Austin Castellaw

The pattern of boom and bust is easy to explain: the token prices appreciate when the game is growing and people are ever increasingly putting in money to buy assets and play.

So, what types of tokens should be used for which community purposes? As with most things in life, the answer is: it’s complicated! Each DAO needs to evaluate what type of community they are trying to build and determine the right combination of assets for economics, governance, and membership. But, generally speaking, we think it makes more sense... See more

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Through off-chain scaling, users will have access to unlimited computation at a cheap cost. Thus, games' logic could be finally deployed on-chain as smart contracts. We will refer to this family of games as strongly on-chain games.

Should all three of these roles be represented by a single token? Which of them are a better match for fungible and non-fungible tokens?

Laura Shin:

This is a fundamental shift in blockchain scaling.Running a game completely on-chain on a monolithic blockchain is economically unfeasible and will remain so for the foreseeable future. That is why most of the blockchain games that have been released in the past few years are in a hybrid form, having only a few components of their stack on-chain... See more