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Awesome, how have you guys been? Good and you? I'm doing very well sir. Thank you sir.
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Okay guys, welcome to tonight's educational series. So everyone is here, we usually are
on the educational series on African space to discuss about DeFi, NFT, Web 3, blockchain
and any other trending concepts in the space. So tonight we have with us Luke and Hira.
Tonight we'll be discussing on how to get started in Web 3. So yeah, our hosts are closed for
tonight, very knowledgeable about Web 3, blockchain, NFT, DeFi, we can't name any concepts in the
industry. So yeah, let's get started guys. So yeah, Luke, could you please introduce yourself,
tell us a little bit about Web 1. Okay, hey guys, my name is Luke and I work for Stake or Die. We
are the 14th ranked validator on secret network and we also validate on a bunch of different
networks in the Cosmos ecosystem. We are also like the development team behind anons
and a bunch of different on chain NFT series and collections which you guys might know of.
I specifically work as a junior software engineer for the company and
Hira works alongside another of the company which him.
Hey Luke, nice to have you on our space. Looking forward to learn more from you in this space.
So Hira, can you hear me please introduce yourself, tell us a little bit about Web 1.
Sure. Hey everybody, thank you for inviting me. I don't know if I'm a Web 3 expert in terms of
everything but I've been very active in the space certainly in the last year. I have a long background
in genitive art that goes back almost 20 years in terms of the early days of action script and flash
and then early days of processing. So I got very involved in genitive art before there were NFTs,
before there was a Web 3 and I've been involved in, I've done some consulting in industry but
most of my work has been at the university. I've been a professor since the kind of mid-90s
in art departments and building mostly computational art programs around the country,
around the United States from the early days of Web 1 all the ways you know we're building
a grad program right now that's going to be more Web 3 focused and I work with one of Luke's
colleagues in a new platform on Tezos called Mprops.ai which is exploring long-form genitive AI
on the you know on the blockchain which I'd be happy to talk about that at some point too.
Yeah thank you very much. Well I'm looking forward to learning more about AI which is a
trending concept in Web 3 now. You know most blockchain they are not talking about AI it's
trying to integrate AI into the system. Well I look forward to learning more about what AI is
and how we could use it. So tonight's topic is about Web 3 and how to get started. So
the whole concept of Web 3, not everyone in this space are familiar with the word Web 3.
So what is Web 3 and how is it different from Web 2?
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I can hear you. Okay okay seems probably maybe Luke is having issue with his audio.
Okay if Luke is having issue with his audio probably. Ira can you answer the question?
So what is Web 3 and how is it different from Web 2?
Sure I'll give it a try and I think in some ways the differences are sometimes
overblown because we're still using a lot of the same technology but I guess some of the big ideas
are decentralization and we're building on a blockchain technology so we in an ideal world
we have more permissionless type systems where we have kind of validation verification that's
built into the actual system and potentially moving away from centralized power from individual
companies or individuals having too much control so in an ideal world it's really empowering
individuals and we're seeing that a lot especially in the NFT space where we have individuals
building sort of their own companies their brands around themselves in these platforms where
artists are collectors as well as creators so I think those are some of some of the ideas.
Yeah definitely Web 3 is you know often emphasized on decentralization
because people believe we should own our data we should be in control and you know lots of
narrative are also of 3 like some people just say like Web 3 is not fully decentralized it's
being extremely controlled by the government like it's not possible it's not possible for us to
achieve decentralization at this moment I've seen lots of arguments on the space about Web 3 not
being decentralized by some emphasizes on the decentralization of Web 3. So regarding Web 3
so what are the key technologies of protocol powering Web 3 like what are the concepts in
Web 3 because Web 3 is a big ecosystem and it features a lot of concepts different concepts
different protocols technology within Web 3. So can you tell us any of these new protocol
or any of these concepts in Web 3? I believe some of our listeners we love to know some of
these concepts in Web 3. Yeah I mean this would this is Ira but this would be a great question
for Luke because he's more dealing with the technology stack day to day than I am though
I have a background in programming but I'm not a blockchain programmer I don't write smart contracts
so I may not be the best person to talk about all that stuff. Okay we'll wait for Luke while he's
back to answer that question. Okay I believe so can you tell us a little bit about how you got into
the into the Web 3 space so we'd love to know how you got into the Web 3 space I become a an AI
thanks Krita. Yeah no I'd love to talk about that so I again I had been doing generative I
had been doing code art for many many years and never really thought there was a marketplace for
that kind of work I always had the benefit of being funded you know being having a sponsor of
a university so I would teach and earn my income that way and then I just mostly art I did was
experimental and I didn't really think so much about trying to support myself or generating much
income in the marketplace and one of the big problems of course was the inability to have
sort of like proven provenance or you know ownership that that what you created was the
original piece I mean things digitally can obviously be copied without without change so
we didn't have that kind of mechanism that that Web 3 and the blockchain enables where we can
you know write something onto the blockchain that gets validated and everybody sees the same
the same kind of transaction that happened so that was a game changer and so for me when
when I saw that there was a way to sort of bring all this background I had to that to the platform
I was I found it really exciting and the part that I didn't expect which has been even probably
more exciting was the incredible interest in the kind of expanding communities that there was
such interest in generative art and kind of code art because for many years it was just a pocket
of people at different parts of the spread around the globe but there wasn't sort of this this kind
of you know intense interest we're seeing now
well that was really good to hear you know a lot of people have a background on how they came to
the Web 3 space you know it's most people never thought yeah I could become a big team at this
moment because it was never thought of probably years four or three years ago you know
often these moments people are still wondering outcomes no one ever talked about AI for the past
two years outcomes it's now on AI started trending outcomes it's now people started emphasizing on AI
yeah but you know I've had several of whatever movies regarding AI but none of those
conceptors really come like not only we got charging between other AI programming language
which is now you know coming like coming coming now on board and lots of users are using it and
the most interesting things I would love to know more on this space is about how to you know
generate AI using AI image modeling using text before we get into that you know we have some
other topics to cover let's give it a moment to look and join us
okay so while we wait for look to join us let's take two minutes break
before look look uh look joins us so we're back in two minutes guys let's wait for two minutes
Okay guys, so welcome back to Luke, who will be joining us in a bit.
