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January 29, 2025189 | Yat Siu on memes, AI agents and TON
Jon Jordan talks to Animoca Brands' chairman Yat Siu about the rise of memecoins, the value of Telegram and TON as a distribution platform, and how AI agents could shake everything up.
[3:56] What's the state of memecoins in 2025?

[6:28] "We are narrative, story-telling people - money, democracy, politics are all stories."

[8:32] "The part that makes me a bit negative about memes is they are being abused by snipers."

[11:02] Is PENGU a pure memecoin? Can a memecoin gain utility?

[13:18] Will institutions buy memecoins? There will be memecoin ETFs. But this need narrative.

[16:45] "Telegram is still the most powerful distribution platform."

[20:50] "TON means that Telegram will survive

[22:52] Ronin demonstrates the power of community as Axie was joined by Pixels.

[23:22] "In web3, they came for the money but stayed for the social."

[27:01] 'AI agents can now create tokens and pay humans to do things for it.'

[28:31] How Yat deals with vampire agent IP attacks such AImonica and an AI Yat agent.

[29:25] AI agents will make it easier for humans to interact with blockchains and wallets.

[31:54] Yat's attitude to the AImonica AI agent project.

[34:47] What's next for Mocaverse and the MOCA token?

[36:15] Reputation systems don't have to just be for humans, but can be for AI agents too.

[37:22] How blockchains and reputation can help student loans.

[38:07] Why Animoca isn't as focused on building and investing games as it once was.

[38:51] "We think NFTs are going to have a pretty big comeback in 2025."
42 min
January 24, 202524 January 2025 | Weekly news roundup
Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan ponder the week's news.
[0:52] How Jon came up with the Top 50 Blockchain Game Companies of 2025 list.

[8:28] Proof of Play was #1 - Jon explains why.

[18:04] Soccerverse now has over 1,000 managers and is about to hit Game Day 3.

[21:56] TON is now the only blockchain that can connect to Telegram mini-games.

[26:08] LINE NEXT has launched its first mini games using the Kaia blockchain.

[27:16] Jon found it complex to find the dapp store and play the games.

[31:03] The first games have been announced for the new Abstract blockchain.

[34:00] The first token launchpad for memecoins has gone live on Ronin.

[37:33] Azuki dropped its ANIME token.

[40:36] InfiniGods' GOD token went live today (24th January 2025).

[46:55] Today The Game has rebranded as Youmio Worlds with an AI agents' focus.
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January 17, 202517 January 2025 | Weekly news roundup
Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan chew through the week's news.
[0:23] Sky Mavis has announced a new $10 million grants program for developers on Ronin.

[3:22] Is the ease of onboarding users to web3 games still a big issue?

[7:08] Mobile basketball game Rumble Kong League is migrating to Ronin.

[9:50] What will be most interesting about Ronin going permissionless is new non-gaming apps.

[11:55] Axie Infinity added $4 million to its treasury in 2024.

[15:31] Axie and Pixels believe they can make play-to-earn work as a sustainable business strategy.

[16:20] Wild Forest demonstrates that pure token airdrops still don't.

[18:08] Explaining Pixel's 2024 financials.

[27:34] AI agents doing a live podcast and soon to be playing poker against each other.

[32:44] Blocklords launched its Elisa Revard AI agent; people tried to win her hand in marriage.

[36:30] Saga has announced Metropolis, which allows AI agents to launch their own blockchains.

[38:50] Mighty Bear Games has announced its AlphaGOAT AI agents, dropping 6th February.

[44:06] What's happening with The Sandbox in 2025?
54 min
January 15, 2025188 | The Sandbox's vision for 2025
In episode 188, Jon Jordan talks to The Sandbox's Sebastien Borget about what happened in 2024 and what's planned for 2025.
[2:49] "The metaverse is far from dead". The Sandbox Alpha 4 had over 580,000 players.

[4:25] No matter the market, people see that The Sandbox is building and launching."

[5:35] "We will have four seasons in 2025. Alpha 5 is already in production."

