The Role of AI and Web3 in Creator Economy with JD Seraphine from Raiinmaker

In this episode of Edge of NFT, host Josh Kriger interviews JD Seraphine, the visionary co-founder of Raiinmaker, a groundbreaking social creator platform leveraging AI and blockchain to empower creators and reshape the digital economy. JD dives into Raiinmaker’s philosophy behind its dual “I” in the name, the integration of Moondrop NFTs, and the revolutionary Proof of Influence algorithm that rewards users with cryptocurrency for their contributions. He also explores the platform's partnership with Magic Eden, Raiinmaker's decision to build on the BASE network, and the company's social impact strategy, including donating 4% of profits to charity. This episode is a deep dive into how Web3 and AI are reshaping digital content, creator economies, and financial inclusivity.

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Key Topics Covered:

• Raiinmaker’s Vision: JD explains the philosophy behind Raiinmaker’s double "I" and how the platform focuses on empowering peer-to-peer connections in the creator economy.
• Proof of Influence Algorithm: Learn how Raiinmaker’s AI-based algorithm rewards creators fairly based on their contributions to AI model training and content sharing.
• Moondrop NFTs and BASE Integration: Discover how Moondrop NFTs and Raiinmaker’s integration with Coinbase’s BASE Layer 2 solution are enhancing the user experience and token ecosystem.
• Social Impact Focus: JD shares Raiinmaker's commitment to social impact by donating 4% of profits to charitable causes and how the platform fosters global financial inclusivity.
• Scaling in Web3 and AI: Learn about Raiinmaker’s partnerships with Magic Eden, its use of BASE and other chains, and how the platform is built for long-term scalability.

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Episode Highlights:

• JD Seraphine: “At Raiinmaker, we’re not just creating wealth, we’re empowering humans to discover their purpose and leverage technology to make the world a better place.” [Timestamp: 12:10]
• JD Seraphine: "By aligning Web3 and AI, we are creating a new era of financial inclusivity and empowering creators like never before." [Timestamp: 18:45]
• JD Seraphine: "The Moondrop NFT collection is just one way we’re making Web3 accessible while rewarding our users for their participation in the network." [Timestamp: 25:30]

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• Bio: JD Seraphine is the co-founder of Raiinmaker, a cutting-edge social creator platform combining blockchain and AI to reward creators in innovative ways. With a background in tech, entertainment, and philanthropy, JD is passionate about leveraging Web3 and AI to drive positive global change.

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Full Episode Transcript:

JD Seraphine: Hey guys, it's JD Seraphine from Raiinmaker. We're blending AI and blockchain to empower creators and transform the digital landscape. You're listening to The Edge of NFT, the show that blends education, entertainment, and technology, making waves in Web3. Let's dive in.

Josh Kriger: Hey Web3 curious listeners, stay tuned for today's episode to learn how Moondrop NFTs are bridging digital and physical worlds while also a symbolic representation of the Raiinmaker vision. Plus, Raiinmaker's strategy behind choosing BASE as their Layer 2 solution. Finally, the evolving role of citizens in the Raiinmaker ecosystem to make the world better and more interesting. All this and more on the Edge of Raiinmaker. Cue the intro. Hi, everyone. Welcome again to Edge of NFT, the podcast created by Jeff Kelly, Ethan, Jenny, and myself, Josh Krieger, featuring a variety of top-notch guests and other hosts. It's another production of the Edge of Company, a quickly growing media ecosystem empowering the pioneers of Web3 tech and culture, and responsible for other groundbreaking endeavors like the Outer Edge Innovation Festival in LA and Riyadh. Today's sponsored episode features J.D. Serafin, co-founder of Raiinmaker, and a visionary leader in AI and blockchain, who is transforming the social creator economy by leveraging his diverse background in tech, entertainment, and philanthropy, including producing Hersher and the Rock of Ages and directing the documentary series Open Source Money. Ringmaker is a revolutionary social creator platform that harnesses generative AI and Web3 tech with its proprietary proof of influence algorithm to equitably reward creators with cryptocurrency for content sharing while donating 4% of profits to charity and redefining the monetization of user contributions to AI infrastructure through its AI super app and network protocol. It's great to have you on the show again, JD.

