How to Build a Web Three Game

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MetaMask Learn is an open educational platform about crypto, web three, self custody, wallet management and all the other topics needed to onboard people into this crazy world of crypto. Immutable lets game builders and players focus on great gaming experiences. It's built in UX features like the immutable passport are designed for games to scale to the next billion players coming to web three. With Immutable, players can sign up with an email, pay with a credit card, and experience a frictionless purchase flow inside of games. And so you mentioned like Fortnite dollars, or I think they're called V-Bucks, right? So what would be backing a V-Buck? Is that

Can we go Bankless using PayPal? We brought on Jose Fernandez da Ponte, the Senior Vice President of Blockchain, Crypto, and Digital Currencies at PayPal and Venmo to help us answer that question. Jose is responsible for driving PayPal’s efforts to bring the utility of crypto-assets and crypto-networks to their hundreds of millions of global consumers.

He also knows a thing or two about how the banking system works and how to fix it. And we also got the SVP of PayPal to say, “DeFi Mullet,” not once, but three times.

*PayPal currently offers crypto services only in the U.S., U.K., and Luxembourg. Venmo is available in the US only.

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------ In today’s episode, we cover:

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------ TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Intro 7:55 What a PayPal Dollar Is 11:21 PayPal & Venmo Crypto 16:29 The Crypto Strategy 22:59 DeFi Mullet 27:33 Service Providers 31:24 Is Crypto Useless? 32:30 PayPal’s Crypto Back-End 34:40 How Hard Was PayPal’s Crypto Integration? 36:35 Path to $1T In Stablecoins 40:31 Payments 44:36 Gaming 46:46 Network Integration 49:47 DeFi on PayPal’s Radar? 56:38 What’s Broken About U.S. Banking? 1:01:51 Settlement in the U.S. 1:06:32 Best Digital Cash Society 1:13:10 Stablecoins in the U.S. 1:16:25 Crypto Regulation 1:20:44 Making Crypto More Useable 1:23:30 Closing & Disclaimers

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Jose Fernandez da Ponte https://www.linkedin.com/in/jose-fernandez-da-ponte-a46ba81/

Payments and Evolution of Stablecoins Paper https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4425922

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