On Chain Gaming's Struggle to Find Product Market Fit

This is the first in a two-part series where Matt and Austin take a deep dive into central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). This episode focuses more on what CBDCs are, what they're capable of, and what their current rate of development progress is. Part two will go live next week where we dig more into the arguments for and against their use.

In this week's episode, we dig into the impressive trading volume happening across the DeFi ecosystem and the gains that DEX volume is making on CEX volume. Alongside this, we look at some of the big capital movements from the past few weeks.

There was significant news in the crypto ecosystem this week as Maker DAO passed a proposal to limit their exposure to WBTC across their platforms, effectively offboarding the asset from their ecosystem. We talk through what's happened and what the implications of this are.

In this week's episode we break down the major drivers of volatility in global markets. We unpack what's causing the major drawdown in the Nikkei, S&P500, NASDAQ, and many other major global indices, plus the bleed in crypto markets. Plus, we take a look at one bright spot: the ETH & BTC ETF flows.

We speak with Mightysol, the founder of the Chads NFT collection and now $YES memecoin to talk about what it was like launching an NFT collection on Solana in the fallout of the FTX collapse as well as what goes into the planning of a memecoin launch.

We talk through the state of the market, the upcoming ETH ETFs, the impact of Mt.Gox, FTX, and BLockFi redistributions, and the macro outlook for the rest of 2024.

In today's episode, we're joined by Max Chamberlin, the cofounder of Bitfinity - a next-gen EVM Bitcoin layer 2.

In today's episode, we dig into the demise of Bored Ape Yacht Club. The floor price of BAYC NFTs has reached its lowest point since early 2021 and sentiment among the community is at an all-time low. Can Yuga turn things around?

We host Leonidas, the founder of Ord.io, creator of the Runestone Ordinals project, and overall mega-bull on Runes. We discuss the future of Runes, Ordinals and Bitcoin L2s. Don't miss this one.

In this week's episode, we discuss:1. Quick overview of the current macro situation.2. Crypto gaming's struggle to find PMF and what's next.3. Lessons learned from minting Runes.