Even for a crypto user, the barrier to entry into the NFT marketplace is high. Jeff Kelley, Eathan Janney, and Josh Kriger sit with Stuart Alexander, the co-founder of Niftables. Stuart talks about how we need to target the 98% who don’t know what NFT is. What’s the goal? To make a zero-entry barrier. What Niftables did, is it built a full suite of benefits that most brands and creators were looking for. Tune in!
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This sponsored spotlight episode features Stuart Alexander, Cofounder of Niftables, the groundbreaking all-in-one NFT tech for creating White Label NFT platforms for creators and brands. He has several years of influencer marketing experience and is a social media expert. He is the Cofounder of one of the largest influencer marketing companies in Central and Eastern Europe.
Niftables is the go-to platform for brands and creators looking to realize their NFT vision, whether they are an individual or the biggest entertainment company in the world. It offers a powerful NFT meta market that consolidates key NFT investing and interactivity features into one easy-to-use platform. Stuart, welcome to the show.
It is lovely to be here. Thanks for having me.
We appreciate you joining. We are excited about this. We love easy buttons here. We are all about it. What you are building out there and the vision is grand. It is phenomenal. It is the thing that, as NFT lovers and folks that have been fans of the space, dating back to CryptoKitties and the goodness that that brought to the market. We have been waiting for this, and we want to know how does this project come to life? What is the origin story behind Niftables?
The origin story is that several years ago, I left the influencer space. I found myself in the crypto space, quite remarkably, surprisingly. I was there for quite a while. I was working with a couple of people in the space and some other projects, advising some NFT projects, and so forth. I had updated my LinkedIn and had a couple of companies approach me that come into the NFT space.
There were quite large companies because I was in the space for a long time as an influencer. I had built up quite a few contacts. I had worked closely with these companies for quite a few years, and they saw the opt-ed, “This guy is into NFTs. Where is he going now?” They approached me with a couple of options that we are looking to get into this space but they had a problem. They didn’t want to launch collections on traditional marketplaces because they needed their own White Label solution, which could serve as part of a wider marketing campaign, the technology, and utilities. That makes sense.
This problem applies to pretty much every other brand circling the NFT space now. It is obvious, and I don’t need to tell you directly. That means every major brand. They do not want to be confined by the platforms that are out there at the moment. We saw that there were things that needed to be designed. I myself loved being in the NFT space but I found a lot of problems in the current marketplace. It was hard, especially for myself. I have been in the crypto space for a while. For coming into these marketplaces, if I had imagined myself as a non-crypto user, I would have been completely lost. You had all these tutorials online. You are 7 or 14 steps to buying your first NFTs.
Even for myself, being in the tech space for quite a while, being familiar with technology wasn’t the easiest thing to get into. I thought that these barriers needed to be broken down. We need to target that 98% and make this zero-entry barrier into the space. We saw the problems, and there was nothing at the time offering this full suite of benefits that most of these companies, brands, and creators were looking for. We built it.
There is nothing more enjoyable in life than crafting a vision and an idea and seeing it become a reality. It is a special thing. I wanted to take this moment to introduce to everybody my cohost, Audrey Pichy, who is our Head of Community & Partnerships at Edge of NFT and an amazing part of the team. Audrey, welcome. I’m curious if you have any thoughts on, 1) Being with us here on the episode and, 2) For Stuart as part of this origin story.
Niftables: We need to target that 98% and make this zero-entry barrier into the space.
I’m excited to be part of this conversation. Stuart, I’m related to what you said about all of the different courses on NFTs and mentioning that there are many different ways to find information out there. Having something that streamlines that mass adoption is important to me specifically because I have not been in this space as much as Jeff and Josh have been. I could relate to that.
We are here to help, hopefully, and get you into the space.
We are scratching the tip of the iceberg. We are scratching the surface. The more that people are focused on bringing mass adoption about creating those easy buttons for the community seems like the sky is the limit with what the potential is for the space. There is a high barrier to entry for established brands or creators that already have communities. Talk to us a little bit about the functionality of Niftables and how it will work for those creators in their communities.
