[00:06] your host hustle and as always we're going to be diving into the landscape of crypto gaming and today we're not so much covering the market we will go over some tokens at the end of the show that I'm potentially looking at right now but
[00:19] for this show we're going to be looking at my biggest 10 predictions in the at my biggest 10 predictions in the crypto gaming space for 2024 some are going to be hot takes some might be a little bit lwh hanging fruit or obvious
[00:31] predictions we have to throw out here we're going to be calling out individual narratives and things we're looking out for in the year 2024 so strap in and let's get to it without further Ado let's get in the
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[01:32] we'll go over that at the end of the show but I want to dive in immediately into what we're talking about today which is the biggest predictions for me which is the biggest predictions for me for 2024 now yes hard to get on the show
[01:46] and not mention the SEC fake news yesterday that was ridiculous if we can't get real news from the SEC of all people I don't even know what this space is anymore that was about the most crypto thing I've ever seen but my
[02:00] looking forward to that approval money trickling down and you know gaming get a getting a little bit more liquidity and love in the market but and as I said at the end of the show I'll quick watch list and go through some tokens that I'm
[02:15] looking at right now um some of them are pretty dein low market cap tokens so I will go ahead and get into that at the end but uh number one and this one like I said some are obvious and you know no surprise coming from me that I think
[02:28] these things but uh now these are in no order they're just 10 predictions okay number one is that crypto gaming continues to separate itself from the rest of the niches in crypto as the biggest use case and most realistic Mass
[02:44] adoption Niche so why like obviously it's a subjective prediction like it's hard to kind of grasp like oh okay did it separate itself but I think this year will because we're going to be seeing titles like shrapnel like ovium like
[02:57] heroes of mavia like Star Atlas like aluv um yeah like uh shrapnel Off the Grid eluvium star Atlas Heroes of mavia army of Fortune we're going to be seeing all these huge titles coming out parallel colony and I think that people
[03:10] are going to start to see more of the substance behind the space and not so much the speculation and I just see that gaming is the mass adoption sector we all think that here on the in the in the game channel so first and foremost
[03:24] that's my first prediction is that we continue to separate ourselves in 2021 we were this idea off the back of axi Infiniti in 2022 we were this Pony nomics game with multiple Ponzi coming out really like Ponzi games uh with no
[03:40] real gameplay Loop that was just incentivizing you to earn tokens that was like the earn meta and then in 2023 we we kind of had this lull but by the end of 2023 with parallel with big time we've seen these Hits come around with
[03:54] honeyland and the mobile sector we're seeing these games getting a lot of love we're going to have enough products live to tangibly say we have separated ourselves from the rest of this market so that is number one for me number two
[04:10] is that mobile games continue to grow in popularity and potentially hold a grasp on the player counts in the market so mobile games are some of the easiest to jump into it doesn't matter slight Flex if you're playing on your Android your
[04:25] salop phone or your iPhone whatever the case is you can jump into a mobile game on a tablet on anything like that uh on even a a laptop you know like the laptop whenever you're looking at some of these things I think Mobile gaming is some of
[04:41] the biggest lwh hanging fruits to grow this year and we're seeing the proof and the pudding right now with games like Army of tactics with games like honeyland with games like uh NFL Rivals which has been crushing it this year and
[04:55] then we're going to have new releases coming out like Heroes of mavia and like the the second game from the aof verse which is Army of Fortune and like I said right now one of the biggest examples of this is honeyland honey land's been
[05:08] absolutely killing it their token their player counts the activity inside the game they're easy to jump into and I think mobile games kind of have their just it's so underutilized right now in web 3 in my opinion and I think that
[05:21] they're going to continue to grow in popularity and kind of dominate as far as uh player counts go and and that's how it goes now Clash of Clans these types of games on the mobile they crush it as far as player counts and I think
[05:34] that mobile gaming continues to grow in popularity in 2024 within the web 3 space all right these next two are game specific predictions okay game specific predictions and um the number three prediction I have today is that off the
[05:50] prediction I have today is that off the grid will assert itself as the number grid will assert itself as the number one tripa a game in web 3 so couple caveats there number one Triple A I am not saying Off the Grid is going to have
[06:06] the most players in web 3 I'm not saying it's going to uh you know be the highest you know stream whatever the case is but I think this will assert itself as by I think this will assert itself as by far the number one overall quality-wise
[06:21] and just everything the gameplay the graphics the mechanics uh the ecosystem the economy I think that this will become the number one web 3 AAA game in
[06:33] crypto gaming I think by far if you haven't already by the way uh pull out my phone again another mobile Savvy thing that they're doing um go download the guns app there's the guns app on um the store the guns wallet you can go
