Good Game

The podcast discusses crypto trends in 2024, including the rise of Solana meme coins and the tokenization of real-world assets. They explore projects like Friend Tech and Arby Trum, debate Ethereum's narrative, and discuss the growth of the cryptocurrency market. The speakers also delve into NFTs as lifestyle brands and the challenges faced by Bitcoin layer 2 products.

Anatoly and Meow discuss why Jupiter on Solana will be bigger than Binance. Topics include disrupting the NY Stock Exchange, technical abilities of Solana, advantages of a decentralized system, differences between Solana and Ethereum Layer 2, hotspots programs, Solana's potential applications, and its rivalry with Uniswap.

Experienced crypto degen trader, DCF God, discusses the degen world, finding projects, audit companies, and the current market. They also reflect on the importance of community involvement and explore lesser-known crypto projects and drama between Curve and VCs.

Imran and Qiao bring on Kyle Samani to discuss Solana Breakpoint trends that could revolutionize crypto.No BS crypto insight for founders.Timestamps:(00:00) Intro(00:57) Welcome to Good Game(02:12) The excitement about Jupiter(06:04) Tarun's local fee market(09:41) Other areas Kyle is excited about with Breakpoint(16:10) How important it is for Solana to stay focused on scaling(27:20) Could Ethereum start to enshrine more of the things that they're giving out to the public?(32:30) The speculative apps space from Kyle's lens(34:44) Investing on Unlonely(41:20) Should crypto payments be consumer-led?(49:28) Why speculation is a superpower for crypto?(57:00) Crypto enables more social activity with speculation(01:00:15) Qiao's view on Filecoin(01:04:00) What is an application that can only be built on Filecoin?Kyle Samani Twitter: https://x.com/KyleSamaniSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3N675w3Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3snLsxUWebsite: https://goodgamepod.xyzTwitter: https://twitter.com/goodgamepodxyzWeb3 Founders:Apply to Alliance: https://alliance.xyz/Alliance Twitter: https://twitter.com/alliancedaoDISCLAIMER: The views expressed herein are personal to the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of any other person or entity. Discussions and answers to questions are intended as generalized, non-personalized information. Nothing herein should be construed or relied upon as investment, legal, tax, or other advice. 

Scott Lewis discusses the growing trend of tokenizing real world assets. Topics include the rapid growth of RWAs in Maker and other protocols, stablecoin usage data points, success and challenges of crypto payment startups, tokenizing treasury bills and collectibles, potential demand for tokenized gold and carbon credits, composability of RWAs with DeFi protocols, and MakerDAO's plan to extend into real-world assets.

Guests Aric and Jae discuss the exciting potential of Friend.tech as a social network and its impact on reputation systems. They explore the concept of a guarded ponzi, building on Friend.tech, and the challenges of an immutable bonding curve. The conversation also covers security, onboarding improvements, and the speculative nature of Friend.tech.

Imran and Qiao invited Stani Kulechov to discuss how Lens V2 will impact decentralized social media.No BS crypto insight for founders.Timestamps(00:00) Intro(01:14) Welcome to GoodGame(01:29) It seems like the next era of crypto is going to be decentralized social(02:38) Key differences between decentralized social and DeFi(06:42) Qiao: Social is the single most interesting area that's happening in crypto right now(07:39) What we would like to learn from Lens and Stani(09:48) Let's bring on Stani(11:31) What is Lens?(14:24) Lens didn't have a client app when it launched?(18:26) The biggest difference between Lens and others (e.g. Farcaster)(26:00) What's new with Lens v2?(33:08) Everything is on-chain on Lens v1, how about v2?(37:20) Is Momoka based on existing availability layer?(44:52) The follow function(50:17) Stani's thoughts on Friend.tech(52:02) You can build Friend.tech on Lens v2, right?(53:16) What does Stani think about RWAs? Does AAVE want to do anything in that area?(54:00) What's the most obvious asset to be tokenized next and get adopted in DeFi?(1:03:03) How did AAVE found its first 100 users?(1:05:09) How big of a role did AAVE token play in terms of growth?(1:05:57) Any major pivots from AAVE?(1:09:03) Stani's thoughts about point system and speculation(1:10:46) Is Lens thinking about airdrop, speculative points, etc?(1:11:36) Stani's final comments/thoughts(1:12:13) Outro / Debrief(1:12:26) Points that stood out to Qiao(1:13:58) One of the Lens v2 features Imran is excited about(1:17:22) Monetization of the value chain(1:20:27) Which app would be easy for normies to get onboarded to?Stani Kulechov Twitter: https://twitter.com/StaniKulechovSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3N675w3Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3snLsxUWebsite: https://goodgamepod.xyzTwitter: https://twitter.com/goodgamepodxyzWeb3 Founders:Apply to Alliance: https://alliance.xyz/Alliance Twitter: https://twitter.com/alliancedaoDISCLAIMER: The views expressed herein are personal to the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of any other person or entity. Discussions and answers to questions are intended as generalized, non-personalized information. Nothing herein should be construed or relied upon as investment, legal, tax, or other advice.

