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🥳 EPISODE 200 with @0N1Force CEO @starlordyftw ☀️☕️ GM W3B3 Morning Show
Recorded: May 18, 2023 Duration: 2:07:05Space Recording
Full Transcription
Oh, look at all the friends popping in here already.
Sarah Scripp, Nifty Q, Art Snitch, Quasar, holy heck.
Bobby Son, Champanini, Travi, Deephangs, Vert.
Yo, yo, GM, happy mother heckin' Thursday.
It's gonna be a great day.
GM, Jim, I just want to say that now that you're at your 200th show,
I think this is a pretty big show.
Oh, now that we've finally made it to this point?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I told you earlier this week, you hit my criteria.
Well, thanks, Art Snitch.
I cannot tell you what that means.
I know.
Finally validating.
Frankly, I don't know if we would have been able to do the show without you coming in here and saying that right now.
So, honestly, you are the MVP.
Not all heroes wear capes.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you, thank you very much.
How are you feeling?
How are you both feeling?
What's going on?
I'm good, man.
I'm pumped for the show.
I always love hearing Starlirty talk.
And, you know, it's a little cool outside, but you know it's gonna burn off and be a nice day.
So, good things.
You've probably heard a lot of the things that he's gonna say today.
I missed the big Horizon Labs town hall.
I've just been hearing secondarily through you and the grapevine some of the updates.
So, I'm excited to dig into that with him.
Yeah, don't be afraid.
He, you know, he's been known to leak a little extra alpha sometimes if you ask him the right questions and not mean to.
So, champ in the audience knows that very well.
Sometimes she's laughing.
Sometimes she gets it out of him.
You never know.
Well, hell yeah.
Use that, the little comment bubble, the little speech bubble down there in the bottom right corner of the screen to share out the room and comment with any questions.
Things that you would like us to, you know, ask Starlirty.
Things that we should be hitting him with.
Any hard-hitting questions that you don't think he's gonna wanna answer.
Those are the kinds of questions that we should be asking the guy, right?
When you get him, you gotta take advantage of it.
So, let us know any questions you want us to ask him down there in the speech bubble.
Or just, you know what, drop some peach emojis or some eggplants.
It doesn't matter.
Maybe some dank memes.
But most importantly, share out the room.
Let's get some more friends in here.
Let's spread the gospel of OniForce.
And, yeah, I am gifted, your humble Web3 Sherpa, already joined by some of our favorite co-hosts and contributors here.
We got Mo Runda, Art Snitch, and a whole gang of amazing friends hopping in here.
Ronan the Collector, holy heck, Quantum Variant Josh, Squash Man, and a bunch of new friends.
Champ, Kiku, Nox Darkness, Kromer.
Yo, it's great to see y'all.
GM, GM, GM.
This is GM Web3.
The real GM Web3.
Of course, there's a lot of fakers out there.
We know, but we're now at episode 200.
So they cannot tell us any different.
It's the greatest morning show on Twitter spaces.
Always have been.
Always has been.
But especially now that we reached episode 200, apparently Art Snitch approves.
And that's big, honestly.
I'm going to, like, type that up, print it out, hang it on a wall somewhere.
Probably next to my OniForce print that I got at the NFTLA event.
Heck yeah.
Send out the memo.
That's going to be my certificate of authenticity.
It's just going to be something that I printed up myself that says Art Snitch thinks that our show's cool now.
I'll sign it, I'll stamp it, I'll date it, wherever you need.
I mean, you do live not too far from me, so you could actually come over and sign it first.
That's true.
Heck yeah.
That is true.
Love it.
Yeah, this is going to be a big show.
It is episode 200.
It's a massive milestone.
I am very excited.
I am caffeinating very quickly like we do.
We're waking up together, getting it going.
We're going to play some music here in just a moment to set a vibe, get the energy flowing.
But yeah, this is exciting.
I'm very excited.
We're going to have Star Wardy hopping in here in the next 15 minutes or so.
And it's going to be a great episode.
Only Force is absolutely pumping.
Or it has been.
You know what?
Let's go hop on the...
Let's go look right now, actually.
See what's happened.
1.5, I just checked.
Yeah.
How are you feeling, big dog?
Nifty Q's here.
I'm not feeling good.
I'm on the road to Pittsburgh right now, so I'm not going to be able to be a part of
this show, but I'm going to feel the foam all the way through.
So, yeah.
1.5, and this is going to be one of those gifts.
This is going to be one of those.
It's going to be that train station that's never coming back.
Yeah, your connection, your connectivity here is trash, utter trash.
So, happy to have you here.
But, yeah, I'm upset.
I'm not going to be able to, like, riff off of you and also, like, explicitly just make
fun of you throughout the whole episode here.
Because if you don't know, Nifty Q has been talking about Only Force for months.
I feel like for the better part of six months, Nifty Q said, like, two or three months ago,
his prediction, his big, bold prediction is that Only Force would be at a 10 E4 by this
time next year.
And that was a couple months ago.
So, it looks like your prediction is actually, you know what, it's not, it seems like it's
moving forward.
It's coming to fruition so far.
It's working out so far.
But, of course, we're moving in the right direction.
Yeah, again, your connectivity is awful.
But, yeah, we're moving in the right direction.
But, of course, despite the fact that you've been talking so much about Only Force, you've
been watching that floor intently.
And we've been talking about it so much.
You did not pull the trigger.
You were talking about sweeping the floor.
You were talking about getting more.
Back when they're, you know, around .4, .5 again.
That would have been a great move.
But he didn't do it.
He didn't take his own advice, of course, which is something that we're both guilty
of sometimes on these shows.
We're always talking about alpha and cool things.
And many times we do not take our own advice, of course.
And this was one of those times for Nifty Cube.
I'm definitely still holding at least my forever Only token number 35 that I was gifted
by the original team before they minted.
And it's a very special one.
And I love it.
And I've been an Only Force since the beginning.
It's been one of those projects that has done incredibly well for me and I've always loved.
And Brian Lee.
The artist was actually my favorite artist that I met when we first got in the clubhouse
and used to come hang out in our early Nifty Castle rooms with us and shoot the shit.
And yeah.
Anyway, still haven't met him IRL, but I hope to one day.
And go ahead.
No, I was going to say if you've been there since men, then you know what it means when
you say nameless.
I mean, yeah, well, the whole original squad and the whole marketing of the original project
was absolutely insane.
And that was one of the great things that like did such a it's one of the things that
helped it pop off and become like basically at the time the biggest project that ever launched
was the marketing of it and the way that they gamified it and created these mysterious different
different characters in the community.
But yeah, I'm excited to hear what what you think of it.
Wait.
What is it?
So I'm I'm also on the road.
So I apologize.
I'm actually driving through Detroit right now on my way to VCon.
Let's heck and go.
But side note, I also minted from the beginning, too.
I still hold one, but I have no idea what nameless is.
So please fill me in.
So the nameless was was actually.
Well, OK, so take a step back.
They were the first project to do, you know, what they called then the whitelist, the allowed
list now.
Right.
And they were the first, you know, sideways PFP, arguably one of the first anime projects
in the OT space.
But during the marketing, you know, if you became nameless, that meant you were on the list
to to mint.
It's kind of, I guess, big in the discord.
I actually wasn't there for mint.
I did not.
I was still more on the art side of the NFTs learning.
And I wasn't involved in the PFP projects as much, which sucks.
But, you know, I'm in full force now.
So, yeah, that's they like you've said, dude.
And that was a lot of J.R.
A lot of great marketing to really hype it up and get people excited.
And then the art fulfilled all of the hype.
And it stood a test of time, even through some fighting with the original owners.
So, yes, it has stood the test of time.
And again, having great art as the foundation is that's that's really so important here.
And of course, Brian Lee again, the artist has created some of the dopest PFP art ever created.
And it's so cool to see this project, how you know where it's been, the fact that it's now taken over some new owners and that they're revitalizing it, putting new life into it now, bringing new utility with this partnership between Horizon Labs.
And anyway, these are just some of the things that we're going to be digging deeper into.
But a big welcome to any new friends from the Ethereal Enclave who are joining us and from the OniForce fam and any new people that is jumping in to learn more about this exciting project.
That is going to be the biggest topic.
We will, of course, like we do, cover a lot of the big Web 3 headlines from around the space as well.
Wait a minute.
We might just jump into a couple here.
Wait a minute.
The biggest.
I'm sorry.
Good morning.
And congratulations on 200.
This is the biggest.
Oh, thank you.
The biggest subject.
Okay.
That you've taken this.
Oh, yeah.
And done it for 200 times.
I came in 11 minutes late.
So if you already discussed that, I've broken in again.
I know I kind of like bit into your role there.
So get back on it.
And yeah.
Okay.
Happy.
Happy 200.
Thank you, Carrie Ross.
And yeah, it wouldn't, it wouldn't be, it wouldn't be an episode without you coming
in here and, and absolutely just grabbing the show and grabbing us by the scrub.
Derailing you.
Yes.
I mean, that's another word for it, but yeah, we're happy you're here.
And it's, and it's like, Oh my goodness.
Look what's happening.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Look what is happening.
They're absolutely pumping.
And anyway, again, we're going to kick it off with some music real quick.
This is a great time to go ahead and share out the show if you haven't already.
Uh, this is GM web three.
We're kicking it off.
We're waking up.
We're caffeinating.
It's going to be a beautiful day.
Star already will be here in just a few minutes.
And, uh, yeah, we're going to be digging into all things, only all the big updates.
And, uh, also of course, covering off on some of the biggest, latest, greatest headlines
from around the web three space.
Uh, very excited to be joined by all of you.
If you're catching us here live on Twitter or you're catching us later on any of the audio apps
like Spotify, it doesn't matter.
We appreciate you being here with us.
And, uh, it's going to be a beautiful day.
What's heckin' go?
This song is called Scent Rock by Lupe Fiasco.
We're just going to set a tone.
We'll be back in two minutes.
Share out the room.
What's heckin' go?
Thanks, Cris.
I'm a friend.
I'm a friend whose cock was.
And I feel so serious.
Wow.
I go by Scent Rock.
I do visual art.
Now I'm communicating to society to my work of, like, voice empowerment.
But at first and very at the beginning, it's about me using art as a communicator tool for myself.
I like the woodpecker because the sound doesn't make from two themes.
It's about me using art as a communicator.
And for soulmates, I have something for you.
Look at these low rates.
Peking ducks get cooked trying to locate.
Black Hawk puck, how I'm cool in my flow state.
But you can angrily sling me into the wall.
I just want my stories told like the 294.
Oh, baby.
That is Scent Rock by Lupe Fiasco.
Today is the first day of VCon.
So while everybody's out there, you know, getting it going, celebrating, doing the kickoff parties, we are here celebrating episode 200 of GM Web 3, the greatest morning show on Twitter.
I forgot to also announce at the beginning, we're going to be doing a giveaway today.
We haven't done enough giveaways lately.
And so, you know what?
We're going to go ahead and kick off a giveaway right now.
And really, it's pretty simple.
All you have to do is go down to that little speech bubble, share out the room, and tag two friends in the comments with your ETH address.
And you're entered to win, you know what, two NFTs.
We're going to do a package, a Nifty Castle package.
We'll give away one badass DBs NFT with a witchy GF, an amazing animated witchy GF.
So two NFTs today are going to be given out during the show, by the end of the show, to one amazing lucky person who's cool enough to be hanging out and playing along with us.
So all you got to do is go down to that speech bubble, go over to the show, and like it, of course.
Retweet it and tag two friends in the comments.
And make sure to include your Ethereum address.
It makes it much easier.
And we will randomly select one winner at the end of the show to take home a DBs and a witchy GF NFT today.
So there you go, kicking off a giveaway.
Haven't really done many of those lately, but wanted to go ahead and get that started.
But Mo, you said that you're driving to VCon?
I am, yeah.
So the tickets to fly, for whatever reason, were $3,000 a piece, which is hilarious.
So it's a nine-hour drive.
So we just jumped in the car, and we are currently driving through Detroit.
So we're about four hours away.
Nice.
Well, drive safely.
We're happy to have you here hanging out with us anyway.
