Some had this and badness comedy is shot. Yeah
Got no stick in the rise if I take place with the guys
I gotta put em all cheese over like three faces cuz the feds can't see those eyes
People are shim be beside when I was that I could ever go strapper just to sell food on Bieber size
Any reasons why I'm this way my girl? That's just one reason why senior around us don't throw it up man, baby
You know about some media guys
Obedient guys yokers and comedian guys, you know, I'm like six foot two and I write you love but you know about some medium guys
I want to keep you on the beach till 6 a.m
So you see sunrise seen you from the stage, you know 100 sees must be eagle eyes pressing against me think about entry
You know, you could tell it's a decent size
You want to know the real me girl say you want to see deep inside. It just has all the shit outside back
You don't want to see him reach inside. We know some demon guys would tell us in evil eyes, you know
That's a Jesus died. You know, that's a Julius Caesar died. I bet they were decent guys
I swear they remind me of me sometimes I'm trying to be under your breast like peas and rice
You never get treated nice for you once that's fine, but you look dumb if you let them repeat it twice 200 mil on the table
I hope I'm able to get this agreement signed told you I needed time but really the truth is I don't believe in time
I'm feeling I've been here over a thousand years
I since them at Eagle time and I'm still just a cut though
Can you even notice is recent times? I met my dad that would be from where but we don't do grieving time
Fuck T's in time if I come inside just breathe in time so much for idols
KMT with a high road knew that made it when I had drivers hold him the same up in arrivals
since my knee back see when he see how this bitch are going viral if lead is dead and a match is there with
Grains in there like silos the morning rain clouds up my window. I swear I feel I died. Oh,
J-a-u-m. I love swimming for you in a jam like typos negotiation. I said for 20% of the company. That's my final realistic
I shit my m15 like a lord to turn on my road
It was beef. I get that shade for bread and grease like I'm making gyros or making giros so much for all these heroes
The numbers are good with me as long as it's common as it'll zero zero zero zero zero zero zero
If a girl try to take my Rolex to buy some Valentino, I tell baby and what she did to the kid
She didn't rock my clothing. We have one shirt to go with the jeans
Oh, no man, like me and playing can afford those words like grandpa Reno good
I don't think without to say even crying why you swearing to God you don't even believe in Christ
We say well all you feel you ain't been on your TV. We ain't it's fine. I ain't a money
I'll drink that you wish that you stay with your previous guys. They used to be frequent pants
You know, I can sell out all to arena twice for us with a feeler snack
Don't believe with a media. I like eight percent of these people land
You cannot ask that I need advice. I gotta work for this new programs. You know, I peace for the future
Look what's up? What's come down? So when you're in the air prepare for the landing
I did everything that I could from our hood
So how did they say I don't care for them and the crip so big I might get a breath of I'll go to pick up the
Stairs and I mentioned they were there for the action turn around not feeling the spot as we're going for what we're being
Welcome everyone to this week's base with a arena
Following up on the announcement earlier today that I will be one of the eight captains in the upcoming
AI arena campaign. I hope you all can hear me through this act a little bit weird for me today
Even when I posted on a timeout earlier today, so I hope you can hear me and I hope we we don't get rocked
But yeah, welcome everyone. Welcome captain CK. Welcome. Welcome great. How are you guys doing? I
Am doing wonderful. I'm really excited to be here really excited to get this announcement out. I
Have been speaking with gway here for quite a long time
I think I had AI arena on my space the builders block like ages ago when I was when I was still a host
So really really cool to see things come full circle and be a part of this absolutely
Great to be on with you guys
Doing a lot of the behind-the-scenes work been coordinating and in whale
Awesome to have you on as a captain obviously so keen to get into all of this
I think it's gonna be a really exciting campaign. I actually just saw earlier today one of the other captains yp
Putting out like an application form like things are getting crazy out there. So really looking forward to this
Let's go maybe to give to people who don't know what the
Campaign will look like a brief overview. There will be eight teams led by eight captains. I'm one of them great
Who are the other one? I know hunter is one
Yellow panther, but can you give us a quick rundown off of all the other captain for sure. So it's obviously whale
paladins dal and easy eats
bodega, those are the eight
Whale is kind of playing anchor here in terms of the announcement. So we've announced the other seven and today we saved the best
That's for last will is the last being announced here
Those are the eight captains just briefly to know
You know players who register is free to play everyone can join in and participate
Which team they want to play for but obviously team captains have the ability to
You know convince you that they're the team that you want to join
So I think that's probably a part of this conversation as well. So keen to keen to get into that conversation
Yes, sir. Thank you for the for the overview. So basically for the people in the the audience
Because I didn't my announcement I saw and the announcement of a lot of the other captains
We were asking how can we participate? It's basically free to free for everyone. You can join whatever team
You like, of course, I think my team will perform pretty well
We got already a lot of talented players that join us
Of course seek and his team supporting us on the on the back end
So really excited about this if you join the the right team the team that will win at the end of the day
there will be a bonus in the
Yeah, I'll drop you will get because that's the other part of it while playing. It's a play to play to earn the a drop
Campaign. So why you why you participate in the game and while you join?
