My 5th year of teaching a class at MIT on new economies bubbling up in online spaces, Bitcoin, digital collectibles, gaming and digital leisure (the real metaverse) is a wrap! This year, I had the incredible privilege of teaching with
@CathieDWood
of
@ARKInvest
! Key points below:
After three years of working closely with the
@SEC
we are excited to speak more publicly about DOT morphing from a security to a non-security. It's software!
GM! Excited to apply for
@Polkadot
's Head Ambassador for Gaming. I have been in the ecosystem since 2019, in the gaming space for 20 years, the esports space for 10 years, and a huge supporter of
@playmythical
and
@johnwastaken
since the beginning. App->
My response at
@Official_GDC
when (many!) people asked, "Why would
@playMythical
and CEO
@Johnwastaken
and team choose
@Polkadot
?!" Summary->"Tail Wagging Dog 🐶 and It's all About the Tech!" First, here is a pic of
@Nickdouz
on the shift away from speculation to really fun…
Feels like two paths are emerging in NFT space.
(1) Build a universe but hold onto IP. Ex:
@larvalabs
deal with UTA ()
(2) Form a community to build a universe. Give all the IP away. See what happens. Ex:
@lootproject
Personally like approach
#2
better!
5/ Meanwhile, Mythical Games has teamed up with the
@NFL
to launch its newest game
@PlayNFLRivals
in which players manage their very own roster of star players — another exciting use case for Web3 technology!
Web3 Foundation announces
@Polkadot
's native token DOT has morphed and is software, not a security!
After 3 years of proactive engagement with the
@SECGov
, W3F announces a landmark step towards the achievement of Web 3.0, a decentralized, trustless, serverless internet.
To make sure you don’t miss out on the livestream of the event, RSVP here so you’ll be emailed the links before the event!
To learn more about NFTs, metaverses, and crypto, check out the blog written by myself,
@AugustFR
, and
@GrousARK
We were so happy to have iconic thinkers
@arthurB
and
@Breitwoman
, co-founders of
@tezos
, on our podcast Culture Meets Crypto 😊 Below is a thread on Episode 8: "Art for Art(ist)’s Sake"
We are very excited to be meeting with many friends and investors in the gaming community next week at GDC! So many people in the gaming industry have been displaced. Let us help connect some dots and figure out future opportunities together...😄
The Game Engine behind 'Pokémon Go' and 'Call of Duty Mobile' will allow Polkadot to earn a place in its asset store 🎮
A new collaboration between
@paritytech
and
@unitygames
will allow Polkadot to join Unity's verified solutions (VS) program. Learn more ↓
✅ The Verified…
14/ What is Tezos? An experimental technology addressing digital assets in a unique way. It's not about getting
@ChristiesInc
or
@Sothebys
on the blockchain - it's about experimentation in art, whether in galleries or in games, and building an organic community - for art’s sake
GRAND OPENING - ARK Innovate! Monday 2.12 Doors open at 3pm ET!
@CathieDWood
on Big Ideas 2024 at 4pm &
@TheDali
Museum with works of Salvador Dalí. ARK Innovate! is a new digital space hosted by
@ARKInvest
. Link + password to enter 3pm-6pm:
pw: arkinvest
"We weren't looking for hype. We were looking for substance. We were looking for governance. We were looking for security. We were looking for flexibility." - John Linden, Mythical // "As it turns out, ownership is the best retention mechanism" - Robby Yung (mic drop!)
@arashdre21
@johnwastaken
@playmythical
@EnterTheMythos
great! 1) How is a partnership with the NFL established for a gaming company like Mythical, and what do you own vs what does the NFL own? 2) How has Mythical's D-Market marketplace been able to support and navigate the transition from a web2 skins marketplace to one that is more…
Cathie Wood of
@ARKInvest
after her fireside on innovation and convergence at Christie’s Art + Tech conference, alongside Lisa Liang of
@AsyncArt
. Lisa claims that she attended as a derivative NFT ("digital collectible") version of Cathie! 😂
Polkadot grabbed the top spot in developer activity over the past 30 days! This is consistent with the developer report we saw from
@ElectricCapital
(reported Polkadot
#2
for the 3rd year in a row) More projects are building on Polkadot (and Kusama) than others
Top 10 Projects by Development Activity in the last 30 days
According to such fundamentals like development activity, there are lots of good projects with moderate market cap.
