer 2s to scale Ethereum? Yeah, you know, I think really two reasons. One is when we look at kind of like the history of decentralization in Ethereum, I think that there's generally kind of like some natural forces that pull apart kind of concentration. And so we have the EVM, which is a standard, and that means that it's really straightforward to stand up new layer 2s. And it's going to, I think, be relatively feasible for us to get interoperability between layer 2s, which means that they can actually work together and compose together. And so I think that kind of one of the guiding north stars for us of why there's been many of these layer 2s is that, you know, it's just going to kind of be natural market dynamics where folks want to experiment, they want to start new things. That's going to lead to a bunch of these things popping up and then that's going to lead to a bunch of them growing and them all kind of figuring out how to work together. So I'd say that's kind of like the bottoms up thesis is like the technology is there. It's easy enough to use and that's going to lead to kind of organic growth of a bunch of these options. I'd say that maybe more top down thesis is if you look at what Ethereum scaling strategy historically was, it was kind of starting, right? You know, you take the main Ethereum chain and you kind of chunk it up into a bunch of throughput overall. And I think the way we see kind of the ultimate end state is that that's where we're heading, right? Like that's how you scale. You have many of these parallel shards that can work together, each providing their own throughput. And if you think about that kind of original vision and then you look at the vision that we're describing now with layer 2s, I think you'll see that they're pretty similar, right? Whether it's like Ethereum sharding or a bunch of layer 2s starting to plug into Ethereum, either way, you're doing the same thing, which is that you're kind of adding a bunch of different pipes, which connect into the one big pipe of Ethereum and enable more scalability overall. And so that was kind of our insight that there's going to be many of these layer 2s. And then I think the question was, how do we contribute to that in a really positive way? And that's what informed our decision to build base on the OP stack, which is an open source public good code base that enables anyone to run a chain. We joined as the second core developer. We've been contributing already a bunch of work on decentralization and scaling and security and we're doing that because we want to make it easier for obviously base to scale and decentralize, but also so that anyone who wants to stand up alongside us, who wants to work with us to scale Ethereum can do that as well. So we're really excited about kind of this vision of the super chain of many chains, but we're also really excited about doing it in a way where these things can work really, really well together. And how do you think all these different layer 2s can connect? Like, how does that look like for the end user? Because like, the experience right now isn't the smoothest to like go from Ethereum to layer 2. And then back, you have to wait, you know, sometimes for withdrawals, and then to, on top of that to have to connect with many different layer 2s and have like, different wallets, and I don't know, it's just it's, it's not, it's a bit clunky. So how do you see that evolving? And especially considering that a lot of the exploits and hacks that have happened, most of them have had to do with bridges. So it seems like blockchains right now aren't very well equipped to interconnect. So you know, how do you see the space overcoming that? Yeah, absolutely. And, you know, I think when you look at, you know, a lot of the acts that have happened, they definitely having to do with bridges. But when we think about kind of what's the most secure bridge construction, it really is the layer 2 roll up construction. And that's one of the big reasons why we decided to build base as a layer 2 rather than another kind of like layer one is that we felt like connecting into Ethereum, building on the security properties of Ethereum was the way we could kind of get that scalability, but also kind of reduce the overall risk. And so I think that's kind of our focus. It's building base in a way that, you know, inherits those security properties of Ethereum, but also lets us get best in class scalability. It makes sense that you decided to go for a layer 2. And it's interesting that it sounds like you may have been considering doing a layer one. Yeah, we actually like kind of twice before base, we looked at doing layer one. So in 2018, 2020, we considered doing layer one. And each time we basically decided, hey, like, this isn't the right thing for the ecosystem, it's going to put Coinbase users and Coinbase on an island, it's not going to help grow the broader crypto ecosystem. And so, you know, that really led to us ultimately focusing in on, you know, on other products at that time. And then, you know, kind of really in the last couple years, it felt like for the first time, we could really do this in a way that would actually connect us into the broader ecosystem by building as an Ethereum layer two, and do it in a way where building on the OP stack, we could be kind of collaborative and open source and kind of give back all the work that we're doing. And that for the first time really felt like there was like alignment with our values and what we what we cared about. That's so interesting. I guess like you've talked about this a little bit, but when I get just, you know, more of your thoughts on why go with the Ethereum ecosystem, this was a long process that, you know, we had to work through. And we really started this before we even knew we were building a layer two. And we were really just trying to figure out, okay, where do we build on chain applications or dapps, centralized apps? And in the beginning of 2022, we really kicked off a process kind of across all of Coinbase and said, hey, where do we want to build? We looked at a bunch of different factors. We looked at kind of what did Coinbase products support already? We looked at where were Coinbase developers organically building? And then we looked at, you know, where are the assets? Where is the activity? Where are the kind of developers in a broader ecosystem? And kind of across the board, we found that EVM, which is kind of the Ethereum virtual machine smart contract toolkit, that was the most adopted toolkit. It was the one that folks were building with the most at Coinbase. And then from a kind of ecosystem perspective, Ethereum was the kind of largest, richest, like most diverse and kind of scaled ecosystem for EVM ecosystems. And so those two things, and especially the kind of scale of those two things, the fact that it felt like it was generally like an order of magnitude or two in terms of kind of Ethereum's lead, those really pushed us towards kind of leaning in, in that direction and making it happen. Makes sense. And then, you know, more on kind of the different decisions you have to make along the way. Because, you know, Coinbase is just such a huge force, I guess, in the ecosystem, but it really kind of says a lot what you decide to do. So why go with optimism? Like, there's just so much debate on what the best roll up technology is. And so many good arguments on each front. So yeah, why optimism? Yeah, I mean, there were a bunch of different factors. And, you know, after we kind of made the decision, EVM and Ethereum, we then did a second whole process, which was like, okay, now we pick EVM and Ethereum, but we know Ethereum can't scale kind of for the scale that Coinbase is operating at. Where should we focus our efforts on layer two? And I think the big takeaway for us was, you know, there's a lot of incredible teams, we spent time with all of them. There's so much innovation, so much of it is happening in an open source way. And we want to figure out like, how can we best contribute to that? And so after spending a lot of time with all those teams, I think we ended up kind of doubling down and working really closely with optimism for a few reasons. First, as we started playing around with the technology that powers optimism, so the OP stack, the bedrock upgrade to the OP stack, we found it to be really powerful, flexible, built in a way that could be upgraded in the future, for instance, to add ZK proofs. So we could kind of get the better security and finality characteristics of those. And so I'd say that kind of technology was a big first reason. I'd say the second reason was the way they've decided to license and distribute the technology, the fact that it's MIT licensed, fully open source, accessible, forkable, whatever, by anyone that felt very aligned to the Ethereum ethos. It also lets us just get started without having to think about it, we can just build and feel confident that we're gonna be able to keep building because of that kind of open, permissive nature of the software. The third big reason was really like decentralization. You know, if you look at Coinbase, Coinbase is like a centralized public company. And that means that when we're thinking about starting an open permissionless blockchain, we need to figure out how can we complement that, you know, thing that can be a strength, also a thing that in building a decentralized open blockchain can be a little bit of a weakness. And so I think optimism and the optimism collective and the work that all of them had done the centralization felt like such a good complement to us, where Coinbase could bring that scale Coinbase could bring that like kind of publicly recognizable brand, and optimism would bring, you know, a lot of the decentralization, the experience with governance and really compliment as well. So that was the third reason. And I'd say the fourth reason was, um, we had actually been spending a fair amount of time with the optimism team through our work on EIP 4844, which is an upgrade to Ethereum that kind of increases throughput on Ethereum by creating a new thing called blob space and lowering all the costs of layer twos. And so I think through kind of that work, the work of scaling Ethereum, we'd gotten to know the team, and it felt like a really, you know, strong working relationship. And so technology, open source, decentralization, and team, I'd say those are the four big driving factors. I want to ask you more about your decentralization roadmap or path. But first, curious to learn more about you. Like, what's, what's your background? Like, what led you to build base? Like, were you at Coinbase for a long time before this? Like, yeah, what's your story? Yeah, I'm Jesse. I've been working in crypto for 10 years, a decade now.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from GEN C: Understanding Web3 Talent and Opportunities With Lesley Silverman of UTA
"The new In Gen C. The C stands for crypto, but it also stands for creators, the connected consumer and collectibles, both digital and physical with on chain provenance. It stands for culture and characters, the ones we play in games and the companion ones that AI is building alongside us. It stands for community and digital citizenship and the new set of transparent and trustless tools being built to govern them. These are the people who were raised on a different philosophy on how they look at money, how they look at identity, how they look at privacy and how they look at the hybrid, digital and physical spaces being built all around us. And finally, how they reimagine their relationships with the communities and companies they interact with. We focus on how brands, large and small, are building for these audiences. Welcome to Gen C. Avery, we are back. Episode something. I don't even know what number we're at. I think 39. A lot of episodes. A lot of episodes. I'm very excited for this one for a couple of reasons. The first is we have Leslie Silverman, who's the head of Web3 from United Talent Agency joining us a little later. Leslie is someone I started to talk with probably two years ago about this stuff. Always has a lot of opinions, represents a lot of the big artists in the space and is someone I think really brings a lot of sort of intuition and knowledge. Would love to like learn more about her career. So I'm really excited to have her on. Me too. I heard she was a lawyer. She was a lawyer. I wish I went to law school now that I think about it. But still time. Still time. You could reverse age. Go back. Maybe just buy an NFT of a legal degree. Right. There's a lot of interesting stuff happening. I want to start, Avery, with saying are you prepared for Hot Chain Summer? And what I mean by that is today when we're recording this is the beginning of Coinbase's OnChain Summer, which is like a month long festival celebrating