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Empowering Digital Communities: Collabland, Telefrens, and the Future of SocialFi
Prepare to navigate the transformative landscape of Web3 and blockchain in an episode teeming with innovation and community spirit. Our special guests, James, and Anjali Young from ABRIDGE, join us to share their pioneering journey with Collab.Land and the launch of Telefrens. Our conversation is an intimate glimpse into the heart of digital empowerment, as Anjali, the Chief Community Officer, unfolds her narrative of fostering meaningful connections and the unique experience of working with her partner in life and tech.
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ได. Hello, hello everyone. We will get started in just a moment. If you guys could, please do me a favor and go down to that bottom right hand corner, like and retweet the space. Let's share the sound against some people in here. Get this started. Thank you so far. Everyone who is in here. See, we've got Chris also. Yeah, welcome James and and Johnny. Am I saying that correct? Please tell me.
Speaker 3:It's unjolted.
Speaker 2:I was close. Thank you for asking, I appreciate that yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3:How are you doing today, doing so well?
Speaker 2:Excited to be here. Thank you for having us.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I am as well Very excited to get into you know, kind of what you guys are going on, and teleference, yeah, very excited about that.
Speaker 2:It's going to be fine. Yes, ma'am, and then how?
Speaker 3:are you doing, james?
Speaker 2:I am doing excellent.
Speaker 4:So excited to be here today. Thanks for having us. Yes sir, yes sir.
Speaker 2:And then, lastly, how are you, chris?
Speaker 5:I'm doing well, it's always an exciting thing I'm doing well, as always, an exciting one. We can get some, some new alpha and get some great individuals here.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir, yes sir, I'm glad we were able to get our mic check done, everybody's able to be heard nice and clear and, as I said, we will get started in just a moment. Either one of you can feel free to pin something at the top of the space. I pin something from the teleference Twitter account already, but if you have anything else, if you want to pin up to the top, feel free to pin it up there. We can reference to it. And, yeah, without further ado, let's go ahead and get started.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, I would like to welcome everybody to another Tech Talk, ama, where we highlight and deep dive with builders, entrepreneurs and visionaries in the Web 3 Digital ID, Web 3 Tech and the main space. As always, our Tech Talks are recorded so you can listen back to them right here on Twitter, as well as on our content archive at link 3.to forward slash DeFi wallet on our website at iHeartDomainscom, which will also be accompanied with a blog post make it a little bit easier to digest and also in podcast form on every major podcast player, including Apple and Spotify. For those who are not familiar with me, behind the iHeartDomains profile is Win Air Drops. So yeah, we're going to go ahead and get to it Again, if you guys could all do me a favor, like and retweet the spaces and if you'd like anything that you hear during this AMA.
Speaker 2:I encourage every single person to join their community, find out how to join their community. Obviously, they'll leave you with some of those links before we close out the AMA. And yeah, as always, do your own research at our AMAs Art, financial Advice, but we do like to highlight a bunch of cool things in the space and yeah, so I want to give everybody that's in here kind of another chance to introduce themselves. Chris, if you want to go ahead and start, and then, yeah, we'll go with James and then with Anjali, and then we'll get into some questions.
Speaker 5:Well, absolutely For everyone who's just joining us. You know, I'm Chris. I'm the strategy director for Namertips. I actually have the privilege of being the co-host for these wonderful tech talk AMAs that we have weekly with a lot of the builders that are in a Web3 space, moving the space forward not just technologically but for the people and improving the quality of life for the world. So, yeah, glad you guys have joined us and looking forward to a great conversation.
Speaker 2:It's always a pleasure to have you on. Go for it, James.
Speaker 4:Yeah, james Young, ceo of ABRIDGE. We make a product called Collabland and now coming out with a new product, telefrens. That have been in the Ethereum ecosystem since 2016 and before that was an online advertising and social games. Glad to be here.
Speaker 2:Pleasure to have you as well, sir. And then, last but not least, miss Anjali.
Speaker 3:Hi, thank you so much for having us. If you may have noticed, james and I have the same last name, which is not always indicative of brothers and sisters or married people, but we are married people and we do this startup together, which is ABRIDGE, and it has. Yeah, our product is Collabland and we have a new product launching today Telefrens, so it's exciting to be here to talk to you all. My position at ABRIDGE is Chief Community Officer, and so mostly it's relationships with projects, relationships with blockchains and wallets and really with our community members, and so that's usually what I do, and usually on Twitter's faces by myself, so I'm really excited to have James here today as well, so we can tag team.
Speaker 2:That's actually pretty awesome. My wife just listens to me talk about what I do and I don't even think she's paying attention to it, so that is amazing. We got a tag team Awesome, awesome.
Speaker 5:Yeah, that's different. Wow, okay, this is going to be really exciting. She said tag team. Wow, this is going to be cool.
Speaker 3:And also James and I have been partners and living together since August of 1995.
Speaker 6:Oh so there's a tenure.
Speaker 2:Wow yeah congrats on that.
Speaker 4:Definitely.
Speaker 3:Yeah, our relationship is a full grown adult plus 10 years. So yeah, it's been an interesting journey. Happy to talk about that a little bit. But yeah, teleference is definitely the talk of the hour, but happy to really answer any questions.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely and, as everybody can see in the title, we are blessed and to have you guys on collab land is definitely a platform that has been around and like the staple in the space. So a lot of people are already going to be familiar with the platform. I actually, when you guys first launched the token, the Dow, I participated back then and I got the airdrop and I don't even know what I got. So for this for me is kind of almost like a refresher course and then as a bonus I get to get this new alpha, so very excited to dig in the teleference. So there are going to be some people who you know, who may be new to the space or aren't familiar with collab land. Let's kind of start there. Give us an overview of the platform and how you guys have already innovated and grown communities in the NFT and went through space.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I can do a really brief introduction on what collab land is. So, again, like we mentioned, our, our company is called a bridge and we had two different starts, actually even before collab land. But our the pivot that we had right before collab land was no code tooling. And so trying to get more developers into the space using our no code tools, you bring you build more fun stuff for people to do. You're going to get more people here. So that was kind of the idea of how do we grow the space and how do we be a part of growing this space. And so our approach there was to invite developers, try to court developers from web to and say look, it's so easy, build fun stuff here, people are going to be into it. And so that was our no code tooling. And prior to collab land, we had probably built in half a dozen to a dozen different little tools to really just demonstrate to developers and try to inspire developers so they could get thinking about their own apps, and collab land was just one of them. And so collab land was a reference to our no code tooling and so we started using it in our own telegram channel and then it took off from there.
