The Play-to-Earn Blockchain Gaming Revolution with NFT & Gaming Lead at Polygon - Ishan Negi

On this episode of the Welcome to the Metaverse podcast, I chat to Ishan Negi who is the NFT & Gaming Lead at Polygon. Ishan was the perfect guest to have on to explain the new blockchain gaming landscape, what is coming and the huge opportunities that await. Polygon is dominating the space as a layer 2 scaling solution, home to some of the best blockchain games and virtual worlds currently available. An exciting time to be witnessing this gaming and digital asset revolution and an episode packed full of value. ======================= This episode is sponsored by Republic Realm, who are a metaverse investment and innovation platform. We recently had them on the show and it was one of my favourite episodes, so I'm really happy to now be working together to bring you some of the brightest minds behind new metaverse platforms. Thank you for your continued support! Republic Realm are also one of the largest owners of digital real estate NFTs in Decentraland, The Sandbox and Axie Infinity. To find out more about what they do, head to https://www.republicrealm.com and follow them on twitter here : https://www.twitter.com/joinrepublic_RE and Discord : discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW ======================= To join my weekly NFT drops newsletter, head to metaverseluke.substack.com, you can also reach out at [email protected] ======================= Links for Polygon To find out more the projects building on Polygon and Polygon Studios - head to https://awesomepolygon.com/ Polygon Twitter : https://twitter.com/0xPolygon and Polygon Studios : https://twitter.com/_PolygonStudios ======================= In this episode we talk about : - Ishan's road to crypto and his role as NFT & Gaming Lead at Polygon - What Polygon is as a layer 2 solution and why it is perfect for the adoption of blockchain games and NFTs - How the play-to-earn blockchain gaming model is sustainable - What the next 6 - 12 months might look like for the blockchain gaming space - 3 games that Ishan loves on Polygon - Passive income gaming models, staking and Decentral Games - The Sandbox migrating to Polygon and the future of virtual worlds and blockchain gaming - How close we are to mainstream adoption - major gaming industry talent moving to the blockchain gaming space - How legacy sport and fashion brands are also building on Polygon - The next wave in the space - social tokens and how they change the creator model - Ways to support and benefit from this explosion in value of the space ======================= Games mentioned in this show Skyweaver - https://www.skyweaver.net/ Decentral Games - https://decentral.games/ Zed Run - https://zed.run/ Aavegotchi - https://aavegotchi.com/ Coinvise - https://www.coinvise.co/