Cambria: The Degen MMO With $1M+ Seasonal Prize Pools
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Hello, everybody, and welcome to another episode of the Delphi podcast. Today, I am delighted to introduce you to Ben, the, founder of Cambria, which is a project I'm extraordinarily excited about. Many of us have been big, long term RuneScape enthusiasts in crypto. Many of us graduated from RuneScape to crypto, and Ben is the man at the tip of the spear at leading that sort of intersection now and building game worlds around it. So, Ben, thank you for coming. Thank you for joining us.
Thanks for having me on. Excited.
Absolutely. Maybe we could kick off with a bit of background on on kind of where you started. Right? Tell us a bit about your origins in the sort of Runescape private servicing and and kind of, yeah, the the journey towards founding Cambria, which has just posted a $1,500,000 prize pool in only their second season. So things are really heating up in the
season. To see. Yeah. Where to start? So, yeah, I I feel like Cambria sometimes is, like, kind of always the you know, when I was a kid, like, always the the game I wanted to build. Like, you know, at that time, you know, I wasn't super familiar with crypto, but, you know, it was kind of so, you know, grew up playing Runescape, like, was obsessed with it as a kid. I think very quickly kind of got into, you know, like, the botting, like, the private servers. Right? Kind of this game on top of the game, right, where, you know, it was like, you know, real money trading of of the gold, you know, v
I love it. Yeah. Maybe you could touch on then when did you sort of see the opportunity in crypto? What was that sort of transition period? And, yeah, curious when you realize that sort of on chain economies might be an interesting area to dabble in.
Yeah. Yeah. So this was actually later. So, you know, kind of like 2022, I think. So, yeah, you know, kinda got into crypto with with NFTs. Right? Came from kind of, meme stocks. Right? GME, the the classics. But, yeah, like, the you know, I was I think Wolfgang, yeah, was was my first, you know, in terms of crypto gaming, first experience there. And that hit really hard. Right? You know, this was, like, you know, back in, like, Beanies Discord. Right? Like, you know, I was was just hanging out with other degens, and, you know, like, you would drop the link to to the initial white paper for fo
Totally. So, yeah, 2022 era, some of the, yeah, first gen games, I suppose, caught your intrigue. I think we met in late, like, December 22 or or maybe Jan twenty three around that kind of period. Remember DMing you on Twitter. You've still got one of the most brilliant Twitter handles ever, just cyberpunk. Super clean. I like it. But, yeah, like, a lot's evolved since then. Obviously, I became enormously excited about what you're working on. Right? As I say, we've kinda been discussing this intersection of Runescape meets crypto and what that might look like for years, and it really felt like
So at Cambria, we're we're building, let's call call it, like, degen experiences where, you know, it's it's high stakes. Right? High stakes and chaos. So Cambria itself, you know, is a risk to earn sort of MMO with, massive on chain stakes. We currently have two game modes, duel arena as well as gold rush. So duel arena is kind of a high stakes, like one versus one duels. Duels to the death, we have this, like, public arena, in the middle of the game. But, yeah, you're you're you're wagering ETH on the outcome of of these duels. It's kind of very degen. Gold Rush is sort of this risk store, an
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