This week on YOM 🛠️
→ Why the hardware model is breaking and what replaces it
→ How publishers skip app stores with instant play (+1,316% DAU case study)
→ Heading to @developconf Brighton, July 14–17
→ Town Hall Ep. 80 Xbox layoffs and what it means for decentralized gaming
→ MiCA fully enforced $YOM was compliant from day one
→ The network loop: more gamers → more compute → more $YOM settlement
Building continues. 🫡
Every new gamer can make the YOM network stronger.
More local demand means more regional nodes come online.
More nearby nodes means compute gets closer to players.
That is how YOM is designed to scale: not by adding friction, but by improving coverage and latency over time.
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For over 20 years, our CEO @MehowHacks has been finding security flaws before they become global problems.
From hacking electronic voting machines for the U.S. government to building one of crypto's most ambitious security companies, his mission has stayed the same: fix the infrastructure before it fails.
Read his latest profile by @Entrepreneur UK on why he believes crypto's biggest vulnerability isn't the blockchain, it's how people actually use it.
The pace of crypto development is also its biggest vulnerability.
Protocols ship before they're battle-tested.
New features open new attack surfaces faster than anyone can audit them.
Every innovation is also an unexamined door.
The industry rewards being first.
Attackers reward everyone who was first and unprepared.
The YOM network runs on a simple loop.
More gamers using platform → more compute consumed → more network activity → more $YOM settlement on-chain → more operators joining to serve demand.
Token utility grows when the network grows.
That's the design.
Season 2 Day 69.
The numbers are in.
🔸 341,800 participants
🔸 399,200 quest completions
🔸 329.5M XP awarded
🔸 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 🛠️
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.
A crypto address was meant to be a destination.
It became an identity.
Share it once and you've handed over a permanent, searchable record of everything you've done and will do.
No other financial system works this way.
Your account number isn't your public profile.
The single reusable address was a technical shortcut in 2009.
It became crypto's biggest privacy failure by default.
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.
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Publishers integrating YOM can bypass the traditional app-store funnel.
No downloads.
No store install friction.
No 30% platform fee on streamed access.
A player clicks a link. The game streams instantly from the nearest available node.
In the Martians vs Roughnecks case study, replacing a multi-GB download with instant play drove a +1,316% DAU increase.
That is what removing the barrier does.
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What’s your current Steam or Epic backlog looking like? Let’s see the numbers.
Drop a screenshot of your unplayed library below. Imagine if you could clear that backlog from your phone during your daily commute or on a beach with a tablet.
Keep your eyes on this space.