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From YouTube: Status Incubate: CryptoStrikers Interview
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Ben Morris of Status interviews Benn Gurton and Gianni Settino of CryptoStrikers.
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A
All
right,
well,
hello,
everyone
I'm,
really
really
happy
to
introduce
to
you
guys
the
crypto
strikers
team,
so
Jionni
and
Ben
are
the
brains
behind
the
operation
they're,
the
ones
who
started
this
project
and
have
been
part
of
status
incubate
for
about
a
month
or
so
now,
and
so
today,
we're
gonna
have
a
quick
interview,
we'll
go
through
a
few
questions
and
ask
them
about
their
project
a
little
bit
about
their
backgrounds,
to
just
sort
of
get
to
know
what
they're
doing
a
little
bit
better
so
guys.
You
know.
A
B
Sure
I'll
go
first,
then
so
yeah,
my
name
is
Johnny
I'm,
like
the
tech
lead
on
crypto
strikers,
some
my
backgrounds.
As
a
iOS
engineer,
some
mobile
applications
born
and
raised
in
Montreal
worked
in
like
a
few
like
iOS
development
studios
before
moving
over
to
New
York
for
three
years,
where
I
was
a
nearly
employee
at
a
fantasy
sports,
startup
called
draft
that
went
really
well.
Basically,
you
know
we
got.
B
We
got
acquired
and
after
the
acquisition,
I
kind
of
caught
the
crypto
bug
and
started
digging
into
aetherium,
because
I
was
really
interested
in
the
smarter
contracts
and
the
kind
of
these
you
know
decentralized
applications
you
can
build
on
top
of
them
and
I
kind
of
just
kicked
around
ideas
for
a
while.
Nothing
concrete
came
of
it
until
I
met
Ben
through
a
mutual
connection
and
we're
both
kind
of
you
know,
formerly
working
in
the
sports
industry.
B
So
we
started
kicking
around
sports
based
ideas
and
eventually,
when
cryptokeys
came
out
last
December,
it
just
was
like
a
logical
step
for
us
to
think
of
like
what
could
a
sports
trading
card
game
be
on
the
etherion
blockchain
and
then
fully
decentralized
and
trustless
way
so
I'll.
Let
then
pick
up
from
there
yeah.
C
C
They
saw
two
companies
all
over
the
world
and
they're.
You
know,
I
was
I,
was
you
know
doing
business
development,
but
also
working
with
companies
like
Facebook
to
come
up
with
cool
chronic
integrations?
So
I'd
been
there
at
four
years.
It's
a
similar
story
to
Johnny
we'd
like
done
a
four
year
tour
at
the
last,
our
last
company
both
had
been
acquired
and
just
like
really
caught
the
crypto
bug
early,
like
2017
I
bought
Bitcoin
like
way
back
in
2012,
but
I
think
life
distracted
me
a
bit
and
as
I
was
looking
for.
C
Other
opportunities
like
just
became
fascinated
with
like
the
crypto
space,
and
you
know
we
both
left
our
respective
jobs
around
the
same
time
last
year
and
I
actually
spent
like
a
month
or
two
just
on
the
beach
treating
white
papers
all
the
time
and
then,
like
rate
right
around
the
time,
the
weather
got
colder
a
mutual
contact
connected
us
and
it
was
great
because
johnny
was
looking
at
Oracle's
from
a
sports
perspective
and
I
had
actually
just
finished.
Some
research
and
and
my
company
had
created
data.
So
it
was
an
interesting
like
you
know.
C
How
do
you
port
this
one
idea
over
to
the
blockchain
and
we
were
both
looking
at
the
same
thing
and
I?
Think
we
just
kind
of
hit
it
off
from
there
and
then
you
know
we
kicked
a
few
ideas
around
and
eventually
I
think
was
it
February
Johnny
we
probably
decided
like
hey.
We
should
we
should
try
to
get
something
out,
learn
about
learn
about
gaps
and
the
protocols
and
you
know,
put
something
out
there
and
learn
about
the
space.
A
B
I
mean
I
think
this.
You
know
what
was
made
possible
with
the
ERC
7:21
tokens,
the
crypto
kitty
kamo.
Is
this
idea
of
a
digital
scarcity,
and
this
is
the
first
time
ever
that
you
know
a
digital
good
can
be
rare,
so
you
think
of
like,
for
example,
like
mp3
files
back
when,
like
music
first
cut
start
getting
rip
singing,
you
can
just
share
this
file
over
and
over
again
and
like
the
file,
loses
the
music
industry
kind
of
collapsed
under
that.
B
So
for
the
first
time
ever
now,
with
with
this
your
RC
7:21
standard,
we
have
rare
the
digital
scarcity.
