25 / Play to Earn?

In this episode, we discuss the MetaMask JavaScript scam and the solution to it, as well as the concept of NFT "whitelist" and why "play-to-earn" games fail.

Timeline

00:00 Intro

00:46 Agenda

01:07 MetaMask JavaScript scam

03:00 Live demo, track you even if you don't connect MetaMask

08:49 The solution

09:45 NFT "whitelist"

14:57 Light.art has these features, open sourced!

15:44 Dan's slide why P2E fails

17:05 Slide 2 minecraft

17:52 Slide 3 P2E

18:33 Negative sum game

19:42 Xinbev on the scene

20:03 Okay to use tokens outside the ecosystem

21:09 Farmers and whales

22:28 Is P2E a game of skill or a game of chance?

23:18 Cynical about all web3 tokens?

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+Users of Etherscan, CoinGecko, and other major crypto resources were targeted with targeted with a MetaMask phishing scam through JavaScript injected on the Coinzilla ad network. https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/13/23071786/etherscan-coingecko-crypto-phishing-ad-popup-coinzilla-metamask
- https://twitter.com/fulldecent/status/1529225944929406977
NFT “whitelist”(AKA access list)
- thank you github for inviting to Copilot and Codespaces preview!
- Thank you @miguelmotah / showing off @github codespaces
- The implementation is light.art smart contract
Dan slides
- block quote from Axie dev “move away from ‘play-to-earn’”