[7:20] A criticism of seasons is it means The Sandbox is stop-start. There's no flywheel.

[10:20] "We are in alpha now but in 2025 we expect to go into beta."

[13:10] RE: UGC, The Sandbox is following a similar approach to Fortnite and its UEFN program.

[14:00] The mobile client didn't come out in 2024 so what's happening there?

[15:30] Part of our new strategy is the Voxel Games Program - standalone games including mobile.

[18:01] We have two announced games and over 100 applications for the program.

[21:45] Will you release The Sandbox PC client through stores like Epic Games Store?

[23:22] "The success of the metaverse requires the product, the content and the ecosystem."

[26:32] "Our vision has always been to empower the creators."

[29:18] How do AI agents fit into The Sandbox's vision?
38 min
January 10, 202510 January 2025 | Weekly news roundup
Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan chew through the week's news.
[0:57] In 2024, Limit Break released its ERC721C standard for enforcing NFT creator royalties.

[4:55] This level of centralization wasn't controversial with NFTs because the issue was existential.

[5:44] Feature include the ability to set maximum and minimum prices for NFTs.

[6:23] ERC20 tokens are different to NFTs: will people accept such features for ERC20 tokens?

[7:30] Another example is tokens that can't be traded outside of the game application.

[10:41] Limit Break's DigiDaigaku game will hopefully demonstrate how these features work.

[15:00] iCandy has raised $4 million for its forthcoming ZKcandy gaming L2 blockchain.

[16:39] Whatever happened to Laguna Game's Crypto Unicorns?

[22:44] What is Laguna Labs' new fully onchain game Neo Olympus?

[25:52] Fully onchain football simulator Soccerverse has gone live.

[30:45] Planet Mojo launched its WorldWide Agents AI agent token.

[33:15] What's the point of AI agents?

[36:51] What went wrong with Xterio's XTER token airdrop?
42 min
January 08, 2025187 | From Crypto Unicorns to Neo Olympus
Jon Jordan talks to Laguna Labs' CEO Aron Beierschmitt about leaving behind debut game Crypto Unicorns and moving to new project Neo Olympus, which is a fully onchain game using the MUD engine and running on the B3 blockchain, with assets on Ethereum and Base.
[2:45] What happened to Crypto Unicorns?

[4:02] 2024 was a rough year. We went from +90 people to 10. But the DAO still exists.

[5:27] "I accept all the blame for the failure. But I'm optimist about the path forward."

[9:08] What was the spark of inspiration for Neo Olympus?

[11:10] Why Aron is bullish on fully onchain games.

[12:05] "Crypto Unicorns would still be around today if it was fully onchain."

[13:15] Why did you choose B3 as the blockchain for Neo Olympus?

[14:12] Neo Olympus will be cross-platform: playable from Arbitrum, from Abstract, from Ronin.

[15:20] Most of the Neo Olympus' NFTs will be minted on Base.

[18:57] The DN404 standard is "memecoins meets NFTs".

[25:49] There's no investor or team allocation for the Olympus token.

[28:39] "Time-based token vesting is silly."

[31:15] What did your investors think about this approach?

[34:20] How do you hope to scale Neo Olympus as fully onchain games can be complex?

[35:27] Neo Olympus' gameplay is map-based tactics - Fire Emblem with titans.

[37:22] We're building the game on Lattice's MUD engine.
42 min
December 27, 2024186 | 2024 in review
Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan discuss all the news from 2024.
[2:16] The success of Pixels was an ongoing trend in 2024; but it wasn't always about DAUWs.

[2:35] Heroes of Mavia was the first big game and token launch of 2024 but it didn't scale.

[4:10] In 2024, we saw a lot of blockchain games launching through app stores but no big hits.

[6:10] Browser vs app stores and PC gaming stores remains a key business decision.

[8:44] A lot of meme-y game coins such as MON, PORTAL, CARV, XAI launched in Q1.

[11:30] There was a lot of news about chain migration - so many new L2 and L3 chains.

[13:00] In Q2, there was a big change in sentiment with game token prices tanking.

