The Engine is a show about building business in crypto and with crypto.

Whether you’re already building in the space or you’re trying to understand what the whole crypto, web3, blockchain, onchain fuss is about, you’re in the right place.

This week’s topic: Building in Consumer Crypto and Crypto Art.

• 2021 cycle and lessons we learned then, both as builders and degens.
• mainstream dipped its toe into the crypto waters - the involvement of big studios and IPs with Nifty’s, which Jordan co-founded.
• harnessing degen energy when building and directing it into sustainable forms.
• the importance of community, the value of digital art in physical spaces, and the potential for viewership provenance.
• Jordan and Devon talk about their plans and ideas around building in consumer crypto and art in the current cycle.

This week’s guests:

Jordan Lyall

Jordan is the founder of VenturePunk a venture studio behind Prohibition, Skylab community and other projects.

He was one of the Co-Founders of Nifty's, an NFT platform that launched some of the household name NFTs, such as Matrix and Game of Thrones.

Prior to that, Jordan founded the MEME Project, an early experimental NFT protocol.

And before that Jordan led the product team for the DeFi division at ConsenSys and served as the CPO at Totle, a crypto liquidity network. More recently, he launched Heart & Craft, in collaboration with Snowfro.

Follow Jordan and his projects:
https://twitter.com/JordanLyall
https://venturepunk.com/
https://prohibition.art/
https://heartandcraft.xyz/
https://www.skylab.xyz/

DevonFigures

Devon is the founder of the WhiteWalls app and is also interested in the intersection of digital and physical.

The WhiteWalls app is bridging the gap between digital ownership and physical viewership, activating the displays we already own.

Follow Devon and WhiteWalls:
https://twitter.com/devonfigures
https://www.whitewalls.art/

Core contributors of Season 1 of The Engine:
🔐Check out TACo by Threshold Network, your go-to for decentralized encryption and access control plugin. From seed phrase recovery to crypto-inheritance and beyond, TACo is revolutionizing how we manage private data in dApps. https://threshold.network/

🌍 Explore Build Cities, a global cooperative redefining how startup cities collaborate. It creates a digital infrastructure that connects local communities worldwide. https://www.buildcities.network/

Build Cities - Bitcoin conference event: https://blocklive.io/event/bns-bitcoin-2024

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The Engine is a show about building business in crypto and with crypto.

So, whether you’re already building in the space or you’re trying to understand what the whole crypto, web3, blockchain, onchain fuss is about, you’re in the right place.

This week’s topic: Building in DeFi.

We talked about:

• the current state of DeFi, the role of institutional players, and the impact of memecoins.
• the challenges of harnessing Degen energy, and the importance of building partnerships for ecosystem growth.
• the importance of transparency, security, and education in creating a safe and user-friendly environment.
• the fragmentation in the crypto ecosystem and interoperability between different chains.
• both guests are excited about the potential of Ethereum pilling the Bitcoin community. So we talked about some opportunities and challenges around that.

The guests this week:

Yoshua Urioste, aka Tenzent, Head of Business Development at Silo - a lending protocol that allows you to borrow any crypto asset with another on isolated lending markets where risk is always siloed.

https://www.silo.finance/

Beachball is a core contributor at Synonym, which is a cross-chain money market.
https://www.synonym.finance/

Core contributors of Season 1 of The Engine:

🔐Check out TACo by Threshold Network, your go-to for decentralized encryption and access control plugin. From seed phrase recovery to crypto-inheritance and beyond, TACo is revolutionizing how we manage private data in dApps. https://threshold.network/

🌍 Explore Build Cities, a global cooperative redefining how startup cities collaborate. It creates a digital infrastructure that connects local communities worldwide.

🌍 Explore Build Cities, a global cooperative redefining how startup cities collaborate. It creates a digital infrastructure that connects local communities worldwide. https://www.buildcities.network/

Build Cities - Bitcoin conference event: https://blocklive.io/event/bns-bitcoin-2024

🛰️ SKYLAB
The Engine is an extension of the Skylab community of web3 builders. It aims to empower web3 leaders and educate the broader entrepreneur community about web3.
Check out Skylab’s website and consider applying: https://www.skylab.xyz/

FOLLOW THE ENGINE
Stay tuned for the conversations with leading minds in web3:
Website: https://www.theenginemedia.xyz
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theenginemediaxyz
Substack: https://theenginemedia.substack.com/
Twitter (X): https://twitter.com/TheEngineMedia
Farcaster: https://warpcast.com/theengine
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/theenginemedia/

The Engine is a show about building business in crypto and with crypto.

Whether you’re already building in the space or you’re trying to understand what the whole crypto, web3, blockchain, onchain fuss is about, you’re in the right place.

This week’s guests:
Angelo Alessio is a co-founder of Build Cities, a global cooperative of startup cities.
Igor Lilic - ex-Consensys, ex-DFINITY, the founder of Blackcomb Software, and co-founder of BreakOut, a web3 community in Brazil.

We’re talking about Building Builder Communities.

We touch on the relationship between decentralization and community.

We get into the challenges of financial incentivization within communities.

We touch on the ethical considerations when introducing financial incentives, some of the potential pitfalls of tokenization, and the need for a strong culture and product-market fit.

We talk about the value of in-person interactions and the need for authenticity, creativity, boldness, and a long-term vision when building communities.

Core contributors of Season 1 of The Engine:

🔐Check out TACo by Threshold Network, your go-to for decentralized encryption and access control plugin. From seed phrase recovery to crypto-inheritance and beyond, TACo is revolutionizing how we manage private data in dApps. https://threshold.network/

🌍 Explore Build Cities, a global cooperative redefining how startup cities collaborate. It creates a digital infrastructure that connects local communities worldwide. https://www.buildcities.network/

🌍 Explore Build Cities, a global cooperative redefining how startup cities collaborate. It creates a digital infrastructure that connects local communities worldwide. https://www.buildcities.network/

Build Cities - Bitcoin conference event: https://blocklive.io/event/bns-bitcoin-2024

🛰️ SKYLAB
The Engine is an extension of the Skylab community of web3 builders. It aims to empower web3 leaders and educate the broader entrepreneur community about web3.
Check out Skylab’s website and consider applying: https://www.skylab.xyz/

FOLLOW THE ENGINE
Stay tuned for the conversations with leading minds in web3:
Website: https://www.theenginemedia.xyz
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theenginemediaxyz
Substack: https://theenginemedia.substack.com/
Twitter (X): https://twitter.com/TheEngineMedia
Farcaster: https://warpcast.com/theengine
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/theenginemedia/