Benjamin Leff & VESA of Sheesha Finance on the NFT Rainbow after the Art History pot, plus: stimmy checks fueling nifties & what happens to your crypto when you die.
A Rainbow at the end of the Pot: Sheesha Finance COO Benjamin Leff and artist VESA chat up Jeff, Josh, and Eathan about the NFT craze, how NFT newbies can get the most of their experience, the history of digital art, the Own Your Data Foundation, Edge Quick Hitters, Hot Topics, and more!
A Rainbow at the end of the Pot: Sheesha Finance COO Benjamin Leff and artist VESA chat up Jeff, Josh, and Eathan about the NFT craze, how NFT newbies can get the most of their experience, the history of digital art, the Own Your Data Foundation, Edge Quick Hitters, Hot Topics, and more!
TOPICS
TOPICS
- 00:00 - 03:19 Intro
- 03:19 - 07:24 Reaction to the recent media attention on NFTs
- Blockchain Heroes and Bitcoin Origins
- What makes art valuable to begin with?
- 07:24 - 10:13 NFTs as a booster to an already established social following
- Kings of Leon, Paris Hilton
- Opportunities for new and established followings
- 10:13 - 12:32 A message to NFT newbies
- Experimentation + Expression
- Study where we came from before determining how to contribute now
- 12:32 - 16:00 Thoughts for artists who are new to Digital Collectibles
- Education & Empowerment
- Use cases…functional or quick flip?
- Partners can help you grow
- Community and lifting each other up yields success
- 16:00 - 17:13 How Ben & VESA originally connected
- NFT Day
- 17:13 - 18:00 Sheesha Finance NFT features
- NFT gifts as part of the liquidity generation event
- Starting with VESA, but adding new artists as well
- 18:00 - 25:03 The Rainbow at the end of the pot (History of Digital Art)
- The gold standard
- What is sustainable value?
- 25:03 - 27:25 Own Your Data Foundation / Cambridge Analytica
- The Social Dilemma
- Is the earth round or flat?
- 27:25 - 35:48 What NFT platforms are Ben & VESA excited about?
- Superrare, the gold standard for art
- Opensea for gaming NFTs
- Wax
- Gamification of selling NFTs = fun!
- The metaverse is here and awesome (Super World Cryptovoxels, Decentraland)
- Old Guard Cryptovoxels project by VESA
- Terra Virtua
- Blockchain Art Exchange & Shasha Bailey
- 35:48 - 37:39 Sheesha Finance beyond art & NFTs
- Diversified portfolio of DeFi projects
- Staking yield Sheesha tokens AND tokens from each DeFI project in the portfolio
- Operates on the Ethereum & Binance Smart Chains
- 37:39 - 52:36 Edge (not so) Quick Hitters
- 52:36 - 64:25 Hot Topics
- What happens to your crypto when you die?
- Once we’ve spent our stimulus checks, will the value of NFTs and Crypto all drop?
- 64:25 - 66:45 Where to learn more about Sheesha Finance, Ben & VESA
- 66:45 - 67:19 Outro
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