Can Crypto Save the World? Inside the Flying Pigs Project’s Philanthropic Revolution

In this game-changing episode of The Edge of Show, formerly Edge of NFT, host Josh Kriger dives deep into the world of Flying Pigs Crypto, a groundbreaking initiative from the Dollar Donation Club. This project isn't just another meme coin—it’s a full-fledged blockchain philanthropy model, combining Web3 impact with a unique mission coin tokenomics. With guests Seth Blaustein, Tony Greenberg, and Kayvon Soltani, this episode explores how Flying Pigs Crypto aims to create a perpetual impact engine, democratizing charitable giving using blockchain technology. From AI-powered vetting systems to gamified dashboards and community-first token models, this project is the epitome of meaningful innovation. If you care about decentralization, social impact, or crypto with purpose, this episode is your blueprint to the future of regenerative finance.

Key Topics Covered

• Flying Pigs Crypto as a Mission Coin for Global Good
  
  
• Innovative Tokenomics to Empower Communities
  
  
• Measuring Web3 Impact with Dollar Donation Club
  
  
• Gamification and AI in Blockchain Philanthropy
  
  
• Inclusivity and Mainstream Adoption in Web3 Impact Models
  
  

 Episode Highlights

“Flying Pigs is the quintessence of doing the impossible—solving the world’s biggest, gnarliest challenges.”
— Seth Blaustein

“Instead of us bundling 80%, we put it into a community rewards pool—realigning incentives for long-term value.”
— Kayvon Soltani

“Charity has lost its way—Flying Pigs Crypto puts results and measurable impact first.”
— Seth Blaustein

“We’re creating a perpetual funding engine for positive change, not a short-term pump-and-dump coin.”
— Tony Greenberg

“Blockchain should be an alignment tool for shared goals, not an extraction mechanism.”
— Kayvon Soltani

People and Resources Mentioned

• Seth Blaustein
• Kayvon Soltani
• Tony Greenberg
• Dollar Donation Club
• Flying Pigs Crypto
• Murad Mahmudov (Crypto visionary mentioned)
• Trees for the Future

About Our Guests

Seth Blaustein is a visionary social entrepreneur and founder of Dollar Donation Club, a platform that has generated over 70 million views and raised $17+ million for global causes. He also founded the Future Frontiers Conference and continues to pioneer blockchain philanthropy models like Flying Pigs Crypto, focused on measurable impact and mission-driven ecosystems.

Tony Greenberg is a transformation tech strategist and founder of Impact Soul and Ramprate, with a track record of driving sustainable innovation across enterprises like Microsoft, Sony, and Goldman Sachs. He brings decades of experience in aligning tech and social impact.

Kayvon Soltani, co-founder of Aventus Protocol, has raised over $20 million through ICOs and has deep expertise in NFT ecosystems and tokenomics. He’s now applying his knowledge to disrupt philanthropy with the community-first Flying Pigs Crypto initiative.

Seth Blaustein – Founder of Dollar Donation Club

LinkedIn Link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sethblaustein/
Website Link: https://www.dollardonationclub.com/
Twitter Link: https://twitter.com/SethBlaustein

Kayvon Soltani – Co-founder of Aventus Protocol & Flying Pigs Crypto

LinkedIn Link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayvonsoltani/
Website Link: https://www.flyingpigs.io/ | https://www.aventus.io/
Twitter Link: https://twitter.com/KayvonSoltani

Tony Greenberg – Founder of Ramprate & Impact Soul

LinkedIn Link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonygreenberg/
Website Link: https://www.ramprate.com/ | https://impactsoul.com/
Twitter Link: https://twitter.com/TonyGreenberg

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Transcript:

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Tony Greenberg: This is Tony of Impact Soul I'm thrilled to be here with Kayvon and Seth of the Flying Pigs Project.

Kavon Soltani: We're revolutionizing philanthropy by uniting micro donations and blockchain into a powerful force for global good.