Dan Romero, Founder of Farcaster and Warpcast, discusses decentralized social media. Topics include being deplatformed, rival clients, technical implementation of Farcaster, choosing OP mainnet, incentivized usage, and getting users to switch from Twitter.

Imran and Qiao brought on Will Robinson to discuss fully on-chain games, the current state of it, why people want to put games on-chain, and more.No BS crypto insight for founders.Timestamps(00:00) Intro(00:53) Welcome to Good Game(01:23) Will's background on the history of games(01:57) How Will got into crypto(04:14) What are on-chain games?(08:35) Which game has the longest shelf life?(09:47) The importance of balancing games' meta(10:43) What is DOTA(12:15) Is CryptoKitties a game?(13:03) What is the definition of a fully on-chain game?(16:26) Can Counter-Strike be a fully on-chain game?(19:32) Can Civilization be a fully on-chain game?(21:54) Why do we want to put games fully on-chain?(26:09) What is Dark Forest? | Game modding(39:06) How would Warcraft III look like on-chain?(42:08) A DeFi analogy by Qiao(45:30) The definition of "games" people don't often think about(48:41) Financialization(52:11) "Speculation" in gaming | Words3 on-chain game(55:46) What makes people scared of fully on-chain games in the future?(01:00:27) What's the TPS needed to build an on-chain game?(01:10:14) What kind of games can we actually build today?(01:14:48) What are the other major constraints on building on-chain games?(01:17:21) MUD (Multi-User Dungeon)(01:22:49) Jared from Subway (sandwich attacker) behavior in games?(01:29:04) Are there any fun games today?(01:29:13) The logic behind Primodium Game(01:32:33) We already have a fully on-chain game and that's DeFi(01:33:56) Any attack vectors on on-chain gaming?(01:36:39) Final thoughtsSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3N675w3Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3snLsxUWebsite: https://goodgamepod.xyzTwitter: https://twitter.com/goodgamepodxyzDISCLAIMER: The views expressed herein are personal to the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of any other person or entity. Discussions and answers to questions are intended as generalized, non-personalized information. Nothing herein should be construed or relied upon as investment, legal, tax, or other advice.

In this episode, Imran and Qiao delve into the intriguing world of speculative crypto apps and uncover why founders should consider embracing them.No BS crypto insight for founders.Timestamps(00:00) Intro(00:48) Welcome to Good Game(02:13) Imran and Qiao's thoughts on speculation(04:27) Fun facts for people who just came into crypto(07:06) Interesting on-chain experiments in the last few weeks(07:52) CL's "Genesis of Retards Summer" article(12:18) How Qiao got into crypto/bitcoin(15:20) The poor man's bitcoin(16:30) "The harder it makes you laugh the more you want to ape in"(20:01) DeFi summer explained(24:45) BaldCoin(26:59) Nyancoin(27:45) Unibot(29:47) Shitcoin stats(30:46) Things Qiao learned(39:43) The history of crypto gambling(46:49) Moonpay - Stake.us(48:50) The size of the global online gambling market(52:04) Is "speculation" crypto's superpower?(59:11) Why founders should embrace speculationCL Twitter - https://twitter.com/CL207CL's "SCAM SHITCOIN SUPER CYCLE" article - https://www.egirlcapital.com/writings/154108440SATOSHIDice speculation nonsense (Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEjQ1d7bpfUSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3N675w3Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3snLsxUWebsite: https://goodgamepod.xyzTwitter: https://twitter.com/goodgamepodxyzDISCLAIMER: The views expressed herein are personal to the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of any other person or entity. Discussions and answers to questions are intended as generalized, non-personalized information. Nothing herein should be construed or relied upon as investment, legal, tax, or other advice.