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Yakuesday! Builders Build
Recorded: Oct. 18, 2022 Duration: 2:12:33Space Recording
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All right, everyone.
Give it a couple minutes here to let people jump in, get our speakers up here.
And as always, we're going to get things kicked off with some intro music.
And last week, we had the beginning of the final chapter of Bleach, the thousand-year
Blood War arc for all of our anime fans out there.
So we're going to kick things off with an old-school Bleach tune here for everybody.
But I would expect you to die.
You've got to look at me.
My life didn't matter what you did to take.
After you out of your crying.
The relief was to be filled.
Now that you are ready,
I thought I would beacΔraise.
Don't you dare,
I'm too young.
No matter what you are.
I mean,
I've always been to this place.
Hmm, I'm so sorry.
Thank you so much for watching.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right, let's get things kicked off here.
Welcome, everybody.
Glad to have so many people tuning in so early.
If you have not been to a Yakuza day before, we like to kick things off.
Just starting a little bit about the market, how things are going out there, what the landscape looks like.
Give everyone time to jump in, and then we'll go around to all of our featured speakers
and learn a little bit more about what it is that they are working on.
So welcome, everyone.
As always, co-hosting, we've got the homie Danny Spain here.
What's up, Danny?
How you doing?
Yo, yo.
I'm in the car coming back from school, picking up my daughter.
I'm about to get ready to rock with you guys, but I'm still in the car.
Understandable.
Kids come first.
Being a parent is a big job.
You're literally responsible for the entire life of another human being.
So definitely focus on that right now, my man.
Love to hear it.
The scene right now in NFTs is a unique one, especially here on Solana.
So the big things today, I think, we have the beginning of the trading of Aptos, which everyone's
talking a lot about.
One thing that I was reading today that I'd love if anyone knows and can expound on a little
further, so there's some lockup periods for the early VCs and Aptos, which I think is
the big drawback people are seeing from it.
It's made by a team at Facebook.
There's a lot of VC money in it.
They're already up like 20x versus their buy-in immediately on list.
So the assumption is at some point, these VCs are likely to dump what they've got and take
some profits there.
But what I saw was that the staking emissions that these VC funds can earn through staking
their existing Aptos is actually liquid.
So they're not locked up with what they can earn from staking, which I think is really interesting.
So if anyone's got some more info on that, we'd love to hear it.
But Cha-Cha Vans, what do you think?
How are things looking for you guys in the market right now?
I know that you have been picking up a whole head of steam here recently.
What have you been seeing out there in the world of NFTs?
Yo, yo, yo.
What's up, guys?
This is Manchez coming to you from the road as well.
Quite on brand for me to be driving right now, I guess.
But yeah, I mean, I think right now we're seeing a pretty big meta shift with the whole
royalties thing going on.
And I think projects are starting to realize like, hey, you know, we can't rely on these
royalties for the rest of our lives.
So we have to start, you know, picking up some new revenue streams, start getting into
the metaverse.
And I think we're seeing a little bit of a meta shift, if I'm being honest, to gaming
NFTs and the metaverse, which is really exciting for both of our projects, I think, because one
of Cha-Cha Vans' big selling points that we've recently shifted to is offering services for
2D projects to turn their 2D PFPs into usable metaverse avatars.
We're developing a proprietary SDK that allows us to take these models that we make
and, you know, turn all, however big your supply is, into a usable avatar in the metaverse.
And, you know, we've been talking with Style and stuff, too.
You guys hooked us up with them, which is incredible.
And I think Yaku and Cha-Cha are on the forefront of some pretty amazing stuff right now as far
as gaming NFTs.
Because, yeah, like I said, I think the meta is shifting a little bit.
I don't know.
What do you have to say about that?
Yeah, I completely agree.
I think that as Web3 brands try to monetize their intellectual property, which for a lot
of them is sort of the biggest position that they can make with regards to revenue streams,
right?
If you're not building a game, if you're not necessarily building a tech company, which is
a whole other thing that's going on right now, is how many projects are positioning
themselves as SaaS companies.
And if you're not in that world and you're really trying to double down on your IP, I
think that it positions games and metaverses as a really, really great way to expand that
IP's footprint.
Because it just opens it up to more eyes.
It adds more use cases for your property that you're developing.
And we have seen a big uptick on our end of people actively reaching out to us with the
things that they're already developing or wanting to have conversations about starting
development.
Everything ranging from, as you guys have been working on with a couple of projects, the
development of 3D avatars to go with 2D art, or like what we have going on with people
like Stoned Ape Crew, creating storefronts and spaces for their communities within the
Yakuverse.
So I completely agree that this is really sort of catapulted the development of the metaverse
specifically with a lot of these different projects and companies that are out there
because they see it as a good opportunity to expand the brand and add some new revenue
streams.
We've also got IMZO requesting to speak.
Chris is about to really kick up the energy in this room immediately.
If you've not ever talked to Chris at IMZO before, you're going to want to nonstop after
he jumps in here.
What's up, Chris?
All that buildup I just gave him, and Manz is just...
Oh, dude, I just started...
I thought I heard you maybe...
I heard an S sound, and I was like, fuck, I wonder if he just said, what's up, Chris?
Nah, just let him go, because it was connecting me.
No, we built that, so I absolutely can take any 2D PFP collection and create a full generative
3D FBX rigged collection out of it.
We just did it for foxes and pandas and everybody else.
So, yeah, we did that.
It's very difficult.
You need to do it in JavaScript also, because you need it to be WebGL front-end.
That way, it's a tool that can be used by anyone, since all they need is a browser.
So that would be my recommendation.
Or you could just use our tool and not spend all those months and all that money.
Yakuverse, we're talking about lots of things.
You guys are amazing.
I mean, I think trade marketplaces and front-end marketplace white-label services are going to
be spinning up a dime a dozen because of the booth contracts and raindrop protocol.
I think when people understand NFT 2.0 technology, some of these talks and some of these things
that were going to be your game-changing utility, you'll realize, no, it's supposed to be general
utility kind of way.
When staking happened, everyone just was like, we're the kings because we offer staking.
And then every other project was like, well, we want to offer staking.
And now staking is just like a base utility that everyone offers, right?
So that's the same evolution we're seeing here.
This is why games will be the most profitable and the longest-standing meta and probably the
biggest onboarding tool because we can change games and adapt them and they can grow and
be monetized on infinitely.
We can easily build collaborations and partnerships with each other.
And those don't just require us to suck liquidity from each other's ecosystems.
We can actually provide new experiences and more tangible, personalized experiences for each
other's communities.
So the moment you start building the box, you're building a slow rug.
Yeah, it's been really exciting to see what you guys have got rocking over there.
Especially, I know, the last few days especially, we've really been more active in working with
the rigs that have been made for the Foxes.
And it's been really fun to sort of work through that process because we've been talking through
on the back end, us as well as several other projects at this point, what does that
interoperability look like?
Because it's really difficult, actually.
For people that are out there listening, if you're not really sure what that process looks
like, there are not only different code bases that experiences are built on, right?
We're talking about front-end WebGL stuff.
People are building Unity, Unreal Engine, all that.
But then even within these different specific environments that people are building in, you've
got different software to use for building the rigging, different software for textures,
for animations.
So it gets really complex and really difficult, even if it is...
Yeah, the first five sets of models were a fucking no-go.
And then this most recent one, we were like, okay, can we make it as stupid as possible
without making it useless?
And the answer was yes, but it was not...
Dude, I'm telling you, it's been so fucking hard, but now it's good.
Slowly but surely, we're all sort of getting on the same page, right?
It's going to take some time, but I think right now is a really pivotal moment where lots
of builders are collaborating on creating the easiest mechanisms to onboard all these
different communities into these different experiences.
And so six months from now, a year from now, there'll be a pretty standard procedure that
new builders can go through to have that true composability and have it be something that
doesn't take months of effort to roll out.
It'll take a couple of days.
Everyone will know what the process is like, what the standards are, and it'll really help
for that expansion.
And I'm very excited.
We've got a great lineup of guests here today.
So our featured guests we've got up here, we've got Style Protocol.
So if you guys have been paying attention to what we've been doing the past few days, they
are a partner of ours that is going to help our own composability cross-chain across experiences.
So they're working with us to develop our intellectual property within Decentraland, the sandbox we
posted today, and I'll go ahead and pin it up here at the top, our first sneak peek at
the Voxel Yakku X that's going to be available in the sandbox.
So we're super pumped to have them here.
We've got Baby Ape Social Club.
I have loved watching Baby Ape Social Club.
I remember when they came out, they were obscenely hyped.
And so I'm very excited to hear more about what they have got under development right
now.
We've also got Wise Whales that is going to be providing some unique tools and utilities
for traders to potentially take advantage of.
Glad to have those guys here.
And we've also got Human X.
And Human X is working on dynamic NFTs and a trade store, which has also been a big conversation
in the lexicon right now as a result of the release from Raindrop Protocols that is being
supported by Magic Eden.
Magic Eden is in a unique spot right now where people are really excited to be angry at those
guys.
And so sometimes there's an immediate sort of reaction anytime they sort of co-sign something.
But I think that I'm very excited to get into the conversation around dynamic NFTs, NFTs
that can be upgraded.
Because for us personally, that was something that was originally on our roadmap from the get
go is when you're in the metaverse, you should be able to alter your NFT to align with your
interests to sort of showcase your identity.
And that can change over time, right?
Your identity is a composable thing.
So very, very excited to hear about that.
But I am going to kick things off with Style Protocol.
So Style Protocol, I gave you a little intro there, but I would love for you to give us like
a quick two to three minute rundown sort of on what you guys are doing and what you're
about.
Yeah, hey guys.
First of all, I'm happy to be here on the great Yakuza day, what you guys call.
From myself real quick, I'm Tim, the CMO from Style Protocol.
I'm just here to represent us real quick.
Yeah, to let you guys know in a two to three minute basic explanation of what we're doing
is we actually want to become the what we call go to multiverse backbone, which helps to maximize
the utility, the monetization, also the value of smart digital assets and virtual goods.
So what is actually meant by that is when you buy now an NFT from, let's say, OpenSea, Magic,
Eden, whatever marketplace you buy an NFT, it's not utilizable at all.
No 3D file comes with it.
It's not utilizable in the metaverse.
Other than that, if the actual NFT collection like does a partnership with some protocols,
what actually we are doing or other competitors from us, which actually enable the creation of
the actual 3D asset, which is usable in all the metaverses out there.
So we basically fix the problems that NFTs and also 3D assets real quick.
An NFT is not directly a 3D asset.
A 3D asset can also be like an image you created in Blender, which is not an NFT right now.
We actually also are enabled to make this image an NFT and then bring it onto IPFS on the blockchain
and bridge it into the different metaverses, which can also be built on any chain.
So it's pretty technical what we're actually doing, but we're fixing like the problems that
NFTs and assets are not automatically utilizable.
These are not immediately 3D compatible.
Virtual assets and NFTs cannot be actually somehow monetized in a way now, other than like creating
a passive yield of somehow an ERC20 token, which is pretty inflationary and also the foreign
usage of virtual assets.
So let's say if you have a digital asset and it actually has a public function or something
like that, we are actually just the solution to do all this.
So basically what the protocol opens up is like the real utilization and monetization of
NFTs based on the technology, what we call sub-licensing of NFT derivatives.
I give you a basic example here for the ending to understand really what we're doing.
Let's say you have a Yaku in your wallet and this Yaku has some special traits with, let's
say, like when I look at yours, like the one with the gray hair and you have a mask on,
you have a special jacket, a special trouser, which actually only the Yaku NFT has.
We are then can enable to make derivatives out of these jackets from your Yaku collection and you are then able
to rent these out to other people and generate a cash revenue for your created NFT.
With this sub-licensing technology, we are actually the first one out there.
We have no competitor.
Actually, we do research analysis on a weekly basis.
Nobody is really doing it for the specific or respective traits.
So we see ready player me somehow as a competitor because they do complete avatars, but we are then
go on the level where you can actually put out a trade from a crypto punk when it has like a VR
goggle on.
And when this VR goggle is from a crypto punk, you can have this as a derivative on the blockchain
100 times.
And as the original holder, you can lend this out to other people to also wear this VR goggles
and you actually generate a cash flow off of it.
And yeah, these are the core points, what we're actually doing at Site Protocol.
So basically, we go from a 3D asset, which doesn't need to be an NFT, open the possibility
to create a 3D asset and on top of it, utilize and monetize it in all the metaverses, which
will be created out there.
Yeah, basically the metaverse is also, it not needs to be on the EVM chain, like on Ethereum
virtual machine, like on Avalanche or Cardano.
In the future, it can also be on like near protocol.
We call that also with a project on the near blockchain, but we also bridge NFTs there.
So yeah, we're actually then the backbone of creating multiverse and cross-chain interoperability
overall.
So I hope that was not too technical, but I guess you can understand everything.
No, I love the idea of the extension of your intellectual property as an individual NFT
owner, because what I have seen so far from like big name people and trying to leverage
that IP of their individual NFTs has been just fucking awful, in my opinion.
Like Snoop Dogg is the best example I can think of.
He has his board ape, right?
Yes.
And he tries to basically create a brand out of his board ape.
But I don't want to buy a fucking hoodie that has Snoop Dogg's board ape on it.
