Every collector now has their own personal RSS feed generated by their collection – allowing anyone to follow and listen to a collector’s onchain episodes directly in their favorite podcast player.

Mint on Pods. Curate a feed. Listen anywhere.

Collector Feeds are currently supported on:

• Apple Podcasts

• Youtube Music (formerly Google Podcasts)

• OverCast

• Pocket Casts

• Player FM

• Podcast Addict

• Castro

• Stitcher

• Castbox

To do this – find a profile, click “follow”, copy the link, and import it into your desired podcast player.

Pods Collector Feeds

Demo video for Pods collector feeds.

https://vimeo.com/

👉 Find more instructions on how to follow your RSS here.

You can find any profile on Pods by exploring different leaderboards or by adding their ETH address or ENS name to the following URL structure:

pods.media/user/eth-address

pods.media/user/ensname.eth

Why this is cool

Collector Feeds are a unique feature that bridges onchain activity to the rest of the world.

Collectors can curate their own RSS feed by minting, and followers get updated whenever new episodes land in their collection.

If you want to follow Vitalik and listen to what he’s minting onchain, you can follow his RSS feed on your player.

😈 Note: We loaded Vitalik with a podcast or two to get his profile going.

You’ll be notified by your podcast player whenever someone adds a new episode on Pods, and you can listen directly there.

This is a fun feature showcasing the composability that’s possible when we leverage two open protocols – Ethereum and RSS – while specializing on the vertical.

Curate your taste onchain. Consume the same way you do offchain.

What’s Next

We want to continue to create unique experiences around onchain podcasts.

There’s a future where creators can publish onchain and reap all the benefits, without making any compromise on distribution.

Instead, they’ll just get added benefits like direct monetization, social graph analytics, permanent storage, and full composability by publishing onchain.

We’re on a mission to bridge the gap between web3 media and web2.

There’s no reason to not publish onchain.

We’re committed to making that realized by the masses.

More coming soon.™️

This has been a much needed feature on the platform.

Anyone can now view, listen, and mint any podcast directly from a collector’s profile.

Profiles also showcase favorite pods – ranked by most collected – and some basic stats, like number of podcasts supported, total number of editions held, and when they first collected on the platform.

This has been a highly requested feature among collectors – and an obvious hole in the Pods product. Before, there was no way to view someone’s collection on Pods.

Now, it’s possible :)

New Navigation

You’ll also notice that with collector profiles, we’ve shipped a new navigation feature.

For collectors, this will allow you to find your profile at any point, as well as display your ETH balance and network. Whitelisted podcasts on the platform will also be able to navigate to their dashboard to create and manage their onchain episodes.

If you’d like to explore other profiles on the platform, you can find them on any of the podcast and episode leaderboards or search their ENS name via the pods.media URL:

pods.media/user/ensname.eth

What’s Next?

While profiles aren’t the most innovative feature ever, they do represent a key piece of the platform.

With that in mind – we have an awesome feature that we’re going to ship for profiles next week. 🚢

It’s something unique for avid podcast collectors.

Stay tuned.

This allows anyone to follow and listen to any onchain podcast directly in your favorite player – including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts (now Youtube Music), and many more.

You’ll get notified when there’s a freshly minted episode and you can listen directly there.

Additionally, hosts now have the option to submit their Pods RSS to Spotify, Amazon Music, and other syndication platforms or podcast players.

A New Unlock for Onchain Media

We’re thrilled to introduce this novel feature to onchain media.

Generating an RSS feed helps bridge the gap between the onchain and offchain world.

Listeners can now retain the same experience with their everyday podcast player by following an onchain feed via Pods RSS. Hosts can also simplify their tooling by adding the RSS to their normal syndication platform (LibSyn, Podbean, etc.).

Second – podcast hosts now have a self-sovereign RSS feed with permanent storage.

The RSS is generated from the metadata associated in each podcast’s contract.

These contracts are owned 100% by the creator. Pods never has control over any of these feeds (unless given permission!) and the RSS can easily be recreated at any point using the metadata from these contracts.

Notably - all of the media is stored on Arweave, providing permanent storage as a critical backup solution for all podcast content.

What podcast players are supported?

