I hear you, because your speaker's working and you're traveling, so I want to make sure
that we are technically all good to go.
I am not putting my headphones on, so I'm in my hotel room.
Hopefully this sounds okay.
How's it sounding for you?
Maybe we should have Chibi on as a speaker, too.
Alright, let's get Chibi.
Mainly because I wish you guys were here.
Well, we'll have to get travel into our future at some point.
Travel together somewhere.
Maybe I'll come to where you are.
Ooh, if you come to our end, you could go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
I don't know, though. You don't have time for me on the weekends.
Maybe we can make some time.
Yeah, just connected for a moment there.
So let's get everything kicked off.
We'll be starting Collab Community today.
Lava from NFT Paris with Anjali on site, which is super exciting for us.
We know that she is the CCO and co-founder of Abridge.io, the creators of Collabland.
And the mission of Abridge is to make the promises of the blockchain
into centralization of reality by bringing usability to Web3,
empowering devs to build a better Web3,
and giving everyone access to build applications using blockchain technology.
Anjali has been a strong champion of this mission,
and it's great to have her here, or there as it is.
And we also have the amazing Magical Chibi on CHU is our Discord community monthly.
And an amazing member of the Comms team.
So we are going to have her help lead the conversation today.
And really, we're going to quiz Anjali on how Paris doesn't tell us all of the things
we can live vicariously through her experience.
But we also have a poem available starting at 10 a.m. Eastern.
We will give the secret word for that when it is ready.
And that is something that you will be able to make using the mobile app for Collabland.
Your speaker is really quiet, or I can barely hear you.
Yeah, it's a weird word for me, too.
But let's see if we can make it work.
Okay, let me try leaving the stage and come back.
Yeah, like, there's a little bit of the background noise, maybe.
Maybe it's your mic, or using your headset.
Apologies for the troubleshooting, everyone.
But GM, I can't wait to hear all about Paris.
GMGM, so nice to be here.
How's weather over there?
It is complete trash, so do not feel badly about missing any kind of amazing...
Anyone that's having FOMO, you can dump that idea of it being like fancy outfits and high heels and little dresses that is not happening.
It is wall coats and boots and rain and everyone looking like they got dragged in by the cat.
That's what you can expect from this.
Well, I mean, it's really great once you're indoors, but it's definitely not HCC style.
February in Paris is a very different experience than February in the middle of June.
Right, all right, I am back. Is it better?
It's nice, it's like you're in a room with us.
Maybe a little less background ice?
Yeah, I think that's fine. It sounds good to me.
So let's kick off our conversation with Anjali's travel experience.
So you are in Paris right now.
Yes, and the conference hasn't started.
So this isn't going to be a...
I guess next week we can do that talk of what happened during NFT Paris.
And I'm really, really excited to be at this conference this year.
I heard so many good things last year about it.
However, those of you that are coming to ETH Denver know this is the week before ETH Denver.
And so it becomes a bit of a challenge to navigate.
Last year Collabland had a booth at ETH Denver, which takes...
And we had a bunch of workshops during Biddle Week, which is this week.
This year we're not doing a booth at ETH Denver.
We usually don't do a booth at ETH Denver because there are so many side events
and there are so many other places that our team needs to be.
James and I are Denver locals.
I'm not going to say Denver native. We've only been here seven years.
But we are Denver locals, Colorado locals.
And so ETH Denver is our hometown conference.
And we just have a lot of relationships here.
I mean, that's one of the really special things about being in Denver
or being around Colorado or close enough to Denver,
is that there's a huge crypto network here.
So if anyone's thinking about places to move and can handle bad weather,
there's a huge crypto network here.
Our governor is very crypto forward.
So did Andrew Wang, if those of you who remember Andrew Wang,
the US president candidate a couple of years ago,
also spoke at ETH Denver and the governor spoke at ETH Denver.
And he probably will be at ETH Denver.
I mean, if he's not speaking or doing the keynote,
he's around and super available for everybody and at all the events.
And it's just really great to be living in a part of the US
where there is excitement and hope for crypto and for the crypto industry.