It just has no interest to me.
That seems very stupid.
But this idea of being able to buy a derivative trait of that intellectual property and making
it somewhat my own and adjusting my online identity around that.
I think there's like a real tangible use case there for that, that could be leveraged in
a much more organic way to the space versus some of these other weird ways people are
trying to grow the brand of the NFTs they own.
So love that idea.
Thank you for the intro.
I'm going to rotate around real quick.
We actually do have a speaker from one other of our featured projects in here.
Good Vibes.
We've got Jake Pegg in here.
Jake Pegg, what's up my man?
And can you give us a quick two, three minute rundown on what's going on at Good Vibes?
Yeah.
Hey, how's it going guys?
And thanks for slotting us in.
A ton of awesome speakers.
And just quick shout out to, I saw a bro side and side here.
He's my cousin.
Um, and he's actually a funny story.
Um, in our group chat of getting people into Solana, uh, Yakubers, uh, and the bikes were
his first mint.
So I think he's still over there and pretty active and excited to see him here.
But, um, yeah, let me give you the quick, uh, elevator pitch on, on good vibrations.
So, uh, at a high level, super laid back, uh, collection, 8,888 pieces.
Um, with the art, it does look a little unique.
And the reason, um, being for that is it's from, uh, LaCube, a studio in Madrid, uh, their
company that does a lot of brick and mortar web 2.0 type of, you know, ad agency work.
So you see, uh, the McDonald's current animations ad campaign.
Um, they've done a lot of that Nike, Spotify, uh, and we wanted to bring their art onto chain
because our ambitions I'll go into are, uh, focused on some revenue streams that are, uh,
CPG consumer package, good focused.
And we want to keep that way line going where if this project is successful, if we do start
humming, uh, we can offer a gateway where when these guys start getting those, Hey, uh, we're
a dinosaur brand.
We want to launch an NFT.
Uh, you know, do you guys have anybody that can help consult on this?
We want to stay connected there.
So, uh, the project itself is a, we hope to be one of many, uh, folks ushering in, um,
you know, the next big IP, it doesn't have to just be us and it's not going to just be
us, but we hope to, uh, be one of those people providing value, uh, on Solana.
Um, but the focus, uh, post mint is going to be very much on firing up our good market
and our good CPG offerings amongst a few other things.
Uh, what we're planning to do here is we've brought a few, uh, owners and partners, uh,
some CPG businesses.
Uh, Drew owns a packaging and label, uh, firm in LA where we're going to need that to slap
on a lot of good vibrations are two box water, cannabis, gummies, wine, uh, non-alcoholic
wine and beer.
A lot of different, uh, items that our, uh, partner Sean from Manichino brands will be
helping us kickstart.
So the hope here is to really launch with a project that can drive a strong community,
strong branding, and really drive forward the IP play backed with, uh, licensing rights that
are built in tandem with a 16 Z.
Uh, but what we expect to get back to the holders is through the CPG revenue stream.
We have something that can drive revenue in a current, um, you know, recession, uh,
laden economy, uh, and give value back through legal and compliant means by offering, uh, good
credits to redeem a lot of these products in store.
So I'll pause there.
Cause I think I went over my two minute Mark, uh, but any questions and if we are slotted
and it's pretty heavy, happy to jump back on next week to, to expand more on this.
That's awesome.
So my, my first, I'm going to get a quick followup question for you.
Cause I love the pitch is when we're talking about the CPG opportunities, are you only looking
at your own IP for this, or are you going to be sort of creating also a B2B scenario where
other projects could come to you?
And hypothetically, you know, you said wine as an example, if that was something that aligned
well with another project's brand and they wanted to roll out their own version of a
wine through your services, is that something that you're trying to position yourself to
be able to do, or are you more primarily focused on the good vibrations brand?
Uh, so to start, I'd say the good vibrations brand.
And the idea here is, you know, shredded apes, uh, stoned apes, they're, they're doing a great
job of laser focusing on, on a single vertical in an industry and doing well, uh, driving that
revenue stream.
We're going broader.
Um, we do want to kind of incubate and what is a volatile market to figure out what's going
to work.
So at first, uh, you know, we would like to see, uh, the good vibrations brand plastered
onto a lot of these items.
But the idea here is that the licensing allows for holders to come in to stack, uh, and time
lock stake their NFTs to get, uh, the necessary licensing and IP rights to, to start bringing
some of their brands through.
So, um, you mentioned it with, uh, the Aquiverse marketplace.
We haven't really gotten to that extent yet, but ideally, you know, we view this as kind
of a Solana beach type of focus and brand.
There's a lot of, uh, ocean art in here.
The, the hope is that, you know, we embrace every little part of that ocean.
So integrating, allowing folks to bring their products in, leverage their NFTs through good
vibrations or, you know, connect another project through a lot of our white labeling.
Uh, that's a focus, but also bringing that marketplace, uh, you know, out of a walled
garden and into a lot of these metaverses would be an ideal state.
I hope that answers the question, but a little bit of a long-winded answer.
A little bit of a long-winded answer.
So I apologize.
Yo, Papi is, uh, was your real question when Yaku wine?
Hey, I mean, I'm a, I'm a dry red person, so I'm happy to come out to your facility
and do some wine tasting and see if we can't get something pulled together.
Just, just wanted to put my preference on the front end there.
Right.
Yeah.
Well, we got a, what Neo Nexus was there dropping us cocktails a year ago.
Um, so if we can actually get to a Yaku verse real wine, um, that'd be ideal.
That's a, that's a big evolution from a year ago.
Let's go.
Yeah.
And it's a lot easier for us to pull off cause I'm not out renting Lambos.
So, uh, we're all good there.
Thanks man.
Very much appreciate it.
Uh, I'm going to toss the mic over now.
I want to hear from a baby ape social club, baby apes.
Welcome on up.
Welcome on up.
Very excited to hear what you guys have going on.
Uh, give us your like couple minute, uh, just intro of what you're about and what you've
got building over there.
Hey, for sure.
No, it's a pleasure to be here as well.
Uh, a good, good set of builders here, you know, super proud to be here.
And, uh, thank you for the, for the invite.
So Johnny here, one of the co-founders, you know, uh, we're totally different collection
compared to the others because we, we were actually minted in December, right?
20, uh, 21.
So, you know, December last year, we've been, uh, one of the OG projects just continued
building through the easy and hard times.
So yeah, excited to shine some light on, uh, what we've been working on, you know?
Uh, man, I remember when you guys minted, it was a, it was a big mint.
It was like you and Catalina whales were both just tearing it up at the time.
Oh, for sure.
Yeah.
It was crazy times.
And it was like, you know, we, we achieved like a hundred K sold trading volume at the
times fairly quickly.
And it was like such a huge achievement.
And now with the, you know, with the state of the ecosystem and how much so on has grown,
it's like every, I dunno, third hypes collection, just like, you know, crosses that mark fairly
easily.
So yeah, times were very different and times were fun, you know, but yeah, I love to see,
you know, the space grow and, uh, yeah, so many awesome projects also, you know, came
through in these, uh, many months.
100% man.
So let the people know what you got going on.
Hell yeah.
Hell yeah.
So, uh, you know, one of the, you know, we've been here for pretty long and, uh, one
of the next things that are coming actually very soon, right?
Uh, Saturday, the 22nd of October is going to be our enlightenment, which is going to
be our art, like upgrade slash revamp slash just, you know, transfer to a little bit of
a different IP.
Right.
Um, which is going to be same NFT, you know, trade-based mutation, super excited about the
art, which we've been working on for a very long time.
And we've only received positive feedback about it.
And, you know, one of the big, I think positives for us and what has holding us, what has been
holding us back as well for a little bit is that that will allow us to basically strip
off that like derivative tag, which, you know, has been kind of haunting us behind our backs
as dart is going to be completely unique.
It's kind of like alien, futuristic, um, you know, super awesome, dope art style.
I mean, you can see all of the previews in our, you know, in our feed, um, at the same
time, also just kind of focusing on the apes because we had an airdrop of baby tigers and
we're going to just, you know, introduce deflation, just bring all the value to the apes, which
I'm super excited about.
And which also kind of ties with our long-term goal of building that, you know, brand value,
building that community and also IP value.
Um, and that will be mainly achieved with the animated series, which we are actually
already working on.
Right.
So we have a team of 25 people that have done work for Netflix, Hulu, Apple right now,
already basically working on it.
Um, as we speak, we had our final deck, we had our, you know, character, um, line up
storyline, everything already done like weeks ago.
And we are basically firing through it.
Uh, it's a very revolutionary take on animated series.
I would say it's not your normal, you know, like web three.
Um, you know, whatever, like done on your lab series, it's very professional approach
and, uh, with very, very huge goals in mind.
And one of the goals would be to, you know, give NFTs a voice and really kind of encourage
community engagement to a, you know, certain extent while being able to get on those top
ranks for, you know, normal audience as well.
They just want a cool series for themselves.
Right.
So not really only focusing on the web three already, like people that are active within
the crypto and NFT community.
Right.
But building something really awesome while involving NFTs in it.
So, you know, I like to draw the narrative or the comparison to like, imagine if you would
have, if South Park would have NFTs from the beginning and you could participate earn, you
know, kind of like rewards earn, uh, you know, participation like tokens and stuff like
that throughout the process.
So that's, that's kind of, you know, our, uh, long-term, our long-term plan.
And, you know, in the meantime, some super cool things like a podcast coming, actually
the first episode dropping in, in like a day or two.
Um, and then we will have a lot of cool web two and web three folks on it.
Um, and at the same time, also actually, uh, some little alpha will be starting our, you
know, uh, very limited depth of depth island drop, which is going to be a like multifunctional
airdrop in just a few days, uh, which will go kind of like from the beginning of the
alignment and then, you know, a few days into it as well, which will then tie into our ecosystem
and journey basically.
So there was a little summary to say.
That's crazy, man.
I, uh, I give you huge props because after such a long time to still be working on so
many things is impressive.
So hats off to you.
I appreciate it.
Yeah.
And, you know, uh, I think a lot of the collections that launched back in the days, you know,
a lot of them already kind of like, you know, left the space somehow just kind of died off.
But yeah, we've been, you know, just going strong at it and super excited to see the
community is still there.
You know, a lot of the holders still active and I strongly believe that will bring the
hype back, you know, bring the, bring the early baby apes, uh, times back soon.
Yeah.
So working every day, man.
Very cool, man.
I will definitely be there to support you guys.
Sorry, puppy.
Go ahead, man.
I would say it is very interesting sort of the, the journey you've had with specifically
the art, because I think at the time when you launched, you know, that sort of a viewpoint
of somewhat of a derivative was actually a really big selling point.
And it was something that got people very excited.
And there was, you know, so much talk about, oh, bored apes are getting interested.
They're going to be buying, you know, the, the, basically the baby version of their existing
ape.
I think bull conversation that was taking place.
And over time that conversation has shifted quite a bit.
And obviously you guys are pivoting in kind with that shift in the narrative.
And so it's just, it's very cool to see you guys continuing to build, continuing to iterate
on your IP, make it a little more your own and adjust with the times as, as things have
continued to change.
Yeah.
And you're totally right here, you know, but it's also because when we launched, right.
It was such a long time ago when, you know, the whole narrative was like each folks are
coming into Solana and now Solana is, has grown so much, you know, the, the transactions
and all of the stats are showing it, right.
Everyone knows that it was understood Twitter spaces.
So, you know, the narrative kind of just, you know, is, it's totally different now.
Right.
And, um, unfortunately, or I mean, you know, now it's just clear that in order for us to
strive, you know, we can't really have that.
And we've been talking to some also like bigger investors, you know, and, uh, other people
in the community, you know, over on the space and they are mentioning it, you know, they're
like, you know, super cool.
But at the same time, like there was kind of this, you know, and we were like, yeah, but
you know, that's why we were doing the enlightenment.
So, you know, you can be able to transform your baby ape to a totally unique art.
Like no trades have been, you know, taken from anywhere or anything like that.
So we did a lot of work on the art to make sure it also looks freaking insane.
I love it, man.
I say it all the time.
People give me shit, but firmly flexible, firm in the long-term goal, flexible, how you
get there.
So very much appreciate it.
Now I'm going to, uh, pop things over to wise whales, wise whales.
What's up?
Let the people know what you've got going on.
Hey, what's up guys?
Um, thanks for having me on.
Appreciate it.
And, um, hello to everyone.
All the, all the friends that I know here.
Um, always good to, always good to chat with you guys.
So yeah, in a nutshell.
So what we do at wise whales is we look at on-chain data and we find the salon of DeFi
whales by looking at exchange volume and NFT whales by looking at marketplace volume.
And we analyze their transactions and measure their profitability over time in the most profitable
whales.
We call the wise whales.
We display their tokens, NFTs and DeFi positions protocol by protocol.
And also the moves that they've made in different timeframes, one hour, three hour, 24 hours
in one week.
So for example, what swaps they've made, what perpetual positions they're in, RIP, Mango,
um, what NFT collections they've bought and sold in different time periods.
Um, so we, we track literally every whale wallet on the blockchain.
We, we cluster their wallets.
So we keep track of their, uh, burner wallets and evaluate the collection of wallets for,
for each whale as a whole.
Um, and by, by parsing this, their entire transaction history into, into readable, uh, table data,
this really gives us, um, some advantage over our competition.