Speaker 3:People were, like, forget about the no code tooling, this thing you're doing, where you're attaching assets that are owned in a wallet to a social ID, in this case telegram.
Speaker 3:Oh, this is what you're doing, so then we can create clubs and groups and private access areas to people who only hold that token or some number of that token, or threshold of that token, or a certain type of token like being able to create communities based on access on what people were holding in their wallets became something that got very exciting very quickly for people. It started originally with dows and then it moved into investment groups and then, ultimately, where we saw the most growth Really now we're seeing at growth between gaming and defi and NFTs communities, but the biggest growth 21, 2021 and 2022 was from NFTs communities, and so that wasn't even an initial use case for what we call token gating. We were thinking more. It was like going to be for dows and people that want to collaborate together or work on a project together, which ultimately, is what NFTs communities became anyway. So what is Collabland? I guess in one sentence, it's a token gating membership management tool that you can use on telegram and discord and on your token gated websites or apps.
Speaker 2:That was a very solid overview. There was actually a time I think I can remember where I was that was like the thing I was shouting from the rooftops was like the big use case and value behind token gating. So that's how I originally, I think, became involved. Ecosystem, I think I probably in discord belong to like 15 different groups and require, like the same platform connection in order to get through and that, like that's at the very basic right of the use case, like the. When we talk about digital ID and implication and the use of digital ID, you know token gating is probably at the forefront of it. You know you have to be or prove that you are this person or this thing in order to interact with this group or this thing. Right, yeah, so awesome. Thank you for that overview, so now go for it, chris.
Speaker 5:Yeah, you know, I wanted to add to that. You know, another thing that's really important, really valuable about token gating is that it ensures the quality of the community. Right, we hear a lot of talking web three about community, but we don't hear about the quality of community and maintaining the quality of it, and token gating helps with that. So I just wanted to drop that in 100%.
Speaker 3:You know, like with board eight, right before they dropped mutiny, what were they doing? They were in a collab line community together. They were getting to meet each other, they were getting to know each other. I remember being in the board eight server not, I don't have a board eight, but James does so I was on his computer and Steph Curry like said something in the discord server and I was like, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. So you know, it's like before mutiny, that's all it was, and I honestly, board eight found us. We did not find board eight, but it's like they had this idea of a club or a community Long before I did as far as NFT communities are concerned. But once I saw board eight, then it was like oh, oh, damn, this is it. We need to be approaching every single NFT community out there and telling them this is the way. But I do credit credit board eight with that because community, yeah, it was quality of the community, that's absolutely it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't. I don't hold an eight, but that was actually part of my argument behind the value prop projects like 40, because obviously you know what you're telling regular friends and family about NFTs and they know that people would spend a million dollars on it. The first thing they think is that it's ridiculous, and that's that was the value prop. Right is that you're not just buying the community that you have to have the energy to enter in. Lord knows what kind of alpha is being shared in a group of people who spent, you know, hundreds of thousands to a million dollars on an NFT Like these aren't the same people that you're meeting at Walmart.
Speaker 3:That's right and also status right. So it's like community, but also like showing off your status and in this digital world where people don't know what you look like or don't know where you live or all the other things like, how do you, how do you show status. So it's like community, association, relationships, who, who your friends with, who your circles are, but yeah, all of that adding up to status.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, absolutely so. For those of you who weren't already familiar with collab land, yeah, they bring a lot of the table as far as value creating those type of environments, even for your own communities, as you guys have said. You know you've had plenty of opportunities to interact with communities to also see the space grow and innovate, and you guys have innovated with it. So let's talk about that recent innovation tele friends. So, yeah, that's the big announcement that you guys just put out this week. It is the first social fly bot. I don't even know what that means, but hopefully you guys are going to tell us. And yeah, for those of you who've been paying attention at all, the whip three social fly is on fire. Yeah, so tell us the basics what is tele friends? And the simple.
Speaker 4:Yeah, tele friends is really empowering creators to create a private group and be able to monetize it Ultimately, and it kind of stem from what we saw with the kind of rise and fall of NFT communities in the bull and then subsequent bear market. And really the idea here for us and I just want to state that we are led by our values so our number one value is our focus on community empowerment, self sovereignty and having this abundance mindset. And when we saw royalty start going away from these NFT communities, we were like what is going on? Like this is Web three, this is self sovereign, like there shouldn't be any gatekeepers or anyone in between. What is going on here?
Speaker 4:And we are sitting here on the sidelines because collab land is a utility that is kind of after the fact, if you will like, you will have a 20 or an NFT or some asset that gets minted and then you think about using collab land.
Speaker 4:So we thought long and hard and just saw the rise of social fire and really for us it was the ability and the privilege to be able to express our core values and what we wanted to do is make sure that royalties, like the sustainability of communities and creators, can never be taken away from them.
Speaker 4:That is really at the heart of what we're trying to do, and so the innovation here that we saw from social five was being able to buy and sell and what we're calling them as passes intelligence directly from a smart contract.
Speaker 4:So there is no other marketplace that you need to do an approval or, you know, give access to your assets. You're buying and selling straight from a bonding curve, and this, like little tweak, ensures that the creator will always be able to make money off of the buying and the selling, and so, at the heart of it, what we're doing is allowing and helping creators focus on their community and community empowerment, not getting in their way, so that they can express themselves in self sovereignty, and we believe in this abundance mindset, and so we want everyone to be able to onboard and get into crypto as easy, easily as possible. So we've been working on this for over a year in terms of the infrastructure and the technology. Telefriends is our go to market product that utilizes a bunch of this technology that we've been working on for a while. Okay, so just really quickly.
Speaker 3:I'm going to add on a little teeny bit, which is what James added just at the very end, which is like we've been working on this concept of having a easy way to onboard people into crypto. I mean now, having been in crypto for over five years, it's like we see what the challenges are, and wallet management is a huge challenge, even for people in the space. Didn't we see that over the weekend? Like, despite the fact that you're in the space and you're knowledgeable, or even with a ledger hack like? Or ledger I guess it's not a hack but a vulnerability it's like, even if you're in the space, managing your wallet is extremely difficult.
Speaker 3:And so for Colabla and I see your hand up, I'm going to talk really quickly but for Colabla, and it's been like, how do we do that? How do we onboard people? And so the solution we decided to take, or the path or the route that we decided to take, was to give everybody a simple way to manage their wallet and to make wallets safer through smart accounts, and so that's kind of been what we've been working on since last year. However, didn't really know what the go to market was going to be, but because of the rise of social find, the rise of trading bots. We're just using the current metas that are happening in crypto right now to for our go to market. Okay, I'll stop.
