19 September 2025 | Weekly news roundup

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

• [0:44] This week, we asked our Mavens group about the rise of sustainable degen games.
• [2:00] Originally, this type of game was more about crypto than blockchain.
• [3:25] YGG is now calling this genre "casual degen" games.
• [4:40] These experiences start with a thin layer of gaming and a lot of high risk-high reward features.
• [7:30] You can often get 1,000 players into these games but how do you keep them
• [10:05] A lot of these games are launching on the Abstract blockchain.
• [13:00] Degen isn't a negative terms, at least not all the time.
• [13:25] Gigaverse has been going for 200 days, generating $5.5 million in revenue.
• [16:30] It's also building out its ecosystem with third party devs in the Gigaverse Hub.
• [19:39] YGG Play is publishing Gigachadbat on Abstract.
• [24:00] The Sandbox has announced Alpha 6 Season with Cirque du Soleil on 24th September.
• [27:45] The problem is The Sandbox hasn't got product-market-fit, esp. compared to Roblox.
• [29:55] It now needs to focus on creators, probably including the ability to launch tokens.
• [31:32] Off The Grid is starting to migrating EU-based PC players to the Gunz' mainnet.