Big Gaming Spaces 🏴‍☠️

Recorded: March 28, 2024 Duration: 1:23:36

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I just want to tell you how I'm feeling Got to make you understand If I'm gonna give
you up, never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make
you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you We've known each other
for so long Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it Inside we thought, no one's
going home We know the game and we're gonna play it And if you ask me how I'm feeling Don't
tell me you're too blind to see Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never
gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never
gonna say a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna
run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna
tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna give you up Never gonna
give you up Never gonna give you up We've known each other for so long Your heart's been
aching but you're too shy to say it Inside we thought, no one's been going home We know
the game and we're gonna play it I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Got to make you
understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around
and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie
and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around
We'll get started here in a minute, DJ Eddie, checking in with y'all right now.
Getting some of our lovely guests up here.
Gotta tweet that stuff out there, drop a few comments for our lovely guests, and then we'll
get started in a minute, baby.
Hope we got some rich girls out there.
Don't you know, don't you know, that it's wrong to take what is giving you so far gone.
You can get along, you can try to be strong, but you'll never be strong, cause you're a
rich girl, and it's gone too far, cause you know it don't matter anyway.
You can rely on the old man's money, you can rely on the old man's money, cause it's a
rich girl, and it's gone too far, cause you know it don't matter anyway.
You can rely on the old man's money, but it won't get you too far, cause it's gone too
High and high, out of the rain, it's so easy, yeah.
You got the hurt of it, but you can't feel free, and don't you know that no love can
Cause it's too much, it's going to be round and little, but we'll fill a middle, and
so far gone too far.
cause your mouth don't matter in it, you can rely on the old man's money, you can rely
on the old man's money, cause it's a rich girl, cause it's gone too far, cause you know
it don't matter anyway.
Say money, money will get you too far, say money will get you too far, say money will
get you too far, cause it's far.
All right.
How we doing, guys?
I think we got most of our people here.
I almost said, Happy Friday.
I'm so used to doing...
It feels like a Friday.
Dude, Ash, I'm so used to doing my spaces on Fridays,
and I was about to just be like,
Happy Fast Fridays, yo.
But I called for an impromptu space with my gaming friends,
and I simply don't know enough straight up, guys.
So I'm here to learn.
I'm going to ask some goofy questions,
and we're going to hang out.
We have some amazing people up here from all different blockchains
from amazing ecosystems,
and I know we got...
Is it Karma up here?
We got ZTX, who kind of spun this idea together off with me.
So we're going to get them up here in Karma as well.
Hey, Dane, what's cracking, dude?
I freaking love those little monsters, man.
They're so freaking awesome.
How's it going, brother?
All my boys are up here.
This is awesome.
So let's just introduce everybody one by one.
Just a quick hello and just what project you're with.
Don't go into the whole entire thing.
Just a quick hello, what project you're with,
and then we'll start diving into all of these.
This is so awesome.
Look how many awesome people are here.
This is great.
So many legends.
Who's ready to learn about freaking gaming
because I need to get caught up.
So I hope you guys are ready to school me.
You know what I'm saying?
I hope you guys are ready to teach me
in my degenerate way some more long-lasting,
really cool projects and games to play most importantly.
Give me...
You know what I mean?
We're all working hard.
We're doing a lot of cool market times.
At the end of the day, I'm ready to play some stuff.
So I know all of you are doing so much cool stuff.
So let's just do a quick hello and tell us what project you're with
and then I'll kind of like rip it from there.
So we'll start with...
Y'all know Ash.
Thanks for co-hosting.
I'm sure all of you know me as Ashley DeCan.
I work with Eddie in the amazing team at Hillemoon.
I just went to DDC last week.
I learned so much about gaming there.
I'm like...
What3Gaming is so...
I don't know.
It is so much more advanced than it used to be.
So this is really exciting for me.
Like me saying the name on the space,
I'm like, dude, I am so ready to learn more
because there's so much to learn with Web3Gaming.
Every game is so vastly different.
That's awesome.
Well, dude, I'm stoked you went there.
So you're going to have to share the alpha with us
from what you learned up there.
I know you had a good time.
I haven't been there.
I love these.
I obviously love in real life events.
I'm a huge believer in them bringing success to Web3
but I haven't made it up there to that one yet.
I almost went, but I ended up going to a Hello Moon rave
in Miami instead.
So, you know, we'll make it next time.
Let me say hello to...
I'm just going to go in order from how I see people.
So, hey, Aroary.
How are you?
You are a triple OG.
Thank you for joining us.
How are you doing today?
Doing good.
Thanks for the intro.
Who we got on the line, man?
Who we got for Aroary over there?
So I help with BD, marketing, ops, kind of wearing many hats
at Aroary.
And yeah, didn't make it to GDC last week,
but I was definitely seeing a lot of stuff on Twitter
and having some FOMO.
We had a couple of our Bay Area based team members
that were out there.
So we had a little bit of a presence,
but yeah, it looks awesome.
I was there last year.
It was kind of an interesting vibe,
but it looked like, you know, this year Web 3 really showed up.
So it's always a good thing to see.
Yeah, man.
I'm definitely going to be going to the next one for sure.
What is it, yearly?
Yes, yearly.
So I'll be popping over there.
But thanks for coming up, Aroary.
I'm going to dive in with you in just a little bit.
We have Karma on behalf of ZTX, right?
Is that right?
Yes, GM, GN, and everything in between.
Hello, miss.
How are you doing?
Absolutely fantastic.
My FOMO from GDC, for those of you listening
who might not be as much into gaming,
that's just Game Developers Conference is basically, you know,
the headquarters for everything gaming once a year.
And this time I wasn't able to join,
so I was just like sad and alone FOMO-ing at my computer.
But it seems to have been bigger than ever
and incredibly excited to reflect on these mistakes next year
when blockchain gaming will hopefully be, you know,
something that's even more popular and on everybody's lips.
Yeah, I'm excited for that moment.
And it's just like these in real life events,
they're starting to stack up, like crypto,
more and more people full-time in crypto,
like they're starting to overlap.
It's like, how do we get it?
It's full-time, it's full-time travel.
It's a nomadic way, which I think is actually pretty cool.
And like it was cool to see you in Paris, Karma, you know,
like it's awesome.
And like it was cool to see Alex and Evan from BR1 in Lisbon.
And it was cool to go to all those places with jucks.
And it was cool to hang with Adam from Portals in Malibu.
And it's cool to spend time in New York with Hello Moon.
And it's just like, how cool is that?
And like, I met Dane in Paris too.
Like, these things are just so awesome.
Where did we meet, duck moggins?
I forget where we met.
Oh, yeah, yeah, true, true.
That night was crazy.
That was absolutely insane.
While you're up here, who are you with, duck moggins?
Oh, you're not in gaming.
You just like, mog.
Okay, got it.
Thank you, duck, for coming up here, though.
You're welcome to hang anytime.
And we know you like to play games.
So, you know, he's just considering him like a side quest for the spaces.
Thank you for coming, duck.
Appreciate you.
Yeah, we will get there.
We will get there.
All right, so we have Karma with ZTX.
Who's on the Portals account?
Hello, Portals.
You guys are amazing.
Thanks for coming by.
Hey, Eddie.
This is Adam, a.k.a. Gomez from the Portals team.
What's up, man?
Thanks for coming by, dude.
Of course.
Yeah, I missed you at GDC.
I missed everybody.
I clearly should have came.
It's only an hour flight, and I chose the six-hour flight.
But, you know, we had to be there.
We had some things to do.
But that's awesome that everybody had a good time, and the event was great.
Did you guys do side quests up there?
Was there good side parties, or did a lot of people actually go to the conference?
Because, like, some of these crypto conferences, people don't go to.
Personally, it was not enough fun stuff.
It was a lot of meetings.
So, yeah, I didn't even make it out.
And I didn't live pretty close by to the conference.