on chain activities. They're doing a ton of stuff around getting people's attention and they've also partnered with like Coca -Cola, Atari, Zora, Manifold, a bunch of the both like traditional Web2 brands as well as a lot of the great Web3 brands in creating a sort of month long experience for people to mint things, get things, meet people, follow artists. And I just want to understand your thoughts on what Coinbase is doing around OnChain Summer. One, I think it's fun. I think they're trying to make on chain happen to be determined if on chain is going to enter the sort of normie vocabulary. I like it. I think it's interesting on the blockchain, on chain, I think creates also an avenue for communication that lives outside crypto, which I think is smart for a company like Coinbase knowing how polarizing crypto is right now to sort of mainstream American investors and just in the financial services sector broadly. We did not work on that campaign. We do partner with Coinbase, but not on this. So I can't tell you any of the in depth approach or their strategy, but I think if I were Coinbase, I would be trying to lean into communication and brand building that lives a little bit outside of crypto, degens, trading audience and appeals to more broad based folks who might have a little money to spend, might have a little money to invest, and they want to enjoy their summer. And they like block parties and artists and soda and all the fun things. And I also think summer is the right season. Summer is about positivity. It's about getting together. It's about outside and groups and music and concerts. And I think it positions just tonality wise well. I like the colors. Our direction is very vibrant and fun. And let's see if they can make on chain happen. They're also the first public company to release a decentralized blockchain. Exactly. That has been a hot topic, though, as you know, I think that there's a little bit of a back and forth with the base and the optimism. And I think there's two sides to every story, right? Yeah. Well, and I think that combined with like PayPal releasing announcement of creating a stable coin actually just challenges the U .S. to sort of like step up to the plate and make a decision. To me, that is big news. Yeah. And I think that's beyond a campaign. That's beyond a marketing effort. That is a big move by PayPal. And many people don't know, but PayPal, you know, has been very crypto friendly. So has Venmo. And Venmo is, of course, owned by PayPal. And this is in the app. This is existed for years, I believe, as a method of sort of storing, saving those little increments of crypto. And I actually think PayPal kind of has an interesting moment right now. They're a bit underpenetrated from a crypto adoption perspective from that kind of low to mid end user who might have gotten burned with some of the highly decentralized, highly volatile, a little bit more risky assets over the past two years. Now it's got a little bit of crypto and might not trust themselves with, you know, to be fully self -sovereign. I think they've got an interesting place to play and to leverage the trust and scale that they have with to consumers kind of onboard some of that audience. But I haven't seen like a big marketing push around it. And I know they've been thinking about it and exploring. But with this announcement, I think that this is actually quite a BFD. 100 percent. And I think when you have big brands who are mainstream, like PayPal, like Coca -Cola, like Atari, like Coinbase, who are really kind of challenging the system, it may be one of those moments we look back on and say this incrementally brought us forward to something. And I do think that everyone in the crypto space would love to know that the government of the USA, in addition to the other major Euro governments and Asian governments, have a point of view. So just so you know how to work within those constraints, that's, I think, been one of things that's really hindered adoption is that no one knows if they're actually potentially going to be breaking the law. I think that's 100 percent right. Yeah. These kinds of things, I think, get us to something that at least makes people have to go on record and figure out whether they're comfortable with. I also think it's coming at an interesting time, right? It's coming at a time when a lot of Americans are reading very mixed reviews on crypto and blockchain. And the fact that PayPal is releasing this now, I think actually ultimately underscores their conviction in the future of blockchain and the future of crypto. I don't know, I'm sure that went through many hoops and hurdles to choose to launch this in August of 2023. But I think it really demonstrates their commitment to the space, actually. Absolutely. Another story we reported today, which is interesting because we were talking to Leslie later, who represents the artist Grimes, but we reported today that Grimes claims to have made more money from NFTs than she ever made from music, which I thought was a really interesting statement. Now, for anyone who doesn't know, Grimes did release some very sort of highly sought after NFTs during key NFT timing of 21, 22. I believe one of them went for $400 ,000, which was a unique artwork that was a one of one. So she's done pretty well in the NFT space. She's always been a big supporter of blockchain and crypto, but it actually really exposed, I think, how hard it is to make money as a traditional artist in the streaming world that she was able to make more because I think a lot of people know Grimes, whether it's through her relationship with Elon or just as a avant garde artist. But I think you and I have spoken so many times about the idea that music and blockchain still isn't really there. And the one thing that I took away from this was that Grimes is sort of still reinforcing that because where she made most of her money was still with herself as an artist, not as how many people bought a single or bought a song.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1205. Coinbase Ethereum Event Begins! MASSIVE Adoption Boost Coming!!
"All right, so some big things happening with Coinbase and Base today, and we're going to break down a little bit about on -chain summer and what that might mean around a ton of projects that are starting to roll out and what it could mean for Ethereum. So we're going to break it all down for you. It's going to be good. My name is Paul Baron. Welcome back into Tech Path. I want to thank our sponsors, that is iTrust Capital. If you guys are looking at long -term holding for your crypto, let's do it. In an IRA, it's very easy to set up, and it's super simple. And the best thing is the fees are low. So all you guys have to do is click the link down below, use our code, it does help the channel out, and of course, you get a $100 funding reward if you decide to do it. All right, so let's get into a couple of points here. And one thing I want to hit on first is this tweet right here, just in Coinbase becomes first publicly traded company to launch its own decentralized blockchain base. This is big, in my opinion, because of the fact that, obviously, it has to be Coinbase to do this because they are one of the only real ones out there that are, of course, a publicly traded company. But I think this also could lead the way for many others. So this is a good picture for Coinbase, and I think it's a good picture for the industry as a whole. Here is OnChain Summer. Just so you guys know, this, of course, today is launch day. I think we're going to get this video out. So you'll notice that the story of base is bringing the world on chain and to be continued. Now, there are some things that are happening within this. There's a little bit about the community. You can kind of learn about Jesse Pollock. He's one of the leads over there. But you get into the projects that are upcoming here. And as you can see, Parallels in here, another block, we'll talk a little bit about them. Coca -Cola, Stand With Crypto, Blackbird, a restaurant application, and so on. Point is, is that this is going to get big. I think that this is just the beginning. We're going to see some pretty amazing things come out of this. I want to go over to a clip real quick, and this will get into a little bit more detail on Brian Armstrong talking about OnChain Summer, what it might mean. Listen in. Going back to Coinbase, I think my biggest fear was always that Coinbase would be kind of this old, basically it would be the AOL of crypto, that it would be kind of old, it would be this fiat on ramp, but it would forever be this centralized company in this decentralized world. And one of the reasons I'm really excited about base is it's a true experiment that is crypto native coming from what could have been sort of the centralized dinosaur. It's really a celebration of OnChain art, culture, music, gaming, all the different pieces that are coming together to be built on base. And we've got an amazing set of partners that we're launching with. So we've got a bunch of crypto native firms, Zora, OpenSea, Parallel, Blackbird. We've also got a bunch of legacy or I don't know, traditional non -crypto companies, I don't want to call them legacy, Coca -Cola, Atari. So people can engage in a lot of real world utility like restaurants or minting a Coke bottle. But there's also a bunch of OnChain stuff where people can start to engage. And if you or your friend or your dad or your mom or your grandparents even just get one goal from those shots on goal where they get to try one thing that appeals to them, whether it's music or food or art or gaming or social or messaging or community, like one thing that gets you to set up your first wallet, that gets you to do your first transaction, that gets you to experience what's happening on chain and experience what you can create, what you can do, how you can participate. I think that that's how we bring a billion people into this new world. All right, so a lot happened there in that clip. First of all, it's good to see Fred still kind of communicate. He's the co -founder of Coinbase with Brian. And if you don't know the story about Coinbase, you should watch their documentary. It's a good story about how they started and all that. But the cool thing is, is all this has evolved into what they're doing now on base. And this to me is one of the most dynamic things that's happened in crypto maybe since I even remember, and it's a very significant one. One of the tools they were using was Livepeer. This was their live streaming. This is, again, one of the key elements of how base will be used in the future. But you got LensTube, Beam on here, Bonfire. We'll break down Bonfire here in a second, what they're doing, some cool things. So the good thing is, is that this really starts to open up a lot of opportunities. And you probably heard us talk a little bit about Chainlink earlier this week around this topic. And of course, this was around Chainlink's price feeds. This is now live on base. This is a layer two that of course is incubated now on Coinbase as well. Simply meaning live price feeds. So if you're thinking stock trading, crypto trading, etc., this is Chainlink and how they're going to be integrated. So if you're brand new to crypto, this will start to get into your everyday functionality and use cases around some of this more innovative tech in terms of apps, exchanges, and eventually what I think will happen with a lot of the trading platforms out there. So a definitely lot going in the right direction. Here, of course, is Uniswap. We reported this on this this week as well. What are you swapping on BuildOnBase? We want to know. This, of course, is live now. So good stuff there. Just to show you quickly kind of the interface, it's very simple, very easy to do. So connecting your wallet, going directly into Coinbase, very easy to do the bridge here. So again, this is a big benefit for ease of use. And I think this is one of those things that kind of what Pollack and Armstrong were talking about is to be able to get people onboarded very simply in a way that's passionate for them. So that's a cool thing and what will apply going forward. Now, part of that is going to be the strategies of companies like RAMP, projects like RAMP. They're opening a direct path now from fiat into the base network, which is interesting because this will get into a lot of things. RAMP will be able to support base right from its inception and able to transaction with ETH and USDC from day one. Big deal. The other aspect of this is it's going to open up RAMP into a lot of functionality of how this will interface for just traditional fiat onboarding. So just think about that and the potential for where this is going. All of this is good science, definitely. I want to go over to a clip real quick and how RAMP works. Listen in.