Speaker 2:So in essence, you guys are able to onboard people into Web 3 through Telegram. They're able to create their first wallet there and kind of enter the ecosystem that way.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's right. So we use a technology, it's an Ethereum improvement proposal, it's EIP 4337 under the hood, and that allows for this new type of asset management where, instead of having, like, a MetaMask or what they call EOA wallet, where you have to manage the private key this is still self sovereign Again, that's one of our core values but it allows you to not have to deal with your private key directly, and this is how we are able to allow trading, buying and selling straight in telegram, so you don't have to leave Telegram at all.
Speaker 2:That is amazing, Chris. Go for it.
Speaker 5:I want to commend the both of you all for your foresight, because Angelie said something.
Speaker 5:She said the go-to-market push wasn't very clear in the beginning, but you all recognized, you all had the foresight to recognize that there was a void that was going to be emerging very soon. You all referenced core values. One thing that we're really big on with Namertips and iHeart is as well, and many people in the space is that core values open up the door for long-term standards. When you talk about onboarding the masses, you can't have something that just works for the interim. You need to have something that can be scaled and something that's going to be sustainable, but it's also going to have that ease of use baked in and all of those other good things.
Speaker 5:I think that what you all have done with CollabLam and even with Telefrens, is that you all have opened up the gateway for community management to be addressed as well, because you have with Namertips. We're really big on the four seasons of this particular space that we're in and their community culture, creativity and commerce. You guys obviously see things through a similar lens, because what you're offering is a solution for something that's related to creatives, but more so rooted in the communities that the creatives are able to foster, not only through their work, but through the efforts that they're going to put in place, moving forward.
Speaker 4:I just wanted to commend you all on that Appreciate that I've been in the space crypto in general since I guess it's been 10 years, since 2013. Prior to Ethereum, there was Bitcoin. With Bitcoin, there's this big push toward self-sorcery and totally believe in it, but it is lonely when, if you have to deal with crypto and manage all by itself it's super empowering. There's a lot of responsibility, but personally, what I've seen growing up I'm a child of immigrants that you need community. So I think that self-sorcery is super important, but it needs to be rooted in community and community empowerment, and so that's why these are part of our core values and with that, it doesn't have to be a zero-sum game.
Speaker 4:I think that there is this, going back to the core values, and this is what really has to lead anyone. If you're going to have any type of sustainability, is this abundance mindset. You give, and the more you give, the more you just have faith that you will get in return, and this is an expression of that. I think, ultimately, this is why we can have impact, and I would have to say that if it wasn't for Angelie, my wife, this would not be possible. I would not be able to do this. This takes a team. This takes a partnership. This is, it takes a community. So I 100% agree. And you know what?
Speaker 5:just to add to that briefly, one thing that I heart and I actually have discussions about away from these spaces is Web 3. And just the blockchain ecosystem in general being conditioned to accommodate families. You don't hear a lot of talk about creating things that are ideal for families, specifically children, and so to have you all here as a family and that says you all are a couple, you have a bond, you all understand the value of the connection and preserving it and enhancing it, and to have something like Collab Land and telefriends being on the runway, I think that it should give anyone that has been in this space that has been feeling that there's a void as it relates to accommodating families and communities communities in real life. You should really find some type of solace in the fact that we're having this discussion with two great individuals.
Speaker 3:You know yesterday and thank you, james, for saying that and we also have two teenagers. We have an 18-year-old daughter who just graduated high school and we also have a 15-year-old son. But one thing James said to me yesterday, just kind of in passing, is which is like telephones could be really great for single moms. You know, it's like he's always thinking about ways that how can what we do actually make impact in the lives of people who may not have had opportunities or may have had opportunities taken from them, and how can we continue to try to redistribute wealth to the people that are wanting it, working for it? The most curious about our space early right. So all of that like how do we empower people? How do we try to undo some of the damage that our society has done and our governments have done over the history of our lives and beyond? So yeah, we are definitely always thinking about that. And one thing about telephones is that we get to enforce royalties. Like James said, collabland, the product is after the fact, you buy a token on Uniswap, you buy a token on OpenSea, wherever, and then you come to Collabland with telephones and because of that, when there are no more royalties, opensea gets rid of royalties. Blur gets rid of royalties, MagicKid gets rid of royalties.
Speaker 3:When this happens, then they're really it's very difficult for creators, right? They don't have control over that, and we don't have control over that we did. We do have something called a royalty detection tool, so if your holders have paid royalties, you can give them special access so that we were able to provide. However, it's like very frustrating for us to see creators lose something that's so important in order to keep creating, which is royalties, and so, for us, telephones is an opportunity to have that all under our control. You will never lose royalties. You get 5% of royalties and opportunity to earn even more with telephones on every buy or sell of your quote unquote token to join your group.
Speaker 3:So it's like we get to control that. We can tell you we are never taking away royalties Because that's, like James says, like one of the things that we care most about is making sure that this can be sustainable, that new people will want to enter that space, and what do we see in 2021, 2022? So many artists came into the space because of royalties, and so what are we doing? By getting rid of them. You know it's like cut your nose, despite your face type situation. So I just feel very excited and empowered to be able to say to creators like do this, join our system, like you're not going to be losing your royalties.
Speaker 2:I'm loving it and I'm glad that and the benefit of doing this is I get to talk to builders often but it is glad to hear and to reinforce that there are some of us who really are here to build. For those of you who are just now joining or who just now joined, we are in the middle of our GMA with Collab Land. I keep calling you guys Collab Land that the parent company is something completely different, but that's just what sticks with me.
Speaker 3:But we're discussing yeah, totally fine, totally fine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I apologize about that. We are discussing their newest launch, which is Teleference. I actually kind of do want to get into the opportunity now. You know we've touched on a little bit of the tech behind it, which is amazing Love being able to onboard people through such an easy interface. I'm going to ask a question about the opportunity, kind of from two different perspectives, right. So let's kind of walk through, like you said, a lot of people interact with, with Collab Land, kind of after the fact, like that's a second step. So for larger communities, pre-existing communities already out here with their telegram groups, walk us through the opportunity that exists for them if they choose to implement this into their telegram group, how that improves or makes it better or makes them more profitable, etc.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, oh, james, you want to take this one? Okay, cool. So this is really an opportunity to monetize, right, and so that's. You may have a telegram group already, but how are you monetizing? And with telefriends, you are obviously like I mentioned in my last rant about royalties. However, another opportunity for you is to earn money off of copy trades.
Speaker 3:So a lot of what brought back the last bull market were alpha groups, where people are sharing what to do next and mobilizing in community, and what we're seeing now again is the beginning of alpha groups. But this time around we're bringing alpha group creators the ones that have the alpha, the ones that are the ones guiding other people to trade the opportunity to earn money off of those trades. And so creators can have copy trade links, they can share them within their groups and then they get a piece of the transaction fee for anyone that follows those copy trades. And so it's really like, how do we sustain this space and how do we make sure people are compensated for the work that they do? I mean, I'm sure both of you are familiar.
Speaker 3:I've done so many free internships, I've done so much work for quote, unquote exposure, like that is. We are trying to build a new future here where people are actually compensated and paid for the work that they do, even if the work that they do is just sharing alpha in their group and whatever they're sharing in their group. Like these are moments of our life that we're paying with, and so we deserve to be compensated for those. So that's really how you can, how it's different from a typical telegram group and you know what? I don't know your name, mr Co-host, and so I want to say hey.
Speaker 4:Chris, Chris, Chris, sorry.
Speaker 3:Because your name isn't written there and then I forgot. Okay, I'm going to write it down right now, Chris. Cool. Sorry, what was your question? I'm going to hop off. Well no, no before.
Speaker 2:Before you ask, chris, I was going to say perfect opportunity. I know somebody already that is going to love this, but this sounds perfect and, rather than lying with the call groups who are already shilling and sharing tokens, this is actually kind of taking, putting the automation in it and ensuring their own G. So awesome, awesome, go for it, chris.
Speaker 5:Okay, so, yeah, so this is. This is. I'm very intrigued, right? So I have a question. So now we're talking about artists and creatives and we know that IP is a big thing. It's IP protection, ip holdings and equity is going to be a very big part of this next chapter, right? Where do you guys see telefriends, collab land, you know, being that that the platforms and what's being offered is geared towards benefiting creators and their communities? Where do you guys see things like the tokenization and the sharing of IP rights? You know, having shares of copyrights and trademarks and things of that nature, because when you, when you create this content and you share it, a lot of artists and creatives don't know that this can be protected. Right, it can be leveraged. It's an asset. At that point, do you guys foresee anything in the future where communities can take advantage of that?
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, absolutely. I can talk about this for days, so let me try and kind of be direct and straight to the point. I'm known to kind of go off on these rabbit holes, so please feel free to stop me if I go off the rails. I was a little bit here. I think the backdrop of all of this is this kind of bullet train of AI, and I don't think in the next couple of years you're going to be able to tell the difference between content that was AI generated versus content that is IP protected really, and so I think AI is going to need crypto, or at least this verifiable aspect that crypto provides, and this is why I think money and then NFTs are kind of the killer app of crypto for now, but with the onslaught of AI and being able to verify the origins, the provenance of an asset or a collective group will need to happen, and so how it gets expressed.
Speaker 4:We are working on the technology, so we have a whole system of what's called verifiable credentials and we can deploy that in an individual or group setting, and we've been working on this tech as well, and we have it deployed in our Collabland server and, if you are an admin or a mod in a Collabland managed Discord server. You can add a mini app and it allows you to attest and verify that Alice said Bob, you know a kudos, and that's the mini app and what it's called. So you can say that Alice said good job, bob. And Bob can carry around that verifiable credential for life, and so that becomes not only from like an IP verification perspective, it also becomes this beginnings of your reputation. So it's a big concept.
Speaker 4:Now we don't know exactly the initial use cases for this, but we know, with AI coming, that you're going to need to verify things. I mean already you hear of I don't know if you all have heard about things like people getting phone calls and the voice sounds very familiar, but it's actually AI generated voice. So you're going to need to be able to verify who is saying things, if media and what's being said. It's coming from the actual source and you do that through verifiable credentials and we'll figure out and keep an eye out on how we go to market with that. But I think we're laying the groundwork, the fundamentals, for this, and so you know this is going to be exciting to watch and it's going to be emergent. I can't really predict the future. But it's one of those things when you have the proper tool and you see the problem, you know you'll be able to address it appropriately, and so we're just waiting for these opportunities so that we can apply the technology that we've been working on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I have no clue what kind of movement will eventually solve that problem. No, I'm just kidding that. That's literally the purpose of our existence. Digital identity that's a form of it, verification, of all that good stuff. I think that there's a Definitely a need, an application, and we are all collectively, you know, building the ecosystem in the tech that will Shape how that plays out, like we're all pieces to that puzzle.
Speaker 5:Yeah, and this is the thing, so that the big part of web 3 that you don't hear a lot of people talk about is the end, just AI. I love that James brought up AI, because Distinction is going to be a very big thing right as we move forward. There's going to have to be very creative ways that we go about tackling distinction. A lot of people think that is going to be as simple as saying, hey, I created this. But when the voices can be duplicated, the imagery can be duplicated and the everything just from top to bottom can be duplicated, there's gonna need to be a way to distinguish a from b, c from d and so on and so forth, but not in a stale way.
Speaker 5:It has to be in a graduated fashion that not only aligns with what's going on at the moment, but it's compatible down the line, because, not, we don't need to just verify now, we need to be verifying in the future and we need to have systems that accommodate that and like, if you look at a lot of government Structures, like when you talk about the copyright and trademark office, a lot of their processes for Validating ownership, they're outdated, right and it's. The system is just, it's it's. It's broken In many ways right, and it's not something that's going to be repaired. With the one to, it's gonna need to be Overhauled, and so, with the blockchain and web 3 and with projects like you know, telephones and collab land, it it's going to. In a nutshell, what I'm saying is that the solution is going to sprout because the seeds have been planted.
Speaker 2:Yes sir, yes sir, Also very glad to have you up on stage. What 3 I am. You are always asking some amazing questions and have some amazing input. Go forward, sir.
Speaker 6:Yo yo. So just want to jump in here about the stuff kind of around Using a voice and things like that, because I one of the things I always talk about on some of these spaces is I came from like the corporate background of sales and this tech, so I worked at nuance from 2015 to 2017. They're owned by Microsoft. Now you guys might know them through things like dragon, medically speaking or naturally speaking. They also do AI chatbots, voice biometrics, which are in most of the Canadian banks and a lot of the US ones. Now One of the things is your voice has a hundred and twenty seven different unique characteristics and the only guys that were able to fool the technology it was two twin Brothers and it took them over 400 attempts in order to do that. By that time, any sort of system would have booted you out For exceeding the max number of attempts and things like that.
