So What is Crypto The Game That’s Gone Viral?

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For this week’s Thursday episode, I interviewed Dylan Abruscato, the creator of Crypto The Game (acq. by Uniswap).

Crypto The Game (CTG) wrapped up its third season in March, with one winner taking home the prize pot of 71.6 ETH, worth about $150K at the time.

We discuss how he co-created a game on top of crypto rails with no prior web3 education, how his past experiences working at HQ Trivia and SNL shaped his POV, creating a game people actually want to play and more.

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Money and people moves

The biggest updates regarding startups that raised capital, moved money or did a little bit of both as well as market players who have left their web3 job or are starting something new.

1. Securitize to acquire MG Stover’s Fund Administration business, expanding Securitize Fund Services to over $38B in assets across 715 funds

2. Safe Co-Founder Lukas Schor announced the team is restructuring, laying off 14 team members

3. Daniel Harrison joins Phantom as its first head of communications

4. Optimum (not to be confused with the L2 Optimism) announced an $11M seed round led by 1kx to build “high-performance memory infrastructure for any blockchain”

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