And also just so much innovation happening,
not only in the DAO space, which is important for Colabland
because we started off as a DAO tooling.
And James, my co-founder, he wrote the white paper for Moloch DAO,
which is one of the very first DAOs back in 2019
and was one of the people who started Metacartel,
which was one of the first grant-giving DAOs for ETH2 development.
He was a layer 2 researcher because ETH was,
and this brings it back around to CryptoKitties,
but once we saw CryptoKitties break Ethereum,
then it was we need to think quickly about how we are going to
continue to invite builders to join Ethereum
and how we are going to get this faster and more efficient
and more effective and get more people on voted into Ethereum,
which was the initial playbook.
And James often says Facebook started at Harvard.
And in the same way, Ethereum was kind of our Harvard,
where it was the first place that you could really come together
and build and do different things than what the whole Bitcoin approach was,
And so this was a different situation with Ethereum,
which is we can have builders, we can get together, we can do new things.
It's not just buy and hold or buy and hodl,
but it was buy and or not even buy, get it from the drip,
and start working, start doing things,
start seeing what we can do together,
which is really the fantasy here, right,
that we're all trying to live together and how we're all here together.
So yeah, so DAOs are really important
and really the first place we all started
and where it's really easy to get excited about crypto
because how are we going to solve like real world problems?
With the blockchain, it's not just and never has been a way to just get rich
I know that's not true in my life,
and I don't think that's true for candy or chibi as well
or for the entire Colapland team.
Just say though, holy crap, I was doing taxes last night
And I love how the story is all come back to crypto kiddies at some point.
This space really is just, I think, so magical in it.
There's sure money to be made and a lot of people can find opportunity,
but it's more than just that.
It's the whole vision and the kind of greater purpose.
And really having, and I guess this comes back to travel,
but having a global network of people who share the same dream
in one way or the other has been truly enriching for my life.
And a lot of things that I wanted and didn't know I wanted
was to be able to connect with people all over the world
and meet people from all different places and religions
and geographical and political boundaries
where now we have this dream that we're looking at together.
I can compare it to I guess what religion was for people
in different parts of history.
It's like we have an idea and ideals that we hold on to
and yet we are liberal enough to be able to express them
in such different ways and different flavors.
And yet there's still this continuity where we are so inviting
and see what this can be like a global culture
and being able to rally around something together.
And it is, I mean, in that way it does feel very much like a religious revival.
When you go to a conference and I've really been trying to put words together
about why IRL experiences are so special and so impactful.
And I feel it right now even before the conference where you meet new people
and I guess we can get to that a little bit later,
but where you're meeting brand new people.
But even though you don't speak, I mean everyone speaks English,
I'd say until we get some way for AI to help us say words in our native language
and have them come out in a language that we can all speak together, we've got English.
And so even though there are people that need it, you know,
it's not their first language, we're able to communicate extremely sophisticated,
nuanced ideas about crypto together despite that.
And it makes for a very deep connection even with people
that you are just meeting for the first time.
So there is some weirdness with that, so I will share a little bit of weirdness after.
But there's also some real beauty in that.
And I'm really trying my best to focus on that part of it
and try to have it sustain me for when we're back in front of our computers
for 10 to 12 hours a day, not seeing anybody except through our tiny screens.
So I'm really trying to like eat all the big meals of conversation
and then somehow able to stay full once I'm back.
So let's see if I can do that.
Yeah, that way to describe it and being able to absorb those experiences
and carry them to, you know, where we don't have holograms
and people to actually touch.
Yeah, and I love, and I usually go to my regular photo
when I'm at conferences, I like to be able to see who I am
and be able to identify me and be able to like spot me in a crowd
and be like, hey, I wanted to talk to you.
Like I've seen you online.
And that's really important to be able to have people,
because you can't see everybody.
And being online, so many people use PFPs.
Like I said, I usually do.
But I try not to during conference time, or I think it's important not to.
But like everyone else is using a PFP.
So how am I supposed to know who anybody looks like?
Obviously look for answers.
Yeah, well, for you, I'm going to look for answers.
When I come see you in your part of the US,
I'm going to look for antlers candy, so you're going to have to wear them.
And so, yeah, that's been really interesting.
So, yeah, what are we going to talk about today?
And plus, if anybody has any questions, like, I am happy to answer.
If you have any questions about Paris or if you're here,
But yeah, what are we going to talk about today?
This is pre-conference chat, so it's going to be a little bit of just like
a little fluid and a little bit of non-structure.
So if anyone's hoping for structure or information exactly,
get some alpha about what's happening here in Paris.
I don't know if I'm going to be able to provide that.
The time change and the jet lag is a bit intense.
Actually, going back to the US is always great because then I'm up at like 3 a.m.
and then I get a jump start on my day, which I love.
But being here, I end up having a totally waxed schedule.
I think that we don't need structure.
And it's okay to have the structure of flowiness that counts.
You're going to tell us about the events that you've gone to.
Yeah, so I got in on Monday and my first event was a ledger event.
Let's see if I can look at my calendar.
Actually, I don't know if it's in my calendar.
So my first event was on Friday or sorry, on Monday night.
And it was an event with Ledger and with 1KX, which is the VC.
They are not investors in Clubland.
However, the relationship with 1KX goes back pretty far.
One of the partners at 1KX, we've been working with since forever, like 2019, long before
collab land back when we were pre-product market fit, I guess I can say.
And so, yeah, it's just seeing people that like and seeing how they're moving forward.
It's been very art heavy, I will say.
So the event at Ledger was an NFT art exhibition.
I say every event I've been to so far has been art heavy.
And I think that's the nature of it being NFT Paris and not like an ETH conference,
which I think is really, really wonderful.
In that way, it reminds me a little bit of like Art Basel, where you have a crypto event.
A lot of people from crypto are at Art Basel.
And so many communities are out here and everyone's having events and parties
and all of our NFT communities, not all, but a lot of our NFT communities use crypto
events as a rallying place for having their own community events.
And that is incredibly special from the Clubland perspective because they are with each other
in Clubland communities or on Twitter X during the non IRL times
and building those types of online relationships there
and then using those online spaces in order to organize
and decide what they're going to do and how they're going to do it
and what kind of event they're going to have and all of that good coordination
that Clubland provides and that it's trying to eliminate coordination friction,
which is a huge part of why we do what we do is allowing people to come together
and coordinate together and build together and build relationships,
whether they be work or personal.
And so now we're here online or sorry, now we're here IRL.
And just like at Art Basel, there's a lot of events happening here.
So the Ledger event was really fantastic getting to meet the team at Ledger getting,
you know, we've been in relationship with them for a pretty long time as well.
I was a, when Salesforce was having a Web3 advisory board,
there were members on it also from Ledger.
So we got to talk about more about how crypto can be used
and my perspective being communities, how communities can be used for brands
and how it's important to stay in relationship with people within crypto.
Like we're not just an audience.
We're not just customers.
When we are participating with a brand in crypto,
we expect there to be some greater opportunity for connection and influence.
We want our brands when we are buying their token or somehow getting into their token
with sweat equity or with events that we're attending.
We want there to be a closer relationship.
We are looking for something different here than what we have experienced before in the world.
And that's the whole idea, right?
Moving to a new country and kind of building your own spaces.
And so that was kind of the focus of the Web3 advisory board.
And I had met Ian multiple times and he's over at Ledger.
So I got to see him again.
And then some of the people from OneCaps.
And then the coolest thing, I would say my fangirl moment from,
I had a couple of fangirl moments, but I got to see Patricio again, Po-App.
And I know we have a Po-App coming up in three minutes.
And so I'm excited about that.
I have a little Po-App segue.
But Patricio, for those of you that don't know,
has also been in this space for a very, very long time.
He bootstrapped Po-App on his own.
He was a very early believer in crypto and was able to put himself in a position to bootstrap Po-App.
And that was his vision for the way he can contribute to this space.
And I'm sure we can all agree how special that's been and how we need more people like Patricio in this space
thinking about ways where we as human beings can connect.
And so seeing him and speaking to him is always so wonderful.