So just getting back to work.
And we are, as usual, in crunch mode.
So, yeah, just a lot of things going on.
I'm glad you had a good time up there.
I wish it was more fun, but the serious stuff is how you get the business done.
So, rock and roll, baby.
Cool stuff happening.
Well, we're going to go through all of that.
We're going to go through all of that with everybody, too, as well.
Thank you for coming up, Adam.
I just wanted to say hello real quick to everyone so I know who I'm
talking to.
You got me here, Eddie.
I'm representing BR1.
My name is Alex.
For those of you who don't know me, on the official BR1 account, we
actually have my girlfriend just hanging out on our laptop inside my
apartment.
That's the alpha, bro.
I got to get my girlfriend on my other account to do that, too.
And we get double.
That's good, man.
Double trouble.
We like it.
We'd love to see it.
Good strategy, Khan.
Good strategy.
She's the number one fan over here at BR1, so I got to love her
listening to this.
And she is a fan of yours.
She knows that you're one of my favorite people.
That's awesome.
Feel free to jump in and pretend to be the CEO of BR1.
I think that'd be fun.
That's awesome.
Thanks for being here.
We'll jump into BR1 in a minute.
We're going to go through all of these things.
I just want to give again a quick hello to everybody.
Dane, my friend, my new friend.
Very nice to meet you as well in Paris.
How are you doing, sir?
What company are you with?
What's that cool?
I'm a sucker for pixel art.
You're going to have to tell me what that is.
I think you told me before on Spaces, but you got to
fill me back in.
Eddie, it's really late in London, and I have made
a massive effort to attend this Spaces with you.
Oh my gosh.
So what time is it over there, dude?
Bro, it's quarter past 12 or quarter past midnight.
But what I want to tell you is that we're going to
bring some really mad stuff.
I'd love to say more, but I can't release any more
information.
But what we're going to do is provide all of our
friends the accessibility to play a game through
Telegram, which is hinged on a token basically
designed for influencers.
So yeah, a lot more to come.
And Sui is pumping.
Sui had a great Sui, Sui, gosh, is there a right
way to say it?
Does anyone know?
Because I say it both, and I know them personally,
and they're awesome.
I'm like, it's too late to ask.
So if you guys want to cover my back on that, feel free.
Is it like Sui, or is it Sui?
Do you guys know?
I have no idea.
I always say Sui.
It's Sui.
It's Sui.
Jux, you would, Jux.
You would.
That's good.
I just wanted Dane to be able to go quick because it's
late for him over there.
So that's Dane.
Dane, who should we follow?
What should we do?
How do we participate?
Can you tell us anything?
What's the company's called, isn't it?
I don't want to give anything away, but the OG
Battlefront is the game, which we're announcing
on the 10th of April, which is during the
I'll be there, baby.
That's Sui Basecamp.
I'm just following the people in your profile, bro.
He's being too cryptic for me.
I'm following them.
I'm signing up.
But hey, if it's late over there, you can jump
off whenever you want.
If there's anything you do want to share, feel free.
I'm going to start going through this.
After I say hello to Jux, dude, my brother, how are
you, sir?
The OMBs look so much better as the price of Bitcoin
These things are so cool.
Best art in the world, dude.
How you doing?
Facts, dude.
Price go up, art look better.
I'm not going to lie, though.
OMBs are awesome.
It's like the first time my girlfriend was
like, dude, that's awesome.
Those things are sick.
She actually recognized it as art.
One of the first times ever.
So I do fuck with OMBs.
I'm just talking shit.
Oh, yeah.
No, dude, I'm super fired up for this space.
We had a bunch of heavy hitters up here.
Longtime friends, new time friends.
Dude, web through gaming in the future.
I'm here for it.
Dude, I'm super excited.
Thanks for being here, Jux.
I'd love to have you.
I'd love to have my boys.
Because this is like a different ocean
I'm swimming in right now.
I can tell you everything in the planet
that's there about meme coins and about NFTs.
And I can't tell you too much about gaming.
So I'm very excited to learn what all you guys are doing.
And I don't have a particular order.
And you guys know me who come to my spaces
that I did not write up a long AMA list of things.
So feel free to...
We're going to kind of spitball it a little bit here.
And we're going to talk with each person
for at least a few minutes here
so you guys can know what they're up to.
There's some serious legends here.
And there's some newer kids on the block.
And there's some really, really, really cool stuff to go over
from at least what I know.
And I'm excited to learn more.
So is anyone on the Hello Moon account?
Are you just chilling?
Hello, Hello Moon.
Who's on there?
Is Walker on there?
Everybody?
No? Okay, cool.
Well, I'm glad you're here.
He's chilling.
Dude, he's farming me, dude.
The moon is farming me.
I'm not mad at it though.
Great moon.
That was my first daily Twitter spaces
that kind of got me comfortable up here.
We meet every morning at 7 a.m. my time.
And we'd all just hang out and talk about forgiveness
or whatever, dude.
Chucks, do you remember that?
Like so many of us met and we're friends
and we work together now from meeting on the internet.
So I got to thank Hello Moon for bringing
so many of us together.
It's just, you know, it's what a great company.
So yeah, big shout out to the boys.
Whoever's there farming, farming this lovely gaming space.
I'm going to just like, who do I even start with?
Yo, DuckMoggins, who should I start with?
Good call.
Good call.
Okay, ZTX is going first.
Duck's a long time user and he also likes
the coin a little bit.
So Karma, what is going on over at ZTX?
DuckMoggins gave you that lovely intro.
I can't believe you have so many nice things to say.
It's so nice to have you, Duck.
But Karma, what's cracking?
Tell us about the world of ZTX.
Give us like, for the new people,
give us like the quick intro on it
and then tell us like a more localized intro,
like what's cracking recently, what you're up to,
what you want to talk about,
how you think about gaming.
We can talk about whatever you want,
but we're starting with you because DuckMoggins picked you.
Thank you, Duck.
I appreciate you and thank you for all the nice words.
Well, let me start with the macro view, Eddie.
Yeah, please.
So for everybody who may just be discovering us now,
so TLDR on ZTX is a game effect platform,
aka a metaverse, and you know,
and you spin on it.
The new spin on it being,
we are not really starting from scratch.
Instead, we have a web to counterparts,
a petal of ours with, you know,
by now over 430 million lifetime users.
So it's like, you know,
a very, very big web to proven business
coming into web free and trying to elevate,
trying to create a new experience for the existing user base.
That's what you can imagine ZTX to be.
And where we are currently is an open beta.
So you can jump into ZTX,
you know, right now ZTX.io,
you create your avatar,
jump into like a single player game loop,
which is our beta,
where, how do I best explain it?
Imagine guys like a blend of the Sims and Animal Crossing.
You farm resources, craft new NFTs out of it,
decorate your house, you know,
like kit out your avatar with fashion.
That's where ZTX is today.
And where it's going is a bit more of a Roblox platform
where, you know, you have mini games and much more,
some of which we will launch, you know, within a few weeks.
This is so freaking beautiful.
I just connected and signed up with my email address,
which I think is crucial and critical for,
you know, while it's just scare people sometimes
and like even, yeah, this is great.
I just went through it as if I was a brand new user
as you were saying it,
and it was just so quick and easy.
Yeah, thank you.
It honestly is like so important and it's so easy nowadays
to integrate smart accounts, social accounts, social login.
And that works, you know, like no one is going to be creating
a wallet for the first time in their lives
just to try out the game.
So write this C phrase down and put it under your pillow
and put the other half in a safe.
And you know what I'm saying?
It's just not happening.
So that was pretty cool.
These guys are so cool looking.
All right, sorry.
I'm going to start playing this and not paying attention.
So I'm just going to stop.
But it's just it's very intriguing like the fashion even on like the people
or like the details of like what the girl and the guy are wearing
are just so cool.
Like it's like real fashion stuff.