JD Seraphine: Yes. Last time we were together, Josh was in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. What an amazing event you guys put on there. It was one of a kind experience.

Josh Kriger: Obviously, there's a lot that's been happening in the space since we got together in Riyadh. You've been building a lot. I got super excited about what you're doing, and we've become a partner, advisor, investor in the project, and would love to sort of get the full on on what you've been up to lately.

JD Seraphine: You know, it's been crazy, man. As everybody, we've been navigating the waters of an interesting time in our country, you know, being in the US, in our world. Simultaneously, we feel extremely excited about the innovations that we've put together on the AI side that we're driving towards. So a big focus of our company has really shifted and centered around this notion of AI reputation and focused on what is the reputation of Individual human and their relationship with a training i so like. There's really exciting innovative stuff that we've been building in terms of our tech over the last three four months you got some huge breakthroughs. Now we're moving towards q4 and our upcoming tg and some other big launches so we just been nose down grinding building. It's been an exciting time, though. I mean, as a founder, this is like what you like. People don't see you when you're in the again, the valleys. I think you and I have talked about this before when it's just like dark and, you know, you're you're about to die on the road. Nobody sees that. But, you know, when you're in those moments where you're climbing and you've got traction, you got velocity. It's a beautiful, beautiful feeling. So, yeah, it's been a good last few months.

Josh Kriger: That's great, man. Yeah, this is a it's not It's not a decision that you just make to be an entrepreneur in web three. It kind of, it's a calling. And once it's in you, you just have to do it, right? And it doesn't matter what it takes to get there.

JD Seraphine: Yeah, and I think part of what always attracted me to the space or that I felt aligned with when I first came in back in 2017 was I feel like a lot of the people like you, me and many others, not everyone, but a lot of us, have a passion for making an impact in the world. And I think using technology as this empowering force, you know, when you look at the combination of AI and Web2 together, the potential of what that can power for humanity to me is limitless. I feel like that is that is that force that's going to drive that evolutionary leap. And so all of our focus as a company is, you know, how can we play some role, you know, in helping to drive, you know, drive that forward.

Josh Kriger: That's very cool, man. So I've always wanted to ask you, there's two I's in Raiinmaker and two I's in Colin. Maybe you can kind of speak to what, you know, this wasn't a typographical error. What's behind, you know, that decision and the philosophy there?

JD Seraphine: Yeah. So when we started the company in 2018, it was actually just coin with two I's, right? So in coin, this idea, like I sat with my branding guy, He rebranded ABC. He's literally worked with some of the biggest brands in the world, Emmy award winning, just a genius. And we sat in the office I'm in right now for two weeks and we just locked ourselves in and we were trying to figure out what is the essence of the brand that we wanted to create and bring to the world. And we thought about value, because again, when you look at blockchain and Web3, what is it really like when you just get away from all the noise and DeFi and this and this and all these different verticals, which are all valuable? What is it really when you strip it away? And it's transforming how value is created and how it's distributed. And so that unit of value, we started to think about the human and human to human and that relationship that we have with each other. And that really being the thing of most value in the world. So my relationship with you and your relationship with your company and everything, those relationships in the digital world, that's what actually is the most valuable thing in the world today. Now, obviously, Web2 tech giants have figured this out and have given us a bunch of free products to use, and they use our data to leverage. Really, the value of those relationships and those interactions is the, it forms the foundation for, you know, multi-billion dollar companies in the tech world today. And so we thought about, you know, how could a more democratic, decentralized vision for how that value is not just being created, but also then distributed in a more equitable manner. And so coin really became the essence of that idea. Because if you think back in ancient times, one of the earliest forms of like how we transacted with value was just a coin. And so when we reduced it down, it was like, that was it. And then the double I is meant to, again, represent symbolically the power of that peer-to-peer connection, which is central to blockchain technology. So flash forward, we were building out the app. It was like, well, coin is the token. It's that unit of value. But it didn't feel like the right name for the product or even the company. And so Raiinmaker was born. And again, as we were looking at it, how do we, you know, go that unique thing? It's like, well, let's just stick with that double I being central, you know, to our brand identity, that idea that we're putting the individual human in our relationships, you know, in terms of our values at the forefront. in terms of the North Star of where we're driving as a company. And again, coming full circle, but kind of what I said in the beginning, it's really about increasing human agency through AI and Web3. By empowering the individual human, I believe that's how we create a new world. And so as a company, that's our focus.

