On this week's episode of MARS, Matthew & Rizzle do NOT talk about Rizzlefest. Promise.  Instead, the conversation focuses on the shifting of the guard that's taking place from builders to collectors and artists and beyond and what that means for those of us focused on a particular mission and align with a specific type of building ethos. Support MARS by minting this episode over on pods.media [insert pray hands] Shout-outs & Shots-fired: @bullymeow @kanemayfield @randomcdog @thedoomedxyz @xcopyart @rogerdickerman @Zaphodok @Moderats @mlodotart @dontbuy_ @Yuri_jjjj @tezos @toadswi ..read more

This week on MARS, Matthew & Rizzle talk about working in web3 - some red flags, good signs, and other things to be on the look out for as you interview with various teams and projects in the space based on their decade plus experience working in crypto full-time. That conversation (somehow) ends up becoming a vibe check on the overall state of the blockchain that examines the past week of memecoin shenanigans as well as million dollar mints by XCOPY x Neonglitch on Farcaster along with other artists mints from folks like Fabiano Speziari and neurocolor. Collect this episode over on Pods.M ..read more

On this week's episode of MARS, Matthew & Rizzle kick things off by talking about the latest Blue Moon celebration that will be on display until the next New Moon across 373 unique Gazers, a living art collection by artist Matt Kane. Art and experimentation are the throughlines of the rest of the conversation that touches on previews of the WIP Meetup this week and next and an impromptu state of NFT Land by Matthew. Support MARS by collecting a free edition of this episode over on Pods.Media Shout-outs & Shots-fired: @mattkaneartist @base_colors @forceshidden @chejazi @cent @jeniffer_s ..read more

Matthew & Rizzle are back from summer vacation and immediately went into the TokenSmart studio to record a new episode of MARS. The two discuss touching grass, kbbq, and the joys of taking a proper break before trying to catch up on the century's worth of events. Before talking about the explosion of prediction markets led by Polymarket and the shuttering of KnownOrigin, the two talk about the Rizzlefest alpha leaks that came out of last week's WIP Meetup and tease tomorrow's WIP featuring Jake of Base Colors and the legendary JOYWORLD. Support the MARS Podcast by minting an edition of thi ..read more

On this weeks episode of MARS, Matthew & Rizzle kick things off shouting out Ash, creator of Hyperfy, and the latest works in progress he recently tweeted about. After that the duo zoom out and talk about the differences emerging in the independent crypto-powered VR space versus specifically gaming focused VR space citing a recent cast over on the purple app by JK over on the purple app sharing some surprisingly strong revenue numbers projects like Gorilla Tag have been doing. Support the Matthew & Rizzle Show by tip-minting a free edition of this episode over on pods.media. Shout-outs ..read more

What. A. Tuesday. Sheesh. On this week's episode of MARS, Matthew & Rizzle try to unpack all the big things that went down on Tuesday March 26th in Cryptoland starting with the sold out CENTS release over on sovrn.art. Matthew explains the nuance and artistic intent behind the project before touching on the $200k "Vampire Kiss" DRAKULA is currently carrying out by offering video content creators up to $1000 in $DEGEN a week to take their Tik-tok talents to the Farcaster protocol powered video sharing app. Before getting to the third big news event of Tuesday, Rizzle jumps in to give an up ..read more

On this week's episode of MARS, Matthew & Rizzle recap last week's WIP Meetup featuring the Vipe squad and a whole gang of freshly minted Grifter Squadies kicking ass, taking names, and racing one another over in DEVERSO, an immediately playable metaverse project that many found out about for the first time in real time during the WIP. That conversation transitioned into a meta discussion on the state of metaverse projects and demand, which in turn expanded into a (scary) discussion led by Matthew on potential threats facing crypto broadly that ended with Rizzle saying some magic words to ..read more

On this week's episode of MARS, Matthew & Rizzle talk about the Grifter Squaddies drop on vipe.io brought to the metaverse by the legendary Toxsam. Fun fact: Matthew, Rizzle, and NonFunGerbil Luke all got a similar (but actually rather rare) Grifter Squaddie. After red-pilling Rizzle into scooping his squaddie, the conversation shifted to talking about a Brookhawk-inspired topic: Interface. The app that launched in 2023 is still around and pushing out updates, but many other projects have largely incorporated it's main functionality of following other wallets and tracking onchain transacti ..read more

On this week's episode of MARS, Matthew & Rizzle kick things off talking about the background of the $SAFE airdrop and how folks can look into if they received an allocation (just check https://app.safe.global) before diving into a brand new experiment from the Cent team called Up.Army, or just Up for short. After giving a so-so breakdown of what Up and bonding curves are, Matthew called an audible and brought Cameron, co-founder of Cent, to give a better overview of what Up is and how to think about it. To round things out, Matthew & Rizzle give folks a quick preview of tomorrow's Cyb ..read more

NFA DYOR Now that's out of the way on this week's episode of MARS, Matthew & Rizzle talk crypto taxes, The Sandbox as a viable world to create game experiences in, Workstation95 by sgt_slaughtermelon, tomorrow's WIP Meetup featuring an in-world art experience curated by Bay Backner before jumping into Nifty Island for a brand new halving-inspired gaming experience designed by Metageist. Support MARS by collecting a free edition of this episode over on Pods.Media HERE. Shout-outs & Shots-fired: @tokentax @trislit @awakentax @patriziabarnato @fabianospeziari @metageistvr @thesandboxgame ..read more