And he is definitely one of those bright light idealists in this space that we all love to see.
Oftentimes now, especially, I don't know, six years into crypto, you meet a lot of different types of people.
I know Candy can attest to this.
You're in conversation with people who don't have that bright light idealism.
And so it's always great to meet him.
But who I met that was like, oh, my gosh, like, what am I doing here?
And I can't believe I get to be here was I met Alexi, who was an art blocks artist.
And this was kind of an art blocks party.
So it's like art blocks and then also Ledger and 1KX.
And I met Alexi, who was a creator of Friendship Bracelets, which was a project and art blocks project.
And I met some other artists.
Don't ask me their names that were art blocks artists as well.
And that was amazing because to not last December, not December 2023, but December 2022, I did a gift exchange like an NFT gift exchange.
And we should all be doing them.
It's so fun, like just having people come together and like trading NFTs like NFTs is definitely my wonder drug when it comes to crypto.
It's what I love the most.
And I know Candy also feels that way.
Chibi has a slightly more nuanced experience when it comes to crypto.
NFTs are a part of your experience to us, Chibi, right?
But oh, I think we lost Candy.
But Chibi, you came to crypto, not through NFTs, right?
I hope she'll be back soon.
But yeah, actually, I think my journey with NFTs may have started with my first crypto project that I first joined at, that's Banana.
And I had no idea what NFTs were.
So I was a bit late to it, I feel like.
But yeah, no, I love them.
So I'm glad that I got to do it, you know.
Yeah, so mine has definitely been pre NFTs, but NFTs were supercharged.
I was very excited about NFTs and it definitely brought me to a new level of engagement.
And prior to NFTs, we had DAOs and then we had investment groups.
And we had social tokens.
And so social tokens were extremely compelling.
And I will say that was probably the first time that we started feeling like, oh, people are going to create social tokens.
And that kind of brings us, I guess, back around to telephones, but create social tokens for themselves.
They're going to be able to create a group of people around themselves that are going to want to help them accomplish their goals.
And that did happen with Alex Masmej.
So you should definitely check out Alex Masmej.
He was one of the very first social tokens.
And he started here in Paris and then was able to rally support around the Alex token in order to move to San Francisco and do a startup.
So someone who was just a young person with a dream of being able to gather funds through his own social token and then fund his own startup that way.
And so he was able to do that.
And seeing that was like, holy shit, this is good.
This is the good stuff because this is bringing opportunity and accessibility to somebody who would not have had it in the past.
I mean, that's the whole idea, right?
People that maybe didn't go to the best schools, weren't born in the best place, didn't have the right parents, didn't have the right education to now be able to have access to making something bigger for them.
And I saw that firsthand with Alex and that was a huge, huge deal.
And then being an artist of sorts through my entire life, not a professional artist, but an artist.
Still, I can accept that as part of my interest in somewhat of an identity at times.
It was wonderful to see artists coming to the space.
So being able to meet Alexi, talking to him about friendship bracelets, talking to him about the NFT exchange I did.
And now I was able to get a friendship bracelet from somebody extremely special and having that now for myself and always having it be something I would never sell.
And I know I have the disease of never selling, but something I would never sell, but has such such meaning to me and being able to tell him that, like that his art is a huge part of that.
And actually with friendship bracelets, and again, not financial advice, I'm not going to sell my friendship bracelet.
There's like 40,000 of them.
So it's kind of not as many as crypto kitties, but there are a lot of them.
So this is not financial advice, but it is really, really fun to have them.
If I had more, I would give one to all of you.
And he showed me on how, if you can click on the image on OpenSea, maybe I can share my friendship bracelet, Candy, and then we can put it on the spaces.
So you just have to tweet it and then I can pin it.
While you're finding it, let's do the pull up too.
So Angela is going to find her friendship bracelet.
Everybody who is interested in claiming the pull up for today can open the pull up app and then select secret word.
And in the box, you're going to type in, it's technically two words, but it's going to be all over case and no spaces.
It's going to be NFT Paris.
So just like in the title, except for no caps, no spaces.