One of the teams you can participate in that
So, of course if you'd like to join my team stay tuned for for next week. We'll have another big
Announcement something that's exclusively to to what you will get when you join the whale team
So definitely say stay tuned for that. It's gonna be a big week next week, too
But yeah, that's basically all the all the info. I'm sure I arena will put out a lot of announcements
Leading up to the start to of course, you will see a lot of my new my feet
In the next few days and weeks on the other captain's feet
And yeah, then I'm looking forward to this looking forward to yeah participating with you all if you want to want to join my team
Definitely super excited about this. But yeah great baby for the people who don't know. Can you give us a
Brief rundown on what AI arena is and what you're what you're trying to build. I think similar to ck
I think we had you on whale tank quite a while ago
But of course there has been a lot new a lot of new developments
So would love to get maybe for the people who don't know or hear about a arena for the first time
a great explanation on what you're building for sure happy to and I think I think I may appear on another well tank coming up soon, so
I'll definitely walk you guys through at a high level. So AI arena
I think one of the most unique and interesting games building web 3 and in fact web 2
We still to this day have not seen another game that really delivers this type of experience
At its core. I would describe it kind of like a crossover between Pokemon and Super Smash
I think most people when they see the gameplay they immediately think about something like Super Smash Bros
And and whilst that is the case like your ais are fighting in this platform fighting game
The core game loop is one where you as a human player
You're actually training an AI to play how you would play as a human. So it's very much a kind of a training based game
When the AI battles in the arena is actually auto battling other AI so you don't have control in the battle itself
But you do have control in how your AI learns to play this game
So at its core is it's a strategy game
Is there's an incredible amount of depth and because these characters are AI models
You're basically able to teach them any type of skill that you want is very unconstrained
You really can implement your creativity and how you want your character to actually perform and behave
So that part of it is really exciting. It lends itself to very very exciting competitive
We're literally just scratching the surface in terms of how far players can take these AI's and every single time we have new blood
Coming into the game the overall competition elevates and someone emerges
New on top of the leaderboard kind of introducing a new style of play with their AI
That's really interesting to watch and it kind of just pushes the entire competitive platform forward
So we're we're super looking forward to having
Everyone come in through this play to airdrop campaign play the game test it out
And then you know, there's gonna be a leaderboard. It's a point system
And the the more points that you earned during this campaign the bigger the airdrop that you will receive
Almost everyone will receive an airdrop. So it's
It's you know, everyone's gonna be included. However
The reward pool is definitely gonna be skewed towards people who perform well towards the top of the leaderboard
The other thing to highlight as a feature here. It's a skill-based game. It's not something that you can really grind
It's not like if you spend more time you're guaranteed you're guaranteed a larger airdrop doesn't work that way
You're competing against everyone else who's trying to improve their AI
So you're only as good as how competitive your AI is relative to other players
Which is a really cool cool and unique feature
So this also is why I know people spend enormous amount of time in the game trying to find
You know that extra little thing that they can include in their AI's performance to get an advantage over the field
Because at the end of the day if you're if you're really good, it could be quite lucrative
So I'll stop there and I'm happy to answer any questions
Let's go thank you for for the intro we got lots of jpeg joining joining us on the stage
Chat is part of our our team one of the pro players that we they recruited
So we're excited to have him on the team. How are you doing?
Or can other people here JPEG JPEG because I can't hear him if he's speaking. I can't hear me either
It's probably busy playing
Yeah, he's sleeping but no problem. Yeah, he's one of the one of the pro players that will
That will join us in in our team. So excited to have him on we'll try once again because he's on the stage again
Let's go welcome welcome to the stage good to have you have you on the team. Thank you
I will just getting into into the basics of of a arena and the in the actual campaign
So yeah, great. Can you share anything?
Yeah, maybe some alpha around the the token itself like
What role would it play in the in the ecosystem?
Of course, you don't want to share too much around the details already, I guess but if there are any
Yeah, yeah alpha you can share please good for sure
So obviously this is a play to air drop campaign. So people are playing for token airdrops
NRNs are a utility token within the game
You know, it will power many of the kind of the purchase spending decisions in the game over time
But also one of the core use cases of enter in the game is through this in-game staking function now
The staking in our game is very different than most other projects. I think most most of the time staking is
Basically you you basically lock up your tokens in order to earn some type of like additional token rewards
As a function of how how strongly you believe your AI is going to do in the competition
And depending the on the amount that you stake behind your AI that
Informs how much of the prize pool that you can actually earn. So in this play to air top campaign, you will get the opportunity to
Experience what that staking it feels like because we're running on testnet
So we're gonna give everyone an NFT on testnet as well as testnet NRN tokens
So you get to experience that whole kind of full experience of not just training AI but also managing this kind of like risk
You have to stake behind your fighters before going into the cycle and then depending on how much you you stake
It actually is a factor that drives what you can get in terms of rewards
So all else being equal the more you stake the more potential rewards that you're able to get now comes with with risk, right?
If you stake too aggressively and your AI is actually not that competitive
But it's it all depends on how well you do and kind of how well you do throughout a cycle of competition
That's something that will be really fun for for players to figure out as they go into the competition itself
So that's the core feature of the NRN token
I'll talk a little bit about kind of the distribution mechanism and the supply at launch
so we are air dropping in total 8% of supply for
What we call season one of airdrop
4% is going to this play to air drop campaign
So if you compete in this play to air drop campaign
4% of total supply being 1 billion tokens is going to be allocated to this play to air drop campaign
Another 4% is being allocated to our NRM prize box system
You can think of it some somewhat akin to like a blur box type of system where each box contains
Some amount of tokens. You don't know how much exactly but there are four rarity tiers
And obviously the more rare the box the more tokens that is going to come with now the way that you earn those boxes is
Activating in our discord community through what's called an arena points system
There's a lot of minigames within the server
there's a lot of engagement things that you can do with the server to earn those AP and then you can use the AP and bid into a
Prize pool mechanism that we run twice a week where we draw winners for these prize boxes and
The more AP you have over time the more statistically you're going to earn in terms of these boxes
So that's how that system works
4% of airdrop is going to that system and then 4% is coming to the play to a play to air drop
So depending on how you want to get engaged with the ecosystem you have a choice
If you want to play the game and you think you have
Confidence in your abilities definitely check out the P to a if you want to contribute the project more and just vibe with the community
Get into the you know, the prize box system
Everything's open to everyone. So
Yeah, I'll leave it at that and happy to elaborate on any of the details here
Yeah, sorry speaking good. Yeah, no worries at all. I wanted to
Shoot a question your way because one thing I've noticed and really all of our conversations and previous AMAs and every time you cross paths
I I noticed the incredible
Intention behind everything done with an AI arena. I I'd love to hear from you specifically around the token
I mean what the overall long-term vision is and what role it's gonna play in the long-term ecosystem
Think the first thing to start off by saying is that we we are, you know, we we built on the ethereum
We very much subscribe to the ethereum ethos ethos of decentralization
and from the perspective of building this title AI arena, we want to make sure that we