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"zora" Discussed on Bankless
"Like any file type of any size of any type of data mixed with the fastest minting experience with the lowest gas fees. It's like all of a sudden we are unconstraining what it takes to put an idea on chain. And you're also unconstraining what it takes to collect said idea. And so like the marketplace is massively unconstrained here. And so many, many, many types of ideas can become on chain. And then many, many, many types of collectors can agree or disagree with those ideas. And so not only can ideas and reality meet faster, just like you said, but we have more shots on goal for many more types of ideas. And all of a sudden that that becomes very, very viral and expressive and is something that really gets me going. Exactly. Yeah. I mean, and that's how I use Zora. Like I just kind of mint ideas in these, like a lot of things I write, I also mint too. But yeah, I think it's, yeah, in the same way, if we kind of, if we say that like social media disrupts like newspapers in some sense, it's like, and that you can kind of see how technologically that's accurate, but it really misses the bigger picture. That same analogy where it's like maybe NFTs are disrupting like the patent system in a similar way where it's like, well, if the way that you can kind of put ideas out into the world, create and capture value around it and organize around it, yeah, maybe we can, we can do things together a lot faster and make sure that like everyone who's creating that value is like rightly earning it. So you don't have to make that like trade off. This is kind of like the best open source and also like open value, which is kind of cool. So yeah, I think that's at least the vision. Is it possible? I think it is. It's just, you have to make it more accessible and easy to use, which is obviously easier said than done. So that's what we spend a lot of time on. Yeah. And then another line that I see outside of the coming out of the Zora versus this idea of expand Ethereum, expand Ethereum. What does that mean? Well, I think Ethereum is like a fundamental breakthrough and as a value system, as a way that we can kind of build infrastructure on the internet, Ethereum mainnet is like currently limited in how far it can go. Like it's number of transactions per second, the cost to use it. So I think like the way that we've always wanted to kind of like for us to help bring Ethereum to like a billion people, we're going to need some breakthroughs and pieces of infrastructure like layer twos. So the way I think why it's expand Ethereum is it's not like Zora is going out into the market and trying to create like a new L1 or a thing that's trying to like compete with Ethereum. It's like, it's quite the opposite where like building directly on top of Ethereum, we want to like help expand it to as many people as possible and make it as easy as an accessible for people to use Ethereum. And then hopefully build like the bridges and pieces that, you know, if a piece of media or content on the Zora network gets to a point of value where people actually want to bring it to mainnet, they absolutely can. So I think, yeah, I think it's like a, it's a pithy way to kind of show that it's like, yeah, Zora as an L2 is really just like Zora on Ethereum like it always has been. Um, and then, yeah, I guess I just like a kind of deep belief in Ethereum as an underlying technology. And I guess to some extent we are kind of Ethereum maximalists, so it's like cool to kind of express that. Um, so yeah, it kind of like sums up our approach with that L2, I guess.
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"zora" Discussed on Bankless
"It just looks clunky. I'm totally fine with people typing on chain with a hyphen so long as they're logically consistent and also type online or email with a hyphen. So I think that's totally fine, but you just have to be consistent. Jacob, if anyone has read your writing from over the years and also just been paying attention to the Zorro brand, I think there's a subtext of all of that, which is that the future is weird, and I think you're someone who can articulate how weird it's going to be, or at least why it's going to be weird. So maybe we have these new technological innovations like the Optimism superchain, the Zorro network inside of that ecosystem. We have the ability to, like you say, mint your imagination and therefore other people can collect imaginations. We have new frontiers of artistic experimentation mixed with on -chain technologies. I'm wondering if we can just fast forward ourselves in five years, the Zorro network is maximally successful. It's doing everything that you want it to be doing. People are using it in new and weird ways. What does that future look like? What does that mean for collectors? What does that mean for artists, for brands, for communities? Just explain perhaps how your imagination for the future as it relates to all of these technologies. Yeah, big, big, big question. I think at the highest level, we should see society's ability to go from idea to reality meaningfully improve. So I think if someone has the spark of an idea and puts it out on the internet, the ability for people to organize and make that idea reality maybe gets like 10 times faster in the absolute wild success case. I think the thinking behind that is the thing that really got me into crypto a decade ago was realizing that you could create a cryptocurrency for any idea. That was my first spark that really got me into it.
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"zora" Discussed on Bankless
"So I think, yeah, we're excited to kind of like help contribute however we can to the NFT piece of that equation as the superchain or like in the superchain. But it's like, you know, it's not particularly built out yet. It's early and there's like a lot of work that needs to be done. So yeah, we're down to do the work, but I would say it is early. But I agree with the vision. The last time I talked to the OP team that was more or less the same vibe that they gave is like, hey, using the OP stack is like the first foot in the door that you need to make to commit to the longer term superchain vision. And the longer term superchain vision is a bunch of just like research and development and eventually we'll get there. But merely saying that we are going to use the OP stack is like the first step to saying like, hey, we can be a part of that. And in tandem with the rest of the superchain, we'll kind of figure it out as it goes. Exactly. Yeah, like standardization is like very good. As we know, it's like ESC 721 means it's like, well, hey, if we all these competing platforms can at least agree on a shared standard, you get all these amazing use cases because composability is 100 times easier. So if like OP stack continues to kind of be the developer shelling point or the standard for how you create an L2, then the bridging experience, the hosting experience, the sequencer, like all of the tools required to stand up one of these L2s should get significantly better because the developer doesn't have to do something bespoke every time. All they have to do is add a new chain ID and then they know everything's going to work as expected because it's following the shared standard. So, yeah, I would agree like the standard is like a really crucial and important first step, gives a good step towards composability and then you get to like focus the level up the stack
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"zora" Discussed on Bankless
"They've just got their own unique cultural phenomenon that they're tapping into that might not necessarily be art and media. So I think, yeah, artists and I guess the ecosystem generally is like, okay, cool. Like this is a network kind of by an NFT team for NFTs. It's like got a rich history with artists and creators. Like this just kind of intuitively makes sense of like, out of all the L2s that exist, this probably makes the most sense to like mint my work. And then on the technical side, it's like, because we're able to like tightly integrate the network into the platform, it might just be structurally the cheapest place to do that. So it's like you can go mint on a different network, but because those different networks don't also run their own tools on top purpose built for minting, that might always just cost more to do it there. So I think on the technical side, it's like we really just want to get the gas costs as low as possible for the creators and building down into the metal of the network kind of lets you do that. So there's the cultural side and then there's the technical side. And I think those two things kind of make Zora a really compelling option for people who want to mint their work. So the niche of a layer two that's dedicated to like art and media is unclaimed. And Zora is saying, hey, we're claiming it. See that all that real estate, we're planting the Zora flag right in the middle of this. And maybe like in the world, like we know that Spotify is working on token gated access to songs and artists and just access to some specific corners of Spotify that are not available if you don't have these tokens. And it's not a very far stone's throw away from like, hey, like artists actually minting tokens, minting songs. And maybe if you're Spotify or any other platform like this, they are maybe they become convicted as like, OK, on chain media, on Web Web3, NFTs is the way to go. What network do we integrate?
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"zora" Discussed on Bankless
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"zora" Discussed on Bankless
"Because we have the generalized optimistic rollups of Arbitrum and Optimism, which each have their own flavor, right? Arbitrum is a DeFi heavy ecosystem. Optimism is experimenting in many different fronts. Zorro is specifically about on -chain creations, but would you call the Zorro Layer 2 like an app chain, like it's a single service rollup meant to do one thing? How would you describe the flavor or what the purpose of the Layer 2 is? Yeah, that's a great question. I guess is it an app chain or not? I think we think of it more of an ecosystem or it is like specifically a home for creators. Like Zorro, by nature of our kind of protocol approach, has like a pretty fruitful ecosystem of like different platforms and apps built on it. So like Zorro, I don't think, well, we know we're not going to be the only app built on this network. Like we kind of on our L2 website have a list of probably like 30 of the top NFT tools and platforms in the space that are going to be moving across and building on Zorro as well. So I think it's much more of an ecosystem than it is an app chain. And then, yeah, I think the L2 era we're heading into for Ethereum generally is like quite interesting. Like the way we thought about it is like, yes, you're right, there's like Arbitrum and Optimism. They're kind of these like great generic catch all L2s. I think base has been fascinating to see play out because I think it's kind of like opened up kind of the window into the future of where we're heading, which is like, yes, we will see, I think, an increasing number of L2s and in some sense, like L2s are approaching like a commodity, if not already, like the costs and complexity to deploy one of these L2s is like going down like every month. So I think we're going to see a lot of these. And when you see like kind of a commodity marketplace, like brand distribution and differentiation tend to be kind of like the core things that help you understand how things will play out.
