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Since the market is down, here is a clip, and a good memory of Deko, Mr. Baked, Lana Victoriia, and Red taking down Jaybee in Captain & Company. Au revoir!

PROTOCOL MONDAYs Setting sail to new waters! 🌊 @capncompany is bringing the fresh quests, exclusive rewards, and collectible soulbound NFTs to the Soneium ecosystem. Your journey starts at capnco.gg

@monad 0xf00B3135975ECC4Dc9B514668c131dC202c61877

Reply to this post with your EVM wallet address for some MON on Monad mainnet - launching on Monday. The MON will cover your first few gas fees so you can start using the chain right away. You must be following @monad to receive it.

it's been been a rough past 2 years as a "web3 game" im ngl, but very excited to share that we’ve raised another $2m in follow-on funding. really could not have pulled this off without the incredible support and energy of the Cambria community - players and holders alike. thank you all for your continued support - your enthusiasm for what we're building is what motivates us to keep going every day. big thanks as well to our backers @cegapereira @pierskicks and @Jihoz_Axie for their vote of continued confidence in our mission - incredibly strong conviction at a time when most have completely abandoned the crypto gaming space. with this round, we're also starting to selectively grow the team (mostly engineering) to tackle the ever growing scope of our ambitions. send me a dm, i'll be happy to Cambria-pill you. back to fking work 🫡

Very interesting stuff here from Cambria 🫡 As the owner of 4 Founder NFTs, I'll be max minting. Key points: • Mint: Oct 23, 0.1 ETH. • Owners earn from Islet sales + in-game taxes and get priority in the Cambria token airdrop. • Islands serve as hubs for trade, refining, governance, and guild activity. • Settlers buy Islets to farm, craft, and store, paying charter fees + ongoing taxes. • Island lords control laws, levies, and community, competing to attract settlers. • Ties into Cambria’s live game modes (Gold Rush, Duel Arena, Archipelagos). • "Onchain alliances are key for maximizing yields. However, backstabbing is actively incentivized, creating a game-theoretic equilibrium balance where self-interesting vs cooperation motives constantly realign the flow of profit." • Islands will be able to be bridged to @Ronin_Network. • Governance, alliances, trade wars, and prestige tracked via a new Renown system (more reputation experiments!)

We just pushed a subtly significant update for @capncompany * Towers no long emit doubloons king of the hill style * Minion waves (MOBA style) of ships now drop dubs This does a few things: 1. Reduces the current "meta exploit" of getting alts on the other faction to bodyblock shots for you, because now it's about dynamically moving to attack minion waves instead of camping under towers 2. Makes it so that both factions have exactly the same dubs earning potential on both sides of the map at all times, as opposed to the pure KOTH mode before where the winning faction often outweighed the losers We're aware that drop rates, spawn rates, and reward rates need tweaking & we're watching feedback to adjust

It's been a while since I've made a thread, but I think it's time, especially since the group has come in to be our latest sponsor for @capncompany. My motto is to understand the present, you must learn about the past. A thread of $BIG and it's history: 🧵 1/9

@icobeast it genuinely concerns me that you have to explain this to people lol

Biggest misconception on CT (terminally unemployed userbase) is that being employed at a legitimate crypto company with some outward facing roles (CT Lead/mindshare/whatever the fk you want to call it) means you just sit on X all day and shtpost. The reality is there are *very few* people qualified for these roles because they're actually legitimate professional jobs that require accountability, reliability, tons of hat/role juggling and execution on internal things in addition to being a public mouthpiece/amplifier. The things you see on X are only a minuscule portion of our actual job responsibilities

excited to share this news. some thoughts: (1) so far, we bootstrapped gigaverse to over $1M in annual revenue per employee, built up multiple yrs of runway, and an incredible community in the process. (2) for a team who loves being unserious (there's not even a roadmap??) we have serious ambitions: to start, we want to build the largest & most enjoyed crypto game. while we're in a very strong position having bootstrapped to date, achieving our top level goals requires strong partners / backers with the right know-how, networks, and conviction in consumer crypto applications through the cycles. (3) from our first convo it was clear that @blockchainbrett & @NTmoney @ 1confirmation are the best partners we could have. they are true leads and it feels very fitting that we have ETH og's onboard. for anyone unfamiliar, 1confirmation are a $1bn+ first-cheque-in fund that also scales with startups as they grow -- eg they've been with Polymarket since the very beginning. we're also honored to be supported by so many friends across the ecosystem, incl dozens of crypto leaders, fellow founders and industry peers. together we stay close to the turpentine, and assimilate shared learnings so that our generation can go further & faster than those that came before us. (4) we see these last 6 months of gigaverse as "setting the stage" - building the core systems of the game & company so that we can accelerate from here. we want to welcome as many new players onboard here as possible, and yes in the context of our plans, it is incredibly early, still "the first phase". (5) there is no reason why gigaverse won't eventually be able to break out of the "bubble" of an onchain audience. but building great games takes time and its important to be laser focused on a clear customer persona (i.e. know who you are building for). for now and for a while, that persona is solely onchain natives, but there will be a concerted effort at some point in the future at onboarding casual players. this won't be done via expensive FB ads but in the same way we've operated to date, through intelligent distribution hacks & top tier partnerships (our IP is strong enough to become an ecosystem of apps / mini-games over time) and grassroots organic community building, all infused with high-agency macgyver tactics. for people just hearing about us now who want to get involved... "where do I start / what do I do / what should I collect". ➜ play the game at gigaverse (dot) io ➜ our game NFT / "top asset" is Gigaverse ROMs (on Abstract) ➜ our genesis PFP / "culture collection" is GLHFers (on ETH mainnet) we are also minting a new collection today, gigaverse eggs, which will become steeds (aka mounts) in the open world within gigaverse. some very cool mechanics will be at play with these, which ROM holders will like. oh, ROM holders will also be airdropped eggs on a 1:1 basis, once the mint is over. much more to follow.. it's gonna be a fun few days. TLDR: It's called gigaverse, motherfuckers.