Seth Blaustein: You're tuned in to the Edge of show where blockchain, AI, and community-driven innovation come together to drive meaningful change around the globe. Stay tuned.

Josh Kriger: Hey Web3 listeners, get ready for today's episode to learn how meme culture and social impact are getting a makeover with Dollar Donation Club's latest initiative that will let the pigs fly. And also the future of community-first tokenomics and how blockchain is reshaping charitable giving. Lastly, how Dollar Donation Club measures real impact. All this and more at the Edge of Flying Pigs. Cue the intro. Welcome to The Edge of Show featuring a variety of top-notch guests and other hosts. I'm Josh Krieger. It's another production of The Edge of Company, a quickly growing media ecosystem empowering the pioneers of Web3 tech and culture in response for other groundbreaking endeavors like the Outer Edge Innovation Festival in LA and Riyadh. Today's show sponsors part of an advisory media partnership features Seth Blastein, a futurist and social entrepreneur revolutionizing philanthropy through the Dollar Donation Club. His campaigns have generated 70 plus million views and raised 17 plus million for global causes. Founder for Future Frontiers Conference and multiple impact-driven organizations. He's definitely a special guy. We also have Tony Greenberg, a dynamic innovator focused on healing and transformation technology, indigenous rights and sustainable technologies. He's committed to driving positive global change through technology solutions. And last but not least, we have Kayvon Soltani, a pioneer in blockchain, who's also the co-founder of Aventus Protocol, who's raised $20 million through that ICO. He's an expert in token mechanisms and blockchain innovation, with significant experience developing NFT marketplaces for major gaming publishers and creating decentralized ecosystems. And today we'll be talking to these gentlemen about Flying Pigs. This is an innovative cryptocurrency project that aims to create a sustainable funding mechanism for environmental and humanitarian impact projects. The project utilizes a very unique token model where NFTs are transformed into tokens, which then fuel the impact treasury. This treasury is dedicated to funding real world projects that make a positive difference in the world. Let's bring these guys on. Welcome, guys. Thanks so much for having us, Josh. Hey Josh. All right. Hey guys. Um, so Tony, Seth, Kayvon, um, each of you comes from such a different angle of innovation and you're sort of like, uh, a dream team of sorts. The, the, the, the good old days of, of, uh, U S all-star basketball, uh, for the Olympics. Seth, you have this social impact background, Kayvon, you've been doing so much different things with blockchain and sort of bending that matrix. Tony, you know, with technology strategy, you know, we've known each other for a long time, you've advised so many projects. What does elevating business mean to you all? And how does that sort of embody Sorry, let me do that again. What does elevating business mean to you personally, each of you, and how does your current work embody this philosophy? Let's start with you, Seth.

Seth Blaustein: Thanks, Josh. Glad to be here. Um, so interesting question. I'm a filmmaker by background, storyteller at heart. Um, I'm actually only interested in business in so far as it has, I believe it's, it's the best channel for making a difference in the world. I believe like the way the world is created is through entrepreneurs. This is how we build civilization. This is how we build the models that form the way the world works from school, medicine, government, all of it comes from the way entrepreneurs think. And so, The way I look at it is every business is created is a story that you're inviting people into, into a hero's journey. And so I love creating businesses that are inviting people into that lead to your higher potential.

Josh Kriger: I love that. And Tony, you've been an impact guy for a while. What was that moment where you decided you're 100% impact?

Tony Greenberg: Oh, that's an easy but a hard question. I'm thrilled that when you say the term elevating business, it's actually the moniker of my original company, Ramprate, which is elevating the way business does business. There seems to be a chasm between belief systems that businesses can be not only more profitable, but more impactful. So I've been doing that for over 12 years and a variety of circumstances and structures and proving it out day in after day out. So, uh, as we continue on with impact soul, our role is to enable people in businesses to live a better daily life of impact.

Josh Kriger: I love that. And, and Kayvon, you, you, what inspired you to sort of get involved in, in impact soul and flying pigs?

