Blockchain Gaming World

FIFA Rivals moving to Pulse market, Verse8 x YGG hackathon results and Hytopia's worrying pause.
[00:16] Mythical Games is migrating FIFA Rivals to the new Pulse marketplace.
[02:46] But there's been some sort of delay. FIFA Rivals is the last of Mythical's games to migrate.
[04:19] The significant change with Pulse is it uses the USDC stablecoin.
[05:51] Why in-game item markets should use stablecoins, not volatile tokens.
[07:20] With Pulse, you can sign in with email and/or external wallets like MetaMask.
[09:54] Mythical Games has learned some hard lessons to get to this point.
[15:44] Verse8 and YGG Play announce its Buidl Hack winners.
[16:40] What Verse8’s AI game-making platform actually does.
[20:00] Bank or Plank — the winning pirate board game is pretty good.
[22:22] Roblox-on-blockchain platform Hytopia has paused operations while awaiting a tax refund.
[28:00] Server costs, lost momentum and the blockchain game funding problem.
[32:36] Why sustainable blockchain games need to start out with leaner teams.
[35:16] Parallel Studios launches its trading card game on mobile app stores.

EVE Frontier's hackathon deconstructed, Limit Break's first game, Xociety pauses, SANDchain completes testnet phase 1.
[00:15] Deconstructing EVE Frontier x Sui $80,000 hackathon
[03:19] There were 123 submissions. Largest categories were bounty boards, insurance, gate tolls.
[07:20] Data was another key theme - escrow-style systems for buying and selling information.
[10:05] 25% of submissions were sketchy, either weak, irrelevant, or unserious.
[17:49] Limit Break has announced DigiDaigaku-themed mobile match game Puzzle Panic.
[28:06] It's seems like a Trojan horse for Limit Break's deeper web3 NFT and token stack.
[30:21] PC web3 shooter Xociety has halted development.
[35:15] The team is attempting to restructure with a more web2 focus using the Xociety IP.
[38:03] Sandbox’s ZK-based SANDchain L2 has completed its first testnet phase.

Pixels' Stacked P2E rewards platform is live, Verse8 raised $5M, Wildcard's WC token is live. Jon has a new hat.
[0:17] Jon wants everyone to know that he has a new GamesTX hat.
[1:23] Pixels has launched Stacked, which is a P2E rewards platform (or engine!) for web2/3 games.
[3:42] Effectively, Stacked is a productized version of the P2E layer in Pixels.
[8:36] Stacked currently supports Pixels and Pixel Dungeons and will support Ronin and Sleepagotchi.
[9:05] Rewards include PIXEL and will include gift cards and PayPal.
[12:10] Pixels currently has a Return on Reward Spend of 3 -- $3 of spend per $1 of rewards.
[13:34] AI game-creation platform Verse8 has raised $5 million in seed funding.
[14:40] There's consumer version and also a pro version for game studios. Delabs is using it.
[15:50] Verse8 has been used to make 25,000 games from 5,000 creators and 3.5 million MAUs.
[18:33] The Sandbox's has launched the first playtest for its NEXT mobile battle royale game.
[19:57] Wildcard has launched its WC token; currently priced a FDV of $600,000.
[23:08] What are the key metrics for a sustainable blockchain game in 2026?

Jon Jordan talks to Pixels' CEO Luke Barwikowski about Stacked, the company's new P2E rewards platform.

[0:56] Introducing Stacked, the new rewards app from Pixels.
[2:02] Pixels still believes in play-to-earn for web3 gaming, notably using data-driven rewarded play.
[3:44] Stacked is the productification of Pixels' reward system that any game can plug into.
[5:09] It allows you to distribute your onchain assets in a smart way.
[5:19] The player-facing element is the Stacked app. There's also a b2b element, including an SDK.
[7:41] This is like an ad network that categorizes player types using segmentation and reward testing.
[9:29] You can also run an AI agent to help create new rewards to drive retention and engagement.
[12:35] P2E is sustainable in Pixels right now in terms of Return on Reward Spend metric of 3.
[16:10] F2P/P2E games require all different user types, from free to midcore spenders to whales.
[18:54] Launching Stacked allows Pixel's game designers to not have to worry about rewards.
[21:50] The PIXEL token will become a stake-only token, with other assets used for rewards.
[24:20] Other companies, including web2 games, will be able to use Stacked as a white-label solution.
[28:27] As well as P2E, crypto is also really useful for asset trading in games.
[32:04] The web version of Stacked is out, and the app is in review via app stores.

The Sandbox reveals mobile shooter NEXT, Wildcard's WC token goes live on 26 March, AlphaTON buys GAMEE.
[2:29] The Sandbox has announced standalone mobile battle royale game NEXT.
[2:47] The Sandbox's vision for mobile has never been strong. This is a new start.
[4:55] More important than the game itself, NEXT is a symbol of agency and urgency.
[6:50] You have to log into NEXT with your The Sandbox account. Some NFTs are interoperable.
[11:50] Wildcard's 100% community WC token goes live on Arbitrum on 26th March.
[15:33] The question is whether Wildcard can attract enough players to start the WC flywheel.
[17:23] AlphaTON has acquired 60% of Animoca's GAMEE Telegram gaming platform.
[24:07] Animoca has partnered with Ava Labs to push Avalanche in Asia and Middle East.
[28:40] Jon's been messing around with Stripe's AI agent-centric Tempo blockchain.
[32:50] He's also got Claude Code to automatically set his tactics in Soccerverse.
[37:38] What happens to games when AI agents can play them better than humans?