• Apple Podcasts

• Google Podcasts/Youtube Music

• Stitcher

• Pocketcast

• Overcast

• Pandora

• PlayerFM

• iHeartRadio

• Many more :)

👉 Note: For Spotify, hosts can submit and track their RSS feed via their Spotify dashboard.

How do I follow an onchain feed?

You can the follow an onchain feed by adding the RSS link from any podcast on pods.media to your podcast player.

Find the follow button for that podcast on Pods, copy the RSS link, and import it to your podcast player.

You can find more detailed instructions on how to do this here.

More Coming 🔜

Pods is focused on building the platform for onchain podcasts.

There’s a host of benefits that can be realized when publishing your content onchain – whether it’s monetization, analytics, storage, verifiable authenticity, or composability.

Pods is aiming to realize all of these benefits for the growing podcast industry.

We have more plans coming soon on how to continue to bridge web2 media and web3 in a way that creates net new value for everyone.

Stay tuned.

The podcast began in October as a way for people to learn about Hydra – the first dedicated investment DAO focused on backing and incubating other investment DAOs.

Hydra is an evolution of MetaCartel and MetaCartel Ventures – one of the first DAOs with a deep community that began distributing capital to projects furthering Ethereum’s adoption.

They’ve been this for years, and their journey has led the community to go all-in on investment DAOs.

After announcing the fund earlier this year, two members, Jakub and Victor, launched the Hydra Ventures Podcast - interviewing founders, key players, and portfolio investments from the community.

Today, we’ve onboarded Hydra, allowing them to publish their podcasts onchain.

Hydra Ventures Onchain Debut 🐙

For those that have been following along with Pods, you may be used to the Launch Collection format where we release 5 episodes from the podcasts’ archive.

However, we’re doing it a bit differently this time.

Instead of five episode, we’re only releasing one episode from Season 1.

Ep. 01 - WTF is Hydra?

https://opensea.io/assets/0x705CafE30Ae839B31Bdf699ec8CC7c0984e824b8/1

This is the first ever podcast episode from Hydra Ventures, giving a rundown on Hydra’s origin story, how it works, and gives a look into the behind-the-scenes of the DAO.

The episode features some of the founders and early members of Hydra - including 1kx’s Pet3rpan, MCV’s Ben Middleton, Thing3’s Danny Carpio, and ReadyPlayerDAO’s Austin McKee.

This episode is available to collect for FREE on Pods for 30 days.

The remaining four episodes from Season 1 will be released in the New Year.

The gameplan?

Anyone that collects this episode will earn an allowlist spot for free mints on the remaining four episodes from Season 1.

A little carrot for the community to collect this episode. 🥕

We’ll see you in 2024 🍾

The Hydra community is deeply rooted within Ethereum.

Many of the members have been around for years, pioneering some of the earliest experiments with human coordination on a digital scale.

From distributing grants to hackathon projects in the depths of the 2018 bear market with MetaCartel, to investing in some of the most prominent projects in the space with MCV, Hydra Ventures is home to the best crypto natives in the world.

We’re excited to align with them with the debut of Hydra Ventures on Pods.

✨ **You can collect the first episode ever here. **✨

Hydra Ventures brings the total podcasts on Pods to 10.

A new record and a great way to end the year.

More onchain podcasts are coming.

Brick by brick. Happy Holidays. 🎄

The Defiant. 👀

Camila Russo started The Defiant back in 2019 as a small newsletter covering the emergence of Decentralized Finance. At the time, MakerDAO was the only legit project, Uniswap had just launched V1, and other legends like Aave were still trying to find their footing.

Today, not only have those projects grown into DeFi juggernauts, but so has The Defiant in the crypto media landscape. They’ve released thousands of articles, podcasts, and videos over the years, amassing hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

If you can imagine, we’re beyond excited to work with Cami and the team to release 5 of her favorite, most iconic episodes onchain.

Given The Defiant’s roots, the theme for the collection is DeFi Founders - early episodes featuring the founders of the biggest projects in DeFi, before they were big.

The Collection 📚

The collection is available for 30 days – until January 11th. Each episode is listed at an accessible price point of 0.004 ETH per episode.