And that should then prompt you to do the number selection game and put your pull up.
So hopefully that's working for everyone.
Looks like it worked on my end.
Chibi and Anjali, I borrowed your Paris NFT image for one of the gift slides.
I'm playing the game right now.
I'm going to pin it to the space.
How incredibly cool is that?
So checking out this French person.
Look at it like it moves.
I think the audio is coming through.
We destroyed it from Anjali.
Oh, I think it's better now.
Yeah, I think it was just the background because I think she's in a public place.
No, I'm in my cell phone, but I am.
Maybe it was muffled a little bit with the hand over my phone.
Well, we are in Paris, so ghosts are entirely possible.
I'm going to share my photo here because it does not do it justice, everyone.
Please make sure you go to the link and click on it.
Go to the link and you click on it.
And you're actually going to be able to find out how to make it.
And so it really doesn't.
It's not so cool to just click on the image because the image.
But I got to meet him and it was really, really, really interesting because he works for Sony.
That's like his full time job.
And he does their like AI experiences.
And it's just this generative like he's doing a lot of work in generative art.
But his whole idea is to make NFTs interactive and connect them to physical pieces.
And so he actually had a tapestry.
Oh, did I get a picture of that?
I did take some of this event and I don't know if I had it.
But I know I didn't take it.
But I did take some other pictures.
So I'm going to post them as well.
I wasn't thinking I had to fix this.
But I'll post some other.
Did everyone get the poem?
And I haven't gotten the poem, but I'm just going to have to get one later for the candy.
Chibi, I don't know if you've got it yet, but you can see.
I took all the components from Anjali's Paris poem.
I kind of broke them down a little bit and add sparkles.
It's harder to see in the small mobile app version, but I put sparkles on the Anjali side too.
Right on her little brass knuckles.
I think it's really good.
And that will be to be some of that.
So that was the ledger part.
And then it was a lot of fun.
And it's just this part of being able to talk to the actual creators that you hold their art.
Like that's also pretty darn special.
And so that's what I would say made this event special.
And I'm just going to share.
I'm just going to add them to the post candy.
I didn't really take that many, but there's some of them.
So yeah, that was ledger.
And then on the second night, I went to the Farcaster event and I know here we're on Twitter spaces,
but the Farcaster event, what a vibe over there.
Like, I don't know if we're going to get rubbed on our spaces here to talk about Farcaster,
but if you haven't checked out Farcaster, it was a Farcaster event.
They have a Twitter slash X app over on Farcaster.
I guess Farcaster is the entire ecosystem.
And they have a app called Warpcast, which is their Twitter equivalent,
but crypto integrated from the start.
And so, yeah, check it out.
So I was over on Warpcast and someone had told me about the Farcaster event
and I literally was just like, okay, what's the event?
And someone posts like in two minutes, like, this is the event.
You should come do it. Do it.
So I went to that event and it was also at an art gallery
and it was at the Super Chief art gallery.
Super Chief. Oh, I should post the calendar.
I have a little, I'm going to do that.
I'm just going to put everything into that one tweet that I've got going on.
And so for anyone that's in Paris right now,
I am going to post the Super Chief calendar
because they've got different events going on every single day.
Like they've got events going on all the way to the 26th.
All right, so I'm just going to keep adding it.
So that way if you've pinned that initial, that initial, or if not pinned,
but if I guess you have it on this space and it's right, Candy.
So yeah, if you've got the, if you're looking at that tweet
and if you're in Paris, you can check out the Super Chief events.
And I'm just going to add it to friendship bracelets
because it's not going to be a crazy number of tweets.
I'm just going to add them on.
And so that was at the Super Chief gallery.
I did not even take any pictures of that event.
There was a sign outside of that event, outside of the Super Chief event.
And I think this is kind of an interesting, unique thing about crypto events.
Is that oftentimes you will see notes that say, like, don't take pictures of people.
And people want to remain anon, or if they want to remain pseudo anon,
or they just don't want their pictures on the internet
because we're still in a little bit of a, you know, we're still early.
And there are still people that are not ready to be, I don't know if I want to say outed,
but they're not ready to be exposed.