In short, Niftables is a fully optimized, 100% customizable White Label NFT platform created about around the simple premise that if NFTs don’t limit your creativity, neither should your platform. Exactly what you said that there is this high entry barrier. It is not about crypto. It is also about the user interface, the experience, and what a target audience is there for these existing platforms.
We want to flip the switch. To make our platform the most user-friendly for people that are coming in from our creators and brands that have trusted us and decided to go with us for the platform, we have made this all-in-one account. It is the same way you can use nowadays Google or your Instagram account to log into different things.
My vision is to have the Niftable account as your core login to all White Label platforms or secondary marketplace, and also, in the future, to connect the Niftables account to different metaverses, even to Spotify to play your music NFTs. To have that cross-compatibility with this account for all of the areas that we plan to reach in the future, and the account gives you a lot of different features. I’m not sure if I could list all of them, but from the traditional fiat or crypto payments but the great thing in this respect is that you can connect multiple wallets. You can connect your credit card to this one account. Once you are logged in to another platform, all of that data is transferred over.
It is one-time login. It is the same. If you are signed in on Google all the time, you don’t have to keep logging into your emails. In the same way, you don’t have to keep inputting your data and information but it also works as a centralized exchange in the respect that we can hold the custody of your NFTs for the new users coming in until you are ready to withdraw them.
While you are learning about the space, we are not limiting you to buying the NFTs. You can purchase the NFTs by connecting your credit card. You can pay in fiat. You can keep the NFTs within the platform. You can trade them gas-free because we can do it from user to user, from the centralized approach. When you are ready to do that, you can withdraw your NFT to an external cryptocurrency wallet if you decide to create one in the future.
The great thing is, with Niftables, you don’t ever have to create one because all of the things you could do with your NFT collection are built into that White Label platform. From the building side, you can add full customization of utilities. In fact, everything is customizable, to be honest. From the rarities, we have built-in rarity scores, so no more plugins from Rarity.tools or Rarity Sniper. I have always used that. I thought, “Why is that not built-in?” I build it in, and there it is. It is done. It wasn’t that complex.
From these simple features to more complex features such as an escrow service for trading NFTs and sending NFTs between users in the Niftables ecosystem, the reason this came to me is that I would follow Gary Vee sometimes. I keep seeing that he is warning people, “Guys, you need to watch out for the NFTs on getting airdrop. I’m not buying some of these NFTs. I’m not supporting it. I’m just getting an Airdrop.” People are following this.
We know these new users are going to come in. They are going to be liable for all these scams that are happening in the market because all these users are coming in the first time and us, the young NFT natives, already know these scams are going on. We want to approach from the safety side to make sure that the new users coming in are safe.
From the technical side, we have the features such as adding that full utility. It can be bonuses, services, experiences, rewards, metaverse experiences or a piece of merch. You can divide that merch into a hat or a T-shirt. All of these elements are searchable when you are browsing the collection. You don’t have to see that this NFT has unlockable content. You can browse a whole collection for directly that specific piece of utility that you are looking for. Five percent revenue share in the company, this piece of merch, digital or physical asset. All of those things are built into this fully optimized search engine. It is quick to find the NFT that you are looking for.
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We have implemented things such as categorizing and organizing the NFTs from A to Z, from rarity score high to low. Certain things that people have always wanted to have. From my experience, I have always wanted to have, and the people I have spoken with added these things. The main topics are the centralized approach so that anyone can come in, use the technology, and buy an NFT. They can redeem that NFT for its utilities within the platform. You don’t have to track these users across Instagram and Twitter. If you do, a lot of projects have utilities now, heavily utility-focused, little platforms building for utility, we will build exactly for the utility.
I felt it coming because I have been tracking this space for a while. I know that is the next step from the art and the utility metaverse. In a year or two, it is going to be everything NFTs, even apartments and all these bits of pieces but circling back. I’m getting on off-topic. Technology-wise, we are keeping people safe. We want to make sure everyone who is coming in is not getting lost in this space and that everything we do, all these White Label platforms, we also have them verified and no entry barrier. They can have all this technology.
