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May 1, 2026

Summary

In Episode 313 of The Block Runner Podcast, William and I-man break down the latest stress test for crypto launch platforms: Believe’s rapid rise, the Printer token ICO backlash, the $2M refund, and what the failed attempts to disrupt Pump.Fun reveal about launching in a permissionless market.

The conversation centers on how quickly community momentum can reverse when a platform moves too fast into tokenization, why founders face extreme psychological pressure once market attention arrives, and why examples like Believe, Heaven, Bonk-adjacent launch efforts, and Printer matter directly to the NAT.fun launch thesis.

Key topics:

  1. Believe’s position in the launch ecosystem and how quickly market attention can concentrate around a new platform
  2. The Printer ICO, Coinbase/Sonar rails, and why selling a token too early can reverse community sentiment
  3. The mental-health pressure founders face when crypto Twitter turns from attention into personal attack
  4. The $2M refund and what it says about trust, timing, and execution in token launches
  5. Why attempts to disrupt Pump.Fun keep failing, from Believe to Heaven to Printer
  6. How these failures become direct lessons for NAT.fun as it prepares to enter the launch-platform arena

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31

Summary

William, Iman and Oscar gather again to close out the Game Jam updates. We go over what place we got in the comptetion and we also go through the top 3 winners. The Decentraland community is its greatest asset and the community needs to develop ways to encourage players to continuously return to the game. Without this incentive, developing for decentraland is unsustainable. Our contribution, Metazone, focuses on providing an easy way for land owners to deploy content to their land without the hassle of deployment that currently exists. We also discuss Lebron’s statement on punishing Daryl Morey for his tweets that support Hong Kong.

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30

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Iman, Oscar and William discuss the latest winners of the Game Jam hosted by Decentraland. Only winners from 20 - 11 have been announced at the time of this recording and we play a few that we have not covered before. Later in the podcast we discuss how companies such as PayPal, Visa, and MasterCard are pulling out from the Libra Association. Finally we discuss the influence that China has on American companies and how their ideologies are spilling over to free nations.

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29

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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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28

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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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27

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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

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