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"zora" Discussed on Bankless
"And we are specialists inside of that constrained environment. But it seems to be that Zora's is trying to be as constraint free as possible, as in is just meant to service broad needs. And other people, the artists can produce constraints, but not Zora, or the collectors can produce constraints, but not Zora. And Zora allows for the maximum expression of all parties without imparting some sort of like top down, here's what we are for, here's what we are due, here is why you would come to us. This is like the kind of vibe I'm tapping into. Maybe you could expand on it a little bit better. Yeah, I think that's right. I think maybe the variation on that is I think we've built a very, very specific tool, which is you show up, you have some creative piece of media or work, you mint it, and then collectors can, you know, you bring it on chain and then collectors can mint it. That's like a heavily opinionated, that's a very simple tool or machine. And then yeah, I guess, you know, creator shows up and they get their creator and smart contracts and then people can collect. But yes, we kind of try and make it as open as possible because we want to, one, give artists the tools to like push the limit of what they can mint. So it's like, yes, you can show up with like a video or a song or an image, but you can also mint, you know, HTML and websites. Or if you're like really in the weeds as an artist, you can actually write your own custom metadata renderer on chain and start doing more like art blocks generative and like very novel on -chain artworks that you can plug into the Zora smart contracts. So it's like very simple tool that kind of has these open ends that let you kind of bring your own creativity in whatever form that is, which has been really interesting. Like yeah, there's like the HTML editions that we release, I guess a couple of weeks ago being cool to see because it's like, I don't know, they're like interactive and people are even minting games and stuff like that. And then on the custom metadata renderer side, it's like, oh wow, like we're seeing some like further experimentation on the generative side that kind of harks back to like the early art box days. So yeah, specific tool, but like generic applications may be the way to say it. Yeah, and I've always appreciated this line that artists live on the frontier as in artists always live where there is the most unknown. They always are experimenting. And if we just had like a Zora alternative that was like, you can only upload JPEGs under 4 megabytes, highly constraining and artists would not be able to experiment very well. And I think like one of the ethos that Zora is trying to double down on is that any sort of constraint comes out of the expression of the artist. So more a free platform allows artists to do whatever. And some people might have been listening to that and listening to hear you say, yeah, you can mint HTML. And a lot of people are like, but why? And the artists are like, what can I do with that? And I think that's like unleashing constraints and making sure the artist's art is as enabled as possible is what contributes to the most amount of experimentation. And I think that conversation about constraints can actually lead us to where we have an announcement to make. Zora has an announcement to make. But maybe we can talk about the constraints of the Zora platform as it has stood up to this point and like what has been needed to unleash further experimentation. So what are the big constraints in Web3 creation and on -chain creation that Zora is trying to tackle? Yeah, great question. So yeah, I guess we've had like a pretty exceptional 2023 so far.
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"zora" Discussed on Bankless
"We are today is there's kind of like two shifts that are happening that we kind of are at the forefront of and pushing, which is one, instead of seeing just like this 10K PFP kind of like collectible style market, we increasingly think it makes sense for all forms of media and content to go on chain in exactly the same way. So it's like, well, yes, you can mint the JPEG of this kind of like profile picture looking collectible, but why don't you mint this like visual artwork you made, shared on Instagram and got hundreds of thousands of likes for? Like that is inherently valuable. This is something that inherently your community loves. Like that makes just as much sense on chain. And then the other track is that I think the market has been evolving and experimenting in addition to one of ones, which has been the kind of timed edition or like the open edition format that we kind of have been leaning into quite heavily, which is, hey, like instead of just minting it and only allowing one person to collect it at the time, it's kind of absurd when you think about it in the sense of the internet, it's like, oh, hey, like you had 50 people literally throw money at you at an auction. You turned 49 of those people away with their money and you only let one person have it. It's like, well, what if there's a model that could let more than just one person at the time have it when there's no physical constraint here? Like it's not like the artist has to individually produce each video. It's like part of the internet is it can be broadly reproduced. So the timed open edition format is basically like, hey, anyone who happens to be here at the time can mint. And if that's one person, great. If that's like 100 ,000 people, amazing. You've got now 100 ,000 collectors of this video or this image or whatever it is at the time.
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"zora" Discussed on Bankless
"Entire internet, including people who want to listen and enjoy to that media, but then also the other developers who want to build their own platforms and experiences on top of it. And none of that sacrificing value capture for the creator, because they're able to sell that NFT, they're able to earn from that NFT over time. So yeah, maybe that is actually solving that inherent tension of the internet, which is information wants to be free, but it also wants to be valuable. And NFTs are kind of like a very neat, open solution to that problem, where it's like for the social media era, I think advertising has been the best possible solution to that problem, because it's like, hey, you can consume this for free and we're going to monetize the by platform like showing you ads every now and then. Maybe NFTs are a better progression where it's like, well, if you're increasingly minting that content, making it free and open to everyone, and you're getting that kind of value back in the form of the asset of the NFT itself, and then also whatever the ETH has been earned from minting it, that might get us one step further than the ad space model, and how to be free and valuable at the same time. And the reason why I wanted to go down this quick rabbit hole of trying to define what we're actually talking about here is because I've actually had a hard time defining what Zora actually is, which is, because like, you know, people know Zora, it's a place to mint your NFTs, right? It's like super rare, but it's not quite like super rare, right? And it's, you know, it's an NFT like browser. You can check out different NFTs, kind of like OpenSea, but it's not quite like OpenSea either. And so the boundaries around Zora seem to be very fuzzy to me, and I think that's almost intentional, and so I'm wondering if I could just elevate to you the higher question of just like, what deeply is Zora? What does it want to become?
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"zora" Discussed on Bankless
"Its wallet token to early users for simply just using the wallet. So if you want to get started with Ambuyer, all the links that you need are in the show notes. Bankless nation, I would love to introduce you to Jacob, the co founder of Zora started in 2020. Zora is a platform for creators and collectors to mingle around a common campfire of digital creations. Zora has all sorts of toolkits for all kinds of digital file formats to start their life as on chain artworks to be minted on chain. And today we are here to learn exactly how Zora is expanding, where it's going next and Jacob is hopefully going to guide us along on that journey. Jacob, welcome to Bankless. Hey, thanks for having me. Happy to be here. I'm really excited for this conversation. I really want to open up this conversation of digital expression, digital art with this question for you, Jacob. Jacob, is the internet driving itself off a cliff? Is the internet driving itself off a cliff? Well, I've always had this thing where it's like, I don't think we actually ever reached the internet or like we never really escaped internets. Like if you think about the internet today, it's really like six really, really, really big platforms. And we had like a brief moment where the internet started and then, you know, kind of like the 90s with the browser and some formative, like new platforms coming online that really would be living in like what I would just call like this mega internet for the past like 10 years, mostly defined by social media. So I actually think we're getting closer to getting back to the original internet with blockchains and bringing information on chain and making it public and open. So yeah, that would be my answer to that question. I think your answer is like, hey, there is a true nature of the expression of the internet. And for the last 10 years, we've accidentally gone down the corp version of internet side quest. And I think you're saying that, hey, it's now with Web3, we're getting back on track.
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"zora" Discussed on Bankless
"Bankless Nation, we got an exciting new episode for you today. It's not every day that a brand new network comes into the Ethereum fold. The Zorra network, Zorra is getting its own layer 2 built on the OP stack and today we have Jacob from Zorra to guide us through that conversation. Jacob is a very deep thinker about so many of the things that hold up this ecosystem, the idea of on -chain communities, digital brands, minting ideas, and so not only do we unpack all of this news about the Zorra network, the new Zorra layer 2, but we also just unpack deeply what is Zorra, because Zorra is an NFT minting platform. There are many of these around, but Zorra really stands out differently from the others out there and so these are some of the conversations that we get into. But first, more specifically, a layer 2, primarily focused on media and art. What does that unlock? Who is that for? How does this set Zorra apart from other NFT minting platforms? What is the Zorra network good for? And then of course, how and when does the inevitable Zorra token fit in here? And of course, at the end, some bonus goodie conversations, the conversation around on -chain or on -chain. Which one is right and why does it matter? And also, Zorra frequently uses the line, expand Ethereum. What does that mean? So all these conversations are going to be unpacked in this episode with Jacob from Zorra. But first, if you have built or are building a smart contract protocol and you need to make sure that your code is secure using the most modern tools, check out Cypherin. Cypherin is a smart contracting auditing firm that we've used at BankList to audit the smart contracts over at BankList Labs with our Earnify product. So we ourselves have used the Cypherin product. Dawson over at Earnify is very happy with them. Not only that, but if you're also new to Web3 and you want to learn more about smart contracts, they have 27 hours of video content to get you, the developer, onboarded into the world of Web3 and Solidity.