So we don't just pick and choose, uh, influence their wallets to track.
Um, like the wise whales are, are literally the most profitable whales because we, we've
evaluated them all.
And, uh, and most whales are, are, are down bad about 75 to 90%, depending on the time
are, are down over the last six months.
So we, we, um, you know, by parsing this transaction data, we can also like display this
data in, in, in different time horizons and in tables aggregated over all the wise whales.
If you're looking at the 24 hour timeframe for D God, say we, we showed that, you know,
um, the, the buys that we're looking at are overall the wise whales, uh, and sells it,
et cetera.
So this makes it, uh, uh, much more easily digestible.
And, um, the data is updated in real time.
Whales are gathered and evaluated weekly, and we got some, uh, new stuff on, on the rise
of that.
I can also talk about, but that's a kind of a brief intro.
Very interesting.
I love hearing that the whales are also down bad.
Like I am, uh, makes me feel like I'm in good company, you know, cause I think as not
a joke, it's good to recognize that like the space is where it is in general.
And even the people with the biggest wallets and the longest trading tenure are having a
difficult go of things right now.
So you are not alone.
If your bags are down, it's okay.
Okay.
You got other people.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, honestly, obviously we're in a difficult time and, um, you know, speak the wise wills.
I mean, you know, uh, you know, we, we need all the help we can get.
Right.
And, uh, seeing, seeing what these guys are doing in, uh, in real time and in a whole
bunch of different ways is, uh, it really, really helps kind of in the decision making.
Um, let me go in a little, a little bit more, uh, depth about a couple other, um, um, uh,
utilities we're, we're providing kind of, um, data on the wise will.
So, um, you know, we also, we show this, you know, we have, we have a tier two with, which
will require three NFTs, um, that will have some special utility.
So being able to see the distribution and all these timeframes amongst the wise will.
So what's a, what's a breakdown between wise wills are, you know, are 10, uh, you know,
are all 10 DJ names in the last 24 hours by one will or 10 different whales.
So you can see the distribution breakdown.
Um, and you know, for top collections, we'll have the, you know, floor price graphed out
and the buys themselves for the wise wills kind of overlaid on this.
So you can see kind of visually kind of when they're getting in and out.
Um, and, uh, in fact, we don't just label wheel wallets as, as well.
We also determine whether they're diamond handed versus paper handed and, uh, we label
bots and retail.
And so in particular, we know when whales are prone to dumping large amounts of NFTs into
any price movement.
Um, for example, you know, pre-sale, uh, uh, you know, dumping on, on, on retail, um, in
the early days.
So we developed, um, uh, we're developing a section called out the gate, which is, um,
you know, a deeper dive into the first 48 hours, um, of a collection.
The first 48 hours are, you know, kind of, kind of a shit show in terms of, in terms of,
uh, activity in terms of volume.
Um, you know, there's a lot of bots that are, um, out there.
There's a lot of manipulation of prices.
So we're really trying to dig down into that.
And so, you know, uh, we have these advanced met, you know, more advanced metrics that are
relevant.
Um, especially for the first 48 hours, like percentage volume bought it, um, net unrealized
profit, you know, some technical things and real time graphs showing kind of the activity
of bots and retail and all classes of whales, you know, wise versus regular paper versus
diamond hands, uh, in real, in real time.
And we're also, um, we have a, we also are developing notifications.
So we're using machine learning algorithms, uh, that will be, uh, predicting when are good
times to kind of buy and buy and sell collections.
Um, obviously none of this is financial advice, but, um, you know, we have a lot of data and we're
kind of thinking very, very deeply about all these things.
I really, we're just kind of looking for any, any way we can kind of, um, you know, we're
obsessed with this.
This is all we're kind of thinking about and working on, and we're just trying to kind
of bring as, uh, as much value from, uh, it to, to our holders as possible in like every
way we can.
The whole presale thing is really interesting because I would love to see, you know, a month
or two from now as this whole presale medic sort of continues on, what are the communities
that are out there that are getting large presale allocations that are actually holding it and
not just dumping at the beginning.
I think, uh, there's a lot of opportunity out there to understand which communities and
traders are the most, uh, I guess, long-term supportive, right.
For lack of a better description, cause that could be a really good indicator for other people
that are interested in those projects.
You know, if, if it comes out that project X is providing 33% of supply to presale and,
and it's transparent as to which communities they've partnered with on those presales, it
could be a really good indicator for the public that are trying to mint and whitelist or public
mint as to what that presale is likely to do with effects of the price post mint.
Uh, you could see, you know, the ratings on those collections and say, Hey, well, they've
partnered with these five dows.
These five dows have a really high rating.
So it's unlikely that they're going to dump at the get go or who they partnered with these
five that have a sort of a shaky history.
And so I think that information is really important.
Dude, that's a horrible idea.
You, you do that.
You're going to get fun all over because those dows are going to say to you, I can't
control what my members do.
Right.
But you could do, uh, what you could do is you could actually do almost like a credit score
of the people that you can, you can link wallets to, to actual, uh, uh, what do you call it?
Profiles.
And then you could sell that information to projects that mint and only get them, you know,
the people that actually are diamond holders to mint, you know, kind of something like that
structured like that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Similar to, um, I guess crowd server is kind of doing something similar where they are, you
know, they just have people pledging NFTs.
Yeah.
You can see if there'd be, if they are acting in a, you know, a diamond way.
But that's different.
That's different because the guys that are pledging are doing it willingly.
Yeah.
But what you want to get is the guys that are not doing it willingly.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
So yeah, yeah, of course.
Yeah.
So we don't have any plans actually to dox any of the wallets like everything we're doing
doesn't require a kind of unveiling who is behind each of these wheel, wheel clusters.
Um, and I think, think that that helps us, uh, in a couple of ways, right?
I mean, it, it makes them, you know, it makes people less likely to try to obfuscate
and hide from, from us.
Uh, you know, if we're just showing that there are, you know, likely dumps incoming and not exposing
the actual wallets, like I can see the walls, but they won't be exposed on the, on the website.
Um, at this point in time, um, you know, they're, they're likely more, much more less likely
to make kind of evasive moves.
Um, and, um, you know, we also don't want to just kind of, uh, piss off all the whales
on the blockchain, but we're, we are open to kind of, um, kind of figuring out how to
utilize this data to kind of help the ecosystem in, in various ways.
Um, so, you know, we'll be, we're, we're open-minded to it.
We're just trying to, you know, be, be careful and thoughtful about how we're using data.
Yeah.
That's a very good point.
I appreciate that.
Yeah.
I love that Danny just took that opportunity to dunk on me immediately for anyone wondering
if the Yaku team has, has a diverse set of ideas and perspectives.
Uh, the answer is fucking yeah, for sure.
That is true.
I tend to be the one that gets dunked on.
So the, the only chances that I get to dunk on him because he's smarter than me.
Then I try to take them.
Yeah.
I appreciate that.
Me and Danny got into it the other day.
The, that was, that was my bad whales.
Uh, I just muted.
I just muted everyone.
I guess I needed a moment of silence.
I'm in a silence.
Did you just muted because you were saying something bad about me?
You were such a friend, man.
No, no, I wasn't saying that.
I was just saying we got into it on that, um, that multi chain, uh, uh, show where they
were bringing up random projects.
That was a huge amount of fun.
I hope we do again.
Like, uh, this week.
Yeah.
Did you, did you see that poppy?
We did a fire pit, which was a roasting, uh, uh, a roasting show and it was pretty funny.
And, uh, yeah, uh, wise whales was on it.
So yeah.
Uh, no, but I love what you guys are doing.
I really, really liked the approach that you take.
Like I would not have even looked at it like that in terms of, you know, trying to help
the ecosystem without actually pinpointing, but you do have a very, very valid point because
if you do it the way you plan on doing it, people are much more likely to be real
and not to try to manipulate the system, not to be seen.
So yeah, I think it's a great thing.
Um, and it's probably the right approach.
Yeah.
And, you know, we do have measures in place.
Like we are kind of, um, on an, in an ongoing basis, um, evaluating kind of what burner,
you know, what burner wallets, uh, the whales are using and how they're transferring, uh,
stuff around to try to cluster them, uh, properly.
Uh, but obviously, you know, um, you know, the harder they, they, they try to kind of, uh,
you know, evade that the better they they'll get, of course.
So, you know, it's always better to try to, uh, uh, you know, to, to, to not alert them,
so to speak.
Yeah, absolutely, man.
No, I love the project.
I think you guys are doing something really, really cool.
Cool.
And I definitely will meet Max and, uh, and then try not to dump on you right off the
gate.
Oh, we'll, we'll see it.
We'll see it.
Um, if you guys, uh, I'll see, I won't expose any walls except for yours.
If you guys are interested in whitelist, anyone listening, um, hop in, I'll, I'll make a channel
right now for you guys.
Um, uh, a Yaku, Yaku space, Yaku space.
I'll call it in our discord.
Um, hop in and, and also take a look at it.
We got demos in the, you know, for our kind of our tier one or our basic core product,
the demos are up on our, on our pin tweet.
So take a look.
We also have like community discussions Monday Wednesday Friday.
So hop in, um, those being kind of a hit, you know, everyone loves them.
We, you know, we have, we have a good time.
Um, yeah.
If you guys have any other questions, um, I'm happy to answer.
Um, but, uh, that's kind of, uh, the, the summary of wise whales.
You know what we should do puppy.
We should get wise whales to actually, uh, link up and see if we can, uh, put them in
the hub so that people have access to that information directly in the hub when they log
in, because it would be really, really cool.
Actually, uh, to see everything that, you know, right before their main thing, or once
they look at their collections and how they're doing to be able to see all that information
is going to be super, super, uh, useful.
I think.
Sure.
Also, um, we are developing, uh, Discord bots.
So for, uh, for DAOs interested, um, you know, hit me up.
We'll be kind of, um, giving half of our notifications for, um, you know, wise wheels movements, whether
it's, uh, swaps, you know, token swaps, um, and to kind of, uh, big wise wheels, uh, moves
using our machine learning algorithms.
So if you have a DAO that's interested, uh, shoot me a DM and, uh, we can chat about it.
Absolutely.
Love it, man.
Love it.
So now we've got our final featured guest up here, uh, human X.
Welcome up to the show.
Would love for you to give us an overview of what's going on with human X, where you're
at in the project and just let people know what you're doing.
All right.
Sounds good.
Well, uh, hello guys.
Uh, I'll give, uh, the little intro.
It's going to be two to three minutes, but basically at human X, we're making static NFTs
dynamic and we're doing this by, uh, based on how you interact with your NFT.
Uh, it will, uh, William become dynamic and change its looks.
Right.
So your NFT starts at, um, well, full age, so to say, and then it starts, um, it starts
to go down.
If you were okay, actually, let's say you stake it for 30 days.
Then your NFT got 30 days of life.
Um, but let's say you, you just leave it alone.
You don't do anything with it.
You don't use it as a profile picture.
Uh, you don't stake it or, or anything else.
Then it starts to degrade and you have four stages.
Um, and then if you, uh, when you stake it, you also get this Vibex tokens and this Vibex
tokens, you'll be able to use in our trade store where you'll be able to, well, yeah, basically
personalize your NFT.
And in the trade store, we'll also have one-on-one banners that, uh, people will be able to get.
Well, again, from, uh, Vibex tokens.
Um, we also got something called Gada, which is a tool, which, uh, we truly believe is going
to be used by a lot of Web2 enterprises to enter Web3.
Basically we call it making the path, uh, for Web2 companies to, to, uh, enter the future.
And basically what it is, is an API, which makes it easier for developers to tokenize anything.
So, uh, normally when you develop, uh, on, uh, Web3, you have to go through a couple of systems
like Metaflex, Arweave, et cetera.
And getting developers who are, uh, knowledgeable in these spaces, uh, is quite expensive for founders.
It could cost four or $5,000, uh, or even more.
Uh, but with Gada API, uh, you'll basically be able to, uh, do it with one click.
Uh, yeah, that's a bit about, uh, Umidex.
So wait, let me understand something.
So if I have an NFT that I buy or that I mint and I, I don't put it as a PFP and I don't stake
it, it'll get old and ugly.
And then I don't, I look at my wallet.
I see that NFT.
I get scared as hell.
I want to make it look good again.
What do I do?
Right.
Then you can actually use, uh, your, uh, if you've been staking, you can basically use
your Vibex tokens to quote unquote rejuvenate it.
Uh, and yeah, and get it to its, uh, first stage again.
Okay.
And what happens if I decide that I don't like my Yaku NFT anymore and I want to use a
HumanX NFT, which is ugly, even though it's ugly, does it get rejuvenated by itself or do
I have to use Vibex token?
Oh no.
You, you have in the current stage, how it works is you have to use a Vibex token, but
you can still gain that from staking your NFT.
Just the thing when it started aging, you get less Vibex tokens, uh, over time.
Oh, okay.
Actually that makes a lot of sense because you don't want to have people who are using the
ugly PFPs.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I mean like personally, I think all of them look quite good, but you know, that's
it could also, it could also become a meta where like people are, uh, gamifying rarity.
And so they actually want it to degrade, right?
That, that might be my methodology of thinking.
I just, I just let it get a little worse so I could rock it.
And then it would be rare because it's so bad.
Hypothetically.
Hypothetically.
Yeah.
You never know, man.
You never know.
But the problem is if you let it go bad, you're not getting any Vibex because you're
not staking.
It's a double edged sword.
You gotta, you gotta play the game to see how to win.
Right.
It's a really cool, uh, game theory thing.
Right.
So like if, if you, uh, you will get a lot of, you know, interaction with your PFP or with
your NFT in your case, uh, because people really want to get that, you know, pretty,
uh, NFT.
Right.
Um, so yeah, it's, it's a really cool idea.
Are you going to create that framework and sell that framework to other projects to potentially
gamify their NFTs?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Correct.
So you'll be able to, um, well, we're gonna like, it's going to be a business to business
product.
We're gonna, um, what is it called?
Well, yeah, people are going to be able to, uh, use it with either a fee or, you know,
some kind of collaboration.
Uh, we haven't decided on exact terms and how it's going to be, but it's definitely going
to be able to be used by, uh, other collections as well.
Yeah.
I think, I think long-term that's sort of where the space in general is trying to go, where obviously
you're creating this unique gamification, these utilities that impact your holders, but
also trying to come up with the B2B model for those same sorts of innovations where you're
not just doing it for the sake of your holders, but you're also doing it for the sake of the
company.
Right.
Royalties situation and conversation has really expedited the process of profitability for
people.
So I love that you've already got that in mind.
Cause long-term that's going to be hugely important.
I think.
Yeah, definitely.
Well, it's important.
I feel like, well, like you said, with royalties, you really need, you need something that keeps
the project for, uh, in the longevity since, well, I know it's cliche, but of course we're
all here to stay for, for years to come, uh, hopefully.
And then you need this kind of business model and it's better to have it at the start than,
uh, than creating one, uh, later on, uh, personally.
So for an example, our biggest, or what we believe is going to bring in the most, uh,
revenue towards longevity is definitely the, the GATA API.
Um, and, and that's really gonna, uh, uh, fast process the, the track to, uh, mass adoption
of NFTs as well.
Um, and the, you know, web two is going to get more familiarized with, uh, web three.
So automatically you're going to get, uh, more people into, uh, we have Solana and all
of the other blockchains.
Yeah.
The, the GATA API just for, you know, that, that, that I, uh, I helped these guys.
Uh, I helped these guys from the beginning.
Uh, I actually know the founders quite well and really nice people.
Um, the way they explained it to me, which was really interesting at that time.
And this was many, many months ago was man, you know, how many supermarket coupon tickets
are thrown into the trash because people just pay, they get a coupon.
They don't look at it and they just throw it in the trash because they figured they'll
never use it.
And so they just throw it away.
That's actual money that the supermarket is saving because people are not actually consuming
that, that, uh, that, uh, voucher or that coupon.
What about if you could tokenize that and then you could put it in a marketplace and then
anybody could actually go and actually buy it from you.
You wouldn't have, you know, to throw it away.
You could actually give that value to someone else and get something for it.
Get something for it.
And that's kind of what Gata was supposed to fix.
Kind of tokenize web two companies and their infrastructure to allow them to, to have a,
you know, an NFT or a web three presence via the technology and not, you know, not make
it a PFP project.
Obviously it's just a technology play, which is super exciting because I think that's what's
going to make the future of, of NFTs, the technology, right?
So anyways, I was super bullish on them.
I'm still very, very bullish.
And, and, you know, they added that dynamic aspect of that NFT for the PFP version, which
I think, you know, uh, is, is, is very original.
So yeah, I I'm bullish on you guys for sure.
And the world of coupons is so crazy.
So I remember, uh, if I, if I remember correctly, the book it was in, uh, for any of you that
are interested in marketing, there's a book called the data driven, uh, marketing.
And it's like the 15 statistics that every good marketer needs to, uh, monitor and watch.
And one of the case studies in there was specifically about Walgreens.
So for any of you that don't know what Walgreens is, it's a pharmacy based in the U S and Walgreens
actually went out at some point and they decided we want to find out how large is our physical
trade area.
What's the furthest away that someone would travel to visit a Walgreens.
And when they did this, they realized that their advertising and couponing sort of strategy
was very wrong, that they were casting a much broader net than what was actually their
customer base.
And so they were able to go out and reduce the number of zip codes that they were providing
coupons and things too.
And it didn't increase their traffic at all.
But as a company, it saved them like $2 million in the cost of circulating these coupons.
So for those of you that don't, if you just to ground us in how expensive is it to fucking
run these physical web to coupon strategies and advertising strategies, it's absurdly expensive.
And I think that solutions like this provide a real tangible business case to companies that
are doing these sorts of initiatives.
And I think that it's only natural for it to pivot to a digital world.
And I think that what is naturally pivoting already to a digital world will soon pivot
further into that Web3 world where it is all on chain.
It's trackable.
I think that the analytics there as a company are also really accessible and will be a lot
more robust.
So very excited to hear you doing that.
I have too much information in my brain about couponing from my time in digital marketing.
And so that really intrigues me.
We might have to go a little deeper into that offline because it just is hilarious
to me that it's like even a thing and that it hasn't happened sooner.
In fact, sorry for my rant.
I just I just fucking ranted on coupons and everyone's just like, OK, I never thought
you'd get so excited about coupons.
I thought you'd get more excited with with Chris and his crazy stuff.
But like coupons, come on, man.
Do this shit gets me going.
I launched in previous roles to actual like entire loyalty programs and couponing programs.
So like it's just I've spent too much time on it and it's taking up space in my brain
and I'm not going to grow any more gray matter.
So it's just fucking there forever.
So it's with me.
But love to hear about it.
Human ethics.
Very exciting.
I'm going to roll back real quick.
We got some intros from people want to get a little deeper dives in.
So we've got a TG three here who is also with good vibrations.
TG three.
My question for you to kick things off is you are pre mint.
Let the people know when the mint is taking place, where it's taking place, who you're
working with.
I believe you guys are working with as you're involved in a visionary studios, correct?
Oh, yeah.
So this project.
Oh, well.
Good morning, guys.
How you doing?
TG three.
Co-founder of visionary studios.
Also my web to career.
I'm an attorney.
I own my practice here in Brooklyn.
I'm also a founder in good vibrations.
I'm going to be working with Jake, who you guys spoke with before, kind of like leading
the web three facing communications.
So, yeah, our mint is tomorrow on the 19th.
We have been working with Z Ray to make sure that and shout out to Z Ray is doing the Lord's
work here to make sure they're not over allocating the supply.
We had a pretty successful free sale.
We realistically probably could have sold the project out twice just in pre-sale alone.
But, you know, we like we're from like we've been around for a while.
I've been in that piece since 2019.
My first NFTs were like Decentraland and Sandboxland.
It just kind of resonated with me.
It kind of made sense.
And so like back in the day that just having a whitelist and I sound like a boomer here,
but like back in the day having a whitelist kind of meant something like.
So we're kind of trying to bring that back to where, you know, you're not going to have
to fight for like if you have a whitelist allocation or an allow list allocation,
I got to fight for your mint there.
So I know Jake touched on on some of the parties involved and some of the folks that we're
going to be that are going to be the founding group here.
So I won't like reiterate or rehash any of that type of stuff.
But we will be launching with Soulport tomorrow.
The reason that we chose to launch with Soulport was we are also in that same ethos of kind of
bringing it back to the old school.
We are reserving a small amount for public.
Like we think that's awesome.
Like Soulport is a unbottable launch pad.
So we're going to like leverage that.
We kind of decided from an early, early stage that we wanted to use that technology to make
sure that we could get these allow list bots and get these mints in the hands of our supporters
and not like in the hands of botters, flippers and stuff like that.
And that like influenced our decision to move there.
It also influenced our decision to drop a small 888 supply whitelist allocation pass over the weekend or on Friday.
That really was just to reward people that are extremely active in the Discord, extremely active on Twitter, like Noody Gang, like those style people.
Because there's a ton of great people who are providing value to this ecosystem that weren't a part of the big DAOs or the investment groups
or the NFT projects that got preset allocation or whitelist allocation.
So just trying to look out for everybody in the community.
Want to make sure that this can get in the hands of folks that are supporting and they're going to be here for the long run.
We're super duper excited to really kind of roll out our offering stack team, tons of Web2 business experience, tons of experience, particularly in the CPG and entertainment space.
We're going to see a lot of really awesome kind of novel CPG and entertainment applications coming out of our project.
And then as Jake was saying, like we are all like members of all these blue chip DAOs and we've all been providing value to the ecosystem for over a year.
And in like an unofficial kind of capacity. So, I mean, maybe you see me around or some of these other guys.
And there's a reason for that. Right.
We've been able to keep our integrity in check and we've been able to work and provide value here in a sustainable manner for the long run.
And now we're super excited to kind of leverage all of these relationships, all these partnerships that we've built to lend to the success of this project.
So you won't see us shying away from like leveraging the new AMMs and you won't see us shying away from these lending protocols or partnerships.
We're integrating our assets into different games. We're definitely looking at like Boots and some of these other groups that the Trash Panda and the DAA folks are doing.
We love what you guys are doing over there. So, yeah, definitely here. This is Solana Beach.
This is Solana Beach. We're here to celebrate the ecosystem entirely. And we're not here to essentially create an island or build a wall around our ecosystem.
We're here to integrate and work with everybody here. Love it. It's so interesting, too.
I mean, I think we had a pretty similar experience back when we minted, you know, where it was not the current meta where there's this over allocation of whitelists and things that are out there.
And you're right. It does put things on a weird plane when a whitelist is not actually a guaranteed mint.
And I understand that, you know, the current market, how things are, there's reasons for doing that.
But I love hearing that it's a guaranteed mint for you guys, that you're really cautious and careful about your level of allocation in these different areas, because I think that's how it should be.
You know, if I've got a whitelist, what's what's the value of it if I don't actually get to mint. Right.
So very excited to hear that. I also do love the team.
To me, that's the number one most important thing in any project is what does the team look like?
What's their background? How committed are they?
That is going to be the predecessor for any success, because things change here all the time.
Right. Tomorrow, the landscape could look completely different than it does today.
And having a team that is committed to the project and that has the wherewithal to sort of change with the tides as necessary is huge.
You can have the best concept in the world. You can have the best art in the world.
If you've got a team that drags their feet or doesn't understand when to pivot or when not to pivot, it can all go to zero overnight.
For sure. Couldn't agree more. And I think that's very well said.
Like, and that's we've we always take like a strength based approach here.
So, yeah, I'm handling a lot of the compliance stuff.
There's like a ton of guys behind the scene that you're just never going to see on Twitter space because like they're our accountant or like they're doing business development stuff.
And that's where their strength is. And that's where we want them to to kind of thrive and flourish.
So, yeah, definitely. We're super excited about the team that we built.
We think we're super capable of executing this vision and also just like have been like this isn't our first cycle.
This isn't our first like I've been in crypto maybe seven years.
Some guys on the team have been like 10 plus years in the space.
And so this is totally something that like moving and shifting with this kind of ever evolving Web3 landscape and particularly the this evolving Solana ecosystem is very budding still in our opinion.
Yeah, we think that we're able to to pivot quickly and and also kind of leverage our past experiences to guide us towards success here in this market.
One hundred percent and great partners.
Solport, I still think very slept on launchpad.
They've got great technology over there. Tom is the man.
It's funny, you know, Tom is constantly talked about as one of the best builders out there.
And yet for a while there was jokes about the Solport launchpad and the success over there.
But they've been seeing great success the last couple of months.
And I think it's very well deserved. So I'll be on there trying to smash the mint button for the public mint.
I love a good public mint. I miss sort of the days when it was like the Wild West and it was just fastest fingers win.
Yes. And, you know, we're going to bring that back.
It's going to be exhilarating to say the least.
I'm definitely going to have like do the 10 tabs open and try to try to game the system like we used to do.
We'll see if it works still. I heard that's so important for that.
But yeah. And then, you know, that's just one of our amazing partners.
And we're super excited to highlight some of the other groups we're working with.
You know, like we think Hyperspace has an amazing offering.
They're like an incredible marketplace aggregator.
We're also like respecting creator royalties. So we're super excited to work with them.
Like Elector, Hadeswap, these groups we are very familiar with and close to the founders and ownership groups for these groups.
And we're going to be deploying LPs there post mint.
Yeah, we're just super excited to use all this this new technology that we feel is like the alternative to that centralized kind of marketplace that's going to rule everything.
And we're going to highlight how beautiful and amazing all these builders are.
You know, there's it's the Solana building group is barred is like second to none.
And I'm excited to show the world that.
I feel like we don't talk about Hyperspace as much here at Yakoo, but we love those guys.
I mean, they're really doing some amazing things.
They've got a great API that we utilize for some of the stuff on the back end of our app at yakoo.ai.
And very excited to hear you guys working with them.
I mean, every day there's a new offering that's coming out.
There's more AMMs.
There's more opportunities to work with people who are building.
And to me, that that sort of competition is very healthy.
It's natural of being so early in the space.
It's hard to pick winners.
But when you work with teams, like I said, that are really driven and understand and active, especially with the community.
Right. Like the number of people on these teams that are engaging on Twitter and discords that, you know, them from other communities you're a part of.
That's really exciting to me.
So love love to hear the shout outs for them.
Yeah, for sure.