So before Luke join us, so there's a question I was hoping to ask Luke, and hoping to hear
So lots of people are new to this space, and lots of people want to learn how to start
a career in web3, or probably, how to focus on the niche in the web3 space, because it's
important for you to figure out a niche at which you want to go in this space.
And also, most people usually ask me, how do I start learning about web3, how do I start
learning about 3.5, and also, ask me some of the most popular web3 use cases and applications.
Well, Luke will be diving much more into that.
So before he joins us, I'm still going to share a little about how to start learning
You know, like, as you have seen earlier, web3 is more of a decentralization, it's about
But when it comes to the control, I don't believe we have contributed to accept this
Because I believe if you can control something, you should be able to determine whether to
make that in private or public.
If you are definitely in control, you should be able to determine whether the data, the
transaction, the assets, it means public or private, which is something with 3,000 of
But thanks to souvenir talk, we are making it possible for users to have control of the
data, the assets, and everything on the blockchain.
So yeah, for you to start learning about web3, start learning about this, please, you need
to probably, first of all, ask yourself the question, is web3 the new technology, or probably,
is it a pretty feature of the internet?
Okay, I think Luke is back online now.
I hope you guys can hear me loud and clear.
Okay, Luke is coming up now.
So learning about web3, there are lots of resources for you to learn about web3.
We have YouTube, we have Google, we have Research, we have Brave Plaza, and lots of other online
resources that you can learn about web3.
Also, we commend learning web3 from YouTube as well, and also from Medium, there are lots
of articles that explain in details what is web3, how web3 works, the use cases of web3,
and also some of the applications of web3, which I refer to as the app.
First of all, let me dive into how I started my career in web3, or probably, how I got
I am a graphics designer, then I got into the web3 space 2020.
So then, someone reached out to me, if I could design telegram stickers, then I never know
what web3 is, though I'm familiar with internet, I'm familiar with some of the trending technology,
but I don't really understand the concept of web3.
So then, I've been seeing Bitcoin, Ethereum, I've been seeing SRSP, and other coins and
tokens on the blockchain, but I don't really understand the concept, I don't really know
how it's functional, what are the use cases.
So someone asked me to design a pack of telegram stickers, then for a crypto community, I don't
really know if crypto communities do exist on telegram, I'm not very familiar with telegram,
So then, okay, I've never designed any stickers before, I was like, okay, since you're asking
to design a telegram sticker, and I'm a graphic designer, I believe I should be able to do
When I went to YouTube, I searched for different guides on how to create telegram stickers,
and also how to get unique stickers to create as well.
So with the app of YouTube, I was able to get different resources on how to create telegram
So I was able to design a collection of 20 telegram stickers, which was my first try,
and the community loved it, that was basically how I came to the web3 space.
But then I still didn't understand I was in the web3 space, I didn't know that, well,
the blockchain exists, I didn't know the blockchain exists there, I only know there's a concept
called crypto cooperation, altcoin, I never really understood, all these things worked.
So gradually I kept on learning, improving, going through YouTube videos, making research,
at the end of the day, I got to understand web3, I got to understand how crypto worked,
then I found out about security network.
So there's one thing that made me much more interested in security network, which is the
When I found out that in web3, on the blockchain, you could have control and ownership of your
data online, which means you can choose to share it to the public or choose to make it
remain private, which is something I value a lot, I really value privacy a lot.
So which is one of the reasons why I gave it all into security network, because I was
really interested in seeing that we could build a web3 with much more bigger privacy
space in the app as well.
Okay, I think Luke is having some difficulties in telling us, okay, let's give it a moment.
So, yeah, so I got to find out about security network, when they had an entire community
then which is now the African community, I got to learn more about privacy, I got to
learn more about the ecosystem at large, knowing the use cases and how it works.
So yeah, we have various ecosystem in web3 space, we have Solana, security network, Ethereum,
Cardano and various ecosystem in space.
Well look, we are having much more deep into that.
I think Luke is still having some issue connected to this space, but I think he will be here
So before he connects, I don't know if you could discuss more about NFT before Luke comes
Sure, I'm happy to try to do that.
So there's a bunch of different types of NFTs and many people are familiar with sort of
the ones that had a lot of press like Beeple's large kind of montage of a lot of his work,
I don't know about that because he sold it for 60 plus million dollars in auction and
then many people know about the Board Apeyot Club and CryptoPunk, some of these early projects
that were essentially generative JPEGs that were kind of a bunch of art was kind of put
together sort of randomly at minting and they ended up having rarities based on the combinations
of the different parts of art.
