Blockchain Gaming World

Jon Jordan talks to MetaKovan , the owner of F1 Delta Time’s 1-1-1 car NFT , which was purchased for 415.9 ETH (c.$111,111.11) in May 2019 - still one of the most expensive NFTs ever sold - and the subject of much speculation ever since. We also talk to Yat Siu , chairman of the game’s developer Animoca Brands, and Alex Atallah , CTO of OpenSea, the marketplace on which the auction was run, about...

Jon Jordan talks to Splinterlands' CEO Jesse ' Aggroed ' Reich about the planned Land expansion, which will bring land-based mining, crafting and strategy to the card battler in 2021. The first land sale kicks off on 7 November . Read more about it on Medium , and use my affiliate code to support the podcast https://splinterlands.com?ref=semperaugustx

Jon Jordan talks to Spielworks MD Adrian Krion about his vision to making blockchain gaming mass market via Wombat , the 'one-stop' EOS wallet, which has recently expanded to the Womplay rewards platform , which supports both blockchain and non-blockchain games. 

Jon Jordan talks to Dapper Labs' CEO Roham Gharegozlou and VP Caty Tedman about why the company decided to create Flow , its own high performance blockchain for games and dapps, and why its first release is collectibles dapp NBA Top Shot . 

After the longest wait, Blankos Block Party is finally launching its Founder sale, which will unlock the first open beta during October. Jon Jordan talks to company co-founder Rudy Koch about how he got into blockchain and what the vision is for blockchain games in general and Blankos in particular. You can reserve your Blankos account at https://blankos.com/register

Jon Jordan talks to Sorare CEO Nicolas Julia about its eponymous (and fast-growing) blockchain fantasy football game, which is part of the Ubisoft incubation program and also recently raised $4 million. Find out more at https://sorare.com/

Jon Jordan talks to CipSoft MD Stephan Vogler about its PC RPG LiteBringer , which is now live on the Litecoin mainnet. Check it out at https://www.litebringer.com/

Jon Jordan and Gabby Dizon talk about blockchain games in the era of high gas prices, yield farming and DeFi pumps; covering our growing interest in crypto art, sharding high value Axie Infinity NFTs on Niftex , and Aavegtochi - the first of what we think will be a fascinating mashup between DeFi value and gaming community.

Jon Jordan talks to Nod Games ' Han Yoo about its new 4X strategy game League of Kingdoms , which includes NFT Land ownership and tokenization of in-game resources. The game is also now available on Apple App Store and Google Play Store . 

Jon Jordan talks to Axie Infinity co-founder Jeff 'Jihoz' Zirlin about what it felt like to be on the inside track of a crypto token pump as the game's SLP token spiked 100-fold; and what he hopes the longterm implications of the experience will be for a project that has ambitious plans to become the leading blockchain MMOG .

Jon Jordan talks to Upland co-founder Idan Zuckerman about how he got into blockchain, the vision for Upland - a mobile-first game running on the EOS blockchain - and how the team plan to build on their initial success - currently Upland is the #2 blockchain game by daily activity - by launching the ability to run businesses within the game.  You can use this link to get a sign-up bonus of 6,...

Jon Jordan talks to Kronoverse CEO Adam Kling about CryptoFights , its PVP esports game that was originally built on Ethereum but which has switched to the Bitcoin SV blockchain. 

Jon Jordan talks to Skale Labs' co-founder and Jack O'Holleran about its Ethereum-based 'elastic sidechain' scaling solution (which is about to launch its mainnet) and why it's important for blockchain gaming. Find out more about Skale Labs and its Innovator Program . 

Auto card battler Splinterlands has a good claim to being the most popular and successful blockchain game, but doesn't get the same attention of other titles as it runs on the Steem blockchain. In this episode, Jon Jordan talk to project lead Jesse ' Aggroed ' Reich about the game's genesis, its future vision, how it deals with bots, and how the Steem community has been impacted by the Hive hard f...

It's two years since Blockchain Cuties launched, so a great opportunity to talk to CEO Vlad Tomko about how he got into blockchain games, the inspiration for Blockchain Cuties , the opportunities and challenges of multi-chain deployment, and the longterm vision for the game now better known as Blockchain Cuties Universe .  And, as ever, you can contact me - jon jordan - via Twitter at blockch...

In this episode, Jon Jordan talks to Venrock partner David Pakman about investing in blockchain startups (he's notably invested in Dapper Labs), as well as the Seven Things That Need To Happen Before Blockchain Goes Mainstream.

Jon Jordan talks to Sebastian Borget about the vision behind 'Roblox meets the Blockchain' user-generated content platform The Sandbox .

Should game developers consider using Bitcoin's Lightning network to enable Bitcoin micropayments in their games, tournaments and community building? Jon Jordan talks to Simon Cowell and Chris ' Mandelduck ' Moss from UK startup Zebedee , which has just launched its SDK. 

German blockchain gaming platform Skryking has released its white paper, explaining how its first fantasy soccer game will work. Read more here

Musings following a couple of days spent in Manhattan following NFT.NYC 2020

What's the vision for Theta.tv? Jon Jordan talks to Theta Labs' CEO Mitch Liu about how he got into blockchain and the goal for its decentralized CDN, starting off with esports game streaming. Find out more at Theta Labs and Theta.tv

CryptoKitties developer Dapper Labs is working on a blockchain collectible and gaming experience with UFC. Read more here

Jon Jordan discusses active wallet data on the first 2 months of BRAVE FRONTIER HEROES to check if it's taking audience away from MY CRYPTO HEROES. You can check out the video version here: https://youtu.be/qxFcUEMJSSc

French startup Darewise is using blockchain marketplace Dmarket in its forthcoming MMOG Life Beyond to enable item trading. Interestingly, the word 'blockchain' does not appear once in the announcement! https://dmarket.com/blog/darewise-partners-dmarket/

There's a blockchain game running on Litecoin! CipSoft's RPG Litebringer is now freely available in Alpha version running on the Litecoin testnet. https://www.litebringer.com/