How NFT DAOs Could Shape the Next Blockbuster, Fund Poetry and Change VC - Ep.315

Dapper Collectives CEO and Friends With Benefits founder Trevor McFedries joins Unchained to discuss social tokens, NFTs, the creator economy, $FWB, VC snacks, DAOs, Cooper Turley, and more. Show highlights:
Trevor’s past, which includes a top 10 album, working at Spotify, founding Brud, creating Lil Miquela, and, of course, falling down the crypto rabbit hole
what Trevor’s vision for Dapper Collectives is
what type of activities DAOs will facilitate in the future
why Trevor is so excited to be working with Dapper Labs and Flow
what Friends With Benefits is and how the $FWB token works
what sort of tokens make up the Friends With Benefits treasury
why venture capitalists who want to be involved with Friends With Benefits need to have a good snack game
why Trevor is not worried about $FWB becoming a security
what plans Friends With Benefits has in store for 2022
Trevor’s response to Friends With Benefits suspending co-founder Cooper Turley regarding 10-year old racist and homophobic tweets
what can be done to onboard a more diverse demographic to crypto
how Trevor defines the passion/creator economy
what Trevor is looking forward to in 2022 regarding NFTs, DAOs, and social tokens
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Episode Links
 
Trevor Mcfedries
Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatdotcd 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-mcfedries-0a5285a8/ 
 
Work
CEO - Dapper Collectives
Decrypt write-up: https://decrypt.co/82517/dapper-labs-nfts-daos-collectives-brud 
Announcement: https://medium.com/dapperlabs/the-future-of-x-is-decentralized-bb3245faf1b1 
 

Founder → Brud
Twitter: https://twitter.com/makebrud

Website: https://www.brud.fyi/ 
Lil Miquela: https://www.instagram.com/lilmiquela/

Acquisition by Dapper Labs: https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/04/nft-startup-dapper-labs-acquires-virtual-influencer-startup-brud/ 
AI Influencers: https://mailchimp.com/courier/article/ai-influencers/ 

 
Friends With Benefits
Basics
FWB website: https://www.fwb.help/ 
Mirror: https://fwb.mirror.xyz/ 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/fwbtweets 
FWB Etherscan: https://etherscan.io/token/0x35bd01fc9d6d5d81ca9e055db88dc49aa2c699a8 
CoinMarketCap: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/friends-with-benefits-pro/ 

 
Background Reads
Trevor’s role: https://consensys.net/blog/codefi/friends-with-benefits-a-new-model-for-social-tokens-on-ethereum/ 
a16z investment: https://a16z.com/2021/10/27/investing-in-friends-with-benefits-a-dao/ 
FWB deep dive: https://ra.co/features/3914

Intelligencer write up: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/whats-a-dao-why-your-group-chat-could-be-worth-millions.html 
Coindesk write up: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/11/09/the-social-token-network-rally-friends-with-benefits-and-the-future-of-branding/ 

 
Cooper Turley removed from DAO

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/01/15/crypto-influencer-cooper-turley-removed-from-fwb-over-2013-bigoted-tweets/ 
Backlash to removal: 


https://twitter.com/mewn21/status/1482202603563798530
 
WHALE treasury tokens

https://snapshot.org/#/friendswithbenefits.eth/proposal/QmWnifY3KD5ECJNtQ23m9GHt2oQ1McA3T4DEEpFarPy9jW 

 
Additional Links
Sound.xyz

https://www.sound.xyz/ 

Catalog
https://beta.catalog.works/

Daily Ape on DAOs: https://thedailyape.notion.site/DAOs-95332c7ab79c49dc89f9a72c628dfeb8

Social Tokens: 
Cooper Turley:
https://coopahtroopa.mirror.xyz/DYSs-mhdJi1uXZTaiyJfwiFZYAF9kRK6yBsAplk6A68


Linda Xie:

https://linda.mirror.xyz/4PDBWBMpFFPVEsP5EGgg5to2AyEpEHEXasq_K0b-yYk 

Forefront: https://forefront.market/learn/social-tokens 

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