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Why Yat Siu believes 2025 will be the year for real blockchain games

Yat Siu, executive chairman of Animoca Brands, has made 540 investments into blockchain games. We talked to him about the 2025 outlook.

You can build something!” But when you get too big, like Zynga with FarmVille, they tweak the algorithm – maybe they tell you, maybe not – and suddenly your user base shrinks and your whole business model you put forward is at risk. Whether this is a TON Telegram example, L1 or L2, or Ronin and Axie Infinity, or even Mocaverse, when the token is out there, you’re bringing attention from people who are not necessarily playing your game, but it gives you noise. We’re working with Chess.com and Magnus Carlsen and those guys to build one of the biggest games in the world in a blockchain type of way, where you can open it up with public tournaments and sharing of revenue and so forth.

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