Justin Wu from FinTech to DeFi, parachains to interchains & Pokemon to NFTs, plus: New York Times NFT, and big tech investors backing Sorare, OpenSea, Boson and more.

• 00:00 - 01:00 Intro

• 01:00 - 03:50 Justin Background

  • Diamond hands for beginners

  • Surviving the crypto crash of 2017

• 03:50 - 07:30  How this iteration of Crypto is different from 2017-2018

  • DeFi Summit coming Mid May 

  • NFT Con coming June/July

  • Newest, most interesting NFT Use Cases

  • Ethereum scaling challenges, high gas fees, and competitive platforms

• 07:30  - 10:19 Competitive NFT Platforms built outside of Ethereum

  • Projects like Polkadot & Kusama are building to combat the cost of transacting on Ethereum. 

  • Movement with Cardano, EOS, NEO

• 10:19 -  15:24 Where are we at in the NFT lifecycle?

  • Is NFT a bubble?

  • NFTs is bringing more adoption of crypto

  • The road to mass adoption is to make the blockchain invisible

• 15:24- 21:47 Where is line between NFT trading and gambling? 

  • Can NFT trading be a career? 

  • Government’s role in regulating NFTs

  • Money laundering via NFTs

  • Will games include KYC checks for NFT purchases? 

• 21:47 - 24:03  Learnings from Justin’s FinTech Experience that crossover into crypto and NFTs

  • The value of KYC in NFTs

  • Rules and regulations of the FinTech world and public companies like DraftKings  

  • Gaming as a top NFT application

• 24:03 - 28:27 What platforms will lead the way in the next phase of NFTs? 

  • Rarity

  • Parachains 

  • Polkadot

  • Cardano

  • Lukso, ERC 725, and unique identity

  • Interchains and the internet of blockchains may negate the “which platform wins” question

  • Cosmos

• 28:27 - 59:25 The importance of Marketing  and what specific NFT listing platforms like OpenSea and NFTY Gateway stand out? 

  • All of these platforms are backed up with NFT creation requests

  • Different listing platforms might have different customer bases and might work better for some NFT sales than others

  • Listing NFTs on all platforms at once 

  • NFTs today is a marketing game

• 33:05 - 38:18 The NFTs that we’ll still be talking about 20 years from now

  • The big sales like Beeple

  • Physical assets that exist as NFTs too

  • NFT memberships 

  • Fractional ownership of NFTs

  • Not all things are mean to be NFTs, like Creator Tokens

• 38:18 - 42:04 Not everything is an NFT, yet

  • Masterworks.io, an NFT Alternative

  • FinTech migration to NFTs

• 42:04 - 43:04 What NFTs does Justin own?

  • NBA Top Shots

  • Blankos 2

  • NIFTY Gateway randoms

  • Defi Trading vs NFT Trading

• 43:04 - 45:35 Tools and analytics to navigate NFT Ecosystem

  • Game Stop, Doge, and rolling bubbles that will exist perpetually

  • More tools to interact with NFT holders

• 45:35 - 48:29 NFTs in music

  • 3lau

  • Success and a community first approach

  • The power of the brand and reputation authority

• 48:29 - 53:37 Edge Quick Hitters

• 53:37 - 60:00 Hot Topics

  • NY Times article that sold as an NFT for $500K

  • VC investments in NFTs

• 60:00 - 61:06 Outro

• 20:00 - 20:56 Intro