excited to announce we've raised $2M from @1confirmation with the support of friends across crypto, gaming, infra and culture. this first raise will accelerate our work towards becoming the largest & most enjoyed crypto game. some details & mint link 👇

@playgigaverse @1confirmation huge

@skarly @AbstractChain insane reveal

Super stoked to announce this to the world. The Genesis Rings will be bridging to @AbstractChain While the PFPs are sick, I'm more excited about the possibilities that are unlocked through unifying the game assets on a single chain.

Piracy is the new meta 🏴‍☠️

Adding some thoughts here: Curation and gatekeeping are not the same thing. The reality is that every decision we make must be in favor of the overall ecosystem; every portal app placement, spotlight, token verification, and streamer approval is meant to be in the best interest of the ecosystem. Are we 100% perfect? Not at all. As we grow and scale, we're working hard to enhance the self-service model for app deployers with a clearer path to portal listing, and we hope to start rolling that out soon. At the end of the day, I'd rather have this issue on our chain than have no one care at all, so it doesn't really bother me :)

@icobeast fun addendum to this is people cry more about "extraction" if they have to do work during the process no one cries that gamba extracts on implicit RTP but all playable games making any amount of revenue are "extracting" because "I spent 20 hours doing this and didn't win"

Time to have an honest conversation about “extraction” There’s a lot of dummies on this website that seem to think businesses making money = “extraction” Question for all of said ppl - where exactly are the businesses going to make money other than providing services that people are willing to pay for? Do we call McDonald’s selling hamburgers to hungry people extraction? No. Do we call Pudgy selling plushies in Walmart extraction? No. Do we call Hyperliquid making insane daily fees on bad perps traders extraction? No. Do we call ico making money from infofi posting about Polkadot or any number of other projects extraction? No. Do we call Disney making a movie and charging people to go see it extraction? No. Do we call Nintendo making a video game and charging people to play it extraction? No. So why, oh why, do we seem incapable of understanding that projects and teams that produce *entertainment* products are wholly within their rights to sell access or take fees without labelling it as “max extraction”? I genuinely do not understand how some of your brains work.

Supporting players in an MMO is tough work. Supporting players in a Web3 MMO introduces extra layers of complexity on top of what are already exceedingly complex intertwined systems. The general path for Web2 games has been to automate away as much of this overhead as possible. While this probably does help their bottom line, it's a markedly worse experience than what OG MMO players remember. Interacting with a GM should be an enjoyable, borderline mystical experience. One second you're having a seemingly devastating issue, the next everything is fine. Bonus points if they appear to you in game. At @playcambria we’re committed to keeping that magic alive. Players deserve support that feels human, not transactional.

@xderek @FishingFrenzyCo love this approach

Today is the final day of the season for @FishingFrenzyCo Some updates on whats next 👇 Game will go down for 1 week, before returning for the Ignition phase This is our final period before we introduce a token to the game We believe there are a lot of unexplored ideas around tokens, and we plan to experiment with new ways to identify and reward contributors The plan is to use ERC20C tokens together with a Proof of Contribution engine that we’re internally calling “Karma”. True supporters and missionaries will get maximum rewards. Tokens are the start not the end. The ignition phase has no end date and no points, but we will still be tracking actions to reward (inspired by Abstract XP). Once the token is ready we’ll transition over. Appreciate the communities support and everyone who showed up at the AMA - more to come! PS: Ignition phase should go live on 28th Aug PPS: Claim your battlepass rewards and rift pets ASAP if you haven’t already!

How many people & how much cash do you think it takes to build a realtime multiplayer crypto game?

CNC token explainer from Captain & Company – Web3 game revenue share 🧵 Learn about a 3D PVP MMO and its token - what it is, how to collect yield, and how to trade.