205 | Skale - a blockchain for games & AI agents

Jon Jordan talks to Skale Labs CEO Jack O’Holleran about how the Ethereum-centric L1 blockchain network is expanding to Base, helping launch mobile game PGA Tour Rise, and preparing for the explosion of onchain AI agents.

• [1:30] The background to mobile game PGA Tour Rise, which is launching on Skale and Base.
• [2:55] The game mixes golf course building tycoon strategy with golfing mini-gameplay.
• [5:20] Blockchain gaming is gaming with much better economic rails.
• [7:13] Skale is expanding to Base via its SKALE Expand v1 program
• [10:35] This expansion is seamless for users; they just get faster, cheaper transactions.
• [12:08] If this works well, Skale will expand to other EVM chains, and perhaps even Solana.
• [13:58] This allows users being able to deploy their liquidity across multiple chains without bridging.
• [17:08] "Games will be a major place for agentic commerce." The two are complementary.
• [20:22] a16z reckons AI agents will be a $30 trillion market. That's the potential.
• [22:16] Skale is also rolling out a new privacy L1 called FAIR, which will be important for agents.
• [26:14] "The AI movement will drive a lot of attention back into blockchain gaming."