In this 2026 season premiere, JR and Leon sit down with Ryan Beltran to discuss ChainCraft, an AI-powered game-building platform on the Arbitrum network. Ryan explores how “vibe coding” and blockchain ownership are helping solve the “walled garden” problem in traditional gaming.
Hosts:
Jesus Burgoa (JR), Founder & CEO of fMintLocke
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Co-Host:
Leon Hitchens, CMO of MintLocke
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonhitchens/
Website: https://www.leonhitchens.com/
Guest:
Ryan Beltran (Founder of ChainCraft)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanbeltran/
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Episode Summary
In this 2026 season premiere, JR and Leon sit down with Ryan Beltran to discuss ChainCraft, an AI-powered game-building platform on the Arbitrum network. Ryan explores how “vibe coding” and blockchain ownership are helping solve the “walled garden” problem in traditional gaming.
Key Discussion Points
- The ChainCraft Vision: A “Web 2.5” platform where users can build, own, and earn from multiplayer games. By using Thirdweb, the technical friction of wallets is hidden, allowing non-crypto natives to play as guests seamlessly.
- AI-Powered “Vibe Coding”: The engine lets creators use AI to generate game assets and mechanics. Ryan envisions an ecosystem where creators earn royalties and items like “NFT swords” are interoperable across different games.
- Building on Arbitrum & Senko: Ryan highlights the benefits of building on a Layer 3 (Orbit Chain). This tech stack enables innovations such as ERC-6551, in which an NFT acts as its own wallet to store gear and items.
- Token Duels: A major featured revenue stream where players can wager crypto in skill-based battles, such as Superhero Showdown.
The State of Web3 Gaming
The Bear Case: Market Hurdles
- Token Dependency: Player interest often mirrors volatile market cycles.
- Onboarding Friction: High-stakes “on-ramping” (converting cash to crypto) remains a barrier for mainstream users.
The Bull Case: The Ownership Revolution
- True Asset Value: Unlike Fortnite, Web3 allows players to sell skins back to the market, turning “sunk costs” into digital equity.
- Rapid Iteration: AI reduces the cost of creating complex multiplayer mechanics, allowing developers to focus on fun rather than infrastructure.
Quotes of the Episode
“Vitalik started Ethereum because one of his items was nerfed in WoW… there are deep roots in gaming for this whole space,” , Ryan Beltran
Resources & Links
- Play ChainCraft: https://chaincraft.games/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/chaincraftgames
- Ryanโs Nonprofit: https://www.makewater.org/
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Hey, welcome back to the channel. This is Jr., founder and CEO of Midlock
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and my name is Le Hitchens. I’m the chief marketing officer here at Mitlock.
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Yeah. And this is Social Ledger Report where we haven’t been on for quite a bit
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of time, but we’re back in 2026. Yeah. And we want to kick off 2026 by
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introducing a developer on Web 3 on the Arbitrum network. His name is Ryan
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Beltran and he’s here to teach us a little bit more about his company and
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his product chain craft and kind of just you know man like thanks so much for
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having us here. Really just want to know a little bit more about you. I want to
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share the audience with you kind of what tell us what you do that sort of stuff.
0:43
Sure. Thanks for having me. Yeah man. So, I guess I’ll kick it off
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by saying, you know, um I’m I’m not sure if you’ve seen Social Ledger Report
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before, but we um I I know we were talking about a little bit about it
0:55
before, but we like to go over the news things and trends and market movements
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happening and how it affects and impacts the crypto markets. So yeah, for now um
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kind of just want to talk to you more and and put the spotlight on you with no
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pressure. But you know, I guess
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at no pressure. Yeah.
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As a no pressure. Not at all. No, never.
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So I guess the first question that I want to kick off today is
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can you tell us a little bit more about who you are? Your name is Ryan Beltr,
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but but what does it mean to be Ryan Beltran? I hope I’m pronouncing it
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right. Sure.
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Yeah. Yeah. Well, it’s Ryan Beltran, but it’s, you know, like, uh, however, um,
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uh, yeah. So, I mean, I guess a bit about me, uh, is I actually,
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uh, work on two things right now. One of the things that I have worked on for a
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while is a nonprofit, Makewwater.org. Um,
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which isn’t really Web 3. We’ve got donations from Web 3. We’ve actually
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done some projects um with the Nouns Dow uh with some of our kids. Uh we’re
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educational nonprofit that um challenges students to be citizen scientists and
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I’ve always liked like tech, new tech, emerging tech. Um and that’s how I got
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into that. And I’ve also always been a gamer. And uh I actually started uh
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getting into web 3 or crypto years ago and
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and uh through that I I don’t know where you want me how far you want me to go
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into that but uh after getting into crypto and web 3 and the recent AI boom
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I I’ve always wanted to build something in the space and it wasn’t until like
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maybe a year and a half ago or a couple years ago when this sort of idea with
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some friends uh chain craft came up and I can get more into that. Yeah.
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Yeah, absolutely. Um, you know, I don’t know if we’ve told this to the audience
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before, but I think it’ll be a good reminder since this is the first episode
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of 2026, but um, if you’re comfortable, why don’t you tell us what got you in
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two two things, two parts of that question. So, first, what exactly got
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you to crypto? And also, how long have you been into the crypto space? For
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reference, I got into crypto in about 2018. I learned about Bitcoin for the
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first time. Well, for the first time, I learned it in 2013 when I was in high
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school, but I didn’t really get into it as much until 2018. I got into it with
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CryptoKitties. Um, I had some Ethereum at the time.
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It’s a throwback right there. CryptoKitties.
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Exactly. Yeah, it really is. And I was very
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casual about it back then, but you know, that’s more or less my lore. Um, do you
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want to share yours real quick, Leon, and then we give you back the spotlight,
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Ryan? Sure, I want to hear.
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Yeah, totally. Um, you know, I think mine was
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the the classic thing that I remember is sitting in a calculus class in high
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school be like Bitcoin’s the future and going home trying to mine it, trying to
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figure out what the heck it it is on some crappy, you know,
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gateway pu uh PC back in 2012,
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2013 time. So I I was there. I never quite got into the
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development side like you Ryan or understand as much as on the like the
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DeFi. I’m learning a lot more on that side, but it was always like Bitcoin was
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a thing. I bought some CryptoKitties and then anything with a little bit of
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gambling uh piques my interest just like every other crypto nerd out there.
