ICON. X has developed the first Web 3 platform that enhances Web 2 racing games by bringing together gamers, brands, modders, and influencers through exciting, interoperable smart competitions and digital assets that animate and unite communities. Join us for our chat with Jonathan Behar of ICONX about what's next for web3 racing and gaming experie…

We have discussed the metaverse concept at length here on The Nifty Show. Some projects are creating virtual worlds with AR/VR applications, but the Chia blockchain has another metaverse concept: interoperability of NFTs to maintain a user's web3 identity across games and platforms. Hear from Chief Metaverse Officer Richard Tsao in Episode #214. Fu…

Mass-scale sci-fi battles featuring tanks, aircraft, giant mechs and more are coming with blockchain integration thanks to upcoming shooter Metal Core. In this episode, Ryles explores a future in which you can truly own the massive laser with which you melt your opposition. Full Show Notes: Nifty.Show/213 SUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW: Podcasts: http:/…

Joel and Travis graced the main stage at NFT.NYC 2023 to share The Past, Present and Future of NFTs. Hear their entire presentation from the event, right here. If you'd like a visual, check out our YouTube Channel. Full Show Notes: Nifty.Show/ SUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW: Podcasts: http://nifty.show/itunes Spotify: http://nifty.show/spotify Amazon Mu…

Play with your digital collectibles in PFP Pit Brawl, a turn-based player vs. player combat game. Anyone can play with a Digital Collectible they own OR a premade hero. PFP Pit Brawl is mobile compatible with solo and team play options available. Decimalist, CEO and Creator of PFP Pit Brawl is here to tell us about the game mechanics in Episode 211…

Today's guest is Bo Daly, Founder and CEO of Bazooka Tango. Daly shares his background in traditional gaming and the journey of bringing gaming title Shardbound from web2 to web3. Full Show Notes: Nifty.Show/209 SUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW: Podcasts: http://nifty.show/itunes Spotify: http://nifty.show/spotify Amazon Music: https://nifty.show/amazon S…

Get ready for a special episode of The Nifty Show, as co-hosts Joel and Ryles take you on a journey through their experience at NFT.NYC 2023. As veterans of previous NFT.NYC events, the dynamic duo share their unique perspective on the state of the NFT market, and how this year's event reflected the current stage of adoption for this groundbreaking…

Blockchain Heroes collectors rejoice! We have an important announcement about new fun you can have with your existing Blockchain Heroes collection. Collectors can level up with new NFT packs of their favorite heroes enhanced with artificial intelligence tools we've been exploring over at The Bad AI Show. Tune in to this Episode #207 of The Nifty Sh…

The big game companies - Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, Epic Games - are all insinuating they are taking a close look at NFTs or moving forward and bringing them into their ecosystem, signaling mass adoption. We explore how these companies can bring NFTs to the masses. Sony filed a patent for transferrable NFTs that can be applied to multiple game titl…

There will be much joy once the mainstream comes to digital collectibles via the world of NFTs, play and own, metaverse; mass adoption is on the way. We cover news from the big gaming companies (Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony) to better understand each organization's view of NFTs, and what we think their entry to the play and own arena will mean for the…

The Blockchain Heroes of Retro Rebellion are a rugged team of renegades and idealists, many of whom developed their powers out of necessity to battle Encryptkeeper and his minions. The Heroes bring vast array of abilities, strengths and ideals to bear against the power mongering Centralizers, and it's only through their determination and technologi…

Ryles and Joel cover the problems in the web3 industry and how we increase adoption and improve the perception of NFTs. Full Show Notes: Nifty.Show/202 SUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW: Podcasts: http://nifty.show/itunes Spotify: http://nifty.show/spotify Stitcher: http://nifty.show/stitcher Google Play: http://nifty.show/play iHeart: https://nifty.show/i…

The Edge of NFT's Jeff Kelley delivers an NFT market update and shares details surrounding the upcoming Outer Edge | LA event. On March 20-23, 2023 Outer Edge | LA is bringing four days of activities to get connected, co-create and experience the Web3 and NFT Community with thousands of the world's leaders, investors, brands, enthusiasts, and exper…

Disrupting streaming services via crowd funding and digital ownership of magical moments via NFTs. Today's guest is Genevieve Thiers, CEO and co-founder of Entertainmint, a web3 one-stop-shop for creating and fostering community around indie content. Entertainmint is challenging the traditional streamer model with a collaborative world-building mar…

Are you ready to build your own startup empire? Welcome to Bluelight, where the game of business meets the thrill of collectible card strategy. In this economic simulator, players will develop their own startups and make strategic decisions to outcompete their rivals. Build a powerful deck of cards to unlock new technologies and resources, and watc…

When I say the words “National Lampoon” what do you think of? Do you think of Van Wilder? Christmas Vacation? If you’re older, you might think of Animal House, but if you’re a true OG you’ll know that National Lampoon began their mainstream distribution as a magazine for young adults. Catch this episode #197 of The Nifty Show with National Lampoon …

People live on their phones. Mobile gaming is the mainstream way people are engaging with entertainment experiences and now, onboarding to web3 with blockchain and NFT gaming from Joyride Games. Joyride Games is a cutting-edge web3 gaming studio revolutionizing the mobile gaming experience with unique NFT integrations. Today we explore the exciting…