And, yeah, appreciate you bringing us up here and letting me kind of rap about the project a little bit.
Just super, super stoked about everything we're doing.
And then so are our partners.
Like, so are the guys.
So are the teammates.
Everyone's exhilarated.
Everyone's ready to go.
And, you know, we think that as a standalone offering here, regardless of what the economic condition looks like or what the kind of market sentiment looks like, you know, we're super bullish on our offering.
And can't wait to get this thing going.
Good luck for tomorrow.
I'm sure you're going to smash it.
Yeah, thank you so much, guys.
I really appreciate the support.
And I'm going to rotate it back here to style protocol.
Style protocol.
So for anyone who maybe jumped in late and missed it, they are working on multi-chain interoperability of assets as well as some derivative traits where if you own a unique derivative in a collection, you can add or a unique trait, excuse me, in a collection.
You can actually monetize that trait through derivatives that can be added to your existing NFTs, added in these different virtual worlds.
My question for you, style protocol, is for anyone who's listening, who's maybe interested in getting involved with you, what is sort of that process look like?
Yeah, for sure.
So the process is actually pretty straightforward.
Pretty straightforward, I would say.
Okay, let's say for you guys, you actually provided us with your NFT.
Even when we only have a, like, upper body, when you see some board 8 pictures or the CryptoPump pictures, they are obviously only the upper body and you see some arms.
There are also NFTs out there where you actually see the whole body.
that is then get a bit easier for us, actually, because D3D designers then don't need to create a lower body from their mind.
They just can, like, create the whole model from the picture itself.
So we have less steps.
We need to go back and forth with the actual project folder or project owner.
Right after we have the, we have gotten the NFT in our MVP and bridge, our 3D designer hops on.
And then he, for now, he creates the model, and then he can go back and forth in our Discord with the actual holder of the NFT.
In the later stage of the live protocol, we actually then have higher 3D designers.
We obviously have higher 3D designers now, but we then have additionally 3D designers who are basically working as a DAO.
So the actual style protocol DAO voted these 3D designers to be educated in the specific needs for the respective metaverses.
So let's say the different metaverses, like the sandbox or the central end, have different restrictions in, like, voxels or triangles or polys and stuff like that.
And all these designers then need to be educated what are the guidelines for the actual metaverse.
And then these designers get the approval from our DAO that all of them have the possibility to accept and also decline assets.
So that every time the quality for the actual metaverse is being held, like some hyper-realistic metaverses or maybe more voxelized metaverses,
that all these assets have their respective quality for the actual metaverse, that they look somehow the same.
After this base model is then created, we go to the textures and the animations and also the optimization, which comes at the last point,
where then the actual high-quality model gets then optimized for the respective metaverses with all the polys and textures, like I said before.
And when the actual holder then accepts, so right now, really, this is the stage where we are at right now because we have a working MVP and the live protocol is in testing phase.
Right now, actually, we go back and forth with the holder if the actual model looks good.
If the model looks good, the holder then gets the actual asset airdropped into the respective wallet,
which sits on the chain where the actual metaverse is built on or where the actual holder wants to have the asset in his wallet.
So let's say if the metaverse is built on Avalanche, we then be able to drop this on the Avalanche C-chain and you can use this NFT in the Avalanche-built metaverse.
If it's actually built on Cardano, we can also then add-drop it onto Cardano and you can use it on a Cardano metaverse.
It's really that cross-chain interoperability which opens up the bridges between any metaverses out there.
And this is like the stage. So first you have the 2D NFT, then the base model, then the creation of the actual model with the lower body, if you only have the upper body,
then going back and forth with the holder, then you get your model airdrop back and then you can use it in the metaverse.
I love that it's so hands-on because at least right now it needs to be.
And I pinned at the top for everyone the tweet of our first YakuX sandbox model.
And I think it just really highlights the sort of breadth of what needs to be created to have that interoperability of your assets
because our YakuX avatars would never in their current form be usable in the sandbox, right?
It's a completely different style of animation, completely different rigging.
And it's a whole new beast.
So having someone that you can go to that can take your assets and align them with all of these different experiences is just absurdly helpful.
It is a really difficult thing as an individual project or as on the flip side for us,
someone that is facilitating these experiences people are trying to integrate into to go one by one and do that for each collection.
So having partners like Style Protocol that can sort of aggregate that time and experience and they understand what are the norms and the parameters for each of these different worlds is just hugely, hugely helpful.
And I think it'll be a really big bridge to a multi-chain, multi-experience future utilizing what they've got.
So I'm very excited and I love that the process is pretty much straightforward.
I mean, people reach out to you, you work directly with them.
I'm excited to see a future where entire collections are getting updated and transposed into these different scenarios
because I think that for collection owners, it could be a great value proposition to come to you and say,
hey, we want to provide this as a benefit for all of our holders across the entire collection.
And on top of being a great benefit for the holders and for the community, I think it's also a great benefit to you guys, obviously, as a B2B business.
100%, 100%, yeah.
What is also regarding to the point what we can open up also for collections?
And I just throw this out to the world right now that they also can hear this.
We basically, in the background, decided also two weeks ago that we actually want or not want.
We actually created the first 3D-based NFT asset marketplace out there.
So it's actually the world first.
We are then one step ahead of OpenSea, one step ahead of Magic Eden and Luxray and all these other guys.
So we actually have built a marketplace where all these 3D assets as NFTs live on and where you can actually buy and use them.
Just continuing to work, right?
Like, it's the nonstop pivot and adaption of what it is that you're building, how you're getting there.
And I think that the future for you guys is very bright.
I'm excited to see what comes next.
Appreciate you guys a lot, yeah.
Great to be, actually, that we are partners.
I also love all the Yaku stuff.
I mean, you guys do an amazing work.
And I think our next one we're going to rotate over to, because they've got a skate here in a minute, is Wise Whales.
So Wise Whales, for people who are interested in utilizing your tools and jumping into your project, what are the benefits that are going to be provided specifically to holders versus what is going to be available to the general public?
Yeah, I mean, it'll be NFT.
The website will be NFT-gated.
So basically nothing will be available unless you hold the NFT.
So all of our core stuff where we, you know, the core, just to quickly run things, run down kind of what we do.
The core product, we find all the whales on the blockchain, all the NFT whales, all the DeFi whales.
We parse their, like literally every whale.
We parse their entire transaction histories to figure out the most profitable whales.
And we display what they're doing in real time from NFT, you know, buying, selling, listing, and various marketplaces to DeFi activities, like getting into LP positions, swaps, perpetual positions, spot orders.
We do that aggregated over all the Wise Whales.
So it's very, like, digestible information, you know, displayed into tables and graphs.
And this is, you know, we do this in different time frames from one hour to one week.
So that's kind of the core product.
And for, you know, our tier two holders, which is three NFTs or more, there's this, these extra utilities, like Out the Gate, where we really do a deep dive into the first 48 hours.
The collection is out, and we track some more advanced metrics, like the number of botted, how much of the volume is botted versus retail versus wise versus unwise whales.
And we also keep track of which whales are, we do some labeling to keep track of which whales are diamond handed and paper handed and let you guys know, you know, when there are potentials for NFTs getting dumped.
And so we have these notifications, red light, green light notifications, where we notify all our whale holders when there's, when it looks like good buy or sell signals.
And we're offering basically 50% of all these notifications to discords.
If they're, if they're interested, you can hit me up and we can, you know, we can talk about what that takes.
And one thing we haven't heard from you yet, you need to tell people this, when, mint, where, mint, give us, give us the details.
Yeah, that's right.
So when, mint, so we're, you know, we're just kind of finalizing things.
You know, stay tuned, we'll be announced shortly, but it'll be either at the end of this month or at the very beginning of November.
So in, in, in a couple of weeks is the answer.
Um, supply is, will be between four and 6,000.
We haven't locked in the number yet.
We're kind of, uh, working through, uh, through some, um, some, some data to kind of figure that out.
Uh, but yeah, we'll, we'll be announcing kind of all that shortly.
So, uh, keep notifications on and, and hop in.
There's a proof channel for you guys for whitelist, by the way, if you hop into our discord, uh, it's called, uh, Yakoo space proof.
So I'm happy to, uh, to get you guys, uh, whitelist or anyone in this space.
That's amazing, man.
Thanks so much for giving whitelist to our, to our listeners.
And, uh, Papi, we have two weeks to change our wallets and make sure we open a bunch of fake wallets so that Wisewells cannot track us.
Hey, we're, we're, we're going to figure it out, man.
We, we, we just transfer all your NFTs over.
We will, we will see that.
We do a whole bunch of clustering, um, on an ongoing basis.
So you can't, you can't avoid it.
It's all good.
It's a, I really appreciate you guys having me on.
It's pretty bold of you, Danny, to assume that I would fall into the whale criteria.
Oh, come on.
Let, let alone the Wisewell criteria, right?
Yeah.
I'm like a, I'm like a dumb guppy.
We have some, um, we've, we've had some suggestions a number of times to make like the, the countertrade signal, the unwise whales.
So, you know, we might, we might do that as well.
Maybe, maybe we'll see you there.
Dude, I'll, I'll send you all my wallets and you'll, first off, when you first look at it, you'll be fucking shocked.
You'll be like, he bought a hundred of what?
But, and, uh, after that, I can, I can be your first test case on the unwise whale.
Love it.
Love it.
You know, you know what?
Like the next meta is going to be what you can use burned NFTs for.
That's the next meta.
You know, you have so much crap on our wallets.
Hey, there, there are already things out there.
There's a few projects that kind of, um, there's a graveyard project where you, you burn your NFTs for some, I don't know, for some token that you get wrapped.
Yeah, the mortuary one, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, there's a couple out there.
I've got, I've got like a thousand or two thousand that could use to be burned.
And honestly, at this point, if, if I could just get out of those enough for like one trip to Chipotle, that would be worth it.
Yo, dude, you laugh, but you remember when, uh, Phantom opened for a couple of days, the burn feature that you could burn directly from your Phantom?
OX Poppy told me he burned his, his, uh, rugs NFTs and he made 10 sold.
You can imagine how many he had.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
That's crazy.
At like 0.0002 sold per NFT, that motherfucker had to have burnt just thousands.
Yeah, exactly.
Oh my Lord.
Anyways, uh, it was lovely to have you, man.
I know you're going to step out, so feel free to just, you know, uh, leave us hanging whenever you want.
No problem.
Okay.
Leave us hanging.
Thanks so much for having me.
Absolutely.
Thanks for jumping in, man.
For, uh, for baby apes.
I think what the crowd needs to learn from you guys is with these art updates that are taking place,
with these dab island drops that are coming, how do people participate?
What do they need to do to join in?
And what sort of timeline are we looking at for these things to take place?
Yeah, 100%.
And I'm glad to share all of that info.
So, I mean, the alignment, which is, you know, the art upgrade, right?
That's going to start already this week, 22nd of October.
So, you know, it will be a baby ape, a baby tiger, and some dev tokens, which is our utility token, right?
Which will be required throughout the process.
No soul, you know, just basically these three things, right?
And then, uh, there will be kind of like a choice you have to make, right?
So, because we airdropped our baby tigers to our OG holders completely for free,
we are now letting people choose.
Either they want to enlighten their baby apes with 100% certainty,
and then they sacrifice the baby tiger,
or there is a 60% chance of success if you want to keep your baby tiger, right?
So, there's a little bit of a game there that you have to make, you know, make a choice.
And that starts already, like, this week, you know?
And the snapshots for the Dev Island drop,
which will have a very limited supply and multifunctional utility,
going also, like, into the future, you know?
A very, very cool drop that I'm excited about.
The snapshots are going to start basically any day now, you know?
It will be a multiple, it will be like multiple snapshots,
and a very limited supply, which we have not announced the number yet,
the number off yet.
So, yeah, I mean, in short, it's just, you know,
everyone is welcome to join the community.
See, get the baby ape they like.
All of the traits look freaking insane.
Like, if you look through our timeline,
there will be a few enlightened baby ape sneak peeks,
and you will see that they are freaking insane.
Like, there are no floor traits.
This was one of our, you know, kind of, like, goals for this collection,
to basically elevate all of them,
because, well, we have the chance to.
So, if you're listening and you're interested in jumping in
and taking part of what's going on,
sounds like it's pretty easy.
Just become a holder, right?
Exactly.
I mean, you know, we're welcoming everyone.
And, yeah, just, you know,
if anyone has any other questions, join our Discord.
Of course, you know, I'm always there every day.
I do have one other question.
So, you're working on an animated series
utilizing the intellectual property that you guys have.
So, I'm curious,
what does that sort of process look like on URM?
Are you working with an existing studio?
Are you doing it all in-house?
I know that it's a really big undertaking.
We actually looked into a couple of months ago
through a producer that I got introduced to
who's a producer over several anime studios.
What was the cost of something like that?
And it's not a cheap endeavor.
It costs a lot to get that kick-started.
So, I would just love to hear about sort of your process
of how you found who you're working with
and what it has taken for you to get from concept
to this sort of first step forward on production.
For sure, 100%.
And, I mean, for us, you know,
the huge benefit that we have is that
the CEO of BabyUp Social Club, right,
he is, like, his, you know,
web2 business is basically in the entertainment industry
and he's based in LA, right?
So, he has all of the right kind of, like, connections
and all of the right network to make this, you know, succeed, right?
