Navigating the Web3 Gaming Revolution
Newman Capital is thrilled to be organizing our first US event - Navigating the Web3 Gaming Revolution. This exclusive event is geared towards fostering a deep-dive into the rapidly evolving Web3 gaming landscape, a focal point for technological innovation, investment, and community engagement.
As we navigate the dynamic universe of Web3 gaming, we are keen to bring together diverse thought leaders from around the globe, including game developers, infrastructure specialists and investors.
Event Schedule
1:00 - 1:30pm: Welcoming & Intro
1:30 - 2:15: First Panel: Next Generation of Web3 Games
Moderator: Anthony Cheng - Newman Capital
Speaker: Steve Wade - Midnight
Speaker: Michael Lee - Com2uS
Speaker: Joshua Spertell - Carbonated Games
Speaker: Jeff Witt - Laguna Games (Crypto Unicorn)
2:15 - 3:00pm: Second Panel: Evolution of Web3 Game Infrastructure
Moderator: Dafu Guo - OnePiece Labs
Speaker: Lit Protocol - David Sneider
Speaker: Brendan Stock - Rippin
Speaker: Jess Zhang - Blockus
Speaker: Calvin Zhou - Shrapnel
3:00 - 3:45pm Third Panel: Web3 Games Investment & AI Involvement
Moderator: Ryan Foo - Game Economist
Speaker: Hazel Chen - Shima Capital
Speaker: Stella Xu - Foresight Ventures
Speaker: Miko Matsumura - Gumi Crypto
Speaker: Tess Hau - Tess Venture
3:45 - 5:00pm: Open Networking
About Host
Newman Capital is a global venture capital firm with a full spectrum of exposure in the digital asset space across major ecosystems and verticals from web3 consumer to blockchain infrastructure. Recent investments include Openfort, Scroll, Orb Labs, Immutable X and more.
Participating Co-Host
Based in Silicon Valley, OnePiece Labs is a rising Web3 incubator providing one-stop solutions for all early stage Web3 startups. We value our community and aim to build the best community for all Web3 diggers.
Shima Capital is a leading early stage VC firm, founded by Yida Gao in 2021, investing in disruptive blockchain companies. The fund is deeply focused on taking a hands-on approach and working closely with its portfolio companies to provide the most sweat equity per dollar invested
Foresight Ventures is dedicated to backing Web3 projects that embody an ethos of decentralization while moving crypto towards long-term, mainstream adoption.
gCC is a boutique early-stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. Since 2018, we have supported some of the best builders in the industry, adding value through our entrepreneurial experience and global networks. We believe the Internet will become the single largest market in human history, and it will be rebuilt on a foundation of new protocols that protect and coordinate the transfer of digital assets, resources and intellectual property, generate consensus, incentivize network participants and decentralize ownership.
We do what it takes to move you from the earliest stage to Series A and beyond. At the earliest stage, we help you refine your idea, your product, and all aspects of the company’s operations, investor relations, and market positioning. We often invest in you through a seed round and sometimes at a later stage round
Com2uS Group pursues innovation and creativity, bringing inspiration to the world through engaging content. Established as leaders of mobile gaming industry in South Korea, Com2uS and Com2uS Holdings has proven their competitiveness in the global market through numerous award-winning titles and hit IPs in various genres, including World of Zenonia, Summoners War: Sky Arena, Baseball Superstars, and MLB 9 Innings. Based on the proven development capabilities, global business strategies, and content value chain, they continue to lead the digital paradigm as a comprehensive content company encompassing blockchain and metaverse. In 2023, Com2uS Group plans to release more than 10 Web 3.0 games on XPLA, a Cosmos based Layer1 and launch an all-encompassing metaverse platform, ‘Com2Verse.’
Midnight is building the Evergreen, the first publishing platform that operates as a deconstructed, composable MMORPG, delivering an immersive experience to players across games of all types and genres. The company is currently in stealth developing 4 different titles across three studios with 80 people.
Carbonated makes hardcore PVP multiplayer games accessible to everyone on their mobile phones and PCs, by using AI to drive moment-to moment gameplay.
Laguna Games builds open economic networks around community-owned IPs. These are born and grown over a number of years with the goal of becoming self-perpetuating peer-to-peer networks. At their core, they are a global community of players who collectively shape the direction of the underlying IP.
The SHRAPNEL team is comprised of industry experts from AAA games and blockchain projects. The studio is headquartered at our waterfront offices in mossy Seattle, WA. We’re a unique team of designers, producers, artists, and programmers working at the nexus of games, television, movies, and graphic novels. Collectively, we’ve produced some of the biggest franchises in entertainment.
XPLA
XPLA is the next generation of Web3 mainnet, developed with gamers at the core of its design. Based on the idea of “Explore and Play”, XPLA is the newest innovation in the Web3 gaming space, using COSMOS SDK for optimization and features development support from Delight and ZenaAD. This new infrastructure serves as the bridge between Web2 and Web3 services, and will feature games, art, music and Dapps based on community-driven feedback from users. XPLA places heavy emphasis on User Experience and accessibility to craft the standard in game centric Web3 services, opening up limitless possibilities for blockchain gaming.
Lit Protocol is a decentralized key management network for identity, encryption, and signing powered by threadhold cryptography, multiparty computation, and encrypted virtualization. With this network, builders can create seemless web3 onboarding and wallet experiences, store private data on the open web, automate DeFi, and more.
Blockus
Seamlessly onboard your Web2 players. Blockus is your all in one Web3 gaming infra offering custodial wallet login, in game NFT marketplace and fiat payment solutions. Beautifully built, fully compliant, seamlessly integrated into your game.
Community Partners
Paladins DAO is a 100 person gaming DAO that's focused on UGC, gaming distribution and the evolving alignment of gamer/publisher incentives. The business model is split between a creator studio which creates a NFT backed IP and establishes distribution channels for it, and a investment DAO which supports promising gaming IP and creators.
🤓 At EduDAO, we support the innovators of tomorrow. Our mission is to educate students on all things blockchain so they can transform into top crypto talents, and have the confidence to build the next big thing! We host events, meetups, hacker houses, and hackathons so that university-aged builders are better able to learn with each other and progress. https://twitter.com/Edu_DAO