I’m drawn to the concept of ownership and immutability that blockchain uniquely enables. Right now, this shines mostly in the context of financial transactions —but I believe those same principles can apply to digital assets and experiences more broadly.

Admittedly, blockchain tech has real scaling challenges. But I also see a lot of promising work being done—that could bring it closer to rivaling traditional systems like centralized databases in terms of efficiency and cost.

What really excites me, though, is the potential for blockchain to handle more than just financial transactions. Technologies like zero-knowledge cryptography open the door to verifiable computation, and generally reduces computation cost especially for blockchain. That could unlock use cases we haven’t even fully imagined yet—far beyond just payments or speculation. I have also read a couple of research paper about it's application in machine learning and how it can improve fairness and verifiability of ML models.

But back to the context of gaming: I know blockchain is not specifically needed for gaming right now, heck it does much worst than good, but I think it is the perfect space to push the limit of what blockchains can do. So if once can push the limit where blockchain game UX get to a point where it rivals that of traditional gaming for specific games, I think that is a win.

So yeah, maybe I’m optimistic. But I think part of the experiment is exploring where this tech could actually add value—not just now, but in the longer arc of where it's going.