$ADA $DOT $KSM $ATOM $ETH $ICP $SNT $MANA $FIL $MIOTA
"Even though Mythos has the
#1
gaming blockchain by transactions, sales, and active wallets, it has been a permissioned sidechain, so the 755k+ wallets weren’t visible on Ethereum where the main token lives. The new Mythos Chain (secured by
@polkadot
relay chain) will have the…
Looking forward to tomorrow's panel on a little topic - the US Regulatory Scene in Crypto 🙈 please come (livestream too)
@josh_blockchain
and I are a lot more positive than one might think as we are seeing some significant silver linings as the industry shifts its focus 5:05pm…
Thanks to all who participated! Community and creativity are crucial in the future of gaming. And with the explosion of AI generated assets, AUTHENTICITY will matter. We will need to know what is real and what is not - Web3 and the rock solid
@Polkadot
technology will support it!
Brainstorming on UCG, AI and Web3 session led by
@daltonan
. From Roblox, to UEFN the industry is moving to community driven initiatives.
This is the infliction point where blockchain just. makes. sense.
@Polkadot
will be securing the next evolution of gaming.
Great Day1
@GamesBeat
! Some insights from our panel. Yes, it feels like there is a vast gap between “web3” and “gaming” and yes, culturally they are different in many ways. Yet, despite the negativity around "NFT" and "blockchain" the room was full and the interest was high.
Very beautiful Web3 + 3D bird! As an observer, I'm noticing a lot of new ground breaking with
@RmrkApp
. This bird could be in a AAA game. 3D is an important chasm to cross and it is still mostly lacking in Web3 (3D equippables?! 🤯) Kudos to this team who did it!
Tricky NFT Art - RMRK MODULAR NFT Art & Consulting
what's so special about
#v2NFTs
using
@RmrkApp
's standard?
well....
...you can equip them on chain with other NFTs ?!? 🪄🌈
after months of work - presenting worlds first animated 3D equippables on
#RMRK2
together with
@SkyLabsCorp
:
🧪 The Artemis R4VENs & Dr. Snew's items🧬
Simply awesome -
@josiebellini
our
#1
guest shared her journey - we are so incredibly excited for what
@CyberBrokers_
has in store! We went off script, which led to what we loved about
@money_alotta
, tears of love from us both, then even more laughs which he would have liked 💙
Episode 1 of Culture Meets Crypto is out now! Listen to
@josiebellini
's journey into crypto, NFTs, and how she's building
@CyberBrokers_
- a gamified IP brand. Thank you for sharing so much with us
@josiebellini
!
Polkadot Decoded 2023 was truly eye-opening 👀 and mind-expanding 💡 - I loved
@gavofyork
’s commentary on
@Polkadot
as a reflection of where the ecosystem is and where it's going
Overarching theme -- how can we make Polkadot more accessible with treaties that span applications?
🛸 S P A C E M O N K E Y S 🦧
Blasting off with
@josh_blockchain
&
@daltonan
on their journey to deliver decentralization with existing regulatory guidance. 🧠
The path of least resistance...
Watch in 4K:
Or full below before unrolling the 🧵👇
🚀🔍 Attention Polkadot community, a shocking proposal has emerged on the horizon🤯
🌟 Prepare for Proposal 643, a bold collaboration between
#Mythical
Games and
#Polkadot
that has the potential to revolutionize the blockchain gaming industry.
🤑The proposal unveils a token…
Exciting times ahead!🔥Thrilled to announce our groundbreaking collaboration with
@DeloitteCH
! After multiple months of dedicated efforts, we're teaming up to redefine how everyone interacts in web3. This is just the beginning!
1/7
S P A C E M O N K E Y S ˄͎ Podcast
Bullish DOT 2024
→ Investor Perspective
feat.