It's like really cool.
And like I kind of want to go there.
It's nice and colorful.
Anyway, I'll stop.
I'll stop playing the game.
I'll stop.
I'll stop now and play after.
Don't stop.
Don't stop.
But on the fashion front, like I have a cool anecdote.
When I met Eddie in Paris, you could clearly tell who else met Eddie that day
because he was wearing such a fluffy sweater.
Oh, I ruined everybody.
And it was it was so funny because I just kept going across Paris
and I would see people with these like slightly glistening big furry fibers
And I was like, ah, it's Eddie today.
That is so funny because like I didn't realize it like and I looked at that
sweater and me and my girlfriend looked at it like five different times.
And then I finally went back and got it.
And then like we had this party and it was all my close friends with sweet
and hello moods.
I was hugging everybody.
So there was like just shiny green glittering fur all over everybody.
But you know what?
It was worth it.
And everyone got to remember Eddie that day.
So give him a little piece of the sweater.
All right.
So this is cool, Karma.
So what do you guys have going on here?
You said that this is a beta or like so you build your avatar
and you jump in the world.
So beta as in just very, very early version of the game.
So expect, you know, that it's I mean, of course we are doing our best to
make it as smooth as possible, but it's still an early preview of what
the full game will be.
So right now you can only play single player mode.
You create your avatar and then you click on the land and land is
where you jump into, you know, like plant resources, harvest them,
create new NFTs out of those decorate, et cetera, et cetera.
And then, you know, as next step, what we are going to be doing is
introducing, you know, the multiplayer bit and the mini games bit.
So expanding it into that more Roblox-like game loop.
You can really make specific like this avatar creation is like next level.
Like, babe, you got to help me pick my face shape.
Honestly, it's like so refined to the point where like you can
genuinely recreate real life people in it and they will look so alike.
So, you know, you can you can change everything from like the size of
your nostrils to the literally shape of your eyebrows.
We had a really fun competition early in the day for ZTX where people
had to recreate like their favorite like celebrity or like their
favorite singer.
Oh, I like that.
Like a guess game.
It was so fun.
I'd like that extent of the builder.
Yeah, it's pretty refined.
I really like it.
I'm just having so much fun clicking around.
You guys are doing some really cool stuff.
So how does the what happens on chain?
Like what's the what's the Web 3 side of it?
What a good question.
Actually, something very rarely asked in the gaming spaces, right?
Like there are so many ways to put things on chain.
So we are building an arbitrary and basically every single item
that you can use to decorate or every single item that you can
use to put on your avatar more or less.
These are NFTs.
There's a few base items which are just in-game items.
They are not NFTs, but the majority of what you're utilizing
is so you can also trade it outside the game.
That's the blockchain part.
What we are not putting on the blockchain so far is your avatar
itself just because it's easiest, cheapest, fastest user
interface when the avatar is just an in-game item.
And then instead we utilize your avatar, your account
as this sort of like your home base where you accumulate all
the other items.
So very much, you know, UGC focused long term.
The idea is for people to create their own fashion,
create their own items and be able to sell these or even
just gift these to other players.
I mean, this is so cool and it's so like the front like
it's just super perfect as pro as it gets.
This is tier one as it gets.
This is like just such a beautiful website.
So it's like I'm going to spend hours on this guy and
he's going to be cool as hell.
I think I'm going to make him a little like punk rock
like emo.
You know what I mean?
Like a little emotional but like kind of tough still,
you know, kind of like, you know, like a little bit of
daddy issues.
But I don't know.
We're going to work on him.
We're going to work on him.
We're going to have so much fun with this.
You come over tomorrow.
We're going to make these.
This is really cool.
Thanks for showing me this.
So for people that are want to try it,
what they just go to ztx.io, right?
Just getting started.
Just had to yeah, had to ztx.io.
By the way, I'm so I'm so proud of this,
of this flexi of this flexi URL.
It took us forever to get.
Yeah, I mean, it's a good one.
It will take you literally five minutes or less.
I guarantee to try out the entire game,
the login, you know, you just tried it yourself.
Maybe took you two minutes during the intro.
Not even.
It only took me long because I was watching
and enjoying the intro.
And I didn't want to speed it up.
I was just like actually watching it.
That's what took me the longest.
The clicks were fast.
Gotta tweet out your avatar afterwards.
Yeah, and 100% find the fluffest weather possible.
I'm also going to say so ztx we very early on released
Genesis collection of the so-called Genesis homes.
And for those of you who may be holding one of those homes,
we've integrated them into the game like a few weeks ago.
And when I say integrated, you know,
gaming NFTs belong in the game.
So you can actually utilize your ztx Genesis home
as a fully immersive in-game building now as well.
If you log in, you will actually see your homes
as your available properties that you can jump into
and have a look at.
That's freaking awesome.
I actually have one of them.
So that's amazing.
I remember early on, I always loved those.
They had like these on Ethereum.
They had these little like gallery home
where you could like put your other NFTs on the wall
and stuff like that.
I'm going to get in here and have some fun going.
It's time for me to goof around a little bit after work,
you know, I'm excited and I'm definitely going to
definitely going to dive in a little bit further.
I know you guys have a token as well, right?
Yes, correct.
The ztx token is live with a TGE in October.
And you can utilize ztx in game.
So from day one, basically it was integrated into game
and you can use it to skip different transactions.
It basically boosts you as you create different items.
That's awesome.
I remember seeing all over Twitter.
We don't have to talk about the token much,
but I just remember seeing all over Twitter
when the holders got the token
and I remember looking at the token
and everyone was very happy.
So I just wanted to bring it up
because I thought that was pretty cool
and it's difficult to do and actually have it be useful
and do it right.
And it looks like you guys know what you're doing
and you did it right.
So I wanted to mention that for a month
because we know we got a lot of token people in the audience.
So I wanted to make sure they're aware of it.
Thank you, Karma.
I'm going to come back to you
and get intros from the other guys,
but I have some things I do want to talk to you about.
So stick with us if you can, Karma, for a little bit.
We'd love to have you.
That would be amazing.
Let's jump over to frickin' BR1 real quick
because you guys are like painting my timeline.
You had a mid recently I participated in.
You guys have a lot going on.
So give us the one, two
and then also give us the update of what's to come, please.
For sure.
So for those of you who don't know BR1 Infinite,
we are the world's first risk-based shooter.
And so what I mean by that in our game,
you pay to spawn and you kill to earn.
So very simply put, think about our game
like a mixture of Call of Duty and a poker table.
So again, pay to spawn, kill to earn.
The capital that you're earning in the game
comes as a result of the opponents that you're eliminating.
So Eddie, say you and I wanted to hop into our game.
We would each put up a dollar when you kill me
and get my dollar.
That's the absolute highest level of the game
and the experience that we have.
When it comes to all of you DJs out in the audience,
we have a few different ways to get involved.
We first came to market back in February 2022
with our eight operatives.
These are our characters in the game.
They give you an earnings boost in the game.
You can also stake them, rent them out
if you're not necessarily a gamer yourself,
but you're interested in what we're building
and the idea that this risk-based shooter
is the future of gaming.
A couple months later, we released our second collection,
which are the BR1 droid operatives.
Same thing, character in a game, earnings retention bonus,
stake them, rent them, passive income, all that fun stuff.
And then most recently, we launched the BR1 loot box
back at the very beginning of March on March 7th.
These loot boxes, guess what?
You can stake them when you open them up.
You're going to reveal these boxes into three different NFTs.
These are going to be the first edition weapons that we have.
And Eddie, I know you're already thinking it,
and you got it right.
You can, in fact, increase your earnings.
If you have these things,
you can rent them out to people who don't.
So a lot of ways to get involved that we already have.
But for the token heads out there,
you should definitely keep an eye on us.
We have some plans for a token coming up in the next few months here,
really even sooner.
I like that.