And then there's things like art blocks or FX hash which are generative projects which
are more really almost like you're buying software where the art is generated in real
It's not just a series of parts of a JPEG that are put together but rather the code
can be totally generative.
That's the space that I've mostly occupied in, I've participated in other than what's
And now we are seeing besides the sort of the traditional kind of generative JPEGs and
the tradition and the kind of generative art, we're seeing a lot more AI in NFTs and the
area that I'm most focused in because of this platform called MProps that I'm a co-founder
of is generative AI where we're actually writing code and using AI on the server to generate
work in real time like we were doing with sort of the non-AI type work which had never
So and again when you create your NFTs you as an individual have the ability to put them
up on a platform and set a price that you want to sell them for in the primary market
and you can also set a royalty percentage so that if somebody buys your work and then
eventually sells it you will continue to receive some royalties from the sale as long
as the platform honors that.
So that's another huge idea in NFTs that did not exist in the traditional art marketplace
like in the gallery world where once you sold your work you pretty much gave up all ownership
and rights to it and you just got the money that was during that first primary sale.
With NFTs now artists can benefit over you know theoretically the course of their lifetime
with their repeated sales and appreciation of the work of art.
It's a huge game-changing idea I think for artists but again it does need to be the platforms
that we use need to support that which is written in these smart contracts.
So AI made mission AI I think not everyone on this piece understand AI.
So basically what is AI and also what is AI text, what is text to image AI mode since
it's kind of different from the basic connect to know about.
Yeah so there's a couple different technologies and then there's a bunch of different platforms
and then some of the platforms present the same technology in different ways or they've
created kind of customized applications of the technology.
But the space that I'm occupying is mostly in what's called diffusion stable or latent
diffusion which is you can think of a way of understanding it as you take an image and
you add tons of noise so it gets very very blurry and then you slowly denoise it and bring
it back and then you have an AI that's been trained on literally billions of images so
it can start understanding how images are sort of put together and then there's words
that are connected to those images like alt tags on web pages.
So if you had a bird and there was a tag and then it said bird as the AI is studying that
image of a bird connected with the word bird and it may find five or a hundred million
birds and so it starts studying in a sense how are the pixels put together, how are the
edges defined, how do we transition across the surface of the bird and so when you then
use the AI and you put a text term in like bird it can actually generate a completely
unique randomized bird based on these principles of learning about what a bird is.
In the best sense the AI does not just give you back one of the birds in the database
but it actually synthesizes a completely original bird based on sort of the principles of how
these bird images were put together that it sort of studied.
There's also another popular system that's called GAN, these Adversarial Networks which
is just a different approach to doing the AI but most of it I think tends to fall into
those systems GAN or some type of diffusion and there's different ways of doing it.
You can, as was mentioned, you can just put a text prompt it's called, you could write
a series of words and it will try to generate an image based on that.
You can also begin with an image and some words and you can use the image almost as
a guide or a model and there's been a lot of, there's been a sort of a lot of advances
in that area where we can really control parts of the image or the outline of the image and
just change sort of the like the style or content.
So the coolest thing about AI right now in many ways is every week or two it's evolving,
getting faster, it's getting more sophisticated, there's more specialized kind of use cases
for it so it's a really fast part of what's going on in technology.
I think the connection to Web3 through NFTs, it started with just people, I shouldn't say
just but it started with people using the AI to generate images and then people minting
the images up on a platform so that people could buy these or mint the images back themselves
What we're doing, what we're trying to do with our group is actually take the generative
process that happens using these kind of AI platforms that aren't connected to the
blockchain and we're trying to connect that to the blockchain so that when people go and
mint off our platform they're getting an original work of art that's coming directly from the
AI engines but it's actually minted and aspects of this are written to the blockchain in terms
of the metadata like the information about it and the transaction when they actually
There's still lots of complexity about what gets put on the blockchain in terms of the
artwork itself or the supporting libraries, things like that, that's a whole other complicated
technical discussion but we have been successful in connecting the minting of NFTs with true
generative AI and again we're really excited because it's the first time this has been
done on the, we're using again mprops.ai as our platform if you want to take a look at
You know I would love to take a look at some of those platforms. Also what are those platforms
we could use to generate this AI model, image AI model? So what kind of platform can we
use to generate all these AI model ads? And also does this really require a smart contract
or probably any programming skills or basically it doesn't require any of it?
Yeah it doesn't, well it's a good question. So you can use these platforms, the most popular
ones are things like Dolly 2 or Mid-Journey or Dream Studio. So these are kind of web
hosted platforms. There's a couple organizations behind it that run these. They're sort of
free to get started with and then if you start producing a lot of work there's different
types of cost structures for using them. The work is just essentially created and then
you can do whatever you want with it. It's not connected directly to the blockchain.
So this is not really web3 technology as it connects to blockchain technology but that's
again that's what some of us are trying to do is to make that bridge. You can also, stability.ai
is one of the companies behind this. They're the company behind stable diffusion and a
bunch of other platforms and stability.ai made a decision to open source everything. So you can
actually kind of download their engine in a sense, their software and run it locally if your
machine supports it. It's fairly straightforward to do if you have basic skills. You don't need
to be a programmer or anything but you can run it locally and you have full rights to use these
images as you'd like. The other company like with DALI2 is a different way of doing things so it's
not, it hasn't been, I don't know if it's fully open source but so that's you know the different
approaches to doing this. Oh that's really great. I'm checking out that Hituna and also Mid Journey.
