Social Tokens, DeFi, NFT Mining & More - Play to Earn #39
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This week has been bonkers! I’m not even talking about the news on tv, but just everything coming from the blockchain space. We did an exclusive interview with the developers of Blankos Block Party, NBA collectibles launched on the Flow blockchain, we’ve got some cool collaborations for the Play to Earn Game Festival (more coming soon!), Aavegotchi is introducing NFT mining and much more. Also, this month is the first time we’ve got a sponsor for our newsletter. Connie Digital is a pioneering visual and music artist in the crypto space. We’re excited to have him on board on our journey. Now let’s jump into the blockchain gaming and NFT news!
— Robert Hoogendoorn
Unique Crypto Art Coming to Play to Earn Game Festival
Visitors of the upcoming Play to Earn Game Festival, which is powered by Synergy of Serra, will be able to enjoy game-inspired art from U.K.-based artist Ben Haley. The artworks will form a big decoration at the virtual event. You will be able to buy pieces of the artwork, and we will auction a combined piece as well. It’s now Async Art, but it’s close. ▶▶▶ Read more
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Connie Digital leading Art and Music NFTs (sponsored)
This year visual crypto art has taking the blockchain world by storm, pushed forward even more by projects like MEME and Rarible. However, non-fungible tokens and digital collectibles can embrace many more artistic fields, including music. Connie Digital is on the forefront of this field. He’s a digital creator who tokenizes art and music. He regularly publishes a newsletter with the latest insights into this field. ▶▶▶ Sign up for his newsletter
Social Token COIN Earns Gamers Neon District Items
By staking the social token COIN gamers will soon be able to obtain unique digital assets for the cyberpunk role playing game Neon District. Gamers can obtain special CRED tokens by first providing trading liquidity on Uniswap, and then staking the obtained liquidity tokens on Coinartist.io. ▶▶▶ Read more
Blankos To Introduce a Frictionless NFT Economy
I did an extensive interview with Mythical Games, and they sure are ambitious —Blankos Block Party is a blockchain game focused on user generated content, and it introduces a frictionless NFT economy. Play to Earn sat down with Rudy Koch and Cameron Thacker from Mythical Games to talk about game economies and the use of blockchain technology.According to them an NFT-based economy is the ‘next evolutionary step for the games industry’. ▶▶▶ Read the interview
NBA Top Shot Publicly Launched on Flow
This is probably one of the most mainstream projects on the market right now — Digital collectibles project NBA Top Shot has launched on the Flow blockchain. The project had been in a private testing phase for several months, but can now be accessed by everybody. NBA Top Shot allows people to collect video clips, called moments, based on NBA basketball matches from past and present. ▶▶▶ Read more
Metafactory Embracing Community Ownership
Now this is something very cool with a cyberpunk feel to it — Clothing and metaverse culture company Metafactory is launching a governance token which gives the community ownership over its brand. The organization wants to reinvent the connection between physical and digital products through non-fungible tokens. Their governance token will be distributed to buyers, designers and contributors. ▶▶▶ Read more
Neon District Introduces Character Crafting
More ways to throw money into a dystopian cyberpunk future — Gamers who are excited about the upcoming role playing game Neon District, are now able to get a small tease by diving into a character crafting system. Players can buy a character, acquire gear and weapons, and upgrade each of these digital assets. Gamers will be able to use their characters in competitive gameplay, which Blockade Games will launch before the end of the year. ▶▶▶ Read more
MegaCryptoPolis Launching MEGA Tokens
Gamers who play the city building game MegaCryptoPolis would normally be able to exchange their in-game resources for MEGA tokens from October 1st. However, someone messed up some smart contract and there has been abused. So there developers but things on hold. During the announcement they were a bit more positive. ▶▶▶ Read more
Sumo Digital Making Mobile Games for Flow Blockchain
One of the biggest independent gaming studios in the UK. Quite a big deal — Sumo Digital Leamington studio will be working with Dapper Labs on mobile games on the Flow blockchain. However, they haven’t revealed any details about the upcoming projects.Studio director Chris Southall mentioned that they will reveal details about their productions soon. ▶▶▶ Read more
Somnium Space Land Sale Coming November 1st
Better stack some ETH if you want some of this land — The secondary land offering for virtual land inside Somnium Space will take place on Opensea starting from November 1st until December 18th. Investors, creatives and players will be able to buy virtual land using three different cryptocurrencies: ETH, DAI and Somnium Space’s very own CUBES. ▶▶▶ Read more
Crusader’s Dynasty Coming June 2021
This game looks actually really interesting — The medieval battle royale game Crusader’s Dynasty is launching on Steam in June 2021. In the online battle game players use their champions to kill bosses and opponents while acquiring better loot. These game items are stored to the player’s wallet using the Phantasma blockchain. ▶▶▶ Read more
Polygonal Mind Announced Voxel RPG Dethrone
These are also the creative lads behind Crypto Avatars. I’m paying attention for sure — Development studio Polygonal Mind has announced Dethrone, a fantasy role playing game that will take place in the virtual world of The Sandbox. The developers want to stretch the capabilities of the Sandbox engine. The game stretches across multiple areas as players try to save the world of Bylta from destruction by an ancient god. ▶▶▶ Read more
Atari Shipping First Atari VCS Gaming Consoles
Atari has started the shipping process of their Atari VCS blockchain-powered gaming console to supporters who crowdfunded the project two years ago. Theyplan to release the console this fall, but before that the Indiegogo backers are the first to receive the system. ▶▶▶ Read more
Garbage Pail Kids Series 2 Arrived This Wednesday
Trading card company Topps has launched the Garbage Pail Kids Series 2 collectible cards on the Wax blockchain this Wednesday. These re-imagined digital version of the original ones from October 1985 will be available in normal packs and mega packs. Standard packs are 5 dollars for five cards, while mega packs are 25 dollars for thirty cards. ▶▶▶ Read more
Neymar and Mbappé Join Football Game Sorare
Star footballers Neymar and Kylian Mbappé are now among the player cards that collectors and gamers can obtain in the fantasy football game Sorare. The Paris-based company signed a licensing agreement with Paris Saint German. As a result gamers can now obtain cards from all first team players from PSG and use them in their fantasy football teams. ▶▶▶ Read more
Aavegotchi Introduces NFT Mining Program
DeFi degens are gamifying their financial experience more and more. Aavegotchi isthe result — Gamified decentralized finance platform Aavegotchi will soon introduce a new NFT mining program that allows users to lock up their GHST tokens and earn game items. These items are meant for the Aavegotchi characters, which blend the worlds of gaming and finance. The system is currently being tested and will launch on the Ethereum mainnet in a week or two. ▶▶▶ Read more