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Mint | Where Crypto Meets Creators
"zora" Discussed on Mint | Where Crypto Meets Creators
"I think content makes sense on Shane that feels like really obvious, but a lot of people would probably still disagree with that. Sure. I think I get hit around that still. Yeah. I have a strong opinion that maybe one of ones where like really super, the really skew more sick and it was a good era and I think they'll be ones that survive, but maximizing broad ownership is actually the thing to really optimize for if you can, even at the expense of short term eth. There's a lot of ones that came to mind. Okay, my final question for you, because I know we're way over at this point, but this has been so, so, so good. I'm stimulated, like completely stimulated. The last question I have for you, Jacob, is knowing what you know now, after building zora to date, what are some things you wish you knew? When you got started. I think if I said, go back in time and give advice to myself, it's like, do the obvious. I think almost all of zora, maybe to a recently, I would optimize on the interesting instead of the obvious, just because I found it interesting and novel. And I think the net result of that is that you'll likely always be early, but maybe too early. I have a greater appreciation the way I kind of the aha moment for me as I was going through all of my favorite companies of all time was like the Netflix DVD really sparked me as like a sign of pragmatism, which is they had a really big and grand Netflix have a really big and grand vision for the future and could see how the Internet and streaming would change film and TV and how it was distributed. But they had the pragmatism to start with Netflix DVDs and just like using literally Bailey DVDs to people and physically distributing them and that got them started and that was right for the moment in time. And help them get towards that larger vision. So I think
Mint | Where Crypto Meets Creators
"zora" Discussed on Mint | Where Crypto Meets Creators
"So yeah, so I guess the part of that keeps you up at night is like, I think that NFTs need to be way more dynamic than we view them. And I was kind of I'm sure us and when we were building ZR2, it's just like it has to be immutable. These NFTs, like a one time thing, it's just the same image, or the same media, they go looking at. But I think more recently, it's like, no, I think these NFTs are much more living things than we should be treating them much more like websites all these than we should start at images that don't change forever. So I think that's been like a long running thought. Why is that? Why should we treat them more like TVs and websites? And static images. Partly because we can. And then partly because there's just a ridiculous amount of I feel like underutilized distribution. Like with timed additions, we're seeing NFTs with thousands of holders, hold these things, and then all they can do it do is look at it once, but it's like, I feel like the distance of being able to punch through that and allow you to say start to communicate directly through those NFTs with your community feels like way more compelling solution than having to go through Twitter all the time. Or any other platform. You literally have a direct line to every one of your collectors. It just happens to be blocked by the fact that these things have mostly immutable. So it's just like that just feels like that to me is like, I think that might be the next year of rapid experimentation for us, which is like, what does it look like to treat these NFTs more as living objects that create a trade a longer and more constant relationship through versus always having to release a new NFT all the time? Yes, that's like a big running thread. And then the third which I guess overlaps with nouns, which is, how do you actually just create pure ownership and memes? And organize around a meme. And I think nouns like solves that problem that's just going to take a long time for us to realize the best solves that problem with the mechanism. But I think about that well with dissolved and like zora, because it's like zora was created, you know, there weren't any compelling down models I tried with Aragon. We'd seen a couple of ESC 20 Dallas. They weren't particularly exciting or productive or seemed like good to me. So I think it's like, what does it meaningfully work like for zora as an organization to go on chain has always been a big question? I don't want to, I don't want to launch a token. I want to launch an aug that can work in function. I think there's a really big difference between those two things.
Mint | Where Crypto Meets Creators
"zora" Discussed on Mint | Where Crypto Meets Creators
"Yeah, I guess that's the structural difference. And then I guess there's a million ways. There's so many dimensions to it like there's the fact that brand is public domain. It's the fact that it's value capture system is I think entirely derived from its meme, that puts it in a really interesting position to do types of projects. I don't think any traditional company or even Dow prior to this point has been able to fund sustainably. And that three that one net result of that is this might be the crypto native version of Disney studios. And I'm like, in this ties into the content world in a way, because it's like, wait, nouns is starting to realize that part of its flywheel is to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on millions of dollars to incredible animation studios to just produce amazing films and then release them as collectible NFTs on the other end. And now they've figured out this sustainable economic loop to produce amazing film. That's kind of insane. And that's just one dimensional. So power relates to is, I guess, one, I think we like to take the most powerful primitives that we see in the space, so think of ourselves and make it as easy as possible for people to run with. So that lets announce builder. It's like, we want to see more announced style dowels out the space. How do we remove the barrier to entry to knowing how to deploy a relatively complex self smart contract to do that? And then two, I guess as a long-term speculative bet where it's like, if this kind of crypto Disney dynamic plays out and it becomes a, it does become an Internet scale, our project that's producing the amazing films and art and media and projects that finds a way to find its ways into NFTs, we want to support that, become a member of that organization and provide the infrastructure of the side to actually do that. So it's like zora can be kind of like a lot of the plumbing and infrastructure that helps nouns meant these things and NFTs in what we think is the best way possible. And we're incentive aligned with Dow because we put a decent amount of money into the organization as well. A line of cells with it. So yeah, that's a lot. That's like the high level of zora announced and gotta works and why I think it's interesting. What do you think are the more like human based values that nouns encompasses that more people can relate to outside of crypto?
Mint | Where Crypto Meets Creators
"zora" Discussed on Mint | Where Crypto Meets Creators
"Also wasn't the crayon kit. And then I loved the crayons, but couldn't necessarily draw that well. Shout out to figma, obviously make bike. But I guess I've always had a really deep obsession with the concept of brands and memes. And I feel like zora actually started as more of a meme and a brand than it did as particulate instance of an idea. For the first kind of like three months zora was just the moon sun moon emoji, me tweeting very kind of like esoteric and extremely high level statements. And then just like my favorite images that I was finding from like tumblr arena or what I'd curated from the Internet. And yeah, so I guess and I have very strong opinions about Brandon and I guess the design side. So it's something that probably to a lot of the people in the zora team have probably annoyed that it's the case, but I'm still reasonably involved on very involved in the brand side and the design side. And I guess it's just like it's just something that's a passion of mine and I happen to have strong opinions about it. So when those things overlap, that means I spend a lot of time on it. So when you were building those wacky Ethereum projects, what were the first few ones that you spent time doing? The main one was called horizon, which, in a lot of ways, is kind of what zora is today, which is, how do you have a creative idea or a project? Bring that on chain, create ownership in it. So the language I was using at the time was like create crypto equity in a film. And we're going to create a token around a film. It doesn't exist yet, but we know we all want to make it. So how do we create ownership in it that's native to the Internet without having to create a company? Because keep in mind, I'm in Australia, and it's like, how am I going to create an early and company is going to have global impacts? That was solving a very real problem where it's like, I could collaborate with anyone around the world. Using crypto event and I could using the traditional system in Australia.
Mark Levin
Wajahat Ali: 'Not All Skinfolk Are Kinfolk' Directed to Nikki Haley
"So I gave this watch a hot actually watch a hot Ali And I want you to listen to wajahat Ali has to say and then ask yourself why does MSNBC its sister NBC in its ownership at Comcast allow this Why do they in my opinion allow blatant racism Day in and day out by their hosts And their guests Cut ten go To quote zora neale hurston not all skin folk are kinfolk Nikki Haley instead is the dinesh d'souza of Candace Owens She's the alpha kern with brown skin and for white supremacists and racists She's the perfect mentor in candidate And instead of applauding her I am just disgusted by people like Nikki Haley who know better whose parents were the beneficiaries as Asha said of the 1965 immigration nationality act which passed thanks to those original BLM protesters and the Civil Rights Act Her father came here because he was a professor He taught at a historically black college in South Carolina That's how she became the proud American that she is and yet what does she do like all these model minorities which by the way is a strategy of white supremacy to use Asians in particular as a cudgel against black folks Instead of pulling us up from the bootstraps and pulling others from the bootstrap we're taught to take your boot and put it on the neck of poor brown's immigrants refugees and black folks And that's what she did in her ad So I see her and I feel sad many because she uses her brown skin as a weapon against poor black folks and poor Brown folks and she uses her brown skin to launder white supremacist talking points And the reason why I feel sad because no matter what she does maybe it'll never be enough They'll never love her
Can We Talk?
The Story of Musician Zohra El Fassia
"Was actually born zara hamou to a jewish family likely around the year. Nineteen o five in the city of steph ru which is in fez region in morocco in fez of courses the city that would eventually give her regional stage name alpha zia which means the woman from she was born to her mother naomi and father yahu and we don't know much about officias early life but we do know that her father was a butcher trade and a hudson or a cantor in his off time so we can guess that she would have been hearing in may be singing eden literature music from a pretty young age. We also know that she likely went to school for a little bit as a young girl. Zora was wed at a very very young age to a man from fez named don and she had her first daughter masa likely when she was around thirteen years old and she had two more children sam in a net and at the same time she also began to kind of scope out the music scene in fez going to hear to musicians who would hear her sing and encourage her to sing more which she began to do at private celebrations and weddings and even small venues. We know that likely around the age of eighteen she actually got divorced and eventually made her way to casablanca so her kids. Her first three kids mostly grew up with their father and his new wife in their family and in blanca. She starts a new relationship with one. Mr tapia long Though they don't get married They do have three daughters together. More net salons in suzanne who sadly died as baby
NIGHTLIGHT: A Horror Fiction Podcast
"zora" Discussed on NIGHTLIGHT: A Horror Fiction Podcast
"With an hour to spare before work. She made her way to zora's apartment. She knocked several times. Bizarre did not answer pressing her ear to the door etiquette. Here's zora's typewriter. A steady sound of cracking zawra. Please let me in the quiet hall closed in around eta worry pickled editor her clammy hands. Grab the doorknob and she gave it a strong turn. it open. she entered with care. Surprised that zora. When leave the door unlocked she walked through the long foyer and pass the empty dining room. The typewriter steady clack potter attention at his nose ring pulled as she registered. Vinegary smell permeating apartment. Zora she paul. A mone came from around the corner and etta follow. Everything in the living room was rearranged from her last visit zora's table with her typewriter and pile of books was in the middle of the room. Zora sat with her back to eta. Her hands moving rapidly. Her wavy hair hung limp. Them looked like it hadn't been attended two days so hara at exclaimed as she reached the other woman she place the hand on zora's shoulders all but real zora's musky smell a need to talk to you. Zora didn't move or respond to touch. Edit came around the table and what she saw titan throat. it's sent her heart. Racing zora's is stared straight ahead. Her lips pulled into a thin line. Rigid it was a shell of a face mask. The only trace of softness was the shimmer of tears in her big brown eyes at a watch. Zora's hands over the keys struck the keys with an unnatural ferocity. She hit the carriage repeatedly as soon she came to the end of a sheet she loaded a fresh sheet for movements mechanical automated and began again only sorrow typing but the sound bounced everywhere making. It seem as if there were ten type. Assume it was mad nick. What's wrong with you. Eta said gritting her teeth in grabbing her friend's shoulders again. She shook zora zora continue. She grabs his hands and seized a stinging shock at a cried out releasing her friend almost losing her balance. Zora's is focused on eddin. She muttered not what i wanted. I arrogant foolish sauce. Or ed if found way dan's avoi- said from behind at a spun around in flinched. Her insides reeling. The first serpent stood in front of her more men now than spirit average height. The man's spirit wore a heavy black coat at a notice the olive hue of his skin. And how his nose had developed from a slit to a short bridge with flat. Nostrils the iridescent sheen snakeskin covered his bald head backing away from him. She knocked into sharp edge of zora's table. Do not cry for adjusted with long tapered fingers. She's getting a wish. She will now know so many tales that she will never run out of things to right. She's not her at a choked out. No not anymore. The first serpent replied with the slight nod he continued. She will always be my subject but he paused. She may return to herself after time. Etta turned and bolted heart. Thudding an out of breath at a said nothing to anyone when she arrived at the club. Gulping down a glass of water. She ruminated zora. Hadn't known what she was getting them into etiquette see that now she had put her faith in city people and they were just people after all. She would call her grandmother tomorrow and confess. Maybe there was some way to help sore. Yes that's what.