We reinforce the idea that this is kind of a community-based effort, right? So it did start with arena X lab
which is the core developer, but we've
Garnered a very small active very
Enthusiastic core community and that community has been riding with us for well over two years now
You know JPEG has been with us for I don't know how long, you know, definitely over a year
If not, too, we have a lot of our OGs who's been with us play testing constantly coming back
Over those over that time
So our intention with the economy the game the ecosystem itself is that this is a community owned effort
And we made an announcement around that a couple weeks ago where you know
We transferred our our account to an offshore our Twitter account to an offshore came in foundation
That's going to now start to steward this kind of path towards decentralization
All of that is to say the value generated by this ecosystem is a hundred percent going back to the
Ecosystem. So that's the first thing to understand
So, you know a lot of projects talk about things like revenue shares and things like that
There's no revenue share concept here
Is that the value generated by this ecosystem goes back to the ecosystem holders which are those token holders and then by extension the NFT holders
So that's that's an underlying philosophy that we built into it. Now the core team we have token allocations
So we're fully aligned our tokens are locked for a year. Can't do anything within that time
we're we're coming to the table with a substantial airdrop to the community because we have faith in the community that we have built and
There is a direct utility and use case of this token immediately once the token drops
Which is to activate this in-game
staking slash wagering mechanism and then over time
This token will be used to power other aspects of the AI arena gaming economy
So a lot of the spending that's happening within the on-chain version of the game will be powered by NRN
And then the idea of the business model of AI arena is really one of competitive sports
so one of the reasons why we have a really narrow NFT supply being only 420 that we're launching with is
That is meant to be the competitive tier of players or the pros if you will
Now the pros play for a very different reason. They're super competitive and they they are in it for
basically, not only bragging rights, but financial dominance in the game and
We think web 3 and blockchain is really, you know, well designed for that particular purpose for the competitive tier of players
but the reality is not everyone is
Necessarily at that level or are they worth worthwhile being in the competitive tier?
So if you look at professional sports, you take any pro league, right whether it's football
basketball the the professional leagues only have a few hundred to maybe a thousand spots and
Those are the only players that can earn
Playing that game right take a take a look at the NBA. There's
What 400 to 500 players spots across 30 franchises. Those are the only players that get to earn
Everyone else is a fan and there are groups of people that are trying to aspire to get to the NBA
But the exclusivity of the pro tier is what gives it value
So we've modeled our economic system off of that whereby there is a limited number of slots
Conveyed by the NFTs in terms of access to the pro tier
Now there will be some inflation over time because we want to incorporate new people into that pro tier
But the inflation is going to be very low and it's going to be dependent on
More and more people joining the game at the free-to-play level so that they can rise through the ranks and earn their way into the pro
And then and then the way that we activate and monetize the free-to-play side is very different than the way that people may be spending
Within the pro pro level because on the on the casual players side of things
they're not playing it for the competitive endeavor necessarily they're playing it for the experience and
many times what we want is to create this experience of fandom where they can support a
You know for example, they want to support whales team
They want to support JPEG because JPEGs AI is their favorite player to watch in the arena
So what we need is we need really really good players that push the boundaries of AI
Performance and it makes it kind of this like spectacle where people watch and say holy shit
How did that how did the AI do that and how did JPEG train the AI to do that?
That makes them more interested in their pursuit of the game. They start to build this kind of fan
Pro type of affinity and then we can start to monetize that ecosystem
Across various different channels that are no longer just through in-game monetization channels
We can now monetize to content through things like fantasy sports experiences
And all these other derivative plays that we can build on top of the core competitive league. So
TLDR think about professional sports and think about like how would you bootstrap professional sports from the ground up?
