Good Game

In this episode, Imran and Qiao delve into the intriguing world of speculative crypto apps and uncover why founders should consider embracing them. No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:48) Welcome to Good Game (02:13) Imran and Qiao's thoughts on speculation (04:27) Fun facts for people who just came into crypto (07:06) Interesting on-chain experiments in the last few we...

Imran and Qiao bring on Dan Robinson (Paradigm) and Evgeny Gaevoy (Wintermute) to discuss how UniSwapX and UniSwapV4 will impact DeFi. No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (01:00) Welcome to Good Game (14:13) High-level points that UniswapV4 enables (23:44) Does Uniswap automatically play the liquidity aggregator role? (28:19) Does the current vision of UniswapV4 sound like...

In this round-up, Imran and Qiao delve into the potential impact of real-world assets and consumer applications on the mainstream adoption of crypto. No BS crypto insight for founders.   Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (01:25) Welcome to Good Game (06:48) People feeling insecure about speculation (07:50) Compressed NFTs (09:35) What compressed NFTs enabled (13:42) Music NFTs - Sound.xyz (18:11) What hap...

Imran, Qiao, and Mohammed invited David again to delve into the world of Zero-knowledge proofs. Join us as we demystify and uncover why they have become increasingly important today.  No BS crypto insight for founders.  Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:55) Welcome to Good Game (01:13) What are zero-knowledge proofs? What can they bring to the market? (04:32) The rabbit hole of the Moon math (04:52) An...

Imran and Qiao discuss key trends to watch for in the aftermath of a bear market and where we are currently in this landscape.  No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (01:04) Welcome to Good Game (01:42) Where are we in the bear market? (03:10) Founders pivoting to AI (04:15) How OpenSea achieved their current status (04:46) Crypto - "Hyper-financialized version of emotions" (...

What are Intents? Is it going to be a major breakthrough or it's just another buzzword? Imran, Qiao, and Mohamed invite David Ma to answer these questions and more.  No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (01:20) Welcome to Good Game (01:47) David Ma introduction (02:28) Qiao: Fun fact about David (03:30) What are Intents? (13:31) Why Intent is a big deal? (18:40) How are Inte...

Imran and Qiao invite Dan and Kain to discuss oracles and whether DeFi is ready for mainstream adoption. No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (01:19) Welcome to Good Game (07:35) Every builder should read Kain's article (11:16) Do we need oracles? (16:39) How we can potentially solve security by removing oracles (18:52) The case of Mango: Should they go oracle-less? (25:43)...

Imran and Qiao bring on Mohamed and Dmitriy to dive deep into the ongoing battle for modularity supremacy between Cosmos and Ethereum.  No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:59) Welcome to Good Game (01:23) Dmitriy’s background (02:57) The modular thesis (08:23) What does consensus mean in Ethereum (11:15) Data Availability: What does it mean for founders? (20:40) The cur...

Imran and Qiao enlist the expertise of Mohammed Fouda and Will Robinson for an in-depth exploration of Solana.  No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (01:11) Welcome to Good Game (01:56) Will's introduction (02:24) Mohamed’s introduction (03:15) The Solana ecosystem and why layer 2s are bearish (04:13) Solana’s greatest filter for bad VCs (06:17) Solana catalysts (09:26) The...

Imran and Qiao invite Tensor cofounders Ilja and Richard to discuss about achieving the right product-market fit in crypto. No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:56) Welcome to Good Game (01:18) Product-market fit has been a common topic (01:59) The battle between Tensor and Magic Eden (02:46) Who is Tensor exactly? (05:02) The most important episode for early-age founder...

Imran, Qiao, and Mohamed Fouda deep dive into the convergence of Web3 and AI. No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps  (00:00) Intro  (00:42) Welcome to Good Game!  (01:34) Fouda and Qiao’s backgrounds in AI  (06:13) ChatGPT is creating 10x developers  (09:42) A vision for decentralized AI  (24:57) Drake AI music controversy  (34:15) Sam Altman's Worldcoin proving human identity  (41:14) How...

Imran and Qiao bring on Mohamed Fouda to talk L2s. No BS crypto insight for founders. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:34) Welcome to Good Game!  (00:48) Welcome Mohamed Fouda  (03:01) What is a rollup?  (08:51) Difference between optimistic rollups and ZK rollups  (09:24) Optimistic rollup explained  (10:29) ZK rollup explained  (11:09) Validium explained  (13:21) The different Zero Knowledge proving...

Top signal for crypto natives.  🧠@lmrankhan 🧠@QwQiao Timestamps (00:00) Intro  (00:38) Welcome to Good Game!  (02:14) Welcome Amir Haleem, CEO & Founder of Helium  (04:18) Helium's founding story  (08:11) Finding product market fit  (15:38) Hardware iteration challenges  (20:37) How Helium turned to crypto  (25:04) Distributing the hardware  (29:05) What caused Helium to succeed  (31:05) Laying...

