Carlos Gomes is the Founder of Forefront. Early contributor at Seed Club and Mint Fund.

Currently building Farcaster Index as a place to discover farcaster tokens and mints. On the other side, they shipped Terminal as the fastest way to create a channel token on Farcaster.

Carlos and Nick met IRL for the first time at FarCon in California, and then again during ETH Berlin. Current topic of conversation is going faster. Build it faster. Do it faster. Accelerate everything.

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OPEN has built state of the art onchain ticketing infrastructure that puts artists, organizers and fans back in control. Anyone can participate in the ticketing revolution through the DAO of creators, builders and token holders. To join the onchain tickets movement with OPEN, head to onopen.xyz

Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz.

Toadyhawk and Benbodhi are contributors in the Nouns ecosystem. Founders of The Noun Square, an onchain media collective funded by Nouns, which is home to the Zero Rights Reserved Podcast.

The project has evolved into The Yellow Collective on Base. Supporting artists and creativity onchain and exploring nounish culture.

We talk about memes, DAOs, the vanishing media business, hanging out at FarCon in California, and the future of Nouns.

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Higher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit higher.party

Paragraph is where you can create, distribute & monetize - on your own terms. This publishing platform enables creators to mint posts as collectible content and send token-gated newsletters directly to wallet addresses. To get started with these radically powerful tools, visit paragraph.xyz

OPEN has built state of the art onchain ticketing infrastructure that puts artists, organizers and fans back in control. Anyone can participate in the ticketing revolution through the DAO of creators, builders and token holders. To join the onchain tickets movement with OPEN, head to onopen.xyz

Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz.

Derek Taylor is a musician and founding member of the park. A band with many of the largest onchain music mints of all time. Based in Los Angeles, originally from San Francisco.

They stage Fridays at the Park, bringing artists together in the room to write and record music. In-person experiences that also help onboard into the onchain and crypto world.

Derek is a coffee enthusiast and raconteur. Owner of the legendary Menotti’s Coffee Stop in Venice Beach. We jumped on the mics to record days before I flew out to FarCon. We co-hosted HIGHER SESSIONS down at Venice Beach skatepark on Saturday morning, with the park, higher and UFO. Trevor aka The Gardener had a mountain of flowers there and was creating bouquets for people passing by and the park was providing coffee.

We talk about the back story of the park, stories of creative collaborations across the world, how best to get started on the onchain scene as a musician, and how things look into the future.

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Higher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit higher.party

Paragraph is where you can create, distribute & monetize - on your own terms. This publishing platform enables creators to mint posts as collectible content and send token-gated newsletters directly to wallet addresses. To get started with these radically powerful tools, visit paragraph.xyz

OPEN has built state of the art onchain ticketing infrastructure that puts artists, organizers and fans back in control. Anyone can participate in the ticketing revolution through the DAO of creators, builders and token holders. To join the onchain tickets movement with OPEN, head to onopen.xyz

Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz.

Martin, Six and Kugusha are all early members of higher. A new creative collective with its own native currency, built with a token on Base, publishing on Zora, and accelerating out of sight as one of the all-time fastest growing Farcaster channels.

Higher is a lifestyle, an optimistic mindset, a brand being built in real time by hundreds of people on the internet. The word itself was used in crypto for some time, but the idea that “Higher” could be something bigger was kickstarted by LGHT in March.

LGHT created the arrow logo and the /higher Farcaster channel, after a suggestion from Jacob from Zora that the unicode up arrow (↑) could be the symbol for “higher”. And LGHT then made a few memes in a collection on Zora.

We talk about everyone’s early experiences on Farcaster and views on how it’s developing.

About the origins of higher and what’s emerging so far from this experiment, building a brand together. Zooming out on the possibilities and general sense of fun and play with people on the internet that is something to be a part of.

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Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io

Higher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit higher.party

Paragraph is where you can create, distribute & monetize - on your own terms. This publishing platform enables creators to mint posts as collectible content and send token-gated newsletters directly to wallet addresses. To get started with these radically powerful tools, visit paragraph.xyz

OPEN has built state of the art onchain ticketing infrastructure that puts artists, organizers and fans back in control. Anyone can participate in the ticketing revolution through the DAO of creators, builders and token holders. To join the onchain tickets movement with OPEN, head to onopen.xyz

Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz.