What are you, I think you already told me, but have you gotten any new updates about VCon?
Any particular things that you're really excited about, or speakers, or events?
What are you most excited about, about VCon, Mo?
You asked me this yesterday.
The party.
Oh, it's the kickoff party, right?
Yeah.
I'm just there for you.
All right.
Well, I'm excited to hear how that goes for you, and I hope you're driving safe.
And yeah.
All right.
I pinned up at the top.
You know what?
While we're waiting for Star Lordy to hop in here in the next couple minutes, this is
actually...
Oh, there he is.
Speak of the Star Lordy.
Holy heck, there he is.
Let's get him up here.
I did want to actually hit on this update, ERC-721Cs briefly, because I meant to cover
this yesterday, and it does seem like this is an important new token standard that could
change a lot of things in the NFT space.
So I want to hit this briefly, but we do have Star Lordy here now, so let's go ahead and
say hi to him.
What's up, Star Lordy GM?
What's up, everybody?
How are you?
Good morning, good morning.
Thanks for having me.
Dude, dude, I'm so excited to have you.
Episode 200.
This is epic.
I'm very happy.
I agree.
Yes, sir.
I mean, yeah.
Yeah, it is a massive milestone.
I'm actually very proud of it, and I'm especially, you know, I feel very grateful and excited that
you agreed to be here for it, sir.
So I'm very excited to dig into all the things.
I know you're very busy right now.
I know there's a ton happening.
How much time do we have with you today?
Just so that I make the most out of it.
Oh, that's a good question.
I have to look at my calendar.
What is today?
Today?
Oh, I put in a whole hour in this, my calendar for you guys.
So you got me.
Whatever you need.
Beautiful.
You know what?
That's amazing.
So, you know, let's hit this quick update, pinned up top real quick, and then we're going
to dig into all things Oniforce with the one, the only, the new CEO of Oniforce, Mr. Star
Lordy.
So again, share out the room if you haven't.
We are doing a giveaway.
Just kick that off.
So again, if you like the room, retweet the room and tag two friends in the comments with
your Ethereum address.
You are entered to win a DBs and a WichyGF NFT.
We'll select one winner randomly today.
But without further ado, before we jump into everything Oniforce with the man himself,
pinned up at the top, this is an interesting thread here that is basically explaining what
this new standard is, and I think it's worth knowing about, because as this says, apparently
you can now give holders 100% of royalties and completely stop Blur and OpenSea setting
any royalties to zero.
And this, of course, everybody in the space has been following the saga of royalties.
You know, the controversy around what's going on with the royalties and different collections
and different marketplaces getting around them.
So for a long time, we've known that royalties were in a bad state.
Traders didn't want to pay them.
Marketplaces didn't care about them.
Many founders and artists stopped creating without them.
And here's one thing you may not want to accept.
We need royalties for a lot of different reasons, at least from the creator side of things,
right?
People don't want to pay them, but we need creators to have incentives to
create, or else why would they use NFTs?
So this could be a potential solution from Limit Break and Gabriel Laden recently releasing
the ERC-721C new token standard, which is an upgrade designed to benefit creators and
holders, mainly by giving the creators more power over the marketplaces.
Here's how.
It's all in this thread up here, but three main upgrades over the NFTs that we know and love.
Royalties are now on-chain.
OS and Blur, OpenSea and Blur can't set them to zero.
Creators can better influence where their tokens are traded.
Royalties can now be programmed.
And apparently, it gets good from there.
Programming royalties, what does that mean?
In simple terms, it means you can set new rules for where, when, and how royalties are
transferred.
Examples.
Minting is a risk, especially in these markets.
Want to reward your believers that pay to mint?
Well, now you can.
Give them the royalties for the first 10 sales.
Set royalties to zero if the NFTs trade under the mint price.
And give them 1% to 100% of future royalties on the NFT they mint.
So this is pretty exciting.
You know, we've been waiting for people to create new standards, better standards, and
find more creative ways to protect, you know, at least I have, again, someone who came in
from the creative side.
So, you know, interested in what y'all think of this.
You know, it seems positive to see this type of innovation, in my opinion.
But, of course, we'll see how the marketplaces respond to it.
But, yeah, any thoughts on that?
Real quick headline there in this updated token standard before we kind of dig into the
Oniforce world.
I mean, it sounds to me like it could be a good solution to a lot of problems.
I bet there's going to be some projects that figure out a really, really creative way to
reward people that mint and get in early using this.
And that's what's exciting to me, is, like, the innovative new models that it might create.
We have Mr. Jeff Jagg hopping up here.
Yes, sir.
I'm GM, and welcome, Star Lordy.
And congrats on the 200th show, my bruh.
I don't know why I said that.
It came out good.
It came out good.
It's like when I say dope.
It's like I grew up as a 90s kid.
And when I say dope, it just feels like I'm culturally appropriating the youth.
The ERC-721C, I have a couple misgivings about it because there was an issue with the, and it mentioned this in the thing, that much of the features will have to be adopted by marketplaces for them to actually work.
And if you know anything about OpenSea, they love just adopting all the standards of all the different new technology that's come out.
So they'll just jump right on that, bro.
They'll get right on that.
So that's coming, definitely, for sure, like Tezos integration.
Don't worry about it.
So that is one misgiving, but also the fact that it's programmable, all these things that like, I mean, like, look, I'm not slamming it, but let me tell you why I have, you know, like hesitation.
All the new technology, all the programmability of it is increasing the code that you're deploying, which makes it more expensive to mint.
So you're kind of going backwards in the context of like higher gas, exactly.
And it doesn't mention anywhere in there that it's efficient.
So I would say that like when you start adding more code, that's what code is.
When you mint on NFT, the more code, the more gas it spends.
And that could be a downside that could hurt this, you know, adoption.
So those are some notes, although hugely bullish on the royalty protection front.
Anything that can push that conversation, I'm a fan of.
So that's my other side of the story.
Heck yeah.
Well, love you coming up here, sharing those insights, Mr. Jeff Jag.
And yeah, obviously those are some challenges, especially if it is dependent on the marketplaces adopting these standards.
That's going to be a difficult one.
But anyway.
All right.
Any other thoughts on that?
If not, you know what?
I want to take this time to transition and go ahead and dig into Oniforce here.
And so if not, that's cool.
So ladies and degenerates, please welcome to our stage, Mr. Star Lordy once again.
New CEO, newly minted CEO as of what, a couple of months ago?
It's pretty recent.
Yes, since like February.
I mean, I was technically CEO in August with the previous founders when we incorporated.
But that was more of a formality because somebody had to be CEO.
And yeah, but I'm super excited and very grateful.
Yeah, man.
Well, again, grateful to have you here.
And, you know, I've gotten to meet you IRL briefly, which is really great at the championship party here in NFT LA.
That was great.
That was great.
Yeah.
And, you know, you definitely made a great impression on me.
You seem like a really chill guy.
Everybody that I've talked to is like, he's such a great guy.
So what is it about you that you think makes you a great guy, Star Lordy?
Why does everybody like you?
Well, that's a way to, I have to be very self-aware for that to answer that question.
Wow.
That's a, nobody's ever asked me that like that.
You know, I don't know.
I just, I think if I were to really think about it, I think I just actually like people.
I don't know.
Like, I actually care about people.
Like, I genuinely want everybody to win.
Like, I'm just, when I was young, I was very, very like, you know, like nihilistic and stuff like that.
And just very much like not caring about the world.
And just kind of like, one day I just woke up and was like, you know, life is actually beautiful.
I think it was like an Einstein quote or something that triggered me.
It was saying like, either everything's a miracle or nothing is kind of thing, you know?
And it just like, literally, I just, I don't know.
Maybe I just matured.
But one day I just woke up and was like, people are beautiful.
Like, we get very cynical about how, you know, humanity and how we act.
And we like, kind of like, especially with social media, we get so used to just pointing out all the dumb things we do.
But, like, actually people, I believe people are good in general.
Like, I think we actually, the average human being has no desire to, like, actually hurt people or, you know, like, I think people are generally good.
And so I just kind of embraced that.
And I've always been about the people, I guess, and the community.
Even when I ran my art site with my friends, we would joke that we're, like, basically communists because, like, we never wanted to make money.
Like, we just wanted people to be, artists to be successful, especially.
So I don't know.
That's a good question.
You know, now you're going to make me ponder this thing.
And I don't want to get too self-aware.
I think I just like people.
I just, like, also maybe in this project in particular, I kind of went native, you know, because I truly was raised by the community in a lot of ways.
Like, I went in not knowing what was going to happen.
And then I fell in love with the community.
And then I kind of became a champion for the community and the holders.
And I realized I had such a big responsibility.
And that's why I stuck it through because, frankly, I would have quit, like, many times over if it was just, like, a client relationship or something.
It was, like, I genuinely was concerned for the well-being of the holders and, you know, went native, as they say.
Just went through the muck with everybody.
And now we're here, you know.
Yeah.
I love it, man.
So you were talking about when you were younger being a nihilist.
And then, you know, you kind of had, like, a turning point.
I definitely relate to that feeling.
Do you remember if you were more of, like, an existential or a cosmic nihilist?
Or was there a certain type of brand?
More existential.
Yeah.
More existential, yeah, for sure.
Hey, Carrie, I'm going to go ahead and mute you real quick, Carrie.
But, yeah.
Oh, I'm sorry.
No, no.
That was not meant.
No, I know.
I know.
It's all good.
No problem.
But, yeah, I love getting to know you a little bit, you know, before we kind of dig into all the things with the projects that are happening.
I appreciate that.
Yeah.
What, you know, maybe give us a quick, you know, 30-second to 60-second, like, just, like, background on how you got into NFTs or, like, what were you doing prior to this?
Like, what kind of qualifications did you have to be CEO of an NFT project?
No qualifications.
I just thought I was the man for the job.
No, I...
Confidence is all you need, I guess, in this space.
Confidence is a big part.
But I think, actually, I actually was thinking about this.
I think I do genuinely believe in my heart that I am the perfect person to lead this project.
Like, because when I, like, sat back and I thought about everything that I did in my life, like, it did, like, add all the ingredients for this moment.
Because, first, I've been an artist all my life.
My dad's a painter.
My first dream as a kid was to be a comic book artist.
So, I was, like, a huge geek, like, growing up.
I love comic books, anime, manga, that sort of stuff, like, deep in my bones.
Like, literally, like, the only thing I had sometimes in terms of happiness in my life.
And then I became a filmmaker.
And I went all in on that.
And I just studied filmmaking.
But also, I grew up in Silicon Valley.
So, a lot of my clients from the early days, like, from, like, 2001 onwards were, like, Google and Facebook and Mozilla.
And I've worked with probably thousands of founders at this point.
So, in a lot of ways, I got to see how the sausage was made.
Nathan and I, like, was in the room listening in on conversations and learning from the people who were, like, actually forming this reality as we know it, right?
So, like, all the ethos of Web2, I got to witness, like, firsthand and learn from people, like, how startups are made.
The technology side, the business side, the fundraising side, you know, all of that stuff.
And then I was – and so, I kind of, like, got into, like, this sweet spot where I think my expertise was storytelling and technology, you know?
Like, because I remember once I was at this hackathon for Google.
And it's, like, everybody was in there, like, working on developing some app.
And then I was, like, in there with them, like, madly editing and, like, working on, like, visual effects and stuff.
And they were all looking at me, like, who's this guy?
Like, it was, like, kind of weird how it was, like, this similar energy.
And then also I started an art blog with my friends where we – it was, like, a top three art site where we ended up, you know, representing artists all around the world and doing art shows at, like, Basel and South by Southwest and stuff.
So, I kind of – I guess I would sum it up as, like, super nerd, like, love storytelling, love technology, love art, and very existential.
I guess those are, like, literally all the ingredients of, like, an NFT project in a lot of ways, you know?
Yeah.
So, that's kind of what got me here.
Yeah, I love the context, the background that you're providing here.
And also, I just want to remind everybody, you can use the comments down there if you've got any specific questions that you want us to be peppering Star Lordy with.
The harder, the better, fam.
Don't forget that.
We can't let them off easy here.
We've got them here.
