The Quest of Evolution and The Web3 Creative Constitution

Never before have writers, musicians, artists and filmmakers had access to creativity on the scale we’re injecting ourselves with in web3.?

It’s everywhere and anywhere, and in the spaces in between.?

“Creative people are having a field trip in web3 as there is a never ending possibility to create cool stuff.” - Andrew Nocker

Hello you web3 creative monsters.

It’s Friday, which means nothing to paid-up members of the ‘everyday is incredible’ club like you.?

As Robin Sharma probably said, "don’t let your weekend be your weak end."

Or something.?

For those of you who are new to this, every Thursday Jeremy Gilbertson and I host a podcast about web3.?

It's a complex harmony; a decentralized Greek labyrinth (are labyrinths ever not Greek?) of random nodes, layer 2's and non-fungible originality.

A lot of people tune in.

Many of your LinkedIn friends.

It’s called Thinking on Paper.?

Our mission is to speak about culture, art, futurism and the human condition through the creative lens of web3.?

To do this, we invite founders, futurists, publishers, marketers, dreamers, artists, writers and builders to tell us their story.?

This email is a hastily constructed summary of yesterday’s show.

A show in which I was initially distracted by the intricate detail of Jeremy's face on his new HD webcam.

Fortunately, my eyes readjusted and were able to focus on the quality of the conversation, not his 4K skin.?

Our guest was Andrew Nocker Knocker, founder and CEO of BlockBook .

“We believe that existing paradigms of collaboration for creatives are too rigid and centralised, and want to re-imagine what it is to augment value through collaboration and common ownership.”?- Andrew Nocker

Although the colloquial term is ‘deep dive.’?

We think of it more as a 'free-dive.'

So we held our breath and swam in the deep-blue sinkhole of curiosity and ambition and the creative journey that is a collaborative, multimedia web3 platform.?

A multimedia platform not just for musicians, writers and artists.?

But for journalists, animators and storytellers.

What is The Quest Of Evolution?

The first phase of the evolution are ‘Crypto-Novels’, multimedia NFTs composed of imagery, music, and a Spark Verse - the opening paragraph to a story.?

Each Crypto-Novel is designed, scored, and written by creative ‘Architects.’?

Here is where Jeremy and his ‘Bi-directional Value Exchange?’ (BDVE) get all jittery and glittery and energised.

Once you buy a Crypto-Novel #NFT, you become a contributor and write the next entry in the story. Smart contract metadata is updated as you do so.?

And you then earn royalties from each subsequent sale.

The end game would be to licence your IP to movies, publishing and #metaverse platforms.?

Hurrah.??

There will be a community of creators.

Eventually they will form a DAO around the native $QEV token.

$QEV will not only function as a governance and utility token but will ‘also be interchangeable with the intellectual property rights to the value that the community creates.’??

There was lots more on the episode:

Value

Web3 Philosophy

• Writing
• Inspiration
• Tokenomics
• Polkadot (QOE is built on Moonbeam, a Polkadot parachain)

But like I said, this was a hastily constructed email.

Enjoy your weak-ends, and see you next week.

Peace out.

Mark

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