๐ฎ Came into the space in 2014
๐ฎ Wrote a paper on the use of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology to fix problems in foreign aid ๐ฉน
๐ฎ Got an award from the Global Development Network - Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
๐ฎ President of Blockchain in Gala Games
๐ฉน Working as an academic consultant
๐ฉน Saw a call for papers for the Global Development Network
๐ฉน Before that, had done work in foreign aid at post-earthquake Haiti & Peru
๐ฉน Used blockchain technology in the essay
๐ฉน Received a call from them after a few months
๐ฎ Started working on various projs
๐ฎ Marcomms role: Explaining technical things in a simple way
๐ฎ Kept working in that capacity because he believed in the space
๐ฎ Involved in @QUOBlockchain. Project is currently idle
๐ฎ Loved the idea of game ownership
๐ฎ Wrote a paper on player ownership before ๐
๐ฎ Joined Gala Games because they can execute on their ideas
๐ฎ One liner for Gala Games: We are here to give power back to the gamers ๐
๐ฎ People working on Gala Games are from the games industry, using blockchain as part of their tech stack
๐ฎ This is very different from a blockchain company that tries to make games
@zima_red@BitBenderBrink@GoGalaGames@AndrewSteinwold@QUOBlockchain ๐ฎ Half of "blockchain games" are not games, but are Gacha slot machines with some sort of economic component tied in.
๐ฎ If people were not paid to do it, they would not play these games
๐ฎ Gala Games wants to make games that are fun, that people would love to play
@zima_red@BitBenderBrink@GoGalaGames@AndrewSteinwold@QUOBlockchain ๐ฎ Every game is pay-to-win. The question is what the gamer is paying in:
1๏ธโฃ Paying in money ๐ธ
2๏ธโฃ Paying in time. A highly skilled player has put in time to get to what he/she is today ๐
๐ฎ Creating an ecosystem where people paying in money โก๏ธ people paying in time
๐ฎ Had AMA with @opera & Mercy Corp Ventures
๐ฎ Created a building called the Sanctuary in-game
๐ฎ % of resources collected by new players go back to it
๐ฎ Resources given out to charity
๐ฎ Allows players not just play-to-earn, but to play to give to a cause
๐ฎ Traditional games have a closed loop system
๐ฎ When developing games for the blockchain space, game devs have to be more careful about the game ecosystem
๐ฎ Foresees that tokens, blockchain, and NFTs are going to be how we are going to build the system
Spider Tanks
๐ท๏ธ Brawler/MOBA game
๐ท๏ธ Worked with @GAMEDIA_GAMES to produce it
๐ท๏ธ Own Spider Tanks, which are spider-shaped tanks, and fight one another
๐ท๏ธ Use resources to upgrade your tanks
โญ๏ธ 1st internal game
โญ๏ธ A town building farming simulation
โญ๏ธ Gave away a million dollars in May to players. There were people in the community who were able to purchase their homes using their winnings
โ๏ธ MMO RPG with an entirely player-driven economy based around a medieval feudal system
โ๏ธ Have smaller homesteads all the way to massive citadels
โ๏ธ Difficult to give a rough launch date
โ๏ธ Some stuff would be out this year
๐ฎ A series of node licenses that allow people to buy these licenses and run nodes
๐ฎ By running nodes, they are supporting the network by providing processing power and storage
๐ฎ In return, node operators are rewarded in GALA tokens ๐
๐ฎ ERC-20 token
๐ฎ Can be obtained from running a node or from DEXes
๐ฎ Each of their games/products will have separate tokens
๐ฎ There will be interlinking ecosystems โ $GALA will tie everything together ๐ชข
๐ฎ Believes that they have the ability to become the next Steam
๐ฎ Want to see hundreds of games, all with player-owned assets, integrated with Gala Chain
๐ฎ GalaCon at Las Vegas in December
๐ฎ Announcements of things that are coming to the platform both before and after the event
๐ฎ Cool stuff related to Mirandus
๐ฎ Triple A gaming titles coming to the blockchain space. An example is a FPS game ๐ซ
๐ฎ Loves NFTs, but there's a lot of trash out there
๐ฎ Thinks that there is a degree of collusion that drives the value of some NFTs up
๐ฎ Some projects will succeed tremendously ๐ while a lot of projects will fade away ๐
๐ฎ Going to be a shakeout in the blockchain collectible space ๐
๐ฎ Legitimate projects will continue building while the rest will fizzle out
๐ฎ After the shakeout, there will be innovation in the space ๐ก
๐น Joined the space 4 years ago when she was with @Fidelity
๐น Had to figure out which use cases to be prioritized
๐น Fell in love with the ecosystem
๐น Joined @blockchaincap
๐น Co-Founded @KomorebiFund, a DAO focused on investing in female & non-binary founders
๐น Bucket it into 2 categories:
1๏ธโฃ What can people do with NFTs?