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Um yeah, Ryan. So yeah, I’ll uh y’all have uh have been in
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it for years. I’ve always, you know, heard about it and always wondered like
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why I didn’t get into it earlier because I I always loved like emerging tech, new
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tech. Um, I’m also like a filmmaker. So, I was really really into film making
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like I think during these times like I I went to New York and I worked for
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Wow. uh as a production assistant for
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Michelle Gandry, one of like my favorite directors. He did like Eternal Sunshine
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and Spotless Mind and bunch of awesome music videos. Um, so I think I was in my
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like pure filmmaker arc during all that and I remember hearing about it and I
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the only thing that I remember was like isn’t that like PayPal? Doesn’t PayPal
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already do that? And I didn’t get it. So I was just like
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uh it didn’t click. Um, but many years later, like 2020,
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um, I heard about the Sandbox and like, uh,
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Sandbox with their like land, virtual land, and then I just
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started like it’s all kind of blurry, but I know that’s where I started
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because it like had this crossover of gaming and blockchain.
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I think I’d bought a tiny bit of Bitcoin or Ethereum like before that or got on
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an airdrop but didn’t claim it for Stellar and because I didn’t know what
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it was. I didn’t even know what an airdrop was or whatever. Um, so but I
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know that that sandbox was the first thing and it had to do with gaming and
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and I just went down the rabbit hole and it
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was like it took a while but then it really like
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restructured your way of thinking because it’s still like you learn and
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you learn and you just like smart contracts like how does this sort of
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type of money work? But really, it was these like parcels of land on Sandbox
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that I bought and then I saw that you could sell them for a lot more right
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away. And I was like, “Oh, okay. That’s gaming I like.” And I also like making
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money. So, I I did both those things. And it really just from then on I just
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would always go on YouTube, listen to people, and
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then I learned about crypto Twitter. And honestly, crypto Twitter’s been the uh
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the greatest educator for the past few years. It definitely is like watching
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reality TV, too. It’s like it’s so entertaining like all the crazy drama
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that goes on in it. But, uh, are you ever on like Farcaster
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or Bass? You know, the the any of those I I got on Farcaster. I think I’m like
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in the first 3000 or something.
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I’m jealous, man. Um, and I didn’t
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like I I I would check up on it, but I kept going back to Twitter. Like it like
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the algorithm like I just couldn’t like set up my homepage to really So it
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almost felt like when I was there I was doing more work to try to find like
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things I did want to talk about or hear about. Um, so I never quite got in the
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groove with it. I like it a lot, but I didn’t. Um, and and Bass, I think,
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you know, just feels like a spin-off of Farcaster and and I didn’t do too much
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base uh app yet. Yeah,
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I don’t blame you. Um, we’ve used Bass. I was using Coinbase wallet casually for
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a while and then when they announced the rebranding into Bass in July of 2025, I
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got super FOMO and I was already like trying to get in. Leon got into it
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before I did. I was Yeah. And I was a little jealous, but
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eventually I got my access and then yeah, I use it on I use it every week. I
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don’t post on it, but I’m starting to just because I want to grow our brand
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Mintlock and then Social Leger Report. So, um, quick question about that.
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Do you feel like when you’re promoting your business and we’ll get more into
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Chain Craft of course and whatever else you want to talk about like Mick Water,
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but uh, quick question. So when you promote I I saw your following on
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Twitter and I think you were like just shy of 500 followers I believe
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which it’s substantial. We relaunched our business into Midlock. So we have
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like maybe three to five followers I believe. So
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it starts somewhere. You got to start anywhere, you know.
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Yeah. So thanks. But what would you advise our audience but also us as far
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as growing a following? Would you rather use crypto Twitter or like forecaster or
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like just anything else aside from crypto Twitter?
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Yeah, I mean I I will say I mostly secondhand have like heard a lot of like
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how people have grown in the space. I’ve not actively tried to
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grow my my own Twitter and the Twitter for Chaincraft. I’ve been very slow with
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it just because it’s very tricky if I launch something too soon and it’s not
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ready to scale or like the tricky thing in the space that I’ve seen is apps
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launch too soon and not be able like like if they catch like that virality or
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get get viral all of a sudden and they don’t know how to deal with it, they can
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like like grow boom and bust real fast. So that’s one of the fears that I have.
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I mean, it’d be a good fear to have in a way, like a good thing to happen,
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but uh I also um so so that’s where I’ve been with Chaincraft. If I had advice,
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um I do think Bass and Farcaster are good at getting other people who
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obviously are in the crypto space. Um so there’s nothing wrong with that and I I
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think it’d be a a positive thing to do that. It’s also like a re weird time
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right now, too. It’s like definitely 826 low. Yeah, it’s definitely low vibes. Uh
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kind of bearish feeling. Um but I like working in that that time. Like I feel
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like you can stand out better. Uh when gotcha
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people have shaken up and have left that are like, “Oh, I’m not going to make
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money right now. I’ll come back later.” And there’s just some of the like people
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left over. Um, so the ones that are committed to to the
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actual communities and stuff, I think that’s uh
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when when there’s a boom, everybody comes in and, you know, they want to be
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involved. And I see that a lot on crypto Twitter. The the folks that have been
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through the ups and the downs when and when Bitcoin went to like 60 and then
11:04
went back down to 20, whoever stayed around was like, “Okay, here’s some OGs
11:09
that actually care about it.” And I think there’s an interesting thing
11:13
happening this year around that like low is cryp cryptos being the most adopted
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thing. Stable coins are getting their build. Like there’s inflows of ETFs and
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there’s just so much going. But the number just kind of keeps going down.
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And I think that’s what always kept crypto Twitter and crypto alive with so
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much hype is that your exact thing I could buy low sell
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high. there there was a Wall Street bets kind of component to this is a great
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wealth distribution and and I think as it stabilizes it’s kind of like longer
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term thinking infrastructure and and all of that so there is a an oddity of who
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sticks around like I’m seeing a lot of the posts like I’m out or we’re no
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longer doing that we’re a trading platform just like caster and it’s like
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is that the right answer who knows and I still it just feels like early.com days
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like in a lot of ways when IRC chats were around and you know phones weren’t
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really like you know smartphones yet like
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so yeah I
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I definitely definitely agree with that um I mean it’s like the best marketing
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is number go up as they say like your token goes crazy that’s the best
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marketing in this in this space um
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y’all would know he’s that’s his background
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Yeah, it’s just his number go up is is the best marketing for it is somebody
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going on CNBC and saying Bitcoin’s going to hit a million dollars. Like the past
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number was it’s going to hit 100,000, but now it it’s there. And I think it to
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normal folks out there, the the hard part is what does crypto actually do?