Onboarding the masses of traditional gamers into the #web3 ecosystem with Wombat.app. Adrian Krion, CEO and Co-Founder of Spielworks joins the show to talk about the Wombat gaming ecosystem incorporating mobile and desktop gaming with #NFTs. Wombat is a free to use NFT mobile and browser based #gaming app supporting NFT strategy games. Access all W…

Blockchain and web3 technologies are revolutionizing the entertainment industry. Geoffrey McCabe joins the show to talk about the Lightning Works comic book ecosystem, their recent NFT sale and what's next in Episode 194 of The Nifty Show. Full Show Notes: Nifty.Show/194 SUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW: Podcasts: http://nifty.show/itunes Spotify: http://…

Sir Lord Travis Wright connected with today's guest at NFT NYC 2022. Poonacha Machaiah is CEO and co-founder of Seva.Love, a metaverse platform for well-being. Machaiah also serves as CEO of the Chopra Foundation, dedicated to improving health, social and planetary wellbeing along with world-renowned mind-body medicine pioneer and New York Times be…

Joel is excited to share artist King Saladeen, first discovered from the Gary Vee VeeFriends Gift Goats drop. King Saladeen has had major collaborations with prominent brands such as Mercedes, Yeezy, Topps, and more. His latest work, JP The MoneyBear, is inspired by his best friend and is a motivational and inspiring tale. Full Show Notes: https://…

Mint-E Cell and JeNFT of The NiFTy Chicks are taking over The Nifty Show today, delivering the TOP 5 Women-Led NFT projects in Episode 191. What other women-led NFT projects are you following or tracking in the crypto space? Tell us about them in the comments or on social. You can listen to or watch The NiFTy Chicks podcasts featuring in-depth cove…

Combining all the things we love in the entertainment sector of web3: games, play and earn, tokens, NFTs, metaverse - its all there in Origin Heroes. NFT sale incoming SOON; join their community to learn more. We chat with Phillip Kung, "Hero in Charge" of Origin Heroes in this Episode #190 of The Nifty Show. Minting October 31 and November 2, 2022…

Planet IX is a GameFi strategy game, where the mission is to explore the world, collect NFTs, and trade them on our proprietary Marketplace. Players can challenge each other in Play-to-Earn games and reap rewards from various DeFi functionalities. Your digital footprint in this environment will also create a sustainable real-world impact through ou…

With humanity as the core value, 2117 (2-1-1-7) is a fully immersive metaverse experience of the colonization of Mars. We start from a rocket launch event and then travel in real time through space to a landing on Mars. Then, the real fun begins as we settle the red planet and build an independent society. Following the UAE’s vision to colonize Mar…

A collision of real world, physical gaming, with digital gaming as desktop tabletop RPGs meet NFTs in The Glimmering. Join us with guests Stephen Radney-MacFarland, Lead Game Designer and Brent McCrossen, CEO of GRIPNR in Episode #187 of The Nifty Show. The Glimmering is a new 5e campaign designed to preserve the magic of classic tabletop roleplayi…

Ryles discusses the concept of the metaverse, new Augmented Reality portrayals of YouTube content creators, and more in this quick take on The Nifty Show. FULL SHOW NOTES: http://nifty.show/186 SUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW: Podcasts: http://nifty.show/itunes Spotify: http://nifty.show/spotify Stitcher: http://nifty.show/stitcher Google Play: http://ni…

Bitverse will initially launch with Bit Heroes Quest (a Kongregate fan-favorite cross platform mmorpg, already live), followed by Bit Heroes Arena (Battle Royale, currently in open beta), and Bit Heroes Runner (coming later this year) in 2022. Kongregate brings fun to the world! As a leading game developer and architect of gaming portal Kongregate.…

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It is only in recent years that the modern entertainment landscape has discovered the characters we create in sci-fi, fantasy, and other fantastic worlds can only be fully explored not through just literature, but also through other mediums as well. It makes sense then that this would expand into web3 and we would leverage blockchain technology and…

The metaverse promises social connection on steroids; very effective when we are all locked in on quarantine, which hopefully never happens again. There are some projects seeking to really be on the frontlines of web3 social. One such project I discovered last week is Bit Hotel. Kareem de Vries, Head of Partnerships, is here today to talk about Bit…

Pepper Attack has been in development and planning for over two years, and opens its doors for the first time on Monday, Sept 12th! To celebrate, they are releasing the "Genesis Reward Card", that will reward owners with NFTs, in-game items, potions, titles and more as they play. The card is free when they mint a Genesis NFT here: https://pepperatt…

We are going to speak to someone who is an expert in the arena of NFTs. Today's guest has been able to observe the trends of NFTs by seeing the back end of storage. Filecoin is the decentralized storage network designed to store humanity's most important information. Jonathan Victor is the head of NFTs at Filecoin to share the trends, usage, and wh…

In the five years I’ve been watching NFTs, I have seen a lot of projects launch. I’ve seen some that have exploded and some that have been epic fails. What I love to see is a project I get into that has the legs to stick around and truly work out and develop their roadmap. This is the case for SuperYetis. I minted three SuperYetis over a year ago a…