[06:49] ahead and you can get some free items you can get a head start on this um I think that if you haven't downloaded the guns app that's a good first step and um this should be you know play able sometime this year they just did a node
[07:01] sale uh they don't have their token out that should also go live this year and this is live gameplay right here like this by far to me looks like the best game Graphics wise movement wise Etc in web 3 and I think that off the grid kind
[07:16] of makes it stamp on the space this year because whenever I did a tier list with crypto stash and when I talk about this game a lot of people are still like unfamiliar with it because they don't do a lot of marketing but I think whenever
[07:29] this comes out and people realize it is fully nft based from the ground up I think that this will assert itself as the number one Triple A title uh in web the number one Triple A title uh in web 3 number four number four parallel
[07:43] 3 number four number four parallel Colony asserts itself as the best AI video game of 2024 bold prediction this one's bold I'm not talking about web 3 I think that parallel Colony the team the
[07:56] budget the the war chest everything thing they're doing the ideology with parallel Colony I just think Ai and gaming has a long way to go but if you look at the play test you look at the trailer you look at what the
[08:11] team's saying about how this Colony Builder so it's a never-ending game powered by AI simulation items all onchain you're paired with an avatar avatar work together share onchain resources and navigate an ever expanding
[08:25] parallel world that's powered by Prime they had been building this out since last year now this is like the second game in their ecosystem behind the card game and they're going to keep iterating games that bring in the fold of the
[08:38] Prime token so this makes me super bullish on the prime token and I think that parallel Colony could potentially be the best AI video game of 2024 not talking just web 3 like I think then Web Two web 3 fully based AI game I think
[08:55] Two web 3 fully based AI game I think that this could possibly be um the best AI video game of 2024 and I think it has the chance to win um so parallel trading card game won the game of the year at the games awards for 2023 I think that
[09:10] Colony has the chance to maybe do the same thing in 2024 as just an overall AI video game so that's what I think about parallel colony and that is number four
[09:23] and number five not all my things are going to be bullish guys so don't you know I don't want to hear it you there's going to be negatives there's ups there's Downs there's bad events there's good events
[09:36] launches and the first controversial take that I'm going to have today is I think that player counts in web 3 gaming are completely BS I think that when we see you know for example you know sweat wallet sure I have sweat wallet on my
[09:52] phone I guess I get counted as a user every day even if I don't open it because I'm walking and I utilize the sweat app there on my phone right but like as far as some of these ecosystems I I would I would probably say that and
[10:06] I mean I'm not saying like I I know every game in the space but if I was to go talk to someone who plays games every single day in web 3 uh alongside myself I some of these you just you don't even know what they are right like um I'm not
[10:22] going to crap on any games here but some of these games that claim they have 25,6 90,000 players and active wallets per day like this is just absolutely ridiculous this is 24 hours and if we
[10:38] ridiculous this is 24 hours and if we filter to 30 days all right yeah if we filter to 30 days 3 million users 2.5 play ember's a
[10:51] solid one like some of these player counts on some of these products like I just really don't see where that's coming from right and I almost think I don't want to call it a Black Swan because I think it's good for gaming in
[11:06] web 3 but if you look at epic game store and the player counts there it really will give you a real picture of what some of these games player counts actually look like because that's where they're going they're downloading the
[11:20] game and they're playing it some of these web 3 games they got 50 players a these web 3 games they got 50 players a day a 100 players a day um you know when you start factoring in wallets what does this mean like that does not mean
[11:32] they're a player it could be a bot it could be a wallet scheme it could be someone running 35 40 wallets or a big Syndicate of people farming out of a gaming ecosystem and the player counts here are severely inflated so I think
[11:46] this year we maybe see some sort of like a I don't know like a Black Swan of sorts a new tool that comes out that can actually track how many individual like users maybe like based on on based on IP address or based on unique devices or
[12:02] whatever the case may be like I feel like there will be some straightening out on the player counts as I think a lot of these are not to be rude but I just think they're kind of BS like I I really do I I I think that a lot of the
[12:16] player counts are overinflated based on wallet counts uh but that does not indicate that someone is playing your game and it certainly does not indicate that every single wallet is a certain new individual so um that's number five
[12:30] I think the users wallet dilemma kind of gets straightened out this year and we start to see a little more ease of tracking on which games are actually gaining players gaining sentiment and have an active community so uh that is
[12:46] have an active community so uh that is my number five prediction number six is we're going to see who is the Bitcoin of gaming this year now a lot of people think it's beam a lot of people think it's Ronin a lot of people or uh I mean
