YOU SHOULD MEET ETHAN RIFE

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“I can do all this through him who gives me strength” — PHILIPPIANS 4:13

WHERE WE MET ETHAN

Once Arthur Labs was accepted into Texas Blockchains (TXB) Incubator, Thomas and Watson found themselves in front of a group of motivated students and other founders. One of the founders they met was Ethan Rife, who joined the meeting from the Philippines where he was enjoying his nomadic holiday. He joined the incubator’s meeting at a public coworking space where he introduced his company, Kingdomly, his fantastic team of developers, and his social mission.

In this edition of YOU SHOULD MEET, we’d like to introduce you to Ethan Rife, the co-founder, and CEO of Kingdomly, building and shaping an NFT Marketplace that onboards the world into crypto.

HOW WE MET ETHAN

Although at the first incubator meeting, we didn’t talk much, we clearly expressed interest in each other’s startups. The next two weeks were stagnant, and we didn’t converse; however, I had presented at the TXB general meeting in front of ~20 people, and Ethan was there supporting me by asking me encouraging questions that helped me present more confidently. Two weeks after this, we met one-to-one at Keiretsu, a networking space, where he was able to give us excellent insightful mentorship and potential connections to the crypto world. After this, I returned the favor by asking him encouraging questions at his public presentation.

WHAT ETHAN DOES

Ethan is a full-time startup CEO, where he is leading and managing a team of 5 full-time developers and leading a large community of crypto enthusiasts. Throughout his last few years of work and devotion to the startup, he’s organized meetups, collaborative agreements, official partnerships, and raised millions of dollars in crypto into NFT drops. Ethan is deeply involved in the Berachain ecosystem; a tech community building extremely sophisticated technology magically with memes and bear emojis.

He is also a Christian fully devoted to helping others and sharing the words and principles of Christ. Over the last decade, he’s created small for-profit drop-shipping sites like CactusAndCandles that use its proceeds to help pay for an older woman’s education in Kenya, as well as competing against his classmates to grow the biggest return on $5, where he then leveraged the $5 into paying for a GoFundMe that raised $1,300+ to help homeless teenagers. Additionally, in his free time, he helps mentor projects and motivates people in building meaningful work, helping these people learn from his mistakes and connections.

WHART ETHAN IS WORKING ON

Ethan is the Founder of Kingdomly, an NFT Minting platform that provides a platform for digital creators to create and sell their artwork. Although this is an NFT platform, it’s grown to become something far greater; he’s creating a community and a social movement for helping people create authentic artwork in the digital world. Although his platform sells and displays NFTs, he’s leading and establishing a community of developers, artists, enthusiasts, and collectors to come together to become a leading marketplace in cryptocurrencies.

WHERE TO MEET

Ethan is usually on Discord, Telegram, or at your local crypto meetup talking to the highly sophisticated founders and developers, but if you happen to see him in the Philippines, definitely introduce yourself; he’s very open and welcoming to strangers. You can tag him on Discord at @ethanrife, Telegram at @ethanrife. His community is found at https://discord.gg/YZfZNvwJXv, and his LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethanerife/

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