
Good Game
Good Game Podcast is a podcast for crypto natives.
Imran and Qiao discuss what's on their minds in the crypto landscape.
Latest episodes

Oct 25, 2022 • 1h 7min
Crypto Macro, Coinbase's Brian Armstrong vs FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried, Bullish Case for Cosmos | EP 5
Imran and Qiao discuss what's on their minds in the crypto landscape.Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:35) Welcome to Good Game! (02:30) Qiao talks short term macro (12:08) Longterm macro and what will happen to crypto in the next 10 years (26:39) Coinbase's Brian Armstrong vs FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried (28:21) Brian Armstrong's Coinbase story (31:37) Sam Bankman-Fried's story (34:45) How the background and stories of each founder drives divergent product strategies (39:51) How Coinbase's and FTX's divergent product lines inform legal strategy (45:29) Sam Bankman-Fried's stance on DCCPA (Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act) (48:39) Coinbase's strategy on DCCPA (50:01) Explanation of Cosmos V2's new stack designed to help ATOM token accrue value (53:30) Cosmos V2: Interchain security - validators as a service (56:05) Cosmos V2: Liquid staking - built into SDK (57:14) Cosmos V2: Interchain scheduler - gain more fees (58:09) Cosmos V2: Cross-chain MEV marketplace (59:16) Cosmos V2: Interchain allocator - ecosystem fund (1:01:44) Bullish on Cosmos 1:04:34 Solana's Anatoly says app-specific rollups could make sense on Solana (1:05:56) Conclusion Good Game Podcast: A podcast for crypto natives. Find us at goodgamepod.xyz and follow us on Twitter @goodgamepodxyDISCLAIMER: 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.

Oct 5, 2022 • 1h 25min
Everything you need to know about Sui with Mysten Lab founders Evan Cheng & Sam Blackshear | EP 4
Imran and Qiao bring on Mysten Labs cofounders Evan Cheng and Sam Blackshear to learn about Sui. In this episode we talk about what they learned at Facebook Libra, what makes Sui different technically, and Sui's go-to-market strategy.Timestamps(00:00) Intro(01:11) Imran and Qiao introduce the interview(15:02) The interview with Evan and Sam starts(15:35) Sam Blackshear's background at Facebook Libra(18:39) Evan Cheng's storied career at Apple and Facebook(24:10) Why do Evan and Sam think that another smart contract platform should be available for the masses?(27:04) What makes Sui different?(37:26) The misconception of Sui around specifying dependencies for parallelization(31:08) What is horizontal scaling?(40:17) What is intra-validator sharding vs Ethereum's inter-validator sharding?(44:45) How does Sui bootstrap its developer community?(50:12) Is Sui only focused on gaming?(52:39) How will the consumer experience be different with Sui?(57:39) What are the top misconceptions around Sui?(1:03:02) Imran and Qiao discuss what they learned after the interviewEvan Cheng's Twitter: @EvanWeb3Sam Blackshear: @b1ackd0gMysten Labs Twitter: @Mysten_LabsGood Game Podcast: A podcast for crypto natives.Find us at goodgamepod.xyz and follow us on Twitter @goodgamepodxyDISCLAIMER: 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.

Sep 20, 2022 • 1h 11min
The State of Crypto: Where are developers going? | EP 3
Imran and Qiao discuss what's on their minds in the crypto landscape.Timestamps(00:00) Intro(00:35) CPI dropped - the "Merge" has become the "Purge"(04:35) The state of Layer 1s and Layer 2s - what's happening?(05:41) Why Imran and Qiao can see the future(07:24) The state of Layer 1s based on Electric Capital's January 2022 report(09:32) What's changed for Ethereum since Electric Capital's report?(11:03) What's changed for Solana since January 2022?(12:02) What's changed for Cosmos since January 2022?(13:42) The war between Layer 2s and side-chains on Ethereum(15:39) Explaining optimistic rollups Optimism and Arbitrum(16:48) Why Arbitrum is winning the mindshare of the developer ecosystem(21:01) Ethereum rollups will be competing with Cosmos for specialization(23:59) Arbitrum dedicated rollups are fragmenting liquidity and user experience(27:32) Why Polygon side-chain has won developer mindshare(31:33) Explaining how Starkware uses zero knowledge proofs to scale(33:29) What are zk-rollups?(34:30) The uphill battle for Starkware(36:10) Why dYdX left Starkware for Cosmos(41:54) Solana vs Sui and Aptos(43:17) Move language attracting developers from Solana to Sui and Aptos(46:50) Aptos more developer-friendly than Sui(49:25) Aptos and Sui are clearly gaining developer adoption momentum over Solana(52:15) Why many Ethereum developers will never move off of Ethereum(58:10) Why Cosmos hasn't had any hype(59:43) Founders are being attracted to Cosmos from launch of Osmosis(1:00:26) App-chain thesis - the rise of application-specific blockchains(1:02:35) Monolithic chains are just fast prototyping testnets for Cosmos(1:04:25) The pain of bridging between Cosmos hubsGood Game Podcast: A podcast for crypto natives.Find us at goodgamepod.xyz and follow us on Twitter @goodgamepodxyDISCLAIMER: 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.

Sep 2, 2022 • 1h 13min
Fei Protocol Unwind, Sudoswap's Zero NFT Royalties, Zuckerburg's Metaverse Future | EP 2
Imran and Qiao discuss what's on their minds in the crypto landscape.(00:45) Why Qiao shorted Eth and price predictions(04:43) The actual reason behind the Fei protocol unwind(18:22) Everything wrong with the state of crypto governance(20:18) Rise of Sudoswap and its influence on NFT royalty fees(45:00) Screwed-up incentives with token lockup periods(59:34) Mark Zuckerburg and Joe Rogan metaverse podcast interview debriefGood Game Podcast: A podcast for crypto natives.Find us at goodgamepod.xyz and follow us on Twitter @goodgamepodxyz!DISCLAIMER: 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.

Aug 24, 2022 • 41min
Tornado Cash Sanction Wakeup Call, Solana Phone, Eth Merge Predictions | EP 1
Imran Khan and Qiao Wang kick off the first episode Good Game podcast by discussing the latest news top of mind.(00:33) How Tornado Cash sanction is a wakeup call to the industry(05:43) As a builder of decentralized software, do you build as an anon?(08:11) If US government bans crypto, which community will fight?(10:19) MakerDAO introducing real world assets centralizes risk(11:51) Should we be building crypto native products for real world users that aren’t crypto native?(15:11) The coolest recent innovation is Coinbase’s MPC wallet(18:16) How the Solana phone is a hardware wallet with phone capabilities(19:41) End state of crypto: every hardware wallet will be a super app(24:44) Ethereum Merge analysis and market predictions(33:30) Eth Proof-of-Work fork will be more irrelevant than ETCGood Game Podcast: A podcast for crypto natives.Find us at goodgamepod.xyz and follow us on Twitter @goodgamepodxyz!DISCLAIMER: 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.