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Forefront Podcast

By Forefront Podcast

Welcome to the Forefront podcast. We are pioneers exploring & building at the forefront of the Web3 playground. We’ve dug through the noise and surfaced the signal on the state-of-the-art of tokenized communities in the internet-native economy. Enjoy this biweekly roundup of the latest & greatest in social tokens, DAOs and more.
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Forefront PodcastOct 22, 2021

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Collective Intelligence & Tools for Wisdom | An Exploration w/ Charles Broskoski of Are.na
Feb 04, 202354:32
Collective Intelligence & Tools for Wisdom | An Exploration w/ Fabian Wittel of Napkin
Dec 23, 202201:04:10
Tokenized Communities, Platformless Quests & Web3 Social live at MCON 2022

Tokenized Communities, Platformless Quests & Web3 Social live at MCON 2022

Join moderator @AlexMexicotte with panelists @Jayislate and @jaesmail for a special live episode hosted at MCON covering tokenized communities, platformless quests, and web3 social.

In this live panel episode recorded at MCON, Jay and Jihad talk about tokenized communities, platformless quests, and web3 social. Join us this week for some gigabrain and spicy takes on the most important aspects of running web3 communities.

Sep 27, 202234:04
Community Roundup | DeFi Credit Score, Fei/Rari Continued Drama, and Merge Centralization Concerns
Sep 02, 202201:13:55
Community Roundup | Unlock and Superfluid Partnership, Moonbirds and CC0, and the Future of NFT IP
Aug 16, 202259:56
W3CR | Open Studio #8

W3CR | Open Studio #8

Forefront's Web3 Creator Residency has launched its 2nd cohort of Resident Creators:

Kabuki (Residency game plan)

Nico (Agartha Village Figma)

d3mo (yh⁴ project)

This is the last Open Studio of Forefront's first W3CR! This Monday, our Resident Creators Nico, Kabuki and d3mo gathered to look back on the past four weeks, ideate on what their ideal Residency would look like and tackle the core 

Listen in on the W3CR Open Studio now:

  • We revisited the question of the essential elements of a Creator's ecology, asking the Resident Creators, "what do you absolutely need to enable you to create?"
  • Nico thrives on tasting a variety of different experiences and cultures and surfing the Google search engine to drink up knowledge! Though Nico had never thought of building in public as essential to her ecology, she now sees that it provides an invaluable "sanity check" to help creators sense if they are in touch with the world.
  • Kabuki stresses the importance of IRL interactions to his creator ecology. IRL gatherings hit different than Zoom calls, because the effort one takes to travel, to dress properly (vs dressing from just the shoulders up!), deepens the felt impact/significance of our eventual encounter with others. 
  • d3mo posited that his ideal Residency would include an IRL element, after which an intriguing jam sesh was sparked on why it is so difficult for creators to come together to collaborate. d3mo thought that lack of structure, discipline and time/money were factors.
  • Kabuki believes the coordination nut is hard to crack chiefly because of the lack of a common language and the difficulty of listening selflessly to what is coming out of the collective. (Indeed, you will likely realize that you were never taught how to practice or execute these "skills" that are so germinal to social life.)

Note: we have published the audio/video as originally recorded on the Riverside.fm platform; please excuse any hiccups as we build in public!

Aug 09, 202201:00:23
W3CR | Open Studio #7

W3CR | Open Studio #7

Forefront's Web3 Creator Residency has launched its 2nd cohort of Resident Creators:

Kabuki (Residency game plan)

Nico (Agartha Village Figma)

d3mo (yh⁴ project)

During the Residency, our Resident Creators will be workshopping their projects, learning and building in public, and sharing their challenges along the way. Each Monday, they'll gather for our weekly Open Studio.

Listen in on the W3CR Open Studio now:

  • The Creators recalled those special moments when a creation crosses the line from mere artifice to something with deeper life due to perhaps a subtle transformation. 
  • Kabuki shared a musical analogy - applying reverb! The convolution reverb method involves going into a specific physical space, sweeping sound frequencies through this room and simulating the recorded sound in a virtual recreation of this room.
  • For d3mo, these moments are driven by subtle sound design, which ensures that the visual & and the musical component are not separate, but coherent. 
  • Nico's sessions last week explored Permaculture as a "spiritual science." What does such a characterization mean to Nico and the other Resident Creators? What does the experience of "intuition" have to do with spiritual science?
  • Nico's sessions also inspired a jam sesh on the topic of Nature as an interconnected ecology. What is the analogy of this ecology in a Creator's life? What essential elements or factors must be present in the Resident Creators' "ecology" to enable them to create? 
  • Kabuki stresses the need for limitations, structure and tradition to be present, while Nico emphasizes the need for freedom from these!