I'm here now.
You've got to pump me up for information, whatever.
Any of you just warming me up for the –
Just buttering you up.
Yeah, any hard-hitting questions, go ahead and drop them in the comments on the show.
We'll do our best to get to every single one of those, and also any of our friends on stage here again.
You know, I wanted this to feel very open.
But, you know, you're reminding me, Star Lordy, the way that you're talking about, you know, your experience and background in, like, tech and storytelling.
Do you remember when, like, all the rage and, like, the buzzword was transmedia storytelling?
Was that, like, a thing?
I do. I literally bought a book on transmedia storytelling.
It's funny.
When I moved recently, I dumped it because I was like, oh, this is old.
But, yeah, that was the Matrix days, when the Matrix came out, and it was, like, all about transmedia storytelling.
And Pixar was, like, really crushing it.
And there was this whole concept of, like, oh, you can tell stories on multiple platforms and connect them together.
And I'm like, oh, this is Web3.
Yeah.
How does that apply to, like, the terminology that we use today in Web3, right?
Like, NFTs, for instance, a lot of people call it, like, oh, it's, like, MP3.
Is this just, like, an early term that we're using to describe a thing that's just going to be completely, what's the word?
Where it's, like, basically in everything and we're not even going to think about the technology in the future?
Like, do you think NFTs is basically just a term that we're not even going to use in the future?
I think so.
I think because you have a lot of people trying to avoid talking, like, admitting that they're NFTs, like, in terms of, like, gaming and comic books and stuff.
So I have a feeling people who know will still call it NFTs, the people who actually traffic in them and use it.
But I could see it, I could see some genius coming up with the new word that just, like, makes it sound cool and everybody else who hears it has no idea what it is and just, like, adopts it.
But right now it's, people just say digital, I don't know, like, digital goods or digital collectibles.
But it doesn't sound as cool as NFTs.
Like, or virtual, I think we're seeing certain people starting to, like, the Barbie one, I think.
Barbie, Boss Beauties, that's, like, virtual collectibles or something like that.
Which, to me, that already sounds kind of, like, outdated.
But, yeah, so you mentioned Facebook or Meta and Google and, you know, your kind of background there.
And maybe this is a great segue to get into more of your vision here for everything OniForce, everything Web3.
You know, those are two companies that are very much sort of at the center of the conversation around the metaverse, quote-unquote metaverse, whatever that is.
I'm curious, you know, especially given what's been happening, you know, Meta taking a giant step back.
You know, a lot of the meta, quote-unquote metaverses or virtual worlds and land sales have not been performing very well lately.
How does the, quote-unquote metaverse fit into your vision for OniForce?
Oh, that's a good question.
Well, as we know, there are multiple, quote, metaverses.
There's no one metaverse yet.
So I think the way I look at it is we're still experimenting and we're testing it out.
And I'm not sure if any existing metaverse is going to be one that survives, you know, in the long-term future.
We'll see.
Or I guess it'll have to evolve.
And, you know, we just see it as another way to connect and tell stories and be together with people.
So we'll be looking at every platform and see, like, what the options are and probably test out different platforms in terms of having experiences.
That way, like, we're learning with everyone else as we go.
But I do see it as the future in the sense that we'll be connecting there.
Like, you know, we'll be having these spaces in a virtual world where we see each other physically as characters and not just voices and, you know, have whole identities that exist.
As much as, like, it's funny, like, how we have these identities we're already creating, like, just through Web3.
And how, you know, some people know me as Star-Laurie.
Some people know me as Henry.
Like, some people don't know that I'm the same person.
And it's, like, already, like, created this existential question.
Like, I was thinking about Batman.
I'm like, is he Batman or is he Bruce Wayne?
Is he Bruce Wayne wearing the Batman clothes or is he Batman, like, pretending to be Bruce Wayne?
You know, it's like, it, like, literally starts to become that.
Who am I?
Exactly.
What's up, Mo?
Yeah, it's kind of like, who am I?
And so, like, and even, like, it does bring up interesting questions because it's, like, if I'm dating someone, I'm, like, okay, if they don't know the Star-Laurie, like, do they actually know me?
Like, do they actually appreciate me for who I am if they don't actually even know the full me, right?
Like, it brings up all these interesting questions around identity.
So, I think the metaverse is a place where people will be able to, like, a lot of people focus on, like, I don't know, the land or whatever.
But I focus more on the identity.
And I think a metaverse is a place where people are going to truly be able to express themselves and be themselves in a lot of ways.
So, we're just going to explore different platforms that allow us to do that.
How do you incorporate your pseudonym Star-Laurie into your LinkedIn profile?
You know, I shut my LinkedIn down because I felt like it was – I know I shouldn't because it's, like, a business tool or whatever.
But I basically had listed my name plus, like, listed OniForce and then had my PFP as my profile picture for a while.
But I never used it.
So, I just shut it down because I felt like it was a very Web2 platform and I just don't care.
I was like, I don't need strangers DMing me, like, spam anymore.
So, I just – yeah, I don't know.
Maybe I should start it again.
But I just kind of – if I did, maybe it would just be all in Web3, only Star-Laurie.
Just start it.
Yeah, start it new.
Do you have Star-Laurie in your Tinder profile?
That's what we all want.
That's a good question.
You know, I deleted my Tinder, to be honest.
I am not on any dating apps.
I'm more in the IRL mode.
But it's funny you say that because I was kind of thinking, like, could I – I think now that I'm so all in on Web3, I feel like I would – we should have, like, a Web3 dating app or something.
Because I, like, I almost feel like I could only date someone who's, like, also into Web3 because they might not even understand, like, what I do or why it means anything.
So, yeah, somebody should start that.
Absolutely.
I feel like Twitter's the closest thing that there is right now to a Web3 dating app.
But I'm sure somebody could do it better.
Anyway, all right.
Yeah.
So, you know, keeping that sort of metaverse tangent going or the identity part, I do recall somewhat at your presentation, you know, y'all had a really nice event here during NFT LA on the rooftop of the Aster.
Art Snitch was a big part of putting that together.
And that's where I got to actually meet you briefly.
I also won a pretty cool NFT and got my print.
But anyway, you were divulging –
Yeah, you did.
Yeah, you were divulging some alpha there.
Some top, super top secret.
Super, super top secret alpha.
And I think, if I recall, one of the things that you were showing was, like, full body avatars.
I don't remember if they were, like, full 3D or not.
But I feel like there was something in that.
Am I mistaken?
Or is there, like, some kind of full body avatar?
There were full body images.
Wow, you're really coming after me now.
And I'm joking.
I love that.
I love this.
Yes, we were revealing character designs and full body, I guess, images of some of those characters.
And – oh, actually, wait.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, there was a – we are developing for 3D.
So, this is kind of alpha here on this space, I guess, at least confirming it is that, you know, we are developing for 3D, again, preparing for the metaverse and gaming and all that stuff.
So, we've commissioned different teams to create, like, fully rigged models where we could test out, you know, V-tubing and metaverse and gaming and stuff.
So, I believe we had a prototype, like, up on screen.
So, you got a good memory.
Thanks.
Yeah, so, would that – it sounds like that would be some situation where holders would be able to either get free access or acquire access to 3D files that they could then, you know, insert into different applications.
Yes, so, that is exactly right.
I mean, in terms of how they're going to get access, obviously, I would like to make it as cheap or free as possible.
I'm sure existing holders will have certain perks, priorities, benefits.
It does depend a little bit on who is making it because I've had – talk with people where they were willing, for instance, to do it for free, but they would want to mint and get a piece of it.
Some people want to charge, like, a lot up front because there's a lot that goes into creating, like, a 10K collection for – in terms of just cost and development and time.
So, there might have to be some sort of recouping of that.
But, yeah, not fully sure yet how that's going to play out.
Yeah, it's a real challenge, and I'm sure you're more aware of this than most people.
It's a real challenge to figure out the sustainable business models behind these NFT projects.
You know, you have these initial mints, which can raise some, you know, some decent money.
And then, obviously, secondary sales on a project like Oniforce that has the amount of volume that it's had can also raise a fair amount of money.
We know now, you know, secondary sales are, you know, in question or a challenge.
So, then beyond that, it's kind of like, okay, what are you doing, right?
So, I guess that would be my question to you.
I know there's the comic books that that's a big direction.
But how are you looking at this as a sustainable business model?
You know, and that's within the context of what you're just saying about how to kind of roll out additional utilities like these 3D files.
Yeah, that's actually a great question.
Something we talk about a lot is, you know, like, first of all, we do want a sustainable business model.
Comic books are not big money.
Comic books are for IP development.
The number two for the top two ways that Hollywood develops content right now are from comic books and from podcasts.
So, you know, that's why we're doing comic books.
Also, because we just love comic books.
It's like in our wheelhouse.
But in terms of sustainable business model, there's a couple things.
Number one, we have to start looking towards Web 2 in a lot of ways because what people forget is, like, you know, we're all, like, we exist in Web 2 and Web 3, right?
Like, most of our life is actually in Web 2 in terms of where we process, like, things.
And, you know, it's funny.
Like, we talk about we hate being doxxed.
And then we see an ad on Instagram for, like, a Naruto t-shirt.
And we just click buy and give them all our info, right?
And so it's kind of, like, a little silly, to be honest.
But so I think where we're uniquely positioned as a brand is that we are an anime brand in a lot of ways.
One thing I discovered going to Japan and just in general is, like, people love our IP.
Like, it's genuinely valuable to people.
It's very original.
It really stands out.
We had so many people in Japan who are part of big brands or other IPs where, you know, they have no reason to like us or compliment us or want to meet us unless they actually believe in the IP.
And they really loved it.
Like, they really see it as a original IP.
And the fact that we have, like, storytelling, like, in our roots, it just really bodes well.
And so I think we're going to be pushing out our brand across social media on web to, like, Instagram and TikTok, that sort of stuff.
But also I see an opportunity where we could be, like, the leading brand for, like, otakus, like, fans, super fans of anime and manga and art and comics and gaming, all that sort of stuff.
And so we're going to push hard there.
Right now we have the luxury where with our ownership group, like, we have funding.
We don't need to worry about sucking liquidity out, you know, making money.
Like, we actually have space, like, to operate and just do what we do best.
When I first – there were a couple things that, you know, made me stick around, like, during the transition because I wasn't sure until I got to know the ownership group more.
And I asked Wei, like, what's a measurement for success this year?
And he just said vibes.
You know, he was like, we'll just see how it goes.
Like, if people are happy, if we're trending upwards, like, if the community is happy, then that's good, you know.
And that was actually a very – a big relief for me because if he was like, oh, we need to be at this floor price or this volume or whatever, then I would have thought twice because I actually never cared about the floor price.
I mean, it's good.
I get it.
Floor price is part of, like, confidence.
But, like, for the whole year that I've managed Oniforce, I didn't even know the floor price.
Like, people would tell me the floor price.
Like, oh, we went up, like, today a little bit.
And I'm like, oh, oh, okay, cool.
Like, but I don't care, you know.
Like, I just focus on what we're actually building.
And so I think the prime directive right now is just to build our first 10,000 true fans, which I didn't realize is 10KTF, the acronym or whatever, but – in a way.
But, so, yeah, I just – I think revenue will come and we're building for it.
It's not like we're forgetting it, but we're not going to drop projects just to, like, raise money or whatever.
Because I think the problem is when you do that, it starts leading you down the road where they turn into handcuffs later on because it creates these expectations and these kind of, like, this pressure and stuff.
So, I think we need to keep it pure and for this year, like, just really focus on whatever we drop will be something that does add value to people's experience.
And, yeah, it could be tradable or something.
Not a collection, though, I'll just say right now.
Like, we're not going to do, like, another collection.
But if we do drop stuff, it'll be, like, fun stuff that you could use.
And there could be value to it, but we won't push it as, like, a value extraction or something, you know.
Yeah, I love that.
And, you know, I guess in this specific situation with Oni, it would be more like 7,775 true fans since it looks like at least two have been burned.
Looking at OpenSea.
Two have been burned.
Yeah.
One of the cool things that I didn't know until pretty recently is that, yeah, the way that OpenSea tracks is they actually hide any burn wallets.
