This week the team discusses the recent Avalanche Summit in Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸. They also chat with friend of the show Michael Kaplan about the recent addition of native BTC support to the Avalanche Bridge.  Support Subnet: X-avax1r4zp7pxa8hjjkkc5rutwqw6peqvx68m7zzllu9  C-Chain: 0xa155c6ec8c7d974453f3453f04216bf60a35220d  Follow Gabriel on twitter: https://twitter.com/cgcardona  Follow Connor on twitter: https://twitter.com/das_connor  Follow Michael on twitter: https://twitter.com/Michael_Kaplan1  Check out the Avalanche Bridge: https://bridge.avax.network  The Medium article with the official announcement:  https://medium.com/avalancheavax/avalanche-bridge-to-add-native-support-for-bitcoin-expanding-opportunities-for-btc-in-avalanche-38b2314d6e7d

This week the topic is gaming and the blockchain. The guys talk to  Studio Head @ Shrapnel, Don Norbury, and Director of Business  Development Gaming @ Ava Labs, Ed Chang. The team discusses the upcoming  Shrapnel game, existing gaming projects on Avalanche, and bringing  positive visions of NFTs to the gaming community.   Support Subnet: X-avax1r4zp7pxa8hjjkkc5rutwqw6peqvx68m7zzllu9  C-Chain: 0xa155c6ec8c7d974453f3453f04216bf60a35220d  Follow Gabriel on twitter: https://twitter.com/cgcardona  Follow Connor on twitter: https://twitter.com/das_connor  Follow Ed on twitter: https://twitter.com/EdC  Follow Don on twitter: https://twitter.com/DonNorbury  Follow Shrapnel on twitter: https://twitter.com/playSHRAPNEL    ------- Timestamps  0:00:00 Introductions  0:03:42 What is Shrapnel? Why did you choose to build on Avalanche?  0:07:50 How did Shrapnel show up on Ed Chang's radar?  0:10:20 What does the process look like for developers looking to launch their game on Avalanche?  0:11:33 Play-to-Own and Play-and-Earn as opposed to Play-to-Earn  0:11:55 Where Connor previously saw gaming headed  0:13:35 What does Play-to-Own mean?  0:14:57 Is gaming the "killer app" of crypto?  0:18:04 What are the bottlenecks that you see?  0:23:26 How has your reception been since the Shrapnel announcement?  0:25:30 What are the 3 top complaints from traditional gaming industry professionals and how might we address them?  0:31:06 What are the trepidations from developers and studios? How are you convincing them to make the jump?  0:40:45 How big is your team and how long have you been around?  0:43:55 How are you handling growing your blockchain engineering team/size? Are you hiring engineers and training them internally to learn Web3 or are you specifically hiring Web3 engineers?  0:45:49 What types of positions and roles are you hiring for currently?  0:48:20 What are the biggest asks and missing links that game developers are asking for?  0:50:49 What is the overlap between gaming and the Multiverse?    ------- Links   *  https://medium.com/avalancheavax/aaa-first-person-shooter-game-shrapnel-unveils-plans-to-build-on-avalanche-blockchain-99f7909d8253  * https://www.shrapnel.com

This week, the guys talk to Dr. Ben Goertzel about artificial general  intelligence, the singularity, and AGI's need for decentrentralization.   Support Subnet: X-avax1r4zp7pxa8hjjkkc5rutwqw6peqvx68m7zzllu9  C-Chain: 0xa155c6ec8c7d974453f3453f04216bf60a35220d  Follow Gabriel on twitter: https://twitter.com/cgcardona  Follow Connor on twitter: https://twitter.com/das_connor  Follow Ben on twitter: https://twitter.com/bengoertzel   ------ Links   * https://goertzel.org  * https://singularitynet.io

This week, Connor and Gabriel chat with the creator of the Avalanche  C-Chain, Aaron Buchwald. They discuss Avalanche's eco-friendly  properties, EVM stateful precompiles, how different fee markets work and  much more!   Support Subnet: X-avax1r4zp7pxa8hjjkkc5rutwqw6peqvx68m7zzllu9  C-Chain: 0xa155c6ec8c7d974453f3453f04216bf60a35220d  Follow Gabriel on twitter: https://twitter.com/cgcardona  Follow Connor on twitter: https://twitter.com/das_connor  Follow Aaron on twitter: https://twitter.com/AaronBuchwald