Note: we have published the audio/video as originally recorded on the Riverside.fm platform; please excuse any hiccups as we build in public!

Aug 07, 202258:32
W3CR | Open Studio #6

W3CR | Open Studio #6

Forefront's Web3 Creator Residency has launched its 2nd cohort of Resident Creators:

Kabuki (Residency game plan)

Nico (Agartha Village Figma)

d3mo (yh⁴ project)

During the Residency, our Resident Creators will be workshopping their projects, learning and building in public, and sharing their challenges along the way. Each Monday, they'll gather for our weekly Open Studio.

Listen in on the W3CR Open Studio now:

  • Last week, Nico's Residency sessions explored the belief systems that motivate creators. What is the higher belief motivating Nico's project? "We want to elevate consciousness," Nico said, conceding this may sound "super cheesy and very L.A." 
  • But how do we make the world a better place?, asks Nico in all seriousness. We can all agree that we want to live in a beautiful, humane environment. This is the common ground that inspires Nico's project which explores technically, how can we live in harmony with Nature? 
  • d3mo shares the unique inspiration behind the name of his project (ytrium and hydrogen, a chemical combination that is not actually possible in our world and would destroy it if they were somehow brought together) and h/ts the book Codex Seraphinianus. 
  • Kabuki's 1st week of Residency emphasizes the importance of performing "due diligence" - immersing oneself in the history and pioneers of a field of art (in this case, generative art) before diving into create oneself.
  • Kabuki shares the astonishing story of how Buckminster Fuller invented "high-frequency sleep" - a method for increasing his productivity and waking hours while reducing the number of hours of sleep required!

Note: we have published the audio/video as originally recorded on the Riverside.fm platform; please excuse any hiccups as we build in public!

Jul 27, 202251:13
Community Roundup | Non-Transferrable Badges, Consistent Creator Income, Bottom-Up Governance, and the Moral Character of Cryptography
Jul 22, 202201:04:06
W3CR | Open Studio #5

W3CR | Open Studio #5

Forefront's Web3 Creator Residency has launched its 2nd cohort of Resident Creators:

Kabuki (Residency game plan)

Nico (Agartha Village Figma)

d3mo (yh⁴ project

During the Residency, our Resident Creators will be workshopping their projects, learning and building in public, and sharing their challenges along the way. Each Monday, they'll gather for our weekly Open Studio.

Listen in on the W3CR Open Studio now:

  • Kabuki's 1st week of Residency will focus on sharing his productivity hacks as a creator: how to stay in a productive mindset, how to stay accountable and how to switch between "both sides of the brain" to balance the right amount of structure and guardrails with free space to play
  • d3mo shares his approach to world-building and muses that he is often "discovering" the connection between his art pieces as he creates them, vs arranging connections in a preset fashion.
  • Nico shares her epiphany about the prototype eco-village she is building: it is not enough for the architectures to be environmentally sound. They must also be inspirational! And for this, Nico is digging back into the designs of ancient Indian, Chinese & Islamic temples to inspire her new structures. 

Note: we have published the audio/video as originally recorded on the Riverside.fm platform; please excuse any hiccups as we build in public!

Jul 19, 202256:59
W3CR | Open Studio #4

W3CR | Open Studio #4

Forefront's Web3 Creator Residency has launched with our first cohort of Resident Creators:

Allie (Play Library project)

Alex (Preseason Training project)

Entes (Caras Latinas project)

During the Residency, our Resident Creators will be workshopping their projects, learning and building in public, and sharing their challenges along the way. Each Monday, they'll gather for our weekly Open Studio.

Listen in on the W3CR Open Studio now:

  • Entes shares how his Residency project underwent a transformation last week.
  • Last week, Allie got out into the community, placing 20 play kits in Little Free Libraries; she shares the fruits of that adventure today!
  • Alex shares the creative breakthrough she experienced while doing her live producing session last week.

