Weekly NFT & GameFi Update (Week 17, 22/04/2023 - 28/04/2023)
Weekly NFT & GameFi Update (Week 17, 22/04/2023 - 28/04/2023)Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs wins landmark victory over copycat project. Musicians Steve Aoki and 3LAU announce track inspired by CryptoPunks. Romania launches national NFT marketplace.
New Project SpotlightNFT Collectibles[COMING SOON] ‘The Zoanthropic Lineage’ is a project by 3D artist and sculptor Maximiliano Hache. Dropping on 1 May on Crypto.com NFT, it features wild and mythological creatures that tell the story of humanity. [COMING SOON] ‘Spirits of The Lost’ is a collection by artist and artistic director Vamuel. This drop explores the beauty and nightmares in life, and showcases love through time and posterity. The collection goes live on Crypto.com NFT on 8 May. Blockchain Games[LIVE] Eyeball Games has released its new 9-ball mode. The new 9-ball rules will increase how challenging the game is, bringing a new level of pool competition to the game’s 8th season. [COMING SOON] Defira is in the process of updating the game’s character designs and attack animations. The updates will be applied to the soon-to-be-released Defira gameplay, and gamers can get sneak peeks by joining the Defira Bonfire Event in the game’s Discord server. The following table shows select top collections (by weekly sales volume on each platform) and a sample of their art: The following table shows select top games by weekly Unique Active Wallets (UAW): Gaming Token PerformanceThe total market cap for gaming tokens now stands at US$13.11 billion, up +1% from last week. News Highlights
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Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 17, 20/04/2023 - 26/04/2023)
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Third round of Ethereum withdrawals almost meets the deposits amount. Aptos introduces Delegated Staking. 1inch deploys protocols on Ethereum rollup zkSync Era.
Market Pulse by the Crypto.com Research & Insights Team (Week 17, 18/04/2022 – 24/04/2023)
Monday, April 24, 2023
EU lawmakers approve the Markets in Crypto Act (MiCA). Societe Generale introduces Euro-pegged stablecoin EURCV. TransUnion will provide credit scoring to blockchain dApps.
Weekly NFT & GameFi Update (Week 16, 15/04/2023 - 21/04/2023)
Friday, April 21, 2023
Sotheby's is auctioning rare NFTs from 3AC's collection. Starbucks is dropping its 'First Store' NFT collection. Square Enix partners with games distribution platform Elixir.
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 16, 13/03/2023 - 19/04/2023)
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Ethereum's Shapella upgrade goes live. Uniswap community approves proposal to launch on Polygon's zkEVM. Arbitrum proposal to return 700M ARB tokens fails.
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 15, 07/03/2023 - 12/04/2023)
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Solana on-chain staking is now supported on Crypto.com. Tether blacklists validator address that drained US$25M from MEV bots. