BanklessDAO is undergoing both a name change and a redefinition of purpose. Helping frame and steward this set of challenges is a six member Transition Council formed earlier this year: Hiro Kennelly, Trewkat, WinVerse, Coffee Crusher, Rowan and ZFi. This episode seeks to encapsulate both the origin story of our organization and get you up to speed…

Today's guests are Al Mithani and Chris Biele, aka Links and NFThinker. They're here to share some exciting news about Bankless Card, a core project at BanklessDAO. BanklessCard https://banklesscard.xyz/ NounsDAO https://nns.xyz/ Timestamps 02:20 Ship status and initial feature set 05:40 So you’re partnering with a… bank? 08:50 Rewards and opportun…

Today’s episode marks our 50th show since we relaunched it in February of 2022. Over these nearly two years, we’ve stayed true to our mission: offering a window into the people of BanklessDAO and the projects they are working on that drive their passion in exploring web3 technology and culture. Though a large percentage of our contributors are U.S.…

IcedCool is a longtime core contributor at BanklessDAO and has been with BanklessDAO since its inception over two years ago. Iced has contributed in multiple areas including the Developer Guild and Operations, as well as Treasury & Tokenomics. He previously appeared on Making Bank to discuss tokenomics and a bit of his personal story on Episode 39 …

Today’s guest is Manuel Maccou. Manuel first appeared on the show a little over a year ago on Episode 18, released July 5, 2022. Today he joins us to talk about Mosaic, a distributed knowledge network he founded and is building. Mosaic is a question and answer platform that helps you accelerate your understanding of complex topics by giving you dir…

Today’s guest is Ed On, aka jackalpha in Discord. Ed studied civil engineering, so he’s a bridge builder in the literal and metaphorical sense. Just prior to getting into web3, he worked as a web2 product manager at Samsung. Ed is on the core team at Bankless Japan, part of the IMN or International Media Nodes at BanklessDAO. He also works on Wonde…

Today’s guest is Al Mithani (aka Links), Project Champion for Bankless Card. Bankless Card seeks to bridge the user experience chasm between web3 and the real world safely and easily. Frequent listeners of the show know that we highlight people and projects within BanklessDAO as well as partner organizations that align with our mission and ethos. B…

Today’s guest is Allyn Bryce, known by many (or most) online as Liquidiot. Allyn is man of many talents. He’s a voiceover artist, audio engineer, photographer, video editor, occasional English teacher…. and a father of three. In web3, he’s using his talents working on media projects at BanklessDAO as well as several spin-offs like The Rug, a web3 s…

Today's guest goes by SalmanNeedsAJob on socials. He joined BanklessDAO in late 2021 and has been deeply involved in the community and multiple projects for over a year. A couple of notes before we jump into the episode: Our conversation was recorded in December 2022 so a couple of relative date references are off. Also since then, Salman has launc…

Today’s guest is none other than Above Average Joe, a Bankless DAO OG who’s been at the center of building community since its earliest days. Joe has been involved in the crypto space since 2013 and is now focused on compensation and incentive alignment at the organizational level. He last appeared on Making Bank in August of 2022, when Miss Purple…

Koray, who goes by RayBankless.eth, is a core contributor at BanklessDAO and Bankless Türkçe. This is his second appearance on the show. Koray joins us today to discuss two topics. One, an update on his work with Sobol as a DAO Cartographer at BanklessDAO. And two, the Giveth campaign he just launched in conjunction with Bankless Türkçe earthquake …

Today’s guest is Daniel Jacobs, CEO and founding member of ThriveCoin. The purpose of ThriveCoin is simple. ThriveCoin supports crypto communities that want to thank their members who make valuable and meaningful contributions. Daniel has previously built and scaled two “Contribution Economies“, and in his words, Opportunities to build something th…

Trewkat, or Katrina, is an academic librarian from Australia. She joined BanklessDAO in late August of 2021 and quickly became a contributor. Today, she’s an active contributor in the Writers Guild as well as an editor for Good Morning News or GMN, “the world’s first on-chain newspaper.” Discord: Trewkat#1933 Twitter: https://twitter.com/trewkat Me…

