Ethereum Gaming Network Geist Is Members-Only to Prevent 'Industrial Farming'
The makers of Ethereum layer-3 network Geist aim to solve crypto gaming’s “industrial farming” problem with a members-only rewards system.

Pixelcraft Studios, the company behind crypto game Aavegotchi, is creating a “members-only” Ethereum layer-3 gaming network called Geist, built with the scaling tech of both Arbitrum and Base. The move comes as the company fears that “industrial farming” is an issue preventing real players from enjoying crypto gaming.

“A lot of crypto games are farms,” the pseudonymous CEO and founder of Pixelcraft Studios, Coder Dan, told Decrypt, “[and] there’s nothing wrong with a farmer.”

“But the problem is that they’re industrial farmers,” he continued. “These are not your mom-and-pop farms. These are industrial compound combine farms that are there for one purpose, and that is to extract as much value from the protocol as they can.”

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