So but it said most of these, most of these are probably web2 companies. So for now we don't
have anywhere three projects working on this AI platform at the moment.
Well I didn't totally understand that question. Okay so it said Mid Journey and also the
DALI2 that these companies are web2 companies. So does that mean that for now we don't have
any web3 projects working on AI model image? Yeah so again that's what we're doing with
mprops.ai. So the challenge is that a lot of web3 is based on what happens in the browser
so if you're dealing with or it's the blockchain connecting to the blockchain but with with AI and
image generation that's where really I focus. It's not something that we can generate in
javascript right now in real time in the browser so we have to go to a server which again which is
you know that's not that different from other things but that bridge to the server and back
to the web page and connecting it to blockchain hasn't there hasn't been a lot of that development
done yet that's again what we pioneered we're sort of proud and excited that we did that
but yeah but web but AI by itself is not necessarily there's no real inherent connection
to the blockchain in terms of AI but again that's those bridges are still to be made.
Okay I hope this will be made as possible so because we want decentralized AI image platform.
Okay so so say like in mid-nation LIR so it's possible to have an LIR collection
using this text image AI model see it's not really possible.
Is it possible to have an NFT collection you said? Yeah using using text image AI.
Yeah I mean what you'd have to do if you if you don't use if you didn't use something like what
we built you would have to essentially generate these images either on their on the web platform
or on your own desktop and then just simply take the images and put them up into an NFT marketplace
you know put them up in OpenSea or object on Tezos or whatever and and then you could you could put
those up for people to mint and you certainly could do that it's not necessarily a generative
process in terms of that's integrated with the minting experience of the NFT experience but
it would it would still you know would be that different if you created an image in Photoshop
or you drew an image and took a photograph of it you would if you wanted to put that
into an NFT you would have to do the same thing. Okay well also do you do you need to obtain
license before making of any of these generated ads from AI or probably it's free to use since
we have to complain they are being controlled by a centralized organization so does it mean
that you have to obtain license or it's free to use and you can sell it as long as you have access
to the platform? That's a complicated question that I think is still going to be settled in
the courts for many years probably but there are some very well-known lawsuits now like between
Getty images and I think stability.ai because when when these databases of images we're talking
about billions of images when they were sort of swept off the web there was plenty of kind of
images that were swept that were just as long as they were public the the research group could
access that create this this lay on database it's based on and and then of course it all gets used
for training the AI and generally you're not going to get back the exact image that was that
it trained on but occasionally there are some edge cases where you can get an image that's sort of
close or even maybe even exact sometimes very rarely but it could happen so there is issues
about who you know if if there's some royalty or usage rights there that again I think is going to
have to be settled in the courts a very complicated complicated question obviously but with these
different platforms that again are run by either stability.ai or open.ai they have their own kind
of rules in terms of cost using their platforms and then many people have built off of these
platforms and there's additional costs so it's sort of the wild west but the most use the most
free use is to download stability.ai their stable diffusion to run it locally on your own machine
you would have no cost at all to use it and then you could do what you want with the images
uh knowing that there are these kind of lawsuits in the in the background but I again I don't know
how that would affect the individual user but um yeah that would be the way the most cost effective
way to get into this would be to run it locally. Okay sounds great thanks so much well I'm looking
forward to your workshop on Twitch uh in which we can put guys most of this uh stuff and see how it works
okay yeah so thanks so much we were so now we have look uh we have look online now so yeah welcome
back to look so now let's uh get back to the topic uh okay look some some people are just joining us
now so if you don't mind can we introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about your background
uh yes um sorry will you just uh mind muting yourself I can't hear myself over the music
thank you um hey everyone my name is Luke uh I am a software engineer that works for
stake or die we are one of the larger validators on secret network we're actually currently ranked
number 14 and we validate on a bunch of different networks and we are also very important builders
in this space we uh we are the development team behind some very important NFT projects
some of you guys know anons we were a very influential team in that we also work uh very
extensively with a bunch of a bunch of different collections and um yeah we are just a
uh a validation team that works in cosmos but we are currently branching out to uh
different ecosystems with different like segments of the business uh so yeah
all right thanks very much Luke okay so Luke tell us how did he got into the web3 space
how did he begin your journey in web3 how did you study learning about web3 and get to city space
so because I believe a lot of people love to know how you got to the space
okay um so essentially the way I got started in the space was uh I started hearing about web3
I would say about two years at uh two years ago and I just started like joining a bunch of
discords uh and like trying to learn about the technology because like I had no idea what it was
I just heard about it the one day and then started learning into uh into the segment of web3
so what I personally did is I uh I come from a technical background I'm a developer I went to
university for software engineering so I thought that I could use those skills to help me break
into web3 so I started learning a bunch of different frameworks and libraries uh to actually
release content on web3 or in web3 ecosystems I actually joined a hackathon um it's actually
just about a year ago at this point there was a hackathon that was being hosted by stake or die
they created a framework known as grip tape JS it allowed me to uh to build like a very nice
dap that uh was just like a basic auction site I only heard about it like 10 days before the
hackathon ended it was a month-long hackathon so uh even though I only heard about it at that time
like I just started working towards finishing the project and like trying to do as much possible
and uh it actually led to me like gaining contact with um sandy he's actually one of the
