Good Game

Imran and Qiao invited Ansem to discuss the current state of the crypto market. No BS crypto insights for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (02:06) DEGEN is Still Up a Lot? (04:09) Solana Crossroads in Istanbul (06:19) The Boxing Match (08:08) What Drew Ansem Into Crypto (10:42) Who Were Ansem's Role Models Back Then? (12:21) How Ansem Knew that Solana Was Going to Come Back (19:16) Who is The Ne...

Imran and Qiao sat down with Kipit and Mikado to share an inside look at Fantasy Top. No BS crypto insights for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (01:05) Welcome to Good Game (01:56) Innovation in Product Development (04:34) What They Built Before Fantasy (06:17) Mikado and Kipit Applied Twice to Alliance Before (07:54) How Qiao Noticed Fantasy (08:56) Mistakes From Their Previous Product (10:09)...

Imran and Qiao discuss hot topics such as the FarCon event, app layer value accrual, the high FDV dilemma, and more. No BS crypto insights for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:42) Welcome to Good Game (01:37) The Friendtech Drop (03:21) Friendtech's Another Wedge (06:03) The Biggest Problem Friendtech Needs To Solve (12:39) New Behaviors Taking Place Within Friendtech (13:40) "It's Like V1 A...

Imran and Qiao sat down for this April Roundup to talk about the current state of the crypto market, EigenLayer, SocialFi Summer, Outflows, and more. No BS crypto insights for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:08) Live Fantasy Pack Opening (02:41) Introducing MVP (Minimum Viable Product) (04:44) Welcome to Good Game (04:47) Is it Over? (06:12) Why it's Over (07:21) How Do We Think The Market...

Imran and Qiao sat down to talk about the Bitcoin Halving, Geopolitics, and Telegram (TON) with special guests: Alexei Zamyatin (BOB) and David Tse (Babylon). No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (01:13) Welcome to Good Game (02:58) Is The Bull Market Over? (09:20) Keeping Up With Everything That's Happening (11:32) NodeMonkes and Bitcoin Puppets Competing for The #1 Spot (1...

Imran and Qiao bring on Pacman to share lessons he learned while building Blur and Blast. No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:44) Welcome to Good Game (01:09) Learning More About Blur (01:56) Pacman's Thoughts About OpenSea's Strategy (05:22) Balancing Trading and Collecting with Blur (08:24) The Good and The Bad of The Points System (11:19) The Convergence of NFTs and...

Imran and Qiao sat down to discuss the current hot topics such as Solana Congestion, Bitcoin Runes, Echo, and Ethena. No BS crypto insight for founders.  Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:39) Welcome to Good Game (01:12) Qiao Tried to Ape In To Some Runes (01:26) What Are Runes? (02:55) How Do You Receive RSICs? (04:00) Do RSICs Come with a JPEG? (06:12) What Runes and RSICs? (07:20) Other BTC L2s That...

In this Roundup for March, Imran and Qiao discuss Memecoins, BlackRock, L3s, and other trends.  No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:56) Welcome to Good Game (01:31) The Good Game Rebrand (02:35) BlackRock Recently Launched Their Tokenized Fund (03:38) Let's Look Through What BlackRock Would See (05:13) The Impact of BlackRock's Tokenized Fund (08:55) What is The Future...

Imran and Qiao sat down with Daniel Matuszewski (CMS) and Zaheer Ebtikar (Split Capital) to discuss the current crypto market. No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:51) Welcome to Good Game (03:33) Daniel and Zaheer's Macro View (06:24) Daniel and Zaheer's Primary Focus (08:14) Interesting Leading Indicators (10:53) Zaheer's Eth ETF Approval Estimate (14:51) The TradFi Wo...

Imran and Qiao bring on Mert Mumtaz (Helius Labs) to discuss Ethereum, Firedancer, Solana L2s, and more.  No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (01:17) Welcome to Good Game (03:05) Mert Steelmanning Ethereum (08:44) Mert's Solana Prediction (10:54) Mert's Estimate on Firedancer's Timeline and Throughput Improvement (15:12) Thoughts on a Narrative Regarding Consumer Apps (17:0...

Imran and Qiao sat down to talk about the current market trends such as Memecoins, Blast L2, SocialFi, and more. No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:56) Welcome to Good Game (01:24) Memecoins Becoming Very Consensus (04:11) “There's a Culture Shift” (08:28) Shitcoins Imran is Following Right Now (11:28) Tremp and Boden (17:47) Qiao: I Really Like the Idea of Trading Per...

Imran and Qiao sat down to discuss 5 trends that are shaping the Bull Run and more. No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:50) Welcome to Good Game (02:05) Let's Start with ERC-404s (07:39) Some ERC-404 Criticisms (09:39) DN-404 vs ERC-404 (10:16) CGAR Launching a NFT Marketplace (11:35) Wasabi Launching Their Own ERC-404 Marketplace (15:26) Why Imran is so Bullish on 404s...