We have full optimization of the utilities. Without having to track everyone across Discords, Twitter, and Telegrams for your giveaways, you can do all of that as the owner of the platform from 1 command system or 1 centralized management system. You can do your Airdrops and giveaways and connect via emails or online in a different matter of ways to utilize those utilities. You don’t have to have the need to be everywhere at once with your collection.
What that means is that collections that are looking to go heavy utility, and most are now, can manage it all from this simple system without having to use other social media but it also means that they can add more utility because they will have more time to manage it. It will require less time to manage them the traditional way.
With our platform, there is going to be the ability to add a lot of different customization utilities. On top of those utilities, you can add merging, breeding, combining, upgrading, and fragmenting NFTs, and you can customize it all in your own way. I know there are quite a lot of things in the background but I try to scale it down as much as possible.
I wish you were a little bit more passionate about it, Stuart, to be honest, but you are all about it. This is amazing, and what a comprehensive vision. There are few companies and projects that have such a comprehensive view of what they want to accomplish and want to deliver as part of their core offering. As you said, you have this piece of mail. It is here and there. You got to use this product. You use different Rarity.tools, and so on. I commend you on that vision and the execution side of it or executing against that vision.
One piece of that that jumps out, and we touched on it a little bit before, was mass adoption and how do you achieve that. I’m curious as to your thoughts on that. What are the things that are at the forefront of your mind that you have to do to get that adoption? We talked about some of those features but what about those features? How do you market that to the broad audience out there? What is that trigger that gets you mass adoption?
It is a wider understanding of what NFTs can be used for. The core of this is going to be showing people that the NFTs can have a much wider scale of utility than they have had to date, mainly to date, JPEGs, and everyone is going around and saying, “I can copy and paste that.” That kind of argument. We know that argument is invalid from a technological point of view but it was the other side’s argument.
If you can say that this NFT is backed by an exclusive experience with so and so, this NFT gives you partial ownership of this hotel, which is normally valued at $1.2 billion, maybe going into a project we are planning to do, maybe not. You can’t afford it yourself but maybe you can come together with a couple of hundred people, and now you are the owner of this hotel. It becomes a DAO, where everyone can manage that.
For me, it is showing people new opportunities. What the NFTs can bring to the space and from the blockchain side, the security of those, and the way they can be managed. It is a lot safer than a lot of things that we have in this space now like in traditional banking, other bits and pieces that have been functioning for a long time. It has been functioning for so long that we need something new. Something new comes along once in a while. Before you know it, it is the talk of the town.
I had this exact same situation with YouTube because I was on YouTube at the very start, maybe a year or two after it had launched. Having 1,000 subscribers that were big like, “Whoa.” Having 30,000 subs was huge. After my time in the space, I had amassed six million subscribers across all my platforms but I remember when it started. I feel this excitement because I’m at that same point where YouTube was when I started around several years ago recording my first videos. I feel like I’m in that exact same spot in the NFT space now. It is exciting.
In regards to that mass adoption, it is going to prove itself with time, the same way YouTube proved itself when people started using it more, and we are getting more users in the NFT space all the time. Once those new functionalities were added on YouTube, when you could start watching these videos, you had some experience from it. You had some joy and fun. You could learn things. You could be in part of specific communities.
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It is different space from digital video content and NFTs but I have noticed that there is so much crossover on the underlying layer in regards to the way we as humans approach these things. It is not whether a massive option is coming and what we can do to bring it in. With Niftables, we can maybe speed up the process. It is something that is coming inevitably. You can see it in this space with Instagram and integration against all other big projects that are getting into the space. For me, it is a matter of time until it is proven. I’m happy and excited that I got in early in the same way I was on YouTube back in the day.
Audrey, I’m curious, from your perspective, as a relatively new entrant into the crypto realm here over 2021, in particular. When Stuart talked about this, what are the things that are most important to you as a relatively new entrant to the space?
What Stuart said that spoke to me is to mention that his platform doesn’t have what the traditional platforms have, which is a place for you to put your NFTs. Tell me if I’m wrong, Stuart, that there is way more to it in the sense that you could do your marketing, your branding, all of this together if you White Label your project that way. It seems to me like there is more. You mentioned you used to do marketing or you are pretty connected in that sense. There might be something in there that could be useful to those brands other than what the traditional marketplace has.