Scene Infrastructure Company is a software business building better instruments for socialization. We recorded with the founding team, Jose Mejia, Ethan Daya and Neesh and what we got down on tape is super valuable context, experiences and thoughts around founding a new company.

For design, product, community building and technology choices. Coming from earlier founding experiences at organizations like FWB and Zora. On designing a brand, and finding inspirations from retro spots like computer magazines, playstation games and lore, to create something fresh.

We talk about their vision for the future and what they’d like to build, as they’re figuring it out in real time.

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Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io

Higher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit higher.party

Paragraph is where you can create, distribute & monetize - on your own terms. This publishing platform enables creators to mint posts as collectible content and send token-gated newsletters directly to wallet addresses. To get started with these radically powerful tools, visit paragraph.xyz

OPEN has built state of the art onchain ticketing infrastructure that puts artists, organizers and fans back in control. Anyone can participate in the ticketing revolution through the DAO of creators, builders and token holders. To join the onchain tickets movement with OPEN, head to onopen.xyz

Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz.

LATASHÁ is the founder of Topia. The evolution will not be televised. It will be onchain.

She’s an artist, musician, producer, world builder. An original from the onchain music scene who was minting works on Zora back in 2021 kinda time. She had one of the earliest websites with onchain music videos and tracks.

In this period she became Community Lead at Zora and produced ZORATOPIA. An events series and community which helped to educate and onboard artists into new internet ways of releasing music and working together.

Music prize winner in the We Love The Art contest from Optimism for WAVE, a track and music video produced from her home studio and environment.

We talk about her origins in music and production, making beats and writing, coming up in the scene in New York City. Experiences working at ZORA in these earlier formative stages of the onchain arts community. Reflections on the space in this moment in 2024, and hints at what she’s building now at Topia.

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Paragraph is where you can create, distribute & monetize - on your own terms. This publishing platform enables creators to mint posts as collectible content and send token-gated newsletters directly to wallet addresses. To get started with these radically powerful tools, visit paragraph.xyz

Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz.

July is a founder of Faust. Developing Roc: a reality oracle computer that notarizes reality, onchain. He’s an engineer who built flying cars and autonomous vehicles with Kittyhawk, a startup backed by Google.

He’s an early Farcaster user and creator of the /july channel with 6.5K members. A place where anyone is invited to post musings, thoughts & dreams. July is based in the Bay Area and we met recently via Farcaster where he posts about art, history, philosophy, and thoughts on technology.

In this episode we talk about July’s background in arts and tech. How he grew up all over the world in his childhood including Japan, the Netherlands and California.

Observations about counterculture movements. What’s happening on Farcaster and onchain. About collective imagination and the zeitgeist, how that is expressed through culture. Why people want to build robots. What all these things mean for the future. And a bit about Farcon in Venice Beach where we’ll be meeting in-person, early May.

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Paragraph is where you can create, distribute & monetize - on your own terms. This publishing platform enables creators to mint posts as collectible content and send token-gated newsletters directly to wallet addresses. To get started with these radically powerful tools, visit paragraph.xyz

Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz.

Nat Emodi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Highlight. Their product is being used for generative releases by leading artists, organizations, and platforms. Helping creators to release any type of collection, from tightly curated series to generative open editions. Opening the space for experimentation as more people can explore their ideas and make generative art.

Nat is based in the Bay Area. We met online when we were both judges for the We Love The Art competition hosted by Optimism. He was working on ideas for a blog post which became ‘20 for ’24: Digital Art Trends That Will Shape This Year’.

We decided to record an episode about these ideas, and put the focus on art and trends in the industry, technology, for artists and collectors, galleries and curators. Jumping on the mics right before Nat was heading to the airport to fly out for NFT Paris from California.

We talk about art trends such as the expansion of ‘generative’ as a concept. Games and interactivity having an increasing role in digital art. And how best to create immersive IRL gallery experiences for onchain and digital art.

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Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io

Paragraph is where you can create, distribute & monetize - on your own terms. This publishing platform enables creators to mint posts as collectible content and send token-gated newsletters directly to wallet addresses. To get started with these radically powerful tools, visit paragraph.xyz

Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz.