Jon Jordan talks to Laguna Labs' CEO Aron Beierschmitt about leaving behind debut game Crypto Unicorns and moving to new project Neo Olympus, which is a fully onchain game using the MUD engine and running on the B3 blockchain, with assets on Ethereum and Base.

• [2:45 ] What happened to Crypto Unicorns?


• [4:02 ] 2024 was a rough year. We went from +90 people to 10. But the DAO still exists.


• [5:27 ] "I accept all the blame for the failure. But I'm optimist about the path forward."


• [9:08 ] What was the spark of inspiration for Neo Olympus?


• [11:10 ] Why Aron is bullish on fully onchain games.


• [12:05 ] "Crypto Unicorns would still be around today if it was fully onchain."


• [13:15 ] Why did you choose B3 as the blockchain for Neo Olympus?


• [14:12 ] Neo Olympus will be cross-platform: playable from Arbitrum, from Abstract, from Ronin.


• [15:20 ] Most of the Neo Olympus' NFTs will be minted on Base.


• [18:57 ] The DN404 standard is "memecoins meets NFTs".


• [25:49 ] There's no investor or team allocation for the Olympus token.


• [28:39 ] "Time-based token vesting is silly."


• [31:15 ] What did your investors think about this approach?


• [34:20 ] How do you hope to scale Neo Olympus as fully onchain games can be complex?


• [35:27 ] Neo Olympus' gameplay is map-based tactics - Fire Emblem with titans.


• [37:22 ] We're building the game on Lattice's MUD engine.