To nicely summarize it at this moment in time, most projects, either way, from launching on OpenSea and having that integration with Rarible from the OpenSea side, most projects are making these basic landing pages. They want that element to display their project and roadmap in some way, to have a little bit of customization, rather than launching on OpenSea and Rarible.
OpenSea and Rarible are built traditionally for that secondary market. What we are doing is saying, “If you are building this very simple minting page, here is your full marketplace and your customization.” Now you are not anymore limited by OpenSea and Rarible interface and all of the customization features that you can add there. You can do it all yourself.
You have your own mini OpenSea Rarible but with everything that you want to add and you are not limited. You can be creative with NFTs nowadays but you can’t be creative with most of the platforms that you are launching on. There are many marketplaces upcoming, and with all due respect to them, a lot of people are trying to get quickly into the space but a lot of them that I have seen are mainly basic Web2 eCommerce platforms with a connect to your wallet. That is not what we have wanted to ever do. We are coming from the other approach like building everything NFT first and then adding the working eCommerce site second.
It has that working backend functionality in that respect. That is exactly what we have. We are an all-in-one solution. From the clients that we partner with, we even help with the strategy and with the roadmap advisory. It is all negotiable if someone wants to do that themselves, they want a drag and drop marketplace. Here, you go, design it, happy days, do your thing.
That is another problem with all these no-code marketplaces. They are there even if there is no code. The companies don’t even understand what an NFT is, what NFTs they should do, and what people like. We are there to help as well. We are not a marketplace. We are your go-to guys. We are the guys that are going to sit down with you on the call. We are going to talk with you about everything. We are going to tell you what is working with up to date in the space.
We have some tricks on the marketing side. We have these strong partnerships with different chains and technologies that we can help. We can connect you with the best 3D artists and designers. It is your shortcut. It is like the difference between trying to launch YouTube yourself and having the whole platform. There is no code. You can just upload a video but you can also go to someone who is already famous, and they can say, “Come, I will teach you how to do everything.”
At the same time, you get someone, my followers, and you get some of my growth. We are that hype and boost guy and the person that is going to come in and help you get into the space. Not only are you getting the platform but you are also getting the knowledge and the understanding and hopefully learning that. We also have the knowledge and understanding to trust us to do the job for you.
You can sit back as a company and say, “These guys know what they are doing. We wanted to do this and this. They have done it. Now we can chill and relax on our awesome platform.” At the end of the day, they might not even have to potentially understand it. Whereas in a traditional deploying and no code marketplace, you still have to understand something or you have to hire someone who understands it. To find that person in this space is tricky. If someone knows what they are doing, they are probably already working on their own collection. We are there to help people get into this space in that respect.
One of the things that you mentioned, though, is this marketplace. We were talking about that. I wanted to check in with you on that. Was it July 2022 in the roadmap that you were originally targeting for the launch? Are we on track for that? What is the story on the timeline for the secondary marketplace?
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For the secondary marketplace, we had a little bit of pushback because we added a lot. We added some cool new features to the White Label technology but the great thing is that technology, once it is built and written, it’s the same on the secondary marketplace. They are being built simultaneously. If you are building some code for selling an NFT, it will work on the White Label platform but that same code will also work in the secondary marketplace.
That is another cool thing for the side of mass adoption because this 98% of users who are coming in for our big creators and brands are bringing in their followers. Most of them have no idea about NFTs. Once they become familiar with the White Label platform, they will already know how to use the secondary marketplace once it is like because the code is the same code base. It is the same user interface based mostly. They will feel safe, and they feel that they understand it. That was very important for me.
The secondary marketplace is delayed in time a little bit because we have added more features to the White Label platform as we have taken from the secondary marketplace. The ability to have your own secondary marketplace built into your White Label platform, we have now brought that to the forefront because a lot of our gamify and metaverse projects have wanted that built-in for multiple purposes. They will have their own secondary marketplaces.
We brought that coding from the secondary marketplace to the White Label platform to give them the secondary marketplace first. It is all being built simultaneously. We have a couple of months and would have it later. There are also a lot of features that are coming all the time. The space is evolving. There are loads of things that are happening in the space that requires us to adjust to change the market has not held to the moment.