What you need is a really compelling game
That people want to dissect and get better at and we think we have that with AI arena
And then you really need to cultivate the intensive competition at the center
Which is what we have done with a very small group of pro players or OG players
and now we want to expand that through this played airdrop campaign to
Basically identify the next concentric circle of really really high quality players
And then by that time we can launch this on-chain version of the game
Build that spectacle and start to really distribute that content. That's going to attract a base of like free-to-play players
and then you know NRN tokens is sitting at the heart of that economy and
Again, I'll go back to the value accrual by this ecosystem goes a hundred percent back to the community
Interesting yeah, thanks for thanks for sharing that actually from a strategy standpoint
I think what AI arena is doing is a little bit different from what we've seen in a lot of other
Kind of web 3 gaming gaming context like usually the
Playbook right now for for upcoming
Projects upcoming games is usually like an empty collection then token and then maybe in the future a game
What was kind of the thought process behind doing like a different way of launching like having the game?
Ready doing this play to airdrop
Campaign I guess was done intentionally what made you choose kind of this path instead of
Yeah, maybe the other the other playbooks. We we saw in the past few past few months for sure
Look, I think we've started always with sustainability in mind, right? Like it's from day one. We
Felt like we have something from a technological standpoint and from a gameplay standpoint
Really really unique and one-of-a-kind
Even in the two and a half three years that we've been developed developing this game a lot of other
Brands and titles have come and gone and said they're AI gaming this that and the other thing
And I think there's a new generation of AI specific games coming up
But we've always been playing a leadership role in that pack and to this day. I still think fundamentally
We have the most unique title out there and I said it before I'll say it again
It's the same in web 2 as it is in web 3. There is no competitor to us in web 2, right?
So if anyone wants to play this type of experience, there's one game they have they can they can go to we don't have any peers
Out there and in fact, we've tested the game with web 2 players and the feedback has been tremendous
Now small cohorts in test pilot campaigns
But we're slowly building a creator activation network in web 2 and we've been doing that over the last
Three to six months already. We just haven't told anyone but that activation, you know
We're we're well under our way in terms of planning or we're gonna pull the shoot once we feel we're ready to go
So, you know, we've been we've been doing the work behind the scenes of always building with a long-term sustainable view in mind
So when we look at you know
The the the metas that have come and gone in terms of NFTs and now gaming like we've seen it all right
and a lot of times what you see is
Web 3 because it's been a financialized is an incredible. How do I say it? It's like an incredibly intoxicating
Way for people to extract out of the system and
You know whether that's right or wrong. It doesn't matter is how the system is
We always knew that we can't play the game how everyone else is playing it because we don't believe most of the people are gonna
Be successful and then in addition to that if we want our objective to be sustainability
There are discipline decisions that we have to make along the way
For example always lead with gameplay always lead with the experience itself first, right?
