
Dillon Francis on The Future of Music NFTs
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12/08/21 • 37 min
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This week, we’re excited to welcome Dillon Francis. Dillon Francis is a chart topping electronic musician, record producer and DJ. Throughout 2021 Dillon has been experimenting with clever ways to engage his community and drive growth through NFTs, and in this episode we work through how other musicians can do the same.
In this episode we cover:
Why he feels NFTs are similar to the early days of EDM
Some of his recent projects like DeFi Summer with Chad Knight on Nifty Gateway, the Charity NFTs with Nicole Ruggerio and Hard Fork & Harder Fork with Pizza Slime
As an active supporter of DeFi, what are his thoughts on the intersection of DeFi and NFTs
His thoughts on the future of Metaverse music performances
What excites him the most about the future of NFTs
And much more...
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To follow Dillon Francis on Twitter, go here: https://twitter.com/DillonFrancis
To follow Dillon Francis on Instagram, go here: https://www.instagram.com/dillonfrancis
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This week, we’re excited to welcome Dillon Francis. Dillon Francis is a chart topping electronic musician, record producer and DJ. Throughout 2021 Dillon has been experimenting with clever ways to engage his community and drive growth through NFTs, and in this episode we work through how other musicians can do the same.
In this episode we cover:
Why he feels NFTs are similar to the early days of EDM
Some of his recent projects like DeFi Summer with Chad Knight on Nifty Gateway, the Charity NFTs with Nicole Ruggerio and Hard Fork & Harder Fork with Pizza Slime
As an active supporter of DeFi, what are his thoughts on the intersection of DeFi and NFTs
His thoughts on the future of Metaverse music performances
What excites him the most about the future of NFTs
And much more...
To sign up for the nft now newsletter, where we break down the NFT market into actionable insights each week, go to https://www.nftnow.com
To follow Dillon Francis on Twitter, go here: https://twitter.com/DillonFrancis
To follow Dillon Francis on Instagram, go here: https://www.instagram.com/dillonfrancis
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VeeFriends’ President Andy Krainak on Creating Community Utility
This week, we’re excited to welcome Andy Krainak, the president of VeeFriends, Gary Vaynerchuk’s NFT project. The collection launched in May 2021, with the goal of providing a blueprint on how to add real value, utility and community to NFTs.
In this episode, we cover:
What VeeFriends is and how it works
The project’s core utility elements
How Krainak plans to keep iterating upon community utility
How Krainak fosters and manages such an engaged community
How to balance creating value for NFT holders with the barrier to entry as prices rise
Krainak’s advice for NFT creators and artists on how they can create value
Lessons Krainak has learned building and launching VeeFriends
Projects that are innovating upon community and utility
What’s next for VeeFriends
And much more!
To sign up for the nft now newsletter, where we break down the NFT market into actionable insights each week, go to https://www.nftnow.com
To follow Andy on Twitter, go here: https://twitter.com/krainak
To follow VeeFriends on Instagram, go here: https://www.instagram.com/veefriends/
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Jack Butcher on Visualizing Value for Web3 Communities
This week, we welcome Visualize Value Founder Jack Butcher to the podcast. Butcher is a seasoned creative director who has worked with some of the most successful brands in existence. After a decade of working in Fortune 100 advertising, Butcher completely rebuilt his personal brand and business model through productizing himself, and now focuses on educating those that are building in NFTs and web3.
In this episode we cover:
His pivot from advertising into NFTs
Keeping up with trends while filtering out the excess noise
The importance of using his voice/platform to give back to important causes
Visual storytelling and the most effective platforms and approaches to drive mainstream adoption and understanding
What he looks for when collecting NFTs
And much more...
To listen to the audio version of this episode, go to http://smarturl.it/nftnow
To sign up for the nft now newsletter, where we break down the NFT market into actionable insights each week, go to https://www.nftnow.com
To follow Jack Butcher on Twitter, go here: https://twitter.com/jackbutcher
To follow Jack Butcher on Instagram, go here: https://www.instagram.com/jckbtchr
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