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🎙 How To Get Free Money To Mint Your First Music NFT

MintFund and Quixotic co-founder Mark Dawson shares why he helped start a community that finds, funds, and supports up-and-coming artists, as well as building the largest NFT marketplace on Optimism.

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🎙 New Podcast Episode

Mint Season 4 episode 20 welcomes Mark Dawson, co-founder of Quixotic, the largest NFT marketplace on Optimism, and MusicFund, a community that finds, funds, and supports up-and-coming artists.

This conversation took place during Eth Denver so there’s a lot to unpack from the week itself, let alone all the cool stuff he and his co-founder are building, so let’s just dive right in.

In this episode, we discuss: 

  • 01:08 - Intro

  • 07:05 - How Do Creators Get Started in crypto?

  • 12:55 - What is Quixotic trying to solve?

  • 17:45 - NFT Derivatives and Copy-cat projects

  • 19:11 - About MusicFund

  • 23:21 - Current State of Music and Web3

  • 36:52 - 2022 is the year for Layer 2s

  • 38:03 - What is Layer Two Community Culture Like?

  • 40:39 - The NFT Landscape in 2022

  • 42:12 - The Most Interesting Music NFT Use Cases

  • 46:37 - Mark’s Thoughts on Web3-native Music Royalties 

  • 48:40 - Outro

…and so much more.

I hope you enjoy our conversation.

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