Meltdown Interactive Games

Audit report should be ready Today which means if we can fix any finding before Tuesday Lo & Behold will also be able to launch with Staking from the minute they launch. This is huge because liquidity for games can start to be built from day one while rewarding backers in the native gaming token. Been a huge week for the dev team, and next week we turn to execution. Very pumped to start launching again.

I was hoping we'd be back to launching this week, but the audit is taking longer than expected. We're expecting it back on Friday. Security will always come first for us. And pushing a curated launch into the weekend just to get it out a few days earlier doesn't make sense. I want to give the next launch the best chance to go smoothly. So we're moving the next launch to Tuesday, 27 October at 7pm UTC. We're also going to try to have LOAD staking live before then. That would help build more liquidity in LOAD, with the potential for Lo & Behold to have staking live from day one. We need a little more time to get everything in place. Once these upgrades are live, we can launch both curated and instant launches. Appreciate your patience.

I was building this when no one believed in gaming anymore. Our inventory ceiling was 150K Steam games per year, still massive; I saw the opportunity. But now, that ceiling is gone.

Looking forward to resuming launches! Full alignment with the community. Including tokenomics. Then we have some Viral AI-built games coming shortly after we activate instant launches.

Quick update on where we're taking Loadout. We start launching again next week, and we're making some big changes. First, something we should have seen coming. We spent months building hype, then funneled all that attention into a single daily launch. Every trader, every sniper, everyone waiting for the next project ended up in the same place. We underestimated what that would do. That's on us. We're now upgrading the platform to support thousands of launches per week, with two launch flows. The first is the curated studios we've been talking to for the past nine months. Teams that have spent years building their games. These are our anchor projects. The second is where I think things get really interesting: the new wave of viral games being built with AI. Our BD team has already identified 600+ of these games, and developers are already committing to launch on Loadout. Many are solo devs pulling huge attention with something they built themselves. But there's a gap between going viral and getting a game onto Steam. You can have millions of people watching your clips while you're still figuring out how to fund the next six months of development. Loadout can bridge that gap. For developers, it's a way to turn attention into funding, build a community around their game, and come back with their next one. For traders, it's a chance to find a game early that becomes a massive success. That volume also spreads attention across more launches, making it harder for snipers to focus on a single daily target. But we're also getting much stricter about who we launch. Teams need to align with our community and understand that the relationship continues after they raise money. Some are already willing to commit Steam revenue to buybacks alongside their token buybacks. That's where it gets really interesting. A game succeeds, revenue feeds back into its token, and the community that backed it early has a reason to stay involved. The opportunity here is insane, and the number of developers we can work with will only grow. I'm convinced this will be the new gaming meta. We're going all in on games, and I intend to make Loadout the launchpad that gives them more attention than any other. Back to launches next week.

On every post I make about Loadout, one or two people insinuate, “Good riddance, ILV.” I don't know if people just don't believe it or don't realise it, but my entire net worth is in ILV. It's fully unlocked, yet I still hold over 80%, including the large amount I gave my team for sticking with the vision. We've been building towards our MMO release for 6 years now. The game I envisioned so long ago is incredibly close. This isn't a fully on-chain game with token sinks and P2E. It's designed to be the first crypto game in history to attract a mainstream audience. No Ponzi, no getting paid just to play. Just an insanely beautiful game that happens to include optional ownership of your in-game assets. Launchpads have insane upside when done right. No gaming launchpad is positioned like ours. No founder has the combination of experience in crypto, degen trading and mainstream gaming that I do. That's not a brag. That's reality. If Loadout succeeds, what do you think I'll do with my cut? Feed my baby. So please understand: the MMO is in good hands, and I will never leave Illuvium.

Staking is now running locally, we’re looking to get that shipped asap. Our platform is fully audited though, so we will need to complete an additional audit before we can release. We’ve now opened up the site again so new projects can start submitting their games. Our team still has to manually submit them to be published but it will be the start of a new flow of games launching on Loadout. (Over the past 6 months we’ve had about 500 projects request to launch) mostly slop but a few cool projects in there. Staking UI below, just example numbers obviously.