So, that's how you know if any of them have been burned.
So, yeah, it looks like two Onis have been burned.
So, 7,775 true fans and focusing there.
The other thing, you know, to add to what you said is that, you know, a lot of projects get caught up in trying to create that flywheel and that whole economy.
And then they just dilute the value of those original projects if they increase supply too quickly.
We've definitely seen that with some projects, too.
So, I'm sure the holders of Onis are very happy, like I am, to hear that, you know, you're not rushing to just add a whole bunch of new supply right away.
No, we've got to take care of our existing holders, first of all.
Like, they've suffered for 18 months.
They've been waiting for this moment.
And they need to have a lot of rewards coming to them.
So, this year is, honestly, this year is just all about giving rewards to our holders.
Like, that's all we care about.
Like, we're just focused on everything we do is just driving not just value, but, like, an actual experience where people can see that they've grown with us, that they got something out of it, that, you know, they could be proud that they stuck with us or joined us, you know, if they actually believe in us.
Like, it doesn't matter if you're new or old, you're still going to get a ton of rewards for being part of OniForce.
Amazing.
And I know, you know, you said you really don't, you know, focus on the floor price, which, you know, of course, you really shouldn't be focused on it day to day.
But the floor price has been pumping recently.
I mean, I can't not.
Obviously, I noticed that.
I mean, we pump pretty hard, you know.
Yeah, it's done about a 3X in the last couple of days or in the last week or so.
So, I know you've been out doing the rounds just like, you know, you've been gracious enough to hop on this show.
You've been doing other shows.
You have the big Horizon Labs announcement.
You know, do you think that that's been the primary driver of this recent pickup in interest and floor price?
Or, you know, what are you seeing right now that seems to be moving the dial?
I think it's a combination of a lot of things.
The Horizon Labs is obviously big for us in the sense that it put the space on notice that, you know, we can get top talent, that we can attract, you know, high-level partnerships.
And that was kind of the first tip of the spear, I guess, the indicator.
And then I think it's also it's a lot of just positive word of mouth because, you know, we've been getting on lots of calls with different people, different types of holders, you know.
And I don't know.
Like, we just literally tell them what we're working on, what the vision is.
And they message us after that they bought.
And so I think, like, you know, it's just a campaign of, like, getting people to know who we are, to understand there's a new team, that it truly is, like, a completely fresh start.
And, you know, it's like we're going in the same direction that we always were meant to go.
But now we have, like, this super team behind us to, like, actually get us there.
And honestly, like, in the, like, past two, three months, we've probably done more business development than, like, some projects do in a whole year.
So we're about to be unleashing, like, quite a bit of news, like, for the next two weeks.
And I think people just feel the vibe, you know, like they hear good things.
But honestly, I do have to say, if you think about it, like, organically, it actually starts with the community.
Like, it really does.
Because, like, when I came on as project manager and I saw the environment, it was super toxic out there.
We were getting dunked on left and right, like, memes about us.
Like, any Discord that you're in, if somebody mentions OniForce, they would immediately just start slamming the founders or the project or whatever.
And it was a really hard time for the community, you know.
Like, they really suffered.
Like, they paid a price to show their support publicly.
And so, like, I realized very quickly, I was like, you know, it's just us right now, right?
Like, we know what our value is, but it's just us.
So let's focus on just the community.
And, like, we didn't do Twitter spaces.
Like, it was just, if we did an AMA, it would be in the Discord.
You know, we just, I just focused, hyper-focused, because I was like, if we can't make our core community happy, like, even if, like, 15 people show up in the Discord in a day, if those 15 people aren't actually happy, if they don't trust me, if they don't feel like at least there's somebody here who has their best interests at heart, then it doesn't matter.
Like, nothing else matters.
You know, we can't manufacture goodwill or whatever.
And so I think, over time, the community who was here that saw, you know, myself and hired and the team and the mods, like, working and how we worked and how we operated, they trusted us.
If they didn't trust the founders, they at least trusted us.
And what I realized is the kind of positive effect is, like, especially towards the acquisition, is, like, as more people started becoming curious, if they were talking to the community members, they would only hear good things about us, you know.
So I think it really starts from there, because if somebody's curious about a project and then they check in on it and the community is like, oh, these people suck, like, there's going to be no momentum, you know.
So I genuinely believe it was the community that kick-started this whole thing, and now, like, they're just being vindicated for their fate with the fact that with our new ownership group, we, like, kind of crush it.
Like, we kind of, like, have a lot.
We have so many things about to come out, it's, like, kind of crazy, actually.
Heck, yeah.
Yeah, the business development side and the partnership side is such a huge part of, you know, taking these projects to that kind of next level.
It's collaboration, it's interoperability, it's all the different utilities that you can provide by working together and pulling resources and see what you were saying, like, top talent, bringing it all together.
So I do want to get into some of the specifics.
I'm, like, finding some different tweets, like, I don't know what the side.xyz one is, so maybe we can hop into some of those specific partnerships here in just a moment.
But I do want to re-ranch it real quick, you know, just a reminder for everybody, if you do go down there to the bottom right corner of your screen, use the little chat icon.
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So, all right.
One quick question that I want to get to from TB Smoll out here.
T Barrett putting it in the comments.
Yeah, they're talking about the new sort of, you know, community focused initiatives that you've got, which is a lot of that.
I definitely want to get into that, too, because I know community is at the center of a lot of these new developments.
And so TB Smoll asking, is the franchise model only limited to art?
What about super random stuff like an Oni branded gym or a music festival?
Oh, great question.
Literally anything.
If you own an Oni, you could do whatever you want with it.
That's already the terms and conditions.
And we just want to help you be successful in it.
So when I saw with Bored Apes how, you know, people were making a coffee company, a cannabis company, a water company, all that stuff.
I realized this is like an amazing.
And like there's never been a decentralized brand building experiment in human history like this.
And I realized the franchise model is just a way to step up our support and make sure the communities has a better chance of being successful.
So, yeah, like definitely you could start a gym and invite me to it because I need to need to improve my my physical skills.
Work out more.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I as a gym rat myself, I would actually be very, very curious to see what an Oni force themed gym looks like.
I mean, you have to come up with all all kinds of interesting new equipment, I would presume.
Unless you're unless you're just going to slap some like, you know, like Oni force art on the walls with like some rise, you know, some some positive reinforcement, you know, quotes.
That could be something, too.
But anyway, yeah, I think a music festival gym.
Those are really crazy ideas.
And I love that question.
Yeah.
So maybe this is a great time to let you speak a little bit more on that community focus.
What you know, because I know just recently these were, you know, again, teased NFT LA.
But I believe just recently I was looking for the tweet.
I couldn't find the specific tweet about it.
But I know recently you kind of officially announced some of these community initiatives, including the Ronins, which is a very interesting.
I believe the Ronins are the ones that actually it's like a board sort of where you can like you offer this NFT and then you can retract it from them if they're kicked off of the group.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So this is these are great questions.
This is a really great interview.
So I guess I'll just say, like, all of these initiatives are simply ways for us to give different types of different community members different ways to to be onboarded.
Because what I learned from just after a year of talking with people, you know, that so many people want to help or add value and they all have their own way of doing it.
Right.
Some people just want to hold their PFP and represent it online.
Some people want to start their own business.
Some people want to refer business, you know, and or some people just want to, like, pitch in and just help out.
And so I think, like, what we're doing now is we're basically building different programs that allow people to have that entry point but also be rewarded for it.
Because I think it's really, really important to actually see people, to acknowledge them, to make sure that they get something out of it, like, consciously, like, try to give them something back.
So, again, the franchise model is for anybody that owns a PFP that, you know, the way I pitch it is, like, it's like an NFT that's reimagined.
And, like, it's like before, like, a PFP would be like, you know, a JPEG with a promise is how I used to joke about it.
You know, it's kind of like, hey, give me your money and, like, I promise you I'm going to do something with this.
And you just have to trust them.
And now I think of an NFT or a PFP in our case as an opportunity to do business with us, right?
So it's like it's a new franchise tag in a way.
It's like you, which actually just stands for NFT, but you get a chance to say, hey, I bought this PFP.
So, therefore, I now can interact with the company that built it in a way that's much more meaningful.
So that's where we provide a lot of support there.
The Ronin program came out of the fact that we have a lot of people who have their own expertise, their own skill set, their own network, their own value.
And, you know, a lot of people are just our community is such a generous group, to be honest.
Like, they really, truly care.
Like, they give without asking for anything in return.
But, again, like, for it to be more sustainable, for everybody to win, to rise together, like, we have to also give back.
So the Ronin program is a way, like, if you're selected, you become, like, an ambassador of the program, which means you're allowed to officially represent us to go out there.
And when you speak to people about us, to have confidence that we're going to back you up, that you could bring us opportunity.
So then, you know, and you don't have to even be a holder, actually.
There's so many people in the community who maybe they don't hold yet or they can't or, you know, whatever the reason is.
And they still want to help, and so this is a chance to do that.
And so, you know, that gives you the right to, you know, make referrals and get commissions or be part of a deal, be a partner, or even pitch original projects or ideas or businesses and be part of it.
There's even a path where, you know, we can be building businesses together and they can have equity in it.
So there's, it's kind of sky's the limit for anybody who has the initiative and the gumption to put in the effort.
We will, like, kind of match you and give you 10x whatever you put in in a lot of ways.
And, yeah, it is, the PFP itself, you get an honorary Ronin, which it's, I Am Complex is drawing a whole new mask for it, a Ronin mask.
And then the character underneath will probably be generated by algorithm, but it'll be its own kind of set.
And it is recallable, though.
You technically don't own it because also if somebody goes out there and misuses the brand or misrepresents the brand, then we have to have the ability to also recall it.
So, you know, it just keeps everybody honest, but other than that, I'm very excited about that, that potential.
Yeah, we were discussing how that actually, like, works, the logistics behind that recall function.
I know that that was something that was an innovative feature within the frames.
So is it basically just the same exact thing?
Yeah, there's two ways we're looking at it.
One is we just use the existing contract function where we would create, like, a Oni, like, master key almost.
Because right now the way the frames work is they're attached to your Genesis.
So what we would do is we would make, like, an NFT, which is, like, our Genesis, like, kind of headquarters, like, you know, NFT or whatever.
And then all these different recallable items are attached to that.
Yeah, although I heard there was another option where we could just have it recallable to a contract.
So I forgot which project already did something similar.
So it's just one or the other.
But either way, I mean, we could just do it the way we've been doing it.
And then that way, like, the different projects that we spin out can all be attached to one headquarters.
And, yeah, I know it's easy to manage.
What if I become a Ronin and I put my Ronin mask NFT, PFP into a hardware wallet?
That's a good call.
I think that it would be recalled once you connect it.
I'd have to double check.
I remember there was something discussion about that when we first launched the frames.
But, yeah, I mean, while it's in the hardware wallet, if you're not connected to the Internet, I'm guessing you could just hold it.
And then, you know, I think that would be a funny way to hold it hostage.
Like, I'm not giving it back.
It's like a Wolf of Wall Street or something, you know.
I'm not fucking leaving.
That's funny.
That's a good one.
But, you know, I think, to be honest, like, we're very careful about who we're bringing on.
And, again, our community, they're really great people.
So, I'm not too worried about the downside stuff.
And, you know, like, I guess that's the kind of issue we would cross that bridge when we get there.
Heck, yeah.
Yeah, that's an interesting situation that I've been very curious about.
And I think it's interesting, too, that you're like, yeah, there's some things that we just got to figure out as we go.
So, I appreciate you being honest and candid with that.
I also want to take a brief moment to shout out NFT Go.
A lot of people may not know NFT Go.
But, yeah, they're actually the ones that made this IRL connection, our friends over at NFT Go.
And so, without them, I don't know if this interview would actually be happening.
It may or may not be, right?
But definitely a better likelihood that it wouldn't have happened without our friends at NFT Go making this IRL introduction.
They also happen to be our network sponsor for the month.
So, big love to them.
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And, on that note about data, because data is very important, so much of this space runs on numbers, people paying attention to things like volume.
