Verse Talks
Discussing the latest news in digital art with Leyla Fakhr and Jamie Gourlay.
Verse Talks
Jalil: Visualise Value, Checks and a new auction house for Cryptopunks
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00:24 - Welcome Jalil
03:29 - From art to coding
07:04 - Finding Web3 and NFTs
08:05 - Finding Visualize Value and community
14:01 - The Permissionless Apprentice and connecting with Jack
18:47 - Embracing Ethereum and learning Solidity
22:10 - Scapes
24:24 - Experiencing the NFT boom
29:46 - From rock bottom to Checks
35:08 - Building the Checks contracts
39:39 - How Checks works
41:53 - Rarity, MEV risk and gaming the system
43:26 - From Checks to Opepen and an ongoing collaboration
44:24 - Creative roles, collaboration and ego
45:58 - The impact of AI on Jalil's practice
50:38 - Obsession as a path to exceptionalism
53:58 - Exploring an individual art practice again
56:43 - CryptoPunks V1 and V2
01:00:50 - Fixing V1 trading on-chain and the issue with wrappers
01:04:22 - V1 drama and shifting views on IP
01:09:33 - The birth of Networked
01:14:32 - Building for wider understanding with EVM Now
01:18:40 - A new auction house for Punks
01:21:01 - New launches and ideas at Verse
Scapes: https://scapes.xyz/
https://jack.art/checks-originals
https://opepen.art/
https://x.com/jalilwahdat