Speaker 6:But just wanted to calm people down on the voice side of things and also to cover it in advance. There was a thing what was it? Keegan Michael Key? No, jordan Peele years ago. There's an Adobe video you can see on YouTube talking about this technology where, if you take enough recordings of somebody's voice, you can train a voice model on it using AI and then you can make it say whatever you want.
Speaker 6:So there are big predictions that next year we're gonna see a lot of deep fake stuff in the 2024 campaigns for the US election. That's gonna be a big thing. So I'd say worry about it there. But as far as using as a biometric for authenticity and signing into systems, it's a lot more lockdown than you would think people will be able to socially engineer their way through some of this shit. But that just brings it back to kind of going zero proof, like there's got to be a way with identity that we can prove we are who we are, we have what we say, we have, we know what we know. It's more than just MFA, so that's my little tangent on that topic, but it was an area I worked in for a while and Microsoft bought new aunts last year. For what was it like? 16 or 60? Something billion, lot of money.
Speaker 2:I Promise I'm gonna get us right back on track soon, but you just gave me an opportunity to say, to say something out a little for an opportunity. Right, here we go. I actually scary part about this AI thing and the voice thing something I noticed once there was an actual video. I was watching YouTube and the commercial came on, and the commercial Was someone. What was it saying? It was an actual voice saying that you should deposit Ethereum to an address and if you send it there, they'll send you double back. And it was basically a scam, right, but it was an actual person. Their lips were moving, it's their voice saying it and that a QR code right in the corner.
Speaker 6:Anybody Elon Musk. Yo, elon, that was. They did one with Elon Musk and they did it as a live feed on YouTube for 24 hours and they just had it deep faking and doing the voices of him saying you know, we're gonna have a new coin that's coming out. You can buy it here. Scan the QR code. Yeah, I think I know exactly what you talked about, dude. They were doing it with Musk and other people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that that definitely is the worst possible use of AI and certainly, with time and technology, it's going to get a lot better for them to fool people, which is why, yeah, did digital identifiers, things that we can use to Verify authenticity, any, anything that we can use to identify that something is the original source.
Speaker 2:Besides common sense and listening to it, knowing it's a scam, it's definitely going to be very helpful.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, now I wanted to ask that that opportunity question coming from the other perspective, right, taking it back to the social fly. When people hear that term, they're either you know like hey, I can't wait for it to launch, time to get paid again, or there's like this huge I roll right when it comes to certain people's interactions with other platforms, like what friend tech and and all the other ones that have come out, and that that experience usually comes from being a smaller, creative or, you know, a smaller group and not being able to find that traction on being able to get that kind of trading power, anything like that. How, how difficult is it for someone? Or what is the opportunity that exists for someone who may be, like I said, a smaller creator or maybe new, who may be wanting to start their telegram group and implement this from the start. So, rather than coming from a rears, they're starting. You know they're group with telefriends. How does that opportunity work for them?
Speaker 3:Yeah, and it's really about your interest, right? Not everyone's gonna be able to be a creator. Not everyone is gonna be able to manage a community. It really goes to your what your strengths are. The beauty of web 3 and Crypto and this time and space that we're in right now is that there is a real opportunity to have a niche start a niche. Right, it's almost like we've moved to a whole new planet and there's a whole opportunity here where we're all kind of starving for information and starving for things to do and so it's not gonna be oversaturated the way our web 2 world was also.
Speaker 3:What we're doing is setting the guardrails here so that people aren't taking advantage of, like I often talk about how I used to be on Facebook. Right, I was on Facebook from like 2007 to like 2020. My god, what is that? 13 years where I shared like our lives and my children's baby pictures and all of my birthday parties and the Halloween costumes I made, and so much content that I shared recipes, whatever right business advice and marriage advice, and it's like I didn't get compensated for any of that and so for. And Facebook 100% sold ads against my content, of which I got none of that Information and they used all of my data to sell ads, right, like that's what they're doing. They're chopping me up, they're splitting me up, they're distributing me all around the world and and making money off of it, and so it's like what are we trying to do now?
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's not gonna be easy. Nothing is easy, right? I? Despite what people think about crypto, easy money it's not. It's just the loudest people are probably the ones saying how much money They've made, but who the heck knows? So it's like for small creators, it's like look, it's not gonna be easy. You're gonna have to find your niche.
Speaker 3:However, what we're doing is providing the tools so that you can continue to be compensated. We're not gonna rug you. You know we've been here five years. We've been doing co-evaluant for three and a half years. We very much try to align our businesses with our what our core values are as a couple, as a family, as members of society, as Americans, and so it's like no, it's not gonna be easy, but if you have an interest in doing this, that there's any part of you that has content or has Anything that you want to share, it's like we're trying to set you up so that you aren't going to be in a situation where it's not sustainable. We want it to be sustainable for you so we can provide those tools for you. Can I tell you it's gonna be easy. It's not gonna be easy.
Speaker 3:What we're doing is trying to make it as easy as possible, and I see your hand, chris. Give me one second one is like easily. That's why we chose telegram because it is the most crypto native, it's number one, the most crypto forward crypto native platform, but also it has it's number four in terms of all around the world and global reach, and so telegram is all over the world, and so we want to make it accessible to all over the world. That's what we are here. We're not Western centric, we're not American centric. We are a global community, and so we want to give opportunities to everybody and then also being able to interact with your Telegram contacts, and so it's like we are trying to make it as easy as possible. We are not asking you to go to a new chat Platform or download anything to your website or onto your phone that you don't already have. Yes, chris, yes.
Speaker 2:Well, I was gonna say too, before we get to Chris, just to remind everybody something that you mentioned and I think a lot of people sleep on Telegram is a human locust economy. It does definitely Create like a good what do you call it starting place for people who already, you know, been active with other groups. You've got plenty of contacts, plenty of groups, plenty of resources to tap into to get people To help build your new group. So, yeah, and again, you know Telegram something that you can explain to the average anybody, like everyone, does. The program is so very easy to share as well. So, yeah, thank you for that. Go for Chris.
Speaker 5:No, no, no, no. I usually you listen, you're knocking it out the part and Everything that you just stated. It resonated with me on a personal level and a professional level as a family person. You know, when you reference Facebook, when you talked about giving all of that content to Facebook, and you know for a fact, everyone knows that. You know there were ads sold against it. You know, and then there's the other part, that is, you know a lot of creatives and just you know, users in general give content to these platforms and they have no way of Downloading and take and taking it off.