[12:58] people think it's Ronin a lot of people think it's beam right um as of right now ronin's the king of gaming chains that by far with axi and pixels they have the most users they have the most activity they have the most liquidity most
[13:13] transactions it's not even close at this point in time I think IMX however has a chance to overtake it once all their titles go live Embers sword Guild of Guardians ovium there's hundreds of games ready to go on uh IMX this year
[13:27] and I think the activity on the could really uptick and right now this is the Bitcoin of gaming I think it's the large it is the largest market cap out of all of these so um I think immutable definitely is going to assert itself as
[13:41] the Bitcoin of gaming but you know if Ronin captures a couple big more Ronin captures a couple big more titles I mean we could see Ronin at this market cap just completely catapult and become that staple Bitcoin of gaming
[13:54] token and maybe Beam Beam subnet has been absolutely crushing it they're migrating tons of games onto the platform day by day but my pick would still be immutable X and when I say Bitcoin of gaming it's like when
[14:07] someone's looking to add a gaming token to their portfolio just for broad exposure they have re uh real world asset tokens defi uh dex's you know liquid staking whatever the case is and they're like I want
[14:21] exposure to gaming but I'm not an expert I think IMX and Ronin are those tokens right now I think beam is asleep er uh but I think immutable X maybe will be the one to assert itself as the Bitcoin of gaming in regards to the average
[14:36] Normie who doesn't pay attention to gaming this is the token that they're going to want in their portfolio all right number seven a gamble fi project will cross into the hundreds a 100 million plus or hundreds
[14:51] hundreds a 100 million plus or hundreds of million in 2024 and I'm not talking about rbit now rbit last year had this huge run 48 yeah 4, 800% this thing
[15:03] huge run 48 yeah 4, 800% this thing basically 47 48x on the chart right from 0.002 up to 14 cents this was a major run this thing is a $500 million market cap almost right but the competition the close competition is so much more
[15:18] undervalued and rollbit is not the only thing getting activity in the gambling space I think that based uh based games has a really good shot getting to that 100 million Mark uh it's a 5x from here if we continue to see a little bit of a
[15:33] run on the altcoins and truly by the end of 20124 I kind of think we start heading into the fullblown bull market after ETF approval calms down after the having there's typically that dip I think we start seeing the real run
[15:47] towards the bull run I think Bas has a really good chance of crossing over that 100 million they have good user counts good liquidity they have good incentives the poker tournaments on top top of all
[15:59] of that it's fully diluted there's no VC money here uh or you know early another pick I would have would be winter um winter protocol low circulating the diluted is already there but I'm talking about the C I'm talking
[16:14] about like the circulating market cap so I think that winner this is a little low uh it's actually about you know 13 to 15 million I believe on the market cap so it'd be about a 7x from here I think that that's not out of the picture I
[16:27] mean they just partner up with X AI games they're one of the hottest new projects layer three gaming in the space they just had their tge yesterday winter keeps pushing updates and I'm really bullish on both based and winner and I
[16:41] think that we see one of these tokens cross over the 100 million circulating market cap in 2024 I I think that gambling is so undervalued outside of
[16:53] rbit like outside of rbit I just think this Market it has some catching up to do maybe rbit is the King right of of gambling and crypto but at the same time
[17:05] coming after it the ones that are kind of building their infrastructure and our lower market caps I think they have quite the Run left in them uh heading quite the Run left in them uh heading into 2024 number eight all right let's
[17:19] get controversial again now this is not crapping on an individual project just to get it out there I minted I'm still holding my Overworld and I'm looking forward to the Token air drop I'm super bullish they've done a really good job
[17:32] on marketing but and this is crypto so I could be wrong here this is crypto people don't really care about product they care really care about product they care about x's on a chart right so first and
[17:46] foremost let me get that out there but I think the speculation in gaming we're getting out of hand again in the bare Market people were very selective if you don't have a game to show us you don't have a trailer you don't have a gaml uh
[18:00] loop to show us we're not going to get involved and that was the sentiment for about a year and a half well once this Market started ticking up people then did not care they start throwing their money in anything that's delivering
[18:12] do this and that they have a token air drop they're using all the gimmicks to get you on board I think speculation is out of hand again I think that we're going to start seeing new projects completely BS don't
[18:25] going to sell you assets they're going to wait years never deliver you a product and you're going to be out of luck right so the recent example of this and like I said I love this project okay I have and I'm I'm not futing anything
[18:40] this is I have a bag of of Overworld nfts okay but um recently with projects like Overworld for the longest time their website was a picture of a single
