# Onchain Media Community Roundtable with Special Guests from Saga DAO 🎙️

**Host:** Rachel (@RachelOnchain) · **Date:** Wed, 15 Jul 2026 · **Duration:** ~1:26:00 · **Speakers:** ~10

## TL;DR
- On-chain Media's weekly community roundtable hosted its first featured guests: the Saga DAO / Alpha Club crew, with Peoples (Pierre, @PeoplesMarket24) leading the deep dive.
- Peoples walked through Saga DAO's origin — a community working group under Saga DAO (Solana's largest community-driven DAO), its early stumble as an NFT-gated trading/alpha group, the refund to minters, and its pivot into content via the Alpha Club Spotlight series, Kev's Game Room, and Saga DAO TV.
- Big product news: Saga DAO's "user" app is heading to the Solana dApp Store (awaiting final approvals), pitched as a real-user testing layer for teams building on Solana, plus device-gated governance voting (one seeker/saga = one vote).
- Kev (@kev0x13) shared his path from meme-making to Solana gaming streamer; Dan (@brokenrealitydh) gave a standout answer on what makes a game work, sparking an on-air invite to Kev's Game Room.
- Cross-promotion locked in: Rachel confirmed as special guest on the Alpha Den (episode 31) next Wednesday; a Pokémon-card giveaway teased for the Alpha Den show later that night with SP3N.
- Recurring theme throughout: show up, build relationships over vanity metrics, and that "legends are forged in bear markets."

## Highlights

**[11:07] Saga DAO's honest origin story.** Peoples explained the Alpha Club began as a trading group with NFTs that granted community access, backed by an alpha caller. When that didn't work out, they refunded everyone who minted and went back to the drawing board — the moment they onboarded Old Man Still Can, Vision, and Kev and rebuilt around content.

**[23:43] The "user" app goes to the dApp Store.** Peoples announced Saga DAO's user app is awaiting final approvals for the Solana dApp Store. The pitch: a real-user testing layer so builders get genuine community feedback instead of paying agencies for bot-driven reviews. They ran a beta with $1,500 given to testers.

**[25:09 / 1:14:03] Device-gated governance.** Peoples described "tapping" — every seeker/saga owner gets one vote per device on the DAO's direction, and detailed a recent restructuring that removed a central core team in favor of marketing, R&D, business dev, and community departments.

**[34:13] Kev's journey to Solana gaming.** Kev recounted trading since 2017, a life-changing fully-expensed trip to Breakpoint, meeting the Solana community and Super Team USA in Miami, and being handed "a platform" by a legend named Dione — which became his gaming stream, now six episodes in, currently featuring Kintara.

**[55:40] Dan on what makes a game land.** Asked what he looks for first in a game, Dan said high-quality polish and low friction, and told the story of a kid at ETH Denver who played his game for hours at the blockchain arcade — when asked his favorite part, the kid said "the graphics." Kev called it the best answer he'd gotten and invited Dan onto Kev's Game Room [58:12].

**[1:10:20] Pixel's AI startup.** Pixel shared she's bootstrapping an AI chat-companion app focused on ownership and privacy — run locally, bring your own key for cloud/Anthropic/Gemini — inspired by watching model access get regulated and wanting AI to head the decentralized route crypto took.

**[1:19:23] The Alpha Den "look around you" tradition.** Peoples ran the room through his signature bit — look up, down, left, right at the PFPs around you, "those are your next relationships you didn't even know existed yet" — a call to connect beyond follower counts.

**[1:20:54] Kev on starting now.** Kev's closing call to action: the biggest risk is never starting, "a year from now you'll have experience or you'll have excuses," and legends are forged in bear markets — build before everyone else arrives.