The token is interesting because we don't just have one game.
We have a couple games.
Don't you guys have something on Aptos or Avax or something?
We have a game on Aptos.
We have multiple games on Solana.
We have an upcoming game that we drop the logo for on our game studios account.
That's going to be really exciting for you guys called Bonk Arena.
The one on Aptos is called Aptos Arena.
We also have Mini Arena.
These games all operate in a very similar way.
You're doing a Bonk thing?
Did you announce that yet?
I didn't know if I was allowed to talk about that.
We didn't really, but if you go to our company,
you get all the alpha.
But if you go to our company account,
which is Bravo Ready For, I believe, at Bravo Ready For,
that's our small company game studio account.
We made a post on there that leaks the logo for it.
So the cat's a little bit out of the bag, but not really yet.
But all of our games.
The underlying thesis is that as we all grow up
and we have more things to do,
whether it's girlfriends or wanting to take care of your health
or go out and watch music or whatever it is,
the time you spend playing games decreases.
And when you do play games,
you want to have that additional level of thrill.
Very similar to how when you start growing up,
when you play cards,
you might have been willing to play Crazy 8 growing up,
but the moment that you first play poker
and you wager real money on it,
you can't really ever go back.
So we have this underlying thesis.
Risk-based video games are the future of gaming.
We have this company, this game studio,
and the token that we're launching is going to be associated
with the game studio.
And it will be something that has an impact
across the suite of these games, which makes it really exciting.
But it is no secret that BR1 is the flagship title.
We have weekly game events that are happening.
So if you check out the pinned tweet that I have right now
and you actually click on it,
you can see someone live streaming right now on Twitter,
which is very cool.
We give away thousands of dollars of prizes every week,
a bunch of NFTs, and all sorts of good stuff.
So you should definitely try it out.
This is awesome.
I'm staking my...
I guess I was going through this.
I was just staking my NFTs
because I hadn't staked them
and I have a whole bunch of your NFTs.
So I'm going to make a little video and then tweet it tomorrow
and show everyone what this is.
This is pretty fucking cool.
So I'm excited.
Yeah, this is awesome.
It's very easy.
Okay, great.
I don't know if I'm going to play.
I'm scared.
I'm just going to get smoked.
Is there a free version?
I don't know.
So right now we actually disabled the free version.
Oh, shit.
You guys are gambling over there.
People playing for the big stakes.
You got tournament going on?
We have this 48 hour tournament going on.
Again, check out the pinned tweet for those of you.
Oh, shit.
Yeah, you got prize pools and shit.
That's awesome.
I was watching a couple of minutes ago.
The dude who's streaming is pretty good.
He was on like a seven kills trip earlier.
There's a bunch of prize pools and we fund everyone's account.
So you don't have to risk your own money.
So yeah, you're not playing the free for all version, Eddie,
but you are playing on my dollar.
And you get to keep all of your earnings.
So it's really a no risk all reward.
I need a proxy player who's good.
That can go and use all my NFTs to play and smoke everybody.
I'm going to build a business over here.
You are you're leading in with the right ideas.
For those of us who really love gaming and really love crypto gaming.
We're all familiar with Axie infinity.
And I'm going to find me a young hero, a young killer.
And one of the key components of the Axie infinity was this idea
of the guild scholar relationship.
And the guild is someone like you, Eddie,
someone who has the capital resources to buy a bunch of NFTs,
but not the time.
And so what you would do is you'd create an account for one of these
scholars.
A scholar is the opposite of you.
Someone who doesn't have capital,
but who has all the time to play the game and who wants to play the
game for, for a share of the money.
Dude, Jux, let's build an empire, bro.
Jux, let's build a guild.
We can call it Uncle Jux.
Uncle Jux is gaming guild.
And so if, you know,
you live in LA and you happen to be close to people who have
esports teams and esports teams are notoriously.
You know, I live a block away from the phase clan headquarters.
I'm about to walk in there and just be like, yo, motherfucker.
Let's go try to shout it.
Come in there and smoke everybody.
Yeah, just go hook them up there.
As long as they're an over 1KD player,
which I'm sure those guys will be,
they're going to be profitable.
There's going to be money that you guys can split.
There can be higher levels.
So this is how it happened with Axios is how all that went down.
That's how guilds work.
See, I told you guys,
I was going to ask dumb questions and learn about gaming.
Now I get it.
Yeah, it was a, it was a big part of it.
There's, there's plenty that's wrong with the guild ecosystem.
So, you know,
we've done our best to take those lessons from,
from the predecessors and,
and wrap it into our game.
but things like inflation of the NFTs was something that,
that really hurt Axi.
because you just had these guys that were farming,
breeding these characters and just making a godly number of the,
of the NFTs when,
when they didn't have the player base to support it.
I spent months printing Steppen shoes, man. Trust me.
I have my own way of doing it.
we've learned from the best or,
and we've tried to learn to the best of our ability and creating our
own systems and structures.
But basically there's another one of like our underlying design
principles.
Is that a good crypto game?
You need to design for the gamer.
You need to design for the content creator,
the audience member and the game investor.
So as we're talking about this like guild scholar system,
that's really the investor profile,
that we're talking about along with the gamer,
of course,
the scholar,
you know,
acts of the gamer in that relationship.
That's freaking cool, man.
Thank you for filling us in on everything.
That's awesome.
Like I said,
I'll make a little video and show y'all,
show y'all what's up with that.
love tomorrow for sure.
Definitely check out VR1,
go shoot some people and take their money.
Sounds fun.
I sounded horrible,
but it is fun.
so go for that.
Shoot them and take their money.
it's a little,
it's a little aggressive,
I'm going to do the same.
Let's see what we got.
A good one.
a good one.
Okay, cool.
Let's just take a quick 30 seconds here.
Boy, at the five and dime
Played it till my finger was played
Was a summer of sixty-nine
The years from gas and school
Had a bed and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit, Jodie got married
Soon enough, we never get far
A little behind now
The sun will see the light from you ever
And if I have the choice
Yeah, I always want to be there
Those were the best things of my life
Can you guys tell how old I am or no?
Did that kind of like give it away?
It's the vibes, dude, it's timeless
It is timeless, thank you, thank you
And by the way, the background music that I always play
It's a lo-fi, hip-hop, anime playlist
So if you've heard, if you thought you've heard like Zelda
Or things from like Naruto, you absolutely have
It's always on in the background and there's
I don't know, there's some really cool ones, man
From the link
Dude, yeah, it's, yeah, I'm going to
They have Super Smash Brothers, they got JoJo's, they got Dragon
Dude, they have like everything, Hunter x Hunter
Like Bleach, Death Note, One Piece
Like, it's so sick
Anyway, that's my musical background there
I still got to talk to Aurorium, Aurorium portals
So I'm going to jump to Aurorium real quick
Because you guys have been here on Solana longer than I have, I think
Which is just like so impressive
I think portals happen too, maybe even BR1
So what's cracking with you, Aurorium?
What are you up to? How is your world?
What is Aurorium and what are you guys up to?
