Jérôme de Tychey | Cometh: Building a videogame as a gateway to blockchain and DeFi

Sat, Oct 2, 2021, 12:00 AM

Speaker intro Jérôme de Tychey https://www.cometh.io/ Jérôme is the Chief Economist at Cometh. In his previous jobs, he started the blockchain practice of Ernst & Young France in 2016 and opened the Paris office of ConsenSys in 2017 where he was coordinating the efforts towards enterprises and public institutions in the European Union. Recently he has been working at Ledger as the Global Head of Clients Success. Jerome is also the current president of a non-profit called Ethereum-France that runs the eponymous website and hosts the EthCC event every year in Paris. He holds an associate professor position in economics at CNAM University. Talk description "Cometh: Building a videogame as a gateway to blockchain and DeFi" Gaming is an undervalued angle to bring new people to the blockchain. We have put together several mechanics like yield farming, staking, NFT, Real Time Strategy and gamified the concepts along the way. In this presentation we will discuss our approach and design choices, notably on scalability and token economics, so that you have new ideas to play around with.