About this episode

Jalil discusses his journey from art to coding, the rise of NFTs, and the development of Checks and its contracts.

00:24 - Welcome Jalil 03:29 - From art to coding 07:04 - Finding Web3 and NFTs 08:05 - Finding Visualize Value and community 14:01 - The Permissionless Apprentice and connecting with Jack 18:47 - Embracing Ethereum and learning Solidity 22:10 - Scapes 24:24 - Experiencing the NFT boom 29:46 - From rock bottom to Checks 35:08 - Building the Checks contracts 39:39 - How Checks works 41:53 - Rarity, MEV risk and gaming the sy...

People in this episode

Guest: Jalil

Topics covered

• NFTs
• Web3
• Ethereum
• art
• coding
• community
• auction house

Keywords

• Jalil
• Visualize Value
• NFT boom
• Ethereum
• Checks
• Solidity
• Web3
• Cryptopunks

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Visualize Value, Ethereum, Checks, Cryptopunks

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