members in the the space now uh where he and another member of the team called Louise uh
like took me under their wing and uh helped me like get started in web3 they run the validator
stake or die uh before I joined and then they just like really helped me the thing that a lot
of people uh should really look into doing is just like exploring the space join a bunch of
those scores try to attend all of the events that you can attend all of the hackathons that you can
uh and just like try to make connections inside the actual ecosystem and then just kind of grow
your way from there man now that was an awesome awesome story you know I've asked you about other
days to join in web3 due to uh using hackathon through the miss over hackathon which is really
great yeah story is really inspiring being able to catch up 10 days before the end of your hackathon
and also beauty the app that is really fascinating so now let's talk about career opportunities in
web3 and how people can get jobs in web3 because I believe you got your first web3 job
two years ago and I believe some people here would also are also looking forward to get started
web3 secure our first job in web3 so let's talk about the career opportunities in web3 what
career opportunities do you have in web3 or probably what are the skills needed to uh begin
your career in web3 um this actually very uh very much depends from person to person
the thing where you should actually start is you should ask yourself what skills do you like
currently have and where would they be useful in web3 so let's take for example if you release
an nft collection it's not there are a bunch of different aspects that go into this nft collection
you could be an artist which actually makes the art for the nft you could be uh one of the smart
contract developers that help build the actual back end the the end of the application that
will actually work with the blockchain if you uh know javascript and html you could be a front
end engineer so you could like build the website that the the company then uses to sell that said
nft collection so uh like it's very important to uh think about what skills you currently have
if it's like management or if you have any like business skills financial skills management skills
or any related skills like that uh all of them are very important for web3 and like they all come
together to make like this entire uh ecosystem there's not like any set way that you can get
started uh it's just um depending from person to person
so yeah i believe you guys are at look so it depends on person to person for you to start a
career web3 so you need to figure out what are your skills and you know if you are if you are
good at javascript or you know this programming language issue probably focus on building the app
or supporting the the app on when it comes to technical issues if you are good at uh arts you
should focus on nft and also if you are good at managing things you can also pick the career
opportunity in community management we have you know we have different uh different career
opportunities in web3 so for you to look out for all skills you have already and look forward to
build on those skills to begin your career in web3 so also let's you know uh talk about nfc's
so which is one of the major topic for tonight as well so let's dive into nfc's and creator
so uh look can you tell us what are nfc's and how can you use our own nfc collections and also
become web3 artists okay um so nft's stand for non-fungible tokens uh to understand kind of what
that means uh we first have to talk about what fungible means so let's say for example all of
you guys uh when you work with your local currency be that uh like a nira or a dollar or something
like that uh one dollar is exactly the same as another dollar or one nira is exactly the
same as another nira they are infinitely fungible which means that they are all exactly the same
non-fungible tokens uh aren't the same so this is for example let's say that you have a painting
that painting is non-fungible because there isn't another painting exactly like that painting so
this is uh like one of the most important things about nfts um because it allows us to take any
like real world object for example uh we could use stuff like shoes or sneeze or hoodies or shirts
or tickets to concerts we can take these items and then upload them to the blockchain
uh and make them a nft so then i could get sent a nft as a ticket for example and then
i would never have to actually have the real ticket because i have the proof that that ticket
is mine um one way where uh nfts can really like or something that is very similar to nfts is if any
of you guys have ever heard of like collecting trading cards that is like a very similar concept
to nfts where you have uh these different trading cards be it like pokemon or yugioh or something
and all of these cards that they have are unique like they have different monsters with different
statistics uh on the front and nfts are very similar to that except that they are fully digital
and the ownership is like uh like you can track back the ownership from the invention of the nft
all the way through everyone that's ever sold it uh we can track that not on all blockchains but
on most blockchains um so this allows us as i was uh talking about earlier to also set
uh permanent royalties so usually when artists sell their artwork they can only sell it once
but uh with the power of blockchain we can have a perpetual
royalty that gets paid to our account every time that gets sold on the secondary market which is
very powerful it allows people to like build income without having to constantly uh create
and sell nfts you know the time will uh make them more valuable and all of the sales will generate
you a bit of income as well uh nft collections is just like a group of nfts uh like i was
mentioning earlier like yugioh cards or something it would be like one set of yugioh cards could be
one nft collection um those nft collections nowadays could be uh you could place any type of
content there you could uh create nft videos nft pictures nft profile pictures nft music if you
wanted to uh or even like nft games if that was something that you would be interested so there's
like a lot of different uh different ways that we could actually leverage nfts to give ourselves
permanent royalty and permanent like ownership of the intellectual property that we create which is
very powerful especially for people in like less developed countries because a lot of times
it's a it's a lot more difficult to actually verify stuff in countries in africa for example
like i know there's like a big problem with university degrees that get falsified if
uh universities use nfts to like verify your your passing papers or your marks at the end of your
degree then it would very much make it uh like a very easy to verify and uh much more secure
uh assets in that in that regard
and uh thanks so much look for giving us a total bring down nft
uh nft collations works and also how to become an nft creator well can you please you know give
us much more details on how to become a repreative when it comes to nft creators i believe uh some
people are interested in that uh which is how we utilizing the text to image ai model as well
in our next workshop series so uh can you give us more details about that and also uh if you can