@mark_cachia_
from
@scytaledigital
w/
@GldnCalf
Show Notes:
On this episode of Space Monkeys we blast off with Mark from Scytale on the bullish contrarian case for Polkadot in 2024 - the tech,…
LOVE THIS 🖼 Very Special Artwork by
@trevorjonesart
- originally his oil painting inspired by Picasso's iconic "Girl with mandolin, 1910" (💙) and then his first NFT with the one and only
@money_alotta
. Opening it was so fun - thank you! 🙏
This intensive 5-week program has surfaced high quality developers, inside and outside blockchain, from all over the world. They have competed for about 100 spots, and many learned Rust to be included. Very impressed with the students and looking forward to judging later today!
Busy day at the
@AcademyPolkadot
Training the next generation of Web3 Legends !!
Strong lineup with
@gavofyork
on Polkadot 2.0 !!
Great insights from
@daltonan
@USCHill
on regulation and legal topics,
@mark_cachia_
on venture capital and funding
Also very interesting to…
5/ “The fact about decentralization is that it's like an insurance policy. You don't realize you want decentralization until you’ve lent your assets to a centralized protocol. Consumers learn over a longer timescale of crises.” - Arthur Breitman
🌐 Exciting lecture tomorrow on crafting a robust "Legal & Regulatory Diet" for your Web3 venture!
The Academy founders track students will join experts
@USCHill
&
@daltonan
as they delve into the complexities of structural, regulatory, staffing, IP, and data requirements based…
8/
@ArtBasel
- last year was a crypto conference; this year, only Tezos remained. Evan and I found it fascinating that neither the Breitmans nor the Foundation had to sell to well-known artists Marina Abramović and
@quasimondo
to join the platform.
Also included in my application herein and now in the thread - a proper shout out to
@Sortium
and
@Kurcide
- we are in the gaming trenches together and Sortium is built on Substrate 💪 💪💪
Today in 90 mins, Super Joost, Nick and I are going to have some fun thinking about where creativity and collaboration are going in games. Since the early days in '18, web3 gaming to us has always been about 1) social capital 2) identity and 3) property rights!
Thank you so much
@TheKusamarian
for bringing together great people to talk about web3's regulatory process for Polkadot.
@josh_blockchain
and I were just spokespeople for load of people who made it happen - firstly, the devs!
The
@Web3foundation
recently released a statement saying that
@Polkadot
DOT token has morphed, from a Security to Software. In a follow up podcast, they go much deeper into the details.
I break down everything for you in this thread, so follow along.
11/ Full Disclosure: my comments are incredibly biased as an investor in Mythical and as an active member of the Polkadot ecosystem. Also, I have made many friends in both since 2019, which also biases me. 😄💙
7/ Arthur said it was the website owner’s right to do what he wanted to with his site, but thanks to the open source code and the fact that all of the NFTs were on the chain, other people could step in and maintain it.
7/ Rehypothecation! For us, Caitlin was the first in crypto to raise the awareness of the impact of rehypothecation and she went over it again on the show. One surprise to people - regulators can't fully see the leverage.
6/ The example we discussed was Hic-Et-Nunc, the NFT platform on Tezos which served as its ultimate decentralization test. When the Hic-et-Nunc website owner attempted to pull the plug on the website's front end, 20 more websites popped up in its place.
9/ And why is it that when you buy a stock, it takes 2 days to show up? Intermediaries make money! On stablecoin regulation, Caitlin pointed out that asking for permission instead of forgiveness will work over the long term. Plus crypto is in a battle of West coast vs East coast.
10/ We just learned that Tezos will be powering a collaboration between the creme de la creme
@SerpentineUK
and digital artist
@Gabrielmassan
titled ‘Artist Worlds’ 2023!
11/ Kathleen refers to Tezos as grassroots. Arthur says it is like Greenwich Village in the 60s. Kathleen says she likes Paris in the 1910s, and Arthur quickly chimes in, “La Belle Époque!”
Showing up to the Sunday night (work) party in the same outfit as
@josh_blockchain
Thanks
@MoonbeamNetwork
🌕🥰🎉 P.S. Josh wants me to make sure everyone knows this was inadvertent 😂
@SignumGrowth
is celebrating
#IWD
with
@RikuKat
, CEO of
@StumblingCat
and former ED of
@IGDA
. Her new game - Potions: A Curious Tale! (9 yr labor of 🩷!) An adventure and crafting game-wit is your greatest weapon. Combat is not always the answer. 🪄🧙♀️👑🎮
Episode 11 w/ tech visionary Aber Whitcomb (Co-Founder MySpace, JamCity and
@PlaiLabs
) AI in games is moving fast. NFTs will be ubiquitous. My co-host Evan cut this (very 😬) close up of me asking Aber whether blockchain or AI would be more powerful in games. Fast fwd to Aber!