I'm curious what are, you know, you kind of said your leadership isn't really focused on volume or anything like that.
In fact, vibes are kind of like your most important feature right now.
But, are there any other KPIs that you are measuring against?
Like, that to you, you know, six months or a year from now, you're going to look back and be like, okay, how successful were we?
Are there any other KPIs that you're going to be measuring against besides vibes?
There is actually one KPI I do care about, which is how many people have changed their Twitter profile to an Oni picture.
So, I see people in the audience that have that.
I love y'all.
I think it means a lot to share with the world, like, the project that you, like, love and identify with in a lot of ways.
And, I think, for us, we want our, as we educate people more what we're about, as people see, like, how much we're doing for the community and the space as a whole.
I want the PFP to rep, like, if you rep an Oni PFP, it doesn't just rep your identity, but it reps the values that you believe in, right?
That you actually care about people, the community, art, storytelling, like, Web3 itself.
Like, I think that's what I want it to mean, because it's not just about, like, you know, oh, we want to be the coolest project or whatever.
It's, like, we want to be an example and a light for the space in a lot of ways.
So, I want to see, by the end of the year, I want to see, you know, like, to be comparable to other top projects in terms of how many people you rep the PFP.
And that just means, like, it's organic, right?
Like, you have to actually do the work.
You have to be consistent.
Like, you could definitely incentivize people, but what I learned in terms of identity is you can't actually incentivize.
There's nothing you could do to artificially, like, get someone to change that and hold it for a long time.
So, I think that'll be a great measurement by the end of the year, because it'll show, like, how much work we did to actually, like, be inclusive to get people to know what it means to rep an ONI.
And I think that is the only KPI that I would say if it was, like, a numerical or statistics or something, like, we could say.
Otherwise, floor price and all that stuff, like, it's going to be volatile for a while, and we also have a very challenging macro, like, environment in the world economy and stuff.
So, I don't worry too much.
And also, frankly, like, we had a lot of people that are probably waiting to exit.
I heard Pudgy, like, it took them, like, a year to kind of shake out everybody until they had, like, a really solid community and stuff.
So, I think our job is to just, you know, just keep kicking butt and supporting people.
And then let it see where the chips fall, you know?
Dude, I love this answer so much.
And I'm not going to lie, like, literally before you hopped on, I was over at NFT Inspect looking at their PFPs per NFT percentage to see where it's at.
And we've been starting to incorporate this specific measurement more into what we do on NFT Live every day, where we're, you know, analyzing all these different, you know, projects.
Trying to see what's going on because, to your point, it is one of the best indicators of positive sentiment that you can have, right?
Like, how many people are actively rocking your art, your project as their identity, as their PFP?
So, Oniforce actually looks like right now is sitting around 14%, which, you know, again, given, you know, where it's been, that's actually a pretty high, like, I don't know if that sounds like a lot to people.
But that's actually a really strong, you know, percentage compared to most projects that have been around this long.
And, and yeah, I can only imagine that you can build, build from there.
So, yeah, do you have a, like, I mean, I'm gonna, I'm trying to get into the details.
Do you have, like, a specific target?
Like, do you want to see that at, like, 30% in six months?
Or, like, I don't know, is that too much or, like, too much pressure?
30% might, 30% might be much in six months, just because, again, like, we're, we're a little late to the game in the sense that we had a whole year of non-development.
So, I think, like, the first stage, like, I think in the next two, three months, we just have to educate the Web3 community what the new team is about, what our values really are.
And then also, what I learned is you have to let time pass where people actually see that our actions, like, match up with our words, right?
Because I think, I always think of reputation as a function of, of behavior over time.
And, like, you know, like, my mom told me, like, a long time ago, she said, like, your words are, like, your credit, and then your actions, like, pay it off, you know?
And so, it's kind of like, you have to talk the talk, and then you got to walk the walk.
And I think, you know, anywhere between 20% to 30%, I think, would be a win for us at this stage.
And then next year, we would probably want it more, like, the 30% or, or more.
And, but at the same time, even though that is a KPI, we're not going to let that, you know, I think that the way I would put it is, like, I look at these kind of KPIs as, like, it should be a byproduct of our hard work and our efforts.
And that's kind of how we, we judge it.
I see, uh, uh, uh, NFTs wants to say something.
Yeah, welcome to the stage.
Go ahead.
What's up, guys?
I'm killing time at my layover in Dallas while I wait to get to the VCon.
So, um, man, uh, amazing people, uh, up here, too, from the Oni community.
Um, I got to say, like, every time I listen to you talk, uh, Sarlovy, I just get more bullish.
Like, I've, I've definitely gone the all-in.
I've been wearing the PFP for a while.
Um, it's funny, because last night I, I sold a couple, but only because, so I could restructure my bag to get more rares.
And, uh, like, it's all good.
Hey, you dressed up for Halloween as your Oni, so I, you, you know, you have my undying love.
So, like, you, you kill me, because, like, I, I, so many times I've been, like, I just want to quit everything, go full tilt on, uh, Oni, because I believe in, in what you're doing.
And we're so aligned on this, like, deliver value first, and everything else will fall in line.
And it's, like, you know, everybody that's on the greed shit, like, can GTFO.
It's, it's, it's all about hustle and hard work.
So, um.
Facts.
One, I wanted to say, like, is, do you have a writing, I, I know we were, we're starting stuff with, like, a writing room.
Um, I want to see, like, variation on, like, the anime style, where we could do something that's more, like, freeform comedy.
And I was wondering if anybody had, like, spearheaded that initiative.
No, not yet.
Um, we definitely have a writer's room for one of our projects, the Oni Hunter X comic book.
But, um, we are going to be, uh, releasing or structuring our Discord in a way that we're going to have a lot more creativity, um, like, kind of promoted and all that stuff.
So, yeah, definitely, uh, would love to talk to you about that.
Yeah, I mean, I, I think so, you know, some people are going to take it, be better at, like, serious writing and, like, going to graphic novel.
I think there's areas for us to, like, each of our characters to take on a life of their own.
So, I've just been thinking around creating my character's story, um, and figuring out, like, if I wanted to be funny or serious.
And didn't know if there was anybody else I could jump into and have conversations with.
I know that's on Discord, so I'll go check it out.
But, um, it's...
I know, like, um, Art Snitch has started his own, um, Discord group to, to develop characters.
So, um, you could definitely hit him up on that.
But we definitely will formalize it.
And actually, this is kind of alpha, but I don't know if anybody even cares.
But I am actually going to be launching very soon my own comic book series, um, just to...
Well, first of all, because I love comic books, and my dream as a kid was to be a comic book creator.
But, um, uh, to also be an example for the community to show, like, how we can develop our IP.
And so there'll be a lot of fun tools that we're building around that that will then be given to the community.
So, um, so yeah, I would be happy to, be happy to, like, jump on together in some sort of group and support each other.
Yeah, I'm already getting pinged by, by people going, let's do this.
So, that's it.
Let's go.
That's how quick it works.
I say something on stage.
I love it.
And people are like, let's talk.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Yeah, I love you.
I love you coming up here with these questions, man.
And that's, I love hearing the creativity coming out of all this.
And it's so cool, you know, I think it's so, so cool, but also important for leaders on these types of projects to be as accessible and open to the community as you are.
So, it's awesome that, you know, you're showing up like this and having these types of conversations in real time.
Star Lordy.
I am curious about that comic book.
I also went ahead and updated my PFP.
So, if anybody else in here with an ONI hasn't updated their PFP, you know, you can help that percentage increase right now.
I haven't changed mine in a long time, but out of respect for you coming to hang out with us on episode 200.
That's my forever token 35.
Yeah.
Oh, that's amazing.
Thank you, sir.
She's a beaut.
I want to make sure that we definitely get into some of these partnerships before, you know, I know your time may be limited here.
You may have to jump out in the next 10 minutes or so.
I got a call in eight minutes, yeah.
So, let's, I'll answer them fast and furious for you.
Let's, let's do it.
So, my take from what I've heard about the Horizon Labs situation is that you're working on staking, which, you know, I know y'all have been very careful to say anything about tokens.
But, I, to me, this is, this is saying that there's absolutely going to be some kind of tokenomics, whether it's a digital currency or a cryptocurrency or not, because otherwise, what are you staking for?
So, what can you speak, speak on?
Okay.
See, this is the hard part for me because I'm, my instinct is just to be super transparent and just tell you everything.
But then I've been told that I'm supposed to, well, I mean, there's legitimate reasons.
We're still building it.
Like, we just announced it, so we're still building it.
So, like, there's things I can't say because I don't want to get us in trouble by, like, over-promising something.
What I can say is the off-chain points that we're starting with will result in tangible rewards for people at the end of our Season 1, which should be August or September or something like that.
But, so, you will definitely, like, holders will definitely see a value add from that.
And the rewards that we're creating are really cool.
I could say that.
Like, it's different than what other projects have done in the past.
Like, it's actually way better.
Like, it's new and it's fun and it's going to be a mix of physical and digital plus, et cetera.
Okay, I'm getting into leaky territory.
I've got to be careful.
And then, you know, like, everybody's obviously speculating token.
Now, I'm supposed to be, like, super coy so that people could speculate and get hype.
But I just want to be, like, really honest and say, like, we cannot drop a token unless there's, like, the right, like, an actual token, like ApeCoin, right?
Like, you can't drop that without having some sort of real demand, some sort of use case.
So, I wouldn't put a timeline on that.
Certainly, I wouldn't expect it this year just because where we are in the market and, you know, we're still growing our network and community.
But I can say that, or the best way to say it is that accumulating points during this time would definitely be a good idea.
So, yeah, that's the best way for me to put it.
So, it's going to be worth it to participate is what I'm trying to say.
Hell, yeah.
Let's get Quasar in here and then Jeff Jag and then we have a new friend hopping up here.
Aloha, GIF.
So, let's get these questions.
Aloha, GIF.
Shout out to all of the OGs in the room.
I see you guys, all the OGs, only for us in the room.
Thank you, Star Lordy, for bringing this back, bro.
Thank you for bringing this back, bro.
Just had two quick questions because I know you got to go.
First one is, oh, much love to you, Star Lordy.
You know I love you, bro.
Absolutely.
Okay, the first question is Comic-Con, what can you share?
And then second, what was your biggest takeaway from Japan?
Because that was a huge thing for me.
I loved seeing you sharing all the pictures and everything there.
So, just if you can give a quick, because I know not a lot of folks know about that.
So, thanks, bro.
Love you, bro.
Love you, man.
Comic-Con is a big moment for us because we're the first NFT project to premiere there.
We're going to be the first to return with our own preview of our comic books that are
going to be distributed around the world in retail stores.
So, people will literally be able to, any kid will be able to buy an Oni Force comic right
next to a Batman or a Spider-Man or X-Men, which is huge.
I mean, there's definitely no project that could say that.
And we have a prime location at the Comic-Con, like right next to the main stage.
Shout out to Josh Blaylock for getting that set up.
And we're going to have a slew of announcements and reveals.
And, you know, it's kind of like our first big milestone this year.
So, we're loading up on lots of cool things.
So, a lot of ways to enter the project, to be excited about it.
A lot of ways where our community will be rewarded.
And hopefully, we have some really big reveals lined up for that so we could really make a
lot of waves.
So, and just as a comic book geek, like where, you know, Comic-Con was like mecca for me,
it is going to be like a lifelong dream to be able to be there and represent Oni Force
and actually have a product that we can share and see how people respond to it.
So, that's exciting.
I would love to share that experience with you and James.
And if I could just offer that we throw a party for the Oni Force IRL in Comic-Con.
And I'd love to DJ that, bro.
I would love to be my third Oni Force party, bro.
I did New York.
I did New York.
I did Miami.
And Miami.
And now let's do San Diego, bro.
Okay, let's talk about it.
You should just get all the Oni DJs.
Hell yeah, and Kaku, bro.
Hell yeah, and Kaku.
Let's bring them all back.
Let's do it.
We could do something crazy.
Yeah, let's talk about it offline.
I think that's a great idea.
And then Japan, I'll just answer that real quick.
Main thing is I love the fact that people responded to us.
