Crypto game economies are a wreck right now. But there are clear paths forward, and industry trailblazers are slowly converging on real solutions that scale.

Join guests Calvin Zhou, Co-founder of Shrapnel, and Francis Brankin, Head of Economy of Shrapnel, alongside host Sam Peurifoy, CEO of Playground Labs, a web3 protocol dev organization. Shrapnel is the first AAA blockchain game on Avalanche, featuring extraction-based gameplay and zero-sum economics.

Calvin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/metacalvinz
Shrapnel's Twitter: https://twitter.com/playSHRAPNEL
Sam's Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamPeurifoy

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Read the companion piece to this episode here: https://medium.com/@sampeurifoy/fixing-nft-gaming-gladiators-lumberjacks-a-thesis-d3d832acb3a6

Listen on Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2006743/episodes/10895209

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NsYfEExMbW0

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0:00 - Intro
0:55 - Shrapnel's Economy
4:45 - Can Shrapnel Turn Deflationary?
6:20 - NFT Price Support
8:50 - GEAR Buybacks
11:40 - User-Generated Content
15:20 - One vs Two Tokens
19:15 - Governance in Shrapnel
23:00 - Web2 Inspirations for Game Economies
26:40 - Scholarships in Economies
29:10 - "Lumberjacks" and Game Social Fabric
32:15 - Philosophy of "Fun Games"
33:55 - Mutually Beneficial Creator Economies
35:30 - Why Blockchain in Gaming?
37:55 - Outro

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Sam is the CEO of Playground Labs, a web3 protocol dev organization, and Partner & Head of Interactive at Hivemind Capital, a crypto-focused multi-strategy fund. Follow him on Twitter @SamPeurifoy. Web3 Wednesdays are sponsored by the Kapital DAO, the leading provider of institutional web3 gaming asset management tools.

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