My 5th year of teaching a class at MIT on new economies bubbling up in online spaces, Bitcoin, digital collectibles, gaming and digital leisure (the real metaverse) is a wrap! This year, I had the incredible privilege of teaching with
@CathieDWood
of
@ARKInvest
! Key points below:
Excited to be joining other
@Polkadot
Head Ambassadors as the HA for Gaming! Call out to streamers! We will use these funds to find voices who share our indie ethos - together we will educate, entertain and lift up creators for the Polkadot community!
After three years of working closely with the
@SEC
we are excited to speak more publicly about DOT morphing from a security to a non-security. It's software!
This says it all. Mythical is LIVE on
@Polkadot
. Transaction volumes have ranked consistently in the top 3-4 (including Bitcoin and Ethereum) and yet, these transactions were not running on a highly secure, permissionless chain. Now they are. Just like that. Because
@Polkadot
.
GM! Excited to apply for
@Polkadot
's Head Ambassador for Gaming. I have been in the ecosystem since 2019, in the gaming space for 20 years, the esports space for 10 years, and a huge supporter of
@playmythical
and
@johnwastaken
since the beginning. App->
"Mythical’s GameFi debut began life on a permissioned sidechain, but we wanted to take things further and to give players the concept of ownership but do so in a very protected, safe way.”
-
@johnwastaken
(ex
@CallofDuty
,
@SeismicGames
) on moving to
@Polkadot
(~800k wallets 🎉)
My response at
@Official_GDC
when (many!) people asked, "Why would
@playMythical
and CEO
@Johnwastaken
and team choose
@Polkadot
?!" Summary->"Tail Wagging Dog 🐶 and It's all About the Tech!" First, here is a pic of
@Nickdouz
on the shift away from speculation to really fun
Feels like two paths are emerging in NFT space.
(1) Build a universe but hold onto IP. Ex:
@larvalabs
deal with UTA ()
(2) Form a community to build a universe. Give all the IP away. See what happens. Ex:
@lootproject
Personally like approach
#2
better!
5/ Meanwhile, Mythical Games has teamed up with the
@NFL
to launch its newest game
@PlayNFLRivals
in which players manage their very own roster of star players — another exciting use case for Web3 technology!
Web3 Foundation announces
@Polkadot
's native token DOT has morphed and is software, not a security!
After 3 years of proactive engagement with the
@SECGov
, W3F announces a landmark step towards the achievement of Web 3.0, a decentralized, trustless, serverless internet.
To make sure you don’t miss out on the livestream of the event, RSVP here so you’ll be emailed the links before the event!
To learn more about NFTs, metaverses, and crypto, check out the blog written by myself,
@AugustFR
, and
@GrousARK
Huge thanks to the
@Web3Foundation
for supporting our ambitious goals to build a Superstars hub for
@Polkadot
in gaming! We aim to capture the largest audiences within gaming, build essential integration tools, and host many live events!
1/ Exciting News! Dot Play has been awarded a Decentralized Futures Grant, marking a significant milestone for gaming within the Polkadot ecosystem.
This project aims to create a comprehensive and engaging platform for game developers to leverage Polkadot’s cutting-edge
We were so happy to have iconic thinkers
@arthurB
and
@Breitwoman
, co-founders of
@tezos
, on our podcast Culture Meets Crypto 😊 Below is a thread on Episode 8: "Art for Art(ist)’s Sake"
We are very excited to be meeting with many friends and investors in the gaming community next week at GDC! So many people in the gaming industry have been displaced. Let us help connect some dots and figure out future opportunities together...😄
The Game Engine behind 'Pokémon Go' and 'Call of Duty Mobile' will allow Polkadot to earn a place in its asset store 🎮
A new collaboration between
@paritytech
and
@unitygames
will allow Polkadot to join Unity's verified solutions (VS) program. Learn more ↓
✅ The Verified
BIG weekend. Sunday morning Indy500 cheering on
@ConorDaly22
. Sunday night watching my girl
@MercedesVarnado
the CEO of
@AEW
🔥fighting Willow Nightingale for the
@AEW
TBS Championship - PPV
@8pm
ET
IMO they are both
@Polkadot
kind of people - Winners! 🩷🩷🩷
14/ What is Tezos? An experimental technology addressing digital assets in a unique way. It's not about getting
@ChristiesInc
or
@Sothebys
on the blockchain - it's about experimentation in art, whether in galleries or in games, and building an organic community - for art’s sake
GRAND OPENING - ARK Innovate! Monday 2.12 Doors open at 3pm ET!
@CathieDWood
on Big Ideas 2024 at 4pm &
@TheDali
Museum with works of Salvador Dalí. ARK Innovate! is a new digital space hosted by
@ARKInvest
. Link + password to enter 3pm-6pm:
pw: arkinvest
"We weren't looking for hype. We were looking for substance. We were looking for governance. We were looking for security. We were looking for flexibility." - John Linden, Mythical // "As it turns out, ownership is the best retention mechanism" - Robby Yung (mic drop!)
@arashdre21
@johnwastaken
@playmythical
@EnterTheMythos
great! 1) How is a partnership with the NFL established for a gaming company like Mythical, and what do you own vs what does the NFL own? 2) How has Mythical's D-Market marketplace been able to support and navigate the transition from a web2 skins marketplace to one that is more
We are excited to announce our Dot Play bounty , to create games for the
@Polkadot
ecosystem! The team has deep experience and expertise in gaming and in Polkadot. We have ambitious plans to build something BIG!
Awesome! So lucky to meet so much talent at Harvard this weekend! Great job EasyA and congrats winners! 🏆🏆🏆🏆 (DMs open for follow up calls with
@dotplayteam
for those who are interested!)
@Signum_Eliza
@nickdouz
@SignumKeshav
Pretty much everyone agrees that games can get Web3 to a billion users. The only problem's that Web3 games right now just aren't fun enough!
But that's changing.
Our gigabrains are finally making Web3 games fun. In fact, they've created a whole new category of game.
Check out
Have been watching Snowbridge for years, and now they are going to show their stuff with
@playmythical
! This feels like an industry moment to watch for Ethereum and many others!
Cathie Wood of
@ARKInvest
after her fireside on innovation and convergence at Christie’s Art + Tech conference, alongside Lisa Liang of
@AsyncArt
. Lisa claims that she attended as a derivative NFT ("digital collectible") version of Cathie! 😂
Happy to arrive in Berlin this am. Kicking off at the
@Web3summit
with the 1s&onlies
@BillLaboon
and
@alice_und_bob
. And it's the 1st time the
@dotplayteam
is all in person together! Come to "Calling Game Developers" side event at 4pm CET! 👾💙👾
Polkadot grabbed the top spot in developer activity over the past 30 days! This is consistent with the developer report we saw from
@ElectricCapital
(reported Polkadot
#2
for the 3rd year in a row) More projects are building on Polkadot (and Kusama) than others
Top 10 Projects by Development Activity in the last 30 days
According to such fundamentals like development activity, there are lots of good projects with moderate market cap.
$ADA $DOT $KSM $ATOM $ETH $ICP $SNT $MANA $FIL $MIOTA
"Even though Mythos has the
#1
gaming blockchain by transactions, sales, and active wallets, it has been a permissioned sidechain, so the 755k+ wallets weren’t visible on Ethereum where the main token lives. The new Mythos Chain (secured by
@polkadot
relay chain) will have the
After years in the trad gaming world, I'm finally at home in UGC - loving Roblox Dev Conf so far! Surrounded by incredible fountains of creativity at women's breakfast now! 💗🌸💐🌺🦋💙🦋💙
Thanks to all who participated! Community and creativity are crucial in the future of gaming. And with the explosion of AI generated assets, AUTHENTICITY will matter. We will need to know what is real and what is not - Web3 and the rock solid
@Polkadot
technology will support it!
Brainstorming on UCG, AI and Web3 session led by
@daltonan
. From Roblox, to UEFN the industry is moving to community driven initiatives.
This is the infliction point where blockchain just. makes. sense.
@Polkadot
will be securing the next evolution of gaming.
Great Day1
@GamesBeat
! Some insights from our panel. Yes, it feels like there is a vast gap between “web3” and “gaming” and yes, culturally they are different in many ways. Yet, despite the negativity around "NFT" and "blockchain" the room was full and the interest was high.
🛸 S P A C E M O N K E Y S 🦧
Blasting off with
@josh_blockchain
&
@daltonan
on their journey to deliver decentralization with existing regulatory guidance. 🧠
The path of least resistance...
Watch in 4K:
Or full below before unrolling the 🧵👇
Looking forward to tomorrow's panel on a little topic - the US Regulatory Scene in Crypto 🙈 please come (livestream too)
@josh_blockchain
and I are a lot more positive than one might think as we are seeing some significant silver linings as the industry shifts its focus 5:05pm
Simply awesome -
@josiebellini
our
#1
guest shared her journey - we are so incredibly excited for what
@CyberBrokers_
has in store! We went off script, which led to what we loved about
@money_alotta
, tears of love from us both, then even more laughs which he would have liked 💙
Episode 1 of Culture Meets Crypto is out now! Listen to
@josiebellini
's journey into crypto, NFTs, and how she's building
@CyberBrokers_
- a gamified IP brand. Thank you for sharing so much with us
@josiebellini
!
Behind all the projects, the on-chain refs, & (most) of the 𝕏 accounts, are people and their motivation to build Web3 together 🫂
📽️ This series,
#PeopleofPolkadot
, will show a side of Polkadot from the perspective of its community members.
Get ready 🤩
Very beautiful Web3 + 3D bird! As an observer, I'm noticing a lot of new ground breaking with
@RmrkApp
. This bird could be in a AAA game. 3D is an important chasm to cross and it is still mostly lacking in Web3 (3D equippables?! 🤯) Kudos to this team who did it!
Tricky NFT Art - RMRK MODULAR NFT Art & Consulting
what's so special about
#v2NFTs
using
@RmrkApp
's standard?
well....
...you can equip them on chain with other NFTs ?!? 🪄🌈
after months of work - presenting worlds first animated 3D equippables on
#RMRK2
together with
@SkyLabsCorp
:
🧪 The Artemis R4VENs & Dr. Snew's items🧬
🚀🔍 Attention Polkadot community, a shocking proposal has emerged on the horizon🤯
🌟 Prepare for Proposal 643, a bold collaboration between
#Mythical
Games and
#Polkadot
that has the potential to revolutionize the blockchain gaming industry.
🤑The proposal unveils a token
Polkadot Decoded 2023 was truly eye-opening 👀 and mind-expanding 💡 - I loved
@gavofyork
’s commentary on
@Polkadot
as a reflection of where the ecosystem is and where it's going
Overarching theme -- how can we make Polkadot more accessible with treaties that span applications?
Mythical COO Arron Goolsbey adds passion and support to CEO John Lindens vision. He believes the hero use case for web3 is GAMING and he is already helping Dot Play, supported by the Polkadot community, in executing our vision to empower creators! 👨🏼🎤🧑🏼🎤👩🏾🎤
If you are a sucker for rational thinking, regardless of whether or not you agree, I would highly recommend a listen! 💡
Especially liked the point at 1:09 - as a community,
@Polkadot
governance will be more impactful without superficial decision making. Gathering only a few
S P A C E M O N K E Y S ˄͎ Podcast
DOT Whale Theory 🐳
→ Influence & Power in OpenGov
feat.
@giottodf
w/
@GldnCalf
Show Notes:
Today we Blast Off with Giotto De Filippi, chief memer of the
@dotisded
Memecoin.
We discuss his journey to Polkadot & getting involved with
Earlier today at
@PolkadotDecoded
a legal panel chaired by Parity's CLO
@USCHill
gave a powerful response to an erroneous post on X suggesting the
@Polkadot
Treasury was evidence of a “common enterprise” and as such could be supported by a security token.
@daltonan
said: "The
Exciting times ahead!🔥Thrilled to announce our groundbreaking collaboration with
@DeloitteCH
! After multiple months of dedicated efforts, we're teaming up to redefine how everyone interacts in web3. This is just the beginning!
1/7
S P A C E M O N K E Y S ˄͎ Podcast
Bullish DOT 2024
→ Investor Perspective
feat.
@mark_cachia_
from
@scytaledigital
w/
@GldnCalf
Show Notes:
On this episode of Space Monkeys we blast off with Mark from Scytale on the bullish contrarian case for Polkadot in 2024 - the tech,
Today in 90 mins, Super Joost, Nick and I are going to have some fun thinking about where creativity and collaboration are going in games. Since the early days in '18, web3 gaming to us has always been about 1) social capital 2) identity and 3) property rights!
🌐 Exciting lecture tomorrow on crafting a robust "Legal & Regulatory Diet" for your Web3 venture!
The Academy founders track students will join experts
@USCHill
&
@daltonan
as they delve into the complexities of structural, regulatory, staffing, IP, and data requirements based
LOVE THIS 🖼 Very Special Artwork by
@trevorjonesart
- originally his oil painting inspired by Picasso's iconic "Girl with mandolin, 1910" (💙) and then his first NFT with the one and only
@money_alotta
. Opening it was so fun - thank you! 🙏
5/ “The fact about decentralization is that it's like an insurance policy. You don't realize you want decentralization until you’ve lent your assets to a centralized protocol. Consumers learn over a longer timescale of crises.” - Arthur Breitman
8/
@ArtBasel
- last year was a crypto conference; this year, only Tezos remained. Evan and I found it fascinating that neither the Breitmans nor the Foundation had to sell to well-known artists Marina Abramović and
@quasimondo
to join the platform.
Also included in my application herein and now in the thread - a proper shout out to
@Sortium
and
@Kurcide
- we are in the gaming trenches together and Sortium is built on Substrate 💪 💪💪
So many major announcements coming! First one lining up for Consensus in a few weeks! Stay tuned! This year is gonna be insane!
@playmythical
is leveling up again quickly!
This intensive 5-week program has surfaced high quality developers, inside and outside blockchain, from all over the world. They have competed for about 100 spots, and many learned Rust to be included. Very impressed with the students and looking forward to judging later today!
Busy day at the
@AcademyPolkadot
Training the next generation of Web3 Legends !!
Strong lineup with
@gavofyork
on Polkadot 2.0 !!
Great insights from
@daltonan
@USCHill
on regulation and legal topics,
@mark_cachia_
on venture capital and funding
Also very interesting to
Thank you so much
@TheKusamarian
for bringing together great people to talk about web3's regulatory process for Polkadot.
@josh_blockchain
and I were just spokespeople for load of people who made it happen - firstly, the devs!
"As part of the migration process, we minted more than 3M NFTs and migrated state for over 800k accounts on-chain within a total time span of 6 hours. The increased volume of transactions from the migration also showcased the resiliency and performance of Polkadot." 🤯🎮🕹️💙🩷
We're thrilled to share the latest developments from our journey in building the
@EnterTheMythos
parachain on
@Polkadot
.
Here are some key highlights: 🧵👇
Time spent with
@josh_blockchain
and
@USCHill
= good time. A lot to discuss on crypto regulation, especially given the recent focus on the
@Polkadot
treasury, a truly decentralized DAO
The
@Web3foundation
recently released a statement saying that
@Polkadot
DOT token has morphed, from a Security to Software. In a follow up podcast, they go much deeper into the details.
I break down everything for you in this thread, so follow along.
11/ Full Disclosure: my comments are incredibly biased as an investor in Mythical and as an active member of the Polkadot ecosystem. Also, I have made many friends in both since 2019, which also biases me. 😄💙
Showing up to the Sunday night (work) party in the same outfit as
@josh_blockchain
Thanks
@MoonbeamNetwork
🌕🥰🎉 P.S. Josh wants me to make sure everyone knows this was inadvertent 😂
7/ Rehypothecation! For us, Caitlin was the first in crypto to raise the awareness of the impact of rehypothecation and she went over it again on the show. One surprise to people - regulators can't fully see the leverage.
7/ Arthur said it was the website owner’s right to do what he wanted to with his site, but thanks to the open source code and the fact that all of the NFTs were on the chain, other people could step in and maintain it.
9/ And why is it that when you buy a stock, it takes 2 days to show up? Intermediaries make money! On stablecoin regulation, Caitlin pointed out that asking for permission instead of forgiveness will work over the long term. Plus crypto is in a battle of West coast vs East coast.
10/ We just learned that Tezos will be powering a collaboration between the creme de la creme
@SerpentineUK
and digital artist
@Gabrielmassan
titled ‘Artist Worlds’ 2023!
6/ The example we discussed was Hic-Et-Nunc, the NFT platform on Tezos which served as its ultimate decentralization test. When the Hic-et-Nunc website owner attempted to pull the plug on the website's front end, 20 more websites popped up in its place.
This was an incredibly insightful discussion with four
@SpaceX
experts! Highlighted below is the conversation on STARLINK with
@skorusARK
. As a brand new customer, I look forward to sharing feedback. Have a wonderful MLK weekend! 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠
First time I’ve got to run the truck in qualifying trim on an oval! Definitely a new experience. A bit loose for me at the moment but we’ll figure it out as the race goes on
@NieceMotorsport
@Polkadot
👍
Who's already in town for
@PolkadotDecoded
?
Who's on their way to Brussels?
And who is getting FOMO? (but will be tuning into the free live stream to catch the great ecosystem presentations...)
We'll be posting content live from early Thursday morning so stay tuned! 🇧🇪 😍
Such a completely novel approach and not only for digital / web3 auctions. Traditional auction houses are interested too! Could this be as big as the English auction one day? 🤔 Great work Team
@GBMauction
!!
We’re partnering up with
@GBMauction
for a bid-to-earn auction in the near future!
Bid-to-earn is a system where if you are outbid on an item, you receive your bid back along with an additional incentive!
Stay tuned on our socials for when we announce dates for this auction!
We will all have a stable of personalized AI agents (with their own personalities) that we deploy for a variety of tasks
They’ll be connected to public and private personal data sources
They’ll be highly interactive like other human agents, and use interactions and feedback to
11/ Kathleen refers to Tezos as grassroots. Arthur says it is like Greenwich Village in the 60s. Kathleen says she likes Paris in the 1910s, and Arthur quickly chimes in, “La Belle Époque!”
@SignumGrowth
is celebrating
#IWD
with
@RikuKat
, CEO of
@StumblingCat
and former ED of
@IGDA
. Her new game - Potions: A Curious Tale! (9 yr labor of 🩷!) An adventure and crafting game-wit is your greatest weapon. Combat is not always the answer. 🪄🧙♀️👑🎮
Amazing first day for NFL Rivals!!
#1
Sports game in the App Store!!
#6
so far out of ALL games in the App Store!!
@PlayNFLRivals
Very proud of the entire
@playmythical
team! Thank you to the
@nfl
and
@NFLPA
for partnering with us!!
2/ Decentralization is a foundational pillar of blockchain, yet most users don’t realize they need it until they are exploited by centralization in some way. The latest case of mass centralization in blockchain comes to life in the Celsius court proceedings.