And with the opportunity that we saw,
we just decided to take it, right?
And due to the connections, due to the network,
the process was already facilitated from the start, basically,
and made it also, you know, possible a lot easier, right?
In terms of the studio, we definitely, like,
it's not an in-house team, right?
As I said, it's a 25-people team that has worked with, you know,
huge companies, Netflix, Hulu, Apple in the past,
super top-quality animators,
and they're basically, you know, a separate studio, right?
Which the CEO, right, Moonwalker, is working with directly.
So, I'm not too much involved into, like, the, you know,
day-to-day processes there.
I'm more focused on the community, you know, Web3 part of it,
you know, Discord, marketing growth.
Moonwalker is basically, like, handling that process right now
with that team and working with them in tandem every day.
And then, of course, you know, that's right now.
And then in the future, I don't know if you, you know,
went to, like, how deeply you went into it,
but there were a lot of different kind of ways
that such an animated series can go, you know,
and we are, of course, not sure how it will go,
but, you know, we have the biggest goals in mind.
Because, you know, the opportunity here, right,
is that, like, there are all of these, you know,
kind of, like, existing animated series
which are being kind of developed on our other projects,
and I feel that they are very kind of like,
okay, let's tell the story of some, like, community members
or something like that, you know,
that's not going to hit the top charts in Netflix, you know?
And then at the same time, there is that whole opportunity here,
which is what I referenced to before.
Like, imagine if South Park had an NFT before,
from the beginning, from the first episode,
and you could literally, like, participate
through certain community engagements within the process, right?
Of course, like, in a controlled way,
so the quality is still top-notch, right?
But basically involve the community
and them being able to, like, as the seasons go by,
get the rewards and literally, like,
stock up on participation tokens or whatever it would be like.
Like, that's insane, you know,
IP value and brand value that's being built,
like, right there with the community as well, right?
So I think, especially with NFTs right now,
that opportunity there to kind of, like, blend it
is just insane, you know?
And, yeah, that's why we decided to take it.
100%.
And I think that this is going to be a trend
that continues to grow.
And, obviously, with a lot of competition,
there will be a lot of losers.
But being a first mover and having such a big, committed team
is definitely going to put you in a great spot.
I mean, not in Web3, but in gaming,
we've seen a huge impact on the core product
as a result of media.
So most recently, we saw Cyberpunk 2077 release,
you know, a limited series, I believe, on Netflix.
And it spiked their user numbers, like, overnight.
The show came out, people really loved it,
and it resonated with them.
And user numbers grew, like, crazy.
We saw success with League of Legends
doing their show as well.
So I think that this is something that
has been an idea for a multitude of areas
for a while, and we're sort of just now
starting to really broach it.
And I'm excited to see what comes of it.
Because when we see things in our own space,
like OK Bears partnering up, you know, with IMG
to promote their property amongst their other offerings,
I think that you're going to see the growth
of that property really quickly
in a short amount of time.
And it's going to be really pivotal
for people to understand from the outset
the long-term goals and how to deliver on it short-term.
And it sounds like you guys have got that
really squared away.
So I'm very excited for that.
And I appreciate the kind words.
And I definitely agree with, you know,
what you've been saying.
And I mean, you also got to, you know,
understand that, you know, and I'm sure you do,
that the space is really, like,
in its very, very early times, right?
Like, the whole use of NFTs is evolving.
There is so much capital and so many eyes,
you know, on the whole industry still,
you know, waiting to kind of flow into it.
So many users to be onboarded.
So I think, like, you know,
the most interesting times are yet to come.
And that's why we all decided kind of,
we are deciding to build for the future, you know?
And I think that the concept of it
and what we're working with,
because basically, like,
we literally already a few weeks back,
we got back the full deck with the storyline,
the characters described in detail, you know,
a few sketches of the, like, first episodes
and everything like that.
So from what I know, we're ahead of others,
you know, but maybe I don't know something,
you know, and it's, yeah, it's exciting, man.
I love it, man.
Thank you for jumping on today.
I have genuinely really appreciated it.
Glad to see you guys still pushing through.
For HumanX, I actually have a question for you
from our Discord.
So one of our moderators was curious,
if an NFT is not being staked
and it's sort of, like, degenerating,
for lack of a better word, right,
what do you think happens to the value
of that NFT on secondary markets?
My gut tells me, obviously,
that there will be a way for people
to sort of recognize the good standing
or bad standing of any particular asset.
And there will probably be a corresponding fluctuation
on floor prices based on that,
but would love to hear your take.
Yeah, we'll definitely,
if it were to degrade,
I think, you know,
the usual thought is,
oh, the NFT's floor price
is going to go down if it ages.
But it also goes into this kind of
rarity-based, right,
like Danny said earlier,
about, like, people trying to degrade their NFT's.
So you never really know, right?
So it's hard to really predict that,
but we'll see.
I mean, the logic says
that you should have a price
based on the price of Vibex to upgrade, right?
So if anything,
the logic would say that
as you get degraded,
you will lose the value of the Vibex
relative to what you would need
to actually revive it.
Yeah.
Does that make sense?
Yeah.
Yeah, I think the closest thing
I can think of
that's out there on markets right now
that has sort of a similar
value proposition
for individual NFTs
is I think it's vandals, right?
That they've got, like, levels
built into their NFTs.
Yeah, but that's different, right?
That's, well, I don't know.
I'm not an expert in vandals.
I don't want to...
Right.
I know that the mechanism is different.
I know the mechanism is different,
but as far as, like,
de facto, right,
you'll sort of create,
I guess,
levels within the HumanX NFTs
based on how degraded they are,
the cost it would take
to upgrade them and Vibex, right?
So they're not the same for sure,
but I think that that's probably
the closest thing out there right now.
I think, like,
it's really interesting
that at the end of the day,
we...
Well, there are always two discussions, right?
What are NFTs?
Okay, so many people think
they're the visual,
your digital self, right?
So your representation
of your physical self digitally, right?
Okay, if that's the case,
then the visual degradation
of your PFP
should be something you don't want.
But as you say,
since we're so twisted,
you never know.
Maybe some people do want it.
I don't know.
It's going to be
an interesting experiment to see.
So HumanX,
you are also still pre-Mint.
So let the people know
what is coming up for you,
what to look for for Mint Day
and all the information they may need.
All right, all right.
Well, as to now,
we don't really have a Mint Day.
We're kind of, you know,
looking at how the market adapts
because, you know,
at the end of the day,
we're trying to create
a longevity product.
So we want to make sure
that we're launching
at a good time.
So we don't have a Mint Day
announced nor supply price
right now.
Totally understandable.
I think in this current market,
it really makes sense
to sort of wait
and see how things play out
because there's so much volatility.
Things are all over the place
that there's not really a reason
to rush into those decisions.
If you've got your business plan,
if you've got laid out
exactly what you need
to accomplish your roadmap,
to pay the team,
all those sorts of things,
that you can wait a little longer
to reveal what are the prices
and quantities and things going to be
and align them
with your actual business needs.
You know, funny fact
about Human X,
if I may, Human X,
their artist is Mello.
Mello, I know him
from back in the day
because he used to do
all the fan art
for D-Gods
and he was
doing fan art
on his mobile phone
and he became
a really loved member
of the fan art community
for D-Gods
and a lot of D-Gods
really supported him.
In fact,
he got his
start
when one of the
major whales
on D-Gods,
I think it was
Free Lunch Capital,
basically said to him,
look man,
send me your wallet address,
I'll send you
enough to buy yourself
an iPad
and he actually
sponsored his iPad
and since then
he's been on fire
creating art
for Human X.
It's his first
actual salary project
and I don't know,
I'm really,
I love those stories,
I thought that was
a super cool
you know,
kind of reality
of this project
and his involvement
and yeah,
I just wanted
to let you guys
know that.
Very exciting,
man.
Love that information.
It's always good
to know about
like the variety
of team members
that are
taking part
in a project
because it takes
so many people,
right?
I mean,
just on our team alone
we've got
several artists,
right?
There are 3D modelers,
we've got people
who are building
an Unreal Engine,
we have a couple
guys who are
specifically working
on the massive
multiplayer
in addition
to a whole
app team
and so
until you really
get into those
discussions of like
what are we made
of from a human
capital side of things
it's hard to understand
the long-term
capabilities.
Yeah,
absolutely.
And the commitment,
right?
Because the human
aspect is super
important.
I don't know,
I value that a lot
and I thought it
was a really cool
thing.
I used to watch
videos of this guy
creating art
on a mobile phone.
I think he's based
in the Philippines
and,
you know,
I don't know,
I have so much
credit to people
that hustle
and do amazing
things like that
on a mobile phone.
It just doesn't
come to my mind.
I probably could
have the best software
that creates
AI art for me
and still not be
able to pull it off.
yeah,
anyways,
I admire that guy
a lot.
Well,
we've been around
the horn
for all of our
guest speakers.
I think,
Danny,
maybe now it's
time for us
to give a little
Yakku update
based on some
of the stuff
we've been putting
out there.
Let's go.
I love the Yakku
part.
Do you want to
kick it off
with some of
those exciting
nuggets of
information that
you tend to
give?
I might have
some information
to give to
some people.
That might be
something I can
pull off.
we had a pretty
big Project
Dev update
yesterday from
Daish Eisen,
who it's his
birthday today.
If you have not
gone out and
wished him a happy
birthday yet,
do it.
Blow up that
man's mentions.
But we're
really coming
to, I think,
a good spot
of closure on
a lot of
things we've
been working
on long
term.
specifically for
the Yakku
verse,
the multiplayer
is like done.
It's complete.
The things that
we're working
on right now
before we
eventually roll
it here pretty
shortly are
quality of life
things.
Because you
don't really
need multiplayer
if you can't
actually interact
with people that
are in there.
we're working
on voice chat,
proximity chat,
some Doppler
effect,
those sorts
of things
that are
going to
make that
multiplayer seem
real.
They're almost
done, but we're
still getting that
figured out.
We're also working
on getting the
new realistic
avatars put in
so we can get
rid of the
existing stock
avatar, get some
updated ones in
there.
And another big
thing, we
officially have an
application in to
be an Apple
developer so that
we can get these
Mac updates done
much quicker.
We can be in the
official Apple
app store.
so that's
going to be a
huge, huge
boost for
anyone out
there who
is experiencing
the Yakuverse
on Mac
specifically.
And we also
have all the
art on the
boats done.
So for those
of you who do
not know,
maybe we're
going to be
launching boats
minted in our
token Yaku.
And this is part
of our long-term
strategy.
So the
metaverse should
have a bunch
of experiences,
a bunch of
ways that you
can explore and
interact with
one another.
So the boats
are just going to
be one more
exciting way to
do that.
what we are
waiting on
basically to
launch those
is we want
when they come
out for them
to be fully
usable.
So the art
is all done.
The rigging on
them is all
done.
What we're
waiting on now
is the finalizing
of how they
actually work.
And so it's
like a two-part
thing.
So we've been
working on the
water.
Previously,
if you were
in a beta,
the water
doesn't look
realistic.
Like if you
walk into the
pool that's in
the mansion
right now,
it doesn't
create any ripple
effect.
There's no
sort of
obfuscation
of things
that are under
the water
because in
real world,
you know,
water refracts
light differently
and so it
creates these
sort of
alternative
perspectives on
things.
So we have
all of that
integrated now.
So the water
looks significantly
more realistic.
It's reactive
to how you
interact with it.
But now we've
got to take
that and apply
it to the
boats as well
on top of
actually making
the boats
drive,
of course.
So we're
working on
getting that
knocked out.
Very exciting
there.
And probably
I would say
maybe the
biggest thing
is we have
started on
downtown.
So the other
day in our
team call,
we actually
had mine
original who's
sort of our
lead on the
3D design
things.
He was
streaming us
driving a
cha-cha van
through the
actual downtown
of the
Yakuverse.
And we're
working on
upgrading some
of that like
stock building
and functionality
that we put
in just to
sort of build
the space
and set the
scene with
some of the
stuff that we've
made custom
in-house.
So for
anyone that's
curious,
long-term
sort of our
approach has
always been
we will
start
and over
time we
roll out all
custom assets
to replace
those ones
that are
sort of
stock.
And right
now we're
working on
that custom
experience
specifically
around
Monkey Dow
Tower
because Monkey
Dow Tower
will be
probably the
first place
that we
unlock for
multiplayer.
so the
guys are
working on
unlocking that
sort of
neighborhood
so that there's
things you can
do see and
experience there
which is very
exciting.
I got a sneak
peek the other
day, this will
be their first
real alpha
here I guess,
of a very
nice large
Ferris wheel
as an example
that's outside
of Monkey
Tower that
sits on the
waterfront that
you'll be able
to go visit
and hang out
So just one
example of the
sort of things
you can go do
and see there
that's really
exciting.
We're also
very excited
maybe a
little bit
more alpha
here to
be growing
and expanding
the app.
So we have
our first
MetaMask
connection
complete,
we've got a
new DeFi
section that's
starting to
pull together,
I see
Hawksite in
the audience,
shout out to
those guys,
we're doing
some cool
stuff with
them.
We've got
some new
user interfaces
in there,
we've got
better loading
speeds,
but the
next steps
after this
are going
to be
actually more
revolutionary.