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like I had a hard time wrapping my head around that and really JR was the one
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who kind of helped me understand DeFi more. I was very skeptical and I think I
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said on one of the podcasts I was like why stable coins and then I kind of to
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your point I was like well we already have like remittance and we already have
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systems but as I learned like oh man the banks still use FTP or or SFTP to
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transfer you know money in some ways I was like that it’s really interesting
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and I think you know kind of pivoting a little bit in a smooth way is I think
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gaming is kind of like that right now it’s like how does crypto fit into that
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Like we’ve had um uh games that have in-game currency, but those in-game
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currencies have never been realistic and and there’s a lot of crypto
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games, but I don’t feel like they’ve quite cracked the nut. So may maybe you
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want to, you know, kind of give your elevator pitch on Chain Craft and then
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we can kind of talk about what you’re doing in that space.
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Yeah. Um you mentioned you were you mentioned you were inspired
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by the sandbox. I actually did try the sandbox briefly. I think it was like a
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very ebit
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type of formula, but you know, I’ve been following you for a few years now, but
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you know, please let us know like what is chain craft if you could give us an
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elevator pitch and maybe also a less technical explanation of that for
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our viewers who are not very technical. Yeah. And I also want to go back a
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little bit to just gaming and crypto. I feel like they are so made for each
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other, but it’s just had a rocky road. And the
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there’s many reasons for it. And one of the biggest reasons is like NFTTS came
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out, there was a boom and bust, there was a lack of education and
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understanding of the working of blockchain and a lot of scams uh
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rampant. So that said, it really was was and and still is divisive in the gamer
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community. Um, but it’s really wild because there’s so many crypto people
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that are gamers. Like they’re they’re just like a lot of them are gamers, but
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there’s not a lot of gamers that like crypto. Um,
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it’s a good point. But the thing the thing that got me in
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again was was Sandbox. It got me in it. I didn’t really stay with Sandbox, you
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know, it didn’t I didn’t like it over time, but it did get me in and
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interested about like, oh, I can own a part of a game. Like, you have Roblox,
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you have Fortnite, you have all these places that you can create things and
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maybe earn something, but it’s a walled garden. They take hefty fees from from
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people that or from creators. And I always thought like things that were
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like maybe more decentralized or more like the creator and the player had more
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um ability to own things in game just was so powerful. Like
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I played World of Warcraft and old MMOs and
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you would Yeah. You couldn’t sell your gold like
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you had gold, you couldn’t sell it or buy it or you weren’t supposed to. You
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could get banned. Um
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Yeah. People would actually realize their swords. Oh my gosh. That would
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take me the [ __ ] back, man. And I remember eBay was like the place
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to sell that. Yeah. And but that’s like against the
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terms of service and stuff. And even even like Ethereum has that whole like
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Vitalik started Ethereum uh because uh uh one of his items was nerfed in WoW
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and and he wanted more decentralization. Like go look that story up if you if you
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haven’t heard it. So anyway, I think there’s so many roots
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in gaming and crossover. Uh, but it’s just that the timing hasn’t been right
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due to, like I said, the NFT and scams. But then also, it takes a long time to
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make a good game. A lot of games have just tried to take old models and slap
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on like web 3 on it or like crypto and it’s just like a shortcut that I don’t
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think works or hasn’t worked that well. So, in my opinion, it’s just it’s still
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it’s in its infancy and just like people are trying to to to put shapes and
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different like seeing what fits in what hole and like it hasn’t quite caught yet
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and that’s always been in the back of my head like just checking out on games and
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wanting to like something to hit or something to just feel right and and I
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haven’t found that yet. Um,
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okay. And that said, AI comes around and I’ll just get into chain crap now. Like
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uh AI comes around and just this whole like ability to easily
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uh easily create um and obviously you hear about vibe coding. Uh you hear
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about like there’s there’s a lot of already existing um like app builders
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out there and what we thought kind of like frameworks as the case.
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There’s a few there’s there’s many out there and and uh what kind of
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differentiates us and and the the route that we are taking is even if you build
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an app like a lot of these like you prompt it I want to make rock paper
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scissor and it makes you one but it looks horrible. It’s hard to go back and
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adjust anything within this interface like to tweak it. Um and it’s pretty
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wonky. So and and it’s not like multiplayer.
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Um there’s a lot of levels that we thought if we build like from the ground
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up uh with this this sort of like web 2.5 mindset like uh for instance uh
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creating a profile is super easy. You can be a guest uh or you can sign up and
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no matter what we use uh third web which makes it super easy um to come in create
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a profile and you don’t even know if you have a wallet or not. like we’re trying
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to make this for anybody to be able to use
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uh cryptonative or not with this idea of whatever you create you can own you can
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earn from it and there’s this like cross collaboration ecosystem where games that
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you make and maybe items in your game can be used across the ecosystem. So
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we’re sort of instead of just making a one-off app builder where you make a
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game and you try to pitch it or take it somewhere else. It’s like you can do
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that, but what if you keep it in here and you keep it in this ecosystem where
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there’s a lot more like uh remixing cross collaboration potential and cross
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like taking your items and moving it between different games. That’s sort of
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like hits on like my early dreams of like what I think it means to have like
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gaming on the blockchain. Cool, man. Yeah, thanks for explaining
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that. I’m going to share uh your website, Chaincraft, and I’ll I’ll let
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you take it off, Leon. Yeah. So, one one interesting thing I
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was going to call out there, and I’m I’m hearing it a lot more. I really love
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that uh animation. Um Yeah, it’s really cool.
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Uh is really around the on-ramping, off-ramping, and not
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making it feel like crypto. I think everyone is talking about that from DeFi
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to like these these games and and you know trading and just any platform that
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that uses even all the way down to poly market where
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the on-ramping and onramping being so complicated. you got to go buy crypto
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and send it to a wallet and you got to know you have a wallet and which chain
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are you on or what are you doing is I think the hard part and I think when you
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make it as simple as possible the end user which are we’re all goldfish in
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some capacity we inevitably just go oh I can deposit $50 via Apple cash or
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whatever it is and I’m able to play a game and have fun and maybe make more
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money but also um you just enjoy it. Like people, you know, spend hundreds of
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dollars every year on skins that don’t really benefit them in any way.
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They can’t sell it back. Um I actually want to share if you give me a moment, I
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could share my screen. And this is the actual app
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that is still like just like we just started to roll it out by invite only.
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It’s it is public. So if anybody’s watching this,
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you can go to play.chaincraft.game games. And this is our early sort of
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beta. Um, let me open this up. Yeah. Bio beats.
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And so right here, you can instantly uh try making a game. I will say it’s a
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little finicky right now. Like uh what we’ve been working on up to this point
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is the foundation of of our platform, which is the things that we have done so
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far are it’s multiplayer. It’s a web app that works from uh from your phone or a
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desktop. Um there is the ability when you create a game that it mints as an
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NFT and you own it. So uh like I mentioned you when you have a profile
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um when you have a profile or like when you sign up you it creates a wallet for
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you whether you really even know it or not. It feels very web 2. Um, and this
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shows you what games that I’ve made uh that I’ve published. I made one, Dance
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Simulator. I like making just really cheesy uh cheesy games just for fun um
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to see what the extent of our engine can currently do. I will say right now it’s
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just text based on purpose because it allows us to really like debug things,
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focus on streamlining like how making a game uh works and what mechanics we can
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start to add. And then we can start walking into uh graphics, but doing it
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in a way that um that is thoughtful where you don’t just like have a really
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crap looking uh uh interface, but something that maybe it’s an interface
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that another artist has created and you’re you’re uh they’re earning
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royalties from maybe you using their their interface. Um so here’s like uh
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unpublished games that I’ve tried out. Uh, if I were when you make a game,
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um, let’s see. This one’s called cutest in show. Uh, where you try to just make
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the cutest game or the cutest animal and then the judge will will determine which
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one is the cutest. And this is all kind of silly right now and just for fun. Um,
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but we want to get to this point where um, like our first revenue stream is
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definitely Denny for the crypto audience, which is we want players to
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come in and be able to create a game and then use it on what’s called token
23:49
duels, where you can wager uh, a crypto uh, in playing like skill-based games
23:56
against somebody else. So, one of the first ones is superhero showdown. Um,
24:00
where I just come up with like a superhero and you do and then the AI
24:04
battles them and one person wins like a really quick one round uh sort of game.
24:10
And so, is this like Lovable but for making
24:14
onchain games essentially in a way and yeah, Lovable is like
24:18
another app builder very big. But the thing that that I think we add here is
24:23
the web three component, the owning component, and then moving into we’re
24:28
going to be moving into like being able to create items in game that are NFTTS.
24:34
So like imagine I make a game where it’s like a dungeon crawler and
24:38
you can get certain items uh like oh I found a sword that is now an NFT and
24:44
then that sword could be used in other games that other people create. Um, and
24:49
so that’s the route we’re taking is this like intermingling of of people’s games
24:53
and creating more of an ecosystem that people would like to build on and earn
24:58
from at the same time. Cool, man. Yeah, it sounds pretty fun.
25:02
And you said none of these are like technically playable yet. Like these are
25:06
No, they’re playable. Like anybody can come now
25:09
um and do Superhero Showdown. Uh, I can start a game.
25:14
Cool, man. And I can send an invite. Like you click here, click an invite
25:19
link and I can send it to anybody. Uh there’s a global chat here. Oh no, this
25:25
is a game chat. So each game also starts a game chat.
25:28
Um but there’s a global chat here where I can say, “Hey, come join my
25:32
game.” Or I can just text the the code to
25:35
somebody. It’s pretty cool.
25:36
Um and you mentioned friction, Leon. Uh I’m always thinking of friction for
25:42
people who don’t know crypto. uh like coming in you can play as a guest like
25:47
in two clicks you don’t have to like it still creates you a profile and creates
25:51
you a wallet but like you invited somebody they can in two clicks come and
25:55
play your game with you right now already. So it’s like the foundation is
25:59
what we’ve spent a lot of time on and now we’re starting to focus on okay
26:03
let’s get like what can we do uh to beef up textbased games but also start going
26:08
into more complex uh games graphics and things like that.
26:15
But man, it’s pretty cool. I actually just created a profile and I’ve been
26:18
over here messing with it. Um, I was doing the job interview simulator and
26:23
just being a troll to it. Oh, is that nice? So,
26:27
okay, that’s actually cool that you can actually create a game and then is there
26:30
like uh if if I can ask like is there a
26:34
pipeline between or like a general estimate between you have an idea, you
26:38
want to create a game and then getting to playing the game and inviting people
26:42
to play with? Like what’s the general timeline, I guess?
26:45
Yeah. Oh, that’s a hard one because the game builder is very finicky right now.
26:52
Like I know because I’ve made games like how to make something that it’ll
26:58
probably accept. Well, it it’s um I mean the engine is
27:03
it’s very AI based right now. Like a lot of it is like a lot of AI uh agents and
27:10
AI prompting and AI artifacts being created every time. But little by little
27:15
we are making it more deterministic to where um like right now it creates a
27:20
game it creates the artifacts and then once everything’s done the artifacts are
27:24
there then it doesn’t create a lot of requirement of AI after it’s made. So
27:28
all the ones that you see on our site are already like the artifacts are all
27:32
made. Uh but in the future it’s going to be more like codable like actual code
27:37
that is coming out and uh more deterministic and have more features and
27:42
things like that. Cool, man. So, that’s pretty cool. Um, I did want to ask you,
27:47
so you mentioned earlier, you know, not every there’s you
27:52
essentially have two audiences. One, people who use crypto and two, people
27:56
who use AI, and they’re not always the same users. So, I think long term you
28:00
want to on board people who are kind of in the same kind of in both realms. Um,
28:06
I did start off as a gamer in my life and then I became a a web 3 developer or
28:10
just a developer and then someone who was in web 3. But
28:15
what’s your expected what’s your approach as far as
28:20
onboarding people who are both web 3 users but also gamers like if that makes
28:26
sense. Yeah. So first our first approach is
28:30
definitely the web three existing like cryptonatives and gamers and I already
28:36
have like am in some groups that are already gamers. Um so this is built on
28:43
arbitum and it’s even built on another layer on top of arbitum and layer three
28:47
called Senko which is a fun group of people who just
28:50
they they’ve made some really interesting and innovative games. uh
28:54
Senko has and so we decided to launch on the on their chain. Um but it’s all in
29:01
the arbitum ecosystem. Um but our first priority is like uh is the web 3
29:07
audience because of just how how they get it like even though we’re making
29:12
this as friction low friction as possible that’s our first audience.
29:16
token DS kind of appeases that audience, but at the same time, I’m trickling in
29:21
and reaching out to non-natives just to get their feel of like the use of it.
29:26
Like does something stick out that just feels like they don’t understand or like
29:31
and honestly right now it just feels like they’re just playing with the game
29:33
builder, which is great. That’s our goal is like they don’t have to off the bat
29:37
know it’s blockchain. they can just know it’s in the background and once we get
29:41
to the point of like earning royalties um it could just be done very like
29:47
simply like we still have different ideas of how that route’s going to work
29:51
out but we want them to feel like oh I just want to send the money to my PayPal
29:55
or something like that um so we’re trying to figure out all the ways to do
29:59
that and actually I will give a shout out to third web again they have all
30:03
sorts of like methods for bridging onboarding uh or or creating wallet
30:09
through pro profile creation, social media login, things like that. And then
30:13
they have tons of templates on their website of just not having to reinvent
30:17
the wheel and code something from scratch. They already have like, oh, I
30:20
want a marketplace. I can put it in there. Um, they have like even their own
30:24
AI, um, uh, web 3 AI that can help you with smart contracts. Uh, it’d be really
30:30
cool, like I I have so many things on a wish list for like way down. Uh, it’d be
30:37
really cool to just have a game that is almost like a PvP game where you have
30:42
your wallet and you can lose the things in your wallet, but like in a in a
30:47
setting where that wallet or your your
30:51
wallet is maybe on a test net or something like that where it doesn’t
30:54
matter anyway. But like that’s a lot of fun because I I loved PvP games where
30:58
there’s high stakes involved where you could lose your your loot and and a lot
31:02
of games just don’t scratch that itch like it used to. Um, so there’s all
31:06
these innovative ways that I think we can take our platform that are just fun,
31:11
like fun, but they involve the blockchain. They involve this like
31:14
ownership um, and being able to buy and sell and earn. Uh, so I keep going back
31:18
to that. That’s sort of our thesis. I like that.
31:21
I love a Pv PvP game just to like steal people’s stuff, have my stuff
31:27
stolen, like put in a little bit of It’s almost like the gambling uh the DGEN
31:32
stuff. Like I think that’d be a little fun just to have
31:36
something of like, oh my gosh, he walked in the house like um Stardew Valley
31:40
style, you know, kind of game where where everybody gets to be on the same
31:45
server. That would be amazing. That was always the the move on Minecraft.
31:50
M yeah personally
31:51
I’m excited for that. I also got on Minecraft quite a bit. So
31:56
like public servers like PB P2B or B2BT or I forget that old
32:03
micro server but it’s kind of like what I thought of when you
32:06
mentioned PvP high stakes. So no but thanks for sharing that. Um so you
32:11
mentioned arbitum and personally I haven’t built on arbitrum. I was
32:15
building my first business was Websy. It was a social network on a layer one
32:21
called Decentralized Social or Dieso. That didn’t really take off. They had a
32:25
lot of issues with that network. And I’ve learned that Ethereum layer 2s are
32:30
actually a much better way to build on web 3 because they have more
32:35
recognition. They’re layer they’re Ethereum based. So there’s EVM. It’s a
32:40
lot easy to build and there’s already like a large, you know, a lot of people
32:45
and a lot of a lot of um forget the word the the there’s a lot of money on these
32:50
networks essentially. So, it makes it easier to distribute and everything.
32:54
So, um if you could just like tell us a little bit about what made you choose
32:58
Arbitum specifically to build on. Yeah, a few things. Um so, yeah, again
33:04
like it’s on the EVM chain or it’s on which means it’s on Ethereum. it’s built
33:09
on top of it and there’s a lot of L2s out there. Um, but it’s kind of great
33:14
first of all when it’s tied to Ethereum like there’s a lot of similarity. Your
33:19
wallet uh um goes across all of them like your same like wallet address. Um I
33:26
got into arbitrum because uh Senko I liked their of all the gaming stuff out
33:32
there. I liked Senko. I wouldn’t say that they have been the most successful,
33:36
but they’ve made the most innovative stuff. They made like they made a Twitch
33:41
uh web 3 Twitch thing uh where you could live stream and give uh uh like like
33:49
follow, give credits, give tips, things like that. They did that like first they
33:53
did a um they did a where you have Yeah.
33:58
Don’t want to interrupt you, but how how do you spell psycho? I want to look it
34:02
up and open it right now and kind of just go through it as you tell us.
34:05
SN ko and they have a ton of like um Okay,
34:10
they it’s it’s just a really fun uh fun platform like
34:17
let’s see arbitum portal correct is it this one?
34:20
Uh let’s see senko well this is arbitrum’s website.
34:26
Yeah, let me give you the the their like main it’s senko.xy XYZ.
34:32
Ah, nice. And
34:33
good old XYZ. They have a lot of different products.
34:35
They they they just kind of like threw a lot of spaghetti at the wall. And they
34:40
made a game called like Senko Pets where it’s like
34:43
I see it here. You and they have this like PlayStation
34:46
vibe. They have very like PS1 PS2 era graphics and stuff.
34:52
Um, this is cool.
34:54
So they have uh Senko Pets, which is a lot of fun. um where you own these pets
35:00
and you can trade them as NFTs. But what I’ve never seen before is each NFT
35:05
is a wallet also. So you can send items um and you can wear like gear and stuff.
35:14
So uh yeah, Senko Pets. So yeah, here it is.
35:18
They call them buns and those are little Senko buns. Uh so I love what they’re
35:23
doing. It’s very silly uh the items that they make and they’re about to make like
35:28
a a MMO with all this stuff. It’s kind of like a lot of their stuff also as an
35:33
ecosystem. This kind of reminds me of Farmville
35:36
from like 2009 Facebook days. It’s it’s kind of cool.
35:40
Yeah, they have a little farm where you could they have items. They have an AI
35:43
item generator where you can make your own items.
35:46
So they are built on arbitrum. They have their own layer three. Uh uh so it’s
35:51
just like Senko mainet. Um Okay. Wait. So layer three you said.
35:57
Yeah. So it’s like Ethereum and there’s like arbitum and then there’s like
36:02
arbitum allows for orbit chains which basically is like is like layers on top
36:08
of it. So got
36:09
um board apes made a chain on top of ARB. Um, I think Robin Hood is building
36:16
a orbit chain. If not, they’re just building on Arbitum in one way or
36:20
another. So, we can go on and on, but I will say
36:22
I like Arbitum a lot. I am not like a hater on other chains. I
36:27
just like and decided to build on Arbitum.
