Overview
WenMint Podcast is a video interview archive where two hosts sat down with the founders of small crypto projects and asked them to explain what they had built. It suits anyone who would rather hear a project's story from its builders than read a summary. The show stopped publishing, but the full run stayed public and free to watch1.
Most WenMint episodes cover Cardano, with occasional detours to other networks. Forty-seven videos sit on the channel, produced by ThoseAMAs, LLC and hosted under the names The Machinist and CMDR, split between founder interviews, project deep dives and recorded live streams2.
Key Features
- Founder interviews instead of outside commentary. Each deep dive brought a project's own team on to explain what they were building and take questions live, so the explanation comes from the people responsible for it2.
- A full-length Charles Hoskinson conversation. The channel recorded a long sit-down interview with a co-founder of Cardano, published whole rather than cut into clips3.
- Cardano lending and trading walkthroughs. Separate episodes covered Levvy4 and Strike Finance5 with the teams behind them, and one followed FluidTokens extending its lending product to Bitcoin6.
- A record of the Cardano NFT scene. Danketsu and other collectible projects each got a dedicated episode, which makes the archive a usable snapshot of what that corner of the ecosystem looked like7.
- A separate audio back catalogue. An earlier run of the show was released as an audio podcast, hosted away from YouTube and playable in its own feed8.
What to Expect
Expect a casual, unscripted show rather than a produced documentary. Most episodes were recorded as live streams with audience questions folded in, so they run long and wander, and the value sits in the unguarded answers rather than in the editing. Audio quality varies from guest to guest, and titles lean on hype and exclamation marks in a way the conversations themselves generally do not.
No new videos or streams are added to the channel, and nothing was taken down: the uploads, the stream recordings and the comments all stay in place for anyone who wants to work through them. Episodes are titled by project name, which makes the archive easy to search when you want one team's own account of a launch, a token model or a lending design. The show started as an audio podcast rather than a video one: 87 episodes ran under the ThoseAMAs name and finished in November 2022, more than a year before this channel opened, and that entire audio catalogue exists only in its own feed8.
Some of the projects discussed have changed shape or shut down since the episodes were recorded. The same applies to the show itself: WenMint ran its own websites and X accounts alongside the channel, and those are the parts that went offline, while the video archive, the audio feed and the Instagram profile all still resolve. Readers new to the subject may want a plain-English primer on NFTs before starting, and other Cardano channels are grouped under Cardano YouTube channels.
