Blockchain Gaming World

This podcast is sponsored by DeFi-NFT mash-up Aavegotchi --- Jon Jordan talks to Craig Russo from Polyient Games about the rise of game NFTs as an investment asset, building out a platform to kickstart this movement, and why Polyient acquired the banking infrastructure of forthcoming game Mirandus for $800,000; the highest price yet paid for an NFT.

Jon Jordan talks to Animoca Brands' CEO Robby Young about the rise of F1 Delta Time in 2020 - which generated +$2 million in NFT sales, including the most expensive NFT to-date - and well as the failure of the wider games industry to embrace blockchain.

Jon Jordan talks to Andrew Steinwold, the creator of the Zima Red podcast, about how our views of NFTs  - games, art, etc - have changed during 2020.

Jon Jordan talks with Axie Infinity Growth Lead Jeff 'Jiho' Zirlin about the incredible growth the game experienced in 2020 and its plans for 2021. 

Jon Jordan talks to MetaKovan, the owner of F1 Delta Time’s 1-1-1 car NFT, which was purchased for 415.9 ETH (c.$111,111.11) in May 2019 - still one of the most expensive NFTs ever sold - and the subject of much speculation ever since. We also talk to Yat Siu, chairman of the game’s developer Animoca Brands, and Alex Atallah, CTO of OpenSea, the marketplace on which the auction was run, about 1-1-1 and the future of NFTs. 

Jon Jordan talks to Splinterlands' CEO Jesse 'Aggroed' Reich about the planned Land expansion, which will bring land-based mining, crafting and strategy to the card battler in 2021. The first land sale kicks off on 7 November. Read more about it on Medium, and use my affiliate code to support the podcast https://splinterlands.com?ref=semperaugustx

Jon Jordan talks to Spielworks MD Adrian Krion about his vision to making blockchain gaming mass market via Wombat, the 'one-stop' EOS wallet, which has recently expanded to the Womplay rewards platform, which supports both blockchain and non-blockchain games. 

Jon Jordan talks to Dapper Labs' CEO Roham Gharegozlou and VP Caty Tedman about why the company decided to create Flow, its own high performance blockchain for games and dapps, and why its first release is collectibles dapp NBA Top Shot. 

After the longest wait, Blankos Block Party is finally launching its Founder sale, which will unlock the first open beta during October. Jon Jordan talks to company co-founder Rudy Koch about how he got into blockchain and what the vision is for blockchain games in general and Blankos in particular. You can reserve your Blankos account at https://blankos.com/register

Jon Jordan talks to Sorare CEO Nicolas Julia about its eponymous (and fast-growing) blockchain fantasy football game, which is part of the Ubisoft incubation program and also recently raised $4 million. Find out more at https://sorare.com/