The community is incredibly strong, way stronger than I thought.
They genuinely believe in the IP.
It was super inspirational.
It was exactly what we needed because we really wanted to honor our roots
and make sure that we connect and actually we figured out so many things
about our lore and about our plans and all that stuff.
And then also, like, they're very pure.
Like, the people are special.
Like, the people in Japan, they actually care about the art.
They actually care about the technology.
They're working on interesting problems that they're trying to solve.
So, it's kind of like the vibes I got from the first NFT NYC is what I felt in Japan
because they're, like, really just coming into their own.
And it's the perfect time for us to be investing in them over there.
So, you'll be seeing a lot more stuff with Japan from us.
Domo arigato.
Yeah, Jeff Jag.
Domo arigato.
Jeff Jag, jump in real quick because we're about to lose them here.
I'll stick a – yeah, I'll try and give it a couple more minutes.
I'll just message them.
I'll be, like, five minutes later or something.
But keep going.
Hey, Starlody.
So, I wanted to say thanks for sharing out the derivatives that I've been.
I just –
Oh, amazing.
Posted this up and appreciated your support on that.
My question is regarding the, like, the artist – is it grants?
Like, people keep coming up to me and, like, you know, they're mentioning there's this thing
or they're, you know, they're going to be supporting artists.
And I'd like to hear more about that program.
I applied for the grant thing.
Great.
So, if that's the one, then that's the one I applied for.
Yeah, there's just one.
There's one application.
And thank you, by the way.
Those are super cool, Derod.
Very, very original.
Very, very cool.
I was actually very excited to see that.
It's just an – I think that's an example of, like, community members bringing their own, like, style and value to the project
and, like, expanding the quality of the brand.
So, basically, what we have is a grant program, which is a 50 ETH fund that we announced when the ownership changed over.
And, basically, that fund is meant to support artists, to help them create, to bring them into our ecosystem.
You know, 50 ETH is not actually that much money when you start dividing it up and thinking, like, oh, like, how many artists can we support?
Like, so, hopefully, it's just the beginning, to be honest.
But the way we see it is, like – first of all, it's, like, we want to throw the gauntlet down in a lot of ways.
Because it's, like, we're still a small project in a lot of ways.
Like, we, unfortunately, didn't have money in the treasury.
And even, for instance, when we made the announcement, we got, like, I think $150,000 in royalties, which, if Blur wasn't operating at that time, it would have been $1.5 million in royalties.
So, it's kind of, like, you know, like, that could have been money that would have went directly to the community.
So, because we are kind of in a – and I'm okay with it.
I don't actually care in the sense that, like, I think we have to roll with whatever – you can never control the market, and that's just the nature of it.
But the point is, like, at least the ownership group already committed 50 ETH to just artists, you know, creators in the community to start.
So, we're just taking applications, and then we're going to see the spread of people and try to figure out a way to distribute it.
And, you know, again, once I started doing the math, I was like, oh, 50 ETH, like, could disappear, like, with a snap of a finger, because a lot of – one artist might sell, like, a single piece for one ETH, you know?
Like, so we have to figure out a way to make it more sustainable.
And what I'm thinking is, like, maybe it's a small amount in the beginning, but then also we could promote, like, a mint of that work, and then that way the artist could still make the money that they want off of it.
But more importantly, it's a way to promote them, to give them legitimacy, to lend the power of our brand and project to them.
And then also, if whichever artists kind of get that community traction, then we can – it's a pathway to onboard them to the Artists in Residency Program,
which is kind of like this open agency where we actually help people develop their careers and really focus on bringing them to the next level with our resources.
So, it's worth, like, just being part of it in any form.
And we will actually be announcing more about the artist programs in the upcoming week.
So, yeah, I'm glad you applied, because, you know, you're a great artist.
So, thanks for asking.
Yeah.
Yeah, and y'all can check out some of Jeff Jags Deriv's pinned up top.
Yellow Bird up here.
Did you have a question?
Are you there?
And if not, that's okay, too.
Well, you know what?
All right.
With that, maybe this is the last question, and it's one from the community down here.
So, first of all, you know, Star Lordy, thank you for being so gracious with your time.
We're very excited for everything that you're doing and for coming on as our special guest on episode number 200.
200.
Yeah, we really appreciate you.
I'm hyped.
Dude, it's a big deal, and I really appreciate you being here, man.
And obviously, the community appreciates all the time that you give here as well.
So, flipacadabra.eth asks, and, you know, this is one for, this is hopefully a chance for you to nerd out a little bit.
He's asking, is there a problem with sci-fi writing for film today?
And if so, what is it, and how would you help fix it?
Wow.
That is a super specific question.
I love that.
Is there a problem?
You know, actually, it's funny you mentioned that.
I am a film geek and just a nerd and everything.
I love sci-fi and fantasy and stuff.
And I have noticed that it's hard to do good sci-fi on film and TV for some reason.
I think, like, for instance, I read the Foundation series during the pandemic.
And then I was really excited that Apple was doing the Foundation series.
And then I was like, when I watched it, I was like, I don't know about that.
And I think my, and this is just my personal opinion, is I think a lot of sci-fi films focus too much on the spectacle, like the action, the adventure, like the special effects.
Like everybody wants to be like, or not everybody, a lot of people want to be like some version of Star Wars or whatever.
But like actually what makes great sci-fi is like the philosophy behind it.
Like I've always seen sci-fi as the mirror in which we judge like ourselves, like humanity.
And like great sci-fi writers tend to reveal something about humanity through their writing.
For instance, the Foundation series was modeled after the fall of the Roman Empire.
And it was really a story about the decline of Western civilization.
And when I was reading it, I was like, whoa, this is not even an analogy.
This is like literally what's happening to us right now is kind of scary.
And if you notice, like for instance, like if you look at like sci-fi where like aliens come to the world, like the aliens never show up to the planet and they're look at humans and they're like, oh, good job.
We're going to leave now.
It's always like, oh, you humans are like meaningless, like doing stupid things.
We need to destroy you so that you don't like infect the universe with your like, you know, stupidity or whatever.
And that's just us judging ourselves, you know, like.
So I think I'm not sure if that's the answer you're looking for, but I do think there is in there are some great shows out there, but it's only if they really stick to the actual philosophy and meaning behind the story itself.
And I think also the challenge is just from a production standpoint is like to translate the spectacle and the VFX and all that stuff.
It's so expensive that it tends to make it tends to cheapen the product in a lot of ways once you do it, if you don't do it right.
But yeah, I don't know.
We could definitely talk offline.
I'm happy to nerd out about that.
Yeah.
Well, thanks for nerding out here for a bit with us, man.
And I know you're going to jump.
No, that's cool.
And the last last alpha I will give before I go, which just is episode 200 gift for you.
Changing your changing your PFE Dononi was a very good move because there there's going to be some direct off chain points that go with with that.
So does it count for derivatives, too?
I think I think it has to, you know, actually, that's a good question because I was trying to we were thinking, like, could we expand it where, like, for instance, you use your frame and then that still counts.
So I actually brought that up to the devs is like, we should probably go by contract addresses.
So so we'll see.
I'll follow up on that.
But that could be cool.
That actually could be a really cool initiative because then that would encourage artists who make derivatives to change their own PFE or have their own fans change the PFE.
So that's a great idea.
I'll I'll work on that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'll give it up for Star Wars to give him some love.
Give him a follow.
Already this this man's out here on the front lines.
We appreciate you, dude.
Have a beautiful day.
Love y'all.
OK, I'll talk soon.
Thanks so much for having me.
Bye.
Heck yeah.
All right.
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But are there any other thoughts from y'all, just people up here on stage, any takeaways, anything that got you really excited and amped up from that conversation with Mr. Star Lordy?
I mean, I personally like the PFP thing.
I just feel like we were standing still for so long, just waiting for somebody to take the reins like this.
And so I'm just eager.
I feel like I'm texting people.
I want to build stuff.
Like, I've got friends that are doing, like, 3D rigging, partnerships, all that stuff.
And so I hit up Star Lordy all the time and other guys on here.
And, like, I invite other people in the community.
I think he wasn't wrong when he said the people in Oni are really some of the most generous people with their time and their intellect and what they want to create for the space.
And so the best way to get ideas for it is just to speak up.
And I've never had a conversation that wasn't, let's try to figure this out.
Let's workshop these concepts.
So I'm excited.
But let's see what the community can do.
And it's not all just on Star Lordy's shoulders, I guess.
It's us too.
Well said.
Yeah, and I love the way that they're focusing on engaging the community and rewarding the community that is engaged.
You know, building that, I think, is key to projects succeeding and making it through to the next cycle.
So many projects kind of got away from that or lost sight of community empowerment.
It feels like that's become a renewed focus.
Absolutely.
So, yeah, it's cool to meet you and have you here and hear how excited you are about the projects.
I definitely have some renewed excitement.
And Art Snitch, I saw you on micing.
Go ahead.
Yeah, no, you know, there's just, I wish he had another hour to talk about all the things that have been already kind of like out there for OniForce, for holders, for the kind of next steps for the project itself.
He does keep saying, and I think he said it once in here already, but I want to kind of emphasize it, which is that there's going to be a lot more announcements over the next two to three weeks of partners, advisors, rewards, things like that, that he's kind of alluding to.
So definitely stay close to listening to what those things are.
The other thing that I don't think he, I think that he talked about, but I wanted to reemphasize as well is, you know, I'm complex.
Brian, who, you know, wasn't even sure if he was going to stick around with the project, depending on who the new owners were going to be, is fully involved.
And he's been having, you know, multiple weekly calls with him to pick his brain on the lore and the storytelling behind everything.
Like, you know, what, you know, I'm wearing a, my PFP is a water skin guy, you know, so like, what does that mean?
What, what, what's the personality behind that?
Where'd they come from?
Uh, and all of that's going to be kind of shared out at some point in the very near future.
So that way you can, as a holder, start to pull from the original lore and create your own stories and have that supported by only force or, or not, or a combination of both.
If you have the ability to kind of do it yourself.
Uh, but you can find out.
And I always say like, you know, if you, star Wars has lots of fan fiction out there and none of them say that, you know, Chewbacca's race came from.
Tantooine, right?
Like that would be weird.
It wouldn't be right.
Now you can create your own story, but you wouldn't necessarily want to have that.
You'd want to be true to the original.
So he's, they've been, they're going to be releasing, um, all of the story and the lore and the background, everything that I am complex had envisioned from the beginning, uh, for everyone to kind of riff off of, tell stories off of and things like that.
So that's pretty cool.
And, you know, his trip to Japan is really opened up the door for a lot of things that are happening in Asia and way, who's the head of old fashioned research, the main, you know, person behind this acquisition.
First of all, he's got tons of connections in the, in Asia.
That's going to be helping us that we can't talk about yet, but are going to be out there.
And then the, he's also, uh, the joke happened earlier this week and you might've seen some people talk about it where the iron bank is open.
Um, as he sees more community get involved, he's been buying a ton of Onis for himself cause he's becoming more of a fan.
Uh, he's been, uh, talking about, you know, working with some other projects and sweeping, they invested in Pedgey Penguins.
Uh, they're building a bit of a, a little empire of IP starting in the web three space here.
And, and there's a lot of big future plans for all of that.
Heck yeah.
That's a lot of insight right there.
I appreciate that.
And I'm, yeah, I'm get, I've been getting more and more bullish on the Asian market.
We've been talking about it more and more on NFT live.
Um, and on that note, real quick, uh, we should mention what's going on here.
If you're not familiar, this is part of the web three network.
This is one of our morning shows, GM web three.
This is episode 200 fam.
If you're a new person here, just joining us.
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
We're happy to have you here, especially if you're a part of the ethereal enclave and the
only force fam follow web three, this account up here, be part of this amazing community
driven platform that we are developing and building together.
It's all about creating a sustainable, uh, a sustainable home for the highest quality editorial
entertainment and educational content that it is.
And we are always adding new content creators.
Right now we've got about 10 different content creators that contribute different shows to
the network.
And, uh, this is one of them.
Usually, uh, we do this show Monday through Thursday and then hop straight out of here
over to YouTube and keep the conversation going on our, our tentpole YouTube show NFT live
that we also do Monday through Thursday.
Today we're taking a break from that as Nifty Q is also traveling maybe to VCon.
Uh, I don't know, but my partner Nifty Q down there is, uh, is traveling today.
He's got some things going on.
So no NFT live today.
That's an important announcement, but yeah, normally we're doing this show and NFT live
back to back Monday through Thursday.
So we hope that you'll join us.
We hope that you'll, uh, be part of the web three network that we're building and, uh,
also follow me and gifted your humble web through Sherpa while you're at it would really,
really love to connect with all of y'all.
Um, and all right, we're going to get into this NFT giveaway here in just a moment.
Uh, you know what, since we have a new friend up here, NFT, NFTs, the NFTs, uh, nice pun
there.
Let's go ahead and let you help, help select the winner.
My friend, uh, give select, give me a number, a random number between one and 50.
And I'm going to use this to help randomly, uh, choose the winner of the giveaway today.
I love it.
Uh, 10, 10, 10 was my hockey Jersey number.
So 10 it is.
Hey, all right.
10 it is.
All right.
I'm going to use that to go and figure out who is the winner of the DBs and witchy GF today.
And, uh, while we're at it, all right.
Yellow bird keeps hopping up here.
Did you have something to add in?
I don't want to just have you hanging out on stage, but did you have something you wanted
to contribute?
All right.
If not, that was your second chance.
So we're going to remove you again.
Uh, but Jeff Jack, that was a pretty cool, man.
You, you, you're getting a lot of love on these NFT, uh, or sorry, these only force derivatives
that you've been creating.
Uh, do you want to just talk briefly about any other plans with that?
Obviously you said that you're applying to the grant program that only force is doing,
but, uh, yeah.
What have you seen with these?
It seems like people are really, really loving these builders of Titania only drives.
Yeah, man.
Um, well, it's, you know, it's part of this, um, like outreach thing that I've been doing.
I started, I started with a bunch of different PFPs.
I did some, some of the apes when people were like, I love my ape.
And so I started replying builders love the apes.
And I did some derivatives there.
I did some moon birds.
Um, I, uh, I did, uh, uh, uh, uh, Ronan, the collectors, um, Tenga, Tenga, Tenga, Tenga.
Is that how you say it?
Yeah.
Renga.
Renga.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
Tenga is actually, that's, that's the, that's the Latin X version of Renga.
Sure.
Sure.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
So it's been, um, kind of part of just like getting, you know, getting my art out there and
contributing to these communities that I like, I'm reaching out to other ones that hopefully
I can, you know, do the same thing with, uh, talking to people at Huxley, cause that would
be a cool one.
I would also love to do dead fellows.
Um, did some versions of those earlier on as well.
So like communities that I, you know, appreciate that I think are really good and have great
holders, um, sticking with the web three thing, even through the bear times, that's important.
And I think those sorts of outreach things, like making those connections are really important
to me as a builder.
So like getting those, those, uh, inroads to those communities and, and showing them what
I'm doing and how I can contribute to their community has been really important to me.
But the response has been really amazing.
Like people are just loving them, commenting, retweeting them.
How do I really appreciate all that?
How do you get one?
Uh, like I, I'm looking at all these and I'm like, damn, I missed out.
Well, and that's the thing.
I was like, I'm going to start winding down and doing them.
And then people kept like asking for them and I'm, I'm just making them on a one-on-one
basis now.
So it's not like, uh, like if you comment to that particular thread that I pinned up at
the top and post your Oni there, I'll probably reply with it.
That not like really fast, but I'll get to it.
I've been talking to Ben Morrow too.
I think Huxley is like a smart play like that.
That's definitely vibes as well.
So like, I'm trying to get like Ben in, in Oni more cross involved as well, but, uh, cause
there's already like a collector overlap.
So if you haven't checked out Ben Morrow, like he's a fucking legend.
Heck yeah.
Oh yeah.
We were big fans of Huxley.
We've actually partnered with, uh, uh, on some of our events.
Uh, we actually hosted Huxley and Ben, uh, and this whole team at our first ever web
three lounge.
It was a four day event that we took over to the full 17th floor of a skyscraper five
minutes walk from time square, uh, during NFT live and had, uh, just four days of amazing
programming and a bunch of partners and activations and parties and events.
And, uh, Huxley was one of our main partners and we actually had their first ever game demo.
So I, I, have you seen the game that they're developing?
Yeah, it's really good.
I mean, especially it's, he, I was talking to him recently and he's just been heads down
on it.
So if he's been quiet, it's been like, like crazy.
But I was like looking at that as he's setting a bar for those style of games to, to have something
that's fun and competitive in web three.
Um, but like the cinematic trailer too, uh, if you're not familiar, I think it took him
a year.
Oh my gosh.
Didn't it take him a year to do it or something like that?
It definitely took a while.
Yeah.
They're putting so much time and effort into the quality.
And that's again, uh, why I'm also bullish.
It's the quality of the IP is, is next level for Huxley saga.
And if you don't know Ben Moore, he's a very, very famous concept artist that, uh, transitioned
into web three with his project Huxley saga.
Well, I actually also got to hang out with him relatively recently, like a couple months
ago.
Um, I actually hosted the only, the, I curated and hosted the only web three panel at comic
con LA this year.
And, uh, Ben Morrow was one of our speakers that we brought on.
Uh, so I got to hang out with him, get some food with him after we did the panel.
So yeah, Ben Morrow is an amazing artist.
If you don't know him, uh, love you throwing that in the mix here.
And also you helping us select a winner.
We do have a winner of the NFT giveaway.
The DVs and witchy GF is going to this person.
So it helped, uh, I didn't even choose it that the NFTs chose it with a random number
selection.
This is the winner hero space space at space hero.
That's their handle.
Congratulations.
Denver.
Yeah, that's an OG.
Oh, nice.
Nice.
Yeah.
Well, congrats.
You just won two NFTs from Nifty castle.
And also since you brought up Denver, uh, they should know about Bitcoin pizza day and
the pizza Dow party that we are co-sponsoring or partnering on with you, Jeff Jag and our
fam in Denver.
Uh, so I'm going to go try and find that link real quick up top just to make sure that
everybody knows because, uh, this is, this is important.
It's as far as I'm concerned, the first official or like the first, maybe it's unofficial, but
the first global crypto holiday is Bitcoin pizza day.
That's, that's how I think of it.
And if y'all don't know, Bitcoin pizza day is the day when a lot of people think the first
transaction of Bitcoin happened.
I know there's controversy around that now with, uh, you know, some other potential transactions
that may or may not have been faked, but people do know that on May 22nd, uh, I don't even
know how many years ago, 10 years ago or something.
That's when somebody bought two pizzas with what's roughly equivalent to like $250 million
today.
Something crazy like that.
Uh, it's absolutely absurd.
Uh, but that of course, uh, you know, was, has kicked off.
It's the origin story of so much of web three of crypto and all of that.
So it's, it's, it's, it's worth celebrating.
It's, it's a big day.
And all right, here we go.
I found this tweet.
I'm going to pin it up top.
If you are in Denver or, you know, any friends near Denver, they should definitely come out
to this awesome pizza day party that we are co-hosting with a bunch of amazing friends,
including animate dead Denver, Donk, Jeff Jag, Philip G.
So yeah, Jeff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Any other thoughts on that, Jeff, since you're, you're clearly a big, uh, part of this whole
conversation here today.
Yeah.
The, the curation, we're doing an art show for that for May 22nd.
So, um, you have until Friday, which is May 19th at midnight Pacific time.
So like on that side of the country, you'll get an extra couple hours if you live in the
East coast.
Can I, can I shout out real quick that those displays, bro, that, that were there at ant
life for the best displays I've ever seen in any of, in any of these events that, that
was super cool, man.
I just had to shout that out.
Right.
Oh yeah.
We're renting.
Yep.
We're renting TVs sponsored by Nifty kit.
They're sponsoring the gallery and, uh, and we'll have, um, we'll have a bunch of, uh,
of, of artwork up that we're curating.
So you can see that in the, the tweet, the tweet right before this, I pinned up the, um,
the, the call for entries.
And so you can send your artwork in that thread and then underneath that thread, there's also
a link to the, to the pizza blend, which is the AI blend thing.
So this, this particular call for entries is just your artwork in whatever style you
And, um, there's also the pizza blend where you can do pizza themed artwork.
So you don't have to mix those two.
You can do one of each.
And then the pizza one where we take, you know, take an image, blend it with your art
or whatever, make something funny, make something cool.
We're taking all of those and we're going to put them into a community video that's going
to play at the show.
That's going to be a massive collaboration.
I'm, I don't know how many pieces there are in that thread so far, but I think it's maybe
a couple, at least over a hundred, but it's going to be a massive, it's going to be really
cool.
Yeah.
And so this gallery, uh, you know, we were at ETH Denver, Ethereum Denver.
We actually hosted a five day web three Denver event across two locations.
Uh, we had the web three lounge at the marijuana mansion, and then we had web three academy
at this gallery called ant life.
And that's where this is at.
It's a really, really dope gallery in like downtown Denver.
And so that's this Monday, May 22nd, it's coming up Bitcoin pizza day, going to be a
bad-ass party.
And there's a bunch of parties all over the world, uh, really.
So global part, uh, global pizza party dot XYZ, I believe is the website where you can find
if there's any, uh, pizza parties, Bitcoin pizza parties, uh, uh, near you and your city.
Uh, Chaz gold and Mo Runda here.
Let's go ladies first.
And then, uh, let's get Chaz in here.
Mo Runda, go ahead.
Um, thank you, uh, Jeff, I'm going to hit you up about those two.
I haven't had time this week.
I've been crazy busy, but I do want to participate.
So I will hit you up after about that and give, I'm sorry.
I failed.
I failed my cohost duties.
I just want to know, did I unmute while I was up here?
Oh yeah, it was awful.
We heard all kinds of weird things.
You were like singing to yourself at some point.
It was really awkward.
And, uh, so that's why I had to boot you.
Okay.
So now thank goodness because I was shit talking web three.
No, I'm kidding.
Um, yeah.
Okay, good.
I'm sorry.
I, I must've got booted.
No, no, no, you're, you're great.
And I know at some point you just disappeared and I thought you had to go do some stuff,
but no, no worries.
You're amazing.
Happy to have you back with us, Moe.
I hope that the drive is going well and that you got something out of that awesome conversation
with Star Lordy.
Chaz Gold, welcome to the stage, sir.
How are you doing, GM?
I'm good.
Um, I just want to mention also that we are having a pizza doll party in Portland, Oregon
on the same day.
If anybody's up this way, um, I don't think we're going to have a display of art, but we're
definitely having a pizza party with, uh, it's put up by, put up, put on by, um, uh,
ETH, ETH PDX, which is the, the monthly ETH meetup here in Portland that we always get
together every first Wednesday of the month.
But yeah, that's happening up here in Portland too.
So if anybody wants to know about that or wants to DM me, I can send you the information.
It's on meetup.com.
The advice over there.
I'm trying to like get them to like do it, do an art show too at the same time.
I'm like, can we, can we like, I'm like, can we make this an NFT show too, please?
Yeah, do it.
Well, yeah, I appreciate you being here and all the things that you're doing, Chaz.
Uh, all right, ladies and degenerates, uh, we, we've got just a couple more minutes here
before we play some music and, uh, head on out of here.
This is the last show of the week, but we will of course be back Monday with more GM Web
three and probably some NFT live as well.
Like we do again, if you haven't followed web three, if you haven't followed myself
with these amazing co-hosts and contributors up here, go ahead and do that.
You won't regret it.
These are some of the coolest, dopest people in all of web three.
And, uh, again, we couldn't do the show without them.
All right.
Congratulations on all your hard work.
Oh, there's nothing to laugh at.
So thank you for always providing.
Hey, shout out.
Heck yeah.
Hey guys, I want to shout.
Hey guys, I want to shout out for 200.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Quasar, Quasar, Quasar, Quasar.
Hold on.
Let Mo's finish and then let's, let's get you in here.
Go ahead, Mo.
I was just saying, I was just saying thank you.
