All right, all right. Hello, everyone. Can you hear me?
Loud and clear. All right. Great. So I see tell up on the speakers arey and the search for the salsa delo accounts.
Yeah, that's me on a different device. I just put it up here for ease of access for anyone that maybe unfamiliar with salsa. I thought it'd be good. Oh, yeah.
Alright, so I see people are already joining. So I suppose we can start right away. Let me apologize in advance for my low energy and my voice because I had the flu couldn't avoid it.
But I think we will be fine during the show. So hello everyone, welcome to another episode of Tuesday, Thursday. I'm Kryptonio from Tezos Comments and I'm your host for this Twitter space. For today's show we have with us Ari, the founder
of Genius Contracts in South of the Dau and Dr. Tao Tao, who is an ambassador in the de facto community manager of South of the Dau. Guys, welcome and thank you for being here. Tao, tell me if I pronounced your name correctly as well.
You did, you know, I accept two pronunciations, Tao and Tao. So Tao, Tao, Tao, Tao, you're all good. All right, all right, good, good, good. So we have so many things to cover today. I personally want to know all about sauce, the Dow, spices, swap, matter of defi and the upcoming are there.
of course. But before we get into all the salsa dao products, I would like to know a little bit more about you guys. I really start with you. I remember you single-handedly building products like the Tacoynefty platform that gave us the famous Taco Wars, you built the Dex farms and so much more that we will discuss today.
But how did you start with all that? Give us your backstory of how you found yourself on Teso's, how you took the decision to actively build on it. Okay, yeah, hey guys, this is already speaking. I'm on my founder job account. I have a few different accounts. I am the founder of the
We've had a lot of events and stories and things over the past 1.5 years.
five years. But you know, it's been a while since I started. I would say, you know, I got my start as a baker. You know, not really doing any smart contract work just yet because I was actually doing things at my job. So, you know, I just got more into it, more into it, and I saw some cool things
that were being done on Ethereum and I was getting more interested in smart contracts and you know I didn't really want to do it on Ethereum I never had the spark but Tezos like the combination of the community and like the tech which I could really see that was kind of like years ahead of some of this other technology out there and the way it
can upgrade is kind of a key to everything for me personally. So yeah, I was told about Tezos for my friend and partner at Genius Contracts who is D-Star. I'm not sure if he's on here right now. But yeah, I mean I got into it. I already said I was a baby.
And then started exploring smart contracts, started playing with NFTs, created some of the first on-chain NFTs and just doing innovative, just cutting edge stuff, just trying to break things really. And then came the real first project, which was the talkershop.
which is basically just a little NFT market kind of for some on-chain NFTs that we were playing around with and there were a fair few events kind of centered around that. And I was like the first, I would say like community event for Solsadow, but that is also before Solsadow actually existed.
I probably have like around 200 or 300 taco and if this I think version two in some of my wallets I mean from those early ones you had version one, version two right and then version three and we had all those
Yeah, version one and version two were donations for the Tezos blockchain because I there's still actually a few Thousand Tez locked in those contracts because I didn't put away for myself to extract it. So that's like a little funny Easter egg that's
Right, right. I do forever. Yeah. Until I can lobby the core devs to put in a patch to get that money out, which at some point I'm going to try. But for now, you can see it as like a relic of my mistakes making smart contracts almost two years ago. Right.
But yeah, if you have this time.