Yeah, for sure
I'll kind of give a little intro on Aurorium
And then talk about what we got going on
Please, yeah
So for those who don't know
We're a studio of over 60 team members
Many of them, you know, gaming industry veterans
Worked on AAA titles from prominent studios
Like Ubisoft, EA, Warner Brothers, you know, some others
We're primarily Solana based
And we're building a free-to-play immersive JRPG
Called Seekers of Token
So our game is primarily made up of two core character IPs
The first being Aurorians, also known as Seekers
And the second are Neftis
So Aurorians, you guys might be familiar with them
They're our 10K supply PFP collection
Emitted back in 2021
Essentially, they're these anime-like characters
They also double as a unique in-game avatar
They come with some, you know, additional benefits
Like boosted in-game rewards
We have a community-run DAO that you get access to
And you also have the ability to send them on Expeditions
Which is kind of like our twist-on staking
Where you can have a chance to obtain some on-chain and off-chain rewards
I will mention, though, that because our game is free-to-play
You don't need an Aurorian to start playing
You know, we've got basic avatars that people can use
If they're just starting out
So that's Aurorians
And we also have Neftis
These are cute creatures that might remind you of, like, Pokémon
Or Temtem if you've ever played either of those games
So Neftis, in our game, they exist as NFTs
Or as off-chain assets
You can obtain them by hatching eggs that you can find in-game
And you can get one of a random rarity
And essentially use these Neftis in turn-based Blitz battles
That can yield rewards for wins
So you can essentially think of Aurorians like Pokémon trainers
And Neftis are like your Pokémon
So with Seekers of Token, you know, our game
We released it back in November of last year in closed pre-alpha
And we've been shipping new content updates ever since
We've hosted a few LiveOps events with some huge prize pools
And we've got some exciting new features on the way this year
We've got a big patch coming up roughly around May
It's going to enhance the PvE experience
Which right now we've got the core game loop down
But it's a bit repetitive just because it's early
And we still have to introduce a lot of things
But with this patch, you know, it's going to make things
A little more strategic for the player
To think about their decisions a little bit more
And kind of make it more of like a roguelite
Yeah, it's going to be more of like a roguelite, you know, experience
Which is kind of the goal
So one of the main things with that is chain levels
Or lands as we refer them to
So that basically means that when a player
Successfully completes the land or a level
They'll have the opportunity to extract the rewards
That they had earned in that level
Or they can go a bit de-gen and they can opt to progress
To a deeper, more difficult land
With a higher potential for rewards
But if they fail, they'll lose all the rewards
From that land in the previous one
Some other things, you know, like consumables
Where players are going to have to choose
Only a certain amount of potions
That they can take with them into a land
And, you know, they'll have to monitor their nifty levels
Or health levels as they won't be regenerating
In between battles like they do right now
You know, it's got some other cool things
But yeah, we'll kind of leave it at that for right now
Essentially what we're looking forward to
Like in the near future, you know, is that
And then we also have our art upgrade
For the Arroyan Collection
That's being done by our co-founder
Who's also the artist behind MadLads
So the art stuff is amazing
No shit, really?
Yeah, people have been waiting for this for forever
I've been waiting for it forever
That's so exciting
Once they see the art, they'll understand why
It took a hot minute
So that's something that we're trying to get out
As soon as we can
And then also, like, mobile version of our game
You know, we hope to have something we can showcase
By the second half of this year
Ideally, like, by breakpoint would be awesome
But right now, if you want to try it
It's available exclusively on Epic Games
So you can head to our site, create an account with a crypto wallet
Or a Google or Discord account
And then download the game on Epic and jump right in
You guys are awesome
How long have you been in business?
So we started in 2021
I mean, if you go back to, like, when our Twitter first tweet
It was, like, April's 2021
But then there was, you know, the Arroyan mint
August 2021, we had an IDO November 2021
So, you know, it's been a few years
You know, games take time, but it's coming together
That's freaking awesome
So if I still grab more, like, can I still get an NFT
And get the art upgrade?
Yeah, the art upgrade has not happened yet
You know, we're gonna start teasing some things
You know, we'll have some things
I mean, that's exciting
What a great artist
Like, that's like NFT
Like, I'm actually, like, genuinely interested in
You know, the Arroyan art, like, as it is right now
There's a lot of, you know, grails
There's a lot of great ones
But, you know, we've had some feedback
On a lot of the floors
Some undesirable traits, you know, that are gonna get reworked
There was a lot of masks
It was kind of like the tail end of COVID
When we, you know, did the art upgrade
So there's a lot of masks that kind of just
Don't really associate with, like, a good time in life
Yeah, right, yeah
They're gonna get reworked into some other cool traits
And, yeah, I mean, it's gonna be awesome
Like, people love the MadLets art
And, you know, I gotta give credit to Tristan
And, you know, they had a big part in the creative direction
I love those guys
But, you know, Jan, our co-founder
He's an amazing artist, too
So the, you know, Arurian art upgrade's gonna be
It's gonna be fire
I can't wait for it
That's really exciting, man
Thanks for telling us what's up
I mean, I'm gonna, you know, get my hands on one of these things
That's awesome
That's cool, great
I can buy one that I don't like
You know what I mean?
That's great
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, believe me
Just teasing
Yeah, they're cool
You know what I mean?
It's really hard
I'm just like, oh, I can't
I can't buy
That's wrong
That's wrong, man
So I'm waiting
I'm waiting
I know something good's coming
Yeah, that's cool, man
That's exciting
Well, thank you for sharing that stuff with us
And thanks for pulling up today
I appreciate you, dog
Thanks for having me
And tell me anyone who's up here
Who I'm gonna see in NFT New York
Because I'm excited about that as well
I do got to pop in and say what's up to Portals
Adam, what's cracking my dude
What are you guys up to?
Your world's awesome over there
How's everything going?
Yo, it's going great
What are you integrating?
What are you doing?
Tell people what Portals is real quick
And then tell me what you've been up to lately
Yeah, so real quick
So Portals is kind of flavors of Roblox, RuneScape, Ready Player One
At its core, it's like a game and world-building platform
You know, we've been building on Solana since way back
Launched our first NFT in early or late 2021
It was right after I think Aurora minted
I tried to mint Aurora
I wasn't able to get one
It sold out immediately
But I remember that being my first attempt to mint on Solana
But yeah, we've just been totally building as quickly as we can
Building an awesome drag and drop world builder
And it sort of evolved more recently into a game builder
Where you can kind of create your own games
So now that it's gone to that point
We're just kind of going crazy, releasing games
Releasing all the things that we had been wanting to kind of
You know, what sort of the original vision was for this
So we're just
People are making their own games on the platform
And we are shipping tons of games on the platform
And we've really been focused on kind of
You know, the crypto-native audience
Where it's like what kind of games would people that are in Solana want to play
So there's a lot of like
D-gen elements to the games
So kind of similar even to BR1
And they're, you know, kill to earn
And pay to spawn type stuff
So I don't know, you've seen like Dookie Dash
Where there's a big prize
And everybody's kind of, you know, paying to play the game
And there's, you know, one big prize for the winner
So we have just like the ability to create tons of games like that
So like build your own Flappy Bird type game
Or a Fall Guys level
So yeah, you can imagine
People are basically like saying like, okay, I'm going to set up a Fall Guys level
And it's going to be $10 to, you know, get to the starting line
To play, you pay $10
But the person that gets to the end, you know, wins $1,000
Whoever gets to the finish line first wins $1,000
But it's really cool because anybody can create these games
You can just drag and drop, create your own level
Integrate, you know, the payments and the tournament mechanisms
And all that
So like we're just shipping the different types of games
That we think, you know, D-Gens are going to enjoy
So like we have even just really casual, simple stuff too
Like, I don't know if you've ever played Flappy Bird
That's another one that we're rolling out
Of course
So like, yeah, you can have like a free version of that
There could be one, maybe lower stakes
Or it's like a dollar
But there's a $100 prize pool we're going to play around with
Is there a high stakes version
Where there's people that are, you know, throwing in $30
To win the $3,000 if you get, you know, the top Flappy Bird score
So again, you can just
Any type of game that you can imagine
And then we throw in, you know, kind of those tournament elements
It's a lot of what we're doing right now
And then there's also just the sort of the home base
You as your character in portals
Being able to go around and kind of collect items
By visiting other spaces and going to other people's, you know, worlds that they're creating
Yeah, I've ran around in there, man
It's really cool
I think there was something I did
Listen, there's something with like famous foxes in there
I swear, I did something really cool
I think you maybe saw
I think somebody put in a used Honda Civic
A gently used Honda Civic
Yes, that's what I was in there
I was so stoked
Dude, I'm going in there
You know?