And now with Google Images and with AI, like, it's kind of creepy, right?
Like, everyone, people can look you up and, like, find out where you are
and what you're doing, who you've associated with.
And in the same way that the blockchain is permanent and immutable,
photos, although you can say, hey, that was fake, and that was like a deep fake,
people are going to look first and be like, okay, Anjuli was at this party
and she was talking to this person, and now this person is on the run from the law
and lives in wherever, Macedonia, I don't know.
And they can think things about you.
So Super Chief was a Farcaster event, and I did not take pictures of anybody.
So I don't have anything from that event.
But it was, it was pretty great.
And I think it's really interesting that this is a environment where personal
privacy is more respected.
Because if you think about, like, how many influencers we have, for example,
you know, they're kind of the equivalent to, I guess, the entertainment,
industry, celebrity status, to some degree, I think you can make a comparison.
And we know that, like, the paparazzi are relentless with photos.
So having a similar comparison, but not a similar result is really interesting.
And it's like from the art side, the art forward side, everyone is like,
And like, that's still a little bit of a hurdle for me when people want to
Or I'm like, I've already met this person like five times and I've never
taken a picture with them.
And now am I supposed to take a picture with them?
And are they going to feel like I don't want to be seen with them because
I'm not taking a picture.
So in some parts, like the art part, the art side of the NFT space,
people do want to take pictures and they don't, they do want like you to post
And they do want people to know that like, oh, this person met me.
And it's kind of a way to establish their brand.
And it's a way to, yeah, like, you know, market themselves.
And then you have the crypto side where what you look like is so irrelevant
to what you're doing and what you're talking about and to the point where
people don't want what they look like to be a part of their brand.
And it's almost like they want to be known regardless of what they look like.
And I feel like with, with being a founder, it's a bit of a mixed bag.
Where the work is really, it's the work is what matters.
What we're doing with what is what matters.
We're not about ourselves, right?
Especially with collab land.
We're about trying to empower others to be big and for others to make a name
for themselves and to be like the support, right?
However, being a founder, people want to know who you are.
And they want to see you and know that you're a real person.
Oftentimes I get, oh, collab land.
I thought that was like 20 Russian dudes in a basement.
It's no offense to Russian dudes.
They're all amazing as well.
But like, no, it's actually an extremely diverse group of people from all over the world.
I'm no longer in the basement.
You are not in the basement.
You were in the basement at one point.
But it was not a creepy basement.
And so it's it's an interesting situation with with.
I feel personally I'm challenged by that at times for for various reasons, part of which is like being an American woman.
And that's a whole other Twitter spaces and how much looking a certain way and having that pressure of just being an American woman to look a certain way.
And that was a generation I grew up in.
And so I don't want to always have that be something that is a part of what people think about when they think of me.
I want them to think about the work that I do and the work that we do here together.
So, yeah, there were some pictures from the ledger event.
I did not take selfies with people there.
However, I was so excited about Alexi at Artblocks.
And I was also so excited to see Patricia, which he's an old friend.
He actually splits his time in Denver.
So I get to see him when he's in Denver as well.
And I've been to his house and he has goats.
And it's really, really cool.
They're very sweet goats.
I don't know much about goats, but they're extremely sweet goats.
They don't bite your hand off.
The important questions, because some goats are like the fainting goats that they just freeze up and fall on.
But goats have really interesting eyes.
Like their pupils are horizontal.
So they do have the creepy eyes, but they were very sweet goats.
And so I did not take any selfies.
And then at the Farcaster event, I did take some.
I didn't post it, but somebody else posted it.
With some friends, I had met Harris last time.
So that was a lot of fun.
And then I also got to meet Jiminy again at the Farcaster event.
I also took a picture with him, but I'm not going to post it.
But he looks, he's everywhere.
So you've probably seen what he looks like.
And then after the Farcaster event, I had dinner with some people that I had met at another conference.
Again, it's all about getting together with people that either you meet online or people that are seeking you out because they have some interesting things going on.
And the person that I had dinner with, she's very involved in sustainability.
