In the latest episode of his Blockchain Gaming World podcast, editor-in-chief Jon Jordan talks to Hytopia co-founder ArkDev about the Minecraft-inspired UGC platform that’s about to enter closed beta in April.
Notably they discuss the origins of the project as Polygon-based NFT Worlds in 2021, the impact of Microsoft banning blockchain in Minecraft and the resulting pivot to Hytopia and its own gaming infrastructure Hychain.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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BlockchainGamer.biz: Can you give us some background?
ArkDev: Going all the way back, we started originally as a product called NFT Worlds in October 2021. I’ve come personally from a background of doing startups for the last 10, 12 years in the traditional startup space, across games, ecommerce, all those sorts of things. I’ve been involved in crypto since 2014 with Bitcoin and tracked Ethereum since 2017, all that stuff. But yeah, first project.
That’s a long history in crypto. You’ve drunk deep from the well.
Yeah, I have. Been keeping my eyes on this space for a while. We started NFT Worlds in October 2021. It was near the tail end of the first NFT cycle. I was just dabbling around curious, what happens if we use blockchain and NFTs to allow people to put Minecraft worlds onchain that they could edit and share and buy and sell things that are then pegged to the visual image? It…
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