Fintech, Elrond, Tezos and Theta going full speed into metaverse and NFTs
Mogo, a Fintech firm specialized in digital payments and financial technology announced to enter in the metaverse space on 11th of January 2022. The entry will be facilitated thanks to the investment of NFT Trader, a large Canadian company focused on peer-to-peer OTC trading protocols for non-fungible tokens.
Next up is Itheum, an open-metaverse built on Elrond’s platform backed by Morningstar Ventures investors.
Morningstar Ventures has recognized the true potential Elrond blockchain has in store for the metaverse, and that is the state-sharding technology, allowing to complete transactions at unbelievable speeds.
Because of that, the investor company has set aside $15 million USD as part of the incubation programme and encourage for more developers to build on Elrond’s blockchain.
Source: cryptomode.com
Tezos becoming more and more committed into GameFi and NFTs
Dogami is the first title to make a significant impact on Tezos network. This pet P2E blockchain game has successfully raised $6 million USD. Big names such as Ubisoft, Aminoca Brands and Sandbox have participated in the funding round.
The interesting feature is the inclusion of the governance token where players can participate in ‘Dogami DAO’. Because of that, users can vote and help the team which updates of the game will need to be implemented in the near future.
Dogami will also release its own NFTs along the game development. The release will have 10 different breeds. Stay tuned for the official NFT launch.
Source: nftevening.com
Gap, the popular apparel brand has also decided to interact with the Tezos network. The firm will do so by launching it’s first NFT wearables on the marketplace. The launch date is expected to be on the 13th of January.
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Great news for Theta stakers !
Theta is ready to launch TDROP, a new TNT-20 token built on Theta blockchain. The token has multiple functions such as rewarding in form of NFT liquidity mining and decentralized governance through TDROP staking and additional rewards for Theta validators and guardians. The launch of the token is on the 1st of February.
Even if you won’t be eligible for the rewards, this event is important for the development of Theta network and it could reflect on the token price.
Source: medium.com
⚙️ Dragontar NFTs - World’s first combinable component NFTs ⚙️
The long awaited mainnet for Dragontar is around the corner. It is the first customizable NFT with the unique possibility of combinable components.
Definition of combinable components - This means that users have plenty of choices on how to interact with NFTs. For the first time, in-game tokens can be traded, swapped or taken apart.
EIP-3664 is the main engine that allows to enable all these features. With this infrastructure, components can be seamlessly traded and it will automatically become treated as NFTs.
In terms of compatibility there won’t be any problems since it can match with ERC-721 and ERC-1155, which are both widely practiced in blockchain based games.
It will be interesting to see how customizable NFTs will further develop the NFT space.
Top 10 games that have received most Tweets in 2021
2.4 billion Tweets about games have been delivered on Twitter last year. Therefore, we will put the list of the games that have been mentioned the most. This statistic is quite important because these top 10 titles can announce new partnerships with upcoming P2E blockchain games anytime soon.
Source: venturebeat.com
New Play to Earn (P2E) games on WAX blockchain
In the last article we have generally discussed that WAX blockchain is great for gameFi. This time we will provide you with 5 new gaming titles expected to be launched on the WAX blockchain. The list goes as follows:
👾 Office Land
👾 BlockchainRPG
👾 Dragon Valley
👾 Immersys
👾 CryptoBrewMaster
New projects, partnerships and events
📈 Heroes of Mavia land sale whitelist - 20th of January 2022
📈 Cryptogirlfriend NFT - 21th of January 2022
📈 The ribbons NFT project - Official launch 23rd of January 2022
📈 Lootex - $9 million USD raised to build a game centric metaverse marketplace
📈 Wizardia - Fantasy P2E metaverse
📈 Gamesbeat x Subspace - Metaverse forum
📈 Algorand - Why it is ready to explode
📈 Polynize - Own IP domains as NFTs
📈 Chumbi Valley NFT - 237k followers on Discord group