Actually, I've met a lot of people.
I met somebody last night also that's into sustainability and regenerative agriculture.
So she's more in the person that I met, had dinner with after the Farcaster event.
She is interested in blockchain brands and regenerative fashion.
So that was very, very cool.
And how the blockchain can be used for provenance and also to know where your fabrics were, where they have originated.
It's incredible thinking about just tracking the supply chain all the way down to maybe the factory and in some points all the way down to the sheep, the sweater that you're wearing.
What sheep was sheared in order to create the item that you have on?
We're going to be capable of doing that type of supply chain tracking now with the blockchain where you're going to be able to prove where it was originated, who created it.
I mean, it fits in natural fiber all the way down to the worms, the worm bin that made the silk and the sheep that was sheared to make your sweater.
That is going to bring a new kind of accountability into fashion where we right now live in the era of fast fashion and sweatshop workers.
And with a global economy and globalization, you have people getting paid 50 cents a day to make thousand dollar outfits.
And how do we fight against that with blockchain?
And you can do that with supply chain tracking.
And so, like I said, there's so many different approaches to crypto and blockchain and how it's being used.
And that is one incredibly interesting way that it can be.
So, yeah, having these kind of conversations and then learning about how community can be a significant player in what is being created.
I think it's really exciting.
You know, going back to collab land, like we're a Colorado co-op with collab land and Colorado co-op started with agriculture.
They started with farming, which is I'm making watermelon on my patch and you're making watermelon on your patch.
And why don't we get together and have a watermelon cooperative and be able to gather our resources and market together and put a fun name on it and try to divide our responsibilities.
And so we can all grow together like it's all the same thing.
Like what that was way back when a hundred years ago, when farming co-ops were happening in Colorado, like we're doing that, but we're doing that on a global level.
And we're trying to do that in a positive some way and in a way where everyone can benefit from it.
And it feels like a opportunity for something so different than the ways that society has.
Oh, gosh, how do I even say this?
Like over the years with industrialization and with hyper capitalization, how we've accumulated resources into the hands of fewer and fewer people.
And what happens when you accumulate resources in the hands of fewer and fewer people than that leave situations like in the United States where we haven't had a rise in the minimum wage for 30 years.
So we're really trying and I'm meeting people.
I guess maybe it's my little subsection or maybe it's the conversations that I'm having where people are trying to spread influence amongst greater amounts of people and working with like minded people all over the world.
And it makes me extremely optimistic. So that was after the Farcaster event, I met a beautiful woman and we talked about that over a two and a half hour vegan dinner.
And that was incredible and ended up inspiring me.
And then afterwards, I met with some other friends from my alpha group and went to a really beautiful bar.
I mean, that's also one of the wonderful things about traveling and why I want it for everybody is being able to experience some local culture and some beautiful new places and expanding your mind that way.
Remembering that so many different people are here together and how we need to expand our minds not to be so especially we we definitely suffer from this disease in the United States because we're so far from everybody else to be so myopic about our point of view.
And so it's been really wonderful. So that was on Tuesday night.
And then last night, I had every intention to go to the sandbox event, which was a gaming event, which I was absolutely committed to going to.
And then because of my jet lag, so apologies to everybody here, because of my jet lag, I don't get up till like one in the afternoon.
And then I work until about 730 or eight and then just not eating anything all day.
And so I have a coffee maker in my hotel room. So I have coffee and like today I've had coffee.
And so when I met some people from the farcaster the night before they said, come meet us for dinner.
So I ended up going to dinner instead and then to an art gallery after and then to a party in a cave the night after that, which is really interesting as well just because of the geography of Paris and they don't have earthquakes here.
And I grew up in L.A. where we had earthquakes. And so you would have never caught me going to a party in a cave in Los Angeles.
Like that is a buried alive situation that would never ever happen.
But here that's what happens. And then, you know, I get in at like two thirty three in the morning and then my day starts again.
However, I think I have some photos from the art gallery last night.
So how about I add that one to the event, my little event list that I've got going on.
I guess I would like to see this. The idea of a cave party is really intriguing.
