NFT Events — the Pre-Game for NFT NYC

Host: Super (@SHGFees) with co-host Sho (@AgogoKaren) · Fri, Aug 28 2026 · 1:49:42 · 13 speakers

TL;DR

• Super opened an "NFT events" space the night before flying out for NFT NYC, and it happily drifted from a topic session into a full pre-game hangout of regulars planning their meetups.
• Lyss announced she'd spin up a group chat after the space for anyone with free time Tuesday/Wednesday, plus a curated regens table and holder specials at De Stefano's on Wednesday.
• The heart of the room was IRL connection — meeting people you've only ever heard in spaces — anchored by Jroc3D's speech and Lyss's story of bonding with Bobby at Art Basel.
• Practical takeaways: outline your day (don't over-schedule it), set up group chats and rides beforehand, New York beats LA on walkability, and Tim floated a "speed-mingling" ice-breaker to open the dinner.
• Meow's Custom Soles got a spotlight, with Lyss urging builders to prep a short pitch for the group's livestream.
• Super's regular space schedule pauses until he's back; anything before then will be pop-ups.

Highlights

[7:35] Super frames the night. He explains he made a space about NFT events because he'd end up talking about them anyway — tomorrow is day one of NFT NYC for him and Sho — but he wants it broader: share your past event experiences, or what you'd want out of one if you've never been.

[9:24] Sho on FOMO from the outside. With her city hosting its "Hotter'n Hell" hundred-mile bike race, Sho reflects on years of watching everyone else meet up IRL and feeling like "sucks to be us" — and how good it feels to finally be on the inside going this time.

[14:05] Tim reframes the LA FOMO. After missing the F it LA Bored Apes party, Tim decided the answer isn't chasing someone else's event but planning New York's own — bigger, walkable, vibe-first — later expanding it [41:39] into a dream of dusting off the Seaport inflatables and bringing every community together on the water.

[20:00] Lyss, the event-planning brain. Lyss (owns the spreadsheets, unashamed) argues New York's past NFT events fumbled because out-of-towners planned them across un-walkable neighborhoods, called Tech Week a 1,500-event mess, and pitched reviving a V-con at the Javits Center that folds in the apes, regens, quirkies and OpenSea [22:25].

[52:04] How to work a room, per Super. His method from NFT Paris: walk up to a cluster of strangers in one of the inflatable igloos, make eye contact, say "what's up," and let them pull you in — he still has post-notifications on for someone he met that way.

[54:16] Lyss on being present — and Tim's early-bird problem. Lyss recommends leaving the phone in your purse to actually connect, then recalls Tim showing up suited-up with a briefcase to a New York dinner at 3–4 p.m., alone, because "we live in New York." Sho's verdict: a senior-citizen move.

[1:00:00] Jroc3D's IRL speech. Dialing in from a Delaware beach with his kid running around, Jroc3D delivers the room's emotional core: once you hear the voice you've spent months with, the shell breaks and strangers become family — you're doing friendship in reverse.

[1:16:48] Tim's speed-mingling idea. As the resident introvert (pink hoodie, corner table), Tim suggests kicking the dinner off with a one-minute speed-date round so newcomers can meet everyone and break the ice — Sho immediately declares it a panic attack [1:17:32]. Lyss counters that she and Jed already do this on the sly by spreading the food across the room [1:20:16].

[1:27:30] Meow's Custom Soles spotlight. Lyss puts the pressure on Meow (business plans expected [1:28:55]) to show her growth, then makes the pitch [1:38:44]: custom sneakers, purses, Bills bags — invest in someone who shows up for the space every day.

[1:44:13] Jed closes the room. De Stefano's owner Jed pops in at the buzzer to "promote the restaurant" — by advising Super to pack a bulletproof vest for Brooklyn — before threatening to reveal Super's real name and dropping instantly.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "Being live in person… you could never replace. It's a bond that you feel, it's an aura that you get." — Tim [15:40]
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• "Don't go to dinner at three, four o'clock in New York. I don't know if that's an LA thing." — Lyss [54:16]
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• "Or it's a senior citizens thing, ma'am." — Sho [55:35]
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• "Okay, so I'll leave my roofies at home, is what you're telling me." — Woof [1:26:21]
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• "We're not gonna look anybody in the eyes. We're just gonna eat steak. We're gonna get out of there." — Tim [1:29:21]
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• "I now have brothers and sisters that I didn't grow up with, but I grew into." — Jroc3D [1:09:50]
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Who said what

• Super (@SHGFees) — host; set the loose format, confessed to a year of De Stefano's food FOMO, mulled extending his stay, and announced the space pause.
• Sho (@AgogoKaren)^* — co-host heading to her first big event; the room's warmth and comic engine, from FOMO confessions to being a self-declared "shoe and purse ho."
• Lyss (@Lysss302)^* — the planner; group chat, regens table, De Stefano's hospitality/social duties, the Javits V-con vision, and Meow's biggest cheerleader.
• Tim (@tim_8093)^* — introvert and chief troll; pushed New York-run events and the Seaport reunion, floated speed-mingling, joked he's just there for the food.
• Jroc3D (@JusCrypto88)^* — delivered the heartfelt case for IRL connection from a Delaware vacation; can't make it but promised he will.
• Jose (@Yoshi_3000)^* — coordinating to meet Super on the travel day; a fellow three-pairs-of-the-same-shoes guy.
• Dan (@brokenrealitydh)^* — pillows arrived and are puppy-endangered; bringing his non-web3 (and nervous) wife Tuesday.
• Woof (@WoofArmyXX)^* — pure comic relief; the number-stand, paid-picture, handshake-and-left-shoe bits.
• Meow (@MeowMetaX)^* — Meow's Custom Soles; custom sneakers, purses and bags, growing since the last meetup.
• DaFameless (@DaFameless)^* — shoe/paint questions and holder of the threatened blackmail photo of Super.
• Margie B (@MargieAponte2)^* — late feet-defense of Sho and a karaoke shout to Jroc3D.
• Jed (@jed_131)^* — De Stefano's owner; the deadpan bulletproof-vest sign-off.

Worth a full listen

• [59:52]–[1:11:05] — Jroc3D's speech into Lyss's Bobby-at-Basel story. This stretch is the reason the space existed; the summary can't carry the sincerity.
• [1:33:17]–[1:42:00] — The feet-and-shoe running bit ("gargoyle feet," rats, the pods, left-shoe inventory). Peak room chemistry, best heard live.
• [51:19]–[57:51] — The introvert survival-guide round, where each speaker's real event-anxiety and their fixes come out honestly (and funnily).

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