explain how can people all have wizards which people can use nfc in new world as well i know
you spoke about nfts uh using certificates your institutional certificates which are always uh
can people use anything you want um how can they become a repreative
okay um so other use cases for nfts uh stuff like ticketing could be used uh let's say for example
you have a concert that you're going to uh you could handle all of the nfts as tickets you could
also like sell merchandise uh beforehand um we actually worked with a collection called virl which
um which kind of goes with the concept of like having merch that we then sell as nfts and then
whoever buys the nft gets sent the merch um so that's another way that you can like
create like a real one-to-one connection with your audience um as an artist uh but also nfts
could have a whole bunch of different use cases let's say for example you'd want to make like a
a university club or a club amongst your peers what you could do is you could have like a uh
you could have a proof of membership nft so then you could have like a chat application where only
members with that nft have access to like send and read messages we could also use nfts uh in
different use cases so let's say for example in south africa we recently uh like passed the law
where all digital assets um are like real financial assets for south africa so i could uh
have a nft that i sell as a token for a shop and then anyone can buy anything in the store and
then i i will charge them x amount of nfts for them to like that they have to meant to to get
what they are looking for um another use case of nft is um more like okay wait no sorry um oh i'm
getting off track so uh a way that someone can become a nft artist and create like an nft collection
is if you go to an nft marketplace every ecosystem uh should have their own specific
marketplace for example if you're looking to develop on ethereum then you will use a marketplace
called open sea but if you want to sell nfts on secret network you go to a marketplace called
stash and these marketplaces allow you to create a profile with that is linked to your blockchain
wallet and then you upload a set asset that you want to use so let's say beforehand if
we generated a hundred pictures we could make a hundred special nfts where every nft we upload
the one picture that we want to use for it and then we like just fill in all of the information
that goes along with the nft so it's like its name the addition number the amount of nfts that are
made the amount that they will sell for all of this can be achieved if you already have the
asset a digital asset in future workshops we will actually be going through like how we will generate
and make and collect these assets to actually get started with minting but essentially there are
text to image ai models which take we call them prompts but it's basically like text that you put
into the model so you would say for example a man looking out into a field and through the ai model
being trained through all of the different pictures on the internet which is how most
large ai models get trained they know what those specific words mean so it will know
what a man is it'll know what a field is and it will know what it means if you say looks out
toward a field you know so if you say that statement for example you'll you'll generate
a pretty basic image but we can like we can specify the image we want to generate to a very
very great degree so for example you could say i want to see a man that is wearing a black pants
standing in the middle of a red field with stars above him and then the ai model will
know what we're talking about and generate an image that matches that description
well that's really awesome so the more details you are when it comes to this ai image the more
details you are the more you need to generate the kind of art you want so basically let's assume i
need uh an art that symbolize identity identity is a mystery so after some kind of details okay
probably uh i mean a dark cave like you must stand in in a dark cave and also demand is only
some kind of uh weapon to protect himself or something like that you know so probably the
more details you are the more you're able to generate the perfect art so basically it does
how it works right yes yes that is exactly how it works great okay so what are the tools that
needed for generating uh this image ai model so what are the tools that are needed to generate
this um except from you know having the kind of description you need so what other tools do you
need um well it depends where you uh access your model if you are self-hosting the model you would
need a pc which is pretty powerful which has a gpu code or a graphics code um which it is then
like an application that you run so if you've ever run like twitter on your uh on your computer it
works kind of exactly the same way um where it's just like an application that you run and um
then you just send it the the inputs when you start it or it has like a web ui where you interact
with with the technology um but if most most people won't be able to do that uh simply because
graphics cards are very expensive and building like a very large-scale pc isn't always feasible
for everyone so you would have services so for example there's a service called um dream studio
which is like a website which you go to and then they have like a text space for you to enter your
text and then a button that says dream and the moment you press dream it will generate that image
so essentially all you would need is to just uh go to that website log in with your google
account for example and then you can start using or interacting with that model the only thing is
that they uh like they do charge you um so they will give you like a small amount of free credits
to work with most of the time and then they will charge you after that and then that's how they uh
like that's how a company could make money running these models if they aren't
ai artists but yeah uh that's how someone would actually work with and interact with this
technology you can then just download the pictures from the website uh similarly to what you would
any other picture yeah that sounds great okay so guys uh i believe you guys have really enjoyed
this piece and also i've gained a lot of knowledge from this piece so uh let's leave the room for
questions if you have any question regarding ai ai to image uh text to ai image model or probably
if there's any question regarding career opportunities in rep3 nft or also get resources in rep3
free resources to learn more about rep3 or any concepts in rep3 uh please feel free to request
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if you have any question regarding ai nft career opportunities or any question related to rep3
please feel free to ask let's wait for about two minutes if there's any question you can
you can raise your mic to ask request to speak to ask before the end of tonight's space
also we will be having a virtual workshop so in this virtual workshop we'll be 20 guys out to
build our nft collection from crash using ai model as well so you need to build a nft collection
so yeah now we are looking forward to that it's going to be a virtual workshop so show you guys
all you need to do and ai how to get it done so yeah please request to speak if you have any
