The Future of Entertainment, With Pete Holmes

Our animated panel discusses what exactly is an NFT. HBO and sitcom star Pete Holmes talks with us about "Non-Fungible Jokin" and waxes on NFTs and the future of stand-up comedy in the metaverse.

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Non-fungible tokens (NFT) have exploded in popularity in the past year. But what are they, really?

“NFT All-Stars,” CoinDesk’s new animated series, brings together a star-studded panel of investors, curators and innovators to debate, explain and laugh about all things NFTs. The hosts are the true OGs of NFTs: Blockade Games CEO Marguerite deCourcelle; EDM innovator, DJ and NFT artisan BT; ClubNFT CEO Artnome; and Highstreet co-founder Jenny Guo.

Joining this episode is Pete Holmes, stand-up comedian known for "The Pete Holmes Show" and "Crashing.” Holmes and the hosts imagine the possibilities for NFTs in the entertainment industry. Last year, Holmes embarked on a NFT-comedy fusion exploration with "Non-Fungible Jokin'," the world's first live NFT comedy special.

NFTs were all the rage in 2021, with digital collectibles like Bored Apes and CryptoPunks rapidly becoming status symbols for the new rich. Then the digital and traditional art worlds collided head-on when a Beeple collection sold for millions of dollars at Christie's.

NFT visionaries have since pushed the boundaries of what is possible with the new technology, creating NFTs for almost every creative project imaginable. What’s next?

Watch the full episode here.

HOSTS

Jason Bailey (Artnome)

Jason Bailey is the CEO and co-founder of ClubNFT and is well known for his popular art and tech blog Artnome.com. Having predicted the current NFT art explosion back in 2017, he was an early NFT collector and proponent of the CryptoArt movement. As the first collector on SuperRare, Jason introduced the popular marketplace to its very first artists and collaborated with the site to introduce NFTs to the traditional art world. Most recently, he founded the GreenNFTs initiative to help explore and promote eco-friendly NFT practices. Jason has written on art and technology for Art in America and the Harvard Data Science Review and has lectured at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and top universities and institutions around the world. Prior to ClubNFT, he spent two decades in senior leadership positions at tech startups before he started his own successful tech marketing and business consulting practice in 2019.

Jenny Guo

Jenny Guo is an award-winning creative producer, XR arts patron and tech entrepreneur. She has been named on Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2018 and to AACYF 30 under 30 list in 2020. She was also recognized as the top 10 Asian Americans Entrepreneurs in 2021.

Backed by HTC , Binance Lab and other big funds, her company Highstreet is building a commerce-centered MMORPG ( massive(ly) multiplayer online role-playing game) using VR and blockchain technology.

Marguerite deCourcelle

Marguerite deCourcelle (better known as coin_artist) is a technologist, game designer and blockchain enthusiast. She is the CEO of Blockade Games, a company that designs puzzles and games built on blockchain technology. Her contributions to cryptocurrency puzzles and art have been featured in MIT techreview, BBC and NPR.

BT is a classically trained symphonic composer, musician, arranger, orchestrator and NFT artisan. His work includes Oscar-winning films and critically acclaimed series. He is credited as a pioneer of the Trance and IDM genres.

He has created a slew of widely adopted plug-ins, used in everything from “Star Wars” and “Stranger Things” to No. 1 country music records.

BT has written, produced for Death Cab for Cutie, Peter Gabriel, Howard Jones, Tiesto, Depeche Mode, Armin Van Buuren, Sting, NSYNC, Blake Lewis, The Roots, Madonna, Britney Spears and more.