Kavon Soltani: You know, in large part, I'm probably the least Regen focused member of the team, having spent the bulk of my career in the blockchain space, specifically in product development. And so really what inspired me was actually going back to the starting point of what inspired me to begin in this technology in the first place, which was this idea that we could democratize access, that we could democratize reward generation, and then doing so create a positive impact on the world. So when Seth approached me with this idea of what if we were to create this mission coin that would allow us to drive these impact initiatives and reward the participants for engaging, this seemed like the best of all worlds. And so that in large part was really what motivated me and inspired me to join up with the team and help bring this to market.

Josh Kriger: Well, let's get into the pig pen, I guess. Seth, tell us a little bit more about the genesis of Flying Pig specifically and how this fits into the Dollar Donation Club journey, the things you've done before. Clearly, you know, this is a new sort of innovative and disruptive approach to raising funds for good. Would love to learn sort of how this idea sort of percolated to the surface.

Seth Blaustein: Sure. Yeah. So first, maybe we should talk about what is a flying pig, right? So this and because this phrase is not used everywhere in the world, but in the West, we use this phrase when pigs fly to say something is not possible, right? Oh, that'll happen when pigs fly. Right. So flying pigs is the quintessence of doing the impossible. And what I've seen studying history and looking at futurism as well is that every generation has these flying pigs. It has people who do not believe in what is thought to be impossible. Right. The Wright brothers are a good example where they proved that they could fly even after or as scientific white papers coming out saying it was mathematically impossible. So and the Bannister effect is how some people call this. Right. When Roger Bannister broke the four minute mile, within a few years, many, many people were able to do the same. So the flying pig is kind of this like middle finger to doomers in a way, or cynics where there's so many challenges that the world is facing right now from climate disasters to ocean pollution, to hunger, poverty, right? There's all these big gnarly challenges that are thought to be impossible. And what we're doing with flying pigs is creating what we believe is the world's first true mission coin that is dedicated to a community first model for actually solving those problems. And we've been working on this dollar donation club in a Web2 capacity for about five years now, with our vision of creating the world's first collective billionaire philanthropist. That is where we're heading, right? Imagine millions of people around the world giving something very small every month, and it's going to highly rigorously vetted charitable and impact initiatives. We kind of call the best of the projects that we find through our vetting process, acupuncture points of change, where there's massive positive impact for every single dollar that goes in. And so what we've built with Flying Pigs is this community driven, true community driven mechanism where as the meme grows and as number goes up, the impact goes up as well. And there's a whole mechanism for how we've built this. We're not interested in building a project that spikes and dumps and disappears after a few weeks. This is truly a community-driven mission. We're still early in the development of this and excited to bring people in and share ideas. You know, this is truly going to be a bottom up mission to dedicate a perpetual funding of engine, a perpetual engine of funding, excuse me, towards solving the world's biggest, gnarliest challenges. So that's really what we've set out to do. And it's super exciting to be partnered with Kayvon and Tony and the rest of our team to bring the best of DeFi to create a ReFi or regenerative finance model. towards the crypto space. Because I don't know about you, but I've been in the crypto space for a long time. And I feel like the visionary promises of what were said to be, you know, are not in my heart or not fully have not fully come true. A lot of people have become wealthy. There's a lot of great decentralization that's happened. But degen is about degenerating. And we needed to degenerate old models. But now it's about regen. It's about regenerating the new world that we want to see. And that is what Flying Pigs is really all about at its heart. Fair enough.

Josh Kriger: I guess my follow up question to you goes to sort of something you alluded to, which is the challenges of this type of project in terms of decentralizing, right, for social impact. There's been other social impact related projects that have launched and I remember multiple NFT projects that were for social good over the last cycle and various meme coins have tried to raise funds. Some have actually raised quite a lot of money, which is great. But there's also been challenges around governance and decentralization and sustainability. How do you look at that balance of opportunity and challenge in terms of launching a project like this?