So
I
think
that's
a
really
interesting
concept
and
you
also
have
digital
ownership
as
well,
so
that
you,
as
the
user,
have
the
file
in
your
digital
wallet,
and
it's
not,
you
know
tied
to
the
servers
of
any
given
company.
If
you
know,
for
example,
crypto
checkers
were
to
shut
down,
you
still
are
the
owner
of
your
cards,
so
I
think
these
are
like
very
powerful
concepts
and
that
weren't
possible
before
these.
C
Sir,
you
know
Ben
we
Johnny
and
I
had
like
been
brainstorming
ideas.
Really,
you
know
we
pride
like
10.
They
were
looking
at
at
one
point
and
it
kind
of
willows
down
here
like
one
of
the
I
guess
inspirations
for
the
app
is
something
that
happened
to
me
at
the
last
World
Cup
and
that
I
I
got
introduced
to
like
panini
stickers.
No.
A
C
C
Myself
was
someone
in
the
sports
industry
knows
every
app,
so
I
actually
found
a
trading
market
in
Queens
to
see
what
it
was
all
about,
and
it
like
like
that
memory
of
that
experience
where
there
were
people
actually
trading
physical
goods
and
the
story.
You
know
that
of
that
collection
in
general.
Is
that
no
one
really
knows
how
many
stickers
there
are.
You
know
how
are
they
printed?
What's
the
distribution?
C
What's
the
scarcity
like
I
think
after
seeing
critical
kitties
like
that
idea,
kind
of
popped
back
into
my
mind
and
like
we
talked
about
it
and
it
just
seemed
like
a
really
interesting
idea
for
us
to
kind
of
pursue,
and
you
know,
I
think
what
we
put
out
now
is
just
like
kind
of
like
step
one
and
what
we
could
be
building
like
the
cards.
I
think
are
really
just
like
a
base
platform
for
bass
player
for
what
we
want
to
do
going
forward,
but
yeah.
That's.
A
B
I
mean
so
you
know,
Ben
and
I
are
both
against
like
the
fantasy
sports
or
sports
space
too.
We
definitely
see
because,
because
the
card
layer
is
open,
so
anybody
has
access
to
the
ownership
date.
Oh,
they
can
see
that
you
been
owned
ex
cards
I
own
these
cards,
so
there's
there's
nothing
stopping
the
community
from
building
one
their
own
games
on
top
of
the
cards,
but
also
we
can
build
really
cool
experiences
where
you
know
we
leverage
the
cards
that
you
own
for
some
kind
of
competition
and
I've
also
been
very
interested
in
this.
B
This
thing
called
crypto,
composable
z--,
which
is
a
kind
of
newer
concept.
That's
come
up
where
you're
able
to
combine
basically
different
NF,
TS
or
different
tokens
into
one,
so
you
can
think
of.
Like
an
example.
Imagine
if
you
had
a
cryptographic,
signature
of
your
favorite
player
and
you
can
combine
it
with
your
card
and
now
your
card
is
like
a
fully
customized
signed
version
of
like
the
card
you
had
before,
or
you
can
kind
of.
B
C
And
also
like
been
like
this
stuff's
happening
so
quickly,
I
mean
you
know
when
Johnny
and
I
started.
You
know
on
this
like
our
first
like
sprint,
I
guess
in
New
York
in
early
March,
like
you
know,
the
composable
is
concept.
You
know,
I
think
we
read
about
that
like
a
month
or
two
in
so
like
in
the
in
the
short
period
we've
put
out
this
app
there's
like
been
all
these
interesting
concepts
and
ideas
that
we
think
we
can
latch
onto
a
bit
and
kind
of
apply
and
it's
really
been
helping
shape.
C
Our
thinking,
we
just
need
I,
think
after
the
tourneys
here
kind
of
sit
back
and
kind
of
check.
What
we've
learned
from
this
the
experience
and
then
kind
of
like
get
back
into
the
war
room,
I,
guess
and
and
turn
out
a
longer
term
roadmap
Oh,
like
we're,
really
excited
like
how
quickly
things
are
moving
in
the
space
like
there's
just
everything.
Every
day.
It's
like
you
read
one
thing,
and
it
gives
you
some
more
ideas
on
what
we
could
do.
It's
really
exciting
kind
of
b2b
in
this
yeah
and.
A
B
I
would
say
that
you
know
being
such
a
small
team.
First
of
all,
like
there's
a
lot
of
work
that
goes
into
developing
a
product.
You
know
we
were
lucky.
We
found
these
really
great
illustrators
and
great
designers.
They
made
that
part
of
the
job
easy
and
we
didn't
really
have
to
like
waste
too
much
time
like
shopping
around.
Like
kind
of
the
first
people.
