Blockchain Gaming World

Jon Jordan talks to Skale Labs' co-founder and Jack O'Holleran about its Ethereum-based 'elastic sidechain' scaling solution (which is about to launch its mainnet) and why it's important for blockchain gaming. Find out more about Skale Labs and its Innovator Program. 

Jon Jordan and Alex Amsel talk about Metaboss: a game - now live on Ethereum - that only could work using blockchain technology. Read the 2 Starter Guide articles about Recruitment and Combat. 

Auto card battler Splinterlands has a good claim to being the most popular and successful blockchain game, but doesn't get the same attention of other titles as it runs on the Steem blockchain. In this episode, Jon Jordan talk to project lead Jesse 'Aggroed' Reich about the game's genesis, its future vision, how it deals with bots, and how the Steem community has been impacted by the Hive hard fork. 

It's two years since Blockchain Cuties launched, so a great opportunity to talk to CEO Vlad Tomko about how he got into blockchain games, the inspiration for Blockchain Cuties, the opportunities and challenges of multi-chain deployment, and the longterm vision for the game now better known as Blockchain Cuties Universe.  And, as ever, you can contact me - jon jordan - via Twitter at blockchaingmg.

In this episode, Jon Jordan talks to Venrock partner David Pakman about investing in blockchain startups (he's notably invested in Dapper Labs), as well as the Seven Things That Need To Happen Before Blockchain Goes Mainstream.

Jon Jordan talks to Sebastian Borget about the vision behind 'Roblox meets the Blockchain' user-generated content platform The Sandbox.

Should game developers consider using Bitcoin's Lightning network to enable Bitcoin micropayments in their games, tournaments and community building? Jon Jordan talks to Simon Cowell and Chris 'Mandelduck' Moss from UK startup Zebedee, which has just launched its SDK. 

German blockchain gaming platform Skryking has released its white paper, explaining how its first fantasy soccer game will work. Read more here

Musings following a couple of days spent in Manhattan following NFT.NYC 2020

What's the vision for Theta.tv? Jon Jordan talks to Theta Labs' CEO Mitch Liu about how he got into blockchain and the goal for its decentralized CDN, starting off with esports game streaming. Find out more at Theta Labs and Theta.tv