I don't have pictures from the cave party, but I have pictures. I'm sorry. I do have photos from the art gallery I went to last night.
It was before the before the before the cave party.
Guess you're going to have to go back. I know.
Tonight. And I know you asked me, Candy, like, what are your plans for tonight?
Where are you going to be going tonight? And I do have two events that I'm going to tonight.
And maybe this is perfect because we're already at the end of our event and I could probably talk for five more hours, but I won't.
There is an art. There is an art gallery event tonight. It's called Arts Legacy.
And then there's also a a book signing that's happening that's called Decentralization, Please Save the Culture.
So that would be interesting. I did meet a woman at the ledger event that is a publisher of generative of books based on generative art.
So that I thought was also really interesting. So there are, again, people coming into the space that are very, very coming from very different perspectives.
And she was publishing books. And when you buy the NFT, then you can then the book comes out like you pre buy the NFT.
So it's all comes back around to NFTs. I guess I'll say that for for for NFT pairs so far prior to the conference.
A conference is going to feel very differently. And again, I can talk about that next week.
But she her publishing group is a traditional publishing group.
They traditionally publish art books, but now they are publishing. They are selling NFTs.
You buy the NFT and then the book comes out like many months later and then they send you the NFT.
And she had showed me one of her books from the event. So it's really interesting in the way that so many different artistic parts of art like art books in the situation or fine art galleries.
You know, one of our Let's Form group or videos. One is with Ryan from Thank You X, Ryan Wilson and also Asan Ruby, Serana Hayata.
Maybe we should post about those too. But art is a huge part of our journey with crypto and I don't ever want it to not be.
And then a little plug for Collabland, I guess in this last one minute, which is Collabland last year came up with a royalty detection tool when royalties were removed from both OpenSea and Blur to try to bring royalties back for artists because it's such an important part.
Like that's such a huge unlock for artists to be actually able to continue to grow and earn as their reputations grow.
And communities too and community support, being able to maintain communities, having royalties and being able to continue to make that income is such a huge important part of it.
And so with Collabland, that's what we did. And then now with Telefriends, the movement behind Telefriends is number one, allowing Collabland to be sustainable, which is extremely important for all the 53,000 communities that we support, being able to stay sustainable while still being able to be accessible.
And allowing new people to come in and start using Collabland as a tool. However, now, you know, four years of Collabland in May, being able to be sustainable and we don't want to win without our communities.
And so Telefriends is an opportunity for creators to earn as well as Collabland to be able to be sustainable.
So that's just a huge part of what we're trying to do here. And I hope that we can because I think they're that idea of winning together and a positive sum world where if we get to earn, then you get to earn.
And when you get to earn, then you share that earning with those projects and tools that allow you to be better and do what you need to do for your business.
Like if there's one thing I want to leave people with, it would be that. But Paris, I will share more next week. Tonight, I've got those two events and then tomorrow starts the conference.
I will be doing a podcast tomorrow noon local time with John Karp from NFT Morning.
He runs a he runs a huge conference called NFC Lisbon. So I'll be there this year coming up. And he also runs a gallery here called NFT Factory.
And so he's fantastic. Go give John Karp a follow and NFC Lisbon. If you're interested, I highly recommend it.
And and yeah, come meet me. If you're at the conference tomorrow, I will be at the media area at noon at noon local time. So I hope to see people there.
Amazing. Thank you so much for sharing your adventures so far. And this is something that we'll look forward to hearing more about next week as well.
And following along, as you share things on the timeline, I'll be reposting those as I do.
People can see those in the space now, or just by going to your profile.
I know that we do have a meeting we're supposed to be in. So we'll have to end the space for now. And we will continue the adventure sharing again later.
Let's do it. Thanks, everyone, for listening. And I am again so humbled and grateful to be able to be representing the collab land anywhere I go.
I'm so proud of the work that we do. And I'm just really grateful for our team and for those of the people that are listening here today.
Reach out. If you follow me, I'll follow you back. And yeah, happy to stay in touch. So thanks, everyone. And let's hit our meetings. Work doesn't stop.
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