Seth Blaustein: Yeah, so I think one of the biggest things is that a lot of times people in the crypto space have been quick to jump to how do we tokenize or how do we put charity donations on chain and make it more transparent. That's been a lot of the focus up until now. However, there's not even enough good web 2 data in the charitable space to put on chain. That's sort of the belief. And that's why Dollar Donation Club is so focused on measurable, quantifiable results per dollar. We coined the phrase return on donation. So an example is, right, $1 removes 2.2 pounds of ocean plastic. Or $1 protects half an acre of rainforest. Or $1 plants four mangroves. And there's all the profile of carbon sequestration and the data attached to that. So what we've found is that by focusing on this layer that's really missing in the charitable space of what does impact actually mean, what actually moves the needle? Who do you actually give to that is going to move the needle towards a success state, solving that problem? Because the charitable space is really rife with challenges and pitfalls. The best at marketing and storytelling tend to get the most donations, not necessarily the best projects. Right. And so what we've done is we've solved that through our vetting system at Dollar Donation Club. So we know very clearly, you know, who are the top one percent performers as far as impact per dollar. That is the mechanism that is really under the hood of flying pigs so that every dollar that goes to a project is actually is not just a good story or a headline. Oh, we gave money to charity. You can give money to charity. It doesn't mean it does good. Not by default. Right. So that's the work the Dollar Donation Club is bringing is verification of impact right, and the vetting to understand where are the absolute best projects to give this money to. And then every single two-week cycle, as Kayvon will talk more about the staking cycle of Flying Pigs, every two-week cycle as our members, our community, are driving and voting on impact initiatives, we are going to be deploying those funds and seeing flying pigs out there in the world, cleaning up the ocean, planting trees, funding drones that plant trees or underwater seagrass. Even there's robots that we're funding right now at dollar donation club that plants seagrass. So there's going to be a lot of fun ways that we show up and show and prove not just like, Oh, that felt good. I gave some money away, but prove that it actually moved the needle and made a difference.

Josh Kriger: Right on. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. And I know we'll go into some of the mechanics of flying pigs in more detail. I just had one more question about Dollar Donation Club. I know you guys have dabbled with AI in sort of gamification to sort of increase engagement and higher quality contributions. Can you talk a little bit about that?

Seth Blaustein: Yeah, absolutely. So one on gamification, when you actually quantify what a dollar can accomplish, right? If you know that a dollar, for example, can plant four trees, then you know what a penny can do. And you also know what a million dollars can do as far as how many trees in the carbon sequestration profile of that initiative. So that allows us to gamify the platform. So basically, when you join Dollar Donation Club, you have a dashboard that shows, oh, I've planted 73 trees. I've removed 16,000 pounds of ocean plastic. And so you're actually able to track, even if you're just donating a dollar a month, which some, I mean, we have eight year olds on the platform who give a dollar of their allowance every week to plant trees or clean the ocean. And so it gives you an ongoing dashboard where you can kind of take pride in the work that you've done in the world. Whereas typical charity, again, you donate quietly on a form on a website, and then you get an email that says, thank you. There's no community. There's no feeling of collective action, right? And our whole principle is that a school of fish can be bigger than a whale. right? If many, many small individual contributions are unified towards a common end, then we can create the biggest super whale that's ever existed that is here to do good in the world. And that's what's exciting about that and what I think is enabled through the gamification. And then very quickly on the AI front, Yeah, we've been working with AI over the last year to refine the vetting process because our vetting process takes a lot of time. We don't just have people apply to the platform to get funding. Usually those are people with big marketing budgets and grant budgets and all that. We do really rigorous research. So for example, again, going to the ocean pollution space of all the organizations who say they're cleaning the ocean or preventing ocean plastic from getting or cleaning it up and remediating it. Who's actually moving the needle? Who's actually out there? And they might be on page 60 of the Google search results. They're not good at storytelling. They don't have good videos. Their website looks like a weird GeoCities website from the 90s, right? That's common. And we find that the projects that are just super heads down focused on the impact end up having the highest metrics per dollar. So the AI tool, we've built an AI agent named Vera. And Vera is a verification engine that basically works to vet various landscapes and different projects based on our vetting philosophy, which is this 32-point metric score that we apply to find the best projects in the world. And that's been going amazingly well. We've increased the efficiency of our vetting profile by like 80% over the last six months. Something that took maybe eight weeks to vet one project now takes about three, which is a very significant improvement. So, yeah, we're agnostic to the how. We're all about what's the actual proof of impact that can be generated and any tools that we can use to help make that a reality.

