🌿 Exciting Updates at Mystic Garden! 🌿

We're happy to announce a few refreshing changes to the site:

✨ Refreshed Homepage — Now featuring a different art piece from the Genesis Drop every time you visit!

🏆 Top 10 Collectors Leaderboard — Check out the most active collectors making waves in the community!

📱 Art Page Media Adjustments — The artwork now fits the screen better, for a cleaner and more immersive experience.

🐛 Minor Bug Fixes — Smoother browsing and interaction for everyone!

Heads up to @grams and @eduardmsmr for guessing the Top 3 collectors! Each of you earned 2,000 extra points!

Head over to Mystic Garden and explore the latest updates!

Explore Now: <www.mysticgarden.xyz>

Jeff is the Founder of Merlin.

In this episode, we discuss how Merlin Chain aims to make Bitcoin fun again. We interview Jeff about why we need a Bitcoin L2 (or sidechain) like Merlin, how they grew it to nearly $3B in liquidity deposited since launching in Feb 2024, and how to get started as a user.

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🔗 Essential Show Links 🔗

► Youtube: youtube.com/@DeFiDad ► Apple: tinyurl.com/edgepod ► Spotify: tinyurl.com/edgepodspotify ► Linktree: linktr.ee/edge_pod

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Timestamps

0:00 - Intro 3:57 - Founding Merlin 6:20 - Why build a Bitcoin L2? 10:22 - Is Merlin an L2 or sidechain? 11:40 - What makes Merlin a better UX? 15:25 - Bootstrapping community growth 19:41 - Which dApps have driven growth? 22:45 - Mantle mid-roll 23:38 - What else should be built on Merlin? 25:27 - What is mBTC? 27:01 - How to pay gas? 27:16 - Recommended bridges 28:03 - Utility of MERLIN token 29:29 - How to keep growing Merlin? 32:54 - Puffer, Teller, Moonbeam mid-roll 34:32 - Favorite yields on-chain 35:53 - Roadmap for Merlin 38:25 - Closing

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🔗 Guest Links 🔗

► Merlin Website: merlinchain.io/ ► Merlin on Twitter: x.com/MerlinLayer2 ► Jeff on Twitter: x.com/bitmaptech

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If you're a DeFi/Web3 builder, contact our team at: fourthrevolution.capital/

All opinions expressed by hosts and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and not necessarily those of Fourth Revolution Capital. Podcast guests and 4RC may have positions in the assets or other matters discussed in this podcast. This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions. Do your own research. This is not a recommendation or endorsement to buy any token(s) related to any platform(s) discussed.

For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

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Yancey Strickler is a writer and entrepreneur. He’s the Cofounder and Director of Metalabel, Cofounder and former CEO of Kickstarter, and Cofounder of the artist resource The Creative Independent. He’s the author of This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World, editor of The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet, creator of the philosophy of Bentoism, and the record label eMusic Selects. Yancey’s career started as a music critic writing for Pitchfork, Spin, and The Village Voice. He grew up on a farm in Clover Hollow, Virginia. He lives in New York City.

Music Mentions

• Metalabel
• Old Fiddler’s Convention
• “Mr. Bojangles” by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
• Jerry Jeff Walker
• The Beatles
• “Blackbird” by The Beatles
• Nirvana
• “Nevermind” by Nirvana
• The Fall
• Archers of Loaf
• Mark E. Smith
• Squealer Music
• Neutral Milk Hotel
• “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” by Neutral Milk Hotel
• “Holland, 1945” by Neutral Milk Hotel
• All Music Guide
• SPIN Magazine
• eMusic
• Hurray for the Riff Raff
• Girls (band)
• Best Coast
• High Places
• The Rural Alberta Advantage
• Saddle Creek Records
• Subpop Records
• SXSW
• The Kinks
• The Who
• Alice Caltrane
• John Coltrane

Q&A

• Fleetwood Mac
• “Tusk” by Fleetwood Mac
• Cotton Jones
• Electrelane
• Blank Forms
• Don Cherry

Discovering music today (39:58):

• Audiopile
• Pitchfork

First album ever purchased (45:10):

• “Mariah Carey” by Mariah Carey

Most recent album purchased (45:33):

• “Cold Drinks, Hot Dreams” by Atrás del Cosmos

Noteworthy artists discovered in the past year (46:17):

• Cindy Lee
• Time Wharp

Desert Island Discs (47:23):

• “Organic Music Theatre” by Don Cherry’s New Researches
• “The White Album” by The Beatles
• “Animal Sounds” by Cozy Cozy

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