Note: we have published the audio/video as originally recorded on the Riverside.fm platform; please excuse any hiccups as we build in public!

Jul 14, 202256:11
Community Roundup | W3CR Retrospective, Creator Economy Course, Crypto Bailouts and Wonderland Governance
Jul 12, 202201:10:16
Community Hangout | GLASS
Jul 06, 202233:45
Web3 Creator Residency | Open Studio #3

Web3 Creator Residency | Open Studio #3

Forefront's Web3 Creator Residency has launched with our first cohort of Resident Creators:

Allie (Play Library project)

Alex (Preseason Training project)

Entes (Caras Latinas project)

During the Residency, our Resident Creators will be workshopping their projects, learning and building in public, and sharing their challenges along the way. Each Monday, they'll gather for our weekly Open Studio.      

Listen in on the W3CR Open Studio now:

  • Allie revisits the Morning Pages she wrote 2 weeks ago
  • SpaceXponential reads a beautiful quote by adrienne maree brown and asks the Creators, "What's the front line in your imagination battleground?"
  • The Creators jam on different forms of abundance & wealth in their lives.

Note: we have published the audio/video as originally recorded on the Riverside.fm platform; please excuse any hiccups as we build in public!

Jul 05, 202245:00
Web3 Creator Residency | Open Studio #2

Web3 Creator Residency | Open Studio #2

Forefront's Web3 Creator Residency has launched with our first cohort of Resident Creators:

Allie (Play Library project)

Alex (Preseason Training project)

Entes (Caras Latinas project)

During the Residency, our Resident Creators will be workshopping their projects, learning and building in public, and sharing their challenges and learnings along the way. Each Monday, they'll gather for our weekly Open Studio.    

Listen in on the W3CR Open Studio now:

  • Why did Allie kick off her Residency by exploring the values of open-ended play?
  • What's inspiring Allie about matriarchal gift economies?
  • Entes shares wonderful snippets from his childhood: what was it like growing up as an aspiring artist with a father who was a Professor of Mathematics?
  • What political topics currently inspire the Resident Creators' work and do they feel free to express themselves in this regard?

Note: we have published the audio/video as originally recorded on the Riverside.fm platform; please excuse any hiccups as we build in public!

Jun 30, 202250:42
Community Roundup | Opensea on Seaport, Governance Fails, Salesforce NFTs, and DAOs as Cities
Jun 24, 202246:16
Web3 Creator Residency | Open Studio #1

Web3 Creator Residency | Open Studio #1

Forefront's Web3 Creator Residency has launched with our first cohort of Resident Creators:

Allie (Play Library project)

Alex (Preseason Training project)

Entes (Caras Latinas project)

During the Residency, our Resident Creators will be workshopping their projects, learning and building in public, and sharing their challenges and learnings along the way. Each Monday, they'll gather for our weekly Open Studio.  

Listen in on the first W3CR Open Studio now: 

  • We introduce you to Allie, Alex & Entes
  • Our Resident Creators bring you up to speed on the history and status of their Residency project
  • Cohort 02 Resident Creators Kabuki & Nico join the Open Studio to jam about a special surprise they're working on for the Genesis W3CR NFT.

Note: we have published the audio/video as originally recorded on the Riverside.fm platform; please excuse any hiccups as we build in public!

Jun 24, 202247:60
Community Roundup | FoundationOS, Camp Chaos, MakerDAO Makeover, and Web3 FUD
Jun 10, 202201:19:39
Community Hangout | Mochi DAO
Jun 08, 202234:03
Community Hangout | Ale Borda
Jun 01, 202237:33
Community Roundup | DAO Leadership, DAO 2 DAO, Incentivizing Community, and Member Experience

Community Roundup | DAO Leadership, DAO 2 DAO, Incentivizing Community, and Member Experience

Join @julia_pepper23 & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:

Follow Forefront on Twitter. https://twitter.com/forefront__

Join us on Discord.  https://discord.gg/forefront

May 27, 202201:14:18
Community Hangout | COLORSxCOMMUNITY DAO
May 25, 202242:22
Community Hangout | Scarlet DAO
May 18, 202242:19
Community Roundup | Market Turmoil and Bringing More Humanity to Web3
May 13, 202201:14:56
Community Hangout | Songcamp
May 11, 202242:19
Community Roundup | Elon Musk Buys Twitter, Stepn Move2Earn, Gnosis Safe, DAOs as Novelty Search Engines, and Social Media in Web3
Apr 29, 202201:20:18
Community Hangout | RADAR
Apr 27, 202235:04
Community Roundup | Ronin Bridge Hack, Designing Governance Structures, CNNs Failed NFTs, and Elon Musk Joining/Leaving Twitter Board
Apr 15, 202201:26:49
Community Hangout | Rabbithole

Community Hangout | Rabbithole

We're excited to bring you a new Community Hangout with Zach from Rabbithole!

Here's what we cover:

- What is Rabbithole? How have things evolved over the last year?

- Web3 reputation systems

- Progressive decentralization and "aspirational DAOs"

...and much more

Follow Forefront on Twitter. https://twitter.com/forefront__
Join us on Discord.  https://discord.gg/forefront

Apr 06, 202247:52
Community Hangout | Cabin DAO
Mar 30, 202250:01
Community Roundup | Music and Water, Signing Day, BAYC Ecosystem, Vitalik Time Cover Article
Mar 25, 202201:21:52
Community Hangout | Celebrating Women in Web3
Mar 24, 202242:52
Community Hangout | Dream DAO

Community Hangout | Dream DAO

Enjoy our latest Community Hangout with Dream DAO!

Mar 16, 202248:48
Community Roundup | The Modern Billboard, Butter, Ukraine DAO, Consensys Drama, and Brantly ENS vote
Mar 11, 202201:20:46
Community Hangout | PleasrDao

Community Hangout | PleasrDao

Enjoy our latest Community Hangout with PleasrDao!

Mar 09, 202241:18
Community Hangout | Shiny Object Social Club

Community Hangout | Shiny Object Social Club

Enjoy our Community Hangout with Shiny Object Social Club!

Mar 02, 202251:15
Community Roundup | NFT Powered Social Media, Metagovernance & ETHDenver Highlights

Community Roundup | NFT Powered Social Media, Metagovernance & ETHDenver Highlights

Join @SpaceXponential & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into

  • Lens Protocol by AAVE
  • Salesforce + NFT Cloud service
  • Intro to Metagovernance
  • Wildfire DAO -metagovernance collective
  • Treasure DAO —> game publishing

Show Links:

Feb 25, 202201:09:33
Community Hangout | Syndicate DAO

Community Hangout | Syndicate DAO

Enjoy this hangout with Syndicate DAO!

Feb 09, 202243:18
Community Roundup | Seed Club 04, gmgn & the Glorious Age of Storytelling

Community Roundup | Seed Club 04, gmgn & the Glorious Age of Storytelling

Join @SpaceXponential & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:

  • Seed Club Accelerator Cohort 4
  • Metalabel & multiplayer mode cultural creation
  • Pentagraph -enter ye “glorious age of storytelling”
  • gmgn supply co. building CPG brands
  • YouTube, creator loyalty & NFTs

Show Links

Feb 04, 202201:10:01
Community Hangout | Prime DAO

Community Hangout | Prime DAO

We're excited to bring you a new Community Hangout with Prime DAO!

Feb 02, 202236:01
Community Hangout | Boysclub

Community Hangout | Boysclub

We're excited to bring you a new Community Hangout with Deanna from Boysclub!  

Here's what we cover: 

- Boysclub's origin 

- Deanna's journey into web3 

- Building collaborative learning resources and learning in community 

- The web3 "spark"

Jan 26, 202233:21
Community Roundup | $LOOKs airdrop, PRISM & Moxie's Challenge to Web3

Community Roundup | $LOOKs airdrop, PRISM & Moxie's Challenge to Web3

Join @SpaceXponential & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into

  • LooksRare $LOOKs airdrop
  • Glass launches PRISM, the Uniswap of NFTs
  • Bonfire is building custom for Web3 creators
  • Tribute Labs’ tooling for DAOs
  • Moxie’s 1st Impressions of Web3 & Vitalik's response

Show Links:

