NFTs — The Sunday NFT Show

Host: LoKi 😈 (@lokithebird), with co-hosts Makaveli (@MakaveliDlaCruz) and proof (@the_alpha_dgn) · Sun, 19 Jul 2026 · 1:52:45 · ~12 active speakers

TL;DR

• Cab (Claynosaurz) walked through the collection landing on Amazon Prime Video — three short episodes now, longer-form content in the pipeline, with Amazon sharing viewership stats back to the team.
• Adam Weitsman joined the show fresh off being named to the Yuga Labs board of directors (his first week), and teased that Otherside "could really blow people away soon."
• A recurring theme: bridging physical and digital collectibles. Adam floated a founders'-fest exhibit piggybacking on Fanatics Fest; the room rallied around reframing NFT NYC as a "Digicon" for collectors.
• Steve Starobinsky, head of partnerships at Pudgy Penguins, gave a retail masterclass — Polly & Pengu impulse plushies hit Target that day, plus the Kaka Wow / Suplay entertainment-card deal for Asia (including a Luca one-of-one).
• A substantive debate on projects buying their own floors — Papii and Cab urged caution about "falsifying demand" and draining treasuries.
• Community was the emotional through-line: Chesus, Big Rugg, and Shills all argued the friendships and IRL meetups matter more than floor price.

Highlights

[14:31] Loki's week in review. Loki rattled off the week's news: Claynosaurz on Amazon Prime, Final Bosu launching its memo platform, Pudgy's Kaka Wow partnership, Adam joining Yuga's board, D Gods launching a marketplace ("DBay"), and Chimpers beginning to bid its own floor as market-making — "first time ever, at least publicly."

[18:37] Cab on the Amazon moment. Cab gave a heartfelt read on Claynosaurz streaming on Prime — "it's what we wanted four years ago." He pushed back gently on the "it's only three short episodes" crowd, framing it as a statement that a good Web3 product can walk through legacy doors. He admitted he only truly felt it when he saw it live on the platform: "oh fuck, I couldn't have imagined."

[26:15] Adam Weitsman on the Yuga board. In his first week on the job, Adam kept it grounded — "I don't really hype anything up" — but said a lot of past decisions will be changed and that with Figgy leading, Otherside "could really blow people away soon."

[28:38] Adam on the Normies collab spree. Adam described curating burn-to-art collabs for Normies — ACK first, then Beeple, Jack, and Larva Labs — and noted the flywheel has flipped: artists are now reaching out to him directly instead of him cold-calling.

[30:38] The "Digicon" idea takes shape. Off Adam's Fanatics Fest visit, he and Mac sketched a founders'-fest where every major collection sets up a fan-friendly booth — Bored Ape's clubhouse, Doodles' Doodleverse, Claynotopia, the Azuki garden — piggybacking the same day as Fanatics Fest in New York. Adam offered to build it for next year and pull the majors in.

[38:39] Cab on killing the NFT stigma. Cab argued the events skew too "already-in-the-know" and should be framed on the collector side. His line landed: normies "cannot get past the word" NFT, but "no consumer on the planet gives a shit what's running under the hood for YouTube — they just care that the videos play." YouTube frames itself as a media company, not a tech company; NFTs should do the same.

[44:01] Chesus on why community beats floor price. Chesus told the story of his 13-year-old daughter ripping open a FWOG pack and pulling a gold on the very first box — "she started freaking out." He widened it into a case that the friends, the tears on the phone, the meetups are the point, not the money. His deadpan tribute to a Wells Fargo exec friend he'd never have met otherwise drew the biggest laugh of the day.

[57:41] Should projects buy their own floors? Loki asked whether floor-support bidding (Chimpers, GVC) is a viable strategy. Papii detailed how real bids get front-run by collection-bidding bots and how his team built one that bids trait backgrounds instead — but warned about sustainability. Cab was firmly in the "era of caution" camp: pegging a non-fungible collection to its lowest denominator is "absurd," and buying your own floor risks "falsifying demand" and burning treasury you need to actually build the brand. A tangent surfaced the old Ape "Damn DAO" wallet still holding a hundred-plus grail apes.