Today’s guest is IcedCool. Iced is a Bankless DAO OG, and went full-time DAO in 2021. He brings a broad understanding of information technology and software development, and has managed a number of IT, DevOps and software development projects throughout his career. Prior to getting into web3 and DAOs, he was responsible for the IT department of a l…

Today’s guests are Samantha Marin and Brandon Nolte of Quorum. Sam and Brandon met over a year ago through BanklessDAO, and quickly developed a rapport. They have since joined forces to form Quorum. Sam is part of the communications and growth team for Aragon, a framework for on-chain DAOs. She started her DAO journey in BanklessDAO as the talent s…

Today’s guest goes by KittySlasher online. He’s a member of Bankless DAO, and a core contributor at Opolis. Kitty has spent the past 15 years climbing the corporate ladder in telecommunications, and this led him to see the flaws in the current work model and on to a search for something different. That’s when he found web3 and Opolis where he now s…

Today’s guest goes by iSpeakNerd pretty much everywhere. He joined Bankless DAO at the end of November 2021, where he immediately jumped into the Writers and Education Guilds, and soon found himself developing content with the Bankless Academy team. ispeaknerd’s background is in physical science and education. Today he helps with the operations and…

Today’s guest is JengaJoJo. Jenga joined BanklessDAO in July of 2021, initially becoming active in the translators guild. Among other things, he’s involved with the bDAO Global Events team, where we partnered with 8 events in Season 5 alone. He’s also involved with the newly-formed DAOStewards initiative inside bDAO, which seeks to govern public go…

Today’s guest goes by Siddhearta on Twitter and in Discord. He’s been with BanklessDAO since its inception and quickly found a home in the Writers Guild. Siddhearta is currently the Writers Guild coordinator and the BanklessDAO newsletter team project coordinator. Discord: siddhearta#9802 Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xSiddhearta Linktree: https://…

A conversation about successful DAOlationships – Web3 and DAO relationships. DoinGud, ThriveCoin, List of DAOs, and Chippi are all discussed in the context of community and building (buidl-ing) together with a purpose. Senad Discord: Senad.eth#8782 Twitter: NFThinker Discord: NF Thinker#2814 Timestamps 00:00 - 2:00 Intros Senad is a “DAOplomat” at …

Today’s episode is Part 2 of a two-part conversation with guests Senad and NFThinker, both of whom are on the DAOlationships team at BanklessDAO. In last week’s episode, we discussed the ConsenSys relationship and onboarding proposal. In this episode, we discuss business development in Web3 more broadly, and the challenges and opportunities that li…

Today’s episode is Part 1 of a two-part conversation with guests Senad and NFThinker, both of whom are on the DAOlationships team at BanklessDAO. They join us today to discuss a timely topic, the onboarding of 50 employees from ConsenSys to learn about DAOs and BanklessDAO in particular. We discuss the ongoing original and follow-on proposals that …

Today’s guest is Saulthorin, aka BanklessChick.eth. Sauthorin has a professional background focused on graph analytics in the context of social networks. She joined BanklessDAO in July of 2021, becoming active first in analytics, and is currently an elected role holder on the Governance Solutions Engineer or GSE team. In her ‘spare time’, she launc…

Bankless Advisor will equip a generation of financial advisors with the education, technology and legal tools to introduce one billion people to the Bankless life. They have an agreement with a company that provides Defi software for financial advisors who will whitelabel and revenue share with Bankless Advisor. Today’s guests are Jacob Benson and …

Today’s guest is Grant Nissly. Grant is a writer with the BanklessDAO Writers Guild and the founder of Taptive.xyz. Taptive helps communities grow with the power of writing-focused cohort-based courses. Grant joins us today to discuss the Writers Cohort at Bankless DAO. Discord: Grant#2959 Twitter: https://twitter.com/grant_nissly Taptive proposal …

