Author: FaultProofBen Gm! Last week, I was at Permissionless in Austin, Texas. I was supposed to use the conference to meet, greet, and network with people IRL. But instead, I spent most of my time online, playing Primodium.Playing video games can be productive!Primodium is an onchain strategy and resource management game. It takes place in an asteroid belt, where your goal is to mine resources, construct factories, produce materials, and build space fleets to grow and conquer the cosmos. It ...

Author: FaultProofBen Gm! Last week, I was at Permissionless in Austin, Texas. I was supposed to use the conference to meet, greet, and network with people IRL. But instead, I spent most of my time online, playing Primodium.Playing video games can be productive!Primodium is an onchain strategy and resource management game. It takes place in an asteroid belt, where your goal is to mine resources, construct factories, produce materials, and build space fleets to grow and conquer the cosmos. It ...

Gm! I’m very excited to announce the debut of WASD’s first-ever guest creator…Donovan Choy! Donovan is a researcher, writer, and onchain gaming enjoyooor. Today, he’s going to dive into an onchain game that’s captured his and the communities interest over the past several months: Shoshin. Shoshin is a fighting game that’s live in beta on Starknet. Below, Donovan is going to teach you all about it by discussing:Shoshin’s core gameplay mechanicsHow to get started playingThe design of Shoshin un...

Gm! I’m very excited to announce the debut of WASD’s first-ever guest creator…Donovan Choy! Donovan is a researcher, writer, and onchain gaming enjoyooor. Today, he’s going to dive into an onchain game that’s captured his and the communities interest over the past several months: Shoshin. Shoshin is a fighting game that’s live in beta on Starknet. Below, Donovan is going to teach you all about it by discussing:Shoshin’s core gameplay mechanicsHow to get started playingThe design of Shoshin un...

Gm! The NFL season begins today, so I thought it would be fitting to write about sports. No, I’m not going to be writing about Football. And I certainly will not be discussing how Justin Herbert is destined to lead my Chargers to the Super Bowl. Instead, I want to talk about the future of sports. In particular, the novel ways in which onchain games (and only onchain games) can revolutionize sports team ownership, funding models, and league structures. I like memes, so I’ve decided to package ...

Gm! The NFL season begins today, so I thought it would be fitting to write about sports. No, I’m not going to be writing about Football. And I certainly will not be discussing how Justin Herbert is destined to lead my Chargers to the Super Bowl. Instead, I want to talk about the future of sports. In particular, the novel ways in which onchain games (and only onchain games) can revolutionize sports team ownership, funding models, and league structures. I like memes, so I’ve decided to package ...

Author: FaultProofBen Gm! Before we begin, I want to make one thing clear: This is not another Friend Tech newsletter! I’m sure your inbox is filled with breakdowns of the social app that’s taking crypto by storm. It may have been overshadowed by the Friend Tech frenzy, but it was also a big weekend in onchain gaming and autonomous worlds. On Friday, August 18, history was made as the clan [WE] held the first-ever Sky Strife tournament! I was able to participate, although I did not emerge vic...

Author: FaultProofBen Gm! Before we begin, I want to make one thing clear: This is not another Friend Tech newsletter! I’m sure your inbox is filled with breakdowns of the social app that’s taking crypto by storm. It may have been overshadowed by the Friend Tech frenzy, but it was also a big weekend in onchain gaming and autonomous worlds. On Friday, August 18, history was made as the clan [WE] held the first-ever Sky Strife tournament! I was able to participate, although I did not emerge vic...

Author: FaultProofBen Gm! If you're active on Crypto Twitter (or should I say Crypto X), you've probably seen some discussion about financial incentives and speculation as it relates to Friend Tech. Li Jin @ljin18 Having conversations with consumer crypto builders who feel dejected that the only way to grow an app right now seems to be to lean into speculation / essentially building a casino... 432 2:18 PM • Aug 23, 2023 I think it’s possible to create a successful, non-financialize...

Author: FaultProofBen Gm! If you're active on Crypto Twitter (or should I say Crypto X), you've probably seen some discussion about financial incentives and speculation as it relates to Friend Tech. Li Jin @ljin18 Having conversations with consumer crypto builders who feel dejected that the only way to grow an app right now seems to be to lean into speculation / essentially building a casino... 432 2:18 PM • Aug 23, 2023 I think it’s possible to create a successful, non-financialize...

Author: FaultProofBenBefore we begin, I want to give a shoutout to clockworkburgundy for collecting Onchain Lore III: Adventures in Primodium and Shoshin: The Future of Fighting Games last week! Thank you for your support :) As always, you can collect every WASD piece (including today's) by smashing the mint button above! ☝️☝️ If you do, you’ll gain access to our WASD Collectooor Telegram chat and earn the chance to be featured at the top of each Monday piece!Gm! A few weeks ago, we look...

Author: FaultProofBenBefore we begin, I want to give a shoutout to clockworkburgundy for collecting Onchain Lore III: Adventures in Primodium and Shoshin: The Future of Fighting Games last week! Thank you for your support :) As always, you can collect every WASD piece (including today's) by smashing the mint button above! ☝️☝️ If you do, you’ll gain access to our WASD Collectooor Telegram chat and earn the chance to be featured at the top of each Monday piece!Gm! A few weeks ago, we look...

