# 12 Talking 2017 NFTs With CryptoKitties & Dapper Labs — Benny Giang

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**Published on:** 2023-01-19
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@ufoclub/12-talking-2017-nfts-with-cryptokitties-dapper-labs-benny-giang

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UFO is a place for revolutionary ideas. A podcast where artists, musicians and web3 builders talk about the future. Hosted by Nick Hollins and produced by Apollo.Benny Giang is a product marketer and creative thinker in UX design, growth and community. Co-founder at Future Primitive where they work on experimental creative projects involving NFTs and DAOs such as the Stapleverse with Jeff Staples. Team member #13 at Dapper Labs and a co-founder of the iconic CryptoKitties early NFTs project in 2017. Later working on NBA Top Shot before departing from Dapper in October 2021. In this episode we talk about the origin stories of NFTs and creating the first ever NFTs discord community for CryptoKitties, a group chat including founders from Dapper, Axie Infinity, OpenSea and many others. We explore new creative experiments Benny is working on with Future Primitive, including BEEP3R ~ a hackathon project from ETH Global making nostalgic 90s pager NFTs that can communicate onchain via XMPT.Links BENNY G @bennygiang Near future: - Buy a pair of pants - Talk to everyone who owns the same pair of pants - Talk to a pair of pants Change 'pants' with anything else you could wear 22 6:28 PM • Nov 9, 2022 CryptoKitties | Collect and breed digital cats!Collect and trade CryptoKitties in one of the world's first blockchain games. Breed your rarest cats to create the purrfect furry friend. The future is meow!https://www.cryptokitties.coDapper Labs - Fun and games on the blockchainDapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.https://www.dapperlabs.com STAPLEVERSE @stapleverse We started with some story time and world building w/ @jeffstaple. We have entered a completely new with SAPIENZ but came to that world from an old, physical space REED SPACE. We are in the year 2097 and our protagonists have broken into the old Reed Space basement.. 33 11:18 AM • Dec 14, 2022 STAPLEVERSEWE'RE BUILDING A WORLD WHERE ANYONE CAN BRING THEIR CRAFT TO THE FUTURE OF STREET CULTURE THROUGH EDUCATION & COLLABORATION.https://www.stapleverse.xyzBB3 - BEEP3R | ETHGlobalWe're bringing back the joy of owning a 90s pager device and the original vision of twttr - text networks. BEEP3R is the best way to talk to your friends in web3. What are you waiting for? Start BEEPING 📟 205-883-8339https://ethglobal.comToby - The Best Way to Organize Your TabsBookmarks are for books, not browsers. Organize your browser tabs into Toby so you can access key resources in one-click instead of seven.https://www.gettoby.comSponsorsZerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started today at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Your followers go with you to whatever application you want to use. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz -- We’re starting a club. Collect your UFO Genesis Pass ~ OpenSea Follow UFO on Lens, Twitter, Instagram

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