Amy Wu, Head of FTX Ventures and Gaming Initiatives, brings her extensive gaming and crypto investment background to explore the future of Web3 gaming. She discusses challenges in integrating NFTs, the backlash from traditional gamers, and the potential for blockchain to redefine monetization models. Wu shares insights on trends in gaming markets like Korea and India, the strategic role of Apecoin DAO, and the necessity for companies to adapt consumer-focused products to onboard users into the crypto space. It's an enlightening peek into gaming's next chapter!
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Amy's Background
Amy Wu's gaming background includes investing in companies like Fortnite (Epic Games) and 1047 Games.
Her crypto journey began in 2017 with angel investing, later leading crypto investments at Lightspeed.
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FTX Gaming Solution
FTX offers gaming studios a compliant, white-labeled solution for incorporating NFTs.
This simplifies the process, handling wallets, marketplaces, and compliance seamlessly behind the scenes.
insights INSIGHT
Gaming's Potential
Gaming, a $200 billion industry with 2-3 billion players, offers huge potential for mainstream crypto adoption.
Gamers, already accustomed to valuing digital assets, represent a prime target audience for Web3 integration.
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Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze
Laura Shin
The Cryptopians delves into the story of idealists, technologists, and opportunists fighting to bring cryptocurrency to the masses. The book focuses on the founding of Ethereum by Vitalik Buterin and the subsequent crypto fever it created. It introduces readers to larger-than-life characters such as Buterin, Charles Hoskinson, and Joe Lubin, highlighting the personal and professional conflicts that shaped the early days of Ethereum. The narrative explores the booms, busts, and internecine wars within the crypto world, revealing it as a deeply personal struggle to influence the coming revolution in money, culture, and power.
Amy Wu, head of FTX ventures and gaming initiatives, discusses her role at FTX, what problems need to be addressed in the web3 gaming world, and her thoughts on APE and Yuga Labs as a board member of Apecoin DAO and investor in Yuga Labs. Show highlights:
what Amy does at FTX
how her background investing in gaming prepared her for her role at FTX
Amy’s vision for FTX’s gaming studio
how FTX is helping gaming studios get into web3 and NFTs
why Amy thinks blockchain games are the evolution of the ‘free to play’ gaming archetype
what best practices Amy believes web2 companies should implement when transitioning into web3 gaming
why there is so much backlash against traditional companies incorporating NFTs (hint: it’s not just about environmental concerns)
how FTX Ventures is looking to deploy capital and why it is so interested in Korea and India, specifically
why Amy thinks the L1 wars will end with just a few winning chains
why “consumer products” are going to be more important than high throughput blockchains in onboarding the next billion users
what Amy’s role as a board member of Apecoin DAO is like
what Amy thinks about APE and Yuga Labs
trends for the rest of 2022: social media, dating apps, and more…
Tickets to the Cryptopians Book Clubs Go on Sale Today at 1pm ET!
Today, Tuesday, April 26, at 1pm Eastern Time, we will sell the NFT tickets to five book clubs to discuss my book, The Cryptopians. All the book clubs, which are 90 minutes and limited to 22 participants each, will be hosted by me and will take place on my Discord from May 2nd to May 10th. The sale will will take place on Bitski: bitski.com/@laurashin/created
The dates and times for the book clubs are:
Monday, May 2, at 8 pm ET
Tuesday May 3, at 1pm ET with Lefteris Karapetsas, Griff Green, and Christoph Jentzsch of the DAO
Thursday, May 5, at 12pm
Monday, May 9, at 12pm ET with Andrey Ternovskiy of Chatroulette
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