Speaker 5:So it's kind of like a one-way exchange, right? You talked about sharing such that priceless content I'm not gonna even say valuable, because you know pictures of your family just sharing your journey. That's something that, logically, anyone who's doing that should have a right to. They should have a right to control that. They should have a right to dictate to what extent it's monetized, if at all. Right. But we know that that's not the case. But I'm gonna pivot to Nameritips and how you know our parent entity actually works with creatives. That's how we entered the web 3 space, because we've seen an opportunity for creatives to have, you know to be liberated, so to speak.
Speaker 5:But there is that part, like you said, that is, creatives are gonna come in and it's important for them to recognize that. You will have to do the work. You just have the room to do it right. A lot of creatives don't have the room to sustain themselves because they're constantly fighting between do I choose to Get, try to find this way to supplement the income that I need to provide for myself as a human being, or do I sit here and play into the starving artist narrative? So here it is.
Speaker 5:You have an opportunity to not necessarily get out of that stronghold, but you can. You can see the light at the end of the tunnel and you can move towards it If you put in the effort, in the time to do so. So I have this question here. So you all have chosen to use telegram makes perfect sense. The telegram Economy is there, as I hard said, but we also have to ask ourselves about the long-term sustainability sustainability of telegram. Do you guys have any plans to create your own Ecosystem away from telegram, where everything that's made available through telegram can somehow transition in the event that telegram does not? You know, stick around and hopefully they do yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's a really interesting question and I'm glad that you brought it up. First I'll address the kind of Focus on creatives, because really I think, as a creative and at the core you know, it's really about challenging the status quo, and I think it's the people that are I don't know if you want to call them crazy or the crazy ones that are the ones that you know, feel and are compelled to change the status quo and what is happening in the world and not just accepting the world as it is, but trying to actually make a difference, and some of them do, and these are the people that we are trying to Encourage and make it as easy for them. Now. Telegram great platform. What is interesting when you ask about us building our own platform?
Speaker 4:When we were first starting collab line, we started out on telegram. Our largest communities are not on telegram, though. They're on discord, and what it's fascinating is that when we had or added the option for communities to go to Discord, we looked at the analytics. It was bonkers of how quickly and how many people instantaneously switch platforms. That is really not typical at all. When you see new platforms and networks arise, it's really hard because it's a lot of friction, but when you take a step back and you look at it, you're like, wait a second. It's not that these people are really moving from a platform. The platform is actually the chain that they're on the Telegram or Discord, the application, the portal or interface into the shared asset, the shared treasury. This community is already decentralized. For us, what we see as a hack, if you will, is being able to leverage these platforms that have spent hundreds of millions, if not, I would argue, billions of dollars UI, ux, usability, just infrastructure. They provide it for free.
Speaker 4:Do we want to start our own platform? I'm not sure. I'm not sure because you know what may be powerful Is if platforms that are catering to Web3 communities, if they understand how easy it is to switch to a competitor. Maybe there is this game theory saying we better behave, we can't exploit because we won't be able to get away with it, because we can be checked and this community is not rooted on our platform. They're rooted on chain and they can move easily. I think this is the game theory Once you have one major platform capitulate and recognize that, then it's just a domino effect. That is the kind of PSIOP.
Speaker 4:The trick that we're trying to pull off is this voice of the consumer, of the people, because they are empowered and this goes back to that core value of self-sovereignty. There is these platforms that exploit UI because they know that you're stuck there. What happens if they know that you're not? They're going to act differently. We're hoping to force this inflection point, if you will, because today there's chat, tomorrow there might be some voice-faced only platform and five years later maybe some ARVR platforms are going to come and go. I don't know if there's ever going to be one platform to rule them all. It's all cyclical. What we're trying to do is make space, make room for these communities so that any platform in the future will be able to respect these communities. I think that's really what community empowerment is all about.
Speaker 2:Yeah, before we get to Chris's question, I do really like that approach, definitely with being able to move, like you said, and utilizing the value that these other platforms are already building in and get the best of both worlds. You get to focus on providing values, the plug-in that enhances the ecosystem that's already there. I have a question Before we get to Chris the tele-friends. I'm assuming it's named as such because it was originally designed for Telegram. Will that feature be eventually available for other platforms like Discord, whatever else comes out better in social community?
Speaker 4:Yeah, our plan is to be eventually everywhere. Wherever there is an ability to plug in, where there's an API or to extend a platform, collabland will be there. One of the hills that we're willing to die on, so to speak, is that every platform is going to have to have some interoperability, some API, because we now live in such a hyper-connected world. You're not going to be able to successfully grow a platform if you don't interconnect. We know that will be something that will always be available in the future. With that, we always will have an in, so to speak. We're going to start on Telegram. Telegram is a great platform, but I don't think, within abundance mindset, we want to limit ourselves to just Telegram.
Speaker 3:I know, and James said Collabland there, but really it's Collabland.
Speaker 4:Telefront sorry, Thank you.
Speaker 3:It's the same thing. No, but it's the same thing. Telefront is just Collabland, where we also mint the token and you sell it into a bonding curve. But it really is Collabland in a value, ethos, tradition. It will still be Collabland.
Speaker 2:We are going to get to that, and thank you for that clarification. Go for it, chris. And then I'm going to ask one more question before we start to wind it down. As a reminder, if anyone else does have any questions, this is an AMA. Feel free to request a speak-a-mult and I will allow you on up. But yeah, go for it, chris.
Speaker 5:Yeah, you guys are doing fantastic. I just want to put that in there. You guys are doing awesome Revisiting the platform I love with James, who was talking about when he was referencing, we're moving towards a point where interoperability is going to be a default. It's going to be a prerequisite. By the way, when you referenced creatives, it's always been this unique dynamic when it comes to creatives and their content. Communities migrate, but it's the creatives who will find themselves stuck and bound by for lack of better words the terms of services, of the platforms. Like case in point, if individuals are creating content via Twitter or X or YouTube, telegram or whatever, these companies have the ability, or these platforms have the ability, to write it into the terms of service, where, if content is created on our platform, we've opened it up free to you and you're using this set of services that we offer to reach this particular audience, they can write it in to suggest or imply or embolden themselves to say that we have jurisdiction over this content.
