NFT NYC Check In — Where NFTs Are Headed

Host: Super (@SHGFees) with cohost Sho (@AgogoKaren) · Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 · Duration: 58:15 · ~6 speakers

TL;DR

• A mid-trip check-in from NFT NYC ("New Cork City"), where Super and a crew of Quirkies/Regens/LT3 friends have been meeting up IRL for the first time.
• The theme was gratitude for the trip's organizers — Jed, Liz, and Poppy — and the "family" feeling of finally meeting online friends in person. [12:40]
• Everyone's takeaway: the people are exactly who they are online, and IRL meetups are the "alpha" you can't get from spaces or DMs. [15:15]
• A running thread of encouragement toward Super, who friends say visibly grew in confidence over the trip, no longer selling himself short as a founder. [18:14][26:12]
• Super's headline reflection: NFTs feel healthier now than in the 2021–22 hype era — for the first time "fundamentals match price," with community and network effects as the real value. [47:16]
• Astro added that community access itself is functionality, and that using an NFT as your event ticket (à la Gary Vee / VeeFriends) is a legit model. [48:37]

Highlights

Super sets the scene [9:39] — Super opens the check-in, calling this "already the best event I've been to by far," better than NFT Paris and a Japan ordinals event, and crediting the people for making it what it is.

Could see myself living here [10:54] — Super talks about the always-on energy of New York and how it lifts his productivity and mood, floating the idea of actually moving out and getting a job to keep the vibe going.

Sho on watching Super come into his own [18:14] — Sho gives a heartfelt read on watching Super sit in a bowling lane full of whales and founders and just be himself, saying he's historically put himself "at a lower" spot than other founders and that seeing him shed that was "worth the whole trip in itself."

Piff on RL meetups as alpha [15:15] — Piff (@RealPiffsPeak)^* compares this year to his first NFT NYC last year, landing on face-to-face interaction as "the prime of it all" — body language, reactions, the works — and confirms everyone's the same silly selves in person.

The Yankees game and the movie edit [16:12] — Piff recounts his first-ever baseball game (Yankees won 16–1, first jersey), and promises the 30+ clips and GoPro footage will be cut into a full "New Cork City" movie for everyone back home.

Yew's inviting energy [29:21] — Yew (@yew_eth)^* gets introduced as one of the most positive people in the space; he praises Piff, admits he's overdue to grab some LT3s, and later delivers the trip's best PSA: if a big IRL feels intimidating, "just go meet 10 people... you'll be happy, guaranteed." [39:34]

Steakhouse legend status [32:09][33:05] — Jed's steakhouse (De Stefano's) becomes the trip's emotional anchor: they stayed till 2 a.m., Jed opened it up and served everyone himself, and Piff — who confesses it was his first-ever legitimate steakhouse — declares Texas Roadhouse permanently ruined for him.

Where NFTs are headed [47:16] — Super delivers the substantive segment: in 2021–22 a $400k Bored Ape was hard to justify, but a Bored Ape at 20k, a Quirkie at ~2,500, or a Regen at ~200 now feels backed by real network value. His hot take: this is the first time "fundamentals match price."

Community as functionality [48:37] — Astro (@astroquirk_)^* builds on it: getting into a community is part of an NFT's functionality, and using the token as your ticket into IRL events (like VeeFriends) is real utility, not hype.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

"That face to face interaction is like the prime of it all... you get to see their body language." — Piff [15:15]

"I sat back and I watched Super... he was sitting in lanes with a bunch of whales and a couple founders and he was just being himself... that was just like worth the whole trip in itself." — Sho [18:14]

"If a big IRL is intimidating, just go meet 10 people... You'll be happy, guaranteed. It makes you bullish on the space, like 10x." — Yew [39:34]

"It's like honestly the first time where I feel like fundamentals match price." — Super [47:16]

"Getting into a community is also part of the functionality." — Astro [48:37]

"A place is only as good as the people you know in it... I get to hear the smile in your voice." — BeeCuzFuture [36:34]

Who said what

• Super (@SHGFees), host — Founder of LT3; ran the check-in, shared the trip's emotional arc and the "fundamentals match price" thesis; repeatedly (and self-deprecatingly) lost his train of thought and owned it. [51:25]
• Sho (@AgogoKaren), cohost — The room's cheerleader-in-chief, calling out Super's growth, narrating the bowling and steakhouse nights, and threatening everyone with a hangry Ash if breakfast didn't happen. [52:29]
• Piff (@RealPiffsPeak)^* — Trip documentarian with 30+ clips, first-timer at both a Yankees game and a real steakhouse; made a song for Jed's restaurant sight-unseen and promised another. [34:35]
• Astro (@astroquirk_)^* — Second-year attendee (with family in 2024); framed community access as functionality and NFTs-as-event-tickets as legit utility. [48:37]
• Yew (@yew_eth)^* — Introduced as one of the space's most positive voices; delivered the "go meet 10 people" IRL pep talk and admitted he's overdue to buy LT3. [39:34]
• BeeCuzFuture (@BeeCuzFuture)^* — Dropped in briefly with a warm quote about people making the place, then bounced. [36:34]

Worth a full listen

• [14:53]–[18:14] — Piff and Astro back to back on why IRL meetups beat spaces/DMs, wrapped around the Yankees game and the group's genuine "we've known each other for years" chemistry. The energy doesn't compress well into bullets.
• [44:26]–[50:46] — The actual "where NFTs are headed" discussion: Super's price-vs-fundamentals reflection and Astro's community-as-functionality build, the closest the space gets to a thesis.
• [41:13]–[44:26] — The organic LT3 onboarding thread, including Sho's story of Super being too humble to even mention he founded the project — a nice window into the room's dynamic (and the group's shared NFT "addiction" needing a 12-step program).

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