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In this episode, host Blangs reconnects with Hashbrown, the multi-talented artist, musician, and founder of TezTones and the TezTones Artletics Premier League (TAPL) for a deep dive into the evolving rhythm of collaborative on-chain creation.

Broadcasting from his solar-powered mountain studio, Hashbrown shares what it's like to build a live, competitive art league from the quiet of nature. From Season 3’s rising intensity to the raw unpredictability of live matches, we explore how the TAPL format blends freestyle chaos with high-stakes creativity and why keeping it fun remains the north star.

We also get into how mountain silence has shaped his process, why over-polished art can miss the mark, and how TAPL forces him to wear every creative hat at once. Whether he’s writing code, spinning music, or mediating live-match meltdowns, Hashbrown is remixing what it means to create on Tezos.

What You’ll Learn:

• How off-grid living changes the rhythm of artistic flow
• Why TAPL is part art show, part sports night, and part jam session
• Lessons from burnout, rebuilding fun, and the art of letting go
• Why Tezos is the perfect playground for collaborative expression
• What the future holds for TAPL and how to join the next match

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We trace Paper Buddha’s path from collage and Buddhist iconography to securing Tezos as a baker, exploring how remix culture, meditation, and code fuse into a global counterculture practice. Along the way, we unpack permanence on-chain, sustainable patronage, and multi-chain strategy that rewards collectors without hype.

• collage as a language for remix culture and East–West fusion
• Detroit grit, Zen practice, and authenticity shaping process
• three-stage workflow: wild sourcing, meditative cutting, intentional sharing
• impermanence versus permanence and why censorship resistance matters
• generative mandalas in P5 and encoding style into algorithms
• Tezos as punk rock: accessibility, global culture, and Turkish freedom mints
• baking as sustainable patronage and income smoothing for artists
• bridging validator and art communities with practical tooling
• multi-chain vaults, pricing equilibrium, and collector rewards
• upcoming drops for Marfa, Halloween, and Miami, feeding back into the baker

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We trace Tezos from a grassroots “revolution” in 2017 to a concrete plan for DeFi growth that links governance, stablecoins, and the art economy. Kevin Mehrabi shares how USDTZ prepared for U.S. clarity under the Genius Act and why Etherlink should bridge value, not hype.

• 2017 fundraiser, community-led governance shift, and decentralization as a standard
• choosing Tezos after deeply reading the white paper and rejecting hard-fork risk
• LA community building, the rise of Tezos art, and what “punk” really means for culture
• lessons from launching USDTZ early: integrations, trust, reserve-backed design
• why the Genius Act matters for compliant, treasury-backed stablecoins
• surplus as an on-chain financial battery: grants, art, hackathons, DAO treasury
• Etherlink strategy: export L1 value, import EVM liquidity, bridge interest-bearing assets