Zima Red

By Andrew Steinwold

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Charles Smith - Nifty Island, Gamification, $ISLAND, AI and More - ep 162

Zima RedJan 30, 2025

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01:00:21

Nic Young – The Future of AI Girlfriends – ep 174

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Jun 05, 202501:05:47

Aya Kantorovich – Inside August’s $12B Trading Engine for Digital Assets – ep 173

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Apr 18, 202501:01:50

Hunter Horsley – Scaling Bitwise Into a $12B Giant – ep 172

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Apr 14, 202501:08:14

Joshua Frank – Building The Tie, Crypto's Institutional Data Backbone – ep 171

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Apr 07, 202501:03:00

Sidney Powell – Maple and Syrup Finance: All Capital Markets are Moving On-Chain – ep 170

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Mar 13, 202501:16:50

Brandon Kumar – How Layer3 is Building the Google of Crypto – ep 169

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Mar 10, 202501:14:51

Ilja Moisejevs & Richard Wu – How Tensor & Vector are Revolutionizing Crypto Trading – ep 168

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Mar 04, 202501:09:45

Michael O'Connor – Youmio: The Future of AI Agents & Creativity – ep 167

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Feb 21, 202501:12:02

Sergey Gorbunov – Solving Crypto’s Biggest Problem with Axelar: Interoperability – ep 166

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Feb 18, 202501:01:15

Konstantin Richter - Billion-Dollar Crypto Infrastructure Race - ep 165

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Feb 13, 202501:09:21

Ian Cummings - Photo Finish, $CROWN, and the $50 Billion Dollar Horse Racing Market - ep 164

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Feb 05, 202501:10:28

Dr. Steven Waterhouse (SEVEN) - The AI Wars, Decentralized Compute, and Crypto’s Next Chapter - ep 163

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Feb 03, 202501:06:60

Charles Smith - Nifty Island, Gamification, $ISLAND, AI and More - ep 162

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Jan 30, 202501:00:21

Prashant Maurya - Spheron Network, Decentralized Compute, Agents, and AI Infrastructure - ep 161

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Jan 25, 202501:18:26

Rb3k - Trench Warrior, Onchain Sleuth, Crypto Trader - ep 160

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Jan 11, 202501:26:04

Brian Crain - Future Of The Trillion Dollar Staking Economy With Chorus One - ep 159

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Dec 17, 202401:08:59

Greg Osuri - Akash: Decentralized Compute Marketplace - ep 158

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Nov 26, 202401:10:37

Alexandre Turbide - Beatconnect: The Gamification of Music - ep 156

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Apr 09, 202459:35

Anton Kraminkin - Making sleep fun with Sleepagotchi - ep 151

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Mar 26, 202447:57

Spencer - Investing in the niche asset class of NFTs with Spencer Ventures - ep 155

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Mar 25, 202401:09:16

Leonidas - Ordinals 101: Dawn of a new asset class - ep 154

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Mar 24, 202401:03:56

Jonah Blake - The evolution of web3 gaming - ep 153

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Mar 21, 202401:34:52

Noah Davis - Fountain: The future of art is digital - ep 152

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Mar 13, 202401:12:16

Milan Harris - Boxed.gg: Gamifying Collectibles - ep 150

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Mar 09, 202459:23

Jean-Michel Pailhon - Investing in the trillion dollar market of NFT art - ep 149

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Dec 02, 202301:02:30

Ian Cummings - The ultimate fantasy horse racing game with Photo Finish LIVE - ep 148

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Nov 30, 202301:10:22

TylerD - The most trusted source for NFT news & information - ep 147

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Nov 27, 202358:09

Ladan Jiracek - Time for the Matrix? The present & future of Brain Machine Interfaces - ep 146

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Aug 07, 202355:06

David Mařák - AR & VR: The future of immersive technology - ep 145

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Aug 04, 202301:07:29

Bilawal Sidhu - How AI is changing creative technology..and everything else - ep 144

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Aug 01, 202301:53:38

Sam & Bryce - Omega Runner: Universe, brand & IP in the age of AI - ep 143

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Jul 27, 202301:08:32

Nick Confrey - Seam: The evolution of social media - ep 142

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Jul 24, 202355:31

Mike Netzer - Data Centers 101: What powers our modern world - ep 141

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Apr 14, 202350:02

Doug Shapiro - How AI will impact and change media forever - ep 140

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Apr 11, 202357:26

Jarrod Dicker - TCG: Investing in companies that define culture - ep 139

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Apr 08, 202301:02:39

Ben Desai - The Future of Augmented & Virtual Reality - ep 138

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Apr 07, 202301:01:05

Justin & JP Alanís - StoryCo: Hollywood's "Internet" Moment - ep 137

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Apr 03, 202301:05:37

Luca Netz - Pudgy Penguins: The IP Company - ep 136

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Mar 30, 202351:14

Susan Cummings - Petaverse: Immortal virtual pets - ep 135

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Mar 27, 202350:38

Tor Bair - Secret & Stashh: Private Blockchain & NFTs - ep 134

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Mar 24, 202301:05:35

Josie Bellini - CyberBrokers: Bringing the metaverse to life - ep 133

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Mar 21, 202301:00:01

Based AF: Metaverse-native content studio - Robin Schmidt - ep 132

My audio is not great in this clip, so sorry and will be fixed going forward.