Check out the links below to listen to the episode, as well as key quote from Aber on blockchain vs. AI's prevalence in gaming:
Spotify:
Apple Music:
YouTube:
We will all have a stable of personalized AI agents (with their own personalities) that we deploy for a variety of tasks
They’ll be connected to public and private personal data sources
They’ll be highly interactive like other human agents, and use interactions and feedback to…
2/ Decentralization is a foundational pillar of blockchain, yet most users don’t realize they need it until they are exploited by centralization in some way. The latest case of mass centralization in blockchain comes to life in the Celsius court proceedings.
Such a completely novel approach and not only for digital / web3 auctions. Traditional auction houses are interested too! Could this be as big as the English auction one day? 🤔 Great work Team
@GBMauction
!!
We’re partnering up with
@GBMauction
for a bid-to-earn auction in the near future!
Bid-to-earn is a system where if you are outbid on an item, you receive your bid back along with an additional incentive!
Stay tuned on our socials for when we announce dates for this auction!
Wow! 2
@SignumGrowth
co's won tonight at the American Metaverse Summit & Awards! Neither were here (Good news-they are working 😊) This is *not* pay to play! These 2 categories were two of the largest in nominees .
@playmythical
won out of 14 .
@Sortium
out of 28 nominees! 🙌👾🎮💙
This was an incredibly insightful discussion with four
@SpaceX
experts! Highlighted below is the conversation on STARLINK with
@skorusARK
. As a brand new customer, I look forward to sharing feedback. Have a wonderful MLK weekend! 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠
One year anniversary - Marshmello Saturday / Super Bowl Sunday. A good time to revisit. Collaboration and Creativity are the new Followers and Likes.
GO CHIEFS!!!
Amazing first day for NFL Rivals!!
#1
Sports game in the App Store!!
#6
so far out of ALL games in the App Store!!
@PlayNFLRivals
Very proud of the entire
@playmythical
team! Thank you to the
@nfl
and
@NFLPA
for partnering with us!!
Ha! WoW Redditors noticed that their commentaries were being recirculated as articles by AI bots, so they started writing crazy, fake stuff to see if it would be published, and it worked! 👀👀👀👀
Members of the World of Warcraft Subreddit exposed AI-generated news by crafting a fake story around a fictional character, Glorbo, and tricking a news outlet into publishing it
• u/kaefer_kriegerin noticed popular Reddit threads being quickly reposted on news sites in the same…
2/Caitlin led the charge to make her home state Wyoming an oasis for blockchain - it’s a state that shares common values embedded in Bitcoin itself, especially property rights.
2/ Mythical's NFL Rivals has attracted 4-5 million players, and it is really fun (even if you don't play football!🏈) The game mechanics and marketplace tech have abstracted the web3 part away - players can play! Soon, Mythical will join
@Polkadot
. Why Polkadot for games?
Join Bits of Signum, Creator Stories for an enlightening conversation with serial entrepreneur
@lezhangxyz
, Founder of
@spaceportxyz
, and
@ARKInvest
's
@GrousARK
. Spaceport sits at the intersection of several areas of our exploration, namely IP rights.
9/ Perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that those who are used to being told, “that's not art” would be attracted to experimentation in NFTs. They came in early 2021 for the energy efficiency, and stayed for the authentic artist culture.
Last week in an interview I was asked what career advice I would give to a kid who is interested in getting into the video game industry. My answer with 0 hesitation - "Scrap the lemonade stand and start building on UEFN!!!" 🎮 👾🎮
I think the combo of new platform + cash + increased gaming dev speed is going to make this pretty exciting to watch
What would be best way to track growth? Just revenue growth of games built on top? Is there a leader board or something fun like that?