Josh Kriger: Cool. Yeah, that's really interesting. I appreciate all that background context. I think it really paints a picture of sort of how you guys have been sort of pushing to the edge of emerging technology and philanthropy for a long time. And this is sort of the next sort of phase of that. And Tony, just to zoom out a little bit, because I know you look at sort of the broader landscape of impact and how it's intersecting with Web3 and you advise projects across the whole spectrum of Web3. Where are we at this moment in terms of impact and meme culture? And do you see any trends that sort of make you a little bit more bullish about the possibilities of doing good on chain?

Tony Greenberg: I've been working hard to move the best of blockchain into the enterprise, with my former clients being everyone from Microsoft to Disney to Sony to CBS to Goldman Sachs. I've been watching for breakouts that would systematize, organize, and have proof points that what's being built for the last 12 years is a real possibility for benefiting society. To answer your question regarding meme coins, it was very telling when the lovely Elon Musk said that meme coins and meme cultures were the voters of the future. This follows the top KOL and visionary in the space, Murad, who all the way from a couple years ago to Token 2049 in Singapore, said that the mission coins are the new cults and the new drivers of value. We all know that most meme coins have no underlying value. And it's because it's controlled by the owners versus the audience. When I learned what Seth was working on, and I learned that it was possible to do the opposite, I've learned early in my career that the opportunity, which is doing the opposite, is often the most powerful movement towards greatness. and instead of the owners owning 80% we gave that to the community. This would create in essence a brick wall of value that just can't be rug pulled. It's like a GameStop where people are deeply passionate and against the corporate hierarchies against the, you know, the corporate raiders, the inside trading. It's the exact opposite of a lot of things that have happened in the crypto. So I'm proud to attach our reputation to the evolution of the space and be the first truly designed from scratch mission coin as per how Murad sees the market and to trial this out with the universe. So I think that answers the first question. What's the second question, Josh?

Josh Kriger: Yeah, I, we can cut this part. Uh, you answered the question. So Lucy cut, I think this was the first part was the second part and just end there and just jump to me now. Okay, cool. So, um, know, thank you for sort of putting some context around what's happening here with Flying Pigs. And I now want to dive into the tokenomics a little bit more with Kayvon, because obviously there's this interesting component to our space where some of the most tech savvy folks get in earliest. But in an impact project, you really do want mainstream adoption. You want anyone that wants to participate in this project to have a chance to be part of that community up front. So tell us a little bit about how you're making this project as inclusive as possible and how you've thought about tokenomics differently in this case from other projects you've done in the past.