Author: FaultProofBen Gm! It may be Labor Day in the US…but the WASD newsletter doesn’t stop!With that said, I know many of my fellow burger brethren are out touching grass. So, I figured I’d give all our brains a rest and keep things a bit lighter today. You should still read on to catch up on the latest news from around the ecosystem, and to get my picks of three onchain games to try out this week. We also have our usual weekly game spotlight, where I break down Primodium’s major update tha...

Author: FaultProofBen Gm! It may be Labor Day in the US…but the WASD newsletter doesn’t stop!With that said, I know many of my fellow burger brethren are out touching grass. So, I figured I’d give all our brains a rest and keep things a bit lighter today. You should still read on to catch up on the latest news from around the ecosystem, and to get my picks of three onchain games to try out this week. We also have our usual weekly game spotlight, where I break down Primodium’s major update tha...

Author: FaultProofBenBefore we start, I want to give a quick shoutout to the legendary nis.eth for collecting both Onchain Games Are Leveling Up and DeSports: How Onchain Games Can Democratize Sports Team Ownership last week! I really appreciate your support :) As always, you can collect those pieces and today’s for free by smashing the mint button above! ☝️☝️ If you do, you’ll gain access to our WASD Collectooor Telegram chat and earn the chance to be featured at the top of each piece!Gm! Ov...

Author: FaultProofBenBefore we start, I want to give a quick shoutout to the legendary nis.eth for collecting both Onchain Games Are Leveling Up and DeSports: How Onchain Games Can Democratize Sports Team Ownership last week! I really appreciate your support :) As always, you can collect those pieces and today’s for free by smashing the mint button above! ☝️☝️ If you do, you’ll gain access to our WASD Collectooor Telegram chat and earn the chance to be featured at the top of each piece!Gm! Ov...

Author: FaultProofBen Gm! It’s officially WASD’s one month anniversary! I want to thank all of our collectors, subscribers, Twitter followers, and Discord community members for your support in our early days. It means everything, and I hope you all have enjoyed reading these pieces over the past month as much as I have writing them. Here’s to many more great ones!1 month in the books. GG.One of the leading topics of this inaugural month has been MUD. MUD is a development framework for buildin...

Author: FaultProofBen Gm! It’s officially WASD’s one month anniversary! I want to thank all of our collectors, subscribers, Twitter followers, and Discord community members for your support in our early days. It means everything, and I hope you all have enjoyed reading these pieces over the past month as much as I have writing them. Here’s to many more great ones!1 month in the books. GG.One of the leading topics of this inaugural month has been MUD. MUD is a development framework for buildin...

Gm! Or rather, ahoy! We’ve spent the past few weeks here on WASD taking a birds-eye view of onchain gaming by looking at two of its biggest ecosystems: MUD and Starknet. Today, we’re going to shake things up a bit and look at an individual game: Pirate Nation. Pirate Nation is a browser-based, pirate-themed RPG developed by Proof Of Play. Currently in semi-closed closed alpha, in Pirate Nation players complete quests and battle in combat in the pursuit of treasure, gold, and glory. Pirate Nat...

Gm! Or rather, ahoy! We’ve spent the past few weeks here on WASD taking a birds-eye view of onchain gaming by looking at two of its biggest ecosystems: MUD and Starknet. Today, we’re going to shake things up a bit and look at an individual game: Pirate Nation. Pirate Nation is a browser-based, pirate-themed RPG developed by Proof Of Play. Currently in semi-closed closed alpha, in Pirate Nation players complete quests and battle in combat in the pursuit of treasure, gold, and glory. Pirate Nat...

Author: FaultProofBen Gm! Last week, I walked you through my epic bag fumble in the first-ever Sky Strife tournament, and how that experience made me realize that the permanent, open, emergent nature of onchain games and autonomous worlds makes them very conducive to creating lore. To my surprise, a lot of you seemed to enjoy that story and hearing about my in-game shenanigans! I don’t want everyone to think I’m that bad at Sky Strife, so today, I thought I’d try to change this perception and...

Author: FaultProofBen Gm! Last week, I walked you through my epic bag fumble in the first-ever Sky Strife tournament, and how that experience made me realize that the permanent, open, emergent nature of onchain games and autonomous worlds makes them very conducive to creating lore. To my surprise, a lot of you seemed to enjoy that story and hearing about my in-game shenanigans! I don’t want everyone to think I’m that bad at Sky Strife, so today, I thought I’d try to change this perception and...

Gm everyone, Happy onchain summer! Base, the L2 developed by Coinbase using OP Stack, went live on August 9, officially kicking off the much-ballyhooed “onchain summer.” These past few days have been a lot of fun, with new dapps like Friend Tech taking Twitter by storm and triple-digit yields on BaseSwap giving bull market vibes. However, if you’re chronically into crypto like myself, it may feel like onchain summer unofficially started long ago. The broader market has been dormant these past...

Gm everyone, Happy onchain summer! Base, the L2 developed by Coinbase using OP Stack, went live on August 9, officially kicking off the much-ballyhooed “onchain summer.” These past few days have been a lot of fun, with new dapps like Friend Tech taking Twitter by storm and triple-digit yields on BaseSwap giving bull market vibes. However, if you’re chronically into crypto like myself, it may feel like onchain summer unofficially started long ago. The broader market has been dormant these past...