## Topic timeline

| Time | Topic |
|------|-------|
| [2:34]–[7:25] | Intros: Rachel, Chris, and the Saga DAO connection via World Mobile |
| [7:25]–[10:00] | Gratitude, shout-outs, Kitty intro |
| [11:07]–[20:39] | Saga DAO origin story, the NFT/trading pivot, Alpha Club & Saga DAO TV |
| [21:01]–[23:43] | Heavy Metal Cook, Meteora, LP education, Beacon |
| [23:43]–[27:12] | The "user" app + dApp Store launch |
| [27:12]–[32:23] | DAO structure, restructuring, device-gated voting |
| [33:15]–[41:00] | Kev's intro and Solana gaming journey |
| [42:32]–[46:54] | Clover joins, World Cup asides, relationship-building |
| [47:49]–[59:00] | Dan on game dev, omnichain, the ETH Denver arcade story |
| [59:12]–[1:04:00] | Alpha Den show promo, Pokémon giveaway, WISE update |
| [1:05:33]–[1:08:00] | Waldo on his healing journey and communities |
| [1:10:20]–[1:12:38] | Pixel's AI companion startup |
| [1:14:03]–[1:20:40] | Calls to action, how to join Saga DAO, the room tradition |
| [1:20:54]–[1:25:39] | Closing reflections and thank-yous |

## Notable quotes

- "You could be bullish on a brand, bullish on a project, but what makes us bullish is the people behind those brands." — Peoples [7:25]
- "Life-changing money doesn't mean making millions at one time. If you're able to make bill money every day using different protocols… that helps you elevate." — Peoples [22:17]
- "When you do what you love, you don't work a day in your life." — Kev [52:58]
- "In the particular lies the universal. If I like something, then I think it's gonna translate to somebody else." — Dan [57:47]
- "A year from now, you'll pretty much have experience, or you'll have excuses… legends are forged during bear markets." — Kev [1:20:54]
- "Don't speculate, execute… it's always about how you made other people feel." — Chris [1:22:49]

## Who said what

- **Rachel (host, @RachelOnchain)** — Founder/CEO of On-chain Media; framed the roundtable, drew out each guest, and confirmed she'll guest on next week's Alpha Den.
- **Peoples / Pierre (@PeoplesMarket24)** — Saga DAO Alpha Club marketing lead and main guest; delivered the origin story, the user-app and governance news, and the closing tradition. Doxxed his name as Pierre [51:05].
- **Chris, the DeFi Professor (@csoriano)** — On-chain Media's strategic ops; connected on early SDAC education work (Beacon), Meteora, and Solana Mobile devices.
- **Kev (@kev0x13)** — Saga DAO gaming streamer (Kev's Game Room); shared his Breakpoint-to-streaming arc and pressed Dan on game design.
- **Dan (@brokenrealitydh)** — On-chain Media dev/designer/game builder; gave the standout perspective on polish, aesthetics, and omnichain thinking.
- **Clover (@CloverNodes)** — World Mobile; the connector who introduced Rachel to Saga DAO, teased a shared Rare Evo booth before hopping off.
- **Kitty (@ThatOneKitty__)** — On-chain Media social/community; troubleshot Android pinning and welcomed the guests.
- **WISE (@WISE_Token)** — World Mobile mobile-node holder; noted an upcoming "burn alliance" (details pending) and ongoing fund-manager outreach.
- **Waldo (@waldoforrealz)** — Shared his decade-long EDM/community journey and reflections on authentic, safety-first conversations.
- **Pixel (@PixelDiamondz)** — Rachel's longtime friend and former teammate; building a privacy-focused, self-owned AI chat companion.

## Worth a full listen

- **[11:07]–[20:39]** — Peoples' unbroken origin story is the heart of the Space: the failed trading group, the full refund, and the rebuild into a content-first DAO. The transcript can't fully carry the momentum (or the self-deprecating "I apologize for the monologue" that everyone waved off).
- **[55:40]–[58:47]** — The Dan/Kev game-design exchange, ending in the ETH Denver arcade story and a live invite. A genuinely warm, unscripted connection forming in real time.
- **[1:19:23]–[1:20:40]** — The Alpha Den "look around you" tradition is best heard delivered; it's the emotional close that set up the whole room's "show up and connect" ethos.