hello mates my name is Tom I run a
company called flex steps with my
co-founder Alex and we thought we would
build something pretty fun we're
interested in finding out how to get
users for decentralized applications and
one of the things that we see a lot of
excitement around our dowse currently
there's a lot of people who are really
interested in how do we govern stuff in
a decentralized way and have lots of
different stakeholders and how do we
reward those stakeholders and so on but
it's really difficult it seems to get a
lot of data about who is using dowels
and why they're doing so and which
incentive mechanisms are working and
which ones aren't and that kind of stuff
so we were brainstorming one day and we
thought maybe it would be really
interesting to test various incentive
mechanisms for decentralized governance
with video games so we remember there's
an experiment called twitch plays
Pokemon which is from which should an
Australian person developed in like 2014
where he put the game Pokemon on the
streaming service twitch and anyone who
typed a message into the twitch chat had
that message turned into a game command
than it was piped into the game and it
was chaos is really funny and one really
amazing thing that came out of that
experiment was the fact that the game
did actually end people completed the
game so although there were 80,000
concurrent players on average those
those players managed to beat Pokemon
which is a very complicated game for a
computer to play anyway so we did
something similar so we got Pokemon and
at the ED con hackathon way back in
March we created a smart contract on a
loom network and everyone's input into
the game was piped into a smart contract
and we used the events to like feed into
the game and all this kind of stuff and
the theory behind it is could we figure
out ways to reward people for
participating in a game as arbitrary as
Pokemon that probably has a much wider
in terms of the the types of users that
it could attract than something like a
traditional doubt or some of the types
of stuff that that we're building and
we're showcasing you know in the
etherium community itself so yeah so
we've put that in an application that
we've built called drop party which is
like a bunch of different kind of
aetherium based games so they'll run on
layer 2 and the focus of all of these
things is like how can we get lots of
people to to engage with blockchain tech
and cryptocurrency tech without
necessarily knowing they're doing so so
the frame is a bit silly like it's all
very kind of quirky and and fun and try
to pack it full of memes but we've got
the DAO pokemon game called etherium
galaxies which is the scavenger hunt
here at Def Con so you can run around
and collect a bunch of QR codes and
they'll appear as different stars in
your galaxy which is super cool game
called hacker person where you just kind
of earn and the internal currency which
is called Yeats bide smack in the
keyboard an NFC obliterator which lets
you only eat by destroying NF T's and
something which gives us your email
address which will be great but yeah so
the I don't know I didn't really prepare
a talk so I'm just yelling stuff but we
we enjoy building fun decentralized
applications so if you want to reach out
to us on Twitter where our flex depths
my mail address atomic flex depths calm
and the website's flexed at Stockholm
but yeah hope that was fun and
informative thanks
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