#4 John Watkinson, the Punk that started it all

Today we’re joined by John Watkinson of LarvaLabs, John is the co-creator of the Cryptopunks, which was the first NFT project on Ethereum and the inspiration for the ERC721 standard. He also created Autoglyphs which is the first fully on-chain generative Art NFT project as well as many other varied and creative non-blockchain applications.

In our chat we cover:

• The fascinating story of the Cryptopunks.

• How the NFT space has taken off since then.

• The Autoglyphs project.

• How NFTs solve key problems with Ownership and Art.

At the end we announce the Winner and design of our HODL Gerbil NFTs and give you the next NonFunGerbil in desperate need of a backstory

We hope you enjoy the show.

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Links:

John Watkinson (Twitter) - https://twitter.com/pents90

Larva Labs - https://larvalabs.com/

Cryptopunks - https://thecryptopunks.com/

Autoglyphs - https://www.larvalabs.com/autoglyphs

#3 Vinay Gupta, Indexing the physical world

Today we’re delighted to bring you our conversation with Vinay Gupta.

Vinay has a varied background as a futurologist, advising on disaster planning and state failure solutions, he designed the open source disaster relief shelter the Hexayurt, he was a first generation cypher punks, release coordinator for the launch Ethereum. Now he brings all of that together in Mattereum to index the world, reduce global waste and increase efficiency.

We have a very wide ranging discussion covering:

• The state of Ethereum 5 years in.

• How software can further improve our lives.

• What changes digital models of everything can bring.

• William Shatner.

• How non-fungible tokens are vital for modelling unique things in the physical world.

As well as looking at our current state of affairs in society.

Stick around at the end we go through some of the funniest entries for ICO gerbil and announce the winner plus give the name of next episodes NonFunGerbil.

If you’re new to this, we, along with the community create fun characters based on themes and ideas within crypto crossed with gerbils.

We give you the name, you send us hilarious backstories on Twitter, and then we create an illustration based on the most entertaining story and mint a set of tokens that we send to everyone who participated in that round. It’s a lot of fun and our way of playing with the tech and building a community.

We hope you enjoy the episode.

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#ICOerbil

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https://nonfungerbils.com

Links:

Mattereum - https://mattereum.com/

Vinay on Medium - https://medium.com/@leashless

Vinay on Twitter - https://twitter.com/leashless

Hexayurt - http://hexayurt.com/  

#2 Jake Brukhman, Art & the Instagram of NFTs

We are joined by Jake Brukhman of Coinfund.

Jake has an extensive and varied background coming from a base of Mathematics and Computer Science, He’s deeply embedded in the crypto space and is an investor, artist and curator in the NFT Art world.

We had brilliant conversation about many aspects of non-fungible tokens and art including:

• How NFTs make it easier for artists to monetise their talents.

• How they can be an investment asset for retail investors.

• Platforms that make it easy to Tokenise work.

• Virtual 3D worlds that allow you to find and buy art.

• The role of Instagram.

• NFT’s as one of the few areas of crypto creating revenue.

Stick around at the end where we read out some of our favourite entries into the very first NonFunGerbil token giveaway and announce the winner who will be the blueprint for the final artwork.

#ICOgerbil
#GenesisGerbil

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Links:

Jake’s Website - http://www.brukhman.com/

FIrst Edition - https://firstedition.art/

Editional - https://editional.com/

Coinfund - https://coinfund.io/

Cryptovoxels - https://www.cryptovoxels.com/

Decentraland - https://decentraland.org/

Blockcities - https://www.blockcities.co/

Clovers - https://clovers.network/

#1 Owen Barnes, an overview of non-fungible tokens and what the future holds

Owen Barnes has been involved in the crypto space since 2012 and is a full stack developer, speaker and independent advisor to blockchain startups.

We have a fascinating conversation covering the state of crypto today and the outlook for the future.

We cover where non-fungible tokens fit in and why they’re so interesting.

We also cover decentralisation, signalling, scarcity, non-transferable tokens and much more.

Then we layout the guidelines for our very first Gerbil giveaway, so if you want your own NonFunGerbil, stay tuned at the end and get involved.

Links

Owens Website - https://www.owenbarnes.com/

Mintable - https://mintable.app/

#0 The Introduction to NonFunGerbils

The NonFunGerbils

TThe NonFunGerbils are digitally scarce gerbils represented by non-fungible NonFunGerbil tokens on the Ethereum blockchain.

They are given away on the NonFunGerbils podcast. Heres how it works:

• The name of the next gerbil is given at the end of each podcast

• Descriptions for the gerbil are submitted by the listeners via Twitter

• The funniest / most entertaining entry becomes the official description for the gerbil. The token will have the winning entry written within the token

• Our brilliant illustrator will then create beautiful artwork to match the winning description

• All of the top descriptions, as decided by the podcast hosts, get sent one of those rare NonFunGerbil tokens

• The scarcity of each set of NonFunGerbil tokens depends on how many entertaining entries are submitted

The NonFunGerbils Podcast

The NonFunGerbils Podcast explores the world of non-fungible assets and the growing decentralised economy.

• Each week Luke & George host an interesting guest who is involved in the space

• Different NFT (non-fungible token) projects are explored during ‘Show & Tell’

• The funniest descriptions submitted for the previous Gerbil are read out and the winner announced

• The next NonFunGerbil’s name is revealed along with any specific guidelines