Top signal for crypto natives.  🧠@lmrankhan 🧠@QwQiao Good Gamers, we want to learn more about you! Fill out this survey and let us know what you want to hear from us. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:49) Welcome to Good Game!  (02:16) Blockchain is a Dark Forest  (05:29) Mt Gox hack  (09:48) The DAO hack 1 (2:54) The vulnerability stack  (16:41) Mango markets oracle manipulation  (22:37) Beanstalk f...

Top signal for crypto natives.  🧠@lmrankhan 🧠@QwQiao Timestamps  (00:00) Intro  (00:49) Welcome to Good Game!  (33:17) Imran and Qiao interview Muneeb Ali on Stacks (54:20) Stacks interview debrief Muneeb Ali's Twitter: @muneeb  Stacks Twitter: @Stacks  Stacks Website: http://stacks.co Good Game Podcast: A podcast for crypto natives.  Find us at goodgamepod.xyz and follow us on Twitter @goodgame...

Top signal for crypto natives.  🧠@lmrankhan 🧠@QwQiao Article referenced in episode: How can PoPW networks win Timestamps  (00:00) Intro  (00:44) Welcome to Good Game!  (01:42) Proof of physical work will bring the 3rd wave of crypto adoption  (02:51) Why gaming and social networks are not the next crypto wave  (14:39) Proof of physical work introduces a new behavior  (16:31) What is proof of phy...

Top signal for crypto natives.  🧠@lmrankhan 🧠@QwQiao Qiao's charts from episode Timestamps (00:00) Intro  (01:18) Welcome to Good Game!  (04:06) 80% of DeFi has already been built  (09:29) Uniswap  (15:58) Curve  (21:53) Stablecoins  (26:27) Aave  (33:14) Derivatives  (43:53) Real World Assets  (50:58) Options  (55:29) Structured Products  (57:19) Undercollateralized Lending  (59:40) What is fut...

Imran and Qiao discuss what's on their minds in the crypto landscape. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:29) Welcome to Good Game! (01:41) Why crypto data is such an important pain point (03:42) 2017 data landscape and Messari missing out on on-chain data (06:16) Why Dune analytics and why crypto data (11:13) Nansen's data strategy (13:18) A lot of space for verticalized crypto data startups (15:40) How...

Imran and Qiao discuss what's on their minds in the crypto landscape.   Timestamps  (00:00) Intro (00:43) Welcome to Good Game!  (01:17) Why do crypto wallets matter?  (04:06) How wallet UX evolved over time 1 (03:36) Metamask wallet strategy  (24:02) Brave wallet strategy  (32:02) Backpack wallet strategy  (35:16) Opensea, Magic Eden, Uniswap all launching wallets  (39:39) Wallets will be vertica...

We have had founders, investors and contributors that have been affected by the FTX collapse.  In this episode Imran and Qiao discuss: Early warning signs Answer questions from community Lessons learned New path forward Timestamps (00:00) Intro  (01:25) The first to paid back were the decentralized protocols  (02:55) The rise of Alameda  (06:29) Launching Solana-based decentralized exchange Serum ...

Imran and Qiao discuss what's on their minds in the crypto landscape.   Timestamps  (00:00) Welcome to Good Game!  (01:17) Crypto Kitties and EIP-721: NFTs are born  (05:11) OpenSea, the first NFT marketplace, goes through Y Combinator  (06:28) Overview of NFTs on Ethereum, Ronin, Solana, Avalanche, Polygon, Reddit, Tezos, and Flow (14:39) The history of Crypto Punks and generative art  (19:08) Sn...

Imran and Qiao discuss what's on their minds in the crypto landscape. Timestamps  (00:00) Intro  (00:35) Welcome to Good Game!  (02:30) Qiao talks short term macro  (12:08) Longterm macro and what will happen to crypto in the next 10 years  (26:39) Coinbase's Brian Armstrong vs FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried  (28:21) Brian Armstrong's Coinbase story  (31:37) Sam Bankman-Fried's story  (34:45) How the bac...

Imran and Qiao bring on Mysten Labs cofounders Evan Cheng and Sam Blackshear to learn about Sui. In this episode we talk about what they learned at Facebook Libra, what makes Sui different technically, and Sui's go-to-market strategy. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (01:11) Imran and Qiao introduce the interview (15:02) The interview with Evan and Sam starts (15:35) Sam Blackshear's background at Faceboo...

Imran and Qiao discuss what's on their minds in the crypto landscape. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:35) CPI dropped - the "Merge" has become the "Purge" (04:35) The state of Layer 1s and Layer 2s - what's happening? (05:41) Why Imran and Qiao can see the future (07:24) The state of Layer 1s based on Electric Capital's January 2022 report (09:32) What's changed for Ethereum since Electric Capital's...

Imran and Qiao discuss what's on their minds in the crypto landscape. (00:45) Why Qiao shorted Eth and price predictions (04:43) The actual reason behind the Fei protocol unwind (18:22) Everything wrong with the state of crypto governance (20:18) Rise of Sudoswap and its influence on NFT royalty fees (45:00) Screwed-up incentives with token lockup periods (59:34) Mark Zuckerburg and Joe Rogan meta...