Kavon Soltani: OK, so why don't I start with tokenomics and then I'll get into the inclusivity side. So first of all, Josh, thank you so much for having us. Really excited to be here to get into your question regarding the tokenomics. Tony alluded to this in his response. We were really motivated and inspired here by Murad's statements in 2049. I myself have deployed a number of meme coins done more traditionally that are not focused on impact, and having done so, I've been quite familiar with the process. Historically, there's a fairly antagonistic relationship between the deployers of the tokens and the actual participants, the people purchasing them. And this is in large part because the deployers of the tokens are going to bundle 80% plus of the token supply, and that's going to represent their treasury. And now as a buyer of that token, you are essentially attempting to front run those devs at any given point in time so as to prevent any potential losses on your side should that deployer choose to rock the ecosystem. And this was a particularly powerful model for and one of the more prevalent models that we see with respect to how meme coins operate. And so this is really what inspired us when we started listening to this idea of, well, how would we motivate and inspire long term usage and not these short-term exciting hype cycles that aren't architected for sustainability. And we realized that the key answer is that, well, as usual, it comes down to money. When we, as the deployer, are taking 80% of the supply and we are, for all intents and purposes, the 800-pound gorilla in the room, obviously, we are the likeliest organization to drive a benefit out of this. So we then decided to flip the script and say, instead of us bundling 80% and keeping it for ourselves, what if we were to bundle 80% and make that part of a community rewards group? Where now, just by participating in this ecosystem, by engaging in impact, you will be earning rewards of that supply. So that instead of the deployers, ourselves, taking all of that capital, now it gets distributed amongst the actual participants. And so in this way we've really tried to upset the incentive balance of motivating users to constantly need to be monitoring activity and volumes and selling frequently to taking a long term holding position and recognizing that by holding these assets they are contributing to impact and do not are not exposed to the same liabilities and risk profiles that they would be in other tokens. Now, this lends itself into the accessibility and inclusivity segment that you were also alluding to. One of the key aspects that we really wanted to include here was we wanted to dissolve this notion that impact and rewards are mutually exclusive. They are not. and in fact can be very complementary. And so the model that we've architected here and the way that we've designed this to be as inclusive as possible is by simplifying the user experience to the extent where a user simply just needs to acquire the token. And in doing so and participating, we'll now be able to earn rewards and be able to see the values of those impacts all over the media, all over our own activities, so on and so forth. We have a number of, as Seth is going to get into here shortly, Dollar Donation Club has been actively running a number of these campaigns for impact initiatives, including having some of these ocean cleanup devices. We can have Flying Pigs branding across all of the above that is going to showcase exactly how much impact is being generated and how much rewards have been generated.

Josh Kriger: Kayvon, this sounds like a pretty radical shift in terms of how blockchain and impact comes together that you guys are taking on. Do you see this as a new model that other charities and organizations are going to be able to use going forward and where you guys can play a bigger role in the ecosystem? Where does this fit into the landscape of sort of meme project launches and impact in your mind?

Kavon Soltani: Thank you for asking that. To be honest, I actually think this is the realization of what blockchain technologies were always intended to do. The real excitement of what a token is fundamentally, taking away all of the value generative components of it, is it is an alignment tool. It's an incentive alignment tool so that we can coalesce communities for a shared objective and achieving that shared objective. Now, unfortunately, as is always the case when there's a revenue opportunity, certain actors are going to identify those opportunities and they're going to want to extract as much for themselves as they can, which is how we end up in this historical 80% bundling model that is what pervades the ecosystem to date. But what happens when you take that greed out of the equation? Well, now all of those potential revenues are being earned by your community members. We have gone above and beyond to incentivize these users and in perpetuity so that they are able to continuously engage. And instead of the developers actually taking those funds and rugging them and liquidating them, taking the liquidity pool, now that is entirely at the discretion of the community. And our job is to act as a shepherd. of this ecosystem, not to extract value from it, but to guide it and to allow it to grow into an ecosystem where the users are the ones who are driving that value. So my answer to your question is actually I consider this, in my humble opinion, to be the realization of the core mission that blockchain technologies initially presented and what really motivated me from the onset when I graduated college to immerse myself in this career in this field rather than going another route.

Josh Kriger: Yeah, I mean, it makes sense, right? Blockchain has always been about sort of, you know, creating egalitarian environments where everyone has a chance to win. And it doesn't matter where you live in the world. it doesn't matter what you do, you can be part of this sort of future technology-driven society, culture, whatnot. I think there's been a wide range of views in our space from the Bitcoin maxis to 100% decentralization. Now we're getting into a world where all these ideas are converging and organizations like Dollar Donation Club Seth, you're trying everything, right? You're playing with AI, you're using blockchain. Your goal is just to sort of think out of the box because the old systems of nonprofits clearly have problems, right? I think, you know, I've worked with nonprofits before. I tried to start a nonprofit organization. It was very, very challenging. So, I guess Seth, any additional perspective or color you would say on where you think this project fits in and what your aspirations are for flying pigs overall?

