How Web3 Gaming Will Onboard the Next Wave of Users with Michael Le (50M Followers on Tiktok) and Robin Defay - Co-founders of Joystick

On this week’s episode of the Welcome to the Metaverse podcast, we’re diving back into the web3 play and earn gaming space. As you’ll likely know by now if you’ve been listening to the podcast, there is a big fundamental movement around digital ownership in games, allowing players to own, level up and trade their in-game items as NFTs, enabling full game economies. Gaming is the biggest entertainment industry on the planet and it’s a really clear use of NFTs but also this category of web3 gaming is in its infancy and games, especially good, fun games, by their very nature take time to build. On this episode I chat to Michael Le aka justmaiko, a TikTok creator with over 50 million subscribers and over 10 billion views along with tech entrepreneur Robin Defay, who together are the co-founders of Joystick - a platform which provides education, content and access to gaming assets for players to use and keep 100% of their revenue whilst doing so, which is an interesting model. I really enjoyed this conversation and web3 gaming is undoubtedly a major trend and movement that is coming, so it’s something we’ll continue to revisit and stay updated on. My twitter has moved, click to view here or https://www.twitter.com/luke_franks If you’re brand new to this podcast, I would encourage you to jump back to episode 2 just to get an introduction to this whole space, we talk in depth about NFTs in this episode so you might find it useful to have some foundational knowledge first. If you would like to support the show, a great way to do so is to leave a rating or review on your podcast platform of choice, thank you! ======================= This podcast is sponsored by the awesome Everyrealm (previously Republic Realm) who are a leader in metaverse innovation, investment, and NFTs. They are among the largest owners of digital real estate NFTs in Decentraland, The Sandbox and Axie Infinity to name just a few. They’re also the creators of the Fantasy Islands metaverse NFT project, the ultra-luxury metaverse destination and community in The Sandbox and beyond. They also recently announced their upcoming immersive ASMR experience in the metaverse, called Soundlands, which you can be the first to sign up to before it launches in full by heading to asmrsoundlands.com You can find out more about what they are up to at everyrealm.com, join their substack newsletter with updates about the wider metaverse here realmroundup.substack.com and follow on twitter https://www.twitter.com/everyrealm and discord here discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW ======================= I always love to hear from you, say hello on the following links : Twitter : https://twitter.com/luke_franks Email : [email protected] Consultancy : www.wagmi-agency.com ======================= Mona's links Joystick Twitter  : https://twitter.com/joystickpros Joystick Website : https://joystickgames.com/ Michael Le Twitter : https://twitter.com/justmaiko Robin DeFay Twitter : https://twitter.com/RobinDeFay ======================= Everyrealm's Links Twitter : https://www.twitter.com/everyrealm Discord : discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW Soundlands : asmrsoundlands.com Substack : realmroundup.substack.com Website https://www.everyrealm.com =======================