ZEROPOD #29 - Peeling Back the Layers with Nouner & Syndicate Co-Founder Will Papper

Zero Rights Reserved: A CC0 Podcast About Nouns, DAOs, NFTs & Ethereum

On episode 29 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, hosts Toady Hawk and Prof Werder from The Noun Square sit down with Will Papper, Nouner and co-founder of Syndicate.

In this conversation, we learn about Will's career journey, which involves being a trailblazing founder, first in the field of AI and later crypto. We talk about how his company, Syndicate aims to facilitate cooperation and composability for onchain communities like Farcaster and $Degen, the future of Ethereum's rollup-centric roadmap as he sees it, and why he believes Layer 2s and Layer 3s could one day eclipse L1s in TVL. Finally, we dig into what attracted Will to Nouns since early days, how he likes to contribute to the project, and what he hopes to see in the future from Nouns.

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Timestamps:

00:00 - How did Will get Noun-pilled?

02:25 - ZeroPod intro

03:40 - The Will Papper Origin Story

04:14 - “Decentralization Technologies”

05:35 - Infinite regret

06:14 - What are Mesh Networks?

08:22 - “Timing is hard.”

09:00 - Discovering Ethereum

10:30 - The Coingecko experiment

12:50 - Hysterical NFTs

14:20 - Avoiding hype cycles

15:12 - Librarian AI

17:13 - Remembering the 2018 bear cycle fondly

22:00 - “A few people with a great idea can have a huge impact.”

25:25 - 2018 vs 2022 bear market comparisons

27:30 - The crazy speed of infrastructure development in crypto

29:10 - What is Syndicate? Early days.

31:15 - Enabling onchain investment clubs

35:15 - On L3’s

37:00 - Why are L3 fees cheaper?

41:00 - $Degen and tipping culture

44:00 - “The value of an L2 will never surpass the value of an L1” argument challenged

47:37 - Our video about bridging that never uses the word bridge: https://youtu.be/fnji_t6hUXc?si=KwKF6i-ahy_KKXT5

48:27 - The Superchain is a messaging protocol, not a bridging protocol

51:00 - Security vs Usage

54:00 - L3 Composability

57:35 - On Farcaster

59:24 - Cow-clicker in a frame: https://warpcast.com/will/0xefedba2a

1:00:00 - Working with Jacek on Degen Chain

1:04:00 - Will on Nouns

1:06:00 - Noun-pilled by Noun40

1:07:00 - Sponsoring Glitch art proposal

1:08:00 - Thoughts on moving Nouns governance off L1 (Don’t do it!)

1:10:55 - Sharing unique perspectives in governance

1:11:48 - The future of Nouns

1:13:00 - The Yellow Collective, Purple as examples of successful branches into other niches and ecosystems

1:18:00- Predictions for the current cycle

1:19:18 - Syndicate’s goals for this year

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Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and Santhosh. Hosted by Toady Hawk and Prof Werder. Music by Toady Hawk x Suno AI.

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