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This is Ryan Sean Adams.

I'm here with David Hoffman, and we're here to help you become more bankless.

David, awesome conversation today, what were some of your highlights, and how do we talk

to you?

Arianna Simpson of A16Z Crypto, who has had a particular focus emphasis lately on the crypto

gaming side of things, which is what we talked about today, and I think crypto gaming has an

extreme amount of product market fit with, I think, the current crypto community, for some reason,

Diablo 2 is like a shared cultural pastime of almost all of us in the crypto world, and I think

we're all very, very stoked to see what comes out of a crypto gaming world, because I think we all

believe that the games that come out of an asset-powered game is going to be fundamentally different,

and I think much more rich and much more fun to play when there's economic assets that are part

of the game itself. And so that is the topic of today's show.

Absolutely, crypto gaming is going to be massive. If you think about this just in regular gaming,

60% of all Americans play some form of a game. Video game streaming reaches 1.2 billion

viewers every year. Fortnite generates 5.1 billion in revenue. The whole industry is expected

to surpass 300 billion, but you know what just happened this year is Axi Infinity jumped

on the radar. Now it has like 1.5 million players. It's reached a fully deluded market cap of

18 billion dollars, right? So like crypto gaming is here. I think some of these early games have

sort of proved this, and what we really wanted to go through with Arianna is like, why? Like, why is

this suddenly happening now in crypto? And how does an investor see this? What's the lens?

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