There is good, there is the metaverse and there is Metagood. What happens when you take good stuff and you combine it with metaverse? Well you've got a web3 world of communities that desire to be a catalyst for positive change and action in the world. What happens when you throw a monkey on-chain inside the metaverse, that’s Metagood? Weird stuff a…

Today we are going to bring you the literary wonders of NFTs. As Travis and I have talked about for some time, there are so many different ways to bring utility in the NFT space. The web3 world is amazing, connecting experiences, people and communities to NFTs, metaverses, games; there’s so much going on. It was about a year ago that I encountered …

The saying is that comedy is not pretty, but it is going high tech. This is something Sir Lord Travis and I have talked about, as we looked at the future of NFTs entering into different entertainment sectors. The comedy sector is of particular interest to us because we are the crypto clowns. We are now starting to see comedy enter into the NFTs and…

Once upon a time, in the early lands of the Internet, in the pre-web2 world, there was a file sharing service which you may remember the name of if you had been on the interwebs in the 2003-2010 era called LimeWire. Well, Limewire came up against all kinds of legal troubles because of their file sharing, and ended up having to shut down. They are b…

Co-hosts Joel and Zach Comm bring us the future of blockchain gaming, from their perspective. Zach has played - and paid for licenses to - thousands of games and delves into his experience relating to the pain points of blockchain gaming faced by gaming enthusiasts. Full Show Notes: nifty.show/174 SUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW: Podcasts: http://nifty.s…

The Nifty Show #173: Cryptobots + Nifty News Joel and Travis have recently come upon the Cryptobots, an OG series seeking new life with updated NFT technology and utility. Having worked with a number of projects over the years as advisors and creators, we want to give you a behind the scenes of what it looks like to take a classic collection to mar…

UPO7F was created to cultivate and grow the community of SEVENFRIDAY. The unity and tight knit nature of this group is reflected in the name: the united people of SEVENFRIDAY. With our unique NFTs as an all access ticket to the core of UPO7F, customers can unlock a number of experiences and gain admission to exclusive community events. Our goal at …

Travis and Joel are back from the world's largest NFT conference, NFT NYC 2022. This episode features a recap of the event and photos from backstage at Radio City Music Hall. Full show notes: nifty.show/171 SUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW: iTunes: http://badco.in/itunes Spotify: http://badco.in/spotify Stitcher: http://badco.in/stitcher Google Play: http…

Join Joel at NFT.NYC 2022, the world's largest NFT conference! In this episode, Joel interviews a number of people at the show, discussing what's happening in the NFT space. Episode #170 Features: Aggroed (Jesse Reich) of http://Splinterlands.com Jassy Jackson of http://WAX.io Jona Wilmsman of http://AtomicHub.io http://Pinata.cloud Patricio Wortha…

Summer is coming with the solstice on June 21, yet we are in the depths of a crypto and NFT winter with the brunt of the bear market. The NFT markets are down, but adoption hasn't slowed at all; in fact, it has increased. Sir Lords Joel and Travis offer an NFT market update of where we are now, and look ahead to where we're going. This environment …

A summary of VeeCon 2022 from co-host Travis Wright and an introduction to the Festival Family, an NFT project from FestivalPass featuring the world's first live event subscription marketplace. The Festival Family Founder NFT is a limited collection of 10,000 total Founder NFTs that will be made available in tranches of 1,000. Each new tranche will…

Our friends at WAX Studios have released their first web3 play-to-earn game Blockchain Brawlers™, the rowdiest #PlayToEarn game in the #metaverse. Join Joel and Zach “The Crusher” Comm with Michael Rubinelli, Chief Gaming Officer, to discuss the Blockchain Brawlers game. Collect your brawler NFTs, bring them into the ring, brawl and earn $BRWL, the…

Not just a profile pic play, Praise Pals is a generative NFT set with diversity and love at its core. Co-founder Jesse Tevelow joins us to dig into the project and power behind the token of appreciation. Have fun, earn $PRAISE, save the world through charitable giving. The Pals are a collection of 2,222 unique characters on the Ethereum blockchain …

Education in the Digital World with Nadav Zeimer Nadav is the author of Education in the Digital Age: How We Get There where he offers an evaluation of how digital technology and economics are poised to transform education by examining the concept of academic capital. He explains why it’s necessary to reengineer the way credits are stored and used …

Going Back to Our Origyn Foundation ORIGYN Foundation is on a mission to identify, authenticate and unlock the powers of ownership for objects of value. Full show notes: Nifty.Show/164 SUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW: iTunes: http://badco.in/itunes Spotify: http://badco.in/spotify Stitcher: http://badco.in/stitcher Google Play: http://badco.in/play Sound…

Let's All Go on a CryptoQuest NFT Crypto Quest is a groundbreaking NFT platform, introducing the world's first completely custom generative 3D RPG game characters for Play-2-Earn adventures and a rich collaborative metaverse where YOU will create the story. Full show notes: Nifty.Show/163 SUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW: iTunes: http://badco.in/itunes Sp…