So we get
asked a lot
and this is
just full
transparency,
like, okay,
you're building
a sniper,
I don't need
another sniper,
okay, you're
building an
aggregator,
I don't need
another aggregator,
but our
positioning for
the app is
very specific
that it's
an all-in-one.
We're trying
to provide
everything so
that if you're
a new user,
if you've
been in the
space for a
while,
that it's
the most
convenient place
for you to
go to manage
your Web3
life and learn
about what's
taking place
here.
So once we
have these
what I would
consider more
basic utilities,
finished,
finalized,
polished,
working perfectly,
the next step
is truly
creating things
that have not
been seen
before.
So I can't
give a ton
of alpha
on that,
but I think
the only
example that's
live is our
HR tool.
It's pretty
unique in the
space,
and it's only
the first of
many things
that we're
going to be
rolling out
like that.
So I'm
very excited
on that front,
and I
think that's
probably the
big ones,
the big
checkboxes
that we can
talk about
right now,
unless you
think that
there's
something I'm
missing that
you want to
tack in there,
Danny.
Yeah,
first of all,
I want to
tell you that
we have
favoritism in
the Yaku
team,
because I
did not
see the
Ferris wheel,
so big
no and big
complaint on
that,
but except
for that,
yeah,
there's quite
a lot of
things that
you don't
actually know
about,
Papi,
and I
maybe can
give something
here that's
going to
be exciting.
You know
that burn
function that
we have
for NFTs?
What about
if every time
you burn
one of your
rugged NFTs,
you get a
ticket for a
lottery?
That's something
I'm working in
the background
that I haven't
even told the
team,
and I think
it's going to
make things
really exciting.
yeah,
there's a lot
of things that
we're working
We have a
very big
partnership
that's going
to be
announced
very soon,
which is
going to
make the
infrastructure
of our
game
very
how can
I put
Composable,
and I
think if
you were
paying
attention,
you'll
probably know
what it
because they
were here
in the
space.
A lot
of really
cool surprises
coming in
as well
regarding
some of
transportation
in the
metaverse,
but I'm
not going
to say
anything
about that.
I really
wish that I
could post
some more
free alpha.
We have
another
company that
we've been
working with
on some
cool stuff,
and they
send us
over an
example of
a little
more detailed
animation for
YakuX
avatars,
and they're
supposedly
getting me a
better video,
so I can't
share the
one that I
have,
because I've
been told,
we're going
to have a
better one.
But the
one I got
was cool,
so I really
wanted to
tweet it,
and I got
shamed by
everyone.
They were
like,
we can't
show this
man anything,
or he'll
just tweet it
out immediately,
which is
true.
So I'm
really excited
to show.
It's going
to make,
I mean,
the future of
interactivity in
the metaverse
is going to be
very exciting.
It's going to
get way more
complex all the
time,
and so I'm
excited to
share what
are the sort
of first
breadcrumbs of
where we're
headed long
term with how
you can really
interact with
one another.
Did you see,
Papi,
that the way
that that was
done was
actually acted?
Did you
realize that?
Yeah,
real human
motion capture,
which is like
ideal.
Which is crazy
that somebody
can actually
do that.
Yeah,
I think what
they did is
they actually
went and got
Jackie Chan
and he did
it for them
live.
Exactly.
That's what I
was wondering.
When he said
that, I was
like, whoa,
wait a second,
somebody could
actually do
that in real
life?
So, yeah,
there's going
to be a lot
of really cool
animations in
Yaku for
the avatars.
I think it's
going to be
really exciting.
Finally, we
are getting a
lot of
recognition from
the ecosystem
as a whole.
I mean, I
think 3D art
is coming
back into
fashion.
Metaverse
and gaming
assets are
going to
differentiate
itself with
the ZERO
royalty stock.
So, yeah,
I'm really
excited to see
our team
evolving and
flourishing and
our project
just growing to
finally be able
to put things
out there that
we've been
working for so
long.
So, thank
you all for
being so
patient.
I know it's
taking a lot
of time, but
our community
has been
extremely patient
and believed
in us.
And for
that, I
am personally
very, very,
very grateful.
And Danny
will personally
make it up to
anyone in
Lisbon by
buying them
a tequila
shot.
Oh, no doubt.
Hell yeah.
Hell yeah.
Absolutely.
Anybody coming
to Lisbon,
please hit me
I'd love to
meet all the
Yaku fans and
all the members
and friends.
and I'm down
to inviting
everyone for
tequila.
But probably
after the
second one,
I won't be
able to walk,
but I guess
you can carry
me to the
apartment.
Little did
you know that
the whole
reason I do
deadlifts is
just in
preparation of
carrying you
home.
Hell yeah.
Hell yeah.
Yeah.
I'm down.
I'm down.
Carry me
home, man.
No problem.
We have
Holy Soly that
requested to
speak.
What's up?
Holy Soly.
Hi, Danny.
Hi, puppy.
Hi to everyone.
Well, I'll
take that
tequila shot,
Danny.
Seven o'clock
this morning.
Let's go.
Unique is
calling me
asking if I
booked the
flights yet.
And yeah,
it's from
where I'm
living in
Norway.
It looks
like it's
going to be
a long
journey,
but see
you and
yeah,
I'll enjoy
that tequila.
But I have
one question.
In regards
to I know
you guys are
doing a lot
in Yucky
Wars and
a lot of
partnerships
and you
know,
like as I
said before,
I've been
in the
community from
the minting
first mint
actually.
Is there
any like
reward system
you guys
thought about
in regards
to those
holders,
maybe from
the mint
time until
now?
Is there
anything as
such that's
planned yet
or is it
something to
be looked
into?
You mean
apart from
staking?
Yeah,
but you
know,
the ones
who minted
Hey puppy,
Holy
Soli wants
a free
airdrop.
Do you
think we
should send
him a free
airdrop
of something?
I have,
look,
I have like
nine NFTs
I need to
burn.
So if you
send me your
wallet,
I can send
those to you.
All right.
Okay,
that's great.
What a gift.
today we
actually had
one of our
designers.
So we've
been thinking
about like how
to create
basically like
themed experiences
around holidays
and stuff,
right?
Halloween is
coming up.
So we thought
maybe it could
be fun to
do airdrops
of holiday
related decorations
and things for
your capsules,
like art you
can hang on
the wall,
that kind of
stuff.
So it might
be cool to
go back to
the sort of
drawing board
and use some
of the on-chain
data we've
got and maybe
create some
priority for
some of
those things
for those
early adopters
and early
community members.
That could be
fun and it
could be an
easy thing
to knock
out there.
Yeah,
we will do
that for sure.
We've also
got Crypto
Columbus up
here.
What's up?
We recently
celebrated your
holiday.
How's it going?
Yeah,
no relation,
but thank you.
Appreciate that.
Came in
and just say
what's up to
Danny and
I'm excited
about what
you guys are
doing.
Yaku.
Danny,
congrats on
the collaboration.
I'm excited
to see the
continued
progression with
your brand
and your
project.
I know you're
building something
for the long
term,
so I'm just
excited to be a
part of it.
I joined the
community,
bought a few
NFTs,
which I really
haven't been
doing because I
think most
projects are
kind of dead
right now.
but I think
the projects
that are really
building for
the future
like you guys
are doing
are going to
stand the
test of time
and be able
to be standing
after all the
carnage.
I'm excited to
just come in
and support you
guys.
I also wanted to
share some
information that
Danny is not
sharing.
I think it's
kind of shady.
Danny gave
Elton some
tequila.
He hasn't
shared that
with anybody.
That's why Elton
was dead for
freaking seven
hours while Danny
went for his run.
So if the
reason why Danny
is okay is
because he's
giving the
tequila to Elton
and freaking
poor dog is
sitting on his
bed for like
12 hours.
If I take a
picture of
Chris of
that, of
how he is,
he's still in
the same
position.
So yeah,
maybe, maybe
he does have
a drinking
problem.
I don't know.
But yeah,
you know,
Papi probably
is not aware
of this,
but Christopher
Columbus was
actually the
one that
fixed and
sorted and
is working
on with
us the
transportation
initiative for
the future
that we're
working on.
I didn't
know if you
were going to
do that and
I lift that to
you as founder,
but yeah,
I'm excited.
I had a
conversation with
Danny.
I'm working
with his
friends and
team and
we came up
with the
concept.
I had an
idea.
I pitched it
to Danny.
He liked it.
And now the
team, the
people who
actually build
this stuff are
building it.
I'm not a
builder.
I don't code.
I'm more of a
business guy.
But yeah, so I'm
excited about that.
And I think the
community is going
to be super
excited with what
we come up
with and what
you're going to
get.
I think it's
going to be
actually, it's
going to blow
people's faces
off.
And we're
looking to
over-deliver
and provide
value to the
Yaku universe
and also to
the holders and
also to
obviously our
brand that as
creators who
want to produce
quality work and
help the
metaverse continue
to expand and
get people to
understand that
even though the
metaverse is a
ways away, we're
not going to
have a VR, AR
experience right
now.
We're years away
from that.
Though we need
to strategically
place at least
companies like
Yaku and
entities that are
interested in
space, they need
to strategically
place themselves
in that space
and build the
technology so
that when the
lights go on,
they're ready to
just go 100
miles an hour.
So I'm
excited.
So yeah, it's
cool.
I'm stoked.
I brought it
up, but I'm
glad you did.
For some more
alpha, I guess,
all I'll say is
we have right now
for transportation
the motorcycles.
We've got, of
course, cha-cha
vans getting
brought in.
Everyone knows
the boats are
coming.
But land and
sea will not
be the only
forms of
transportation in
the near-ish
future.
So I'm just
going to leave
you guys with
that.
Oh, he's
dropped the
bomb.
Oh, Papi.
Papi Chula.
Papi Chula
loves the
nuggets of
information.
Got that.
No, it's
really cool,
guys.
You know, I
have to say,
like, what I'm
really, really
excited about in
this bear market
is that it's
given so many
projects the
chance to
stop, look
around, see
what other
people can
bring value
to the
project, and
start opening
up and
collaborating and
building together.
This is something
that in the bull
market, people
don't have a lot
of time to do.
So if I can
take something
off this situation
right now in the
market, it's that
it's given us a
huge amount of
time to actually
collaborate with
some amazing
talented people.
So, yeah, I'm
excited about all
that.
I think it's
going to bring
some stuff that
people are not
expecting to
Yaku, thanks to
a lot of
brilliant minds
behind the
scene working.
I feel like I
can run through a
fucking wall right
now.
What a
motivational speech.
Don't do it.
Don't do it.
Don't do it.
We don't want you
to be out of
commission for a
month or two.
But, yeah, no,
I mean, there's a
lot going on behind
the scenes.
I just think
that, like
Danny said, if
you're, how do
I put it, man?
Listen, if you're
a builder, right,
and you're trying
to create
something, you
have to be
resolute in
your decision
to maintain a
long-term
perspective if
you're going to
be in this
space.
Because during
a bear market,
nothing is
selling, volumes
are low.
If you're in
here for a
pump and dump,
maybe you can
get a little
bit of hype,
FOMO.
Get your
project minted
out, but then
you're going to
be the slow
rug person and
then you'll have
that reputation
and then, you
know, that's
tarnished, right?
So you don't
want to do
that.
So if you're
really in it,
you have to
be willing to
think outside
the box and
collaborate with
as many people
as possible.
Help as many
other people be
successful as
possible.
Get as many
chips as you
can in your
pocket where
you have
connected
somebody with
someone with
no expectation.
do that.
When you've
done that five
or ten times,
you've got five
or ten chips.
You can make a
phone call and
say, hey, listen,
I need some
help.
They're going to
help you.
And especially if
you have an idea
that doesn't cost
them some money
and helps them
make money while
also making you
and your team
money, it's a
freaking win,
win, win, win,
win.
So this is what I
recommend.
This is how it
works in the real
world.
You know, and
you take those
real world principles
and you apply them
to Web3.
I'm an old
fart, so maybe
call me antiquated.
That's fine.
But that's how it
does work.
And I think if
some of the
younger generation
were to apply
some of that
knowledge and
some of that
kind of know-how,
it would be a
little bit easier.
Not to say it's
going to be
guaranteed success
because this
market is
tumultuous and
it goes up and
down very easily
and you never
know which way
the wind's going
to blow, so
you have to be
agile.
That's what I
also remain
want to throw
out there.
The last thing
I'm going to say
because I
jump out, is
be agile.
Don't be set
in your ways.
If you have an
idea that you
really love but
you're realizing
it's not going
to work, pivot,
pivot, pivot,
pivot.
Be willing to
change.
Be willing to
go in another
direction because
if you get set
in your ways and
you're not willing
to be flexible
and not willing
to read the
tea leaves and
say, well,
this idea is
not going to
work now because
it was a six
months ago
relevant idea and
it's not going
to be relevant
now.
Change.
Be willing to
pivot.
So just throw
that out there.
That's a great
point, man.
I appreciate
that.
You know, I
always learn when
I listen to you.
So thank you for
coming to our
space.
Thank you for
giving that
welcome information.
It's nice.
We have a lot of
boomers in the
crowd today.
Thank God
because I feel
more at home.
It's it's I'm not
going to dox any
of you, but pretty
much every speaker
here is a
boomer.
And yeah, I'm
out here
representing for
that millennial
gang.
