Thoughts on on-chain gaming

crypto will unlock a paradigm shift in gaming. Though it’s still unclear what exactly that shift will look like, I believe that, in the short term, we’ll see earn-first crypto games like Axie and Zed Run create a black hole by onboarding players using financial incentives. Supplementing this growth will be guilds and DAOs on the periphery. In the m... See more

We think that the difficulty of storing and indexing data in a scalable way is something that has been underestimated by most of the crypto space. For a long time, the entire space has been limited to finite state applications without much consideration for the wide range of infinite state applications, like social apps and marketplaces, that in fa... See more

Cultural DAOs and Gaming Guilds Although DeFi protocols have grown exponentially since financial incentives were developed, DAOs with token distribution models independent of usage and participation (unlike DeFi DAOs) are on the rise. I assisted in creating a commemorative video for Uniswap V3 by pplpleasr, née Emily Yang. Several DeFi developers a... See more

Evolutionary Principles of Gaming 3.0To start with, one needs to embrace the concept that web3 games are an evolution on top of the success of web 2 games, and not a revolution that can disregard all past principles. This is the basic principle we believe will be shared between all successful web3 games.We believe that the core of web3 games is abo... See more

Also consider: All it takes is for one game world built on-chain to remotely succeed, and then it’s game over for anything that’s solely entertainment. Think about it – why bother investing any meaningful time or resources into a game world where you aren’t building real world value?