The episodes featured in this collection include:

1. MakerDAO’s Rune Christensen

The first ever episode of The Defiant with Rune Christensen - recorded in April 2020.

https://opensea.io/assets/0xd9D938799014AAfFb70bc27db5957965e1ED00cE/1

2. Chainlink’s Sergey Nazarov

Chainlink’s Founder Sergey highlights why DeFi builders need to take oracle risks seriously and why decentralized oracles are the solution.

https://opensea.io/assets/0xd9D938799014AAfFb70bc27db5957965e1ED00cE/2

3. Yearn’s Andre Cronje

Yearn’s Founder Andre talks about the launch of YFI and why it was a valueless token.

https://opensea.io/assets/0xd9D938799014AAfFb70bc27db5957965e1ED00cE/3

4. Aave’s Stani Kulechov

Aave’s founder Stani talks about the opportunity in lending as Aave becomes the #1 DeFi protocol by value locked.

https://opensea.io/assets/0xd9D938799014AAfFb70bc27db5957965e1ED00cE/4

5. Synthetix’s Kain Warwick

Synthetix’s Founder Kain talks about how DeFi scales with Layer 2.

https://opensea.io/assets/0xd9D938799014AAfFb70bc27db5957965e1ED00cE/5

You can find all the episodes here.

We ❤️ Onchain Media

The Defiant has been an OG in crypto media.

We’re honored to host their first ever onchain media on Pods – allowing the crypto community to own the iconic work that helped shape our industry.

The Defiant plans to release more and more episodes onchain, as a new way for the community to engage in the podcast.

On our end, we’re excited to continue to onboard legendary podcasts like The Defiant in the coming months.

We have so much more in store in 2024.

Thank you for all the support over the past few months.

Brick by brick.

Podcast hosts can now import Pods contracts into Bonfire, providing a hub of benefits and optionality. With Bonfire, Pods creators can now:

• Build a beautiful web3-native website – no code involved.

• Provide a custom collecting experience

• Create memberships using Pods NFTs

• Gate access to content, merch, and more for collectors

• Access a dashboard with insights, earnings, and more

Matt, Melissa and the rest of the Bonfire team have been incredible to work with over the past few months as we collaborated to provide this experience for podcasters.

We’re honored to be featured on Bonfire alongside legends in the NFT space, including Zora, Sound, Decent, and Lens. This integration allows podcast creators to have significantly more control over their community’s onchain experience on par with prominent protocols.

Featured Episode

Invest in Music - Matt Alston

https://opensea.io/assets/0x3b596924Aa351CF756b1BAda528eB15EBBa7D1cb/12

To showcase the Bonfire integration, Matt Alston hopped on this week’s episode of Invest in Music to talk about the launch of Bonfire’s Passes and how to bring the next million users onchain.

This episode is available to collect on Bonfire and Pods.

If you’re an avid Invest in Music fan, you may already be familiar with the Bonfire experience. We’ve been powering these mints behind closed doors for a few months, and now we’re ready to open it to everyone.

Go to investinmusic.xyz, listen to the wise words from Matt, and support by collecting the episode.

Bonfire provides an amazing hub for creators of all walks to design an experience that’s tailored for their community. We’re excited to see more and more Bonfire websites pop-up, leveraging Pods as the backend for their onchain episodes.

If you’re a podcaster on Pods, you can start building your website today on Bonfire.

If you’re interested in becoming one, sign up on our Creator Form.

Next launch collection set for next week.

We’ll see you onchain.

The First Mint (TFM) is the leading sports and NFT podcast. The pod really hit a stride during the Top Shot Mania, climbing global charts while building a strong, active community through it.

The co-host, LG Doucet comes from decades of experience in film and video production, running a commercial film studio for years and working with leading teams like Red Bull.

We were fortunate enough to connect months ago, and both were fired up to release TFM episodes onchain.

Fast forward to today, we’re excited to introduce The First Mint community to Pods. The community is already actively collecting sports moments on Top Shot – and now they can collect the podcasts that helped them through their crypto journey.

Launch Collection V - The First Mint Episodes 🏀

LG spent weeks thinking about the collection episodes.