This week, Connor and Gabriel discuss some recent milestones including Avalanche's C-Chain passing 100m txs, Moralis hackathon winners, WAGMI and the SpacesVM.   Support Subnet: X-avax1r4zp7pxa8hjjkkc5rutwqw6peqvx68m7zzllu9  C-Chain: 0xa155c6ec8c7d974453f3453f04216bf60a35220d  Follow Gabriel on twitter: https://twitter.com/cgcardona  Follow Connor on twitter: https://twitter.com/das_connor  ---------- Hackathon Awards Ceremony - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fnzkkj2eBw   Finalists Metagymland - Gamify daily stretches with AI and blockchain. Wellness Metaverse Powered with AI and NFTs - https://metagymland.com/  Astrocave -  Open DeFi education platform - https://astrocave.vercel.app/   3rd place presentation - https://youtu.be/8fnzkkj2eBw?t=1631  Below the Mountain - Inventory, Mine, Craft and Land game - https://belowthemountain.io/  Droppr - NFT marketplace - https://avax.droppr.club/  Snowflake Network - Web3 push notifications where you are in control - https://snowflakes.network/   2nd place presentation - https://youtu.be/8fnzkkj2eBw?t=4149  Musing - Decentralized Q&A platform like Quora - https://musing.io/   1st place presentation - https://youtu.be/8fnzkkj2eBw?t=4961  Cratch - Decentralized gaming streaming platform like Twitch - https://cratch.io/  Batcher - Send multiple tokens and NFTs in one transaction - https://tx-manager.herokuapp.com/ Agnotisco - smart contract repo marketplace - https://agnostico.link/

This week, Connor flies solo while answering your questions about Avalanche, Subnets, and building in crypto.  Support Subnet: X-avax1r4zp7pxa8hjjkkc5rutwqw6peqvx68m7zzllu9  C-Chain: 0xa155c6ec8c7d974453f3453f04216bf60a35220d  Follow Gabriel on twitter: https://twitter.com/cgcardona  Follow Connor on twitter: https://twitter.com/das_connor

This week we're joined by the co-founder of Trader Joe—Cryptofish. We discuss Trader Joe's new 2022 roadmap including   1. Rocket Joe - A DeFi "CEX listing" 2. Joenomics V2 - Stake JOE for Rocket Joe allocation credits or stablecoin revenue share  3. NFT Marketplace - Joepegs   Links:  Metaverse Primer: https://www.matthewball.vc/the-metaverse-primer  Dapp Visualization: https://twitter.com/AvaxPenguinFam/status/1491089107610583045  Support Subnet: X-avax1r4zp7pxa8hjjkkc5rutwqw6peqvx68m7zzllu9  C-Chain: 0xa155c6ec8c7d974453f3453f04216bf60a35220d Follow Gabriel on twitter: https://twitter.com/cgcardona Follow Connor on twitter: https://twitter.com/das_connor  Follow Cryptofish on twitter: https://twitter.com/cryptofishx  Follow Trader Joe on twitter: https://twitter.com/traderjoe_xyz

This week we're joined by Ivan on Tech. We discuss how Moralis helps  developers build on Avalanche and the Moralis Hackathon. We also cover  Ivan's crypto journey and vision.   Support Subnet: X-avax1r4zp7pxa8hjjkkc5rutwqw6peqvx68m7zzllu9  C-Chain: 0xa155c6ec8c7d974453f3453f04216bf60a35220d Follow Gabriel on twitter: https://twitter.com/cgcardona  Follow Connor on twitter: https://twitter.com/das_connor  Follow Ivan on twitter: https://twitter.com/ivanontech

This week we're joined by Jovica Popovic. We discuss how he ended up at Ava Labs. Then we deep dive on the topic of landing your dream job in  crypto.  Support Subnet: X-avax1r4zp7pxa8hjjkkc5rutwqw6peqvx68m7zzllu9  C-Chain: 0xa155c6ec8c7d974453f3453f04216bf60a35220d  Follow Gabriel on twitter: https://twitter.com/cgcardona  Follow Connor on twitter: https://twitter.com/das_connor  Follow Jovica on twitter: https://twitter.com/jpop_32

This week, Anthony Beaumont tells the crew how Encode Club is training  the next generation of blockchain developers on Avalanche and across the  crypto ecosystem.   Support Subnet: X-avax1r4zp7pxa8hjjkkc5rutwqw6peqvx68m7zzllu9  C-Chain: 0xa155c6ec8c7d974453f3453f04216bf60a35220d  Follow Gabriel on twitter: https://twitter.com/cgcardona  Follow Connor on twitter: https://twitter.com/das_connor  Follow Subnet Show on twitter: https://twitter.com/SubnetShow  Follow Anthony on twitter: https://twitter.com/anth0nybeaumont  Follow Encode Club on twitter: https://twitter.com/encodeclub  Check out Encode Club: https://encode.club