Good Game

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?<...

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...

Imran and Qiao sat down to talk about the Bitcoin Halving, Geopolitics, and Telegram (TON) with special guests: Alexei Zamyatin (BOB) and David Tse (Babylon).
No BS crypto insight for founders.

Timestamps

(00:00) Intro
(01:13) Welcome to Good Game
(02:58) Is The Bull Market Over?
(09:20) Keeping Up With Everything That's Happening
(11:32) NodeMonkes and Bitcoin Puppets Competing for The #1 Spot
(17:55) Imran's Bridging Experience
(21:12) BitVM Fud
(25:14) Welcome Alexei (BOB)
(26:33) What Alexei is Working On
(30:51) What Does Layer 2 Mean for BOB?
(32:41) When Will BOB Launch and What Will Be The...

Imran and Qiao bring on Pacman to share lessons he learned while building Blur and Blast.
No BS crypto insight for founders.

Timestamps

(00:00) Intro
(00:44) Welcome to Good Game
(01:09) Learning More About Blur
(01:56) Pacman's Thoughts About OpenSea's Strategy
(05:22) Balancing Trading and Collecting with Blur
(08:24) The Good and The Bad of The Points System
(11:19) The Convergence of NFTs and Tokens
(14:18) Are 404s Here to Stay?
(15:30) Memecoins vs. NFTs
(19:20) Fostering Innovation in Layer 2s
(25:15) Memecoins Didn't Take Off on Blast... What Happened?
(27:57) Other Interesting Applications That...

Imran and Qiao sat down to discuss the current hot topics such as Solana Congestion, Bitcoin Runes, Echo, and Ethena.
No BS crypto insight for founders. 

Timestamps

(00:00) Intro
(00:39) Welcome to Good Game
(01:12) Qiao Tried to Ape In To Some Runes
(01:26) What Are Runes?
(02:55) How Do You Receive RSICs?
(04:00) Do RSICs Come with a JPEG?
(06:12) What Runes and RSICs?
(07:20) Other BTC L2s That Want to Offer Support For Runes
(08:07) When Will BTC L2s Launch?
(09:26) Design Trade-offs For Runes
(12:47) Runes Competing With Bitcoin L2s...

In this Roundup for March, Imran and Qiao discuss Memecoins, BlackRock, L3s, and other trends. 
No BS crypto insight for founders.

Timestamps

(00:00) Intro
(00:56) Welcome to Good Game
(01:31) The Good Game Rebrand
(02:35) BlackRock Recently Launched Their Tokenized Fund
(03:38) Let's Look Through What BlackRock Would See
(05:13) The Impact of BlackRock's Tokenized Fund
(08:55) What is The Future of Ethereum?
(11:35) What is the Role of a Layer 1?
(12:52) Let's Talk About Proto-Danksharding Fees
(15:45) The Debates Between Eth Maxis and Sol Maxis
(17:50) "Ethereum is Really Behind Solana"
(19:08) "We M...

Imran and Qiao sat down with Daniel Matuszewski (CMS) and Zaheer Ebtikar (Split Capital) to discuss the current crypto market.
No BS crypto insight for founders.

Timestamps

(00:00) Intro
(00:51) Welcome to Good Game
(03:33) Daniel and Zaheer's Macro View
(06:24) Daniel and Zaheer's Primary Focus
(08:14) Interesting Leading Indicators
(10:53) Zaheer's Eth ETF Approval Estimate
(14:51) The TradFi World Doesn't Care About ETH?
(17:05) Thoughts on Jim Bianco's Theory
(19:42) What Daniel and Zaheer are Trading Right Now
(23:55) Render (RNDR) vs. Bittensor (TAO)
(28:27) What Daniel and Zaheer are Bullish on Recently
(32:46...

Imran and Qiao bring on Mert Mumtaz (Helius Labs) to discuss Ethereum, Firedancer, Solana L2s, and more. 
No BS crypto insight for founders.

Timestamps

(00:00) Intro
(01:17) Welcome to Good Game
(03:05) Mert Steelmanning Ethereum
(08:44) Mert's Solana Prediction
(10:54) Mert's Estimate on Firedancer's Timeline and Throughput Improvement
(15:12) Thoughts on a Narrative Regarding Consumer Apps
(17:02) Thoughts on What's Happening in The Layer 3 World
(20:38) Layer 2 on Solana?
(29:22) "There Are Other Ways to Decentralize"
(30:18) Mert's Decentralizing Approach
(31:55) MEV Comparison Between Ethereum and Solana
(35:34) Calling Out The BS Mert Had S...

Imran and Qiao sat down to talk about the current market trends such as Memecoins, Blast L2, SocialFi, and more.
No BS crypto insight for founders.

Timestamps

(00:00) Intro
(00:56) Welcome to Good Game
(01:24) Memecoins Becoming Very Consensus
(04:11) “There's a Culture Shift”
(08:28) Shitcoins Imran is Following Right Now
(11:28) Tremp and Boden
(17:47) Qiao: I Really Like the Idea of Trading Personal Tokens
(20:24) The Blue-Chip Memecoins
(23:30) A Tweet That Lost Imran a Lot of Followers
(25:55) This Cycle is Unlike Any Other Cycle
(26:34) Why Imran is Still Very Bullish on H...

Imran and Qiao sat down to discuss 5 trends that are shaping the Bull Run and more.
No BS crypto insight for founders.

Timestamps

(00:00) Intro
(00:50) Welcome to Good Game
(02:05) Let's Start with ERC-404s
(07:39) Some ERC-404 Criticisms
(09:39) DN-404 vs ERC-404
(10:16) CGAR Launching a NFT Marketplace
(11:35) Wasabi Launching Their Own ERC-404 Marketplace
(15:26) Why Imran is so Bullish on 404s in General
(16:34) Let's Discuss ETFs
(23:14) ETH Will Get The ETF Soon
(24:34) Gary Gensler Got Hacked and Trump Potentially Becoming The President
(32:27) Farcaster Went From 20k to 100...