Animoca Brands Presents

In this episode, our host Matt Solomon sits down with our Head of Tokenomics, Mohamed Ezeldin. Mo breaks down what it takes to build a sustainable Web3 project, comparing the complexities of tokenomics to an onion—layered and full of surprises. He also dives into how tokenomics fuels the Web3 ecosystem, why it matters, and his work with the ApeCoin Council. Don’t miss this episode of The Coffee Br...

Welcome back to another episode of The Coffee Break, where interesting conversations are fueled by coffee. Today, our host Matt Solomon is joined by Sam T, head of investments and strategic partnerships at Animoca Brands. Together, they explore the vast ecosystem of 540+ portfolio companies and the type of investment that we do. Dive into this episode to explore the factors behind a good investmen...

The Coffee Break features crypto and web3 founders, entrepreneurs, and traiblazers from all across the world, who are focused on the hottest trends in the digital asset industry. In this first episode of The Coffee Break, tune in to hear it from our host Matt Solomon and our head of digital assets Josh Du to explore the latest market updates, insights about TRUMP coin, crypto predictions, hot tren...

Join Charis Campbell, our Director of Capital Markets, as she sits down with Len Findlay, CEO and co-founder of Saltwater Games, in this special episode of our Open Metaverse podcast to discover the fascinating journey from investing in a flying car company in Australia to leading a gaming studio in Dubai. In this episode, they dive deep into the world of game ownership, Layer 3 technologies (L3s)...

In this new episode of The Open Metaverse podcast, our host Mehdi Farooq speaks to Tekin Salimi, the founder of dao5, an experimental crypto investment manager with a unique vision to convert into a founder-owned DAO. Tekin shares his journey from being a corporate lawyer to an early general partner at Polychain Capital, his experiences investing in projects like Bearachain, BitTensor, EigenLayer,...

In this new episode of The Open Metaverse, Jack Platts shares his journey into the #crypto space, from his early days at Polkadot to launching his own investment fund, Hypersphere. He discusses the evolution of his multi-strategy approach, emphasizing adaptability, key investments like #Solana , #Worldcoin , #Ton , #Ethena , and #SEI , and the unique challenges of crypto venture investing. Jack di...

In this new episode, our host Mehdi sits down with Jay and Justin from Sei Foundation. Together, they delve into the creation of a parallelized Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) on Sei , exploring the motivation behind it and the challenges involved in the development of theEVM. The conversation highlights the necessity of high-performance Layer 1 solutions and the advantages of optimistic paralleliz...

In this new episode, our host Mehdi Farooq sits down with Mike Horton, co-founder of GEODNET, to discuss the groundbreaking RTK network that promises to revolutionize GPS accuracy. GEODNET is leveraging a decentralized, crypto-powered model to create the world's largest RTK network, enhancing location data accuracy by 100X. This approach drastically reduces costs (around 10X), enabling GEODNET to...

In this podcast, host Mehdi Farooq speaks to Rushi Manche, co-founder of Movement, about how their project is poised to transform Ethereum by leveraging Facebook's MoveVM. With US$45M in funding, Movement is dedicated to making Ethereum faster, more affordable, and more secure. Discover their groundbreaking innovations, including parallelization, decentralized sequencers, and M1/M2 chains. Also, f...

In this podcast, host Mehdi Farooq engages in a captivating conversation with Imaginary Ones co-founder Clement, exploring the project's Web3 journey. Key topics include Imaginary Ones' potential as the Web3 Roblox, unique aspects of IP creation and content play, strategic partnerships, and a special collaboration with Hugo Boss. Clement provides insights into social farming, the $BUBBLE Token, an...

Dive into this episode of the Open Metaverse Podcast to listen to our host and senior tokenomics analyst Mehdi Farooq our executive chairman and co-founder Yat Siu discuss the outlook of Web3. Together, they delve into the conversation of how Web3 is empowering individuals and creators to monetize their digital value and output. Tune in to find out how you can benefit from content-as-a-platform. G...

In this special episode of Token Talks, we dive into the realm of blockchain technology's impact in 2024, with a stacked panel of accomplished women in web3.This series is brought to you ahead of International Women's day and gives you a brief overview of the various projects that different female builders have been working on in the #web3 space, across education, gaming, tokenomics, and more. Tog...

New Founder Insights episode with the co-founder and COO of @TheSandboxGame, Sébastien Borget! Seb delves into the unique “No-Code Tools” built by The Sandbox over the last 5 years to provide a Web3 platform like no other for creators that feature Voxels. Seb’s view is that the future of gaming is all about User Generated Content (UGC). Together, Seb and our entrepreneur-in-residence Rich Robinson...