[18:52] character nothing else there's no gameplay absolutely no gameplay the hype is crazy they have a token air drop people are so in on this but what if the game turns out to just be nothing what people are predicting I I just think
[19:08] speculation is getting out of hand again and I think we're going to have this big moment this year where we come to a realization once again that product speaks louder than anything we saw it with big time with their game launch we
[19:21] saw it with parallel parallel was an nft collection for years and people thought they weren't going to deliver they delivered with product that spoke for itself the assets went crazy the token went crazy I just think tokenomics
[19:36] matter and people are always going to want to get gains on things and and it's a it's a hype cycle right like we are in a hype Market that is based off attention and how much can I stir up the audience to believe that they have
[19:49] something of value with my project right but I do think we're going to have a disappointing as far as gameplay not saying it's going to be Overworld but some of these projects that hide their game until the last minute and then show
[20:02] it to you I think it's going to open up some eyes that like this is gaming at the end of the day you need to have a solid product to back up all these assets and your tokens Etc and I think that speculation is a little out of hand
[20:16] right now so I hope we have a come to Earth moment once again like we did in the bear I think the greed in the gaming space is pretty high right now as far as space is pretty high right now as far as oh token airdrop and game I'm in that's
[20:30] going to fade away in my opinion number nine Ai and gaming projects will have a major if not one of the biggest narratives in web 3 gaming in 2024 so I
[20:42] mentioned earlier I think parallel Colony has the chance to be the best AI video game of 2024 and they're right in this sector obviously the world's first AI game Colony you can actually go to parallel. lifee Colony and sign up for
[20:56] this if you want to be weight listed for the col any game um but you know most people in crypto are looking at gaming tokens or AI tokens and personally
[21:08] tokens or AI tokens and personally speaking for me gaming AI gamble FY those are the three niches that I see crushing it in the next bull market use crushing it in the next bull market use Cas is there the technolog is there the
[21:21] mass adoption appeals there but not a lot of people are looking at the intersection of AI and gaming together so I think Ai and gaming are going to have some of the biggest run-ups in 2024 at some point in time once the AI Market
[21:36] finds these games or once the game Community the gaming investors find out that these games are doing AI driven products uh stuff like parallel Colony AI Arena and today the game these are the three that I'm super bullish on um I
[21:51] would have these on your radar without a doubt I think going into 2024 if these aren't on your radar you're going to short yourself AI arena is gonna have a token coming out here very soon uh obviously Prime is the token for the
[22:03] parallel Colony game and we'll eventually see if today does some sort eventually see if today does some sort of a token drop but uh Ai and gaming I I I truly think is going to be one of those like shocking niches to a lot of
[22:16] people but for us here in the space I think it's just inevitable um quite think it's just inevitable um quite frankly and then last but not least um last but not least it kind of goes along with number eight but I think the air
[22:28] drop meta in nft gaming is going to fizzle out hard um we just saw it with grapes grapes is doing this big airdrop with their token and the price action on that thing was just nothing but negative it went down about 75 uh yes like
[22:44] it went down about 75 uh yes like 75% off of launch and like look I get it um incentivizing people with aird drops and free money it it works it works in the space like you can definitely uh stir up a community stir up some
[22:57] highight by giving out free tokens but I think after a while enough projects are going to suffer from this because like grapes they're going to keep airdrop they have a lot of aird drops left in their nft collection right so like the
[23:11] airdrop meta I think is going to get saturated and once people see the tokenomics flaws of just giving free money to you and you dumping those money to you and you dumping those tokens for profit there's just no real
[23:24] like you'll say you're a part of the community until you get all those drops and then you're bouncing right so I think the tokenomics a drop meta um combination is going to fizzle out big time in web3 gaming inft and um on top
[23:39] and there's so many to come like and I'm bullish on Overworld Army of Fortune block games uh there's so many age of dyo mins today and it's uh it's got a token airdrop like in the short term I'm gonna I'm hitting the niche hard because
[23:53] I think it's still here in in the in the meta as we say it in the nft in the gaming space but I think after a while that's going to fizzle out it's going to get you to ment to project and I think the sustainability of tokenomics when
[24:09] you air drop is your main narrative I don't see it being a big winning proposition in that regard not saying a token can't do good in that regard but I think by the end of 24 the airdrop nft meta is is definitely going to take a
[24:26] little bit of a hit as well as the node meta um controversial one here because I love nodes all right I got myia nodes I have gonzilla nodes I have playable games nodes I'm I'm getting my hands on some meta X seed nodes I'm gonna get
[24:42] some shrapnel nodes like there's a lot of ecosystems I'm getting nodes in and here's the problem after a while every ecosystem is just G to have I just feel after a while to just raise money and
