🖼 GameFi delivers Oasys Navi NFT gaming marketplace
GameFi forms an exclusive partnership with Oasys and jointly delivers its Oasys Navi NFT gaming marketplace. This is the latest project that has been unsheathed by the two entities. The project will be responsible for organizing prime gaming-oriented NFT launches. GameFi, on its part, will be backing INO and IDO campaigns that exist on the Oasys blockchain, as well as other fresh NFT projects. In the case of the uninitiated, GameFi is basically a Web3 platform, while Oasys is a well-known and respected Japanese gaming blockchain. According to the Head of Ecosystem Alliance at Oasys, Yas, they are looking forward to taking this partnership forward and making a difference to the overall Web3 gaming market as well as creating an atmosphere of all-inclusiveness where the whole gaming community is concerned. As a mark of commitment from their side, they have jointly come out with the Oasys Navi NFT marketplace. As a part of their next plan of action, the two companies, GameFi, together with Oasys, will be involved with the deliverance of a beta version of an NFT marketplace. There will be a game dashboard and a mainnet launch which is in the offing. Collectively, the two entities will be delivering INOs, and features like tournaments will also be in the picture in the very near future.
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Sotheby's to launch on-chain generative art program powered by Art Blocks engine — link
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Syscoin developer launches Ethereum-compatible Layer 2 network secured by Bitcoin miners — link
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Warner Music Group partners with Polygon on blockchain music accelerator — link
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Grayscale-backed Horizen to change blockchain to drop 'privacy coin' label — link
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Sony Network Communications invests $3.5M in Singapore Web3 company Startale Labs — link
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Yield Protocol declares full recovery from Euler hack, awaits user token exchange — link
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⚡️ WhatsApp Takes a Step into the Metaverse with Meta Quest Integration
WhatsApp is venturing into the metaverse by integrating with Meta Quest, offering a glimpse of its metaverse plans beyond Avatars. An upcoming update may allow users to link their WhatsApp accounts with Meta Quest VR headsets, improving the user experience. While still in development, this feature shows progress and potential, indicating WhatsApp’s role in Meta’s metaverse ambitions. Expect an integrated experience in the future. The metaverse was the talk of 2022, but many of us are still waiting for our chance to give it a try. We’re all wondering how our favourite apps will adapt to this. WhatsApp gave us a glimpse of its metaverse plans when it introduced Avatars last year. Now, in its latest beta version, WhatsApp takes it further by using metaverse hardware with support through linking with the Meta Quest. WhatsApp update, users may be able to officially connect their accounts to Meta Quest VR headsets. WABetaInfo discovered this feature while exploring the new beta 2.23.13.6 release. Although the Meta Quest-linked device feature is still in development and no official announcements have been made.
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Azuki NFT collections ends Elemental mint with $37.5 million, before it was ever open to the public — link
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The number of core developers building on L2s continues to rise — link
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Chibi Finance vanishes with $1 million on Arbitrum network in apparent 'rug pull' — link
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Avalanche-backed Web3 gaming studio Pixion Games closes $5.5M seed round — link
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The overall trading volumes on decentralized exchanges (DEX) are showing a slight decline across major blockchains.
Ethereum for example, has seen daily DEX volumes decrease 35% over the course of the last month — link
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ZkSync developer releases toolkit for building Ethereum rollups — link
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🖼 NFL Rivals Scores 1M Downloads for NFT-Based Mobile Game
NFL Rivals, a free-to-play game from Mythical Games, has managed to score over a million downloads despite debuting amidst a harsh crypto environment and in the off-season of the NFL itself. Debuting on April 26 in the Google Play and Apple Stores, the game was met with early enthusiasm, rising to the top spot in the App Store, which Mythical Games CEO John Linden captured on Twitter at the time. “We're sitting at a 4.8 out of five on [the App Store] with nearly 22,000 reviews, which is great.”. Other stats shared with CoinDesk by Mythical Games noted that NFL Rivals has seen nearly 15 million matches played and that on average, players have six gaming sessions per day, showing the stickiness of the experience. The fact that the player cards are NFTs is “behind the scenes” for most players, Linden noted, who are able to play the game without purchasing any NFTs. “Every player gets a wallet in the game, and then most of them probably don't know it's a wallet until they want to start interacting with the marketplace to buy, sell or trade.” The NFTs in the game are player cards used to build out teams and compete in the game. Each player card has different rarity levels from common to legendary and are assigned different strengths and weaknesses.
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A16z-backed Aztec Network joins forces with Nym to bolster network privacy — link
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Maple Finance launches direct lending arm Maple Direct — link
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Nouns DAO has launched part 1 of its inaugural full-length animated cinema, "The Rise of Blus: A Nouns Movie," fully funded by the DAO .
The movie showcases NFTs that are well-loved in the Nouns community and, in so doing, achieves the distinction of being the first film in animation to be financed by a DAO.
The company behind the production is Atrium, an animation studio housing a network of self-sufficient artists and creatives.
Atrium's previous collaborations have included industry giants like Pixar, Netflix, and Marvel.
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Since Optimism's Bedrock upgrade on June 6. Its daily transactions have increased by about 67% to ~500k — link
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Magic Eden dives deeper into Bitcoin with BRC-20 tokens — link
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Since launching in May of this year, Blend has captured roughly 95% of the NFT lending volume — link
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Web3 payment firm Crossmint launches Wallet-as-a-Service to expand NFT use cases — link
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Circle adds CCTP to Arbitrum for Layer 2 USDC transfers from Ethereum, Avalanche — link
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Web3 gaming firm Mythical Games raises $37 million in Series C1 funding — link
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Mercedes-Benz is working on a new function that allows drivers to display NFTs by connecting their wallet .
The feature would be displayed through an in-car app for digital art. Drivers simply connect their crypto wallet, then interact with the touch screen to browse and select NFTs.
Mercedes is still experimenting, but the feature will be tested in the new Mercedes-Benz E-Class.
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🖼 Home Improvement Giant Lowe's Is Selling an Mfers Meme NFT Garden Flag
Home improvement giant Lowe's this week released a physical garden flag featuring characters from mfers, a popular non-fungible token (NFT) project that exists in the public domain under a Creative Commons classification known as a CC0 license. Under this designation, anyone can use mfers NFT characters to create any type of commercial good, which is exactly what Stephen Thompson and his brother-in-law Matthew Varnell did. "This is the PFP [profile picture] project if you ever wanted to do anything fun," Thompson, a lawyer by trade, told CoinDesk. The two men recently started a company called Total Marketing Web3, or TM3 for short, as an umbrella company to oversee different projects that will combine NFT lore and real-world commercial products. Their first product called the "Evergreen Siezenals" garden flag is 1 foot wide by 1.5 feet high and features the phrase "cc0 summer 2023" above an image of two NFT characters sipping tropical drinks on the beach. The flag, referred to as "seizen #1/edition #1" in the website description, retails for $39.98. According to Thompson and Varnell's website, there will only be 1,000 available, with each flag linked to a replica NFT redeemable online.
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Azuki expands with new 20K Ethereum NFT collection, Elementals — link
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Here's a quick overview of the biggest NFT sales from the last 30 days.
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In an unprecedented move, Yuga Labs and Zak Group are collaborating to publish an official book on CryptoPunks.
This collaboration is intended to bring the untold stories of the CryptoPunks collection to light, going beyond the web3 community to resonate with a wider audience.
The project aims to detail each Punk meticulously, featuring insights from influential figures in web3, digital art, design, and technology.
Breaking away from traditional publishing methods, the CryptoPunks catalog will be a community-driven venture. The development of the catalog will rely heavily on direct input from holders.
Pre-sales will begin in the fall of 2023, and the finished book is expected to release this winter.
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