36:30
Um, because I think they just have longevity. They don’t really try to
36:35
overhype things. You really can tell from the team. They’re just like slow
36:39
and steady like building a a pretty amazing product. Um, I like bass a lot,
36:44
too. They’re very good at like marketing. They’re very good at like
36:48
quick iteration and quick new ideas and getting money out there. Um, so it’s
36:53
just different different vibes, but they’re interconnected. Like you can
36:57
bridge across pretty easily uh your your funds and things like that.
37:01
Um, so yeah, but I like I just like Arbitum and
37:05
uh they’ve been supportive too. They we won a grant uh through Questbook grant.
37:09
Oh, nice. Congrats. Um yeah. How much was it if I may ask?
37:14
Um it’s for 25,000 about or 24,500 and um and we are also going to do a
37:23
hackathon that we just applied to that they have going.
37:26
Uh they have a really huge uh gaming initiative. And actually
37:31
that’s another thing to add to this to kind of just like maybe
37:35
uh uh bookend it. But yeah,
37:37
every every blockchain would love to have that killer first game that brings
37:43
web 2. It’s almost like they’re publishers. They’re like, “We want you
37:47
to do it on our chain cuz they will get the fees of like transactions and the
37:52
liquidity will come to their chain and things like that.” So, there’s a lot of
37:55
incentive for uh you to make a great standout game um in blockchain. So if
38:02
people want to make like try it out, think about it because there’s there’s
38:05
money out there if you have good ideas and that’s what we’re trying to do, you
38:08
know. Yeah. I think um one thing I’ll say is
38:12
and I don’t know if you have any thoughts, Leon, but I think in crypto,
38:17
one thing I’ve learned is in the last almost 5 years that I’ve been building
38:21
on crypto is people just want to make money. People I mean money comes first
38:26
in many areas because it is the easiest way to integrate crypto. It’s just
38:30
money. But um would you say that you know you can kind of see a parallel with
38:36
like the gamification of web 3 with like prediction markets because right now
38:43
Koshi and Poly Market I feel it’s kind of like a like a gambling game. The
38:47
gamification part of it is you’re betting on something in the market and
38:52
then you put money and then you either win or you lose. It’s kind of like
38:55
gambling kind of like not gambling if that makes sense. So, do you see like
38:59
some sort of parallel is what I’m trying to ask
39:02
with uh with what we’re building or just like what in like
39:06
Oh, just in general like with prediction markets and like uh web 3 gaming in
39:10
particular. Yeah, I feel like it’s one of those
39:12
things that everybody’s trying to slap blockchain onto things and there’s some
39:17
things that are successful. Um, and definitely if there’s gambling involved,
39:22
it tends to be a good It’s not always my favorite thing, but it’s a good like it
39:28
just does well at it. Um, and prediction markets are very interesting. Uh, I I
39:33
really like I don’t really use it much. It’s not like I kind of tend to go and
39:38
use the products that I get excited about or think are innovative and
39:43
interesting to learn from. Um, so I I mean I heard about Poly Market very
39:47
early on. I didn’t use it much, but I did like
39:51
what it was doing. And I did like this whole like now it’s in the news because
39:55
it’s prediction like it’s a way to predict things by it’s very powerful
40:00
that if something is showing you in real time people are putting their money
40:04
where they their mouth is. It’s can be pretty accurate outcomes. Uh which is
40:08
pretty neat and and I was not expecting that. Then Kalshi is just like, you
40:13
know, I believe very similar but just uh um KYCed and and like has a little bit
40:18
more regulation, I think. Uh and has been able to really boom quickly. Um and
40:26
yeah, so I’ll just say that there’s a lot of of of people still trying out
40:29
there like attaching this to that and seeing what sticks. Um and some making
40:34
it big. Yeah. No, it makes sense. Did you have any
40:38
thoughts, Lean? No. Uh, I’ve been uh playing the job
40:42
simulator pretty hard right now. This is actually pretty fun. Like
40:45
I can stepping away. I’m stuck. I’m stuck over here. I didn’t get the job
40:49
and I tried to do it again and I didn’t get the job again. I was like, “Dang
40:52
it.” Dang.
40:53
Can you share like your game experience by the way?
40:56
Yeah, totally. So, I will I will say with the job simulator, my goal was
41:03
uh because it’s so finicky, like I have to when I get a working game,
41:07
I’m like I’m just going to publish it because I if I go back and try to change
41:12
too many nuances, uh it might break the game and I lost my
41:16
chance to to to launch it. Um, so my initial goal with this, I’ll just set a
41:21
premise to job simulator was like I wanted it to be
41:26
where you don’t know what you submitted on your resume
41:30
and the job interviewer would little by little say, “Oh, it says here you have
41:37
three years plucking chicken experience. How does that help with uh applying for
41:44
this uh HR position at a hedge fund or something like like and then you have to
41:50
like try to say oh my chicken plucking experience is the a so it’s almost like
41:55
an improv game and you have to just have fun with it
41:58
and it was pretty fun. Uh, you know, I went
42:00
really hardcore here of just like, you know, it’s asking me, you know, how are
42:05
you reliable and stuff? And I was like, oh, I’m always late. Also kind of suck
42:08
at juggling.
42:10
Just just to see what it would do. It’s kind of fun. Um, you know, just to be
42:14
the troll, but I thought that was pretty cool. Um, on the on the game creation,
42:19
so you have to buy a NFT or how how does that kind of work? I was
42:23
Yes, I’m glad you brought that up right now.
42:25
Um, the NFTs are really inexpensive. They’re like a couple bucks. And the
42:29
only reason is not so much to make money off of it or anything is that AI tokens
42:34
are it costs a lot to build a game right now. We’ve already made it pretty
42:39
efficient, but like if a lot of people come in at once, it’s going to like
42:42
start hitting our pocketbooks. So, we kind of have this like sponsorship route
42:47
where if you want to join right now, you can join our Discord, reach out to us.
42:52
We have an onboarding form and basically you make a profile like
42:56
after this uh y’all both I can send y’all and drop a NFT in your profile um
43:02
in your wallet attached to this and it’ll unlock the builder.
43:06
Um also on top of that the builder is still not like
43:10
it’s still finicky like it’s like it takes a lot of trial and error. It’s
43:13
only going to get better. Um but those are the two reasons why is just just
43:17
that. Um and and also to just add a little extra perks and early access to
43:23
those who have bought uh data drifter who were our early supporters. Um and
43:29
we’re going to have that in mind for always like uh if you’re a holder that
43:33
maybe you get uh um just extra items, perks, things in the future. Uh we
43:39
always want to be considerate of those that supported us early. So So yeah, I
43:42
can I can give you access uh to to do that um after this call.