All things considered, in regards to White Label platforms, we are on track but we want to build them out more because there is a much larger demand for them. The secondary marketplace will come when there’s time for it because there’s a lot of crazy stuff that we want to add there. Our main focus is the White Label platforms, mainly for user acquisition and also to help these big creators and brands get into the space. That goes hand in hand.
We know as software entrepreneurs, in particular, that it is always a moving target. You learn so much as you start to build, iterate and test. The timelines are most fluid. We are used to that. It is great to understand where you are at on that you mentioned partnerships as well. Any particular partnerships that you wanted to elevate that you could mention on the show?
One we had was with Polygon. We’ve got some strategic and marketing partnerships, which are great for our clients. Polygon will know that our clients are verified. We have done our due diligence on them. If they decide to give them a marketing push when they launch because they are White Label platforms on Polygon, the client is also gaining some additional benefits from that.
Polygon is not small but all the smaller partnerships that we have can help with getting that new collection out into the world for our clients. In regards to creators and brands, most of them are under NDA until launch. There are two that we can mention because we are close. We have a large Banksy collection of 2 or 3 pieces of art. We are still defining the 3rd one but the 2 ones are going to be fragmented into multiple pieces. They are going to be divided within the platform.
We also have another collection, I can’t say but its valuation is $65 million, which is crazy. It has no fragmentation there. It is split into pieces of ten, which can be merged back up into the full piece of art. You can have multiple ownership or you can buy per five pieces with a friend and have that dual ownership. You can merge it back up and exchange it for the physical, actual piece of art, which is stored in a vault. There is stem off legs of things that we are doing in the background.
Our main Creator, who is also part of our core team, Jay Brewer, is fantastic and an amazing guy. We were focusing on kids. His collection is one of the first to launch. He owns the largest reptile zoo in the world. Shout out to Jay if you read this. He is not too tech-friendly, he might not be reading but he is a fantastic guy. We want to do something cool for him.
His platform will showcase a little bit of what we are capable of when that is launched. These are two completely different sides. The art side and the traditional influencer side but we are catering two both markets, and the other project side would maybe not go into at the moment for NDA purposes but there are a few. I don’t want anyone to maybe potentially get upset that we have maybe announced that something is coming or so on.
I would have to take the agreements for specifics but things will come in time. We will have all our announcements coming out soon as we go along. As the White Label platforms launch, we will be able to track them and see what is being launched from our side. Personally, I can tell you that there are a lot of exciting things coming. I can’t share all the details now, but I can’t wait to show who we are working with and what we are doing.
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Stuart, you have been mentioning some small names like people we have never heard of like Banksy and stuff. These are pretty incredible partnerships you have. Every time you talk about Banksy, I think about that shredded piece that he had. Now that you are talking about fragmentalized assets, it is fine. We don’t need to shred it anymore. I love that you guys are working together with him on those.
I could tell why your excitement, that you love to announce some more and whenever you are ready, let us know. We would love to spread the word. It is exciting stuff.
I personally prefer to keep things. From my experience as an influencer, I have learned that don’t tell people what you are doing because they will end up doing it. I had taken the other approach. We kept silent for so long. We didn’t even do any actual hard marketing push, and I don’t feel the need because I don’t feel a worry in building communities and growing what we have built.
If you build something good, it will defend itself, and people will use it. The big partnerships that we have with different creators and brands are going to be redirecting people to the platform. That will come hand in hand with the marketing side. They will be redirecting the platform. The users create the Niftables account, and they will be part of the ecosystem. The creator has a fantastic platform. The user has a fantastic user experience. Everyone is happy, and we are growing as a company. It is a win-win situation for all sides.
It is all about co-creation. Clearly, that is part of your DNA, and that is amazing to see. Speaking of co-creation and influences from other partnerships. I wanted to ask, when you look at the landscape of NFTs and Web3, what other projects inspire you?
In regards to NFT projects or general?
We will call it NFT and Web3 in general. Where are you drawing inspiration from?