What good is the token if you don't have a product right like all you're gonna have on the demand side is speculative flows
like that clearly is not sustainable is incredibly volatile and
You're at the whim of market forces
So even if you had a good product coming to market the finish the financial markets can destroy your asset before you even have
A shot of releasing that so people need to understand that when they're operating in wet 3 and you know
I don't know if most projects think rigorously enough about the consequences of each
Decision that they make I will say like it's not to say that we haven't made mistakes or if you know, we've been a hundred percent
Effective or great in our execution. I think we've executed very well
But it's the it's the reality of such a new nascent and dynamic
environment that we're in in web 3
that I think you always have to have to have this kind of like very strong view and nor star of what you stand for and
What you believe in and I think fundamentals always, you know play out over the long term
And I think we're one of the teams that have demonstrated that
Surviving through the bear market and coming out very strong out of the other end so that we're now well positioned to capture the
Upswing that we're currently in
so I think those are some of the factors that I would say contributed to what where we are and how far we come to
now and we've always been a bit against the grain on that so like to give to
Speak a little bit more directly to your question. Like for example NFTs. We never did a hype based NFT launched
In fact, we were like anti-hype
We that we did it and I know probably CK the first time that we spoke, you know
That was that was I don't know what like a year ago or whatever and there was like I remember was the art gobbler
Mean or the art gobbler meta and like we went viral off the back of art art gobbler
And like we weren't even ready to really release the product necessarily at that level
But then all of a sudden 20,000 people showed up and it's like our servers are going crazy
And at that point it could have been it would have been very very easy for us to say. Yeah, let's launch an NFT
Right and we could have done it. It would have been way over subscribed
We probably could have made some money from that, but we didn't do it
And instead what we did was we were extremely harsh
On our whitelisting system in allowing people to come into the game and actually testing it out
And the only way that people can earn our NFTs is through competing and placing in the top half of the leaderboard and now
You know 12 to 18 months later
We're in a very good position. I think our model has proven to be successful
I think we have captured a very very strong core audience of players that are now our core asset holders
That that holder-based ratio is really good. If you look at our collection our floor is very strong
It doesn't really it's not a hundred
It's not really like that correlated with the flows out there in the market
So I think those decisions are starting to pay off, but it took a tremendous amount of discipline to stick to that
100% no, I can I completely resonate with that. I first of all want to give you props. I
Really respect the way y'all have chosen to come to market
Yeah, I think you were given a very interesting opportunity there and I think you handled it
Completely the correct way and I think that's I think that's gonna prove
Prove beneficial in the long term, but I mean with that being said I wanted to share an experience
I've had around AI arena that I thought that I find particularly interesting and then I have a question off the back of it
So I know everyone here probably experiences a similar thing to me where you know being in web 3
We just don't talk about what we do to people outside of web 3, you know
Because you you want to you want to talk but like it's just it's such a rabbit hole
It's it's so hard to talk to people and they don't get it
You just you just never want to talk about web 3 stuff and I found that to be the case with me with like pretty much
Everything in web 3 like almost all of web 3 I don't talk about to anyone because I just know I'm gonna confuse them
So much they're not gonna understand it and it's just not worth it
But I've completely not found that to be the case with AI arena
I think just as a concept AI arena as a game
Actually sounds like a really fun game like it sounds like something I want to go get my friends to play with me
Like it's just it's a completely different experience. And so I wanted to give you kudos because that's I mean
That's just something that I don't think anyone in web 3 in my experience has done for me
You know in the sense that I don't want to share this stuff with people because I know it's too confusing
It's too unrelatable and it's just it's just not it's just not something they're gonna be interested in
So I think there's completely a I mean a large amount of mass market appeal to this game
And so I'm really excited to see how that plays out
But my question off the back of that because I think what's revealed in that experience is that
Air arena is actually cool. It's actually just a cool game. It's not it's not that it's web 3. It's not that it's blockchain
It's not that it's like the future of gaming. It's it's just actually a cool game. And so
Having I mean this amazing asset being this really
This really interesting gaming experience. Why did you choose to use web 3 to realize it?
Yeah, for sure. I think that's a great great question. Um, I think this this centers around
What makes web 3 great in the first place?
so if you rewind back to why
web 3 is so captivating as an idea, I think at the heart of it is
a couple of things at least to me number one is this idea that
The the average person now has the ability and agency to make choices around their own financial
Decisions right you're operating on a system. That's very neutral. That's globally scalable
That's fair and actually quite cost-efficient despite the fact and you know, he's sometimes
You know gas we've already all experienced like gas gas crunches around mints and stuff
But in general is still vastly superior than most other financial services that we experience in our everyday lives
Right, and that's particularly true in
And that's a huge equalizer
Right. This is this is a fundamental building block of society for the future
part of that is like this inclusive aspect right where
providing a platform for people all around the world that deserves an opportunity to be included in things like
Investing in things like getting access to just working financial infrastructure, right?