[1:11:50] Steve Starobinsky's Pudgy retail masterclass. Pudgy's head of partnerships introduced himself and dropped alpha: Polly & Pengu impulse plushies launching at Target that day at $10.99. He explained the Valentine's pop-up that revealed Pudgy had become a "couples brand," the shift in retail merchandising toward faster 30–60 day drops, and the Kaka Wow / Suplay deal that lets Pudgy condense years of Asia market entry — anchored by a signed Luca one-of-one card.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "And then when it was up on the platform, I was just like, oh fuck, like I couldn't I couldn't have imagined." — Cab [20:05]
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• "No consumer on the planet gives a shit what's running under the hood for YouTube — they just care that the videos play. But YouTube frames itself as a media company, not a tech company." — Cab [38:39]
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• "I'm surprised he's still married with the money he's lost in the space, but it doesn't matter. He still shows up." — Chesus [45:30]
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• "When I read tweets saying NFTs are gone, NFTs are done, dead, whatever — are you stupid or what?" — Loki [46:00]
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• "Floor price tells you the cost of entry, but not — and perhaps trust — but not much else." — Cab [1:06:54]
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• "Pudgy Penguins had become a love language for these couples. It was a co-fandom. And so we really felt like we had found product-market fit." — Steve Starobinsky [1:18:13]
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Who said what

• Loki (@lokithebird), Speaker 03 — Host anchoring the week's news and steering topics; pushed the floor-support and marketplace questions. Calling in late from Asia.
• Makaveli / Mac (@MakaveliDlaCruz), Speaker 05 — Co-host and hypeman on the decks; drove the Digicon vision and pressed Steve on card print numbers.
• proof (@the_alpha_dgn), Speaker 02 — Co-host MC, kept the "rising tides raise all ships" and "shots on goal" energy flowing between guests.
• Cab (@Cabanimation), Speaker 04 — Claynosaurz' voice of the day: Amazon Prime win, reframing the NFT stigma, and the strongest caution against buying your own floor.
• Adam Weitsman (@AdamWeitsman), Speaker 10 — New Yuga board member; championed cross-artist Normies collabs and a founders'-fest tied to Fanatics Fest.
• Steve Starobinsky (@PudgyPartners), Speaker 01 — Pudgy head of partnerships; delivered the retail/licensing deep dive and the day's biggest product alpha.
• Chesus (@chesus), Speaker 08 — Community heart of the room; the FWOG gold-pull story and the "community over floor price" case.
• Papii (@RealPapii), Speaker 06 — Rallied support for Ant Academy's suspended account and gave the most technical read on floor-bidding bot mechanics.
• Shills (@Shills_81), Speaker 07 — Back after a break (and a briefly human PFP); on-the-ground notes from Lisbon and the Claynosaurz card experience.
• Nuclear Samurai (@nuclearsamurai), Speaker 14 — Brain Rot's burn lab — ~944 of 10k burned in a week, collector-driven co-creation.
• Bosu kev (@kevinfinalbosu), Speaker 09 — Walked through Final Bosu's memo platform for holder-driven canon lore and character co-creation.
• Big Rugg (@ChiefNeckbone_), Speaker 11 — Rescuing a rugged project with a burn mechanic; big on TCG physicals bridging Web2 and Web3.
• Atari (@atarigod), Speaker 13 — Raised the "10k supply is too big for the current audience" question that framed much of the floor discussion.

Worth a full listen

• [42:34]–[46:00] — Chesus and Big Rugg on community, physicals, and family collecting. The FWOG gold-pull and the Wells Fargo friend land better in full than any summary; this is the emotional and comic center of the room.
• [57:41]–[1:09:19] — The floor-support bot debate. Papii's mechanics, Loki's framing, and Cab's "falsifying demand" caution add up to a genuinely useful conversation on treasury strategy, with the Damn DAO grail-apes tangent as a bonus.
• [1:11:50]–[1:32:39] — Steve Starobinsky's uninterrupted retail walkthrough: the Valentine's pop-up, retail merchandising timelines, and the Kaka Wow/Suplay Asia deal. A rare inside look at how a Web3 brand actually scales into mass retail.

* some voices are identified from context; those names are marked as likely.