Imran and Qiao invited Luca Netz to share his founder journey upon acquiring Pudgy Penguins. No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:37) Welcome to Good Game (01:05) Pudgy Penguins' Walmart Expansion (03:09) There's No Other Collections That Do What Pudgy Penguins Does (04:21) The History of Pudgy Penguins (06:13) Pudgy Penguins' IP Worth Today (09:01) What's The End Game?...

Imran and Qiao invited Meow, Richard Wu, and Ilja Moisejevs, founders of Jupiter and Tensor to share founder lessons and talk about what's happening on Solana. No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (01:05) Welcome to Good Game (01:44) Thoughts on the Points Meta (06:00) Is the Points Meta Here to Stay? (08:09) Incentives in Crypto Never Goes Away (09:10) Out of All Copy Pasta...

Imran and Qiao invited Sandeep Nailwal and Mihalio Bjelic (Polygon) to discuss whether the Polygon's Chain Aggregation can unify all L2s. No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:45) Welcome To Good Game (02:02) Things We're Excited To Talk About With Sandeep And Mihailo (Polygon) (05:27) Quick Note On The Vitalik's End Game (09:18) Sandeep And Mihailo (Polygon) Introduction...

Imran and Qiao bring on Julian Koh to discuss App Rollups and if they can compete with Monolithic Chains. No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (01:21) Welcome to Good Game (04:16) Outside Perspective on Building on App Rollups (05:11) Ethereum vs Solana on Twitter (09:30) Let's Bring on Julian (11:44) Navigating app rollouts, partnerships, and token airdrops in the crypto sp...

Imran and Qiao discuss everything happening in crypto and the biggest trends in 2024. No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:47) Welcome to Good Game (01:09) Qiao's top-of-mind topics (02:38) dogwifhat (WIF) (06:28) Qiao's Analysis of the Popular Meme Coins (11:04) People are Now Actually Using Stablecoins (15:55) Timing is Important (18:29) Tokenization of Real-World Asse...

Imran and Qiao invited Anatoly and Meow to discuss why Jupiter on Solana will be bigger than Binance. No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:36) Welcome to Good Game (01:07) Who is Meow and what is Jupiter? (02:01) How we met Meow (03:14) Let's bring on Anatoly and Meow (03:19) Notes and updates about Solana (05:22) Anatoly's Idea about being able to disrupt the New York S...

Imran and Qiao bring on DCF God to talk about all things degen. No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:59) Welcome to Good Game (01:08) Who is DCF God? (02:34) Is there a massive blindspot towards the degen world? (09:11) Welcome DCF God (09:13) DCF God's avatar (12:01) What is the Degen community like and the types of it (14:04) Prisma (15:23) Curve-Convex Flywheel - Why...

Imran and Qiao bring on Kyle Samani to discuss Solana Breakpoint trends that could revolutionize crypto. No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (00:57) Welcome to Good Game (02:12) The excitement about Jupiter (06:04) Tarun's local fee market (09:41) Other areas Kyle is excited about with Breakpoint (16:10) How important it is for Solana to stay focused on scaling (27:20) Cou...

Imran and Qiao bring on Scott Lewis to discuss the growing trend of tokenizing real world assets. No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:51) Welcome to Good Game (01:15) What we are going to talk about today (01:54) Real world assets gaining traction in DeFi (03:26) Rapid growth of RWAs in Maker and other protocols (04:29) Stablecoins settling over $11 trillion on chain (0...

Imran and Qiao bring on Aric and Jae to discuss whether Friend.tech is the Uniswap moment for social.  No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:46) Welcome to Good Game (00:58) Aric and Jae's background (04:03) How did they feel about Friend.tech when it first launched? (14:45) Why Friend.tech is so exciting? (20:29) Is Friend.tech really a social network? (26:44) Why do we...

Imran and Qiao invited Stani Kulechov to discuss how Lens V2 will impact decentralized social media. No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (01:14) Welcome to GoodGame (01:29) It seems like the next era of crypto is going to be decentralized social (02:38) Key differences between decentralized social and DeFi (06:42) Qiao: Social is the single most interesting area that's happ...

Imran and Qiao sit down with Dan Romero, the founder of Farcaster and Warpcast, for a deep dive into the world of decentralized social media.  No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:38) Welcome to Good Game (03:33) Imran's experience with Friend.tech so far (04:46) Start of the interview with Dan (05:15) Quick background on Dan (05:34) What is decentralized social media an...

Imran and Qiao brought on Will Robinson to discuss fully on-chain games, the current state of it, why people want to put games on-chain, and more. No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:53) Welcome to Good Game (01:23) Will's background on the history of games (01:57) How Will got into crypto (04:14) What are on-chain games? (08:35) Which game has the longest shelf life? (...