After much deliberation, The First Mint’s Launch Collection includes:

1. TFM #1 - The First Episode

2. TFM #18 - NBA All Star Week w/ TheReelPhilD

3. TFM #22 - The #1 Account on Top Shot w/ WhaleShark

4. TFM #24 - Daryl Morey is deep into NFTs & NBA Top Shot (and he's not selling!)

5. TFM #38 - The Biggest Buyer on Top Shot w/ Dingaling

6. TFM #56 - LIVE SHOW w/ Bonsai Trees, Josh Ong, and company

The collection features some prominent guests, including Daryl Morey – the president of the 76ers – along with the biggest TopShot collectors like WhaleShark and Dingaling.

You’ll also notice that the collection features six episodes in total.

TFM elected to release the first episode ever – and granted it to a special community member. This is the first ever 1/1 episode on Pods.

If you’re sad you missed out on this special rewards, there’s good news…

Collector Rewards 🎁

The First Mint crew not only curated an elite collection, but they’ve also tailored a unique rewards program for their audience. There’s a range of prizes for collectors and various actions:

The rundown is:

• All collectors get a role in Discord

• Full set holders earn a raffle ticket for a Victor Wembanyama moment ($250 value)

• Top non-allowlist collector earns a Day One Pass ($200 value)

• Top 3 overall collectors will get shoutouts on episodes in 2024  (invaluable)

Another One 🫡

This is the fifth Launch Collection on Pods.

We’ve been beyond grateful for all of the support over the past two months since we went live.

We have a couple more launch collections planned to the end of the year.

A hint for the next one?

Public Goods.

We’ll see you soon.

If you’ve collected an episode in the past week, you may have come across them already.

Onchain Podcast Feeds are the podcast’s profile page, acting as a one-stop-shop to view, listen, and collect all of their episodes.

So What? 🤔

With these feeds, you can view high level details about the episode and navigate to each episode’s mint page, as well as have the option to collect all available episodes in a single click.

Collectors can also explore that podcast on the web, navigating to their main website, socials, and community chats like Discord and Telegram.

These feeds are relatively simple to start – intended to act as the foundation for a more feature-complete page.

We have a lot more in store in the coming future – like adding collector leaderboards, stats, and more to the feeds.

For now, this was a necessary feature to get out the door to provide a single go-to, evergreen place where podcasts can direct their fanbase to if they’re interested in collecting, supporting, and competing to become one of the biggest fans.

Collect Your Favorite Podcasts 🫡

You can start doing exploring onchain feeds now – here are all of them that are live today:

• Invest in Music

• Alfalfa

• Rehash

• OP Radio

• Wizard of Dapps

• Internet Explorers

• Seed Club

We’re excited to onboard more podcasts in the coming weeks, featuring these podcast feeds.

We have some awesome episodes lined up from some of the most popular podcasts in the space to close out the year.

The next launch collection is set for next week.

Hint: At one point, this podcast was one of the Top 5 sports podcasts in the world.

They have an avid community of sports & NFT enthusiasts, and we’re excited bring them onchain.

Should be good.

Happy holidays. We’ll see you soon.

The podcast? Alfalfa.

Alfalfa has an avid community full of crypto natives.

Better yet, one of our team members, Dan, has been a huge fan for a while.

We had to get these guys onboard. So, we found them at the meetup they were hosting at Permissionless.

It was a small bar, but packed with an amazing, diverse group of individuals. Talking with the community a bit more, we knew this would be a great fit for Pods.

A good amount of the community crosses over with our roots at Bankless, with some of them being active collectors during the Bankless Collectibles era.

After lubing the Alfalfa boys up with a couple drinks, they bought into releasing their podcast as NFTs.

That brings us to today.

Launch Collection IV

Alfalfa curated 5 of their favorite and most historic episodes from over the years.

Some episodes are sentimental. Others represent a specific milestone. All of them have memorable moments.

