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The Polygon NFT Ecosystem with Frank (DeGods), Zhuoxun Yin (Magic Eden), & Stani Kulechov (Lens)

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4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, we’re talking to Frank DeGods, from the DeGods project, an NFT project that’s recently migrated to Polygon. We also brought on Zhuoxun Yin, Co-Founder and COO of Magic Eden, an NFT marketplace also migrating to Polygon. And last, but certainly not least, we’re also joined by Stani Kulechov, Founder and CEO of the Aave companies, which is bootstrapping Lens, a social media ecosystem on top of Polygon.  

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Topics Covered

0:00 Intro
7:02 Why Polygon?
13:45 Solana vs. Polygon
25:30 NFT Trajectories 
35:00 Lens on Other Chains?
41:09 Supernets
43:20 The Lens & Polygon Focal Point
48:10 Ecosystem Metrics 
1:00:00 Polygon #3 Community? 
1:05:30 Lens, Content, & Metrics
1:12:25 Closing & Disclaimers 

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Resources:

Frank
https://twitter.com/frankdegods 

Zhuoxun Yin 
https://twitter.com/ZhuoxunYin 

Stani
https://twitter.com/StaniKulechov  

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0:00.0

Welcome to See the Nation, guys.

0:04.0

We've got a special episode for you talking about the Polygon NFT ecosystem, okay?

0:10.3

Our panelists today tell us that this is the third largest ecosystem for NFTs in crypto

0:16.9

and one worth paying attention to, David, who do we have on what we're going to cover today?

0:21.4

First and foremost, we got Frank D. Godds from the D. Godds project, which is an NFT project

0:25.6

that we spawned on Solana, currently migrating to Polygon, so we will talk about some of

0:30.8

those decisions and why you decided to move over to Polygon in this day and age.

0:34.9

And then second, we got Z, the co-founder and COO of Magic Eden, which is an NFT marketplace

0:40.0

also on Solana, recently migrated to Polygon.

0:43.6

So we'll, and we have two perspectives like this.

0:45.8

Blassup, we got Stony Kulikov, who is the founder and CEO of the AVE companies, which is

0:50.2

Bootstrapping Lens, a social media ecosystem on top of Polygon, where your profile is

0:55.6

an NFT, your content is an NFT, loss of surface area for NFTs.

1:00.7

And so just to recap the projects, we got D. Godds, which is a PFP NFT project that is

1:06.6

in process of migrating to Polygon.

1:08.8

We have Magic Eden, which is an NFT marketplace that is also recently migrated to Polygon.

1:14.6

And then we got Lens, which is a social media platform where your profile is an NFT, all

1:19.2

the content that you make is an NFT, your interactions or transactions on Polygon.

1:24.4

And so we're going to ask all of these participants on the Polygon ecosystem, why Polygon?

1:30.3

What about Polygon brought them there?

1:32.4

What about Polygon is unique and different?

1:34.8

Is Polygon really the third largest NFT ecosystem after Solana?

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