6/ Mythical cares about marketing their own games, meaning their own applications; in onboarding players, they don't even talk about blockchain. So when people criticize Polkadot for being poor at marketing, CEO John Linden hears 'the applications built on top can shine.' 🌟🌝☀️
This was fun! Creators and developers to the front of the line! We are on the verge of a new genre in gaming that is all about bringing in new demos and making players into stakeholders. It is great to be in KC and to see the excitement around
@PlayNFLRivals
🏈☄️🔥
“When we're trying to satiate the demand of three billion gamers worldwide, it's a little bit impossible for conventional studios to create that much content.” —
@joosterizer
Joost van Dreunen &
@daltonan
join us for a brand new episode of FYI. Listen.
4/ And do players care about the plumbing? As a smart friend at
@Unity
said, "No one asks if Unity is using Google Cloud or AWS. They want to know that the tech works." Mythical evaluated many protocols and chose Polkadot as the most "future proof" allowing John and the company…
3/ 14,500 pages of documents were made publicly available online, divulging the names and transactions of thousands of people and enabling them to be paired with anonymous on-chain activity
Honored to be part of the Signum ARK Gallery 8811!
@CathieDWood
and her portrait a few pixels away in the same
#metaverse
parcel 🔥🥂
Such an honor to be in there with
@josiebellini
and other great artists!
Thanks to
@westcoastbill
for accepting to display his Cathie Wood
#NFT
3/Now she is plowing a new path, right down the fairway within the US bank regulatory framework to bring crypto straight to the Federal Reserve with Custodia Bank. The bar is too high for new banks in the US: “If the banks did their jobs, Stripe wouldn’t need to exist.”
On the back of
#Bitcoin
starting to show some signs of life, I attempted to answer the simple question ‘what is Bitcoin worth?’ for a traditional investor from a traditional investor (me!) Key points in there Signum Global Advisors report here:
12/ One of ones, editions, and generative series are very different from PFPs, which are themselves different from the subsequent derivatives that stem from them. Are millions of similar Apes, Penguins, and Cats truly unique and “non-fungible”?
This Mavericks podcast is 🔥 and Josh is pure
#power
. Honored to get to work with her. It's so much fun to keep finding ourselves on a path together - decentralized partnership! 💙💙💙
1/7 Culture Meets Crypto: Episode 9 on new game models is out!
We had the pleasure of interviewing
@hnmcdonaugh
of
@myNFT
+
@GBMauction
and Jesse
@gldnXross
of
@aavegotchi
! Hugo and Jesse are crypto OGs who exemplify the power of smart contracts & community through their work.
Attention becomes most important key metric for games.
User generated content becomes user owned content.
Traditional platforms are sleeping on new web3 business models (but not for long!)
ETHDenver x
@daltonan
3/ Polkadot has a very strong reputation when it comes to the robust infrastructure it provides, including Substrate. As Bittensor (
@opentensor
), a decentralized network of ML models) said, "(Substrate) gives us fine control over our blockchain and consensus mechanism."
5/There is opportunity in new architecture, to make it better, faster, cheaper for the community banks to obtain that technology. Bitcoin is an internet payment technology where you can spin up a node and sync it within a span of a few hours.
Amazing morning AI and Web3 session with the brightest people gathered in a table @ New York. 2 hours passed so quickly!!!
Thanks for such an amazing opportunity
@daltonan
@SignumGrowth
This conversation with
@kyuclee
was as much fun as our fortunate mtg at GDC this year! Kyu has been building
@Com2uS
for almost 18 years so he is one of the few who understands gaming as well as he understands web3. Thank you for your insights Kyu!
Very excited to release the 12th episode of Bits of Signum (formerly Culture Meets Crypto), with
@kyuclee
, mobile game revolutionary & president of
@Com2uS
USA!
Kyu shares his vision of Web3 and how Com2uS is building a content-enhancing platform with blockchain. Also check out…
This articulation reflects the solid ground upon which
@Polkadot
was built - decentralization. My unwavering conviction in its importance has only grown over my 3 years of working closely w/
@Web3foundation
, especially as critics claimed "not enough marketing"
#MoreTruthLessTrust
CZ on SBF:“No one can protect [from] a bad player, to be very frank, if a guy is very good at lying, and very good at just pretending to be what he’s not.” Not been paying attention? Protection comes thru decentralisation. That’s the point of web3 and trustless tech.
@cz_binance