Tony Stark joined BanklessDAO right around the genesis of BanklessAfrica and began his journey working on the BanklessAfrica website. He has been serving a role as BanklessAfrica Tech Steward since, and is now also part of the Mad Hatter Management Crew. In this episode, Tony Stark joins salmanneedsajob on an episode of Making Bank, as Tony tells u…

Orange is a reputation and trust minting protocol that aggregates data and Web3 reputation models to generate comprehensive reputation proofs in the form of Verifiable Credentials and NFTs. It can be used to objectively calculate and assess the "reputation" for a Decentralized Identifier (DID), and associated wallet addresses. It takes multiple dat…

Today’s guests are two of the core team members on the Bankless Card project. Links is project champion and NFThinker is an original founding member. BanklessCard is a debit card for DAO contributors, by DAO contributors. Still in development, BanklessCard aims to allow cardholders to earn governance tokens in their DAO of choice. Links is a self-d…

Miss Purple is a writer, voiceover artist, and radio host based in Lesotho, Southern Africa. She is a self-described science nerd and a host on Bankless Africa podcasts. She joined BanklessDAO in January 2022. Timestamps 00:30 Intro 01:27 Jumping into the Web3 space 03:08 Why BanklessDAO 05:07 Forming relationships 08:27 Figuring out how things wor…

The Making Bank Podcast just completed its first full season of episodes during BanklessDAO’s Season 4. The podcast by BanklessDAO, for BanklessDAO, Making Bank is quickly becoming the essential alpha channel for helping DAO members stay informed on the many exciting things going on inside BanklessDAO. Today, Elemental is here is talk about some of…

Timestamps 01:15 Tesa on the Fight Club project and her journey from the trading floor to web3 Episode reference: https://making-bank.sounder.fm/episode/making-bank-episode-2-featuring-ultrasound-mer 06:30 GPe on corporate work, motherhood, and joining the Translators Guild Episode reference: https://making-bank.sounder.fm/episode/making-bank-episo…

Today’s guest goes by RayBankless in Discord. Ray joined Bankless DAO at the end of September 2021. He is a “DAO Cartographer”, mapping the organizational chart of DAOs. He’s also a project manager in the Translators Guild, and a Grants Lead in the IMN, or International Media Nodes project where the Turkish media node has a strong presence. Timesta…

Jaris James joined Bankless DAO at the beginning of December 2021. He first got into crypto early last year, and spends much of his time researching new projects and networking with other crypto enthusiasts. Jaris is involved with a number of projects and guilds within Bankless DAO. He’s heavily involved in DAOlationships and he is the outreach lea…

Today’s guest is René from the Project Management Guild at Bankless DAO. The PM Guild was recently formed in response to a need within the DAO. René brings a background in economics as well as software development and project management. Discord: 0xRene#6523 Twitter: Forum post: Founding a PM Guild Timestamps 03:50 Origins of the PM Guild 07:20 Tea…

Today's guest is Manuel Maccou. Manuel currently holds an elected position at Bankless DAO on the recently formed governance solutions engineer group, or GSE. He is also part of the Genesis team at Cryptonexus, an IRL crypto education workshop for business professionals. We also talk about his forum post of June nine regarding an education partners…

Justice is a member of the GSE team in BanklessDAO. In today’s episode, 0xJustice, as he is popularly known in Discord, discusses the governance system of the DAO, the current proposal under discussion, and how members can participate in the direction of Bankless DAO. He also briefly highlights the way to DAO as a newbie. This episode is both time-…

Senad is the Guild Coordinator at DAOlationships guild and steward of the Stablecoin Research Project for Bankless Africa. In this episode, salmanneedsajob interviews Senad on the week when he was rewarded the Level 2 contributor status within BanklessDAO. The conversation starts with a vibe check on becoming a Level 2 contributor, and then gets in…

This episode of Making Bank features Lanz, a content producer, writer, NFT creator, and contributor to Bankless DAO. She is the co-founder of the Migrants NFT project, a project with efforts directed at using art to tell the stories of creatives in migrant worker communities all over the world through the use of NFTs. The team firmly believes that …