That's it.
I'm, I kind of made fun of you for, for the news always being a little bit late.
You're awesome.
So thank you.
You're, you're cutting out pretty bad as you're traveling right now, Mo, but I, I got
the, the gist of the sentiment there and I really, really appreciate you.
Again, would not be here without you.
So, uh, much love to you.
All right, Quasar.
Sorry.
I just wanted to make sure we went, uh, talking over Mo there, but go ahead.
Okay.
Sorry about that.
I just wanted to shout out because this is episode 200 that four of my favorite, five
of my favorite artists are in the room as well.
Just wanted to shout out Jeff Jag, uh, Chaz Gold, Sabet, and Cake Nygaard in the room.
Uh, so you got legends for, you got, and, you know, legends in the room for episode 200.
So I just wanted to give the legends a shout out, bro.
Hell yeah.
Love it.
Shout out to all those people, especially Cake Nygaard.
Fucking love that dude.
Uh, anyway, give them a follow.
And Quantum Vaint.
If I didn't say Quantum Vaint.
And Quantum Vaint.
And, and Mo Runda.
And you, Sir Quasar, also a special person.
Anyway, we don't have to totally devolve into a love fest here.
I did have, uh, you know, one or two other headlines that I wanted to hit here.
So let's, let's try our best not to just turn into a, into a puddle of, of, uh, of,
you know, mucky softness up here and, uh, just love juice, even though that's kind
of where, where I, I feel like I want to go anyway.
But no, let's, let's try and hit one or two quick headlines and then we're going to pop
out of here.
Um, really appreciate everyone joining us today.
All right.
This is, this is an interesting one that I had not read into yet, but apparently has been
breaking in the last 24 to 48 hours.
Truth Labs pioneering collaborative IP lines licensing in the NFT space.
Uh, so this is obviously, you know, relevant to the conversation we've had here today about
Oniforce and where IP is going.
IP really is one of the biggest, uh, you know, possibilities, utilities, uh, you know, what,
what is NFT, what, what is NFT technology empowering?
One of the key things that it is empowering is developing IP in new unique ways, new different
business models around IP, um, and really innovating, uh, where IP has been.
So here, here's some updates on, on that front.
NFT IPs are a subject of debate and addressing the IP dilemma.
Truth Labs has, has taken a novel route.
It's decided to provide each holder of the 187 collection NFTs with bespoke contracts.
Moreover, this move potentially sidesteps regulatory issues while also maximizing the value for the
holders.
So what is the Truth Labs NFT IP deal?
Truth Labs has already struck two unique deals with holders.
The first involves King Kong who has become an official partner of the Goblin Town collection.
So official Goblin Town collection partner now.
As per the terms of this partnership, he will earn 1% royalty from both past and future sales.
That's pretty, that's pretty awesome, uh, for, for a collection that has a ton of volume
like Goblin Town does to be basically sharing in all of the royalties.
That's definitely a unique new model.
So that guarantees them a payout of, you know, maybe 40 to 50 ETH already.
Uh, the second unique contract has been negotiated with Ding Dong.
Love these, love these, these names.
We got King Kong and Ding Dong here.
All right.
Second unique contract has been negotiated with Ding Dong.
It focuses on production of real life merchandise inspired by her NFT, the wall dragon.
Further in this arrangement, Ding Dong is described as an equal partner, quote unquote, equal partner
in the revenue generated from the merchandise sales.
As the NFT market grapples with uncertainty, the question of the value and utility of owning
an NFT becomes more pertinent.
Some like pudgy penguins have successfully leveraged the IP of their projects, striking licensing
deals for physical toys and children's books.
NFT collection, Deadfellas, which we know and love, uh, full transparency.
I have quite a few of, and I'm maybe going to sweep the floor, uh, has adopted a similar
strategy.
Deadfellas has adopted a similar strategy, partnering with organizations like the Chicago Bulls,
DraftKings, and Wrangler so far to name a few.
Uh, so there's a lot of other models that we could get into here, but I think that this
is fascinating and again, very pertinent to this OnlyForce conversation.
I have to say, uh, you know, in retrospect to talking with Star Lordy, with seeing their
presentation at NFT LA, this is one of the things that I'm most bullish on is how they
are empowering the community to develop the IP and be rewarded and even profit from the
IP alongside, uh, the project in general.
Um, so I, I'm, I'm very, very bullish on that and excited about it.
Um, I actually would love to become a Ronan.
Art Snitch, are you officially a Ronan?
Did I see that in one of these pinned announcements?
I am.
Bro.
Well, congrats to you, bro.
That's, you know what?
We're celebrating episode 200, but that's, we're celebrating too, man.
Well, it needs to be cut off though.
He needs, like, he has too many grails.
It's like, Art Snitch pisses me off every time I go and I look at, like, his portfolio.
I just get fumingly mad at, like, how good his grails are.
How many do you have now?
I mean, you know, how many, uh, type ones?
See, like, he has the category, like, he has enough to draw on that.
Well, so Art Snitch, I mean, since you're a Ronan now and, and, you know, you're all about
empowering and giving back to the community and developing it, when are you going to give,
give away one of your grails to the Oniforce community, I feel like that's just, you know,
what a Ronan should do.
A good Ronan, at least.
You know, that wasn't in the, uh, in the bylaws of being a Ronan.
I don't know where, I mean, if I missed it?
We can update that.
Quick vote.
Quick, quick vote.
Yeah, this is, this is, this show runs on a, on a DAO governance model.
And since you're up here on stage, you are beholden to whatever, uh, we vote on up here.
Uh, so let us know in, in the comments over there, should Art Snitch give away one of his
Oniforce grails right now on this stage?
Let us know what you think.
And depending on what you say and what you vote, he's, he's going to have to do it.
He's absolutely, uh, yeah, he, he has to, there's, it's a binding agreement.
You should clarify, we're clarifying for the government.
It is not actually a DAO.
I just want you all to know that.
Yeah, because they're listening.
That's true.
Yeah, no, good, good point.
They're definitely listening.
And yeah, Art Snitch is like going to just like leave the room.
He's like, fuck y'all.
I'm done.
Breaking up.
I'm not sure.
Yeah.
Cutting out.
I'm driving to VCon.
I can't hear you.
Uh, yeah, no.
Uh, but Art Snitch, it is, it is a big deal.
Congratulations to you.
What does it mean to you to be a Ronan?
Or like, what are you expecting to get out of it?
Or give, like, what's your, going to be your focus?
Like what kind of Ronan are you going to be, Art Snitch?
I mean, I'm, I've got actually very specific roles, uh, with my Ronan duty.
So there's a couple of things that I'm focused on.
One of them is I'm, I'm, I'm helping star with, you know, kind of manage a lot of the
next requests for the Ronans, the artist, Red and Sea, you know, all of those, you know,
the, the Oni clubs and things like that.
So I'm working with them on helping organize that.
I'm also working with him on a lot of partnerships, uh, that come from my community outside of
web three, uh, being in LA and being here working for a long time.
There's a lot of opportunities.
And then I'm also just, you know, overall helping with partnerships in general, uh, as they kind
of come through the door and some of the future things that we're working on.
So it's pretty cool.
I got to say it's, it's, uh, it's a, it's a big honor.
Yeah, man.
Let's talk about that.
I want to see how I get involved.
Um, I'm very, very excited for you and excited for everything OniForce.
Um, all right.
Mo Runda, Quasar, Chazgold, NFTs, Art Snitch, any last thoughts or any last stories that you
think we should hit on before we wrap up this episode 200?
I'm just happy to see James's pompadour back, bro.
So, so I'm happy to see that he switched back to his, uh, his OniForce because, you know,
you lose the blue, you lost, how long did it take for you to lose the blue check and
then get the blue check back, bro?
Well, you know, it's, I don't even care about the blue check.
I just wanted it to be, allow me to change my PFP back.
Two different times this year, I've changed it for a reason that I was working on a project
and, you know, it made sense to change it for like a couple of spaces.
And then they just rubbed me and wouldn't let me change it back for like two months.
This one was only like three or four weeks, so that was good.
Now I'm just afraid to change it at all.
And I don't think I'll ever change it just for that reason because damn Twitter.
That's where I'm at too, but I'm super happy to see that it's back.
So much love, bro.
You too, man.
I have, I have an announcement, of course.
I have a new drop coming on Foundation called the, uh, the Journeyers on the 20th.
And anybody that's ever collected from me on Foundation is on the allow list for the first 24 hours to get there so early.
And then after that goes to a public sale, it's going to be .013 ETH and it's going to be 33 pieces in there.
Amazing.
There's going to be three, um, specially animated, uh, uh, what you call it, um, and 3D style, um, pieces in there with their, with audio and music on them, like buried within the 33.
So three people will, somebody will get all three of those or one person or something.
I don't know.
Heck yeah.
I'd love to hear it.
Go ahead, Mo.
Thanks, Taz.
Uh, I think you should see your soulmate down there who also has a really cool Oni named, uh, Gun.
Did you read his bio?
Because it's basically you.
Wait, Gun?
Does fitness, eats food, loses money.
Wow.
Wow.
I feel attacked, but probably accurate.
Uh, anyway, ladies and gents.
All right.
This has been an awesome 200th episode.
Shout out Star Woody.
Shout out the Enclave, all of the amazing Oni Force fam, and all, you know, everybody that stopped through.
I see you, Subet, Crypto Jeweler, Flipakadabra, Phil G, Ronan, all y'all, Ashira.
I'm not going to go through everybody, but we appreciate y'all hanging out with us for this very, very special 200th episode.
Uh, I've been gifted.
Y'all have been absolutely freaking amazing.
We're going to go out with some music here.
And again, we'll, we will be back Monday, uh, which is Bitcoin pizza day, by the way.
We'll be back Monday with more GM Web 3 and NFT live.
No NFT live today.
Uh, but yeah, big love to you all.
Hope you have a beautiful day, beautiful weekend.
If you haven't followed Web 3, do that and follow myself as well.
All right.
Without further ado, this song is called Legend Has It by Run The Jewels.
Let's heck and go.
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Smoking my brain in a mush
I became famous for flaming you fuck
Maming my way through the brush
There was no training or taming of me and my bra
Live like a man but I'm animal wrong
We are the murderers there
Dead with the jail and we murdered the murderers there
Then with the hell and discovered the devil
Delivered some hurting despair
You stay a pile of the push
Now I smoke piles of the push
Holy I'm burning the bush
Now I give a fuck about none of this shit
Two runner over and out of this bitch
Stepping to the spotlight
Copping my bumpers and downers get done
I'm in a rush to be numb
Dropping a thousand ain't much
Come from the clouds on the mist
So the turn is so down in the dust
Don't make a sound baby hush
I aim the living swipe right on the mic
I'm a slut
I don't know how to not spit like a laugh
I feel it proud of my kids on your couch
Half of a Mongolian mystical team
Dealing this treacherous thing
Legend says hell is a spun out of hell
The myth is my mama's a murderous queen
Your life can end like a godfather once
You get the gun as I christen my son
If I got a day in this hell I should pay
Tell the Lord Mikey said fuck it was fun
Every new record's my chicken apart
We get a doozy, them wool is a lot
You're getting used to me, don't win no wrong
I don't play chicken, you prick, I'm a fox
You wanna kick it, I'll give you the rock
You kiss the woodchip or blade if you park
I'm fucking magic and flack, I'm a warlock and talk
I got a unicorn hard work
Stop
Step into the spotlight
In the crowd goes
In the crowd goes
And the crowd goes
And the crowd goes
I'm DJ
I'm DJ
I'm DJ
I'm DJ
I'm DJ
I'm DJ
Mike
Mike
Mike
You can speak
We move along the ones you think of me
You think I'm lying, you ricing my teeth
Don't be a ball when I'm wrong if I move
Nothing's no fun when your prey doesn't move
I put a gun to a bunny like truth
Say something funny, a bunny go boom
You gotta bury your shit you can groom
We like to thank you for choosing our crew
And that's from the crew you can trust
Warranty plugs for fucking shit up
We are the no-gooders, do-gooders, don't know the dancers and dealers and doers of duh
Thank you
