# Believe In Something

> The open internet is a radio scene

**Published by:** [UFO](https://news.ufo.fm/)
**Published on:** 2024-12-05
**URL:** https://news.ufo.fm/believe-in-something

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Today we have offers for the UFO community from Degens The Series and Mantle Monks. It's a time of frenetic work behind the scenes at your friendly global onchain radio station. 2025 will be our year. We will share a lot more about what's in development very soon. High appreciation for everyone who has been contacting us and enjoying the radio and the new shows that are arriving. As always the internet is changing at lightspeed as we see with the memecoin craze, Base season, Clanker, Virtuals and agentic models popping up all around us. New token brands have arrived like $BLONDE, $ANON, $GDUPI and $CD to join wayfinding networks like $HIGHER and $DEGEN. What a time to be extremely online. Keep it foolish. Degens The Series – UFO Radio AdIntroducing Degens The Series. An 8-episode cinematic parody of the crypto industry. Follow the comedic journey of Andrew and Tony, a pair of degen founders attempting to build a decentralized protocol. The show is written and directed by Eliott Mogenet. As a special offer for our community, you can mint a UFO radio ad on Zora for a limited time and you'll receive a free Fan Club Pass. Become part of this project and gain exclusive access for events and behind the scenes, and you'll be first to know when series tickets drop. Mint — degenstheseries.com/ufo Collect NFT Mantle MonksMantle Monks is a new and entirely unique way of building a character collection. It allows each user to customise and personalise their Monk through a simple co-creation process. Every piece is recorded with true 1/1 with traits accumulating organically as each new member joins the monastery. This is only the starting point as the project is leading into world building in collaboration with AI to produce a digital experience on Mantle. UFO has been offered 25 mints at a 50% discount for our community thanks to Sean Bradford from ORIGIN STØRIES. How to claim:Visit the website to learn moreGo to the Telegram botEnter code: kMBVKHlMCo-create and mint your Mantle MonksMantle MonksA new way of building a PFP collectionhttps://www.mantlemonks.comLatest PodcastsThe podcasts collective at UFO is expanding now that Pods is integrated for the website. You can visit the site to discover episodes exploring arts, music, crypto and the latest from the open internet scene. We're just getting started.69 The Open Machine - Ven GistVen Gist is a philosopher of networks, designer of worlds. Researcher at The Open Machine. Member at MetaCartel. Contributor at Guild Guild.https://ufo.fmUFO 69 Philosophy, Guilds and Open Machines — Ven Gist Ven Gist is a philosopher of networks, designer of worlds. Researcher at OPRG (Open Protocol Research Group), and writing at The Open Machine which is a publication for the generation of experimental cultural and conceptual compliments to the decentralized web. He's an early member of MetaCartel, an org which funded many projects to develop open source technology and experiment with DAOs. Now working on Guild Guild. A locus of coordination for Creating, Stewarding, Enabling, and Studying Guilds. We talk about the open source movement. The historical context for where we are today. And what's coming up as Ven is helping to stage Cosmolocal Playground in Amsterdam in Spring 2025. UFO Podcast Sponsors Towns — towns.com ↑ Higher — aimhigher.net International Meme Fund — imf.bz@slokh@anoncast and @nook / prev: manifold.xyz opensea.iohttps://ufo.fmPurple People 09 — @slokh @anoncast and @nook / prev: manifold.xyz opensea.ioCATRA / Higher Together EP07A conversation on music, design and building a Higher community in Jakarta.https://ufo.fmHigher Together 07 — CATRA A conversation on music, design and building a Higher community in Jakarta.Silicon Valley Canon with Phil MohunWe walk-and-talk with Bright Moments co-founder and renaissance man, Phil Mohun.https://ufo.fmHyperactive 15 — Silicon Valley Canon with Phil Mohun Phil shares his degenerate beginnings dealing with cocaine-fueled Bitcoin miners, group investment victories and 'enterprise blockchain'. Advancing to imagining what the future of crypto can be like and working with startups. Eventually landing in Venice Beach, CA for the co-founding of Bright Moments. LGHT @notbylght unpacking narrative primitives that may enable millennials and gen z to scale better inside brands like higher link below 23 17:41 • 4 Dec 2024 Network Archives 001: A Directory of InspirationNetwork Archives 001: A Directory of Inspiration, is the inaugural drop from the Network Archives label. This release is a curated collection of creative experiments, writings, and reflections by a diverse community of creators, listeners, thinkers and collectors from around the globe drawn together through a love of music.https://networkarchives.metalabel.comOPRG Bulletin #1: An Introduction to Open ProtocolsExtitutions are the most profound vectors of imaginative desire for open protocols.https://mirror.xyzEthereum's North Star - DBAThank you to Julian Ma, Mike Ippolito, and Mike Neuder for valuable feedback and review. The views expressed in this post are solely my own, and do not necessarily reflect those of the reviewers. Introduction Does Ethereum lack a "North Star," and does it need one?https://dba.xyzWhat Are Agents Good At?What are agents good at? We debated internally and came up with at least four things: 1) meeting humans where they are; 2) doing work for nudging humans; 3) aggregating and synthesizing information; 4) being entertaininghttps://blog.variant.fund$ENJOY (Tipping) V2Our core tech, $ENJOY tipping on Zora, serves primarily as a distribution mechanism to get $ENJOY in the hands of quality onchain creators and curators. After almost 40 weeks of the v1 implementation, we had more than enough data to evaluate the system's success.https://paragraph.xyzUFO is an onchain radio station. Broadcasting from the open internet. Tune in.

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