Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of Internet money and Internet finance.

This is Ryan Sean Adams. I'm here with David Hoffman and we are

here to help you become more bankless. Guys we have Luca Netz. He is the

founder. I shouldn't say the founder David. He is the recent acquire of Pudgy Penguins IP and this is an

NFT if you've not seen it of literally a penguin. It's like this cute little

Pudgy cartoon yeah of a Pudgy Penguin and it is like absolutely rocketed up to number three on the top NFT list

And this is kind of like a I don't know what you know bringing something back from the dead from from the brink type of story.

And I was pretty blown away by Lucas' description of how he executed this and

why and his vision.

I didn't expect to be this

episode, um, interested in an NFT story as you're giving in this episode, but David,

you scheduled it and I understand you were a former pudgy owner,

not current pudgy owner.

Yeah, we don't have to talk about that.

Well, I was never one, so I just like, I have no losses here, no wins here.

But yeah, what's kind of the context that Bankless audience should know going to this episode?

Yeah, I think Luca has really carved a path forward, not just for Pudges because he did that but just for the entire

NFT industry a lot of promises were made by NFTs the industry in 2021 most of

those promises were not held but but then in comes Lucca who acquired Pudgy

Pudgy Penguins in the middle of 2022 and really steered the ship straight for what

Pudgy Penguins could become and I think has carved a path forward for many other

NFTs to follow. And so who is Luca? Why did he have so much conviction in his ability to execute here?

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