Raining Money, Record Sales and Dramatic News - Play to Earn #37
Nobody is talking about SUSHI, it's all about UNI now. Crypto art NFTs are also selling like crazy.
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This has been a crazy week for blockchain gaming and non-fungible token collectors. There has been free money, dramatic news about a studio closure, record sales and new games. Also a quick reminder that the last wave of this week’s The Sandbox pre-sale is happening at 5PM GMT. It will be the last chance for one of the cute Care Bears collectibles. So register now, switch your ETH for SAND and buy one of those premium lands! Anyway, enjoy this week’s newsletter. It’s a big one! Have an awesome weekend!
— Robert Hoogendoorn
🦄 Gamers Potentially Got $1000 Uniswap Bonus
The biggest news of this week has been about governance tokens for the decentralized peer-to-peer exchange Uniswap. They’ve launched their native UNI token. Everybody who used their exchange in the past, received 400 UNI. At this very moment that’s $2000 in value, double from yesterday. This news is particularly interesting for gamers who played Axie Infinity. Everybody who made money from selling Small Love Potions, has now received a big financial bonus. ▶▶▶ Read more
🥇 Play to Earn Official Reporter of Metalympics
I’m happy to announce our first media partnership. Play to Earn is the official media partner and reporter of the Metalympics.Multiple games, many challengers, but who’s the best across the metaverse? Gamers, traders, creators and coders will put on their sports outfit to jump, run, and beat their opponents. Play to Earn will do weekly reports from and about the Metalympics, ranging from player profiles, interviews, announcements and match reports. ▶▶▶ Read more
🎨 Programmable Crypto Art Sold for record $101.396
Digital art gallary Async Art sold Matt Kane’s programmable crypto art ‘Right Place & Right Time’ for a record amount of more than 101 thousand dollars. An investor or collector called TokenAngels paid 262 ETH to get his hands on the crypto artwork that consists out of 24 hand-crafted layers. “This is the McLaren of programmable art”, Async Art tweeted in response to the sale. Personally, I think this type of programmable art is amazing. ▶▶▶ Read more
😢 0xGames Shutting Down After Three Years
Sad news from one of the pioneers in blockchain gaming. After three years of development on a variety of blockchain games, game studio 0xGames is pulling the plug and shutting down its operations. The studio has no funding to keep development going. 0xGames expressed its ambition to keep 0xUniverse live, and finish the Corporation Wars update. However, other projects will not be completed. ▶▶▶ Read more
🏡 League of Kingdoms To Sell More Land Based on ROI
This month League of Kingdoms will sell more virtual land for their online strategy game based on the rewards earned by the current landowners. Game studio Nplus Entertainment is using the return of investment (ROI) as a measurement. Once the ROI his a certain percentage, new land will be available on the marketplace. Quick note, I own a bit of land as well. Which made me like $15 so far. LOL ▶▶▶ Read more
🎮 Ten Thousand Gamers Downloaded Axie Infinity
The alpha version of the tactical battle game Axie Infinity has been downloaded more than ten thousand times. Game studio Sky Mavis announced the milestone on Twitter. The studio launched the test version of Axie Infinity in the beginning of the year. ▶▶▶ Read more
🏰 Litebringer Launched on Litecoin Blockchain
Cipsoft has launched their blockchain-powered role playing game Litebringer, which is also the first completely decentralized game on the Litecoin blockchain. The game promises its players the ability to earn money through its trading system, role playing game elements and idle gameplay. ▶▶▶ Read more
❎ Users Can Now Vote for Future of Decentraland
The virtual world of Decentraland is now officially governed by a decentralized autonomous organization, which allows users to vote on all kinds of propositions. However, only landowners and people with MANA tokens in their wallet are able to vote for the future of the virtual world. ▶▶▶ Read more
💹 Trading Volume Digital Assets Hits Record Heights
In the past week total trading volume for digital assets has surpassed three million dollars in value, setting a new trading record. More than one thousand ETH changed hands according to data from trading platform Opensea. This volume is carried by non-fungible tokens from crypto insurance platform yInsure and asset tokenization platform Rarible. Now the story of yInsure is something else completely, because that has everything to do with quick scalping and decentralized finance. But the value of digital assets is surely there. ▶▶▶ Read more
🍍 Earning Digital Collectibles by Staking MEME Token
Cryptocurrency investors and digital assets collectors have now been able to obtain new digital collectibles by staking their MEME tokens. Something that started as a joke, actually got build and is now taking the scene by storm. In the past seven days Meme Ltd generated over 58 thousand dollars in trading volume according to data from Opensea. - I have a feeling that this could be a very interesting mechanic for games as well. As a matter of fact, decentralized finance already is a bit of gamification of the banking system. ▶▶▶ Read more
👚 Gucci Betting on Digital Fashion
A report that’s bullish on the possible application of blockchain-powered technology - Clothing brand Gucci isn’t only to try to dress you with their iconic fashion, but also your digital representation inside virtual worlds. According to a report by Fast Company the fashion brand already dipped its toes in digital fashion. Now they’replanning to move it one step further. “The worlds of fashion and gaming are colliding”, CMO Robert Triefus told the online magazine. ▶▶▶ Read more
👩🔧 Dissolution Team Creating Second-Layer Solution
Dissolution creator Garage Studios has announced the launch of Xenum, a second-layer solution for Ethereum and potentially other blockchains. Their new platform allows users to trade digital goods and blockchain collectibles without any on-chain costs. Xenum is currently in an alpha testing phase. ▶▶▶ Read more
📱 Sorare Requires Phone Verification
Fantasy football game Sorare now requires all players to verify using a mobile phone number. This way the company wants to prevent players from running multiple accounts, while it also provides more security for players. — Safety first, I guess. ▶▶▶ Read more
🏙 MegaCryptoPolis Embraces Decentralized Finance
City building game MegaCryptoPolis has introduced new elements of decentralized finance as the game connects two different game worlds through one token. The MB Token allows transfers between the Ethereum and Tron versions of the game, without the need for the game developers to interfere. ▶▶▶ Read more
🤑 Most Expensive Cryptopunk Sold for $54.000
The OGs from non-fungible tokens have reached new record heights. An anonymous user on token platform Rarible just bought a Cryptopunk for more than 54 thousand dollars, making it the most expensive cryptopunk ever. The collector paid 140 ETH for to get his hands on this Ape Cryptopunk. The sale is not mentioned on the official Cryptopunks website, because this particular sale happened through the Wrapped Punks contract. ▶▶▶ Read more
🤖 Transformers Crypto Art Coming from José Delbo
Roll out! I’m super hyped about this. — Comic book artist José Delbo is very likely to release crypto art based on Transformers. At the end of September he will drop new artworks on Makersplace, including a final work in the Battle Against Covid series. Delbo said on Twitter that he will share more details soon. ▶▶▶ Read more