31 January 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Blockchain Gaming World

Jon Jordan and BlockchainGamer.biz editor Jenny Jordan ponder the week's news.

• [0:37] Faraway Games reveals its AI agent platform Rift, and airdrops the RIFT token.
• [3:14] This follows on from the launch of the J3FF AI agent and token in late 2024.
• [7:34] The Rift platform is interesting as a way of adding functionality to AI chat agents.
• [10:21] There's also the potential for these agents to earn crypto i.e. acting as validators.
• [12:32] Youmio has revealed more details of its Maestro AI agent launchpad.
• [16:34] NRN Agents promises to launch millions of AI agents for games on Ronin.
• [18:27] Alien Worlds has launched a LLM to help people create game lore.
• [23:28] Successful web3 games will not play like successful web2 games.
• [24:17] Talking to Animoca's Yat Siu about AI agents, memecoins and TON.
• [29:14] What's going on with the price of game tokens. Are they all really memecoins?
• [33:52] We could end up without any gaming tokens in the top 100.
• [37:50] Shrapnel's CEO Mark Long has moved to Unioverse.
• [38:20] Did Fableborne really raise another $12.4 million? No...