First episode of 2026 and we’re setting the frame for what matters this year: AI is hitting escape velocity, “creation” is getting commoditized, and that changes everything from business models to the metaverse thesis.
We talk through the cultural shift (the 2025 existential turn), why low-sentiment periods are when you should be paying the most attention, and how social media incentives reward overreaction. Then we zoom out to the macro: metals ripping, Bitcoin lag dynamics, and what a “real” 2026 setup could look like.
On the crypto side, we dig into the creator coin debate and why the fan-to-investor switch breaks expectations, using the Nick Shirley Zora post as a live case study. Finally, we share our north star: a world where CoinGecko has an “NAT” tab, non-arbitrary tokens become a real market category, and miners distributing NAT becomes the moment the market can’t ignore.
The Decentraland Game Jam finally ends and we debrief on our experience, submissions and the competition. We go over only a small portion of all the submissions that we saw, many of which were fantastic. Some of the submissions really opened our ideas to the possibilities that Decentraland could bring. In today’s discussion we break down our thought process on why decided to build what we submitted. We also assess the competition and what the future will hold for Decentraland.
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We get the crew back together to discuss developments with our Game Jam submission for the competition in Decentraland. One of our important discussion points is the difficulty of deploying custom creations onto a plot of land. Typically, a land owner would need to receive the source code for the custom creation, then using a command prompt and scene code to deploy the creation. The whole process is not user friendly and discouraging to people who want to contribute. That is why we created the http://MetaZone.io app. This helps anyone who wants to deploy any custom creation quickly and easily without the help of developers. Anyone can sell their creations right through the app as well, bringing the first decentraland app store. With about a week left of the Game Jam which ends September 30, 2019, we discuss our final touches to our submissions.
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The Game Jam - where anyone can participate and create custom scenes that you can interact with has begun! Thousands of people across the globe will compete for the top prize of 350,000 MANA plus land and will be scrutinized by judges. Today we'll discuss how we'll win. Today we're unveiling our new app MetaZone
The Game Jam for Decentraland is in a matter of days and for 14 days developers across the globe will compete to create the most interesting and interactive creations to deploy within Decentraland. As we go through the private beta for Decentraland, we discuss our own game and our future plans for the game and how we’ll allow other land owners to deploy our games to make passive income. We discuss Andrew Yang’s policies for the United States Presidential candidate and he is getting censored by mainstream media. Bitcoin’s forming an interesting pattern that appears similar to the consolidation pattern just like 2015. Finally, Akon is spreading the good word of Bitcoin, which is not the easiest thing to explain to people.
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We were recommended to have Daniel Garcia join the show to discuss how cryptocurrencies have affected 3d design and virtual worlds. Daniel is the creator of PolygonalMind.com and has a huge passion for design and gaming. We dive into detail into the world of Decentraland and we touch his team’s creation of a virtual escape room. The nostalgic game of World of Warcraft Classic recently launched and we get into its addictive affects. Its not all bad though, gaming was responsible for teaching children new languages to financial responsibility. We migrate our discussion to Neuralink and how the threat of a hack is heightened because a brain interface would be the ultimate form of privacy invasion. Finally, we get an outsider’s perspective of the U.S.’s mass shooting epidemic.