1/ My latest for @CoinDesk is about @AxieInfinity's Smooth Love Potion (SLP) token and the growing number of Filipino merchants who accept it as payment.
Leah Callon-Butler
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Leah Callon-Butler
@leah_cb
Call me LCB. Director of @Emfarsis.
@CoinDesk columnist. Angel investor.
Honorary board member @BGameAlliance.
More on me: leahcallonbutler.com
- 1/ With over half a million daily active users (DAU) and ~60% coming from the #Philippines, @AxieInfinity is exploding. To put this into perspective, around the end of July 2020, just before I first wrote about it, Axie’s DAU was below 500.The cute #axie game blockchain protocol generated more fees than #Ethereum and #Bitcoin this week. "Player-owned digital economies will continue to shock the world," says founder @Jihoz_Axie of play-to-earn. By @leah_cb @AxieInfinity #axieinfinity trib.al/sd6T8mk
- Please remember, many of the people here in the Philippines who are benefiting from @AxieInfinity now, were not previously earning enough to be taxed at all. @helloluis speaking on @SalveSays tonight, regarding the @AxieInfinity income tax issue.
- What's the first thing you think of when you think of the Philippines? 🇵🇭
- I wrote for @CoinDesk that 2023 would be "The Year of Web3 Pets." Think my prediction just came true... @BandaiNamcoUS @oasys_games @decryptmedia decrypt.co/151011/gaming-…Virtual pets have been around for nearly three decades. But can NFTs solve the problem of authenticity and provenance? @leah_cb takes us on a nostalgic trip into the past, from the Tamagotchis of the ‘90s to the future of digital pets in Web3. trib.al/6835tl0
- While the #Philippines has been recognised as the epicentre of adoption in @playtoearn_ gaming, #Vietnam has emerged as a world-leader and dev hotspot for innovation in building blockchain games. So, why Vietnam? A thread.
- FINALLY, we can share the trailer for a very special film project that I wrote and directed, and have been shooting for the past few months. METAVERSE FILIPINO WORKER #MFW Step into the world of the Metaverse Filipino Worker, a 5-part series exploring how Filipinos are
00:00 - “There was an article recently that said: maybe poor people from Asian countries could be the NPCs in our games. And to them, I say: Fuck You. We want to be the stars in our own games” - @gabusch @YieldGuild w/ @thedaoofwei @coinsph on @AxieInfinity in the 🇵🇭 at #axiecon2022
- Everyone was shocked to see a grandma playing @AxieInfinity. Many were skeptical and didn’t believe it were true. So I went to Nueva Ecija myself, to find her & hear her story. See my interview with Lola Vergie, 65, and Lolo Silverio, 75, in #PlayToEarn: youtu.be/Yo-BrASMHU4
- It's simply incredible to think how far @playtoearn_ has come in the space of a year. Love being part of this movement and getting to work alongside the likes of @borgetsebastien @Jihoz_Axie @gabusch @petering_ @kookoocryptotv ♥️♥️♥️Wow! It’s been a year. We’re not stopping & I’ll fight for the community that we built. 🔥#SalamatAxie #CryptoPH #NFTGaming #play2earn
- Meeting #Metaverse frens IRL is weird but in the best way 😍 @Jihoz_Axie @Psycheout86 @ZyoriTV @AxieInfinity
- In a TikTok video, @Grimezsz said she sees the potential for NFT games like @AxieInfinity to deliver radical wealth redistribution. “People in the Philippines were making wayyyy more than their regular income just by playing this game,” she said. See how:
