Welcome, Bankless Nation, to this edition of Alpha League, formerly known as Meet the Nation.

But we are now calling it Alpha League because it's just a hotter name.

Today we are talking about Shambuya. Shambuya is a brand new content platform out of the hands of people pleaser.

The famous NFT artist behind the X times Y equals K NFT from Uniswap V3 and many, many, many more NFTs beyond that.

We've also brought along two of our co-founders of Shambuya, Meshay and Jackie.

And we tell, and I get them to tell the story of Shambuya itself.

And Shambuya is kind of a content production studio, but instead of a director, instead there's a Dow.

And that is where this story gets really, really interesting.

Emily and her fellow co-founders are devs and artists.

And they have been charged with the creation of the story, but who determines the outcome of the story or where this story goes

is up to the discretion of the Dow members, of the token holders who stake and make the producers actually have expressed the choices that the community wants.

And so this is decentralized storytelling. This is storytelling by the community and then the producers actually tell the story.

And so if you want to check this out while we're going through the show, you can go to the website.

It's Shambuya.xyz. That's SHIBUYA.xyz. You can go watch the first chapter of the story.

And then you can stay tuned to watch the remaining chapters of the story after token holders determine what the story actually is.

And this is like a kind of a choose your own adventure type story, but built for the Web 3 Metaverse World.

And we've talked about this concept before on Bankless, where previously you would have the artists on stage

producing creativity, producing music, producing art, and then it being consumed by the community.

But with the power of tokens, tokens give the community voice and the ability to actually give back, reverberate their interests back to the artists and say, hey, we liked this, but less so of this.

So you should go in that direction. And this back and forth content creation, this back and forth creativity between artists and community

is I think going to be a very fundamental part of Web 3, a fundamental part of the Metaverse.

And it's platforms like Shambuya that are enabling this to come into the future.

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