Speaker 5:When I talked about whether or not you guys would potentially considering having your own platform, maybe I should have been more specific in terms of for the creatives, because you guys are doing something wonderful when you're opening up the door for the creatives to have a way to sustain themselves, to generate revenue, to empower the community and put the community in a responsible position to support the artists and the works that they're releasing, you all having your own platform and opening up or creating a forum where the creatives can have truly have control of their work and their creativity and wherever they choose to take their work, they can take it there, but they don't have to worry about fighting against the platform that may be in at that time that they created.
Speaker 5:Like right now, there are some TikTok stars and I don't know much about TikTok's terms of services, so I'm not implying that they're doing anything malicious, but just using them as an example. There are some TikTok mega stars, but if they walked away from TikTok today, a portion of their community may follow them, but they wouldn't have access to all that content. So I was just kind of thinking out loud when I was asking about whether or not you would consider having a platform that maybe would accommodate creatives in that way, so I know that would be a bit long.
Speaker 4:No, no, I think that we're going to figure it out and this is where we're starting with, like telefriends, right? Like, if you really think about what telefriends is, it's access control on Telegram. So Telegram is not owning the group that creator is. And what does that mean? Own? That means they're responsible for the content that they produce and they get to enjoy the revenue, the royalties based off of what they're producing, not Telegram. And so it's a little bit abstract, because it's not that in telefriends the content is on chain, it's the access control of the creator and that community is on chain.
Speaker 4:Now, as the technology advances, can the assets and the content live on chain and just the access to it can happen, maybe through YouTube or maybe also through TikTok. I think that is going to evolve and that is what we're looking at when it comes to this self-sovereignty and abundance mindset. Right, because now it's not just limited to TikTok and their terms of service. Because you're absolutely right Right now, if you don't abide by the terms of service from these platforms, these platforms can cut you off and will you be able to move to another platform and these people will follow you? Maybe, maybe not. Why? It's because TikTok owns the audience, the creator. If you think about it, I don't think the creator owns that audience. Here, with tele-friends, buying and selling passes, that monetization actually goes to the creator. So I think that there is this like it's not going to happen overnight and we're just laying the foundations for this to happen. Because it's one of those things where, like with anything, when you think about it it's going to take a while, but when it happens it will happen suddenly. So we need the verifiable credentials, the identity piece, we need enough people. Onboarding, ease of onboarding that's also what we're trying to provide with tele-friends. So it's just widening the space for this to happen. And by the time it happens, hopefully it happens instantaneously and that's what we're trying to figure out. And it's these go-to-market strategies based off of the technology and what it means, like why are we producing this tech? It's because of these values.
Speaker 4:So, yeah, I don't know exactly to answer the question. I don't know exactly what it looks like or how we'll get there exactly. I don't know how to predict the future. We're just going to be developing the technology and finding opportunities to go to market when they become available and the landscape is going to change.
Speaker 4:I remember I'm old enough now to remember where people my parents told me never get into a car with a stranger. But now that's a huge monetization event, and I remember people saying no one's ever going to buy anything online because you need to feel and you need to touch the things that you're buying. But now, like you get things delivered overnight and sometimes within hours, depending on where you live and you just click and it just comes to your door. There's gonna need to be. The technology is what drives cultural advancement, and so it's laying these technologies out and waiting for people to catch up. So I think we're there when it comes to digital identity, when it comes to creatives, when it comes to content. It's just not widely distributed yet, and so we just got to find those cracks and crevices where we can present this to a wider, larger audience.
Speaker 2:I love that example you gave. And my last question is actually related back to the tech, kind of taking us back around. So we talked about the technology kind of on the user interface for people interacting with these communities. Kind of wanna talk about the user interface or how easy is it to set up for a person now if you have big group, large group influencer to set this up? So what is the process to implement telephones into your telegram group, the process to create these passes? Can you walk us through how either difficult or not difficult that that is and where a person should go to get started?
Speaker 4:Yeah, go to telefriendscom T-E-L-E-F-R-E-N-Scom Click the button and you'll go through the process to activate your profile, and that should take less than two minutes. It's about a minute or so depending on how we're on Arbitrum. So shout out to Arbitrum. We launched on Arbitrum and so it really depends on how busy the network is, but I've done it in less than a minute on production and then you are gonna get instructions in terms of how to start your private group and then it's easy for people to onboard. So you don't have to have a wallet, you don't have to have anything to kind of get set up and start activating your profile and opening it up, and so that's just how easy it is, and then you'll get instructions as well, because it's a really interesting interface. It's something novel With like friendtype.
Speaker 4:They introduced this PWA Progressive Web App from a tech perspective, where you have to get the web app and make it like your home screen. With what we're doing, you never even have to leave Telegram. We actually are one of the first I believe the first social file app that uses what they call a Telegram Minia. So we embed the web page in the chat itself, so you don't even have to leave the chat to interact and with that you can set everything up just like you would going to a similar kind of web page. So there's nothing really new to learn. That interesting interaction is that once you go through the flow and you close out the web page inside of Telegram, you'll get a chat notification from the bot on how to take the next step and invite others.
Speaker 4:So we try and make it as simple and as easy to onboard and not only onboard, but invite other people. And, as Anjuli said, that you can actually use your Telegram contact sheet and just send information that way. And so there is this, like you know, relationship that you already have DMing with people in Telegram. So there's a history there, so you're not coming from just a blank slate in terms of relationships. So we think that that's gonna make it easier to onboard others as well and also, as a side benefit, kind of understand okay, well, if someone's saying that they're my friend and then they're DMing me and I don't have my chat history with them and they just send me this invite out of the blue, how do I know it's? I know that it's not really them, that they're a scammer or impersonating someone that I know. So we think that there's a lot of benefits, not only on ease of onboarding, but like a history and a context, since we're in Telegram, that will help in terms of security as well.
Speaker 2:I did want to ask. I'm sorry for just one more quick and I'm extremely thankful to have both of you on. Thank you so very much for your time.