KnightRider is a member of BanklessDAO and a contributor at Tokenomics DAO. He also has a Yoga Nidra podcast and strives to practice a calm approach to web3 and crypto. 00:00 Intro 01:23 KnightRider shares how he got into the crypto space 06:18 KnightRider discusses tools that help him calmly navigate the Web3 space, and how he got into BanklessDAO…

Today’s guest is Jake and Stake, a member of Bankless DAO. He is a writer on the Newletter team and the lead and a contributor to State of the DAOs. He’s also a part of the core team spinning up yet another newsletter entitled DeFi Download that launches on June 2. BanklessDAO newsletter linkshttps://banklessdao.substack.com/State of the DAOsDeFi D…

BanklessDAO Marketing Guild with Ornella and Mr. V Today’s guests are Ornella and Mr. V, here to talk about the BanklessDAO Marketing Guild. Ornella is its Talent Coordinator and Mr. V is its Governance Coordinator. We discuss how marketing in Web3 is different, what it means to have branding in a decentralized organization, and what the guild is d…

Good Morning News with Hiro and Publisher Today’s guests are HiroKennelly and Publisher. Hiro and Publisher ('Pub') are both members of BanklessDAO and are part of the core team that built and delivers Good Morning News every day. Good Morning News is the world's first blockchain-powered decentralized publishing house. GMN sources headline news and…

In today's episode we chat with Mike Rabinovici aka ComeBackKid on Discord, a self-described “recovering lawyer” and member of Bankless DAO. He is an occasional writer for the Legal Guild’s Decentralized Law newsletter and hosts its new podcast series called Ab Initio which features leading practitioners addressing DAO and crypto-related legal issu…

In today's episode Miss Purple interviews Jenetics for our weekly member interview! Projects she is involved with include: Ultrasoundmerch.com, Poapathon.com and her NFT's can be purchased on Opensea at https://opensea.io/collection/hodl-fast-the-cryptotattoo-series and of course she is active in the BanklessDAO Discord as well. Jenetics can be fou…

In todays episode Soundman interviews Tetranome and Didierkrux from the Bankless Academy Team in this weeks project feature!! --- https://twitter.com/BanklessAcademy https://twitter.com/Tetranome Art & Branding Director https://twitter.com/didierkrux Lead Developer https://twitter.com/iSpeak_Nerd Content Director https://gm.xyz/c/BanklessAcademy pa…

In todays episode Miss Purple interviews Above Average Joe for our weekly member interview! --- You can follow Making Bank on Twitter @makingbankpod Thank you for listening to Making Bank. If you liked what you heard please leave a review and rate us on your favorite podcast app. Making Bank is a BanklessDAO Podcast Hatchery production. Follow Bank…

In todays episode Droste interviews Perchy for our weekly member interview! --- You can follow Perchy and his work at the links below https://www.thefutureisdao.com/ https://opensea.io/perchy https://rarible.com/banklesslocations/items https://rarible.com/perchy/sale https://twitter.com/TheFutureIsDAO1 --- You can follow Making Bank on Twitter @mak…

Todays episode is a Project feature discussion hosted by Lion917 who is interviewing Jengajojo from the IMN Project! --- You can follow Making Bank on Twitter @makingbankpod Thank you for listening to Making Bank. If you liked what you heard please leave a review and rate us on your favorite podcast app. Making Bank is a BanklessDAO Podcast Hatcher…

Todays episode is a forum post discussion hosted by Benip who is interviewing Michael Kisselgof from PopcornDAO! Michael can be found on Twitter @SerKisselgof --- You can follow Making Bank on Twitter @makingbankpod Thank you for listening to Making Bank. If you liked what you heard please leave a review and rate us on your favorite podcast app. Ma…

Making Bank is a show for BanklessDAO by BanklessDAO where each week we highlight a project and a personality from inside the Bankless DAO We want to showcase the work that we do and the people who do it. --- Project Feature - Bankless Africa Benip Interviews ThinkDecade about the Bankless Africa project no matter what country you are from this is …