B
We
found
we're
great
for
the
job,
but
then,
in
terms
of
like
you,
know
me
and
been
like
I'm,
the
only
engineer
on
the
project,
there's
tons
of
engineering
work
to
do
to
build
a
product
from
the
ground
up,
there's
a
lot
of
product
decisions
to
make
that
as
a
group,
you
know,
Ben
and
I
would
meet
up
and
talk
about
stuff
and
then
we'd
start
implementing
it
and
it's,
oh,
we
didn't
think
of
this
use
case,
or
this
edge
case.
Basically,
a
lot
of
work
for
a
team
of
two
people.
B
B
If
you
make
a
mistake
in
your
smart
contract
and
you
ship
them
to
the
main
net
and
there's
a
critical
bug,
someone
can
come
in
and
you
know
either
break
the
game
for
every
other
user
or
they
can
steal
user
funds
or
do
a
bunch
of
stuff
that
you
know
you
don't
want
people
doing
in
the
contract.
So
we
really
have
to
get
those
smart
contracts
right
on
the
one.
Try
that
we
had
and
so
far
they're
holding
up
really
nicely
so
obviously
we're
proud
of
that.
But
that
was
yeah.
C
I
think
I
mean
also
tear
a
Jenny
on
the
game.
Mechanics
side,
like
I,
think
we
spent
a
lot
of
time
trying
to
figure
out
like
scarcity
and
my
card
distribution,
and
you
know
we.
We
originally
wanted
up
more
players
and
then
you
know
a
function
of
time
and
what
our
illustrator,
but
we
ended
up
at
a
hundred-
and
there
wasn't,
you
know,
I
mean
for
you
can
actually
see
like
how
we're
destroying
the
cards
and
the
rarity
levels
and
ounce
capacity
and
distribution
and
how
all
that
stuff
works.
C
But
there
was,
you
know,
there's
no
template
that
we
could
look
at
like
you
know
a
lot
of
times.
We
build
a
mobile
app
and
you
can
look
at
company
XYZ
to
kind
of
look
at
it.
You
know
here,
you
know
there
was
crypto
kiddies,
but
you
know
babe
X.
They
actually
pretty
high
supply
now
of
cards
and
their
get
their
game
to
these
functions
differently
than
ours
and
I.
Think
part
of
the
interest
in
what
we're
doing
in
terms
of
the
blockchain.
C
C
You
know
like
was
that
was
this
decision,
the
right
decision
or
not,
but
that
was
another
I
think
here
for
us
to
kind
of
like
iterate
on
and
we
were
iterating
on
that
until
the
end-
and
you
know,
another
thing
too
is
like
we
didn't
have
a
lot
of
time
like.
Ideally,
this
is
a
really
short
sprint,
Rusted
three
months
to
get
an
app
Oh.
Ideally
we
would
have,
you
know,
done
some
user
testing
and
each
step
of
the
way
and
kind
of
iterated
more.
So
it's
it's.
C
A
B
Mine
would
be
that,
like
crystal
UX
is
still
very,
very
like
still
not
involved
at
all
on.
So
you
know
right
now,
most
of
our
users
I
feel
like
are
people
who
have
used
crypto
in
the
past.
Who
knew
what
meta
mask
was
you
understand
gas
price
guess
limit
and
even
then
there's
definitely
still
some
like
issues
where
they
they
have
questions
about
the
product
and
they're
not
sure
how
to
do
something.
B
But
the
learning
curve
for,
like
a
new
user
who's
coming
in
cold
to
crypto,
is
still
so
huge
and,
like
we
I
think
we
really
tried
our
best
to
make
it
simple
for
them
and
I
think
we
maybe
came
up
a
bit
short
because
I've
heard
of
people
that
just
get
onto
the
side
like
okay
I
downloaded
this
wallet.
Now.
How
does
this
work?
What
do
I
do
so?
That's
stuff,
like
the
space
generals.
C
Yeah
I
I
agree
that,
like
that's,
been
like
the
toughest
challenge
for
us,
even
people
who
are
familiar
bought
cryptocurrencies
before
they
may
not
have
even
you
know,
purchased.
You
know
a
crypto
asset
that
critical
collectible.
So,
like
you
know,
it's
a
it's
actually
a
different
process
to
you
to
know
if
you're
familiar
with
what
a
theory
on
it.
So
you
know
what's
one
thing
is
interesting:
like
judge
they're
mentioning
meta
masks,
is
you.
C
A
B
A
A
C
A
Yeah,
okay,
hope
he
actually
wins
this
time
around.
That's
awesome
guys!
Thank
you
very
much
for
your
time.
That's
all
I've
got
from
you.
It's
been
great
having
you
guys
as
part
of
the
status
incubate
family
over
the
last
month
or
so,
and
we
were
really
really
looking
forward
to
seeing
a
crypto
Strykers
ends
up
going
so
I
think
you've
never
find
interesting
jobs.
So
thanks
for
spending
the
time
with
me
today
possible
thanks
that.