Speaker 2:As always, as I like to remind everybody who attends our AMAs, we get some solid people at some very high levels at these very influential projects inside of web three. You're able to interact with these people personally and you know, while we're coming right back to this bull run, so definitely very blessed and thankful for you guys giving us your time. The website looks awesome. Just came on it. It actually just brought up this question. You were mentioning something about some of the interaction with the boss. To be reminding, you guys actually have like an AI assistant built in here as well. Correct, that kind of works as a marketing assistant, as the description says here. If you want to just touch on that before we kind of end out, I think that that's an extremely interesting and probably will be a very helpful tool for people who are using this from their platform or the group.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, the AI is. You know, the flip side of the coin here is that people can use AI so that you can, as a creator because, if you want, you can have the bot have access to your messages within your group. You can chat with the bot and chat with your analytics. You know, get sentiment analysis in your group and be able to chat with your analytics and say, okay, well, how do I increase engagement? So you'll have this chat group, which is not. The messages are not on chain, they're off chain and the bot will have access to it. But the bot also will have access to transaction history as well of your group and so you can ask you know messages, or you can ask about the transactions and try and understand, as a creator, how to better manage your group and, as I was saying, to like creators before, like they know how to create, but do they know how to manage a community and this is where we think AI can really help. You're gonna have your own like community manager there for you.
Speaker 4:We're at the very early, early stages of this, so we're going to iterate on this, but that's the idea and that's the goal. We wanna actually use verifiable credentials to protect against this onslaught of AI generation, but we also wanna leverage and use AI to empower these creators and communities as well. So that's something that we think is just gonna be this you know, intersection, this collision course between AI and Web3, and we want to protect against the downside, but we also wanna maximize the upside of it. And, yeah, I think that it's gonna be really interesting how this all plays out and we're going to make sure that we listen to creatives and these communities that are using telefriends on how we can leverage AI.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm extraordinarily Polish on AI like the weirdest, most obsessively, and I'm extremely non-technical and, yeah, essentially that's exactly what it done is. It's turned me into the superhero that I'm looking at on your telefriends but website. I feel like it does make things, processes, decisions. You know all of that. It really is the magical assistant and I'm bullish on anybody that's integrating AI. Definitely bullish on anybody that's integrating AI because, yeah, I know that whatever interaction anybody has with the platform is gonna be maximized by that tool, and I personally have been experimenting with the power of AI on our own site for Web3 domain education. So, kudos to you guys for that. And yeah, before we close out, yes, we have one more question for Chris. Go for it, sir.
Speaker 5:No, I was just gonna compliment, you know, compliment you guys on plugging in the AI, because artists, they're migrating from that season of that starving artist narrative, right.
Speaker 5:So education is gonna be very important for a lot of, you know, artists as they migrate into Web3 and anything blockchain related.
Speaker 5:So having AI there to provide that assist, I think is great, and I also think that it's a great opportunity to encourage them and remind them that you know, their creativity should be enhanced as a result of this, like the integrity of their art forming connections with their communities shouldn't be that focus shouldn't be lost, because now they have an easier ramp to be recognized and to connect with their community. But everything that they offer from this point on should be more robust. And I just wanna, you know, commend you all as a party who works with creatives regularly. I wanna thank you all for your efforts, your work, for coming and taking time to share with us and the audience the great prospects and the great achievements that Telefrens and Collabland have already had. And I wanna congratulate you all on your union, your tenure, your family, just, you know, just really being a reflection of who this new era that we're moving towards, who this era, is supposed to benefit. So thank you all.
Speaker 3:Thank you so much. That was really really kind. I appreciate it. Just shout out to our team, many of whom are in the audience right now we are a group of dedicated service people and James and I get to talk about it and be on the spaces, but it's really truly our team that makes this happen. So just eternal gratitude.
Speaker 5:My apologies.
Speaker 2:Is everybody good to speak now?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I was trying to clap when she said that the team I was trying to clap, and then the button just you know, Don't worry, they know I love them, but I just wanted to take another opportunity to tell them how much they mean to be, they mean to the space and are just extremely deeply appreciated and valued Bye James and myself.
Speaker 2:Yes, I definitely appreciate everything that you guys have done for the space, excited to see how Telefrens will continue to improve the space and make communities obviously more profitable, more engaging, so this is super awesome. I want to kind of if you guys have any last words or any last opportunities out there that you wanna share, go for it. This is the time for it. And also please share how, besides thetelefrenscom, how can people interact? Or do you have a community at Discord to telegram yourselves that people can interact and join?
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely. Back in February of 2023, this year we had a Collab Land token and it was a retroactive distribution to our top 100 communities and also to anyone who has ever interacted with Collab Land also any of our early supporters and that gives you access to the Collab Land Dell where we're doing all kinds of interesting things around marketing, projects, compensation Right now, liquidity around the token. There's a lot of conversations if you're interested in that, so we welcome everyone to join the Collab Land Discord server. The vanity URL is just Collab Land. Also, the best place to find any any links for Collab Land is our link tree, which is on our official Twitter account, which is collablandcom.
Speaker 3:Do not go anywhere else. Make sure, when you are interacting with Collab Land, or you think you're interacting with Collab Land, that you always, always verify that it's the real Collab Land. Unfortunately, until we get it solved, impersonation and imposters is a big part of Web 3 and we just don't want anyone getting wrecked out there. So that would be the best place to go. We have events almost every day and we just welcome everyone to join. So thank you.
Speaker 2:Yes, ma'am, yeah, like I said, this is like an amazing refresher course for me. So now I've got to go through those links and tap it with the community. I have some of those tokens in my wallet and I definitely do want to interact and start participating in those votes and stuff. So, yeah, I definitely hope everybody who's listening back to this is just as excited as I am to start, like I said, interacting with tele-friends. See if we can do to help monetize our community. As I said at the beginning of the space. Anyone who wants more information, I strongly encourage you guys to follow those links and join the Collab Land community. Our AMAs are not financial advice and do your own research, and that's how you do it. Go join the community, interact with the tool like it, love it, build on it.
Speaker 2:I thank you guys so very much for attending this AMA and for dropping all this alpha. You guys are an OG in the space for community gatekeepers and for token gating, for building that type of value. So, yeah, definitely a great space for me. I'm leaving with this yeah, pretty hyped and pumped about tele-friends. Yeah, anything you want to leave with Chris. Before we close and end up.
Speaker 5:No wonderful, the future of Web 3 and Blockchain is looking bright. Thank you, guys, for joining us.
Speaker 2:Yes sir, yes sir.
Speaker 2:And as I said at the beginning of the space, you guys can listen back to this right here on Twitter, on our content calendar at link3.to or slash B-Fly wallet. We will post this on our website, probably tomorrow, and you'll be able to read through a recap, as well as on our podcast. So, yeah, we're gonna give you every single possible way to go back and get this information. Again, thank you for you guys very inspiring Love, both this team and the bigger team, looking forward to seeing what you guys continue to build. And, yeah, thank you everybody for attending another Tech Talk AMA. It's been a pleasure.
