JED TALK 🎙️ | Chatting in chats? Let's get REAL

Host: Jed (@jed_131) · Sun 26 Jul 2026 · 1:31:49 · ~15 speakers

TL;DR

• A loose, warm 4-a.m.-New-York Sunday hang: Jed swapped DMs for the mic and let a rotating cast of builders check in from Australia, the UK, Hawaii, San Diego and Nigeria.
• The through-line was make real content and lean into IRL — Shmug's "we are the content," Jed's push for real-life giveaways and experiences over another NFT drop.
• KOKO (Coco) and Money Miller carried a long, substantive on-chain segment: NFTs heating up again, on-chain art, true digital ownership/rights infrastructure, and NFT sustainability.
• Money Miller debuted two original AI-assisted songs — the community anthem "We Built This Fire" and the closing "Everything's a Meme Coin" — both of which landed hard with the room.
• Nuclear Samurai talked brain rots and X copy; Monk reported live from the Pudgy Penguins booth at San Diego Comic Con; a Nigerian caller and Jed had a friendly Monad-vs-Solana back-and-forth.
• Jed closed while literally packing his house for a Monday closing — a new-industry pep talk wrapped in meme-coin nostalgia.

Highlights

[12:51] Host dives into the AI rabbit hole. Host (@HostXweb3)^* described losing two days to AI tools and marveling at how far the tech's come "before flip phones." Jed built on it, noting too few teams are actually shipping content: "some of the content that we could put out every single day is just going by the wayside."

[14:43] Uncle Corvus dials in from a "government lockdown hole." With his socials shut across the board in Australia, he still showed up between church duties, teasing run-app and protocol updates and something "pretty special" cooking in the lab. His mood set the tone for the whole room.

[20:31] Shmug: "we are the content." From a UK hospital bed, Shmug delivered the room's thesis — build for real life, not clout. Real-life giveaways beat NFT giveaways, retro/pixel is swinging back, and he's building things for ordinary people for free just to show them what's possible. He also described his own reinvention of a duck-hunt game: Hot Potato, a spud gun that overheats as you fire.

[26:17] The on-chain deep dive with KOKO. KOKO (@Bayc364) framed the current moment as on-chain activity heating up and a healthy signal we've bottomed or are near it. His advice: position now while it's quiet, and stay a student — "the worst thing you can do is tell yourself you know everything, even if you've been here a long time."

[32:17] Money Miller on true digital ownership. Money Miller laid out the missing layer he's building toward: NFTs prove a wallet controls a token, but nothing yet enforces what a holder can license, monetize or transfer. He wants creators to configure rights cryptographically instead of "renting content" on platforms silently feeding IP to AI.

[37:56] KOKO's favorite NFT use case. KOKO pointed to Uniswap V3's liquidity-position NFTs as the coolest thing he's seen — a tangible, sellable, value-bearing representation of your stake — and later ([41:06]) compared a good founder to a musician whose superfans reward good work with liquidity.

[56:47] The moderats gift story. Jed recalled being gifted a ~$5,000 X copy mint by a collector when he couldn't get it himself — the moment that pulled him off Nifty Gateway and into the community. "Who the fuck would do that? It wasn't about the money."

[1:10:06] "We Built This Fire." Money Miller introduced and played his newest song, written after hearing too many founders say I built this community. The track's reframe — communities aren't kingdoms to own — was the emotional peak of the night.

[1:20:47] Monad vs Solana, cordially. A Nigerian caller made an energetic case for Monad's speed and room for builders; Jed gently pushed the "why Monad over Sol?" question a few times before calling it — "it's four o'clock in the morning in New York, we could come back and talk about Monad another day."

[1:27:38] "Everything's a Meme Coin." Money Miller closed the room with a tongue-in-cheek anthem that sent Jed spiraling into fond memories of the meme-coin super cycle — including the time he told a friend to sell all his ETH for MOTHER.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

"What a time to be alive. It's a blessing every day." — Uncle Corvus [15:58]

"We fucking had the opportunity to pioneer a new industry, and some people just sat down and scrolled." — Jed [15:44]

"In general, we are the content, so just create." — Shmug [22:00]

"The worst thing you can do is tell yourself you know everything, even if you've been here a long time." — KOKO [28:27]

"Stop saying, I built this. Say, we found each other." — Money Miller, from "We Built This Fire" [1:14:16]

"I believed in the meme coin super cycle. Thank god he didn't listen to me." — Jed [1:30:29]

Who said what

• Jed (@jed_131, host) — ran the room and the music; on-chain/IRL evangelist curating steakhouse activations that mix "normies" and Web3.
• Host (@HostXweb3)^* — feeling creative and inspired, deep in an AI rabbit hole.
• Uncle Corvus (@unclecorvus) — checked in from Australia despite locked socials; teasing a lab launch and run-app updates.
• JayVegas (@JayVegas24) — celebrated a year on the other side (Ape Chain/Yuga); chasing volume across chains, "then take it home."
• Money Miller (@ItsMoneyMiller) — new-dad moment (daughter's first steps), building rights/ownership infra (Prism), and the night's resident AI-music producer.
• Shmug (@shmug83) — from a UK hospital bed; "we are the content," real-life giveaways, retro-to-pixel design philosophy.
• KOKO (@Bayc364) — decade-plus vet on Ape Church; NFTs heating up, sustainability, staying a student.
• Nuclear Samurai (@nuclearsamurai) — brain rot project (now with Italian brain rots), CXRDS cards, deep X copy respect, headed to NFT NYC.
• Space (@WicketSpace) — mostly here to vouch for Jed's authenticity and values.
• Margie B (@B4Margie)^* — the room's researcher/co-host energy, cueing music breaks and vetting guests.
• Monk (@monkish) — reported live from the Pudgy Penguins booth at San Diego Comic Con; wants a Regen presence there next year.
• KING BUBUU (@fugazinft) — Brooklyn, seven-year OG holding tight to the Fugazi tag.
• Speaker 7 — Nigerian caller, bullish on Monad's speed, friendly Solana debate with Jed.

Worth a full listen

• [26:17]–[43:00] — The KOKO/Money Miller on-chain conversation is too dense to compress: on-chain art, Uniswap V3 NFTs, digital-ownership infrastructure, and what actually makes an NFT project sustainable.
• [1:10:06]–[1:15:53] — "We Built This Fire" in full; the reactions tell you it hit, and the lyrics carry the room's whole ethos better than a summary can.
• [1:20:47]–[1:25:36] — The Monad-vs-Solana exchange is a good-natured builder debate worth hearing in the speakers' own back-and-forth.

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