Seth Blaustein: Yeah, I think I think it's the to build on what Kayvon was sharing. I think it's kind of the just the natural next step in the evolution of what charity and nonprofit space was always meant to be, which was humanitarian and environmental impact. And so it has lost its way in a lot of ways. And the way people think about charity is changing. It used to be even this thing where you give and you don't expect anything to happen with it. You give selflessly and you let it go. However, that's that's in a large part bred a culture where results don't matter, unfortunately, across the philanthropic space. And this comes from working with many different nonprofits over a decade, helping them fundraise, right, seeing the inner working. There's a really there's a culture that is not competent enough to solve a lot of the biggest challenges. That is the rule of thumb. It's not. There are many exceptions. There are great nonprofits out there. There's great charities out there. However, the lack of expectation of results has led to a culture that doesn't prove results. By and large, they're better at storytelling and marketing than they are at actually generating impact. If you can make a great video about the problem and about how important it is to solve, you can get a lot of donations to your organization. Talk to us a little bit about that.

Josh Kriger: What are some of the more sort of noteworthy projects, initiatives that you guys have taken on that you're really proud about?

Seth Blaustein: Yeah, so kind of on that note, what we found is that by refocusing the conversation off of the emphasis on transparency and overhead, which is how a lot of people obsess about whether they donate to something, and refocusing it to what are the results per dollar. When you put input of financial currency in, what's the output of good that comes out? That simplifies everything. And that's why that is the core focus of what we do, is making sure that that's the right output that we want to measure for impact. So some examples of projects that we've found that are just incredible, they're like extremely high return on donation. There's one organization, Trees for the Future, that helps monocrop farmers in sub-Saharan Africa to transition from these monocrop farming where they're making maybe $200 a year, so they're living in extreme poverty below the poverty line, to biodiverse agroforestry. That's a really big word, but basically what it is is growing an organic grocery store in your backyard. So you replace this single crop with an organic grocery store in your backyard where you're growing pineapples, you're growing avocados, you're growing various different types of crops, which is good for the soil, good for biodiversity. Then, and it's growing trees, it's growing about 2.8 trees per dollar. But more important than that, it's feeding these families of four to eight people who go from about two nights a week, not having enough food to eat to zero nights a week, not having enough food to eat within one year of this program. And within four years, they're raising their income by 400 percent on average. That is a massive, I mean, that's basically a proven hunger poverty killer, while restoring soil biodiversity, sequestering carbon, and reconnecting human beings with the earth at the same time, because these families who take care of these trees, There's no one on the planet who's going to take care of them better than them. They're feeding their children with these trees. So that's one example of what we call an acupuncture point of change. There's a very simple input, dollars, and then a very measurable output, trees. It's very simple. But under the hood, there's this cascade of positive benefits that ripples out. It changes the local economy. It changes the community. It uplifts it. And so it brings human flourishing where there was degeneration. And that's just one example, but those are the types of projects that we love to find, research, ensure that they're real, right? And then scale them up to their full potential because the world needs those organizations to be scaled up to their full potential. Right on.

Josh Kriger: That's really exciting stuff. I've always tried to incorporate impact into all the businesses that I've, I've sort of started. In fact, for outer edge LA, we actually had over 40 impact organizations that we gifted tickets to, and we had a lot of impact content. We had a special impact day. So I think there's something really interesting going on with what you guys are building. Obviously pushing the envelope doesn't come. without sort of some lessons learned along the way. So this is not by any means financial advice, but Kayvon, how can, what should folks know about getting involved in Flying Pigs? How can they get involved? You know, once they sort of join the community, what can they expect after that?