The Brooklyn Boys Podcast
Skeery Pays Top Dollar for Paint
"I have special paint here my house. Of course you do. This was this page was mixed. I got it at the king of england. No no no ten. No no this. Is i think the called the aura. Paint line. Ora ora ora and they're made by a what's the name of that other words it's like by the ten dollar one or the twenty. No no the pain is from. Whereas benjamin moore benjamin moore picture benzon. Which is the god so long ago. Moore's the benjamin veggies sherwin williams benjamin moore so what happens is or benjamin moore aura into. Let me let me see what it says here. Here's why the description. It is zora right so the reason or interior with our exclusive color lock. Technology is correct now. Color lock means colored on delivers the ultimate performance. Yes it does. Brilliant the stretch everlasting color. That's the key. Brody everlasting. So i got paint cans that are twelve years old down there and the molecular structure because they made the paint on the spot right rock then pose you bastard i if i have some touch ups to do. Most people would take that pain. Can't that's twelve years. Old the stick rushing it and they would start swiping the wall with it and it'll be discolored so a line of paint would blend right in. It was brand new. So hey when top dollar at the time okay. Because i am not penny wise pound foolish.
The Brooklyn Boys Podcast
Skeery Pays Top Dollar for Paint
"I have special paint here my house. Of course you do. This was this page was mixed. I got it at the king of england. No no no ten. No no this. Is i think the called the aura. Paint line. Ora ora ora and they're made by a what's the name of that other words it's like by the ten dollar one or the twenty. No no the pain is from. Whereas benjamin moore benjamin moore picture benzon. Which is the god so long ago. Moore's the benjamin veggies sherwin williams benjamin moore so what happens is or benjamin moore aura into. Let me let me see what it says here. Here's why the description. It is zora right so the reason or interior with our exclusive color lock. Technology is correct now. Color lock means colored on delivers the ultimate performance. Yes it does. Brilliant the stretch everlasting color. That's the key. Brody everlasting. So i got paint cans that are twelve years old down there and the molecular structure because they made the paint on the spot right rock then pose you bastard i if i have some touch ups to do. Most people would take that pain. Can't that's twelve years. Old the stick rushing it and they would start swiping the wall with it and it'll be discolored so a line of paint would blend right in. It was brand new. So hey when top dollar at the time okay. Because i am not penny wise pound foolish.
The Brooklyn Boys Podcast
Skeery Pays Top Dollar for Paint
"I have special paint here my house. Of course you do. This was this page was mixed. I got it at the king of england. No no no ten. No no this. Is i think the called the aura. Paint line. Ora ora ora and they're made by a what's the name of that other words it's like by the ten dollar one or the twenty. No no the pain is from. Whereas benjamin moore benjamin moore picture benzon. Which is the god so long ago. Moore's the benjamin veggies sherwin williams benjamin moore so what happens is or benjamin moore aura into. Let me let me see what it says here. Here's why the description. It is zora right so the reason or interior with our exclusive color lock. Technology is correct now. Color lock means colored on delivers the ultimate performance. Yes it does. Brilliant the stretch everlasting color. That's the key. Brody everlasting. So i got paint cans that are twelve years old down there and the molecular structure because they made the paint on the spot right rock then pose you bastard i if i have some touch ups to do. Most people would take that pain. Can't that's twelve years. Old the stick rushing it and they would start swiping the wall with it and it'll be discolored so a line of paint would blend right in. It was brand new. So hey when top dollar at the time okay. Because i am not penny wise pound foolish.
Real Estate Coaching Radio
Is Zillow About The Be YOUR Biggest Competitor
"Three to one. And we're actually. It is january the twenty ninth and we have a podcast today which is discussing bombo bump ball so all the changes that they're doing a lot of chatter online about this. There is a lot of chatter online and We're going to do our best to clarify and go through the specifics of what is happening. Now with zillow and essentially then becoming a national real estate brokerage and being your primary competitor and a lot of your markets and all the little things are going to be a essentially. Try to get in between you and your customers. We've been warning you guys about this forever and here's really the bottom line. If you're one of the agents that's been feeding your competitor is zillow as they've been essentially spending up to become a you know a broker down the street. That's going to try to take your business well in you didn't listen. You kept on spending money with them. Because you were didn't know how to generate your own byerly it's while you're gonna unfortunately probably suffered the worst because what we're saying this again. What we've been telling you guys about for years now is zo. Inevitably was going to get in the brokerage business. They had to continue just show value to their shareholders. There's only so many different parallels they could be getting into in the selling agent space selling agent leads space and of course they're going to get to the brokerage business and when they pivoted aggressively towards the buyer space jillian. I said straight up you past. Podcast there is zero chance. They're not gonna be getting into the real estate brokerage business because we knew and you guys should hopefully know by now that one of the primary benefits of the airspace as it turns off a lot of it creates a lot of Seller leads in those seller leads. Then you run an ad for an eye buyer type situation where seller can wholesaler house or sell it at a discount convenience fee as jillian coined it to sell the house without the normal. You know. let's be honest. Hassles of retailing. A house unless sellers are gonna be willing to do that. They had the cash flow and they can maybe leave a couple twenty grand or thirty grand on the table and not have to deal with all the you know the showings and the conditioning of the house. And all that. Yeah a lot of people are gonna be willing to pay that and you should not be surprised because very rarely despite what you might think very rarely is the most important thing to the seller. The price mo- sellers most everyone you included. Listeners are more focused on essentially stress-free convenience hassle free. And you're gonna be more than willing to pay for that. And that's what these i- buyers represent to consumers but our focus has always been agents brokerage the actual real estate industry boots on the ground entrepreneurs of you folks so we've been warning you that it's inevitable that zillow was going to get into the brokerage business and of course they are now in the brokerage business and they're going to be coming to a hypothetical street corner either real or virtual near you sometime soon. It's going to be called zillow homes. This is not made up. This is not speculative it will be zillow homes right and so what is the advantage that zola has in the marketplace huge advantage. Many places in the country people were often refer to searching for a house on line. they don't even say searching their replaced it with the words zillow ing going to zillow zillow has created a really relatively short period of time a stellar brand and from a consumer perspective their interface. And let's give credit where credit is due. They have become a very very effective company. That's servicing consumers right so the consumer interface on their app and their phone is vastly superior to anything else. That's out there including realtor dot com. And you know we can bemoan history. Oh we want to but the reality of it is that is what it is so now that zillow is officially in the brokerage business. And they're going to be competing with you. I want to be very clear case. We have not been clear about this before one of the main benefits of running an eye by our program from a lead generation perspective is. You're going to get a lot of sellers that would consider the buyer be willing to pay the convenience fee then decide not to decide to retail the house. Now a lot of you are aware again. Hopefully you are aware because you've been listening to us. That zillow is then going to be feeding those resale leads to their in-house agents and then they're going to be listing those resales in some markets. They're still selling those leads to agents at like a ridiculous referral th-they but that's going to be ending soon. So what you're going to be looking at is the sea change in the way essentially zillow interacts with you. Because they're taking the gloves off and you're going to see they've had dig gnarly fists hiding underneath those nice little velvet gloves for over fourteen years now and you've just not even wanted to realize it. Now why did you have realized that you just didn't care because you didn't know of any other way to generate your own business because you didn't know how to generate listing leads zillow's achilles heel has always been that they have to essentially piece the real estate industry because at the time they weren't a real estate brokerage and they had then they had like i think was julie fiber hundred or thousand remember individual relationships with individual brokerages to get their individual listings fees. So zora had to go out to the marketplace and go directly to brokers and sort of bypass the whole system so they can have listings on their site but that was a competitive disadvantage them because realtor dot com always had the newest listings. 'cause realtor dot com obviously was plugged into all the molasses. Guys understand
The Zest
"zora" Discussed on The Zest
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Filmspotting
Top 5 High-Concept Horror, Bad Hair, The Wolf Of Snow Hollow
"Welcome to film spotting Josh we grew up in the eighties we were blessed with a lot of things including the Golden Age of the high-concept movie but I know there are some people listening who are wondering what this phrase really means. We will certainly defined in more detail as we get into our top five here in a little bit but our producer, Sam has a good thought. If the premise of your movie is right there in the title. That's pretty much dead giveaway that it's a high concept movie snakes on a plane there. You know maybe the platonic ideal of high-concept movie, right? That's it right there. If all you gotta do is tell someone the title and they understand everything the movie is about it's probably using a high concept. Yes. Snakes on a plane maybe at times scary in its own way, not exactly a horror movie a longtime listener on twitter Charles Canzoneri was following a similar line of thinking he said invasion of the body snatchers night of the living dead. The. Those titles kind of say it all too. Don't they Josh Yeah. We'll. We'll kind of get into exactly the way you and I at least defined this, but you could make an argument for those for sure we will get to our picks here in a moment but first we did want to spend a couple of minutes on the movie that inspired the list Justin. Simians new bad hair. So yeah the bad hair of the title here is A. Bloodthirsty, we've that the star, the movie L. Lorraine's Anna She unwittingly submits to as part of plot her attempts really to get ahead at this black entertainment network sort of an MTV style network she works at this is set in nineteen, eighty nine we should say so she's been there awhile she's been overworked underpaid largely ignored and and sees a new look as perhaps a way forward. Now, Simeon directed two thousand fourteen dear white people and he created the TV spinoff to he takes the college set racial identity satire of that earlier film and amps it up here Yes. There