Welcome to Web 3 with A6 and Z, a show about building the next generation of the Internet from the team at A6 and Z crypto that includes me, your host Sonalal Joxy. This shows for anyone, whether entrepreneur,

developer, business leader, policymaker, creator, or gamer. And today's all new episode is all

about Web3 games and on-chain gaming as enabled by Blockchains and

crypto. Our expert guests both from Team A6 and Z crypto include Ariana Simpson,

general partner, and Eddie Lazarin CTO.

As a reminder, none of the following is investment business legal or tax advice.

Please see A6 and Z.com slash disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of

our investments. We also link to a list of our investments.

We also link to the various posts referenced in this discussion in the show notes,

so be sure to check those out as well.

The discussion takes us on a high-level tour through the entire space,

from degrees of Web 3 to fully on-chain

games trends like Play to Earn and its evolution briefly touching on trends like

Metaverse and where that comes in as well as covering broader themes such as design and user onboarding,

open source, bases and frameworks of technology innovation and more, weaving in world

building throughout. We also pulse check where we are in terms of readiness, what's working, what's not working, and where the exciting design spaces are.

But we begin with a quick overview of what is Web 3 gaming.

Okay, can you give me a high level overview of where Web 3 gaming.

Okay, can you give me like a high level overview of Web 3 gaming? What I'm looking for here is kind of the map and the terrain because I like to do kind of a taxonomy in all my episodes to kind of lay out, you know, this whole landscape.

Sure, so I'll start by saying that the whole category of Web3 games is super, super new because

until really just a couple of years ago it wasn't possible to have this kind of

experience or game world on chain at all because of infrastructure limitations.

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