Blockchain Gaming Grows 148% & Playboy Making NFTs - Play to Earn #67
Big news about NFT art, lots of scaling solutions, and The Sandbox!
DappRadar published their quarterly report, stating that the blockchain gaming industry grew 148% over the past year, while several new and upcoming products launched their scaling solutions for Ethereum’s gas fee problems. The Sandbox will have another lands sale. If you’re into digital art and collectibles, this has been an insane week filled with announcements. The two biggest traditional auction houses in the world are diving into NFTs. Christie’s will auction CryptoPunks in May, while Sotheby’s works with Murat Pak for an experimental art drop. And then there’s Playboy… Expect minds to be blown. Let’s dive in! — Robert Hoogendoorn
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🚀 Blockchain Gaming Growth 148% in Q1 2021
The blockchain gaming industry doesn’t come close to the regular games industry yet, but the number of active wallets is growing. In the past year we’ve seen growth of 148% driven by games that don’t come with high gas fees. Guess which ones!
💸 Land Sale as Winklevoss Twins Join The Sandbox
New partners, a new land sale. The Sandbox will once again sell land next week as the virtual world partnered with the Winkelvoss twins and their platforms Gemini and Nifty Gateway. Oh, and there will be an heavy metal band joining as well. The sale will be for premium lands only, and these will cost approximately 4,,866 SAND each. Want to learn more? Read here!
💻 What’s the Metaverse?
Often the true meaning of the term metaverse gets messed up in between marketing messages. The result is that one game or virtual world claims to have its own metaverse. However, that’s simply not the case, because it’s impossible. Learn why!
⚫ Sotheby’s to Auction Pak’s Fungible Collection
As if I know the guy. “Typically Pak”, I thought when reading about their drop at Sotheby’s and Nifty Gateway. He will do a $500 open edition and you will get more special artworks when you buy more cubes. Again Murat Pak combines his minimalistic art with some kind of performance art. Read more about the sale!
🎨 Christie’s Will Auction 9 CryptoPunks in May
Christie’s will auction nine CryptoPunks they’ve gotten from Larva Labs. After the announcement the market went bananas, and trading volume for the punks pumped 800% since the announcement. Read about the Christie’s auction!
🐰 Playboy Partners to Publish NFT Art
When I was a kid… Oh well, let’s not get into that. Playboy will sell NFTs, and I am pretty excited about this, because they will collaborate with existing NFT artists. This makes their venture into the crypto art space very serious and unique. Discover which artists here!
🎎 How To Create An Avatar for the Metaverse?
The industry hasn’t fully embraced open standards for digital representation yet, but it’s happening. CryptoAvatars is one of the organizations pushing for such a standard, and if you want to create your own avatar… This is how!
📱 Gamee Token Sale Sold Out: What is GMEE?
Personally I am not big into hyper casual games, as I prefer the deep MMORPG, first-person shooters or strategy games. However, I know a lot of people love this kind of gaming content. That’s why I found the acquisition of Gamee by Animoca Brands so interesting. They have now introduced the GMEE token, and players can earn that token through gameplay. Play-to-earn style!
More gaming headlines
👽 Planet Binance Integrated into Alien Worlds — TLM to the moon!
🛒 Blankos Marketplace Closed Alpha Test Next Month — Blankos NBO!
🎩 Doctor Who Marketplace Live on Ethereum Sidechain — Other dimension
💜 Enjin to Launch Jumpnet Sidechain Today — Next step for Enjin
🐹 Nestables Remember Their Jobs Now — Cute and smart!
🌝 Two Weeks Until the R-Planet Land Sale — Another Wax blockchain hit
🚀 Star Atlas Looking to Fractionalize Game NFTs — Seriously interested in this!
😍 Axie Infinity Working on Fiat On-Ramp for Ronin — Adoption is coming!
🌊 Somnium Space Waterfront Parcels More Interesting — When boats?
🦙 Upland Collectibles Get Bridge from Wax to EOS — Interoperability!
Community update
First a quick update about the prizes from the Play to Earn Game Festival. Some prizes have been sent out already, some will be transferred soon by the gaming companies. The ones that require the most work are the Petey prizes. I now have all the addresses, now I need to sort out the minting together with the team at The Sandbox. I hope to have good news next week. Patience. They are coming!
Furthermore an update about the website. The distribution of PLAY tokens has been a bit rubbish. People would just be able to scroll down and claim their rewards without learning anything. To stimulate people learning about different projects, I have introduced a new reward system. Now you need to answer a few questions before the claim link appears. I will keep experimenting with that.
Ideally I’d want to refer you, the reader of this newsletter, to a page on our website where you would need to go through a big quiz about the news from this week in order to claim a big reward. However, I’m not ready for that yet. So here’s your reward. :)
Axie Infinity seems like a great game, hope to in the future but the entry point is a little high for me at them moment