Ep. 1 — Elon and Bitcoin

The first episode of Alfalfa ever released.

https://opensea.io/assets/0x1ecF1473F0BC142B95bE86d63c1b044C335967f6/1

Ep. 25 — Bankless Special — David Hoffman Interviews the Alfalfa Boys

This is the re-released Layer Zero episode on Bankless and a reason for why Alfalfa is here today.

https://opensea.io/assets/0x1ecF1473F0BC142B95bE86d63c1b044C335967f6/2

Ep. 26 — Guns & Porn

A ridiculous fan-favorite episode that’s worth collecting. They also called the bottom.

https://opensea.io/assets/0x1ecF1473F0BC142B95bE86d63c1b044C335967f6/3

Ep. 51 — The Merge Livestream Ft. David Hoffman

Covering one of the biggest moments in crypto history with the man, the myth, the legend, David Hoffman.

https://opensea.io/assets/0x1ecF1473F0BC142B95bE86d63c1b044C335967f6/4

Ep. 141 — ETH to $50K and $71,000 Girlfriend Chatbot

This is the FIRST EPISODE EVER recorded in the Alfalfa studio.

https://opensea.io/assets/0x1ecF1473F0BC142B95bE86d63c1b044C335967f6/5

Collector Rewards 🎁

We’re also excited to work with Alfalfa to provide rewards for the Alfalfa community and its collectors.

Anyone that collects an episode will be eligible to receive a special role in the Alfalfa Discord – the heart of its community – and exclusive access to an additional chat with the Alfalfa gang.

You can get access to this role using Guild. Join it here.

Pods believes that the biggest win is the fan to creator relationship and status within the community.

The content NFTs are the vehicle to achieve status in that community.

The more you collect, the more status you earn.

This is one way to do it.

Just Getting Started 🫡

We’re excited to release another launch collection with an amazing podcast that has one of the most tight-knit communities we’ve seen.

We’ve made a ton of progress since soft launching a little over a month ago, working with top tier creators across the industry.

Since debuting our first episodes in late September, we’ve crossed over 1,000 podcast NFTs circulating the Ethereum economy.

A major step forward.

Thank you to everyone for participating. We appreciate your support.

Let’s get to 10K.

Podcast NFTs GMI.

This podcast has been releasing episodes onchain since 2022.

They’re the podcast NFT OGs. As far as we know – no one has been doing it for longer.

We’re talking about Rehash: A Web3 Podcast.

Over the years, Rehash has pioneered podcast NFTs on generalized platforms like Manifold.

While it gets the job done, there’s some friction as it’s not feature-complete – at least not for podcasts. Most of these platforms mint art, PFPs, videos, music, and everything else, so they’re not able to provide a tailored experience for any specific vertical.

Enter Pods - we’ve built the platform from the ground up with podcasts like Rehash in mind.

As such, we’re excited with the opportunity to work with Diana and flex the full Pods feature set.

For this launch collection, we’ve remastered the top 5 most popular Rehash episodes:

• S2 E10 | The Future of Decentralized Social w/Christina Beltramini

https://opensea.io/assets/0x1BF7644FDeffd1884a1980C30816BaC27227a620/1

• S2 E17 | Music NFTs, Community Building, Education & More w/LATASHÁ

https://opensea.io/assets/0x1BF7644FDeffd1884a1980C30816BaC27227a620/2

• S3 E2 | Non-Financial Use Cases for Tokens w/David Phelps

https://opensea.io/assets/0x1BF7644FDeffd1884a1980C30816BaC27227a620/3

• S3 E10 | The Evolution of Media w/Steph Alinsug

https://opensea.io/assets/0x1BF7644FDeffd1884a1980C30816BaC27227a620/4

• S4 E1 | Content Worth Collecting w/LDF & Reka

https://opensea.io/assets/0x1BF7644FDeffd1884a1980C30816BaC27227a620/5

So…what’s different this time?

Collection Features

1. Native L2 – Optimism

The first major upgrade with these episodes is the native deployment on L2.

Gas costs on Ethereum Mainnet have been a huge issue. Sometimes over  100% of the mint price is paid in gas fees alone (and even more to deploy it in the first place!).

Obviously, this is unsustainable – it’s deterring for collectors and expensive for creators.

With the Rehash Remastered Launch Collection, all of the episodes live natively on Optimism – providing cheap, fast transactions for everyone.

No more $10 gas fees to collect. Now, it’s only a few pennies.

You can find Rehash’s Creator Contract on Optimism here.

2. Revenue Sharing with Guests

Pods also enables revenue splits, allowing podcasts to easily split earnings with hosts, guests, the production team, and anyone else with an Ethereum address.