are some really gnarly murders to this definitely counts as a horror film. He layers in some observations about assimilation and authenticity in that era late eighties, early nineties. Let's clip. Anna. Does your hair. No. We. Aren't you tired of it. All the stairs you get walk into the army lobby everyone wondering why you're here. If you went to any other floor in the tower for job interview. You wouldn't get past reception. And you know that. Sisters get fired lesson every day. have. Music people have certain expectations and my girls need to flow freely. Wonder. You want to be one of my girls. Yes. that. Is L. Lorraine's Anna with Vanessa Williams as her CEO. Zora Josh you did like Dear White People Justin Simians debut film as you mentioned in fact, nominated for a golden brick here on film spotting back in two thousand fourteen. What did you think of that? Hair I kinda loved it actually Really Yeah it's it's pretty insane and you know not a perfect film by any means in some in some ways an experiment in genre for Simeone, you can tell feeling his way and having some fun with the horror comedy elements here, but you know what? I really wished. Adam. Is that I. I mean obviously nowadays, we wish we can see anything with a full theater, but this thing really would have benefited from a very loud a very lively audience preferably like maybe around midnight something like that I think then you could get into the vibe of the film a bit more easily than say just you know watching it on Hulu at home but I still had fun with it. I think what Simeon does in terms of some of the extreme camera angles and the slow zooms there. That are a little insidious There's a great scene where Anna is at the salon getting. About to get the we've and she's kind of walking through this hallway of hair samples that is probably going to haunt my dreams. I think not only the way it's filmed but remember that old seinfeld bid about like when you find hair and things something about like if it's on our heads everyone, you know it's completely normal everyone loves it. But the minute it's removed from your head everyone freaks out that seeing like totally captured that for me So yeah, I think this works as horror I think the main performance here's pretty strong by lorraine and I think there's a lot of fun comic performances going. On along the edges here from people like Jay Ferrell Lean Awaith James Vanderbeek of all people who really doing a Don Johnson Miami Vice era performance I think the setting the eighty nine setting added a lot for me. Just kind of remembering that I don't know if it's like Yo MTV raps I'm sure there's a different countdown show around then the capture, the vibe of that really. Well, I think here even give us a music video and original music video with Kelly Rowland playing this. Pop Star. Hip, hop star who's kind of a mixture I don't know tell me what you think I was getting like. Janet. Jackson slash. Paula Abdul feel from that music video. So that was fun. There's a lot of fun stuff here. Yeah.
The Crime Cafe
Interview with Crime Writer Tom Vater: S. 6, Ep. 7 - burst 1
"My assumption is that you started with journalism in went into crime writing, but that beaker. Well actually. So happened hand in hand because. The first Arctic rival road for newspaper wasn't one, thousand, nine, hundred, Ninety, seven. A paper in in Nepal and while I was there. I started thinking about rising my first novel, the Devil's Road to cap on do which then eventually came out in two thousand four. So it kind of happened at the same time but. But I I would say that you know between the pieces of fiction I right there along gaps for professional reasons and so Leap. Most of the time I have a day job. I do journalism and when I have some months often I can sit down and write a novel. So you're primarily a journalist who also does crime rate. Yeah you could say that I also own a a small publishing. House. crimewave press, which is a crime fiction imprint based in Hong Kong, which does mostly e books published about thirty two titles by. All sorts of oldest many of them from the US. So that's that's my Gig. So I, I kind of do three different things. I'm a crime fiction writer I I'm a very small press publisher with just one Papa and For crime, fiction novels in a bunch of short stories. And interested in the fact that you do so much stuff Most interested in in in the notion of of journalists going into this sort of thing because it tradition of journalists going into to fiction writing is historically something I've always been kind of intrigued by which is why I majored in journalism actually because of my interest in writing and in fiction general What made you choose crime fiction in particular as genre. There's probably several things. One is Zora fiction kind of makes it easy to because it's got many established rules and tropes and. Conventions and and so in that sense, it's it's quite conservative. You as a writer, there's another things to hold onto when you're writing your first novel because it has to go away. If you're GONNA follow crime fiction conventions if you write literary fiction, it's it seems at least to me when I was in my twenties, it seemed much disorienting and I didn't know how Radia how I would do that character development always stuff. But in in crime fiction, you know you have set in stock characters and set. Ways the plots develop and and and end in the end. So so I felt seventy with my best novel, the Devil's role to Kathmandu that I wanted to just ride to a sort of. Conventional Adventure story you know with. it's it's the story of four young guys who in nineteen, seventy five hit the hippie trail between between London Kathmandu and drive a van from London to come do an on the way they they. They make a drug deal that goes horribly wrong. And Is Disappears with the money. Mail saying how? Do and get your shouts the money. So that it's it's like a classic kind of adventure story that I wanted to create an I just how that. All Crime Fiction Travel Zara which would be the easiest way of turning that into a reality.
Food for Thought
Why Fast Fashion Needs A Makeover
"In the last fifteen years, production of clothing has doubled, and at the same time, the number of times something is worn, has haft now that means that over eleven million garments landfill every week in the UK alone. Ultimately the novelty that fashion promises causing irreversible harm to both planet and people. This week's food for thought sees presenter and climate activist Venetia Amana. Join me to discuss why it's time for the wasteful fashion industry to clean up his act highlight Venetia Halloween. I think today's episode has been so I've Jew and I. Now I've been wanting to record it with you for so long. I think in a way we kickoff by discussing the fact that fashions wastefulness I mean. It's almost on a par with single. Use Plastic really if we're looking at the impact that it has. Yet it is. It's hugely not only wasteful industry, but also polluting industry. It's actually kind of looking to get into sustainability and thinking about the planet. functions of really good way to think about it, because it's very accessible way of thinking how a piece of clothing. Goes from from the US ultimately when you when you grow, grow, crops or something caught in, it comes from the S.. And then it's Picton. Soon and. All of these different things all these different prices which make up the supply chain before it's packed and delivered in lands on your doorstep Orlands in the shop future to buy but yet it. It's a huge. Carbon footprint the fashion industry. It's supposed to be one of the top two or three polluting industries and yeah, in terms of waste it's it's incredibly wasteful. we live in a timely fashion still of as. Something disposable fashion is incredibly cheap now and in other places, and because it's so cheap way often fail like it doesn't hold much significance, so we send a lot of close to landfill and a lot of clothing incinerated. All, at the same time, it's really really important is Barry Mind is that? Someone somewhere is paying. The paper will making a clothes or so, if not paid a living wage and eighty percent of them a female when we think about women's rights and bang feminists, we have to think about that with all cloudy, because we want to support all women right, and we want to support the woman who making all clouds goodness I mean. So many connections to what you've just said that intense of what I've done in my previous life. I'm thinking when I was at university and. I used to shop with these such and websites where claiming was so cheap, and I never made I never made a connection that it came from the earth I would I never even thought to the fact that impact to the environment and I definitely probably what I know I didn't. I didn't think about the chain of people and somebody somewhere that was involved with the price of making his clients and I. Think what you're doing on social media, environment is fabulous. You've recently raised Alana's with charity campaigns. You've been at the forefront to claim suggesting that the bronze behind them greenwashing customers. Could you delve into that I? A little bit? Yeah, absolutely. greenwashing as something that we say a lot in fashion, especially at the moment comes from the time whitewashing, which is basically when white people kind of whitewash industries like film, industry's takeover, different ways and Often, it's symbol creations when we as white people kind of commodified live. By coaches make are I might try and day and don't give credit where credit J. it's also kind of a marketing ploy, and it's the same with greenwashing companies often kind of telling us trying to tell us that during something good when they already notes. See this recently with kind of plastic auto companies telling US everything's okay, because that bottles are made from recycled plastic when Rabi. To bustles if we're in a position to do so like you know hair in. The U. K. is just refill will to right. It's like a much more money during it so with function. We see Fush Bruns. Greenwash. In lots of different ways and I, yeah I I've I've taken to social media to cool when it because. I have a when I want to use it and kind of tired of the nonsense, so bronze like eight am and Zora have a kind of conscious collections, so they'll bring out a small range of clothes that a made from various things like orange juice, pope and unical tears, or whatever is. And they tell us let's go, and I'm not gonNA deny that and say it's bad. It is good we should be using. Natural fibres when we might close, but the problem with Sutton fashion bruns. Is that sure that using a kind of planet friendly planet friendly dies and materials, but what about the people making the clothes and also? The share amount of clothing that them making doesn't make up for the good that I think the goods that doing concert. No point, not percent. If their entire business H. M. so is a drop in the ocean for want of a better phrase. On Yeah. I mean recently. We've seen a lot of charity in slogan, T. Shirts. During, the pandemic and this is this is very much a kind of. nuanced debates, and I I take quite a hard stance on it, but I I also really appreciate that. We have to look at both
Zero to IPO
Zuora and Integrate
