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April 9, 2026

Summary

Episode 310 breaks down why AI brainrot content is becoming a real market signal, why Google’s quantum warning should be taken seriously by every crypto builder, and what the Taproot Wizards collapse says about narrative-driven fundraising before execution.

The episode also ties those lessons back to NAT.fun, cultural discovery, and better market-based launch mechanics.

53

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The MetaZone team adds Lastraum as our smart contract developer. Pretty soon all players, landowners and creators will be able to go to their MetaZone account and receive a payout with a click of a button. We want to build a trust-less environment where we can collaborate and grow MetaZone together without having to trust anyone on payments. In the course of 7 days post launch of Decentraland, we were able to receive over 150,000 in Mana from landowners and players for our games. We are discovering something we anticipated existed, the ability to deploy custom content for landowners to earn passive income is a growing need. We're happy that we collected like-minded people to join us in making this happen.

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52

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Welcome back to episode 52 of The Block Runner Podcast. Here is where we discuss the latest developments in cryptocurrency while we make this new technology relatable to you. You can watch this podcast on our YouTube channel to follow along with our discussion. As always, I am your host William talking with your cohost Iman and today we discuss our experiences and the performance of MetaZone 5 days after Decentraland. We discuss revenue and how you can earn Mana from your land. Alright lets listen in.

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51

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After spending the whole night before the Decentraland launch getting things ready for ourselves, MetaZone.io, and our landowners who have deployed our games to accept payments. We learned many things about how Decentraland can survive and be a viable metaverse. Listen in on how much revenue we generated just 12 hours after the launch and how we plan to grow our network of hosts.

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50

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William and Iman collect a group of Decentraland all stars including Corv, FrankyNeedles and Lastraum to discuss our thoughts on the launch. We discuss the gear we found in many of the beta tests and how they'll increase in valuation. A Decentralized Autonomous Organization will be responsible with many of the updates and governance of the platform. Throughout this journey, many of us have asked ourselves whether it continues to make sense pouring in our time and investments in building out things in the metaverse. We also discuss some feedback for the Decentraland team which ranges from some SDK improvements to additional functionality that would open up new experiences. We also discuss what has more value between MANA and LAND. Make sure you stay tuned till the end to watch us go through some play tests. Keep in mind the final tests will have some bugs in preparation of the launch in just a few days. Finally we discuss how NFTs are supported in Decentraland such as wearables and how the community could contribute to his space.

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49

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As we prepare ourselves for the launch of Decentraland on 02/20/2020, we cover everything that's been happening in the crypto space. Bitcoin inches closer to its halvening which is contributing to this year's all time high. The Decentralized Finance community has reached a psychological milestone where $1 billion has been locked up in DeFi protocols. With RSK, Bitcoin is now interoperable with the Ethereum network enabling new functionality. Pretty soon we're going to start seeing NFTs used as collateral in a similar way a house is used as collateral. Brian Armstrong explains the similarities in maturity with messaging and crypto. Another exchanged gets hacked. Finally, we reveal our 2 new games powered by MetaZone.io!

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