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Katherine Liu: Onboarding the Next Million Artists into Web3 | Will, Lee, & Andrew Learn Web3: #37

Episode Summary

Will, Lee, and Drew chat with Katherine about creating & minting NFT's, mushroom facts!, sanity checking your conviction for a project, jumping into free exploration, and how Katherine combined her explorations into creating the Mycoverse, a community whose goal is to onboard 1 million creators onto Web3.

Episode Notes

Katherine Liu is a designer and illustrator building in Web3. She is a co-creator of the Mycoverse, a collection of 3,333 mushroom-inspired NFTs on the Solana blockchain.  The Mycoverse's mission is to onboard the next 1 million artists into web3. She is also the co-creator Nifty Generator, a simple, no-code way to generate NFT collections for Solana or Ethereum.

She has been a designer at Instagram, IDEO, and Facebook. In parallel, she's launched multiple front page Product hunt projects and many of her own art works. Today, she's learning by exploring projects with her partner, founded a Web3 community, and dreaming up her next project. In this show we discuss:

• Launching a new NFT generator - NiftyGenerator - on product hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/nifty-generator
  • How NiftyGenerator works - https://niftygenerator.xyz
  • Upload images that are static or animated
  • Upload meta data - ETH or Solana
• How to think about an NFT and the roles it takes to create one: engineer, marketer, community manager, and designer.
• Mycoverse - https://mycoverse.xyz/ and its goal to onboard the next million developers onto the Metaverse
• Porta Penguin - Pooping on penguin - https://www.katherineliu.me/portapenguin
• Using NiftyPixels to mint your own NFT's - Polygon - https://www.niftypixels.io
  • Choosing Polygon to reduce the cost of minting and sharing
• How to realize if you have enough conviction about your project: "Do we have 5 to 10 years of commitment?"
• What Katherine's learned from her projects?
  • The community required to be successful
• What minting is
  • OpenSea - "Lazy minting" - They don't mint it until someone buys it. (no gas fees until someone actually purchases it)
  • Foundation - You mint your NFT when you upload your artwork - giving name and description
    • Once minted - it's uploaded to the blockchain and then you can't change the information
• How does Nifty Pixel mint?
  • Transaction happens when you press mint
  • Pressing mint - should open a MetaMask (wallet) window
    • After you confirm the transaction, you're confirming that your wallet is the creator
• Shared ownership
  • Royal - https://royal.io/
• How to join the Mycoverse
  1. Join the Discord - https://discord.com/invite/j8hczUtZcr
  2. You can mint this month if you're lucky
• Electronic mushroom music
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-nIBA0V_No
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2t-xGAg7-w
• Katherine's favorite mushroom
  • Favorite to eat - Black trumpet mushroom
  • Favorite aesthetic - Coral
• What Katherine is excited about, that she's not working on: DAO's

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