Re:Envisioning Web3 | NFT NYC Week Begins! 🎉

Host: Lyss (@Lysss302) with cohost Margie B (@MargieAponte2) · Date: Aug 31, 2026 · Duration: 1:13:55 · ~12 speakers (several diarization tracks were just the music)

TL;DR

• "People are wildin' out — still bowling in Brooklyn," Lyss reported, opening NFT NYC week from home while the crew was out at a Yankee game, an after-party, and a Brooklyn bowling alley.
• Jed (@jed_131) called in from his restaurant, De Stefano's, mid-service, mostly to announce he was not letting Papii and company back in for a fourth all-nighter. ("I'm locking the fucking door.")
• Recap of the prior night's family-style dinner at De Stefano's, which quietly turned into an after-hours party — the recurring legend being Super High/Soup drinking a tiny 25%-ABV shot like it was overproof rum.
• Papii (@RealPapii) and who's big (@thtguyt) both delivered the room's earnest core: IRL time is "priceless," networking beats follower counts, and skipping the "chain maxi" mindset opens doors.
• Week ahead previewed: Monday's New Quirk City at Barry Park (5–11), Tuesday's invite-only "whale dinner" (Quirkies, Regens, and Claynosaurz tables), and daily Re:Envisioning Web3 spaces — next one hosted by Jed with Blockies around noon.
• Closed with a new anthem "Because" (@BeeCuzFuture) wrote for the Regens.

Highlights

[4:44] — The premise: a chill night that refused to be chill. Lyss opened explaining she pushed the space to 9:30 figuring everyone would be back in their hotel rooms by then. Instead, "people are wildin' out. They're still bowling in Brooklyn."

[9:52] — Jed's door policy. Calling in from a working restaurant floor, Jed made his position clear: after nights ending at 4 a.m., he would be locking Papii out. "Bro, if you come here now, I don't give a fuck. I'm locking the door." He kept getting interrupted by actual customers.

[11:08] / [33:37] — The legendary baby shot. The story of the night, told twice: Super High sipped a ~25% ABV shot "like he drank 151 straight to the head." Lyss recalled talking him out of pinching his nose — "You are a founder that's extremely bearish. You're gonna take the shot, get some hair on your chest."

[12:16] — Gunn keeps it deadpan. After Lyss hyped the Bills, Gunn (@_justGunn) noted he'd already drafted Aaron Donald and looked at the schedule: "good luck." Earlier he'd DJ'd the room into a proper New York mood with the song picks.

[24:27] / [25:55] — Margie B invents a giant. A running bit where Margie B kept posting doctored photos of Lyss as a towering figure "going for a stroll in New York City," strolling through "nature" listening to birds — which she then clarified were New York pigeons. Lyss, defending her heels: "Guys, I promise I'm not a giant."

[29:40] / [30:13] — Boots on the ground from the bowling alley. The phone got passed around a Brooklyn lane where a squad of ~20 was bowling for OG Quirkies. Papii's takeaway landed hard: "If you're not in New York this year, don't play with 2027," and IRL time with the community is "priceless."

[32:10] — Room service, 2 a.m. Jed reminisced about making shrimp cocktail and iceberg wedges for Big Tony at two in the morning; Papii immortalized the late-night ham-and-cheese sandwiches he said he'll "forever remember."

[34:10] — How Soup met Warner. Super High recounted approaching Warner mid-photo-shoot by pretending to head to the bathroom, then tapping his shoulder — "it was just so awkward, bro" — before Warner reportedly said, "You're Super High, bro. I fucking love you."

[41:21] — Warner brings his mom full circle. Warner (@TheStevenWarner) described touring the city with his visiting mom — Statue of Liberty, Ground Zero, and getting his CryptoPunk placed on an iconic NYC wall — reflecting that "I have friends all over the world because of what we do here with Web3."

[45:24]–[52:34] — who's big's networking sermon. The longest and most quoted stretch: who's big recapped a five-day LA run (Solana Summer, meeting Cortez, an Apes-run costume studio that's worked with major artists) and turned it into advice — meet people outside your circle, don't let a follower count or an NFT change who you are, and drop the ETH-vs-Solana "PvP" mindset. Lyss built on it into a call to go table-to-table at New Quirk City.

[1:08:27] / [1:10:36] — Wrap and the Regen anthem. Lyss committed to running the daily space through NFT NYC week — "we could stay locked in for one hour and still send it and still stay connected with the Web3 fam that can't be out here" — then played, live for the first time, the song Because made for the Regens ("We build the body and the mind… no one here gets left behind").

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "If you come here now, I don't give a fuck. I'm locking the door. Locking the fucking door." — Jed [9:52]
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• "You are a founder that's extremely bearish. You're gonna take the shot, get some hair on your chest." — Lyss, on the baby shot [11:40]
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• "If you're not in New York this year, don't play with 2027." — Papii [30:13]
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• "Just because you got a hundred thousand followers don't make me better than you… we all human beings at the end of the day." — who's big [1:00:29]
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• "It's not Ethereum versus Solana or this versus that. This is us building the industry out." — who's big [57:44]
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• "The relationships that start out as friends… they become awesome family." — Margie B [1:08:45]
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Who said what

• Lyss (@Lysss302) — host; kept the night warm and low-key, ran the New York song set, and threaded every tangent back to "meet new people, put a face to the PFP."
• Margie B (@MargieAponte2) — cohost and chief troll, running the "Lyss is a giant" bit and closing on the friends-become-family note.
• Jed (@jed_131) — restaurateur behind De Stefano's, calling in between tables; comic anchor of the night (locking Papii out, 2 a.m. shrimp cocktail).
• Kiko (@Kiko_BTC) — Jed's cohost who briefly hijacked the phone; teased giveaways at his New Quirk City table.
• Gunn (@_justGunn) — the room's DJ and deadpan sports voice (Aaron Donald over the Bills).
• Super High / Soup — the night's unwitting protagonist (the shot, the awkward Warner intro), calling in giddy from the bowling alley.
• Papii (@RealPapii) — evangelist for IRL time as "priceless," bowling for OG Quirkies, "don't play with 2027."
• Slick Ric (@richj530) — former childhood bowling-leaguer (would've hustled an OG Quirk) and classic-car guy weighing a knock-in-the-engine deal.
• Warner (@TheStevenWarner) — brought his mom to NYC and got his Punk on the wall; the "friends all over the world" reflection.
• who's big (@thtguyt) — delivered the space's networking thesis after an LA run meeting Cortez and an Apes costume studio.
• Mike Campbell (@mikecampbelltv) — self-described retired bowling star (photo from 1985) who came up to praise who's big.
• StarDawgs (@StarDawgs) — couldn't make the trip but excited to see partners converging at De Stefano's.

Worth a full listen

• [45:24]–[58:04] — who's big's full monologue. The summary flattens it; hearing him connect an LA studio visit, the "less followers, more plugged in" observation, and the anti-chain-maxi pitch back-to-back is the emotional center of the space.
• [27:00]–[35:00] — the Brooklyn phone-pass. The energy of the crew handing one phone around the bowling alley — Soup, Papii, Super High, Jed roasting them all — captures the "who's behind the PFP" joy better than any recap line.
• [9:52]–[11:40] — Jed live from the floor. Real customers, threats to lock the door, and the first telling of the shot story, all at once — pure texture.

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