Your weekly deep dive into the world of emerging technology, covering everything from crypto trends to the latest in Web3 gaming.

This week's topics:

• Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal - Ronin goes permissionless. Will the “Ronin effect” still exist?

• What’s the word? - Shrapnel lawsuit settled

• Sentiment Score - Goblintown’s new game

• Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal - Off the Grid has 450k daily active addresses, lobbies only take ~2 mins to find a full lobby

• Talk of $GUNZ on the timeline again. If it launched today, do you think it would start the gaming bull run like people thought a few months ago?

Today's panelists:

1. Jerry Singer - @TGIFresco
2. Sinjin - @SinjinDavidJung
3. Gnoc - @itsGnoc
4. Charlie Blackstock - @0xChuckstock
5. Kohji Nagata - @ParallelTCGpod
6. Spang - @WillsSpangler
7. Kevin Lambert - @kevinlambert
8. Dub - @uhhdub
9. Payton - @paytkaleiwahea
10. voh - @vohvohh

• MEME COINS ARE RUNNING ON AVAX - Is Avax season for real?

• How do you cut through the gaming chain noise and what are you looking for when placing bets on gaming ecosystems?

• Farm 1 and Fade 1 - Vibes versus Gigaverse

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Today's panelists on your weekly Podcast for everything Web3 gaming:

1. Jordan Feinstein - @JordanEureka_
2. Slayer - @SlayerXgg
3. Jerry Singer - @TGIFresco
4. Nick Greenawalt - @motionbynick
5. Jonah Blake - @RealJonahBlake
6. Falcore - @iFalcore
7. Crypto Gorilla - @CryptoGorillaYT
8. Dub - @uhhdub

...and your regular show hosts:

1. Sam Steffanina - @SamSteffanina
2. Matt Steffanina - @MattSteffanina
3. Matt Biamonte - @itsGnoc

• Rug or realistic? - Zed Run is shutting down, while they start a new project Zed Champions, but none of the assets carry over. Are they rugging their holders or is this just business?

• Agree or Disagree? Is it too early to judge the product market fit of web3 gaming?

• Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal - TONs of trouble for Telegram gaming. Games are struggling with retention and monetization

• Sentiment score - AlphaGOATs AI agents playing games and earning for you 24/7

• Chad or Chump - XAI says they’re bringing 40k Steam games on-chain. Is this just using the Steam API though?

• Are gaming NFTs about to have a resurgence?

• B3 Launches - should we be treating it as a major player in the gaming blockchain arms race?

• How do you define “strength” in a gaming chain’s pipeline?

• What’s the word - crypto czar says NFTs and memecoins are “collectibles”

• Is web3 streaming inevitable? - Soulbound, Thousands.tv, Abstract are all trying. Can it be profitable?

• Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal - Parallel World Championships

• Agree or disagree - the best crypto founders don’t see TGE as a payday, but a debt backed by reputation

• The market is bleeding - what’s the key takeaway from all this?

• Ok so you survived the turmoil - what’s next? How do we come out of this on top?

• We just saw Gigaverse mint out immediately, raising 350+ ETH. Are they an outlier? What should teams do?

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• Bullish or Bullshit on Abstract framing themselves as the consumer chain but most of the announced games are high stakes degen games?

• The price is wrong - what is the maximum price GTA 6 could be and get away with it?

• Agree or disagree with Hustlepedia’s take on crypto gaming?

• Dump, Date, Marry - Unity, Play Tika, Ubisoft - all down 80% over the past 4 years

• Chad or Chump - indie.fun for fundraising games

• The Infinigods token $GOD launched on Friday w/ a DEX only strategy and has received some mixed reviews

• New chain mania - where are you placing bets?

• Is it over for AI on BASE?