Yeah, so yeah, we've just been pushing out tons of games
We did like, this was sort of a surprising thing
We didn't realize how degen things can get
Like we put out like a limited edition, totally inspired dragon costume
So you have to go into this dragon level
Beat the dragon
And then you pay 25 bucks to buy the dragon costume
And then these were going on secondary markets for like 45 soul
Because, you know, there was only so many
You had to beat the dragon to get them
And they were just kind of going crazy
It was our first like ever collectible
There's only like 100 of them
But pretty crazy stuff
So we're giving those same tools
Where other people can create their own collectibles
We're doing a big loot box drop
Also filled with collectibles
Like, you know, like some of them
Some of them will have rarer items than others
But we're basically
We were supposed to do it about 10 days ago
We were going to start
But the meme coin congestion slowed that down
So we have everything ready
And we're just kind of waiting for things
Yeah, it's been kind of crazy
So long as the update should fix that pretty quickly
Yeah, mid-April if we have to wait that long
But yeah, cleanos, mad lads
Even BR1 and Rory up here
We got all the Solana OGs getting portals loot boxes
You'll be able to open them up
We even got like de-gods and utes
From the other side of the pond
Their de-gods are doing some cool specific like
Rare items in their loot boxes
That's it
It's going to be really fun
Yeah, so you get the loot boxes
We love eco airdrops, dude
Hook us up, man
Send us some NFTs
We're down, bro
Cleaning us down
I'm there
I got my portals
I got two portals
I'm ready to go
Oh, yeah, so
Yeah, so we're just kind of ramping up all the
You know, more games, more collectibles
And that really is kind of just the tip of the iceberg
Like it's going to be a totally insane year
We have like stuff we've been planning for years
Really to just like really go crazy
You know, the bull runs here
So we have some wild stuff planned
That's exciting
That is freaking exciting, man
Yeah, it's a fun little world in there
And it's not little at all
It's a fun world in there
That's really cool, man
And thank you for pulling up
You guys are always the best
And, you know, I've known you for a while
So thank you very much
Yeah, of course, dude
I got to say what's up to my boy Juice real quick
What's cracking over there, man?
How you doing?
What's cracking on the heist?
What's up, Big Sizzle?
I just was talking to my wife
To try to get out the towel
To hang out with you in a few weeks
She's not buying it
But I'm going to keep chipping away
I mean, the day is just
It just doesn't work with that day
You know what I mean?
But that's a big day for you
I mean, it's a big day for you
It is a big day for me, guys
I'm turning 35 to NFT NYC
My friends are listening
We're absolutely going to be having a very big party
Right after all the NFT NYC stuff
On the 6th of Saturday
So that's going to be fun
But what's cracking, man?
How are you?
Dude, my girl wears the heist hoodie
All the time
She got the banana
It's a good hoodie
Good quality
You guys obviously
Went a little extra on that merch
Because I know that thing wasn't cheap
That thing is dope
And I rock mine, too
But anyway, I'm reminded of you guys daily
Because not only do I have your NFTs
But we like the clothes, man
So what's cracking with you?
How's everything going at the heist?
Dude, the merch is actually a pretty funny story
I don't think we've actually ever told anybody this publicly
So this is a big gaming spaces inside story
So, dude, we were having a hustle to get the
We had like 10 boxes worth of merch
It was sweatshirts
And t-shirts
Exclusively
And I'm not kidding you
The morning of our event
Where we're going to give these out
It wasn't there
We didn't have the boxes yet
So I get a call
Like 6 a.m. from the hotel
And they're like
Sir, Juice, you better come down
There's a truck here with the shitload of boxes
So I'm like, fuck yes, let's go
You know, holders are going to be happy
The event attendees are going to be happy
So I go downstairs
I'll TLDR this
And the UPS guy of Amsterdam
Whatever the company's called
Hands me an invoice
And to get it through customs
It was like $6,000
Oh, dude, we're going to go over to Duck's next
And we're going to have a chat about that in a second here
If we could bond over that pain
That would be awesome
Because I'm like white as a ghost
Do you want to hear the funniest shit ever, dude?
And then we'll get right back to it in a second after
So Juck's had never left the...
Hold on, I'm plugging back in HD
Hold up, I just got up too low
It's so funny
Such a funny story
Listen to this
So Juck's never left the country
And this was just like the greatest thing ever
So we're like, alright, dude
I've been traveling the world for 15 years
So I'm very used to going in and out of things
Nothing bothers me
I'm not scared
If someone tells me to bring 50 boxes of shirts
I'll bring 50 boxes of Juck's
It's like, dude, are you sure I'm going to be able to get through customs
I'm like, just fucking put them in suitcases, bro
You're fine
So we give Juck six full-size suitcases
And as he picks up his checked bags
Some guy stops him and talks to him
Go ahead, Juck
How was your first experience leaving the country?
Were you terrified?
First experience, I didn't know what to expect
But I guess like an entire NFL offensive line amount of TSA agents
Don't usually stand at the gate waiting for each person
And casually walk up asking if they can help push your giant cart
An unnecessary amount of luggage for one person to be bringing into a new country
Juck's looked like he was smuggling
Dude, three and a half hours
They went through everything
They went through all the pockets
You got me on the phone like, Juck, get it through
I had to take inventory
I had to like bag it in new bags
We had to go back the next day
Like, how hard was that to even pack, bro
I know you and your wife was like literally sitting on those suitcases
Trying to close them, John
And you're sitting there opening them all up at the airport
Counting how many t-shirts you have and their estimated value
You're like, dude, how much are these?
I'm like, I don't know, bro, a couple bucks
You're like, bro, we were off by like if it was just like 50 cents less
We would have just been fine
But then they confiscated the gear
We had to call our friends from Live Nation
Who do this professionally for bands to release the gear
We had to pay the tax
Send jugs back to the airport
Guys, be careful with international merch
Just get it printed in the country you're going to
Find the local person, let them print it
You're not, you're gonna get taxed
They don't like Americans
TLDR though, we went back and got it all back
And got it out to everybody
Yeah, we absolutely did, we nailed that
But that was a mission
That was a mission to Mars, dude
Jews, so yeah, the cheese does not stand alone on this one, my friend
That's a good one, I like that
Man, like a picture of jugs just like throwing on like 50 t-shirts
Just being like, alright, fuck it, I'm going
Yeah, bro, dude, he's just like literally just like
Like a hockey goalie
Oh, that was one hell of an event though
The next day was fun, I miss it
Outside of the rain for fucking six days straight
But things are good, man
Gaming, I'm getting here a little bit late
But I'm actually testing out a closed alpha right now
For a buddy's game on fellow DKS Backwoods
Which is extremely fun
Shit, man, I've been grinding these blast games
Playing some Captain & Co, playing some
Shit, what's the other one, Cambria
I don't know if you guys have tried that one out
Those have been just fun in their own way
The other 12, 14 hours they were built in heist
We recently just launched our Season 3
About three weeks ago
It's been a lot of fun
You guys are just robust, man
You just keep like, every time I go I can do more shit
That's the point, right?