43:46
Yeah. Yeah, man. That’d be fun, man. I love it. I can imagine some games like
43:52
uh there is that one like uh the Pilgrim game where, you know, goes across the
43:56
Pilgrim. Yes. Oregon Trail, right? Right.
43:59
Yeah. Organ Trail. See some fun spins to that where we could be like Fallout
44:05
crossover mutants. Like Yeah,
44:09
please do. Please do. I I would love to see uh and and I’m also seeing the first
44:15
person to actually make a game is actually called Realm of Synchry. So, I
44:20
was very excited even now when I opened it up. It’s the first time I’ve seen a
44:24
new person come and publish a game. So, it’s really exciting.
44:27
We still don’t have that many beta testers yet. We’re just little by little
44:31
rolling it out. Um so, kind of word of mouth kind of
44:35
things like this like I chat with y’all. I’m like, “Yeah, I’ll let I’ll I’ll get
44:38
y’all access um and see what kind of stuff you make.” And also, what’s kind
44:42
of cool is you can share that link of your job simulator and it’s like people
44:47
can um see it after the fact or they can even uh watch while you’re playing. Like
44:53
they can come in and see your game. So depending on what your game is like or
44:58
uh Well, it’s it’s not exactly streaming, but in a way it kind of is
45:02
like streaming your game of text. like they can come and just uh
45:07
uh uh spectate your game. Anybody can um
45:10
Okay. And we’re we’re looking at like
45:13
spectating building games so that maybe you you can open up your builder to
45:17
others to um to uh maybe build with you. We’re
45:22
adding remixing at some point where if you like a game, you could remix
45:26
somebody else’s game and they get royalties if you remix their game.
45:30
There’s a lot of routes and a lot of things on our wish list that we just
45:33
have to bit by bit build up. Cool, man.
45:37
I love the thing. I definitely, you know, play there. I I actually have DMT
45:41
in my Metamas wallet. I was going to go do this uh too because I just want I
45:46
want to see like the experience because I think that’s that’s the hard part out
45:50
there in the world is make sure every part, you know, works along the way too.
45:55
Like so help help support it. Yeah. Like I didn’t realize the DMT was was so
46:01
cheap even I thought it was a little bit more expensive.
46:05
Yeah, it’s g it’s gone down lately. They are about to launch their MMO and it’s
46:10
just been like delay after delay and everybody in the telegram is is it’s a
46:14
joke. It’s like, oh, it’s coming out in two weeks. It’s perpetually coming out
46:17
in two weeks. Um, but it is hard to launch an MMO. Like they they
46:22
they set their their goals are so lofty and the stuff that they’ve built. So, a
46:26
lot of people are just like waiting for it to launch. Um but uh Senko fun group
46:32
uh they make fun games. Um and looking forward to their uh it’s called like
46:37
Senko Quest. It’s like going to be very similar to Runescape. Um
46:42
it’s fun coming out soon.
46:43
I love Runescape. So So one thing Leon and I well one
46:49
mindset that Leon has got me into is we treat business kind of like a sport
46:54
where we keep on it. We funny enough put our money into it with like prediction
47:00
marketing some sometimes um like with press releases or with like earnings
47:04
call will Brian Armstrong say something when he is doing the earnings call for
47:09
Coinbase just for an example but you know one thing I want to kind of
47:14
like just talk about is how how’s the bit business side for
47:18
chain crap for you? I know you’ve been building it for a few years and I know
47:20
you’re slowly starting to roll out the product and I know you also got the
47:24
grand which congrats but what’s next for chain craft and where do you see your
47:30
where do you see chain craft going in the next let’s say by 2027 where do you
47:35
see it going yeah I mean by 2027 our goals are to
47:40
have yeah I don’t want to completely give out
47:44
the road map but um yeah have much more interact interactivity
47:49
creating NFTs. We’re going into when I mention items like we’re kind of setting
47:55
it up in a way that items or NFTs will be cards or look like cards because it’s
48:00
a very like tangible feeling thing than just like a generic, oh, I made a sword
48:04
and this NFT is just a picture of a sword. If everything kind of revolves
48:08
around this like uh constraint of looking and feeling like a card NFT,
48:13
there’s a lot more crossover in that. Um, so the game the the first thing that
48:20
we’re going to do is token DS. I think that’s our like wedge and foot into the
48:23
door of crypto space. Um, and really elevate the features for that. We
48:29
believe that’s our flywheel, our catalyst for getting a bit of our own
48:33
income and revenue. Uh, there’s incentive for you to create on the on
48:37
the space because you could get royalties. There’s incentive to uh refer
48:41
others because we’re going to also add referral fees. um that you could get. Uh
48:46
and that’s sort of what we’re hoping to work on uh the first quarter or two this
48:51
year. Um and ETH Denver is coming. Uh we’re going to try to really show off
48:57
our uh token DS, our test net token DS. Uh which when that comes out, I’ll sh
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I’ll share with the alt 2. U there’s there’s it’s there’s already an early
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version of that. Um, so by 2027, we would love to like be fully launched
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with like a very basic product, maybe starting to get into some better
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graphics, um, but really starting to build the community off of token DS and
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into some of the the bigger phases that we really feel add more, uh, uh,
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featurerich things to to the site. Um, yeah, and the game play.
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Cool, man. Yeah, thanks for sharing. Um, let’s see. I only have like a handful of
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questions left, but I don’t know if you have anything else in your mind, Leon,
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that you want to share real quick or ask.
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Not to put you in the spot. Cool, man. Um, yeah. So, you know,
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thanks for sharing that, Ryan. So, I guess my final few questions are I’ll
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kick it off by asking, um, you mentioned distribution. And you’ve already
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mentioned like your monetization philosophy kind of like what you believe
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you know is the what you should be doing as a web 3 platform or game building
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games in web 3. Um but since you’re kind of getting things rolling you know what
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is the number one metric or key performing indicator that you’re looking
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for chain craft? Like is it players daily active users retention?
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I think it’s retention honestly. Um, which is tricky right now because
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retention is like some of the stuff here is like not it’s fun to come and tinker
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with once or something and and maybe share it. Um, but I I really am going to
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be looking close at retention um when token goes live. I that that’ll be this
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like it’ll really tell us like is this catching with um with uh the crypto
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audience that that we are aiming for and that’s our like sort of theory is is it
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should um I I have been in it. I would love to have a setup like this to play.
