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Unchained

How NFT DAOs Could Shape the Next Blockbuster, Fund Poetry and Change VC - Ep.315

Unchained

Laura Shin

News, Tech News, Business News

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Dapper Collectives CEO and Friends With Benefits founder Trevor McFedries joins Unchained to discuss social tokens, NFTs, the creator economy, $FWB, VC snacks, DAOs, Cooper Turley, and more. Show highlights: Trevor’s past, which includes a top 10 album, working at Spotify, founding Brud, creating Lil Miquela, and, of course, falling down the crypto rabbit hole what Trevor’s vision for Dapper Collectives is what type of activities DAOs will facilitate in the future why Trevor is so excited to be working with Dapper Labs and Flow what Friends With Benefits is and how the $FWB token works what sort of tokens make up the Friends With Benefits treasury why venture capitalists who want to be involved with Friends With Benefits need to have a good snack game why Trevor is not worried about $FWB becoming a security what plans Friends With Benefits has in store for 2022 Trevor’s response to Friends With Benefits suspending co-founder Cooper Turley regarding 10-year old racist and homophobic tweets what can be done to onboard a more diverse demographic to crypto how Trevor defines the passion/creator economy what Trevor is looking forward to in 2022 regarding NFTs, DAOs, and social tokens Join the Unchained With Laura Shin discussion group on Facebook!  Laura is launching a paid Facebook discussion group where you and other listeners of the show can discuss recent episodes, ask questions in advance, get access to special AMAs with myself and show guests and more. Those who join now and for the next two weeks will get a special introductory price of $2.99 a month or $29.99 annually. Those who join from February 15 and on will be charged the regular rate of $4.99 a month or $49.99 annually. We will open up the group on the 15th, one week ahead of my book launch. If you’re interested in subscribing, head to  https://laurashin.bulletin.com/subscribe.    Check out my new author website! Keep up to date on all things I'm up to at the newly launched laurashin.com. There, you can find out all the latest on my book, all my writing, and press and speaking appearances. Enjoy! Thank you to our sponsors! Crypto.com: https://crypto.onelink.me/J9Lg/unconfirmedcardearnfeb2021           Beefy Finance: https://beefy.finance   Bosonic: https://bosonic.digital/   Episode Links   Trevor Mcfedries Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatdotcd  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-mcfedries-0a5285a8/    Work CEO - Dapper Collectives Decrypt write-up: https://decrypt.co/82517/dapper-labs-nfts-daos-collectives-brud  Announcement: https://medium.com/dapperlabs/the-future-of-x-is-decentralized-bb3245faf1b1    Founder → Brud Twitter: https://twitter.com/makebrud Website: https://www.brud.fyi/  Lil Miquela: https://www.instagram.com/lilmiquela/ Acquisition by Dapper Labs: https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/04/nft-startup-dapper-labs-acquires-virtual-influencer-startup-brud/  AI Influencers: https://mailchimp.com/courier/article/ai-influencers/    Friends With Benefits Basics FWB website: https://www.fwb.help/  Mirror: https://fwb.mirror.xyz/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/fwbtweets  FWB Etherscan: https://etherscan.io/token/0x35bd01fc9d6d5d81ca9e055db88dc49aa2c699a8  CoinMarketCap: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/friends-with-benefits-pro/    Background Reads Trevor’s role: https://consensys.net/blog/codefi/friends-with-benefits-a-new-model-for-social-tokens-on-ethereum/  a16z investment: https://a16z.com/2021/10/27/investing-in-friends-with-benefits-a-dao/  FWB deep dive: https://ra.co/features/3914 Intelligencer write up: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/whats-a-dao-why-your-group-chat-could-be-worth-millions.html  Coindesk write up: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/11/09/the-social-token-network-rally-friends-with-benefits-and-the-future-of-branding/    Cooper Turley removed from DAO https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/01/15/crypto-influencer-cooper-turley-removed-from-fwb-over-2013-bigoted-tweets/  Backlash to removal:  https://twitter.com/mewn21/status/1482202603563798530   WHALE treasury tokens https://snapshot.org/#/friendswithbenefits.eth/proposal/QmWnifY3KD5ECJNtQ23m9GHt2oQ1McA3T4DEEpFarPy9jW    Additional Links Sound.xyz https://www.sound.xyz/  Catalog https://beta.catalog.works/ Daily Ape on DAOs: https://thedailyape.notion.site/DAOs-95332c7ab79c49dc89f9a72c628dfeb8 Social Tokens:  Cooper Turley: https://coopahtroopa.mirror.xyz/DYSs-mhdJi1uXZTaiyJfwiFZYAF9kRK6yBsAplk6A68 Linda Xie: https://linda.mirror.xyz/4PDBWBMpFFPVEsP5EGgg5to2AyEpEHEXasq_K0b-yYk  Forefront: https://forefront.market/learn/social-tokens  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, all. As you may know, a few months ago, I started a Facebook bulletin newsletter.

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I'll now be opening a paid Facebook discussion group where you and other listeners of the show can discuss recent episodes,

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ask questions in advance, get access to special AMAs with myself and show guests, and more.

0:18.0

Those who join now and for the next two weeks will get a special introductory price of $2.99 a month or $29.99 annually.

0:27.0

Those who join from February 15th and onward will be charged the regular rate of $4.99 a month or $49.99 annually.

0:35.0

We will open up the group on the 15th one week ahead of my book launch.

0:39.0

If you're interested in subscribing, head to www.loroshin.bulletin.com

0:46.0

slash subscribe, which will be in the show notes of this episode.

0:49.0

Again, the link is www.loroshin.bulletin.com slash subscribe.

0:55.0

Hope to see you in the discussion group.

0:58.0

I also have another announcement.

1:00.0

I have a new author website.

1:02.0

It's at LauraShin.com. Please go check it out.

1:06.0

I think it's gorgeous and it captures well everything I've been up to from my book to the podcast to speaking and press.

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You can also find out all the contact information for me depending on whether you're interested in pitching unchained,

1:19.0

having me speak or do press or want to sponsor the show.

1:23.0

Again, the URL is www.loroshin.com.

1:30.0

L-A-U-R-A-S-H-I-N.com. Enjoy.

1:33.0

As you know, my book The Cryptopians comes out February 22nd.

1:37.0

I wanted to share a blurb that Michael Casey, Chief Content Officer at Coindesk,

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and co-author of The Age of cryptocurrency, wrote about it.

1:45.0

Michael said, Laura Shins compelling blow-by-blow account of the remarkable birth and growth of Ethereum

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