This episode of Speaking of Bitcoin on the Coin Desk Podcast Network is brought to you by nexo.io.

Well, folks, it's been a long time coming, but today we're digging into the mainstream trajectory

of gaming NFTs, how the battle lines are shaping up, and a big challenge that traditionally

closed-loop gains will face as the future of ownership within game worlds comes into

focus. And that's not even getting into the inflation aspect. But before that, introductions. I'm

Adam B. Levine, and this is speaking of Bitcoin. For today's discussion, we're joined by the other

host of the show, Stephanie Murphy. Hi. Jonathan Mohan. Hey. And Andreas M. Antonopoulos. Hello. So on today's show we've got a lot of ground to cover in a relatively short period of time.

I'm pretty much ready to call it though.

Although we haven't seen the first mainstream AAA game that uses NFTs and them roll out,

we have seen a flurry of announcements from the industry giants on whether they're on Team Token

or prefer to maintain the status quo. For those of you who understand

the games industry, the results are pretty much what you'd expect, but it's worth talking about

anyways. On Team NFT, we've seen statements over the earnings season that started in mid-October

from Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, and Epic games to name a few. On Team status quo, we've got Microsoft's

Xbox lead and Valve, operators of

the Steam Gaming platform. I think more surprising to me than the specific names are the simple

scale of the players. These are arguably the biggest companies in gaming, both on the platform

and e-commerce side with Epic, Valve, and Xbox, along with some of the biggest cross-platform

game companies like Ubisoft,

Activision, and Electronic Arts.

I'm pretty sure that I'm our resident gamer here to the extent that I have time to do that

anymore, although, Jonathan, I know that you dip into this a little bit too.

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