So we've been around for close to a year now
No, it's the truth
We launched about a year ago and the game was very, very basic
There weren't that many different decision trees
That you had to go through as a player
The gameplay loop was extremely basic
Which I think had solid product market fit
So we try and keep that core gameplay
You know, our idle nature
The games that we create
We've always preached like
They're built for busy DJs like ourselves
People who only have maybe 5, 10, max 15 minutes a day
To allocate but still want to be involved in the game
And the social side of it
We've kept that even in Season 3
Season 3 is definitely a bit more in depth
There's much more decision and strategy that goes into it
You know, we've got land now
Where you build out the instruction on your land
And it helps you protect or attack as far as getting Kiwi
Our newest token
And we've still got the chimps, the orangutans, and the gorillas
The gorillas being the extremely passive
You know, where you can set it and forget it for weeks
And just earn the token
And I guess to wrap it up without going too long on the tooth here
I think the alpha is right now
We actually just introduced Breeding
Which is our method of really scaling out the user base
Because the reality was like
We had less than 1% listed at any given time on the marketplaces
It made it extremely hard for new people to enter
So if you go look at the heist generations
It's the name of our new collection
And it's trading for a much cheaper price point
But you get into the game
There's very limited differences between the Genesis collections
Outside of your breeding capabilities
And some differences in just your overall power
Outside of that, you get full access to the game
And if anybody has ever wanted to get involved
It's never been a better time
Because I think the Genesis generation 4 or 5 right now
You can get in for a quarter soul
And from what I'm hearing
And this is definitely not financial advice
And again, I'm just appealing to the audience
It seems like the ROI on those newer generations
Is pretty high at the moment
And very quick
Dude, how do I
Thank you by the way
How do I see
So I got my
I have two chimps in this wallet, right?
And I go to NFT management
Like they're in the game
Where are
How do I find where they are?
Like I don't know if I have them still on a mission or not
Like how can I tell
Are you in
You're at the high stock game
So you see a left hand side where it says trips
What does it say there?
Zero out of two
So they're resting
That's not good
They're resting
Yeah, that's not good as right
So if you click into trips
And then the right hand tab
Yeah, okay, I got I got to send these guys out man
Yeah, put those fuckers to work man
Yeah, I'm putting these guys to fucking work
Yeah, I got to
Yeah, I got Gen Zero
I got two of them that are
We're gonna have a chat on the side here
You're gonna have to give me some personal strategy
I'm not gonna make everyone on the space go through this by now
But I do appreciate you giving us the update
And I had
Dude, you really kicked off my Solana alt coin
Freaking push
Like it was the depths of the bear
I'm pretty sure
And whatever
What was your first token?
The first one
Yeah, Nana, right?
So like no one knew shit about DeFi on Solana
It was just a bunch of NFT dudes
So I jumped on Jupiter with the Hello Moon RPC
And set my transactions to priority
And me and like a couple of the boys
Were just sitting there sniping
Nana, I bought like
Like a lot of it
And I made like so much money on it
Like it was the first time
I'm like dude
I'm like Solana DeFi is gonna happen
Like this is gonna happen
Because I'm like oh my god
I have such an edge
And like no one knows what they're doing
Now there's bots that snipe bots
And bundle transactions
And bots are botting the bots
And the MEV bots
Are botting the MEV bots
Botting the MEV bots
And like all that
But back in the day
With that token launch
It was fucking awesome
And I remember like feeling like a king
I was like dude
I really got this
And it was a big buy for me
I remember
Me and all the boys had so much fun
And we got into the game
And then we ended up using a bunch of the tokens
And stuff
It was cool
It was great stuff for us
So I appreciate you being up here
Appreciate you
Yeah you guys fucking rock man
Alright well now we talked to everybody
Is there anything you guys wanna talk about collectively
Like what's like
What's gaming dealing with
Or like what's like
Where it's like
Is there anything you guys wanna ask me
Or go through or go on
Or like anything that like
You guys are either
Like a lot of you guys transitioned
From like
From bear to bull
Which is like impossible
It's like really hard
And it's like harder than people think
Like like
What are you guys like running into
Or like is it cool
Is it all great
Are the customers just pouring in
And users just pouring in
Because it's a bull market
Or is it harder
Cause some of you guys
Were thriving in the bear
Do you know what I mean
Like how has that been for you guys
Anyone can answer
Go ahead Karma
Yeah go ahead
And then I'll go ahead and choose
Yeah it's actually such a good question
And you know
So fun to be here on stage
With people
From portals
From aurorae
Shout out to you guys by the way
Like I remember like
The very very early days
Of my Solana explorations
And just basically
Doubling around different projects
And I remember you know
The first time stumbling upon portals
And aurorae like
The early aurorae raids
Like such a wholesome community
With just you know
Raid other communities
Discourse with like
The most lovely of messages
Like the positive type of raid
Yeah just like
I feel transported back in time
Right now on this stage
But something I personally
Have been noticing for a while now
You know like
Web3 Gaming really is growing
It was such a niche
Past cycle
Like just the very early stages
Right now it has grown exponentially
We went for this like
Mini-gaming bull
Where each possible gaming
Or gaming adjacent project
Would just immediately explode
But I personally still see
User acquisition
User onboarding
Just as like the number one problem
Of any game
There is more Web3 games
Than there really is
Web3 players at this point
And that's what I think
We should
Or could at least
Talk about on this stage
Like it seems to me like
Any potential Web3 Gaming project
Coming out there
The only thing you truly need
To look at
To determine their long term success
Is what's their user onboarding
User acquisition strategy
Because that's the most
The most difficult thing to do
There are no good marketing strategies
There are no good like you know
Direct marketing flows
For Web3 in general
Much less for gaming
Yeah you guys are on the battle show
Everybody's fakes
You're the ones that have to figure that out
Which is so crazy
Because there's no Web3 Gaming
The study you guys are it
Like you're all up here
You know what I mean
So it must be
You know difficult
Or it must
I don't know it sounds like it
It sounds like it is
You know what I mean
And I'm definitely here to talk about it
Because I don't know if you guys know my past
But you know
I was user acquisition at Lyft
And Postmates
And YouTube Red
And I've moved millions and millions
And millions of users
To some of the biggest apps in the world
It was like my job for years
And you know I just landed over here
Because I like the people better
But that's why I asked
Everyone thinks that like
You know bull markets here
Everything's easy
It's like no
People to do something
And actually like
Get in these games
It must be tough
How about for you Juice
I mean you had a crazy influx
In the beginning right
Like for months
Like months
And months
And months
And months
What are you running into now
Do you guys have even any questions
I'm happy to help too
I'm a traffic junkie
You know what I mean
We did man
April when we launched
I think there was maybe
3,000 wallets
That were actively trading NFTs
And we had about
2,500 daily active users
So we're really capturing
A majority of like
The user base on Solana
It's a weird time right now
I talked to probably
4 or 5 founders
Just today alone
Who were looking to get into
Launching a game 5 project
Or a game related project
And then I probably heard about
Another 5 to 10
Through other people
Of games that are launching
So I think we're going to enter
This like golden age
Of Web3 gaming
I just don't know
What that looks like
In the next
A year from now
You can kind of tell
Yeah because there's
These cycles right
And it must be expensive
And difficult
Right now
Like dude
Everyone knows
The focus is on coins
Right now
You can look at
Magic Eden or Tensor
The floor prices of the NFTs
Seem like they're down
But a lot of them
Are actually quite equal
To US value
It's just a lot of went off
But there's just
There's not a lot of volume
Right now
And it's currently
People are playing on DeFi
And then the next part
Is they go back to NFTs
And that's when they start
Playing the games more
It's just like
I don't know
If you were struggling
How you were dealing with it
And what you guys are doing
To acquire
Like to get new people
I couldn't agree more
I think right now
Is like there couldn't be
A better time to really
Just put the head to the
Or notice the grindstone
And really just fucking
Crank stuff out
Because you're right
There's meadows
There's rotations
And gaming
And I'm sorry
And then gaming
Along with that
Will come back around
But you're also right
Competition
And opportunity cost
Has never been higher
Everything is just
Ultra ultra financialized
So you know
Everybody's hunting 100Xs
And you know
I think that's why you're seeing
People grab a tour
Just these games on blast
Because they have
Tens of millions of dollars
In potential token
To be farmed
So it's an interesting time
But overall
I think it's just really good time.
I mean, I'm black sheep, bro.
I'm going left, man.
Everyone can go right.
I'm buying NFTs right now.
Like, bro, I'm buying cheap heists.
I'm buying portals.
I'm buying DR1s.
I'm buying Aruris.
