2025/12/11

High Score Money: Mitchell F. Chan Talks Token Economies and Videogames

● 11/12/2025
“The one part of financial history crypto could never replicate was the beginning part, where financial products had real-world references. Because of this untethering, all that you have is the most Byzantine and Baroque patterns. Whoever can build the most Baroque pattern will win.”
– Canadian conceptual artist Mitchell F. Chan, on the rise of speculative, increasingly nonsensical token economies that exploit 50 years of videogame lessons. “It’s a quest for a high score, and crypto realizes you can make people believe that the score is money.”
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