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Uh so I’m I’m building what I would want to play and and be a part of. So um
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Cool, man. So you’re essentially building your own games.
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Yeah. like I I’m just like nobody else is building it so I want to build a
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builder to build the games I want to play. Like that’s that’s uh
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that’s what I’m what I’m doing. Um so yeah, retention I think. So uh and
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obviously like growth would be great, liquidity and people bringing uh funding
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onto the site and and just to tap on that like like some of the some of the
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issues in gaming right now are like credit cards and crypto do not work well
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together. Um there’s a lot of onchain fiat or excuse me onchain you
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mean on-ramp dollars to like crypto. Yeah. Yeah. So like those are some thing
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everything is always like getting easier and easier over time. So a lot of stuff
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that we’re utilizing now was not out like a year ago. Um but things like
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like uh the things that we’re concerned about is like best method for bridging
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without creating a lot of uh friction between other layers to our layer. Um
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but also like um the ease of uh new money coming in uh
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is also one of those one of those hurdles that um is not a dealbreaker but
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it’s one of those that if it gets fixed at large or uh like if credit cards get
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easier to use uh that would be like amazing. There would be a lot more boom
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in the gaming industry and just apps in general with crypto. Um,
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I believe it. I’m very bullish on crypto as a whole. I
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could be doing like if I could do anything else in the world, I would say
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no. I’m going to stick with crypto. But no, I see your point. Um, so and we’re
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almost out of time here, but one thing I want I was thinking is you’ve mentioned
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kind of like where you see crypto going in the next few years, especially with
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gaming/crypto would be going in a few years, but like what do you think is the
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bull and the bear case for onchain gaming? If you could like kind of give
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us both scenarios and like what you think would lead it to either either
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outcome. Yeah, I think I will start with the
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bearish is still it’s just um sentiment right now both
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sentiment that it’s so attached to a token a price
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if Bitcoin Ethereum goes up down then it can have a negative impact people losing
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money this or that I think the route that we’re going I like and I think I’m
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bullish on this sort of route is like if you’re not just trying to create
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something that is a token that you’re trying to like
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have it number go up real fast. Uh but actually a slow and steady growth like
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earning revenue through fees like a lot more by volume than by like uh quick big
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uh volatile numbers. I think that really hurts the space. Uh, at least the gaming
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space. There’s some people that just like the whole gambling space and will
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always be there. Um, but I think for the gaming
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if you uh like don’t try to like sell NFTts that are thousands of dollars,
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like I mean those ages are those days are over. But like if you’re just like,
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“Oh, I I’m I’m like a kid playing a game and
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I want to pay play pay three bucks for a skin and then be able to sell it later
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for three bucks again. At least I got that money back to buy another skin
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later.” Like even just that like the kid wins, the player wins, the the the
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platform wins because we get a fee. And so like it doesn’t have to be so big and
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huge every single step of the way. I think there’s a lot to be said in that.
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Um, forget I actually agree with you there. Um,
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personally, I’ve seen I play I used to play Fortnite a lot and I’ll be brief. I
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used to play Fortnite a lot. I have um I missed out on some of the early battle
55:20
passes, some of the skins you can no longer get on eBay since you can sell
55:24
everything on anything on eBay. Some people are selling accounts that are
55:27
like so old that have some of the original skins that you cannot get
55:31
anywhere else. They sell for like thousands of dollars.
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One of my friends like a long time friend ago showed me he wanted this
55:37
particular skin and the account was selling for $5,500 and I was like, “Holy
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[ __ ] that is a [ __ ] ton of money.” But yeah,
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I agree with you. I think, you know, having this accessibility for people
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because crypto is very like making money centric. I think that’s probably one of
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the easiest ways to integrate it. But, you know, it’s it also surprises me that
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we haven’t gone this far. Instead, we we went the route, hey, let’s sell some
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dumbass monkey on an image, an image of a monkey and try to sell it for
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thousands of dollars. You know, there’s almost no use case for that. But gaming,
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I think that’s a real thing. I think, you know, gaming
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culture has become so normal. It’s in some cases replacing media like
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traditional media like movies, TV, you name it for entertainment. I think this
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is the next big step as well. So, you know, what do you think gaming as a
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whole would look like by 2030 in just a few years from now?
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Um, I’d like to be very optimistic about it. Um,
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right. I I still think it’ll take a little
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longer, but who knows uh for the integration of like blockchain and
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gaming because I mean right now gaming is can be stagnant where it’s just like
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a lot of layoffs, a lot of risk off. Um, and that’s another reason of our genesis
56:57
or our like intro to chain crab was like what if there was another way for for
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people to create games, iterate fast, uh, and since it’s multiplayer, you can
57:08
try to just focus on one little mechanic and see if it works and then build off
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of that or even just sell that one mechanic as like a way to earn
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royalties. And so because of that and the the atmosphere of like the the
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gaming uh um at large right now, that’s that’s another reason why we got into
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this. But if blockchain were to take off, I mean
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it it would just I don’t know for me that it’s it’s not a
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question of of if, it’s just when you know that cheesy saying, but it really
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is. It just like it makes so much sense for gaming and owning your items to be
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on the blockchain or just like having like there’s nothing else that really
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competes with blockchain for the ability to trade items uh that are virtually so
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or virtual items. So, it just makes sense. It’s going to happen. Um I hope
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it happens that soon. Uh but you never know.
58:04
Thanks, man. Yeah, thanks for sharing that. Just before we close, where can we
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find you on social media? And yeah, so um you can find
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Yeah, you can find uh you can just go to play.chaincraft.game
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and there you can see our Twitter, which is just chaincraftame. We’re on
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Instagram, chaincraftgame. Um and definitely go to the Discord. If
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anybody’s listening and is interested, please come like ping us in Discord. Um
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and that link is just play.chaincraft.games. you’ll see the
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Discord at the bottom. Um, and maybe you could do it in the show notes. I don’t
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know. But, uh, yeah. Cool, man. Thanks for sharing. All
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right. Um, I guess the only Do you have any closing statements you have for
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everyone aside from just where to find you?
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Um, just, uh, check us out if you want to have full access. Like, we can
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sponsor you a pass. Uh, especially early on. Uh, I mean, passes are limited. Um,
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but uh I’m glad you’re here and listening to this and interested in in
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uh web 3 and gaming. And I mean, thank you all for having me. Thanks, man.
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Yeah, this has been Social Ledger Report and we’ll be seeing you next week.
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Thanks so much.

