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Metaverse Ready Avatars - these PFP projects are crushing innovation
A stellar line up of speakers right at the very bleeding edge of what's happening in the next generation of PFP nft's. The look on Benoit's face when he realises what ASM are building is priceless.
00:00 Countdown
00:11 Introductions
00:54 Brooke Howard Smith (Fluf)
02:24 Aaron McDonald (Non Fungible Labs)
03:38 David McDonald (ASM)
05:06 Kai Turner (Meebits DAO)
08:43 Benoit Pagotto (RTFKT - Clone X)
11:57 Community and tooling
13:38 The birth of Meebits DAO - the need to fill the void
17:30 Mind-blowing AI brains for NFTs via ASM, Metaverses are boring right now
23:27 Clone X metaverse?
26:19 The power of small communities
27:39 Flufs 'Burrow' reveal
28:45 Benoit respect to da Flufs
29:40 The Thingies - massive ALPHA drop - NFTs that paint while you sleep!?
33:10 Power of small communities part 2
34:40 Meebits DAO thesis of Franchise IP and making money not a problem
39:13 NFTs have hit a tipping point, this wasn't just a bubble
41:05 RTFKT and creating culture in an open system
45:20 Tension of bringing old skool creative structures like agents into this space
50:40 Artists the real winners here, or are they?
53:22 Benoit suddenly realises just how smart the FLUFs are!
53:51 Where the Defiant is going with virtual production
55:27 Cory Strassburger is amazing (XANADU) (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd7Sf-HvhwirCnBpADqAr5A)
57:04 Collabs between the projects, spontaneously happened
59:10 Inclusivity, diversity and the challenge of bringing in new voices
1:07:00 Importance of educating while building
1:10:39 Not just making money but helping people make money
SPEAKER LINEUP
Benoit Pagotto - Co-founder RTFKT Studios (CloneX)
https://twitter.com/benitopagotto
Kai Turner - Meebits DAO, Block :: Block
https://twitter.com/kaigani
Brooke Howard-Smith - Co-founder Non Fungible Labs
https://twitter.com/Brooke_hs
Aaron MacDonald - Centrality AI, Fluf World
https://twitter.com/aaronmcdnz
David MacDonald - Founder Altered State Machine
https://twitter.com/dmcd_nz
COMPANY LINKS
RTFKT STUDIOS
https://rtfkt.com/
https://clonex.rtfkt.com/
https://twitter.com/RTFKTstudios
FLUF WORLD
https://fluf.world/
https://twitter.com/FLUF_World
ALTERED STATE MACHINE
https://www.alteredstatemachine.xyz/
https://twitter.com/altstatemachine
MEEBITS DAO
https://www.meebitsdao.world/
https://twitter.com/MeebitsDAO
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Alp Gasimov: https://twitter.com/alpgasimov
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