okay i believe everyone really love this space and you understand everything that Luke said and
also Ira so uh let's in the round of the space so Ira is there anything you love to see about
ai or is there any something you love to give uh then look how to you know summarize the old space
before and tonight's space uh just thank you for including me and um i i like what Luke said about
just i think he had said it just just jumping in and learning all about this stuff just spend time
in the space it's um it's really interesting there's tons of interesting podcasts and
uh group people on youtube that go into all different aspects of crypto and blockchains
and nfts and um whether you make the nfts yourself it's just it's intellectually very
interesting space the economics are really interesting um so I just hope I hope people
just dive in and and you know just don't worry so much about being an expert right away just
have fun with the space thanks again for including me yeah it's my pleasure to have you on this space
Ira it's you know we love to have excellent speakers on our space to gain knowledge from them
uh we've gained a lot of knowledge from you in this space i will look forward to having you
on our frequent spaces as well and some of our workshop that we'll be organizing soon
so we have Ola Dapo here so Ola Dapo tell us what question you have
okay good evening sir can you hear me sir yeah we can hear you okay so actually I'm a crypto trader
just a normal trader and I'm trying to venture into web 3 environment ecosystem so I don't know
how to go about it so I am now thinking is there like I just know about uh basic things about
cryptocurrency just that alone so I want to fall down more like fall down more and I'm hearing
hi I'm not like new to hi to go I just I just don't know the path to good to true from the
that cryptocurrency trading that I'm that I'm already doing is there a way for me to like
venture or I also put that cryptocurrency trading outside the focus on joining web 3 that's my
question so look I think this question is for you yes sir um one thing that you could uh look into
there is a cosmos block a cosmos ecosystem blockchain which means uh it was built using
technology called the cosmos SDK um they are a EVM compatible chain which allow for
something called derivatives trading so uh for you as a trader you would be able to use their
platform and you would be able to sell uh digital assets which would usually be on different
blockchains um on this one blockchain so you could go in and you could sell bitcoin for ethereum
or any other established cryptocurrencies all of them should have a derivative on the chain which
has a equal value to that of uh the that asset in the real world so you could look into it's called
arable or uh horrible I'm not exactly sure I will post a link to it um as a comment to the space
in a while um where you can just go through and like learn how to trade on that platform and then
just kind of learn the technology behind that platform uh if you are more interested in to in
actually like working in the space than just uh being a trader then I would advise you to go to
a youtube channel called whiteboard crypto uh he explains a whole bunch of the concepts
very simply in uh in like a bunch of different analogies and then he also has animations that
uh like help explain the points as well so if you want to understand the core technology
then go check some videos of whiteboard crypto after that I would advise to just
all go head first into the ethereum ecosystem which is like a very popular ecosystem or you
could join the cosmos ecosystem where you just join one of the project's discords and then you
can just learn about the project learn about what makes them special what makes that crypto
worth investing in or with spending your time in and then uh like grow as part of the ecosystem
using your skills uh as you grow so let's say for example if you have any other skills
such as marketing you could very easily like become a discord moderator or something uh
do you like just get your foot in the door while you're still busy learning about more complex
topics so um if any what if anything that I said didn't make sense uh just let me know and then
I'll try to explain it to you in a different context so I'll ask a question do you fully
understand what you just explained are you actually getting cosmos ecosystem or something
you said cosmos ecosystem yeah cosmos ecosystem just go to google and search for
cosmos ecosystem or probably use pre-search so for those who are usually use browsers I will suggest
to use browser like browsers like brigade browsers or you can use uh pre-search it gets it gets uh
it gets rewards for you know making of these browsers there are three uh browsers um whenever
you use any of these browsers you get reward there are also several browsers you guys can try
out so instead of using your data to browse without getting reward you browse as to get reward
like for brief browsers whenever I browse using brief you get reward and it's also private as well
so uh also is there a last key you have a step from crypto 3d uh actually um i mean to uh
front-end development but I haven't mastered it enough to say I'm ready to become a weapon
developer okay look so is there anything you can do as a front-end developer okay so I can
clone a website very well with the help of CSS uh Java JavaScript and bootstrap with
uh some other things like that
so look is there anything you can do as a front-end developer directly
yes you can actually research something it is called that cosm wasm academy they have a course
that they go through and they teach you how to actually uh connect to the cosmos blockchain
they teach you how to get the data like the the wallets balance and how to actually interact
with smart contracts so you would very very easily if you know how to build con like if you
know how to build websites visually that will teach you how to actually build like the logic
of the website so like you wouldn't have to uh know how to do any of that they will explain
everything through the course and then you can just build a nice website around it and have like
a website that can be used to sell NFTs very soon a project like that could probably take
take a decent developers anything like a weekend maybe two weekends okay thank you
I will I sent sorry I sent a link as a uh as a comment or as a reply on the spaces twitter
so please check out the reply check out the link in reply uh section so uh
join academia as well okay someone else is requesting to speak
so uh sandy uh please ask a question welcome to tonight's space
sandy please uh i had to like download the app i can't do this to the website um hi everyone
thanks for letting me speak um one thing i wanted to say about uh luke had mentioned a
youtube channel that just uh whiteboard crypto i think he called it um i would just say that
throughout all of crypto and i think this is also common within traditional investing
most of the cons most of what's going on in my experience is uh sort of new vocabulary
uh so the concepts aren't that terribly difficult to understand but there's so
many and so many different words they use for it that it can be it can seem really difficult to