OK, so we got
some diversity up
here.
We're living
we're living
vicariously through
Papi Chulo, us
married guys.
Exactly.
Just wait.
That's why I'm
waiting to go with
Papi Chulo to
Elizabeth because
I'm going to live
through him.
I'm just going
to be like
sneaking behind
his door and
seeing what
he's doing.
I'm definitely
popping Viagra
in his pocket.
Yeah, you'll
all get to
experience it with
Life's a roller
coaster, you
know, just
fucking strap in
and throw those
hands up.
I'm not
strapping on
anything, man.
Yeah, no
strap on.
Take the strap
ons off, right?
That's your
thing.
No, no
judgment, but
yeah, no
judgment.
Yeah, no
judgment.
We're open
mine.
We can build
no room for
that in the
Yakuverse.
You know
what?
One thing we
don't do in
the Yakuverse is
we do not
kink shame.
We are open.
So if
like Stripped
Owl wants to
come to us and
work on a
space, you know
what?
Like, let's
fucking do it.
Yo, don't
say it twice
because my
friend RH
from Seven
Sins keeps
on DMing me
and saying,
when?
Strip
Bar in the
Yakuverse.
I'm going to
build it.
Can I pay
you to
build it?
And I'm
like, wait,
let's open a
few other
things in the
open map first
before you
open the
strip club.
It'll be great
timing, though.
There's been a
whole fucking
meme lately on
TikTok and
Instagram reels
of guys
purporting that
they've been
making thousands
of dollars
role-playing as
strippers in the
metaverse, which
is obviously not
really happening,
but it absolutely
cracks me up.
So it might
be a good
opportunity to
leverage some
of that viral
content out
there to get
them some
notoriety.
No, but you
know, in all
honesty, I tell
you, I've been
really, really
surprised by
some of the
projects being
built by really
legitimate builders
like Crash
Kitty and
people like
that, that
are over 18
projects.
And I guess
it's only natural
that eventually
these things get
built, right?
because there's
always a demand
for that, but
it's so healthy
to see, right,
that finally
things are being
built and
nobody has
taboos on
them.
I don't know,
I'm really
super excited
about all
that stuff
that's going
Yeah, I
mean, in
the past,
that's for
over 18
genre of
business, has
always been a
pretty quick
adopter of
technology.
Like, there
was the joke
back in the
day that when
Blu-ray came
out and it
was Blu-ray
versus HD
DVD, that the
only reason
Blu-ray won is
because that's
where the porn
went.
And I think
that, you
know, it's
kind of a
joke, it's
fun to talk
about, but
I mean, there's
some truth to
it, that they
tend to be
early adopters
in that area.
Yeah, that's
true, yeah,
absolutely.
Yo, we got
fun guys here,
if you want to
come up and
talk, please
feel free.
If anybody
else wants to
come up and
talk, feel
free, this is
probably the last
chance you get
because we
normally cut this
at around
two-hour mark,
so, you
know, we're
getting pretty
close.
Yes, always,
always open,
open format
here.
Every Yak
Who's Day, if
you want to
ever pop up
and ask
questions of
our guests,
if you just
want to
contribute a
little something
something, or
fuck, I mean,
if you just
want to come
up and shill
your project,
even, we'll
hear you out.
Very open
feeling here,
obviously, based
on the fucking
last five minutes
of conversation
we've had here.
No subject
can go
untouched.
Well, nothing
is apparently
untouched with
the strap on
it, you
know?
Hell yeah,
no, nothing.
Yeah, I
agree.
You know, it's
funny because
I had this
fire pit space
the other day
grilling all the
projects and
actually, Holy
Solely won that
space, so
congrats, man,
for that.
Thank you,
bro, thank
you.
And we've
got fun guys.
Yeah.
Fun guys, I
feel like we
have had a long
overdue
conversation
about what
you guys are
up to and
opportunities to
get some cool
shit done in the
Yakoverse together.
Man, I'm so
excited.
I know we, I
chatted with
Danny just a
brief moment
this morning.
I was dropping
my kids to
school.
He was picking
kids up.
We're on
opposite sides
of the globe,
but...
Dude, I need
all of you
respectfully to
be slightly
less domesticated.
I wish, dude.
I wish.
It comes with
age, papi.
It comes with
age, man.
Yeah, but so
on our end,
we've been
just kind of
working all
over the
place, wearing
a lot of
hats.
I see a lot
of potential.
I know we've
been talking.
We helped
the famous
Fox team
build out
all of their
7,777
collection for
3D avatars.
We've been
testing them
in portals.
They're looking
beautiful.
This morning, I
think we sent
some stuff over
to you guys
and getting
some feedback,
but really
figuring out
right now
on our end
just what
base standards
are across the
board.
So we're
learning a lot
through
conversation with
portals and
now opening up
the talks with
you guys for
figuring out
what standards
we need to
meet to make
across-the-board
composability.
So we're
building out a lot
of avatars and
experiences for a
lot of other
projects.
In-house for
Fun Guys, we've
gone and done
three different
versions of our
characters.
So our
gnome body,
one that's more
of a human
style, and then
this fun god or
this huge buff
character with
wings and stuff.
So we're
working with
the I'm
so NFT team
for bringing
this custom
Funimator.
So we've
modeled all of
our assets,
rigged them,
and we'll have
that to the
holders.
But really,
I see the
biggest thing
kind of like
you were saying
is while this
metaverse is a
little bit further
out, we're
trying to also
position ourselves
where, like you
said, when the
lights turn on,
we're ready to
run.
So we're really
focused right now
on building out
partner relationships,
getting to know a
lot of the other
founders, building
those friendships,
and then finding
collaborative ways we
can all come
together, use our
strengths to not
only benefit our
particular projects,
but the ecosystem
as a whole.
So I'm excited to
continue conversations
with you guys
behind the scenes
and see what we
can bring to
fruition with the
Yakuverse.
Hell yeah, no
doubt we'll do
things together.
You guys are
talented as hell
and great people
too.
So I'm sure our
whole team is
really looking
forward to working
with you.
I'll definitely hit
you up after the
space and go more
in detail.
Awesome, man.
I'm actually...
Oh, go ahead.
Oh, I was
going to say, I
think just in
general, like
working in the
metaverse space
is so much
more collaborative
than a lot of
other projects
that are out
there.
It really does
take a village.
I mean, you're
talking about
like the easy
composability of
assets across
experiences, right?
That's not done
in a silo.
You don't just
wake up one day
and go, I'm
going to make
everything for
everywhere.
It's just not
possible.
So it takes
teams coming
together and
working together
and it benefits
everybody, right?
I mean, it
benefits fun guys,
it benefits us,
it benefits all
the holders,
it definitely
benefits the
people who are
taking part in
these experiences
to have a wide
range of assets
and areas they
can visit.
So I think it's
just like very
cool to be in
the scenario that
we are because
everyone is so
open to working
together and they
understand the
value prop of
being collaborative
and on top of
that, the teams
across the border
are just like
genuinely fucking
good people,
which is so
important.
I mean, it's
cool if you're
the brightest and
the smartest and
the most talented,
but if you're a
fucking dickhead,
I mean, people
don't want to
work with you and
it makes it
really difficult and
we have been very
lucky that we have
not come across
that at all yet.
It's so weird when
you said that I
looked directly at
the fun guys
PFP and it was
like, it looks
like a dickhead and
I was like, oh,
it's so weird, but
he seems like a
nice guy.
I was like, but
this is so weird.
No, I'm being
silly, but fun guys,
I mean, and
Poppy, you said
such a really
those words were
like what you
just said was
so well summarized.
I mean, you
are creating
kind of a
multi-dimensional
experience, right?
And when you
have all this
different collaboration
going on in the
metaverse with
all these different
minds, everybody
cannot create the
same kind of
thing, right?
Everybody has
their own talent,
their own unique
perspective, their
own creative
niche that they
bring to the
space, and when
you fuse all that
together, it's
kind of like
Sancocho, it's
like a smorgasbord
of all this
different stuff
mixed into the
metaverse, and it
provides a diverse
experience for the
people that are in
the metaverse to
wow, I got the
cha-cha vans, and
I got the
yakuverse, and I
got the fun guys,
and I got all this
stuff happening, and
you're like, wow,
this is really
interesting.
That can't happen
if you don't have
collaboration, because
it's not like, you
know, yakuverse has
created the feel of
their brand, but
they can't create
also the mushrooms
and the this and
the that and
everything else,
because it's
impossible.
You have to have a
diversity of
collaboration so
that you can make
the experience
unique and just
interesting and very
complex and layered
and intricate, and
that's what's
happening with these
collaborations.
I never heard
about fun guys, but
I got to tell you,
I'm a super, super
big fan in the real
world of mushrooms,
because I'm an
herbalist, so I make
medicinal formulas, you
know, for a living.
This is what I do.
But, so when I
sold mushrooms, I
was like, this is a
cool brand, but I
never heard of you
guys until just now,
but I'm so excited to
see different,
refreshing, kind of
like, quirky, unique
projects, you know,
getting into the
metaverse and
contributing.
Listen, if
everybody's can, if
everyone contributes
together, there's
enough money to
spread around so
that everybody can
equally share from
that pot and
create a metaverse
that's really,
really fun to be
a part of because
it's so, like, you
know, depth deep in
terms of its, the
contributions from so
many people, and
it's complex, and
it's interesting.
If just one person
created, like,
Facebook, oh, I'm
going to create a
metaverse.
No, no, we don't
want your metaverse,
first of all, and
second, the way you're
approaching it isn't
probably the way the
metaverse was intended
to be, a diverse
collection of
thoughts from
different people, and
everybody kind of
comes together like a
melting pot and
creates this amazing
place.
So that's what's
happening here.
I'm excited to
actually, you know,
I'm a novice to
this, you know, I'm
just getting into the
soul ecosystem.
I have no clue what
Danny's talking about
half the time with all
these freaking stories
about how he knows
how, you know, things
happened, and I don't
even know projects that
well in terms of soul.
I'm, in terms of that,
green, but what I do
provide is at least a
little bit of a
business mind so that
we can grow as a space
and be, like, successful.
So I learned a lot,
Danny, by the way.
I wanted to give you
kudos, man, because
that story about how,
like, the iPad, I was
listening while I was
working here in the
office, and about,
like, oh, how someone
bought an iPad for
somebody, and that's how
that all started.
Don't, that's super
alpha.
That's really cool stories,
and that just shows,
you know, that Danny's
been around, and he
pays attention.
So, you know, support
founders like that
because these are people
who are, you know,
aware and have a pulse
on what is actually
going on in the space.
You know, founders that
you never hear from,
founders that disappear,
founders that just,
you know, get on the
Twitter space once every
few months when they
have some sort of
collaboration and
partnership, and they
announce it, and then
they disappear.
I'm not saying that
those founders aren't
building because they
could be behind the
scenes.
Not everybody is, you
know, up front and
transparent and always
present, but the
founders that are, man,
support them because
those are the ones that
are going to be around,
not going to be the
rug pulls that you, you
know, see very
frequently.
So, you know, I just
wanted to say kudos to
you, dude, for real,
for real, for real,
for real, because I,
you know, you said you
learned from me.
I learned a lot from
hearing you, bro.
So, just real talk.
Thank you, brother.
Thank you, thank you.
Since you're new to the
ecosystem, here's some
hard financial advice.
Buy as many bold
badgers as possible.
Also, financial advice,
please, God, nobody go
buy bold badgers.
That was very much a
joke.
Don't clip that part
either, because I know
how this works.
All of a sudden, it'll
be like, Yaku's out
here shilling bold
badgers, and someone's
going to play that five
seconds.
Don't go buy bold
badgers.
I'm confused.
I don't know what to do.
Do not buy bold badgers.
No, I'm not.
Thanks, Papi.
I appreciate you, bro.
Yeah, thanks, Papi.
Well, we're hitting the
two-hour and ten-minute
mark here, so I just want
to say thank you to all
of our featured guests
that showed up today.
Big shout-outs to them.
It was a super fun day.
I got to learn a lot about
what's happening.
We had Good Vibrations
on here, Style Protocol,
Human X, as well as
Baby Ape Social Club,
and now I'm forgetting
one.
Oh, my God, we had so
many people on.
We've been here so long,
I'm forgetting the last
person, so I apologize to
them.
But it's been a great
time.
Thank you to Fun Guys
for popping up.
Thank you to Crypto
for Columbus for jumping
up here, holy solely.
We do this every Tuesday
at 2 p.m.
UTC.
We've got some featured
guests.
We talk about the market
in general.
Very open format.
Definitely recommend
everyone who spoke today.
You're more than welcome
to come back next week
and the week after.
So I think I'm going to
close this out just by
sticking with the anime
theme here.
We got the new season
of Bleach that was
finally launched after so
long, and we have a
release date for season
two of Jujutsu Kaisen
next year.
So I'm going to play us a
little Jujutsu Kaisen
outro music as we outro
the spaces.
Looking forward to
seeing everyone again
next week.
I'm not a young man.
It's okay.
I'm not a young man.
I'm not a young man.
I'm not a young man.
in my life
I'm scared of
the way to home
I'm going to
freeze and going to
light your feelings
when I get to
all my life
I'm afraid and going to
light your feelings
there's no time to
stay
I've
I've
I've
I've