And then also getting an opportunity to build wealth
All those things are important. I think that's what blockchain web 3, you know decentralized finance
even NFTs and gaming to a certain extent plays on that underlying kind of
Vision of the future that we think is worthwhile
Supporting and building on so then the question is why web 3 in the context of AI arena?
If you if you go down into the core of what AI arena is
It is a extremely novel unique and compelling game, but it's also
A way that we can actually teach people about AI
Without them actually really thinking about it because as they play the game
They start to internalize and understand what AI is through experience
not through textbook definitions of things but through experience and
That's important because AI is you know besides web 3 the other
Mega technological theme it's going to overwhelm literally everything in our lives, right?
It's gonna permeate every single thing about what it means to be human
The problem with AI is you know, we think that web 3 is complicated try explaining what AI actually is to someone, right?
People have so many misguided notions about what AI is and it distills down to you know
Almost a central theme nowadays of general apprehension and fear out there because people see AI as a threat
What we're trying to do is like hey, let's use gaming as this medium to promote something
And give people an intuitive understanding of what AI is in a very fun and engaging way
This way we can onboard more people into the system and in fact encourage them to discover this technology
In various ways beyond just AI arena as a game
But we serve as a gateway of discovery for them and they don't have to do it in a very crude and boring way
They can do it through a fun and engaging way, which is game
So not only are you playing a game, but you're getting that building that core intuition about a technology
That's going to be so important in our lives. So with that as like the backdrop
Web 3 then is almost like we see it as like a distribution layer from the perspective of if we're if what we're after is
really really good players to
To feature the game and feature the competition then we need to be able to
Source that talent around the world
And we want to give an opportunity to anyone
Out there whether they're in North America in Europe in Latin America in us, you know in Africa in Asia
It doesn't matter where you are
You let your game do the talking and if you're good
You get handsomely rewarded and web 3 is a great platform for that
Right to imagine trying to run a global competition in anything
Even the biggest traditional web 2 games have problems populating servers around the world
imagine them trying to distribute financial incentives across a
Consistent like tournament where you know people are joining from our own world is basically impossible with traditional financial rails
But on web 3 it is possible
So to have like a competitive forum where you can source talent from all of the world
To use this financial services layer of the blockchain and distribute that value back to that ecosystem of players is
Where web 3 provides a solution for and it's really exciting and it's it's pure product market fit
It's just better than the traditional option. So why wouldn't you do that on web 3 is my question and I think very soon
The incumbents the traditional web 2 companies in the gaming space. They're going to start to understand that
we're gonna be on the leading edge of that along with some other games that we see in the web 3 ecosystem and
You know people are going to just see through actual tangible evidence that web 3 in this context of gaming
Just works better and it's gonna be irrefutable
So that's the reason why we're building on web 3 and actually I just want to point out web 3 to us is not
We don't intend to distribute this game to a million da you necessarily and have them all play on wet 3
You don't have to do that, right? Like you can't distribute the game through traditional
Without having anything to do with blockchain, but you just have the blockchain version be where the competitive players play
Because they need the financial ization layer, right?
That's the kind of the not only is like the economy the financial ization unit layer is the reward layer and
That part of it should live on web 3
Everything else doesn't have to be and if the frictions go away and we can build that like very efficient experience
Then yeah, we can slowly migrate it to web 3
But I know we are very high convicted highly convicted that web 3 serves a purpose
For the competitive Sierra gaming because it's just a hundred X better than the alternative
Loves it loves it for the people that just tune in
This is kind of an announcement space since I will be one of the eight captains in the AI arena competition alongside
Gray, I will try to come up with all the names. It's apex. It's hunter. It's easy. It's yellow panther
And spark see and paladins paladins now, let's go
So really excited about this you can join my team or another captain's team
I think it's a good idea to join my team
But you can join whatever team you you like and it's gonna be a really interesting
Play to play to a job competition
Great. Maybe as a as the last question before we before we wrap it up
For people that want to get want to get started want to learn a little bit more about AI arena
What's the best way for for people when they maybe heard the first time in this space about it?
What's the best way to to get started kind of prepare for for the campaign?