"Well today we have teams O on the show and teen is the CEO of Zora, and amongst many accomplishments is one of the most noted people on the idea of the subscription economy. Zora is the leading way for companies to launch and manage subscription services. He is a noted expert on this, but he's also the eleventh employees at salesforce going way back way before. He's the best selling author on the subscription economy. Let's be really clear about that. Yup One hundred percent totally clear. What am I? I thought I was like. Wait a second team. You're the eleventh employees at salesforce. You're the first CMO salesforce. Why aren't you on a beach somewhere? Why even working in? Was Wrong with you. Why are you on our podcast? There's a lot more to do. There's a lot more do a lot more technology to build in this lot more things. We want to do in the world, so we're busy. We're GONNA. Get into all that we want to pick your brain. We WanNA learn as much as we can from you to let me introduce our other guests Jeremy, bloom is our first Olympian on the show Freddie, and as if that wasn't enough has also played in. In the NFL was drafted initially by the eagles, and then played for the steelers as well most notably, you're the CEO and founder of integrate which is a company that helps other companies automate demand marketing, and for our listeners today we're going to be talking about a stage of growth about a set of problems and challenges that occur not in the early days, because Jeremy and integrator beyond the early days they've raised a significant amount of capital and so I think the question on the table is. How do you grow at a high cadence after you've made it through the initial stages of raising money, it's been a journey were somewhat described as an overnight success ten years later. It's taken us a while to to get where where we are phase of the company. We're about three hundred people. Our mission is is to move everything into a central database in the cloud so that we can make more informed decisions on where we should be spending their marketing dollars to create revenue. Let's get into the meat here. In the last twenty four months, integrate has tripled in size as we all know, we are in a moment of real turmoil and market instability teen. You're at salesforce. Eight your leading Zora through the current turmoil. What kind of lessons can we gain? How aggressive or defensive should we be in moments market instability as we actually started the end of two thousand and seven, and so we lived through the two thousand and eight crisis, where the prevailing wisdom was, there was never gonNa to be any cash. Will you like it's over? It's over or were you? What was your mindset well? We didn't plan to start to. China recession the economy is starting to look really really good and We got a little lucky right. A little luck always helps along the way. We closed our series B. in the summer of Oh eight. And I think we had signed the term sheet. And then Lehman Brothers collapsed. And Economy starts shutting down a little worried for awhile. We actually wouldn't get the cash. I don't think we cut anybody, but we really spent about saying. How can we use resources? We have the people we have, and they just focus focus really on customers really needed what we were doing. Focus really on on making sure we service them well. Making sure that we we were spending. are are the most valuable things, and we continue to acquire customers you know, prove ourselves. be smart about our cash. Which is Kinda Nice actually? All the time when when things are actually going crazy around us, especially the Tech Company, there's such a big push to hire to grow, and so moments like these where the pressure is off right now really allows you to kind of reflect and build build quality systems right in foundation for how you want to operate their last year's Jeremiah question for you in your mind right now. Are You thinking offensively or defensively? We're we're really thinking offensively were we're grateful to serve the enterprise right? So when you look at our customer base, it's salesforce. It's Microsoft. These are big companies right so they're going to make it through. We're well capitalized able to make some rnd bets through this downturn. We're also able to continue marketing, and maybe even marketing. Even harder, but differently, so I think a lot of reinvention is going to happen. Re architect. Thing is going to happen. It's pretty staggering. You know the amount of innovation and change. That's happening right now and sometimes. We can't see it
Zero to IPO
Zuora and Integrate
"Well today we have teams O on the show and teen is the CEO of Zora, and amongst many accomplishments is one of the most noted people on the idea of the subscription economy. Zora is the leading way for companies to launch and manage subscription services. He is a noted expert on this, but he's also the eleventh employees at salesforce going way back way before. He's the best selling author on the subscription economy. Let's be really clear about that. Yup One hundred percent totally clear. What am I? I thought I was like. Wait a second team. You're the eleventh employees at salesforce. You're the first CMO salesforce. Why aren't you on a beach somewhere? Why even working in? Was Wrong with you. Why are you on our podcast? There's a lot more to do. There's a lot more do a lot more technology to build in this lot more things. We want to do in the world, so we're busy. We're GONNA. Get into all that we want to pick your brain. We WanNA learn as much as we can from you to let me introduce our other guests Jeremy, bloom is our first Olympian on the show Freddie, and as if that wasn't enough has also played in. In the NFL was drafted initially by the eagles, and then played for the steelers as well most notably, you're the CEO and founder of integrate which is a company that helps other companies automate demand marketing, and for our listeners today we're going to be talking about a stage of growth about a set of problems and challenges that occur not in the early days, because Jeremy and integrator beyond the early days they've raised a significant amount of capital and so I think the question on the table is. How do you grow at a high cadence after you've made it through the initial stages of raising money, it's been a journey were somewhat described as an overnight success ten years later. It's taken us a while to to get where where we are phase of the company. We're about three hundred people. Our mission is is to move everything into a central database in the cloud so that we can make more informed decisions on where we should be spending their marketing dollars to create revenue. Let's get into the meat here. In the last twenty four months, integrate has tripled in size as we all know, we are in a moment of real turmoil and market instability teen. You're at salesforce. Eight your leading Zora through the current turmoil. What kind of lessons can we gain? How aggressive or defensive should we be in moments market instability as we actually started the end of two thousand and seven, and so we lived through the two thousand and eight crisis, where the prevailing wisdom was, there was never gonNa to be any cash. Will you like it's over? It's over or were you? What was your mindset well? We didn't plan to start to. China recession the economy is starting to look really really good and We got a little lucky right. A little luck always helps along the way. We closed our series B. in the summer of Oh eight. And I think we had signed the term sheet. And then Lehman Brothers collapsed. And Economy starts shutting down a little worried for awhile. We actually wouldn't get the cash. I don't think we cut anybody, but we really spent about saying. How can we use resources? We have the people we have, and they just focus focus really on customers really needed what we were doing. Focus really on on making sure we service them well. Making sure that we we were spending. are are the most valuable things, and we continue to acquire customers you know, prove ourselves. be smart about our cash. Which is Kinda Nice actually? All the time when when things are actually going crazy around us, especially the Tech Company, there's such a big push to hire to grow, and so moments like these where the pressure is off right now really allows you to kind of reflect and build build quality systems right in foundation for how you want to operate their last year's Jeremiah question for you in your mind right now. Are You thinking offensively or defensively? We're we're really thinking offensively were we're grateful to serve the enterprise right? So when you look at our customer base, it's salesforce. It's Microsoft. These are big companies right so they're going to make it through. We're well capitalized able to make some rnd bets through this downturn. We're also able to continue marketing, and maybe even marketing. Even harder, but differently, so I think a lot of reinvention is going to happen. Re architect. Thing is going to happen. It's pretty staggering. You know the amount of innovation and change. That's happening right now and sometimes. We can't see it
Zero to IPO
Zuora and Integrate
"Well today we have teams O on the show and teen is the CEO of Zora, and amongst many accomplishments is one of the most noted people on the idea of the subscription economy. Zora is the leading way for companies to launch and manage subscription services. He is a noted expert on this, but he's also the eleventh employees at salesforce going way back way before. He's the best selling author on the subscription economy. Let's be really clear about that. Yup One hundred percent totally clear. What am I? I thought I was like. Wait a second team. You're the eleventh employees at salesforce. You're the first CMO salesforce. Why aren't you on a beach somewhere? Why even working in? Was Wrong with you. Why are you on our podcast? There's a lot more to do. There's a lot more do a lot more technology to build in this lot more things. We want to do in the world, so we're busy. We're GONNA. Get into all that we want to pick your brain. We WanNA learn as much as we can from you to let me introduce our other guests Jeremy, bloom is our first Olympian on the show Freddie, and as if that wasn't enough has also played in. In the NFL was drafted initially by the eagles, and then played for the steelers as well most notably, you're the CEO and founder of integrate which is a company that helps other companies automate demand marketing, and for our listeners today we're going to be talking about a stage of growth about a set of problems and challenges that occur not in the early days, because Jeremy and integrator beyond the early days they've raised a significant amount of capital and so I think the question on the table is. How do you grow at a high cadence after you've made it through the initial stages of raising money, it's been a journey were somewhat described as an overnight success ten years later. It's taken us a while to to get where where we are phase of the company. We're about three hundred people. Our mission is is to move everything into a central database in the cloud so that we can make more informed decisions on where we should be spending their marketing dollars to create revenue. Let's get into the meat here. In the last twenty four months, integrate has tripled in size as we all know, we are in a moment of real turmoil and market instability teen. You're at salesforce. Eight your leading Zora through the current turmoil. What kind of lessons can we gain? How aggressive or defensive should we be in moments market instability as we actually started the end of two thousand and seven, and so we lived through the two thousand and eight crisis, where the prevailing wisdom was, there was never gonNa to be any cash. Will you like it's over? It's over or were you? What was your mindset well? We didn't plan to start to. China recession the economy is starting to look really really good and We got a little lucky right. A little luck always helps along the way. We closed our series B. in the summer of Oh eight. And I think we had signed the term sheet. And then Lehman Brothers collapsed. And Economy starts shutting down a little worried for awhile. We actually wouldn't get the cash. I don't think we cut anybody, but we really spent about saying. How can we use resources? We have the people we have, and they just focus focus really on customers really needed what we were doing. Focus really on on making sure we service them well. Making sure that we we were spending. are are the most valuable things, and we continue to acquire customers you know, prove ourselves. be smart about our cash. Which is Kinda Nice actually? All the time when when things are actually going crazy around us, especially the Tech Company, there's such a big push to hire to grow, and so moments like these where the pressure is off right now really allows you to kind of reflect and build build quality systems right in foundation for how you want to operate their last year's