Josh Kriger: Yeah. Thanks for sharing that with me. I've been curious about that for quite some time. And Yeah, I think that's, that's the key with technology. You hit it, you hit it on the head, which is like enabling human agency and not sort of making it something that decreases human connection. Right. You know, I remember a deep conversation I had with Eric Poulet about that on out of the show Edge of AI and talking about AI ethics. So I appreciate that nuance that you brought to the surface there. And it sort of leads me to sort of some curiosity around what your perspective is and all these bots and sort of the proliferation of bad data in the space, right? You know, bots are eating advertising revenue from ad tech companies and bots are sort of interfering with knowing sort of who your audience is and sort of polluting Twitter spaces. They're everywhere. And in AI, there's certainly no exception there. And there's all this data out there. And the quality level is is is has a vast spectrum. Most of it is not top quality. I really like perplexing AI because they cite sources. But a lot of this, you know, data that's out there, you don't know where it's coming from. So with that sort of top of mind, how do you guys think about reputation? And how do we solve this problem?

JD Seraphine: Yeah, it's interesting, because You know the value especially as it relates to AI, the value of the models is directly correlated with the quality of the data that they're being trained with. And the more that you have bots that are generating data, you know, or possibly like, you know, essentially polluting a stream of data that's going in to train these AI models, now you get into this problem where the quality of the model is at risk, right? And then the quality of whatever the outputs are being generated by the model are at risk. So something we've been focused on, both at the protocol layer, as well as at the application layer at Raiinmaker, is how do we look at this notion of AI reputation, and the individual human taking their identity slash reputation, their behavior slash data, and plugging that in at the protocol level to be able to really understand the quantifiable value of each human that's contributing to train AI in the network or each node that's contributing to provide distributed compute on the network. And so that's really been 100% of the core focus of where we're going with the product in terms of, yeah.

Josh Kriger: So just clarifying my question there. You know, if you're an expert in MMA fighting, is that sort of reference the quality level of your ability to look at data on what's going on in the world of MMA fighting?

JD Seraphine: That definitely is a component, but I think at the core layer, we have to know that you're a human. And you're not a bot. And are you in the US? Are you over a certain age? Are you a male? Are you female? You can get down into layers of quantifying the value in a specific niche, right? When it comes to, say, data labeling, providing reinforced human learning feedback to fine tune and help train models, which is on the application layer, a lot of what we've been doing on the application Raiinmaker app for quite some time, beginning to quantify, like, if Josh is consistently labeling things incorrectly, his AI reputation is not going to be high, versus if Richard is just knocking it out of the park and he's 100% correct, his reputation is going to be higher.

Josh Kriger: And are you doing this in sort of a way that sort of protects privacy in a way that other companies are not. For example, you could look at my LinkedIn profile and have a sense of most of that information, but you also, you know, then you're, I'm being doxed fully and sort of maybe I want a level of privacy. So how are you balancing the privacy side of things with getting this type of data?