2๏ธโฃ DAO landscape
๐น Unsure whether DAOs will go mainstream
๐น DAOs are opt-in communities; you get what you put in
๐น Trend is to have 1000s of small communities
๐น DAO onboarding is โฌ๏ธ challenging
Beanstalk is a decentralized credit-based stablecoin protocol and we're going to focus exclusively on the dynamic peg mechanism of @BeanstalkFarms.
How does the stablecoin $BEAN maintain its price? To understand that, we have to talk about riding a bicycle ๐ฒ
@BeanstalkFarms When you're riding a bicycle ๐ฒ, you're never really in a balance all the time. You're always making adjustments like tilting the handle and shifting your body weight. An experienced rider will make these adjustments subconsciously and the bicycle appears to be balanced.
@BeanstalkFarms But it is really just these 3 steps repeated continuously:
1โฃ Bicycle tilts to one side
2โฃ Make adjustments to tilt it back
3โฃ Balanced for a short while
โ๏ธ Blockchain operates as a single unified network, providing the same standard of service
โ๏ธ Chainlink is a heterogeneous network. Millions of independent Oracle networks can run in parallel, each having their own cryptoeconomic security
@ChainLinkGod@Crypto___Oracle@chainlink โ๏ธ Chainlink provides consensus about the subjective external world ๐
โ๏ธ Chainlink Oracle networks are highly customizable
1๏ธโฃ Different data types
2๏ธโฃ Some have a couple of sources vs others which have a lot of sources
3๏ธโฃ Some may be paid APIs while others are publicly available
๐น How do we use cryptocurrency to financially incentivize a group of independent entities to work together? ๐ค
๐น Not just about work done, but to have financial incentives that are high enough to avoid various types of attacks
Here's the pod summary from @coingecko podcast where the host Benjamin (@NeBB399) interviewed Brandon Millman (@BChillman), CEO of @phantom. Phantom wallet is a user-first crypto wallet based in the Solana blockchain. Read on ๐ to learn why Phantom is so popular with users.
๐ธ CEO and co-founder of Phantom Wallet
๐ธ Launched around Apr 2021
๐ธ Formally an engineering leader at @0xProject
๐ธ Before that, he was the senior engineer at Twitter
๐ธ Disillusioned with his work at big tech companies
๐ธ Decided to join a nascent ๐ถ industry, like Ethereum
๐ธ Initially wanted to get into the consumer app side but realised infrastructure is not ready to support it, and ended up at 0x
Join us as we share the pod summary from @gabrielhaines featuring Andrew Thurman. @Blockanalia worked for Chainlink before becoming a journalist at Cointelegraph and CoinDesk. Read on more as he shares what life is like as a crypto-journalist.
๐ธ Masters in Creative Nonfiction, also taught journalism
๐ธ Starting investing in 2017 top
๐ธ Started a business on @chainlink ecosystem, building the framework to allow node operators to work efficiently with data providers on a data call billing model
@gabrielhaines@Blockanalia@chainlink ๐ธ Chainlink invited them to present at Web3 in Berlin in 2019
๐ธ Co-founded a smart contract data marketplace which becomes the Oracle Network API3
๐ธ One of his first calls was with @bobbyong from @coingecko