I'm buying all of it, probably.
I got ZTX.
Like, you know what I mean?
Like, I'm buying.
Like, you know what I mean?
If everyone else is doing this one thing, like, that happens.
Do you guys who have been here for the last Solana
and the last youth NFT run, there'd be days, right?
It happened maybe once or twice a quarter
or maybe once or twice a year where you would just wake up
and everything was 6X.
It's like the gods or the cabals
all got their money together and said,
hey, fuck you while you were sleeping
and everything just goes crazy and it's going to happen soon.
So I'm not missing that again.
So, you know, I'm well spread out.
I'm well diversified.
I'm a multi-chain and my assets are spread wildly
across everything.
So, you know, I got my spots and I'm looking for it.
Like, I got tensor open every day as if it was,
you know, the middle of the Solana NFT bull run last.
I'm checking.
I'm watching, baby.
You know what I mean?
And like, remember I said that
because you guys that have been here know it just happens.
It just, something happens and it just goes that way.
You know, someone like a couple of people get together,
sell big bags and token together and they're like,
yeah, let's go sweep these.
And then it just kicks off a chain reaction.
And before you know it, just like clean those are 100 again.
And you're like, shit balls, I don't have one.
You know, so don't get caught there.
If you got some extra soul and you got some extra ether,
you got some extra whatever, check all these guys out
and don't lose your spot.
Like BR1 just told us you can stake their NFTs
for their points, which is essentially going to be a token.
Like, why aren't you doing that?
Like, like, like, like portals,
just talking about some serious shit.
Like, like, why aren't you getting one of them things?
Like the heist is literally free right now.
Like it hurts my fucking soul.
Like I'm about to like just get so many of those
because I always wanted to have them
when it was where it was.
And now I'm like, okay, like that's fucking awesome.
You know, so yeah, you know, I love all these guys
and everyone's been here for a while
and everyone cares and everyone's building dope shit.
So pay attention to who's showing up to these spaces
while the NFT market's hurting
because these are the real ones
and these are the people that are going to thrive
when the attention's back over there
because they have been building every single person
up here has.
And for the new guys about the launch too,
you know, Dane down there.
Dane, you got to be tired.
I don't know how you're still with us.
Um, he's sleeping, bro.
I know he's sleeping, bro.
Oh man, it was like midnight for him when we started.
But, um, yeah, Carm, I appreciate you, uh, you know,
and, and, and juice too, talking about this stuff
because it's not all fricking fun and games.
Like even for the mean coins, you see everybody like,
oh dude, thousand X, it's like, bro, I lost like,
like the disgusting amounts of money
playing with these things.
Like, like my mother would not be okay
in the conversation.
Like, you know what I'm saying?
Like it's not all fun.
Like we lose too, right?
So it's like, I like to talk about what's real too.
And I'd like to bring the real ones up here.
So if you're listening in, you know,
there's plenty of fun farming opportunities
for my DeFi boys down there.
And there's plenty of good NFT options for,
for my NFT people listening down there.
And even for you guys on ETH, yo, you're rich, bro.
It's just cheap, man.
You can buy, you can sweep the floor
of all these guys up here.
Y'all rich.
I see them crypto punks, bro.
That shit's real, right?
Yeah, fricking, let's go, bro.
We got you.
That's old money.
We love you guys.
And I love that all the walls are broken down.
The, the, this market's different.
It's the super cycle.
It's what they call it.
We're all going to get along
and we don't care what chain you're on
or what you're up to.
It's like, let's just bring more people to crypto.
So I think it's pretty cool.
You could never see that back at back then,
but there was ETH spaces
and there was fricking a lot of spaces.
And there was the other people that were on other chains
who we didn't acknowledge.
Now we're all together.
Everybody apologies for interrupting.
No, get in there.
You broke up though.
That's what happens.
You interrupt that and you get rubbed.
Oh my God, stop it.
Can you guys hear her?
I can't hear.
No, I can't hear it all.
She'll be back.
It's cool.
Look, yeah, she's quick.
I see her.
That's funny though.
Who said that?
Was that you, Jax?
Fricking goofball, that had to be Jax.
No, I'm sorry.
Eddie, it was me.
Oh, okay, okay.
You guys are the best, man.
Now I'm on Tensor.
Yo, what is that thing?
I like that thing.
Damn, bro, you guys.
I like NFTs way too much.
This is, let's get karma back up here.
I'm looking at these NFTs now.
I'm like, yo, fuck dude.
What are they gonna do next?
Why is it not letting me at her?
Do we break it?
I think we broke the internet karma.
You up here?
Are you in, are you in purgatory?
She might be in purgatory.
Nope, there she is.
Are you up here now?
Can you hear us?
Yeah, back to interrupt again.
Am I good now?
Yeah, you're good.
How you doing?
Thank goodness.
Got scared for a second there.
Thought we lost you.
Yeah, I rug regularly.
I have no idea why.
There is no rhyme or reason to this.
Imagine being the host and doing that all the time, man.
You know how many times I've restarted spaces
in the middle of like banger spaces,
like just like, poop, gone.
Anyway, what's cracking karma?
I can't believe this app is free, hey?
No, just wanted to say that.
Remember last cycle when everybody was saying
future is multi-chain?
And you know, like back then we were all in our little camps
and you were either a Solana Maxi
or you had to be an Eith Maxi.
I feel like that has very much dissolved itself
into a slow acceptance of the fact
that there are so many layer ones and twos by now
that no one really gives a damn anymore.
And even more bridges.
So I just wanted to say,
I feel like the choice of your blockchain
used to be so incredibly important.
Now everybody just accepts, hey,
it's just like a part of your tech stack.
It doesn't really matter.
Yeah, I think that's a pretty,
that's a pretty sick thing.
And I also wanted to just, you know,
like give a huge shout out to the ZTX Arts team.
I was been experimenting with some like more edgy
and, you know, limited edition characters.
And actually, because you were earlier saying
about losing money,
we just released a limited edition of 69 SPF characters
in previous pre-sentencing as a cathartic moment
for everybody who wants to play as him.
How do I do that?
To just work through some losses.
Do I have to buy him?
Are you seeing the avatar builder or like, where is he?
You can, you have to craft him in game.
So basically, you know, you're like plant resources
and then like once you've accumulated enough resources,
you just like go in the game and you can craft him
or you can buy him on secondary
after all the players have crafted him.
There is so like three minutes to fly,
all goes to players.
Yo, do you guys just hear that?
They made 69 SPFs.
That's bullish.
I don't know if y'all heard that, but that's bullish.
There's 69 people in the space too.
That's so funny.
Oh, I love that you can play as SPF.
Is there gonna be a Caroline at some point?
Oh my God, she's such a character.
We're taking requests.
I will build that down, Ashley.
I just, oh man, she is so funky.
But yeah, guys, I think we're good.
I went through everybody
and it's my daily sunset ritual.
So I got to get up to my roof and watch the sunset.
So I really loved having everybody up here.
We should do this every week or every two weeks
and, you know, make sure that this is recorded.
I don't normally record my spaces,
but since it wasn't about meme coins, I was happy to.
So you guys can share this with your communities
and, you know, come back to it.
I think it was a good time and some good music.
Yeah, dude, I'm just gonna sign it off, man.
Thank you to every single person up here.
Please follow all these people
and buy their NFTs and play their games, obviously.
And yeah, man, rock and roll, man.
Keep in touch.
Thank you everyone so much for coming up here.
Let's jam out as I sign off and I'll see y'all soon.
I'm doing these spaces all the time.
So pull up.
Closing time.
Open all the doors and let you out into the world.
Closing time.
Turn all of the lights on over every boy and every girl.
Closing time.
One last call for alcohol, so finish a whiskey or beer.
Closing time.
You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.
I know who you want to take me home.
I know who you want to take me home.
I know who you want to take me home, take me home.
Later, yo.