everyone. Here we'll get some opener music. So for those who are joining now today we are very excited to unveil perhaps the largest NFC
drop that we prefer to call a collectible set of pieces, on-lens protocol. We partnered with Refraction and Refraction.dow for this drop. Basically, Refraction has curated an incredible group of eight artists who are all passionate about Web 3.
and sort of the value emissions that align with lens. And today they are doing a drop on lens that you'll be seeing some tweets pinned in here about for how to participate. We're super excited. We'll leave it for another minute or two while people trickle in.
Alright, and it looks like the tweet is up. If we could get the James, you and mine pinning that tweet. We'll give it one more minute.
then we will get started. Okay, hello
Welcome, welcome. My name is Bradley Freeman. I am a senior growth manager at the AVE companies. I focus on growth for Lens Protocol. For those who don't know, Lens is an open social graph protocol. We give you the ability to custody your own social presence the same way you custody your
I'm very excited to welcome a few other speakers today from the Refraction team and some of the artists who are participating in Refraction's Artists Fellowship program. So without further ado, let me introduce our speakers and tell you a little bit about what to expect. We're going to keep it to a tight about 40 minutes and be out of here at about
We're going to introduce our speakers.
over the plan for the day. We'll hear from some of the artists and we'll go from there. So without further ado, I'd love to welcome Malcolm, Linda, Jimmy and Ellie to the stage. Malcolm, maybe you can introduce yourself and then we can hear from the artist then we'll go from there. Absolutely, Bradley. Thank you. We're so
excited for today to say the least. My name is Malcolm Levy. I am the founder of Refraction Dow as well as an artist and curator and Refraction is a Dow that's an artist run Dow. We have over 700 artists in the Dow and almost 2,000 members now. We do different work around the world.
events, drops, art projects, creative grants, editorial, all really focused around the future of Web 3 and how we see it. We love working with different partnerships like Lens and we're so excited for today I think especially around the idea of bringing in a new era of art drops in the
digital age and in the blockchain age. So it's incredible all the artists joining us today are all in the DAO. All the artists we work with are in the DAO and it's so important because it's not only artists run but it's artists owned which is obviously one of the most important aspects of Web3 as a whole. So thank you for having us here. It's super excited.
Awesome. And Malcolm, maybe you could tee up our guest artists today and then maybe they can each introduce themselves. Absolutely. So I mean.
We have three of the artists that are part of the drop today here. Jimmy Edgar, Ellie Pritz and Linda Dunia. It's super, super exciting to say the least.