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) What They Do Differently with Fantasy
(13:48) "The Market Could Be Wrong Too"
(14:19) Embracing Speculation
(18:25) Shift in Crypto Perception
(20:32) "I feel Like nobody really cares about consumer either"
(21:59) Explaining Fantasy to Normies
(22:37) How Does Fantasy Expand From Twitter?
(25:46) Is Fantasy Worried About Getting Deplatformed By Twitter?(26:57) Fantasy's Scoring System
(30:41) PageRank
(32:34) Fantasy Expanding to Different Ecosystems
(37:10) Fantasy's Current Goal
(38:26) "You have to make users rich early on if you want to have a sticky product"
(40:34) What Kipit and Mikado Think of Friendtech
(42:33) "Fantasy is what Friendtech should have been"
(44:02) Thoughts on Friendtech's Current Form
(48:48) The Best Aspect of Fantasy
(50:22) The Inflation for Cards
(54:34) "The new meta is gonna be Fantasy is now deflationary"
(57:16) Qiao: Every consumer product that I loved can be described in one sentence
(01:00:26) Questions From Crypto Twitter
(01:00:39) "How do you transition well from serving segment A crypto customer to a more mass market non-crypto customer?"
(01:02:09) Would Fantasy Ever Do Their Own Rollup?
(01:03:04) "What does Fantasy look like post points/(potential) airdrop?"
(01:04:33) "When $fan token?"
(01:05:40) Final Thoughts
(01:05:58) Who's Who?

Kipit Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/0xkipit
Mikado Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/0xMikado

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Website: https://goodgamepod.xyz
Twitter: https://twitter.com/goodgamepodxyz

Web3 Founders:
Apply to Alliance: https://alliance.xyz
Alliance Twitter: https://twitter.com/alliancedao

DISCLAIMER: The views expressed herein are personal to the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of any other person or entity. Discussions and answers to questions are intended as generalized, non-personalized information. Nothing herein should be construed or relied upon as investment, legal, tax, or other advice.

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 All Over Again"
(17:17) Problems Racer Got Into
(18:32) FarCon
(19:26) A Tweet By @0xDesigner
(23:40) Lens vs. Farcaster Daily Active Users
(25:40) Bountycaster
(28:21) Farcaster is Actually Competing with Telegram and TON?
(29:47) FarCon Announcements
(31:28) "Tipping was a Really Good Way to Distribute the DEGEN Token"
(34:36) The Talks About The Base Token at FarCon
(36:30) io.net Lost 75% of its GPUs
(40:48) Stanley Druckenmiller Selling Nvidia Stocks But Buying Nvidia Calls
(41:29) "GPUs Were No Longer The Bottleneck" - Mark Zuckerberg
(42:42) Edge AI
(48:46) "There Will Be Only 5 to 6 Chains That Will Rule Crypto"
(53:42) Infra is Overfunded?
(54:39) Google Paying Apple $20B
(56:09) Apps Turning Into Infra
(58:45) "What Can You Build Today That Will Get You 50,000 Users?"
(59:21) Final Thoughts

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3N675w3
Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3snLsxU
Website: https://goodgamepod.xyz
Twitter: https://twitter.com/goodgamepodxyz

Web3 Founders:
Apply to Alliance: https://alliance.xyz
Alliance Twitter: https://twitter.com/alliancedao

DISCLAIMER: The views expressed herein are personal to the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of any other person or entity. Discussions and answers to questions are intended as generalized, non-personalized information. Nothing herein should be construed or relied upon as investment, legal, tax, or other advice.

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 Is Going to Playout
(10:01) BlackRock's On-Chain Fund Hits $375M
(13:40) "People Don't Care About The Non-Speculative Stuff"
(15:05) Qiao's Analogy Between Bitcoin ETF and RWAs
(17:13) "Everyone on Twitter is Saying We're Halfway Through The Market"
(18:58) Crypto Assets Qiao is Most Excited About
(21:59) The Future of Memecoins
(22:16) The Number of Memecoins Created on Pump
(23:51) The Whistleblower
(28:11) Crypto Music
(32:52) Crypto Startup Stories: Crate
(35:36) We Should Change The "Memecoin" Terminology
(38:47) "Everything is Going to Be Tokenized"
(40:05) Solana Congestion Has Gone Away
(40:46) Firedance Coming Out Soon
(41:17) Monad, Berachain, and TON
(43:23) MegaETH
(46:44) What is The Right Fee Structure?
(48:17) Qiao Shares an Important Lesson From a Book (Chip War)
(51:54) TON
(54:41) "Stickers are The New Whitepapers"
(56:39) The Polymarket "Retardio" Incident
(59:08) Web2 Sports Betting Websites are Losing Market Share to Memecoins
(01:01:13) Kyle Samani's Tweet About Memecoins
(01:03:00) EigenLayer FUD
(01:12:46) Fantasy Launched on Mainnet
(01:15:38) Qiao's Current Mental Model for Selecting Founders
(01:16:48) Live Fantasy Pack Opening

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3N675w3
Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3snLsxU
Website: https://goodgamepod.xyz
Twitter: https://twitter.com/goodgamepodxyz

Web3 Founders:
Apply to Alliance: https://alliance.xyz
Alliance Twitter: https://twitter.com/alliancedao

DISCLAIMER: The views expressed herein are personal to the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of any other person or entity. Discussions and answers to questions are intended as generalized, non-personalized information. Nothing herein should be construed or relied upon as investment, legal, tax, or other advice.