[24:56] that have done it like Gala miria playable Etc fantastic great idea you're validating main blockchains like Avalanche all that good stuff you can be a validator you
[25:10] good stuff you can be a validator you earn off the network activity Etc but man I just can't see nodes continuing to be sustainable due to the fact that um every ecosystem seems to be doing it and it just seems to now be becoming this
[25:24] new fundraising mechanism um for people who just want to have free money as it seems with nodes and um I just think that's going to fizzle out as well so the airdrop meta and nodes I feel like are GNA become oversaturated by the end
[25:37] of 2024 and I don't know how appealing those types of um gimmicks in your ecosystem are going to be no matter how bullish I am on the existing node ecosystem you just watch and see every ecosystem come out with a node in 2024
[25:54] because they're seeing what other projects are doing this space face is full of imitation is flattery right like Gala did nodes everyone else is going to Gala did nodes everyone else is going to do nodes well once those nodes do well
[26:07] like it it happens people copy axi people are going to copy big time going to copy shrapnel they're going to copy off the grid that's just how crypto is and in gaming I was on a uh YouTube with uh crypto stash this week and
[26:21] Fresco another uh web3 gaming Creator you know gaming is 80% copying and 20% um Innovation and that's kind of what crypto is it's 80% copy 20%
[26:34] Innovation so when you look at that like I just think nodes by the end of 2024 the amount of games and Si ecosystems that have them I just think you're going to open your eyes to the fact that like how valuable really are nodes now in the
[26:49] crypto landscape I I think I think that value could definitely take a hit um and like I said no matter how bullish I am on nodes I got a crap ton of nodes across different ecosystems but um I'm worried that by the end of the year
[27:04] there will be too many nodes out there amongst different games and ecosystems so those are my 10 predictions some are bullish some are predictions some are bullish some are bearish some are controversial some are
[27:17] very um negative to be completely honest but I think you have to have a mix of bad events I think there's going to be good events this year in web 3 gaming but obviously the good outweighs the bad I see so much upside I see a separating
[27:31] ourselves from the market and I see some of these things as good things if we find a way to you know flesh out these player count issues that's a good thing we want to see transparency not just the wallet counts of all these farming
[27:45] wallets that are coming into your game like we want speculation to die down and we want people to actually gravitate gravitate towards games and teams that are showing you product we don't want the gimmicks in your e EOS systems like
[27:58] token airdrops like all this stuff that people are doing to lure you in without a product right so I think um my 10 predictions are pretty solid we'll see of the year and see what I get wrong and uh and what I get right and then I want
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[29:10] at the depth of their ecosystem um from what was just really a Launchpad they've what was just really a Launchpad they've become this uh really well-versed and uh multi-pillar ecosystem in the gaming space and as
[29:25] market today there's a couple projects that I think um are are are pretty pretty good buys like um Bas has been running ever since we brought it up on the show earlier this week at about um what was
[29:41] it 14 cents or 18 Cent it was 18 cents but this one's up 50% since then at a 20 mil market cap like I said I see gambling very undervalued I see this probably getting up to that 100 million Mark so um you know I think Bas is a
[29:56] fantastic Buy this one right here all right this is one that people are really aping into right now they have their Gameplay trailer coming out um I spoke to some people they have some pretty cool updates coming out this is a $2.6
[30:10] million market cap it's it started this week at like a 400,000 market cap so there is risk it has pumped tremendously but I can tell you like every little Alpha group out there every uh low cap investor they're starting to take a look
[30:26] investor they're starting to take a look at this metal token bad mad robots um at 2 million market cap low downside very high upside very volatile I'm not is one that's getting a lot of hype in my Discord server everyone's talking
[30:41] about this token because it's going crazy and still at a low market cap so you want to and you can make your decision I think winter protocol uh at this 12 cent Mark after their X AI games partnership really good accumulation and
[30:55] then let's just kind of go down the list here um I have to say game starter is but we've brought it up before they were a sponsor game starters getting pretty at $330 after getting like $4 plus so that
[31:12] could be a good accumulation I think Katana enu is a solid one Echelon Prime could be a good buy today um I think veracity is getting hit so hard I get a lot of questions I'm still very bullish on veracity guys uh I still have my bag
[31:26] and um I'm not going anywhere as far as my veracity I think Senate's a good accumulation cornucopious keko under a dollar very good buy um yeah so there's I I think honeyland still solid playable is getting beat up hard I think that it
[31:41] should be um getting bought up here pretty soon Alura with all of their of good Buys in the market especially after what we saw with Bitcoin yesterday so um I will leave you guys with that you know my 10 predictions let me know
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