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12 Talking 2017 NFTs With CryptoKitties & Dapper Labs — Benny Giang

Benny Giang is a product marketer and creative thinker in UX design, growth and community. Co-founder at Future Primitive where they work on experimental creative projects involving NFTs and DAOs such as the Stapleverse with Jeff Staples.

Team member #13 at Dapper Labs and a co-founder of the iconic CryptoKitties early NFTs project in 2017. Later working on NBA Top Shot before departing from Dapper in October 2021.

We talk about the origin stories of NFTs and creating the first ever NFTs discord community for CryptoKitties, a group chat including founders from Dapper, Axie Infinity, OpenSea and many others.

We explore new creative experiments Benny is working on with Future Primitive, including BEEP3R ~ a hackathon project from ETH Global making nostalgic 90s pager NFTs that can communicate onchain via XMPT.