Personally, this may sound strange or I’m not sure how you might take this but most of my emotions, feelings, and things that I’m coming up with are in my head. I’m not looking at other projects and drawing inspiration and saying, “I’m going to copy that. I will do that.” Inspiration goes hand in hand with being inspired by something that has already been done. Whereas in my head, there are visions and things happening that haven’t been done yet. That is what I want to bring to the table. What excites me the most is bringing things that have not ever been done to the table.
There are a lot of projects out there that are doing amazing, inspiring things. In regards to all these bits and pieces, a lot of them, rather than as an inspiration, came out of frustration like, “Why is this not done? Why is this not working? Why do I have to do 50 steps to do this?” If that is in correlation to the platform, more out of frustration of how complex it was to get into the space. That is where that came from.
The projects that inspire me, maybe not with Niftables itself but the project that inspires me in the space, are a lot of big things that are upcoming. I don’t know if I can mention some of them because I know them from behind the scenes. There is Unbounded Network, which is a fantastic new wallet that is coming out with compatibility for all chains, and there is some crazy stuff going on there. They are going to have some cool stuff.
There are people behind the scenes there that are working on it that are clever and intelligent. Maybe it is not an art side and not the NFT side but I like the way they have approached it. It has come from the same thing. Maybe that is why I like it. The frustration of why is having a cryptocurrency wallet not so simple. “Why can’t you have all your chains in one wallet? Why can’t they be interchangeable within one wallet? It doesn’t matter what chain they are on. Why can’t this be done?” That is my approach. I’m not going to speak for them but I see that there may have been some frustration like, “Why is this not simplified?” That’s the same approach that I have. That is the project that I like, and a big shout out to the guys behind that because they are fantastic guys.
One thing to point out on that too is that it is being inspired by that big problem that needs fixing. You said, “Why isn’t this not done?” Not a lot of people have the actual wherewithal to ask that question. Come out the other side of it and find the answer to it. Kudos for going down that path and taking that charge to do it because it is what will be an inflection point for NFTs and everything that is forthcoming in the world of the metaverse and foundations that we are building now. It starts there. You are among a rare group of folks willing to do that. It is awesome.
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I would put it all on the line and see where it goes.
I appreciate you sharing the ins and outs of Niftables with us. We wanted to take a moment and shift gears a little bit and get your personal perspective on some questions. It is a segment that we call Edge Quick Hitters. It is a fun, quick way to get to know you a little bit better. We are looking for a short, single word or few-word responses but based on the response, we may go a little bit deeper. It is ten total. What do you think? Do you want to dive in on these things?
I’m ready. Let’s go.
Question number one. What is the first thing you remember ever purchasing in your life?
The first thing I ever remember purchasing is Pokémon cards because that sits in my head. This is crazy. With the Pokémon card side, I saw this trend coming up before Gary Vee and Logan Paul started talking about it on the internet. I saw the trend because I was on a retreat. I was having a lot of time away from everything. I was sitting and reminiscing on past things, and Pokémon cards are one of them.
I saw them all coming up, and these Charizard cards, the rarest one, the shadow list with the ten grade. These are things I saw on eBay. It was originally or another similar site. I got excited to get about it. I was going to the space. I purchased all the rarest ones. The best PSA graded ones, and so on. A week later, Gary Vee started talking about it. Two weeks later, Logan was talking about it, and I had already purchased all of these cards.
I got way frustrated because I had one order that was still out on eBay that I paid for. It was there waiting to send it. It was two weeks but I was ordering it from all these crazy sites. I had boxes cards of these cards that no one had ever used. I bought it for like $10 to $15. I went through them, and the whole collection was $1,500. It might not seem like a huge upgrade, and at the time, it would take to process but I was packing them all and putting them on the side.
None of that when you were three.
That side was the big win but the loss was that I had a couple of rare cards that I had purchased. I was waiting two weeks for the user to send them out. This was exactly the time where Logan and Gary Vee were talking about it, and they returned my funds rather than sending them. They said, “We had some problems with delivery.” That was the biggest loss because that was my biggest purchase. It was quite a big purchase amount here but it was a much larger purchase. It is what it is.
It is a net win at the end of the day. You were in the black on it, so that is good. Let’s go to question two. It is a flip side, and that is what is the first thing you remember ever selling in your life?