understand or really unapproachable so i think it's really helpful no matter what you want to
do in crypto to just focus on the basics like learn what you know on chain versus off chain means
uh learn you know uh like there's tons of different things like that um you know what
defi means what yield farming means what all these different sort of just buzzwords that you hear
they're not terribly complicated to learn but you have to learn them uh in order to sort of
really grasp what's going on in the space and in that process of doing that learning
opportunities i think will arise because you'll you'll follow them down into communities where
people are looking for for other people to get involved and it will really help so
um that would be my advice uh if it was me um yeah thank you very much and you guys are in
well devices that might sound complicated so you you just need to go to google search for that
or search for the word on youtube those words are not really complicated they are simple words
all you have to do is search for those words to know the meaning we have a concept on the
blockchain and they are not difficult to learn all you have to do is to search for it and they
get the full knowledge about these concepts thanks a lot sandy uh so facts mind facts mind
tell us what's the question here for us before we end off tonight's space
please on my way home kids are hearing noise of cars on the west
i do want to ask that um for a data science um data analysis or data scientists
like so i'm trying to go into machine learning on the west what spaces
we are following in the web 3 community
so look i hope you are the
yes um well sir you could actually become a blockchain analyst uh it's a career where
you would learn how to use something called a blockchain explorer which allows you to
actually read and see all of the data on the blockchain uh and then you would use this
information uh to uh you could all use it um to like track down people that uh have committed
crimes on the blockchain or you could use it uh to join a company and then tell them that you
could analyze all of the different um transactions that they could use or the transactions that they
made so that you could uh like give them a way to minimize the costs of storing the things on
blockchain or there are a whole bunch of different aspects like that that you could join one thing
that uh for you specifically i would mention to look into is uh a blockchain called a cache
or a cache um i'll share a link to it uh as a reply to the street as well um it's a basically
like a way that you could rent uh computer space so for data analysis if you ever want to like
uh you know analyze like a extreme amount of data like gigabytes or terabytes of data
you could rent these servers to uh to run all of the the detail on that server so that you don't
have to like rent a new server or you know like use aws or anything like that um so yeah for for
data scientists i would definitely recommend exploring blockchain explorers um i one thing
that i also did is i pasted a link uh as a reply which takes you to a glossary of all of the terms
that people use in web3 so if you go there it will explain to you uh in in like a more simple term
what i mean by a blockchain explorer or what on-chain or off-chain means uh as sandy was
alluding to earlier thanks so much look for the resources you're sharing to these guys
so uh also to add what to add to what looks it about data scientists or data analysts uh there
are some blockchain they would love to know the number of active wallets on the ecosystem to know
the number of transaction that are caused daily weekly monthly and most of these blockchain need
data analysts to analyze these transaction details the numbers of active wallets and also the numbers
of new and existing uh transaction on the ecosystem so definitely uh data analysts could be obvious to
search ecosystem so it depends on the ecosystem you are working with or the ecosystem you're
analyzing so first first off we need to figure out the kind of blockchain you want to work with
and also the uh text tag they're using in our blockchain because uh so when i blockchain when
it comes to the analysis analysis it's not as easy as with our blockchain same thing when it comes to
validating as well so i think i'm i think that's the piece i have to add to what looks it i hope i'm
way to look yes sir you are exactly correct all right thank you very much so guys uh thanks so
much uh speakers thanks so much for uh enjoying us on this educational space and also for sharing
a lot of knowledge to everyone on this space thanks so much guys for coming and thanks to
everyone who turned into tonight's space it's been an awesome space and i will look forward to having
more to more uh addictive workshop and spaces as well so next week whether is it i will be having a
live workshop on our discord server to teach you guys how to get started with uh text to ai
that's thanks to image ai mode so you guys get to learn how to build nfc even if it's for fun
or probably you want to say these nfc's or marketplaces or you just want to build this nfc for fun
uh it's something you can learn and make it over so it's really great you know uh it's good to
always explore the ecosystem to make research to gain knowledge and also uh to try new things
on the space because we are still in space and there's a lot of things to explore so yeah
uh free features play ecosystem free features play different concepts in the web here as well
so i will be sharing much more details regarding the workshop and also uh regarding our subsequent
educational series so thanks so much guys for tuning in for tuning in so look is there
no additional information or advice you'd love to share to the two uh to the people that are
tuning in before we end off tonight please um something that i wish someone shared with me
earlier in life and that is that we do not need to be perfect to be useful so even if you feel
um that you are not a perfect front-end developer or a perfect marketer or a perfect um
uh like a perfect analyst um these things shouldn't stop you you should still try and you
should get out there and you should rapidly try to build something and uh if you fail that's fine
failure is is is like part of growth um so just like try to expose yourself to the ecosystem
try to build something fail if you need to uh hopefully you don't and um yeah just put yourself
out there uh don't try to like think yourself out of of an opportunity in web 3 because you're too
scared to to do something thanks so much look so guys please don't be scared and don't feel like
you're not perfect just keep on pushing doing the right thing you just need to believe in yourself
because the more you believe in yourself the more you'll be able to do things so you don't have to
believe there is a limitation to what you can achieve there is only limitations to what you
can achieve there are you know thousands and millions of opportunities out there waiting for
you all you have to do is to reach out to this opportunity and grab these opportunities
so thanks so much look thanks so much era for coming to tonight's space thanks so much for
everyone who tune in do have a wonderful evening and if it's morning do have a wonderful day
thanks to everyone cheers guys
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