18 July 2025 | Weekly news roundup

Jon Jordan and Jenny Jordan talk through the week's news including:

• [0:20] Saga and Chrono Labs have launched AI agent platform KEX.
• [1:38] Delabs Games has announced it's using new genAI gamemaking platform Verse 8.
• [4:00] It's interesting to see the second wave of AI agents - all around doing onchain transactions.
• [5:40] Delabs has moved from PC games to midcore games on LINE and now to AI-generated games.
• [7:27] Verse 8 is developed by Planetarium and its CEO has become co-CEO at Delabs.
• [8:38] The games made with Verse 8 are multiplayer and with NFT item economies.
• [10:58] Sky Mavis and YGG are reworking their play-to-earn models, giving away less to extractors.
• [16:19] The issue with doing this is you drop your DAUW count, which is seen as a key KPI.
• [19:08] Fully onchain football game Soccerverse is about to launch Season 2.
• [27:56] Craft World is going live on Ronin mainnet on 29th July.
• [31:53] Is Pudgy Party - out later this summer - the next big web3 game?