GMG, GMG, whatever suffix you want to attach to the end of that, let her how is everybody doing? Nick, I'm glad to have you on board as I speak to already. It's going pretty well so far. There's no crisis like I always encounter in a Twitter space. How are you doing, man?
Are you talking to me? You just say Nick or Nate. No, I said next. That's my English accent. Yeah, living the dream, just cranking away, coding and, and tweet storming and, and moving and shaking and getting ready to get on a plane to, uh, to eat Denver.
Wow, you're going early, right? Or is that in a couple of weeks time? Potentially going earlier. We're not 100% sure. So we're definitely going to go super early. I'll be at you Denver around the 20 in 25th. So we're there for the long haul. Brilliant. Okay. Awesome.
Look, we've got a ton of speakers on today. We're going to get them both. We're going to get everyone involved and then we're going to dive into all things mint based, everything surrounding it, we've planned out for each Denver and so much more. I am so excited for this event is the biggest one on the
calendar, certainly in the first quarter of the year until we swing around to near Con letter on, but we'll put a pin in that because I don't want to get myself too excited. So, Neck, why don't you give us a quick overview who else will be joining us today? What we're going to talk about, what we're going to crack on with, and we'll get
people up and then we'll get started. Yeah, sounds good. This is a nice switch when we're going to start talking less about mint base and more about the people building off of mint base and all the projects that are coming out of it. So this is the fun part after four years of grinding away.
So I sense big invites to those who I know are going to be speaking here. If you guys want to go ahead and accept that, that would be awesome. I understand that Twitter space is still at least in my experience.
a goddamn pan in the arse to get everything open running. But we do have one speaker on. We have LIBOR from Nifty Ren. How are you doing? Hello. Are you? Cool. Thank you.
I'm very good man, I'm very good. Thank you so much for joining us. I've sent out invite builders. If you can't get them on board, we will work it out as we go. So, Nick, let's kick it off then. While I'll show the number one speaker on here right now, why don't you tell us a little bit more
about what you guys are doing at MidBiz. I know I've seen a lot of those tweet storms that you mentioned about the MidBiz grants program, which is of course powered by the Neo 5D. I would love to hear a little bit more about that. I'm sure I'll listen to this one as well. Yeah. It has been a mission. We've never run a grants program before.
All of a sudden just launching into it and trying to do it the best you can. You get the right applications, figure out how to fund people, how to do the applications, how to transparent can we be, how do we tranche all the folks, what kind of information do we need. Running a grants program is not an easy task.
or some legal and compliance stuff on top of that, it's fun. But I feel like looking back on the last, I don't know, ever since we sort of suggested the idea that was over a year and a half in August of 2021 and now we've actually received the funds in August of this year or of 2020.
2022 and then accepted applications and got everything out by I want to say November so we are pretty fresh everything is as transparent as we possibly can be all the applications are up on GitHub our grants mint based grants dot near is easily trackable on near
on the explorers, you can see where all the funds are going. I'm actually extremely proud of where we're at and how we're doing. I wish I had a little bit more time to help all of our grantees a little bit more, which I think I'm going to start shifting a little bit more focus on for 2023, but we're getting there.
>> Really meant that. This is probably going to be a difficult question for you, right? Because it's going to be like, which kid do you love more? But is there any particular grantee that came through the pipeline that you're particularly excited about? >> All the folks are bringing something different. So today we're highlighting our four grants
I'm excited about what they're doing.
is that Lennara at Kutu. Essentially if you have multiple different owners or mentors on a store, you can send funds into a single account and that will just automatically split into multiple accounts. There's just loads of use cases there. Nifty Rent is a fascinating way to do rental agreements and
contracts. I could even use it with Nix system, a royalty split system potentially loaning out maybe some content. You have the rights for X amount of time, but then if Nick wants that image back, who knows? And then Vlad at Rakito, also fascinating. These aren't just mint paid