Welcome to Token Talks with Animoca Brands! For today's episode, our very own Tokenomics team reveals insights on how to build the best web3 games, from product design to user retention, and more. Tune in to this episode to gain special insights into game design and tokenomics in web3. ⭐ Mohamed Ezeldin, Head of Tokenomics ⭐Marc McGinley, Game Designer ⭐Mohamed AbdelKhalek, Game designer ⭐ Jer...

New Founder Insights episode with the co-founder of Viker Dan Beasley, on their launch of Grapes.  Our entrepreneur-in-residence Rich Robinson discusses with Dan, assessing how two veteran game developer partners came together to launch Viker based on combined decades of experience and insights. Dan and Rich talk about the importance of Intellectual Property, specifically "family-friendly glo...

Welcome to Token Talks with Animoca Brands. For today's episode, our Tokenomics will discuss and provide a brief overview of the state of web3 metagames in 2024. Tune in to this episode to gain special insights into game design and tokenomics in web3. ⭐ Mohamed Ezeldin, Head of tokenomics at Animoca Brands ⭐Katherine Webb, Senior tokenomics analyst ⭐Mohamed AbdelKhalek, Game designer ⭐ Lionel...

New Founder Insights episode with the co-founder of Dogami Kristofer Dayne Penseyres on their Web3 Virtual Pet from outer space - Dogami. Kristofer and our entrepreneur-in-residence Rich Robinson discuss how the virtual pet category gets reinvented every time there is a new platform and paradigm and Web3 is no different. They discuss how their concept of creating a lore and storyline of dogs from...

New Founder Insights episode with Jihoz (Jeffrey Zirlin), the co-founder of Sky Mavis and creator of Axie Infinity! We discuss how Jihoz and his team have been busy building and how they are coming back strong with their extended platform centered around Web3 gaming. Jihoz and our entrepreneur-in-residence Rich Robinson chat about the origin of the company, the speed of its growth following the la...

New Founder Insights episode with the co-founder of Blowfish Studios Ben Lee - on their Early Access launch of their stunning AAA RPG Phantom Galaxies. Ben and our entrepreneur-in-residence Rich Robinson discuss the Web2 and Web3 blended elements of the game and how launching on both Steam and Epic Games Store can further help onboard new users to Web3 gaming. They chat about Blowfish Studios’ vis...

New Founder Insights episode with the co-founders of Futureverse Shara Senderoff and Aaron McDonald. We discuss how Futureverse raised a whopping US$54 million series to build the open metaverse and how they acquired 11 companies off the bat with 250 staff with more than 6 years of experience already building virtual worlds to get a head start. Shara and Aaron talk about their vision of building t...

In this podcast, we sit down with Joe McCann from Asymmetric and discuss Solana as a technology and ecosystem and its unique features compared to other blockchains, particularly Ethereum. Joe explains how Solana's approach to being a Layer 1 blockchain is different and more performant due to its emphasis on parallel processing. He compares it to CPU performance improvement over time. Solana's focu...

Today we are very pleased to welcome Joel Monegro of Placeholder VC to our podcast. From working on payments infrastructure in the Dominican Republic, Joel entered venture capital in 2014 and started his own Placeholder VC in 2017. He is a prolific writer and we started off by discussing his recent article “Ethereum is Like Android and Solana is Like iOS”. We explored this from the angles of modul...

Today we meet with Alex Tapscott, globally-recognised author, speaker and investor, to gain more insight into his recently published book, “Web3: Charting the Internet’s Next Economic and Cultural Frontier”. This potent introduction and guide to web3 covers everything from the metaverse and NFTs to DAOs, decentralised finance and self-sovereign identity. In this podcast episode, we start off with...

New Founder Insights episode with the co-founder and CEO of GAMEE - Bozena Rezab. We discuss how GAMEE is a seasoned company with SEVEN BILLION gameplays that Animoca Brands acquired in 2020 and how the company is evolving in the Web3 space. We talk about how Beast Arcade is a culmination of the learnings around launching multiple Web3 games over the years and working to onboard the non-Web3 nativ...

New Founder Insights episode with the founder and CEO of @pyratzlabs - Bilal El Alamy. We discuss how PyratzLabs is ideally placed in Paris, since France is a Web3 powerhouse with the likes of The Sandbox, Ledger, Life Beyond, Ledger, and other aspiring startups. Bilal breaks down how PyratzLabs is creating new startups through their studio model, investing in Web3 startups and growing companies t...