I had a server on Minecraft back in the day. Remember, we are talking about my whole life, it is not that long ago but I have a vague memory of my early days.
It is all good. You have been doing a lot.
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It is probably a Minecraft server like bonuses and things to a Minecraft server.
That is cool, the first Minecraft server.
There were a lot of Minecraft servers back in the day.
Question number three. What is the most recent thing you purchased? A little easier.
The last thing I purchased was a Diet Coke in McDonald’s drive-thru.
Did you get some fries with that or just a Diet Coke?
I had a neck injury once. I was in a wheelchair even for a couple of weeks. I can’t do any training. I try a little bit but more rehabilitation. It’s because I can’t train, I have to watch my weight. That means I don’t eat many carbs and fries from McDonald’s, there is a lot going on there. They are tasty. Once in a while, I have to take them but that’s also explains the diet Coke for you.
Question number four. What is the most recent thing you sold?
I haven’t sold it yet, but it is the first thing that comes to mind, an air conditioning unit for my old apartment. I sold my apartment. I had an air conditioning unit, and I have it in storage. One of my friends was there. He saw it. He said, “Is this for sale? I was like, “Yeah, why not take it?” That was it.
Question number five. What is your most prized possession?
It is a rosary. I’m not super religious, my mother has fallen ill with cancer and was doing the rosary every day. I found the rosary I received on communion because she brought me up in the traditional sense. She said a few words like that. I started to do the rosary with her. Not so she would feel better but I wanted to do it with her. I don’t know. It was something inside me that said, “I wanted to do it with her to be closer to her.” I give her that extra sense of closeness and safety of me being there. I moved to the country to be back with her to look after her.
We were there, and I found my rosary from my confirmation or communion. She gave it to me or it was given to me by someone. She gave it to me and told me that it has a backstory but I’m not going to go into it here. It is from some holy place. It was from the previous Pope, who was Polish. He had blessed it. It was his private rosary, and he had given it to another priest. That priest was my godfather, and he gave it to my mom, and my mom gave it to me. Long story short. I wear it as a positive omen for my mother’s wellbeing. Other than that, I try not to keep too many worldly possessions. I will say there is not too much.
Question number six. If you could buy anything in the world, digital, physical service or experience that is for sale, what would it be? What do you have your eye on, Stuart?
A biotech company because that is something I’m fascinated about. I have been into it for quite a while. That is extending the human lifestyle. That goes way beyond NFTs. If the NFT side goes well, that is what I would love to do next. That is where I would like to see myself because I figured if you can extend the human lifespan, you will have much more time to figure out what it is that you want to do in life. If you get it wrong the first time, you are not at a dead end. You have more time to figure it out. That is what I wanted to give to other people but also to myself.
In some respect, it is selfish but it is also giving. I wanted more time because there are many things I would like to do. Most of the things that I want to do are also giving to others for the betterment of the human race. This sounds crazy. That is where I would like to be, whether I achieve it or not, I’m not bothered. It is a solid enough goal that even if you don’t achieve it, you can be proud that you tried to get there in some way.
The NFT and the technology space, in some respect and a lot of the context that I’m getting to meet in this space, are because of it. It is a good stepping stone to that area. I don’t mean that I’m going to be jumping into that in 2 or 3 years, maybe in 10 years, or the faster, the better for us all because we are all aging. We are going to get there at some point soon. It is inevitable but maybe we can speed things up a bit before it is only for the next generation. We will still be able to jump into that race somehow.
Time is precious.
I could imagine your first customer would be Elon Musk. It seems to be appreciative of that.
I don’t think I would be the person to come up with it because I don’t have a scientific or medical background but what I would love to do is have enough funds to build the infrastructure for that. I believe that with some right guidance and vision, it is possible. Having a strong contact list, not that I do have one now but maybe in the future, I will have a better one if I’m into the space a little bit more and if NFT company is successful. There is a way to bring people together to put more time and effort into it.
That is where I would see myself, not the actual doctor who makes the successful experiment, and it is 100% successful. Everyone is happy. We start popping pills and living for thousands of years. I can speed things up because a lot of things can be sped up in life by looking at the general space of things. It is a question of organization and managing specific tasks.
