On this week's episode of MARS, Matthew & Rizzle kick things off with some WIP News (ty Drago for the new intro music). Big things coming for the WIP. After that, the conversation shifts to the latest meta in the crypto space: MEME COINS before wrapping up with a brief chat about the burgeoning communities building out in the EVM hinterlands of Base, Optimism and beyond aided by the amazing NFT focused guide by William Peaster for folks curious, but unsure where to start. Collect this episode over on Pods.Media HERE Shout-outs & Shots-fired: @Paradoxx_Media @pbs @arthr @Rexflexasaurus ..read more

This week on MARS, Matthew & Rizzle kicked things of discussing the latest "Rizzle News." After that the conversation shifted to reflections on the last two weeks of minting the show on Pods.Media and how much more meaningful mints have felt compared to generic listens. Check out the Dune Dashboard for Pods to see all the onchain data for all the pods minted through it. Go mint this episode on Pods right HERE. Speaking of onchain, a large portion of the show focused on the "gentrification" and history of the term 'onchain' in addition to discussions covering last week's WIP featuring Elate ..read more

On this week's episode of MARS, Matthew & Rizzle take it back to the summer of 2020 when the late great Alotta Money became the very first sponsor of the WIP. Rizzle talked about the footage Paradoxx captured live during that WIP and the response it elicited when Rizzle re-shared on Twitter a few days ago. That led to a deeper reflection on how everyone who has been minting, collecting, and building on the blockchain up until this point can better preserve and re-tell all of those tokenized stories that exist across the crypto space. Towards that end, more consciously minting ephemera publ ..read more

This week's episode of The Matthew & Rizzle Show is onchain thanks to the strong team over at Collect Pod! If you're in crypto (and we know like 99% of you are) and are familiar with minting mirror articles, you will have no problem minting and collecting MARS episodes right [here]. Big shout out to Jess from Seed Club for the Twitter assist and 0x_Lucas for getting us setup. After breaking that update down, Matthew & Rizzle delve into the crypto social off-season that suddenly emerged on Farcaster following their viral boom, the emergence of afk'ing as a social ill on Nifty Island, an ..read more

On this week's episode of MARS, Matthew & Rizzle kick things off with an onchain history lesson courtesy of Psycho Killer's must-read thread breaking down a large array of the historic onchain pixel art minted between 2020-2021 over on Pixelchain, an early NFT Studio's project when they were still originally known for their first project, CryptoMotors. Check out the full thread here. After that, Matthew shills his extra dank cryptoGAN pfp gif by Pindar Van Arman over on his Farcaster profile [follow him HERE - and maybe give Rizzle a follow here, too] before him and Rizzle shower FC with f ..read more

On this week's episode of MARS, Matthew & Rizzle preview the Aavegotchi takeover of tomorrow's (2/8) WIP Meetup. [Note: If you plan on attending AND jumping in-world tomorrow, please download the clients for Gotchi Gaurdians and Spirit Force Arena] After that Matthew & Rizzle gave their user-based impressions of the viral moment Farcaster has been experiencing over the past week (as well as some potential insights that may be helpful to new Farcasters), before praising the playability of Nifty Island, highlighting the Ultra Palm Grand Prix course in particular designed by Port Tango ..read more

On this week's MARS episode, Matthew & Rizzle take a quick dive back into the opportunities Hyperfy and Nifty Island present to builders and participants alike before highlighting the upcoming WIP Meetup set for tomorrow (Feb. 1st) where FlyFrogs will take center stage in Nifty Island. The hosts also discuss the evolving narratives in crypto social and prediction markets, spotlighting projects like Polymarket and Farcaster. In addition, they break down the peculiar but captivating no-crypto-needed-to-get-started ?StreakPoints app. If you haven't started Streaking, please check it out using ..read more

On this week's episode of MARS, Matthew & Rizzle give their first impressions on the newly launched gaming metaverse project Nifty Island. Created by Charl3s, Nifty Island requires users to download and install a new client (shot), but has some pretty powerful crypto-powered incentives (chaser) that appear to be working and helping to attract a wave of builders and players. If you haven't yet, definitely go kick the tires on Nifty Island. The WIP Meetup will be hosting next week's show on the Fly Frog's Nifty Island. Speaking of the WIP, if you're in need of some inner peace make sure to h ..read more

Welcome back to another episode of MARS! This week Matthew & Rizzle highlight the latest major milestone in the crypto space: the 5th anniversary of the pioneering NFT project known as MarbleCards co-founded by the amazing visionary leader Johan. Check out this tweet thread penned by Johan himself detailing a significant part of MarbleCards - and by extension MEME - history. What a journey it's been. Other topics touched during this week's show include: Nifty Island, onchain communities, and how to consistently have fun in the metaverse regardless of whatever the current meta is. p.s. If y ..read more

Happy New Year everyone and BIG HAPPY BITCOIN ETF DAY! Matthew & Rizzle are back and on today's episode they discuss the state & pace of innovation now and heading forward in cryptoart, NFTland, and crypto overall. Regardless of how you feel about where we are or where we may be going, it's hard to argue that anyone outside of this space has it better than any of us. Onwards and upwards yall. Also, see everyone at The WIP tomorrow! Shout-outs & Shots-fired: @reneil1337 @CoolWhip @anontree @songadaymann @phantom @bryanbrinkman @artblocks_io @supahmarbler @rarepepes_com @farcaster_xy ..read more