This week on YOM ๐ ๏ธ
โ Why the hardware model is breaking and what replaces it
โ How publishers skip app stores with instant play (+1,316% DAU case study)
โ Heading to @developconf Brighton, July 14โ17
โ Town Hall Ep. 80 Xbox layoffs and what it means for decentralized gaming
โ MiCA fully enforced $YOM was compliant from day one
โ The network loop: more gamers โ more compute โ more $YOM settlement
Building continues. ๐ซก
Real-time gaming has one hard constraint.
Response time.
Every millisecond between player input and screen response matters. The further the server, the worse the experience.
YOM routes sessions to the nearest available node.
Average regional latency under 12ms.
The physics work better at the edge.
Season 2 Day 69.
The numbers are in.
๐ธ 341,800 participants
๐ธ 399,200 quest completions
๐ธ 329.5M XP awarded
๐ธ 74% avg completion rate
Three weeks left before Season 2 closes on August 1.
If you're not in yet now is the time.
https://t.co/VmB9VX5NHJ ๐ ๏ธ
Any platform can launch a cloud gaming portal on YOM.
Your brand. Your games. YOM's infrastructure running underneath.
Publishers skip the app store. Players click and play instantly.
The infrastructure layer is already built.
https://t.co/ynduEiSZth
Every year the checklist gets longer: better GPU, more storage, faster internet, a newer console.
And every year the actual game stays exactly the same size it always was.
Bad Advice
"just buy a better PC."
the most unhelpful advice in gaming
not everyone has a month's rent sitting around for silicon
that'll be outdated in three years
cloud gaming was supposed to fix this
it just built a new wall instead
A new console costs more than ever.
A gaming PC costs more than ever.
Yet the demand for gaming keeps growing.
The math doesn't add up. The hardware model is breaking.
Streaming AAA experiences to any screen isn't the future. It's the fix.
https://t.co/fGVltFTpbR
Imagine this workflow:
1. Open your phone, tablet, or a 5-year-old laptop.
2. Click a link.
3. Instantly boot your existing Steam/Epic library.
4. Max settings. 60+ FPS. Zero downloads.
No clunky console setups, no heavy rigs. Just instant access.
The YOM network runs across cities, countries, time zones.
Every region that joins adds coverage the whole network benefits from.
More operators. More regions. More reach.
The grid grows from the outside in.
For a decentralized network to work, nodes have to be reliable.
The YOM settlement contract meters every contribution uptime, region, demand served.
Rewards flow based on verified work. Not self-reported numbers.
On-chain. Transparent. Automatic.
https://t.co/fGVltFTpbR