JD Seraphine: Yeah, so the nature of our protocol's architecture, it has both permissionless and permissioned layers. So the permissionless layers is where actions are being signed on chain by individual users or nodes in the background, which doesn't require technical expertise. The permission layer is where all that proprietary or data that requires privacy compliance and other things sits in that permissioned layer of the network where it can't be viewed by anybody and it's encrypted. We're definitely leveraging the combination of the ability to have transparency where transparency makes sense in terms of proof of actions versus the data itself, which needs to be obviously encrypted and held necessary in permission layers of the network. That's, I think, how we address it. Honestly, there is a broader problem when it looks at training AI models. and the contributions coming from multiple folks across the planet, encrypting that data, de-encrypting that data. Yeah, it's something the engineers are, you know, are working to solve on other layers. When you start to get to the edge of the network, it becomes, and I didn't mean to do that little, to the edge of the network. Once you do get to the edge of the network, though, I think that's where, you know, I think there's the most exciting opportunities, but also some of the greatest challenges when it comes to privacy specifically. So I know that's stuff that our team is working on solving right now.

Josh Kriger: Cool. Well, you guys are working on a lot. And you recently had a really cool NFT collection drop called Raiinmaker Awakens on Magic Eden. And I know this was a big milestone in terms of your integration of AI and blockchain and sort of reflects sort of your effort to enhance the user experience and offer awards, you know, sort of that encapsulates Raiinmaker's vision. So tell us a little bit more about this collection and how it fits into your broader vision. I know these things are called Moondrops. I'd like to learn more.

JD Seraphine: Yeah, so we did like a Genesis NFT mint on Magic Eden and the holders of that NFT are those who have minted it and have staked it in their wallet connected to their Raiinmaker network validator account. are basically earning a little boost on their mining rewards. And so everything we do, again, is the same ingredients I kind of mentioned, identity slash reputation, behavior slash data, even in terms of the mining algo that's determining two main things every 29 days. How many new tokens should be minted into circulation based on network activity, you know, AI models trained, like all of that, like, actually, what is the real value that is increased inside of the Raiinmaker network? And then looking at all of those contributors, you know, those who provided compute, who have signed blocks, who provided various types of value even on the application or at the network level, then those mining rewards are distributed fractionally to those folks across the network. And that's what we've termed like moon drop because it's happening actually in sequence with the full moon. So like being a little bit of a hippie and also kind of like mapping it to like the lunar cycles of the planet, we thought it'd be a cool way to like look at our mining periods, and the way that the network is growing and measuring. network activity and value and determining, okay, how many new tokens should be released. So we're even looking at things like, you know, how many coin tokens are staked versus how many are burned, how many are withdrawn out of the network, meaning they went to an exchange or they went somewhere else. So those things we can look at supply and demand and looking to maintain that equilibrium, you know, in the market. So yeah, I mean, that's kind of a bigger picture of Moondrop and how we look at the mining reward system. The NFT in particular was a fun way to really just allow our early adopters to come in and get something that gives them a little more than everyone else and kind of that mining game out of the gate. And I think, I forget the exact number, but I think we landed like 300,000 plus NFT mints, which on the base network is one of the most successful mints that's happened on base to date, which is exciting to be breaking records as we do, Josh.

Josh Kriger: Yeah, man, you just like throw that out there subtly. That's that's pretty incredible. Well, I know you guys sort of chose to integrate with with bass as well. What was sort of the impetus of that?