All the remastered episodes will share 25% of the proceeds with the guest(s) – supporting and rewarding their appearance on the pod, directly from the community.

We believe splits opens up a unique design space for how creators can divvy up payments between everyone involved in an automated, transparent fashion.

3. Community Tiers

We’ve also included allowlisted tiers into the collection. Allowlists enable creators to reward their onchain audience and those who are engaging the most.

If you own any of the original podcast episodes in this collection on Eth mainnet, you have access to a free mint.

If you own any Rehash episodes on Eth Mainnet, you get a 80% discounted mint at 0.001 ETH per edition.

Everyone else can collect as many editions as they please at the standard 0.005 ETH price

These community tiers are a perfect example - rewards for the OG holders with a free mint and existing supporters with a discounted mint.

Podcast Metadata

We’ve also included a refresh on the episode’s metadata – attributing the host, guests, season number, and other traits directly to the podcast episode’s metadata.

The Pods metadata standard helps podcasts with discovery and curation, allowing collectors to easily find and collect their favorite guests, seasons, and more.

Finally – all of the episodes have been refreshed with new artwork, replacing the old brand and matching it with the current, sleek branding.

Rehash Remastered

We’re honored to debut Rehash on Pods given their position in the industry as a leader in onchain media.

It was awesome to work with Diana given she was fully tuned into the concept and demands for publishing onchain. Moreover, it was great to fully realize the potential for her podcasts using the Pods platform.

This is by far the most feature-complete collection that we’ve launched on Pods to date.

You can collect it here.

If you host a podcast and are interested in releasing a collection, feel free to fill out the Pods Creator Onboarding Application.

You can also recommend any podcast by tagging us on Twitter.

Thanks to all our supporters. We appreciate each and every one of you.

More to come soon™️

We debuted with OP Radio – featuring 5 iconic episodes with the founders and key team members from the Optimism Foundation.

We’re now one launch collection down, and just getting started.

We have plenty more collections lined up for the rest of the year with amazing podcasts.

That said, we’re excited to introduce the second Pods Launch Collection.

We went deep into the archives of crypto to find this one. It’s an OG crypto podcast that covered consumer crypto before it was cool.

If you’ve been around crypto since 2017-18, you might remember it…

Introducing Launch Collection II - Wizard of Dapps

The second launch collection on Pods is Wizards of Dapps, hosted by Pet3rpan.

While Wizard of Dapps has been on hiatus, the podcast did an incredible job of covering the biggest companies in the space today, well before they were big.

Most of the recordings happened when these founders were in their pre-seed or seed stage. Today, many of them are among the most successful crypto projects in the industry.

The purpose of this collection is to mark the early days, the history, and journey of today’s most successful crypto companies.

Here are the episodes featured in the Wizard of Dapps Launch Collection:

Episode #2 - OpenSea with Devin Finzer

https://opensea.io/assets/0x9e6d828c4d91dba178785c95f01c199791b1b1c8/1

Episode #7 - Burner Wallet with Austin Griffith

https://opensea.io/assets/0x9e6d828c4d91dba178785c95f01c199791b1b1c8/2

Episode #10 - Axie Infinity with Jiho

https://opensea.io/assets/0x9e6d828c4d91dba178785c95f01c199791b1b1c8/3

Episode #14 - SuperRare with John Crain

https://opensea.io/assets/0x9e6d828c4d91dba178785c95f01c199791b1b1c8/4

Episode #34 - M3 with Jin

https://opensea.io/assets/0x9e6d828c4d91dba178785c95f01c199791b1b1c8/5

All of these episodes will be available for 14 days as Open Editions – starting today.

Anyone that collects all 5 episodes will receive a special NFT gift from Peter.

The Future of Media is Onchain

All of these episodes were recorded as early as April 2019 – the depths of the bear market.

All of them are available to collect today.

Every project was struggling in their own respects at the time. They were unproven.

These episodes were before NFT mania, before the Play-to-Earn craze, and even before DeFi summer.

This podcast covers the key projects and founders from the last bull market, before the bull market.

A piece of history.

We’re excited to work with Peter and Wizard of Dapps to debut this collection and commemorate this OG podcast by publishing it onchain.

Go and collect them here.