[14:11] The rise of KOLs, who encouraged retail crypto to invest in new tokens with often bad results.

[16:05] The rise of Telegram and TON as a strong marketing channel for blockchain games.

[17:46] Another nascent year for Immutable: Guild of Guardians was not a success.

[22:17] But in Immutable's defence... 4 million Immutable Passport wallet sign-ups.

[28:28] In Q3, the issue of bots became a problem esp. in respect to airdrops and token rewards.

[30:09] What are you trying to do with your blockchain game when it comes to giving out value?

[32:04] Does it matter if bots or AI agents are paying $10 to play your game?

[32:30] The other thing in Q3 was the start of successful games on Ronin - Wild Forest, Lumiterra etc.

[34:56] Pretty much every game launched on Ronin has got +100,000 DAUWs in testing.

[37:19] Should we view console game Off The Grid as a success?

[44:22] Whatever happened to The Sandbox?

[45:25] CCP Game's EVE Frontier is now in closed alpha testing.

[46:59] What's significant is these projects are very serious about the value of blockchain in games.

[49:45] More generally, the US presidential election was the clear pivot point for crypto in 2024.

[52:51] Investment into the sector was down on 2023 but around $1 billion.
59 min
December 20, 202420 December 2024 | Weekly news roundup
Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan discuss the news for the week ending 20th December 2024.
[0:31] Pudgy Penguins launches its PENGU token, with a strong community airdrop.

[3:22] The launch was very generous with Pudgy NFT holders getting $85,000 of PENGU.

[5:34] Surprisingly given the Abstract blockchain is launching, there wasn't a claim+stake option.

[11:00] Xterio has announced its AI agent vision for 2025 including Befriend AI chat-to-airdrop.

[15:32] Is it a pivot? Maybe but a pivot can be a positive change for a project.

[16:35] More generally, the Virtuals AI agent platform is doing very well.

[18:28] Planet Mojo has announced its Agents of Poker AI agent game.

[19:53] Faraway has announced the first AI agent to be a node validator - J3FF.

[26:32] Is the endgame that our AI agents communicate and trade value on their own blockchains?

[28:05] Big Time Studios' Open Loot platform has announced a $150 million fund.

[33:03] Fableborne's had a successful third test with 149,000 players spending $540,000.
42 min
December 13, 202413 December 2024 | Weekly news roundup
Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan discuss the news for the week ending 13th December 2024.
[0:21] Ronin-based Apeiron is now live via app stores in southeast Asia.

[0:50] But what's gone live is the dungeon battler gameplay. The god game meta is still in dev.
[4:08] Ubisoft's Captain Laserhawk is going live on 18th December.

[5:12] Jon is more excited about it than previous Ubi game Champions Tactics, which was hardcore.

[7:18] Crypto Unicorns' dev Laguna Games announces fully onchain game Neo Olympus.

[12:26] Fully onchain game Soccerverse is launching on 9th January 2025.

[15:31] Treasure has launched its L2 on ZKsync.

[20:13] Hytopia has ditched its Minecraft client and is now independent of all legacy code.

[22:47] Beam Ventures have announced a $150 million fund based in Abu Dhabi.
27 min
December 06, 20246 December 2024 | Weekly news roundup
Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan talk through the news for the week ending 6th December 2024, including:
[0:32] EVE Frontier enters closed alpha on 10th December.

[2:51] EVE Frontier is the attempt to build an EVE-style game in a composable blockchain sandbox.

[5:55] How will a community grow up in EVE Frontier?

[8:19] What does the original EVE Online community think about EVE Frontier?

[12:43] Pudgy Penguins announces its PENGU token, what's the background?

[19:40] NFL Rivals has surpassed $10 million in lifetime NFT trading volume.

[24:15] This is also part of Mythical's attempt to build out a multi-game marketplace for NFTs.

[25:43] Sky Mavis has announced free Axie NFTs via its new 30-day adoption program.

[30:04] Pixels has announced its second Guild Wars event, which is backed by $4 million of PIXEL.

[32:42] Rough House Games is merging with Overworld to form Reach Labs.
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