JD Seraphine: Well, I mean, Coinbase, as an entity and kind of an ecosystem, it's been growing significantly this year. You look at all the on-chain data in terms of liquidity that's flowing to base from Solana and other networks. Solana is still doing good things. Obviously, people knock it because of the technical issues it sometimes encounters. being a founder, you have a different understanding of like the challenges it takes to build technology, launch it and scale it. And not to say that I condone or agree with or don't agree with, I'm not going to opine on it. But what I will say is that, um, you know, we chose base specifically because we feel that what they're building in that ecosystem is special. And we know that the value of being connected to, you know, Coinbase smart wallet and, and some of the products they're developing so that users can easily flow in and out of, you know, Raiinmaker Network in our ecosystem and into the base ecosystem and be able to have that two-way flow of value between our networks and ecosystems, we feel like obviously was the right choice. So the token itself, you know, COIN, there's two versions of it. One that lives on our network, which is if people are mining rewards now, that's the only version they have because we haven't begun distributing the base version of the token. That token contract is already deployed but won't actually be unlocked and tokens won't be distributed until TGE of course, which we're racing towards at this very moment. But you know, the choice of base was like, when you look at, okay, we need to have a place where the token can be transacted with outside of our own network, you know, and you look at the options. And, and to me, it was like base was it checked all of the boxes in terms of scalability, in terms of costs, in terms of the maturity of the ecosystem long term, where you feel like, you know, the place that we want to, that we want to be. And then at the protocol level, again, we have a federated hybrid blockchain architecture. So as humans are training AI models on Raiinmaker Network and labeling data and doing all the stuff they're doing, all that is on chain, you know, a super scalable, super modular way on our network. The finalization of consensus of that data happens when there's a notarization on a public chain. And we're doing that on Bitcoin, we're doing that on Ethereum, and we're doing that on BASE. And so obviously, again, BASE being, you know, A little cheaper, a little more scalable. I don't want to say a lot. It is a lot cheaper and a lot more scalable. I don't want to say scalable, but it's better suited for that use case than say a Bitcoin. But Bitcoin, obviously, when we're hashing to it, you inherit the security of that network, which is profound.

Josh Kriger: It makes sense those being your sort of three for now. Are you also looking at expanding, you know, other folks doing a lot in AI, obviously Solana, Aptos, there's a number of other chains that sort of intersect with AI. Do you need to sort of integrate other chains in the future? Or do these three sort of provide the stable stool you're looking for?

JD Seraphine: Well, on the wallet, like on the digital asset level, we're integrated with more than those three. We're actually also hashing proof on the finalization of consensus to BNB also. But the Solana is integrated at the wallet level. So right now, you know, one of the things the network is looking at is what are the different tokens that you're holding. And when you claim and connect wallets non-custodially to your network validator profile on Raiinmaker network, on coin.ai is the dashboard where that exists. Solana is one of the networks that you can connect to from Solana. We're actually about to do a number of different partnerships with Solana Foundation and SagaDAO. We actually launched a new version of our app on the Solana mobile phone. You can get in the Solana mobile store if somebody's actually got that device, but in the new versions that will come out,

Josh Kriger: whenever their next version of the film comes out Raiinmaker app will be actually pre-loaded uh on those uh saga you guys are you guys are thinking of everything like you're really thinking across all the chains and how to make this like network as powerful as possible so

Josh Kriger: Yeah, that makes sense. Appreciate your perspective on all that. It's definitely a lot of puts and takes and complexities when you're working with these different global dynamics like we're facing today on the political spectrum. So let's turn the attention to the coin dashboard and some of the features that are there now. You know, you've added this rain score, which is pretty cool. And you take a very user-centric approach, I know, to everything that you're doing. What's been the feedback from users as you're starting to deploy all this new tech? We talked about sort of, you know, the journey, and now you're in this journey where, like, people can reach out and experience what you've been building for three, four years. What's the kind of anecdotes and feedback you're getting on your product base?

