Into the Bytecode

Matthew Chaim: Songcamp, immersive digital theatre

Matthew Chaim is building a laboratory experimenting at the edges of music and web3.It's called Songcamp, and right now they're running their third immersive experience. They're coming together with a group of musicians, visual designers, developers, and at the end of this process, will be releasing new music under the moniker of a single headless artist called Chaos.I've been personally completely nerdsniped by Songcamp and think it’s one of the most beautiful corners of our web3 ecosystem.Timestamps:(00:01:08) - Songcamp a web3 laboratory(00:03:27) - songwriting camps(00:06:30) - imaginative language and lore(00:11:12) - incentive alignment(00:20:55) - selection and curation(00:30:31) - immersive digital theatre(00:36:18) - having fun(00:38:03) - the power of IRL(00:43:01) - what’s next(00:51:37) - economic models for internet-native collectivesInto the Bytecode:- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.comDisclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed. 

Simon de la Rouviere: cc0, derivatives, and bottom-up storytelling

Here is my conversation with Simon de la Rouviere.Simon’s exploration of creative mechanism design through the years is documented on his blog. His contributions to the space range from seeding the idea of bonding curves and curation markets, to building one of the first creator platforms with Ujo, to writing a full length novel experimenting with different publishing models, to now working on bottom-up storytelling with Untitled Frontier.In this conversation, we talked about cc0, designing NFT economies to welcome derivative works, bottom-up storytelling, and much more.Timestamps:(00:01:29) - How Simon got into the craft of storytelling(00:06:25) - The lonely process of long-form content creation(00:09:53) - Kishōtenketsu(00:14:26) - Top-down vs. bottom-up storytelling(00:21:52) - “The medium is the message.”(00:27:17) - CC0, derivatives, Jenkins the Valet(00:34:43) - Harberger Taxes and mechanism design(00:39:51) - NFTs vs ERC20s for ownership and governance(00:44:06) - New power structuresInto the Bytecode:- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.com Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed. 

Sound.xyz: web3 listening parties | David Greenstein, Matt Masurka (Gigamesh), & Vignesh Hirudayakanth

Here is my conversation with David Greenstein, Matt Masurka (Gigamesh), & Vignesh Hirudayakanth, the cofounders at Sound.xyz.Sound is a platform that helps musicians host listening parties and engage with their fans. It's a suite of tools that will grow over time to help musicians make a living using NFTs and other web3-native primitives.I was particularly looking forward to this conversation since David, Matt, and Vignesh participated in Zeitgeist Season One and we got to work pretty closely together. They're moving fast and are working towards a beautiful vision of the world.Timestamps:(00:03:42) - Redefining engagement between artists and fans(00:07:23) - MySpace, HypeMachine, Optimism, and Friends With Benefits(00:12:50) - Using Discord DMs for recruiting(00:16:53) - NFTs as the perfect medium for music patronage(00:20:34) - Fair-play incentive structures for music(00:26:25) - Differentiating the first fan and the millionth fan(00:32:03) - The technical architecture underpinning Sound(00:34:33) - Getting to market and building in public(00:39:45) - Oshi breaks the website(00:41:37) - The Daniel Allan EP(00:42:14) - RAC and deploying to mainnet(00:44:12) - Zeitgeist’s impactInto the Bytecode:- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.comDisclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed. 

Mike Sall & Blake West: Goldfinch, uncollateralized loans in emerging markets.

Mike Sall and Blake West are the founders of Goldfinch, a decentralized protocol facilitating uncollateralized credit.“One of the borrowers is a company based in Uganda. They provide rent-to-own loans for motorcycle taxis to thousands of customers. They've borrowed $5m to expand their operations."Thousands of people in countries like Uganda, India, and Brazil have been financed by Goldfinch loans through local lenders, largely without realizing crypto is the source of funds.These local lenders are largely innovative fintechs in the global south, and have historically fallen into an uncanny valley — they need too much capital for what is available in their local financial markets, and too little capital to navigate foreign institutional markets.Timestamps: (00:03:09) - The 'lightbulb' moment(00:08:20) - The financing gap for emerging-market borrowers(00:13:04) - Borrower profiles; Tugende, DiviBank, and Greenway(00:15:43) - Interfacing with Goldfinch(00:20:37) - Crypto-native KYC and how UID works(00:23:18) - Bottlenecks for the global adoption of crypto(00:34:40) - Compliance requirements for Goldfinch in the United States(00:45:25) - Compliance requirements for borrowers in emerging markets(00:50:56) - Demographics of ‘Backers’(00:52:43) - Incentive alignment and fraud-prevention(01:03:53) - Learnings from shipping a production smart contract system(01:15:01) - Launching GFI token and governance of the protocol(01:26:04) - The macro point of viewInto the Bytecode:- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.comDisclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed. 

Justin Glibert: Ember, and building onchain games.

The conversation on publishing today is the very first one I recorded for the podcast about six months ago. It's a conversation with Justin Glibert about patterns he's uncovered while building Ember (an onchain game) and Lattice (the engine behind the game) — patterns related to inflation and zero sum resources, spacial constraints, and user impersonation. I hope you enjoy.Into the Bytecode:- Sina Habibian on X: https://twitter.com/sinahab- Sina Habibian on Farcaster - https://warpcast.com/sinahab- Into the Bytecode: https://intothebytecode.com Disclaimer: this podcast is for informational purposes only. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell securities. The host and guests may hold positions in the projects discussed.