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Jan 17, 202301:17:03

Dan Nissanoff - Game of Silks: Bringing Thoroughbred Horse Racing To Web3 - Zima Red ep 131

My guest today is Dan Nissanoff who is the founder of Game of Silks, aka Silks. Silks is a fantasy thoroughbred horse racing game that allows you to buy, trade, breed and race virtual horses that mirror the actual performance of real horses.

Dan and I discuss:

The Kentucky Derby
The billion dollar horse racing industry
The fantasy sports industry
How Silks economy mirrors the IRL world
Taking care of your virtual horse
Silks avatars as the gateway into the Silks metaverse
And so much more

Hope you enjoy this stellar conversation with Dan.

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Jul 21, 202201:11:58

Nick Kokonas - Trader, Michelin Restaurateur, Tech Founder With A $400m Exit - Zima Red 130

My guest today is Nick Kokonas. Nick is a modern day Renaissance man: formerly a successful trader, he is the founder of multiple Michelin star restaurants and also a tech founder, having recently sold his startup for $400m.

On this episode we discuss:

His incredible success as a trader
Creating multiple Michelin star restaurants
Starting a tech company
Selling his company to Squarespace
His thoughts on crypto
How NFTs will change the world
And so much more

This is one you do not want to miss. Please enjoy my conversation with Nick

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Jul 19, 202201:01:05

Foobar - Web3 Polymath: Investing, Building, Learning, Teaching - Zima Red ep 129

My guest today is Foobar. Foobar is a polymath and involved with all aspects of web3. Building, investing, learning, teaching, he has an incredible mind that has thoughtful views that we explore thoroughly on this episode.

We discuss:

Building games
Machine learning and NFTs
Investing and building in web3
How non-fungible and fungible tokens are merging
The psychology around investing in web3
Thoughts on the current bear market
The collapse of terra & luna
What he is currently building
His newsletter
And much more

Please enjoy this incredible conversation with Foobar.

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Jul 17, 202201:08:55

Jiran - Playing The Great Crypto Game: Investing, Building & Exploring Web3 - Zima Red ep 128

My guest today is Jiran. Jiran is an active trader, investor and explorer of all things web3.

On this episode we chat:

How web3 is currently all one giant metagame
How tribalism impacts NFT prices
The blockchain as the ultimate information & investing tool
NFTs as historical artifcats
On-Chain analysis - what it is and how to use it
Why understanding people generates the most alpha

And so much more

Pleas enjoy my conversation with Jiran

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Jul 12, 202201:03:05

Tim Schuermer - Gallop: The Ultimate Tool for NFT Data - Zima Red ep 127

My guest today is Tim Schuermer who is a co-founder of Gallop. Gallop has created a set of developer tools that expand the utility of NFTs. These tools are built for all developers, creators and investors, active in the NFT space.

On this episode we discuss:

The current state of NFT data
Why aggregating data for NFTs is so difficult
Why a product like Gallop needs to exist
How NFT data can be used to create advanced financial products
The multifaceted utility of NFTs
How we early we are in the financial NFT revolution
And so much more

Please enjoy my conversation with Tim

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Jun 29, 202252:05

Charles & Zunk - Nifty Island: Game World Empowering Creators & Gamers - Zima Red ep 126

My guests today are Charles & Zunk the co-founders of Nifty Island. Nifty Island is an open, social game world powered by web3.

On this episode we chat:

Their progress since the last time they were on the podcast 1 year ago
Why gaming is essential for virtual worlds
Remixing NFTs and other assets
Importance of User generated content
What role curation and building play in Nifty Island
Why giving users objectives is key for virtual world adoption
And so much more

Please enjoy my conversation with Charles & Zunk

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Jun 27, 202201:10:13

Kevin Beauregard - Atmos: Bringing Sports Into The Metaverse - Zima Red ep 125

My guest today is Kevin Beauregard. Kevin is the founder of Atmos which an upcoming game universe that combines sports, lore, and crypto-economics to create engaging and competitive virtual experience

On this episode we chat:

Being a crypto founder in 2013
Attempting to build a fantasy NFT basketball game in 2019
Sports as the ultimate trojan horse to crypto mass adoption
Balancing skill-base gameplay with crypto economics
Creating a competitive game combined with virtual world
Atmos initial core game loops of Mining - FGabricating - Racing
And so much more

I had a blast on this one so I hope you enjoy my conversation with Kevin

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Jun 15, 202201:00:08

Max Weber - Chainmonsters: The Next Gen Web3 Pokemon? - Zima Red ep 124

My guest today is Max Weber. Max is the founder of Chainmonsters which is a free-to-play monster taming MMO-RPG with a player-driven economy.

On this episode we discuss:

Falling in love with game design from an early age
Prototyping an NFT game in January 2018
Self funding development and kickstarter
Building on the Flow blockchain
Creating a social interaction through PVP, collecting and crafting
The core game loops of chainmonsters
And why I call Chainmonsters a hybrid between Pokemon, Minecraft, and Animal Crossing

Please enjoy my conversation with Max

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Jun 09, 202201:31:47