JD Seraphine: I mean, it's overwhelmingly been very positive in terms of the new dashboard. I think, again, the goal is to take, we took a ton of user feedback and things that were not as clear as they needed to be and not as intuitive as they needed to be in terms of how to play the game, right? I love the old Nolan Bushnell quote about this idea of gamification, which is really central to crypto and blockchain and AI. And that's, uh, you know, gamification and looking at, you know, a game needs to be easy to play, but hard to master. And so you want the game, you know, with your product, you want your product to be easy to use, but you don't want it to be so easy that people are just mastered it and it's boring. They have to continuously have, you know, more incentive to kind of keep playing. Cause it's in our case, it's hyper competitive. So people are burning tokens and they're competing with each other. One gripe that happened after our last moon drop is people are like, wait, I burned more than I did the cycle before, but I got less tokens. And it's like, yeah, but a ton more people came in, and now they're competing with you. So there's this idea of, again, this game in terms of our network and incentivizing those people that are going to bring the most value. They're going to stake the most coins. They're going to burn the most coin. Those are the folks that are going to win the game. So we're continuous, and we're still iterating on aspects of the dashboard, aspects of coin.ai as a product. And we actually are getting ready to launch here shortly. a new AI reputation score. In addition to the RAIN AI score, which is kind of your broader network score, we're looking at multiple AI networks and looking at on-chain behavior so that when someone connects a wallet, we're giving them a little bit of a boost or a multiplier to their mining. So like, let's say they're on Aether or they're on Fetch or they're on Singularity or one of these bigger AI networks, We're giving them a little bit of credit as essentially saying we can see that you're a good actor on chain on these other networks. We're going to give you a little credit in terms of what you're earning on Raiinmaker Network for your participation.

Josh Kriger: That's really cool. So I think, you know, what I'm hearing from you is that you're looking at your quote citizens. I say that with the double I. you know, are really global citizens, and they have a password and a visa to go anywhere they want, right? They can go over to fetch and use those products and other products that come out. But they're always welcome back into the Raiinmaker sort of ecosystem, right? So I guess with that in mind, what are sort of the advancements you're making for these global citizens long term? How do you see what you're doing coexists with what else is going on in the sort of traditional AI and the web three AI ecosystem. It sounds like you're, you're taking a different approach to quote competition because at the end of the day, like you're, you're committed more to sort of supporting innovation in the overall field and, and sort of impacting people in a more meaningful way than, than just like what you guys are doing on the ground. So maybe you can talk a little bit about that. Yeah.

JD Seraphine: I mean, I think. coming back to where we started, um, the core vision and values that we've held central to the company and what we're doing is have not changed. You know, my partner and I, we would talk about it in the early days, like going back to 2018, like we want to create a billion millionaires. That was the, that was the idea. What's interesting is that my thought of what that is has changed a little bit. Not that we, We, that people need to have a million dollars to be financially empowered and liberated. They just need to have enough money that they can actually get out, get off the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs and be able to actually like discover, you know, what is my divine purpose? in a line with that and bring that forward in the world. And I think when humans do that, we create a whole new world, a beautiful, much more different world. Everybody's all caught up in this dystopian version of AI. And you know that we're going to destroy ourselves and there's going to be no jobs, which by the way, most of us don't want to work menial jobs, you know, where we're subservient to other humans. That's not That's not the essence of humanity. We are all born equal on this planet. Some people may not believe that, especially those that think they're better than other people, but the reality is every single human, man, woman, and child is born equal on this planet, regardless of race, religion. That's the truth of our essence and our birthright. We operate from a place that we build technology to empower humans to find that divine purpose and spark and to bring it forth in the world. So, you know, our hope is, is that in some way, the products that we're building are the kind of products, you know, that can empower humanity and empower that evolutionary leap for humanity.

Josh Kriger: Wow, man, that's, that's really profound. And it reflects on a conversation I just had with my girlfriend this weekend. We were looking at retreats around California, and obviously one of the most famous places is Esalon Institute. You know, it's been where a lot of sort of pioneers in thinking about consciousness have gathered and whatnot, but it's an expensive spot. Not everyone can go there and have this, you know, incredible experience. They try to make it as approachable as possible at different levels. But but I think, you know, one of the things that that I reflect on from that is that you have to get past a certain base level of, you know, getting your basic needs met on Maslow's hierarchy needs to be able to think about these things and to elevate consciousness and to elevate your own consciousness. Right. You don't have to not have to worry about, you know, where am I going to sleep tonight? Am I going to get enough food that I'm not like thinking about how hungry I am? Right. So if we can do that with technology, then the possibility of what can be created from there on is infinite for the world, right? So really appreciate what you're saying there. It's been a fun conversation. Before we wrap, let's just talk about that social impact side a little bit more. Obviously, there's a balance there in every company around sort of social impact and, you know, keeping the lights on and sort of growing the company. 4% is a pretty significant decision that you guys have made. How are you balancing social impact with sort of the needs of the company as it's still growing?

