March 2, 2022

WHY Gamers Won't Hate NFTs Forever with Justin Kan | Overpriced JPEGs #16

WHY Gamers Won't Hate NFTs Forever with Justin Kan | Overpriced JPEGs #16

In this episode, Carly’s talking to Justin Kan, Co-Founder of Twitch—which he sold for $970M to Amazon in 2014—and current Co-Founder of Fractal, an open marketplace for gaming NFTs. Justin shares the full backstory to why gamers hate NFTs, why...

In this episode, Carly’s talking to Justin Kan, Co-Founder of Twitch—which he sold for $970M to Amazon in 2014—and current Co-Founder of Fractal, an open marketplace for gaming NFTs. Justin shares the full backstory to why gamers hate NFTs, why he believes this won’t always be the case, how Fractal is changing the gaming/NFT landscape for good, and SO much more!

Justin and his team are building the NFT gaming ecosystem of the future. At the moment, gamers and NFTs aren’t on the friendliest of terms, but Justin believes it’s only a matter of time. Strap in, this is a fun one—plus—a special guest cameo?!

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
3:00 Justin's Background
8:25 Twitch Today & Web3 Twitch
17:42 NFT Gaming
37:30 Fractal
41:20 Why Solana?
43:43 Special Guest!
45:00 Solana Cont.
54:00 Learnings From Gaming NFTs
58:40 Instrinstic Motivation & Happiness
1:04:25 Closing Questions

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Resources:

Justin on Twitter
https://twitter.com/justinkan 

Fractal on Twitter
https://twitter.com/fractalwagmi 

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