CryptoKitties: Predicting the Unpredictable – What We Would Have Done Differently
summary
Argues for a staged maturity rollout instead of immediate decentralization, showing how enabling users to call the give birth function themselves would have saved gas and avoided an over‑engineered self‑serve layer; flags art as non‑modular against 17 billion combinations of kitties making automation and 3D/animation hard; reports that adding time‑boxed fancy cats sharply increased participation; notes 42 external experiences built on CryptoKitties and an upcoming Dapper Labs platform to improve onboarding and extensibility.
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chapters (24)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:02Title
- 1:33Agenda
- 3:34What this looks crappy
- 3:56Give birth
- 4:28Empower users
- 5:26Modular kiddies
- 6:52Provenance
- 7:31Arthurs Idea
- 8:16User Experience
- 8:56Collections Catalog
- 10:30Fancy Cats
- 12:12Learning for the Future
- 13:02Consumer Flow
- 14:03New Platform
- 15:33Gods Unchained
- 16:22How do you describe to an average consumer
- 16:58Is it all focused on developers
- 17:49What were we looking for
- 18:21Ecosystem partnerships
- 19:36primetime
- 20:24brands
- 21:18other options
- 21:50other chains
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