Thanks for everyone that participated in the OP Radio Launch Collection.

Be on the lookout for Pods Launch Collection III.

Coming soon

Starting this week, exclusive episodes from select podcasts will be available to collect on Pods.

Many of these podcasts have built archives with hundreds of episodes over the years.

For Pods Launch Collections, creators will only select 5 episodes to publish onchain.

It’s up to the creator to curate which episodes they want to include. It may be their favorite episodes, most popular episodes, or thematic ones that helped shape our industry.

All of which will be available on pods.media over the coming months – starting today.

WTF is Pods? 🤔

Pods is the home for onchain podcasts.

We allow users to discover and collect their favorite podcasts.

By publishing onchain, podcasts can become ownable. Listeners can collect and value that work. In return, they can earn status with that creator.

With Pods, listeners can prove that they were there first, showoff that they’re the biggest fan, or express their love for any individual episode.

We believe onchain media unlocks a new way for both listeners and hosts to engage with the content they consume and create.

You can become more than just a download. By collecting, you can stand out of the audience and prove your fandom, providing creators with insights on you, as an individual fan.

Over the past year, we’ve been heads down building this new paradigm for podcasts. This has culminated in new 1155 contracts, a tailored publishing experience, a podcast metadata standard to help with discovery, and more.

We’ve also deployed Pods natively on Optimism to provide cheap, fast transactions for both creators and collectors.

Neither side should have to deal with the expensive fees on mainnet – especially given how frequent podcasts are released (1-3x/week!)

This leads us into the first collection…

Pods Launch Collection #1: OP Radio 🔴

We’re excited to debut OP Radio, the official podcast from the Optimism Collective, as the first collection on Pods.

This collection features 5 curated episodes with the founders & key team members of Optimism.

Each of these episodes outlines a key vision, dives into an important topic, or marks a specific milestone for the Optimism Collective.

All of them are essential episodes embodying the journey in building this foundational layer for crypto.

All episodes are available to collect forever.

Just go here :)

Collection Episodes 🎙

Ep. #5 - The Past, Present, and Future of the Optimism Collective with Jing

Episode #5 of OP Radio is an essential episode in order to understand the history and vision of the Optimism Collective with the Co-Founder and Queen of OP 👑

https://opensea.io/assets/0xbb7691081c9886490314413fba313be9cbbb5561/1

Ep. #11 - Supreme Optimism Kelvin Fichter

An epic episode showcasing the dedication and passion of the Optimism Team for building an essential layer for the Ethereum ecosystem

https://opensea.io/assets/0xbb7691081c9886490314413fba313be9cbbb5561/2

Ep. #34 - Bedrock upgrade with Karl & Ben

This episode marks a critical milestone in the Optimism Roadmap, enabling full EVM equivalency. This was a first for any Ethereum L2.

https://opensea.io/assets/0xbb7691081c9886490314413fba313be9cbbb5561/3

Also, look at that hair.

Ep. #49 - Why Binji is Optimistic About the Future

Binji talks everything from AI, to deep fakes, to consumer crypto, to RPGF rewards as he continues to explore ways to grow the OP ecosystem.

“It’s not biz dev, it’s rizz dev”

https://opensea.io/assets/0xbb7691081c9886490314413fba313be9cbbb5561/4

Ep. #50 - Fault Proof Alpha with Karl

Fault Proofs are the next major development milestone for Optimism.

This episode marks the alpha launch and covers everything you need to know about this next upgrade with Ethereum’s OG crypto economist, Karl Floersch.

https://opensea.io/assets/0xbb7691081c9886490314413fba313be9cbbb5561/5

Collector Bonus Reward 🎁

Anyone that collects all 5 episodes by November 1st will receive a free bonus episode of OP Ep #52 - Onchain Media with Lucas, founder of Pods.

The episode will be recorded live on October 18th, 2023 on Twitter Spaces.

What’s Next 👀

First, go and collect OP Radio’s Launch Collection - exclusively available on pods.media.

If you’re itching for more, the good news is that we’re gearing up for more Launch Collections in the coming weeks - stay tuned.

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Finally - it’s should be obvious that we’re bullish onchain media. If writing is more your thing, you can collect this article on Mirror. The first ever :)

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