Jan 21, 202201:11:49
Community Roundup | Gnosis Goes Cross-Chain, BlockbusterDAO, Non-Fungible Olive Gardens & DAO Ecology

Community Roundup | Gnosis Goes Cross-Chain, BlockbusterDAO, Non-Fungible Olive Gardens & DAO Ecology

Join @SpaceXponential & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:

  • Zorbs Time-Gated Minting by Zora 
  • $CLUB token launch by Seed Club 
  • NFT Derivative by flipmap 
  • Gnosis goes cross-chain 
  • $SOS token airdrop by OpenDAO 
  • Non-Fungible Olive Gardens 
  • Battle of the L1s by Kain 
  • Ground Zero Web 3 Learning by SuperteamDAO 
  • DAO Ecology by Numa Oliveira and Stefen Deleveaux of The DAOist  

Show Links:

Jan 07, 202201:39:37
Community Roundup | Digital Identity Marketplace, Web3-Native Social & Governance Aggregator

Community Roundup | Digital Identity Marketplace, Web3-Native Social & Governance Aggregator

Join Chase Chapman & Alex Mexicotte as they dive into:  

  • The Warehouse Digital Identity NFT Marketplace by Dapper Labs and Genies 
  • DAO Social Media Tooling by Baptiste Greve, creator of Orbis
  • Governance Aggregator Platform by Messari 
  • Mimetic Power of Enemies With Benefits 
  • DAO M&A Between Fei Protocol and Rari Capital 
  • NFT music video sold by Latasha  
  • $6.1M Grant Round 12 by Gitcoin  
  • Web2 --> Web3 Call to Action  

Show Links:

Dec 24, 202101:28:21
Community Hangout | Surge

Community Hangout | Surge

We're so excited to bring you a new Community Hangout with Juliet from Surge!  Here's what we cover:

- Surge's origin

- What it means to build inclusive educational resources in web3

- How to build a truly peer-to-peer community

Dec 22, 202139:26
Community Roundup | OpenSea IPO, Ultimate Poolsuite Vibez & Omakase Creators

Community Roundup | OpenSea IPO, Ultimate Poolsuite Vibez & Omakase Creators

Join @SpaceXponential & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:

  • Former Lyft CFO joins Opensea & eyes IPO (Crypto Twitter loses its mind.)
  • Rarible releases native Messenger
  • Poolsuite’s NFT drop on Zora and our theory on why the vibez are unbeatable
  • New DAO launch: Abolition in Progress DAO by Sirsu
  • The Web3 polarity of Omakase vs Community-driven. h/t to Luke Burgis!

Show Links

Dec 10, 202101:21:09
Community Hangout | Web3 Baddies
Dec 08, 202101:02:52
Community Roundup | DAO Leadership, Mimetic Power & Investing in the Future of Web3

Community Roundup | DAO Leadership, Mimetic Power & Investing in the Future of Web3

Join @SpaceXponential & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:

  • New social tokens tooling: Super charge your community-building w/ HyperVIBES by Rarible DAO
  • New DAO tooling: Wonder is building the Web3-native Asana X Product Hunt
  • New DAO launch: Dream DAO investing in future of web3 X social impact
  • Mimetic Power of ConstitutionDAO
  • DAO Community Leadership by Rafa & Creator Cabins

Show Links:

Nov 26, 202101:21:20
Community Hangout | Catalog
Nov 24, 202153:03
Community Roundup | Mad Realities, $ENS air drop & the Great Resignation

Community Roundup | Mad Realities, $ENS air drop & the Great Resignation

Join @SpaceXponential & @AlexMexicotte as they dive into:

  • New social tokens tooling
  • Patreon flirts w/ creator coins
  • Nansen NFT Blue Chip Index
  • New social tokens projects
  • Rally launches SuperLayer Labs & decentralization debate
  • Mad Realities, the “MTV of a new type of TV”
  • City Coins coming to NYC
  • New DAO launches
  • ENS epic air drop, DAO + call for delegates
  • DAO Masters onboarding the next mil to DAOs
  • Unnamed Fund imagining new futures for funding creative projectsBuzzworthy
  • The Great Resignation goes global
  • Verses & “Declaration of Interdependence of Cyberspace”
Nov 12, 202101:44:23