Most importantly for me, getting the right people on the team. These people are spread across different companies now, but with the right funding and infrastructures, those people could come and work in one place. Put all their minds together, and maybe it could be done faster. Maybe I’m being naive but why not?
Time will tell but if we had a little bit more of it, I’m sure that would help us get there. Question seven. If you could pass on one of your personality traits to the next generation, what would it be?
Forgiveness.
Question eight. If you could eliminate one of your personality traits from the next generation, what would that be?
Niftables: When the market is better, it’s easier to launch a token with less utility.
I did suffer a strong bout of this when I was younger. It is depression. I’m not sure if I could categorize that as a character trait. However, it is something that took me down. From the battle, it taught me a lot, and it has got me to where I am now. That is something that anyone who goes through it is the same. They don’t have words for it. I would love that to be gone.
Question number nine. What did you do before joining us on the show?
I have a shower. I went to tennis and the gym. I got myself a bit woken up and tried to find the perfect space in my family home where the Wi-Fi was good enough to work. It turned out there wasn’t one. I’m now connected to my phone’s Wi-Fi, and we have been fine with the entirety of the call. That is good but I have been worried.
Question number ten. What are you going to do next after the show?
It is working times. I function much better in the evenings. My apologies for these not being 2 or 3 few words answers. Let me try to keep this one short. I will probably get back to work. There is a lot of stuff to do now.
You work on game-changing stuff. We support and endorse that next step for you. That is Edge Quick Hitters, Stuart. I appreciate you sharing with us. Always fun to go to do that?
It changes it to slow hitters from now on. It is slow.
In the interest of time, we want to talk about where people should go to follow you, Niftables, and all this amazing stuff that you are working on?
Our Twitter, Instagram, Telegram, and Discord are the key places to be. Some of them have URLs that I would have to write out. If you go to Niftables.com/links, everything is there. That is the most simple way.
Why am I not surprised by an easy button for an easy button product?
Everyone has this Linktree on their Instagram. I said to our developers and designers, “Can you make a Niftables.com/links, and everyone can go where they need to be.” Simplifying things makes it simple and easy. Everyone can understand and get there to where they need to be. If you want, feel free to meet us there.
Word on the street is we have a little giveaway set up. It is a thousand dollars in Niftables native token, which, if I’m not mistaken, is NFT. I don’t think we talked about that yet.
We didn’t talk about that. Our token launch is delayed at the moment but we are in no rush to launch. The reason for that is I’m not taking the approach of, “Let’s launch a token and get some quick funding.” The token itself, you need to build an ecosystem around it. You need to have the utility for the token itself.
Before we go down that road, I’m adding as much utility as possible, thinkable to this token. When it does come out, everyone is reaping the benefits. It is not an approach that everyone would like because a lot of people want to make quick bucks, a flip token that comes out on the market, goes up, and you quickly sell it. That is not our approach. We are in the long-term game for sure.
That is why every update and implementation that we have is adding some benefit to the token itself and the market. That is the big killer at the moment. Do we want to launch a token in the market where it is such a long-term project? I’m not talking years here for the launch of the token, in 2022 as well but most likely in 2022, we are playing it. When the market was better, it was easier to launch a token with less utility. The market is bad. We want to launch a token with more utility. We have delayed that to add more utility on that side, and there’s a load of different utilities but I won’t be going into those for now.
Keep an eye on guys. You are going to want to get ahold of these. If you have been reading now, you will know the passion and the commitment to delivering on this vision that Stuart has shared with us. Get ahold of him, and keep an eye on our socials for all the details on how to enter that giveaway. Again, we appreciate the generosity there.
We have reached the outer limit at the Edge of NFT. Thanks for exploring with us. We have got space for more adventures on this starship. Invite your friends and recruit some cool strangers that will make this journey all so much better. How? Go to Spotify or iTunes. Rate us and say something awesome. Go to EdgeOfNFT.com to dive further down the rabbit hole. Lastly, be sure to tune in next time for more great NFT content. Stuart, thanks again for sharing this time with us.
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