Kavon Soltani: So really glad you asked. So we are just getting ready to get to market. So we're going to be activating our Discord, our Twitter activities, and we also have an Airdrop bounty campaign that is going to have a series of really fun activities for community members to go out and either do independently or with groups of their friends. And when submitting proof, they're going to be able to earn tokens that are going to be Airdropped to them. So we're going to be running these campaigns here for the next month or so. We're incredibly excited. We have a ton of really cool content. We have comic books that go over the lore. We have an impact arcade, actually, which we haven't mentioned too deeply here, but that's going to be a new feature we're going to be rolling out for users over time. Impact Arcade corresponds to a way for users to be able to use their NFTs and earn reputation points and unique badges. So we have these games which are, think of it like a Pac-Man style game, but you're now cleaning up ocean plastic. And as you navigate the labyrinth and the maze, you're picking up all the plastic. And this is actually going to net you reputation points. So as you play these games, you earn reputation. And as you earn reputation, you increase your corresponding level within the flying pigs ecosystem, and those levels give you bonuses. So at level one, for example, I'm not going to, you know, get any type of conceivable advantage. But at level two, Now I have a half a percent multiplier for my rewards. So I'm able to earn multipliers on top of my staking activities just by virtue of playing some of these games. Now we're also going to be rolling out additional onboarding for a number of these NGOs that have gone through the Dollar Donation Club vetting methodology, and these are all going to be community-driven decisions. So there are going to be proposals that are going to be placed for users to be able to engage and say, we like these guys, we like those guys, not super fond of these guys. And so then that way, the community is going to largely be responsible for curating the entire community as we really start to achieve mass adoption here. So these are some of the mechanisms that we have in place that are going to be creating what we'd like to think of as a more holistic ecosystem that doesn't just correspond to the idea of I want to make money through buying these tokens, but I want to create impact. I want to create value. I want to create resonance. And that's in large part what we intend to work towards for post launch activities.

Josh Kriger: All right, great stuff. Tony, any closing thoughts on your end? I know you're very proud of the team and what you guys are building. Any additional perspective or color you want to share in the project?

Tony Greenberg: While creating Impact Soul, there was a theme or a meme of my own, which is in life, you have three segments. You start out life as an employee, and then you move to an investor. And then eventually, sometimes only on the last day of your life, you become a philanthropist. Well, in keeping with Seth's mission of making group philanthropy, I believe The minute we pop out, that we can live an amazing life of impact, not wait until we're an investor, not wait till we are a philanthropist. We can just live our lives all supporting each other in the grand scheme. So I'm excited to walk this path with these amazing gentlemen. Kayvan, I love what you said. Seth, I just adore your principles and where you're headed. So I'm super excited to support this project. And Josh, I really appreciate you having us on on such short notice.

Josh Kriger: Yeah, it's my pleasure and I'm honored to sort of be advisor and supporter of anyone sort of pushing the envelope in important areas such as philanthropy like you guys are. Pushing the wallet, not the envelope. Pushing the what? Pushing the wallet. Yes. Or an envelope with money in it. Seth, if people want to go get involved in flying pigs, where do they go? What are the socials? What's the website? If they want to learn more about Dollar Donation Club, broader, where should they go?

Seth Blaustein: Yeah, well first, check us out at flyingpigs.io. Flyingpigs.io is the best way to get into the Discord. Check out the Gitbook. Get in Discord and tell us what you think. Share your dreams with us. We are looking for idealistic, unrealistic people who believe in making the world a better place. That is what this community is all about. So come in, share your thoughts. We don't have everything figured out. This is early, but we'd love to hear from you. We'd love for you to join the community and let's make pigs fly. So FlyingPigs.io is the first one. If you want to check out Dollar Donation Club, just DollarDonationClub.com. If you give a F, give a buck, as we say. I don't know if I can cuss on this show, but if you give one of those, give a buck and join the world's first collective super philanthropist and let's make a difference.

Josh Kriger: Right on, right on. I do know that as a child, I had a book about flying pigs. It was one of my favorite books, I believe. And I was really disappointed. I think at the end, the pigs actually couldn't fly. I'm looking forward, in this case, the pigs are going to be flying all around. It's going to be a lot of fun. So thank you all for joining us on the show today. I really appreciate it.

Kavon Soltani: Thank you so much, Josh. Thanks, Josh.

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