Number one, you can go to our Twitter account. Our official Twitter account is here in the spaces. Just click on it
Get in there and find more information
We have it in discord, but we also have a link tree so you can discover more through our written materials on the internet as well
But get involved in it in the community because we have many many not only good players
But tremendous community members that are eager to help people and onboard them and explain how the game works and all that
JPEG being one of them you guys got a tremendous asset on your team
So you can certainly learn about it that way in the link tree. You also find a YouTube channel
We have a lot of tutorial content on the YouTube channel
I would I would specifically watch it's called the get good with guppy series and guppy is actually here in the space
He's a CEO and CTO. He's the you know, the mastermind behind the game itself
Walks people through tips and tricks
Talks about new game release features, etc
Really good compelling watch is fun as well and you'll pick up
tidbits of strategies and tactics to kind of build and try out with your AI that can really get
Some really cool kind of performance
The last thing is definitely join one of the teams. I think you know, I'm sure whale
CK will provide more information in terms of your interested in joining whales team how you would do so
Several others have committed or ready to whales team. I'm sure they're building up some
Internal team infrastructure to help people on board because it isn't it is competitive as we'll mentioned
Picking the right team is an important decision for you as an individual because there is this team competition dynamic
If your team does well to pick the team the team that you picked as well
They're gonna be ranked on a team leaderboard and if you're part of let's say the first place team you're gonna get the maximum
Team multiplier on your own score, right?
So if your team does well, you get a bigger multiplier, which means you're gonna get more air drop
So joining the right team is very very important
Ultimately, you have the choice
You know, like Will said, I think they have a pretty good setup here and
Probably pretty compelling to kind of jump in enjoy joining whales team
I have to be very diplomatic because there's other other
Eight other captains, so I can't play any favorites. I think everyone is playing and pursuing this in their own way
I encourage people to check out the other teams. Obviously make make that decision that's
suitable for you, but I know I know how much time and effort whale and
CK and JPEG and the like have been putting together behind this effort
It's okay, it's okay. We we hear the subtext we we know a team
I'll say I'll say next week next week
Just just be way love way loves to be diplomatic but he but he knows that our team is gonna win. I
Would say JPEG is one of the most competitive people ever seen and I'll tell you JPEG
JPEG is extremely good at the game. But what I love about JPEG is that
he's he's the type of community member that has made our game infinitely better than what it would be otherwise because
He's the type of guy that just goes in and he leaves no stone unturned
He's and it's not like he's driven to just always be at the top of the leaderboard
He's willing to take risks and sometimes things that he's trying out
Doesn't work out and he may actually crash on the leaderboard and he's probably frustrated
and he might have broken a couple of keyboards or screens along the way, but
He's he's been really really valuable to us in terms of helping to push the boundaries of the game discovering things that are issues and
you know, we have we have many many of those type of
individuals in our community and we're
Incredibly grateful and indebted to them in terms of their contributions, which is also why you know as a core philosophy
You know a hundred percent of what we build in value in this project goes back to the community
Is because of people like JPEG and the others that are on this call
Let's go love it. Yeah, traffic has already been a tremendous resource to our team, too
So definitely glad we we have him on and ready to do so excited for for that
As CK said we will have an other announcement next week prior to to the start of the competition big announcement
Something that the other teams probably want
Won't be able to compete with without saying you're saying too much. So excited for for that
And yeah, thanks everyone for tuning in. Thank you. Great for for taking the time to give us a brief rundown of AI arena
Thanks to JPEG and CK for doing this together with me
Really excited about the next year next two weeks and months
Thanks everyone for tuning in stay tuned for next week. We'll have another announcement out and there you will
Clear or clearer picture on how you can join my team how you can participate in a campaign how you can
Yeah, work together with me on this and earn some money on the side. Maybe I'll drive on the side
So yeah, thanks everyone for tuning in. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Check back. Thank you CK
Yeah, more info soon. Bye. Bye everyone. Thanks. Well, thanks everyone