JD Seraphine: Yeah, I mean, it's a constant thing. I mean, luckily, from the very beginning, we've been holding to that. So even when we launched Raiinmaker, the first public launch we did was in the summer of 21. We did a charity event for 50 kids in the inner city in Denver, in a football stadium, and they all had their names on the lockers, and they ran out of the tunnel with the cheerleaders. And we made a big donation to the Boys and Girls Club, we ended up contributing About 150 K in that first kind of wave of social impact stuff and that was to youth empowerment climate change and entrepreneurship We've got a few interesting partnerships that will be announcing soon Actually one will be announcing at the UN biodiversity conference in Colombia in late October That's when a big huge like environmental group that we're partnering with on that. So to me, it's just, it's core to my passion as, as a founder that, you know, we only have a finite amount of time as a species to turn the corner. Like I know that we're going to do it. The only way it gets done is those of us that are waking aware have to step up and rise to the moment so for us it's like it's not really an option like yeah we have to make sure that we balance it in terms of resources continuing to feed into the company to you know feed the continual growth of the company and the operation of the company. But ultimately, like we have to do everything we can in our power, including contributing, you know, funds and direct support to those projects and those companies and those people that are out there on the front lines that are solving the biggest problems that humanity is facing. And so to us, it's like we don't really have a choice because in a certain amount of time, we either turn the corner or this thing turns into Mad Max. I believe we're going to do it. So I operate from a place that everything I'm doing is to is to feed to that that better outcome.

Josh Kriger: Yeah, man. let's keep operating from a place of abundance and make good things happen in the world. It's been great to sort of catch up with you, unpack where you guys have come in the last six months. It's been a lot going on here. And we're excited to sort of continue these conversations. So where can folks go to go down the Raiinmaker rabbit hole?

JD Seraphine: Well, I mean, the website's always a good place to start Raiinmaker.com. On X, I believe we're Raiinmaker app across all of our socials. We're on Telegram, Discord. So yeah, I mean, check us out, jump in the community, you know, the actual, you can download the app from iOS or Google Play to start to mess around with the app or user training AI models or running a deep end mobile validator node. Or you can also deploy a validator node on coin.ai, which is a desktop version of our product. So

Josh Kriger: That's great. That's awesome, man. And just for our listeners at home, we have a big giveaway planned with Raiinmaker and sort of celebration of the next full moon cycle and this show and all the stuff going on. So I know you guys do these things monthly. Maybe you can kind of explain to our listeners how they're going to get a chance to tap into the Raiinmaker ecosystem and what rewards are in store for them.

JD Seraphine: Yeah, so like we mentioned earlier, every 29 days, there's a large distribution of tokens that happens to all the validators and stakeholders on the network. So I encourage everybody to go and download the app and create a Coin.ai account and look for more information to come from the Edge of team in terms of a special giveaway that we're going to power with them.

Josh Kriger: Thanks, as always, for being such a great partner. And yeah, guys, you're not going to want to miss out on this giveaway. So stay tuned. And with that, we have reached the utter limit at the edge of NFT for today. Thanks for exploring with us. We've got space for more adventures on the Starship. So invite your friends, recruit some cool strangers. They'll make this journey also much better. How, if you're listening, go to Spotify or iTunes right now, rate us and say something awesome. Or if you're watching this on YouTube, join over 135,000 other followers by hitting the subscribe button, passing this episode on to a friend or two. You can also now catch us on myco.io, that's M-Y-C-O dot I-O, where you can watch and earn for your time and attention. Lastly, be sure to tune in next time for more great Web3 content. Thanks again for sharing this time with us today.

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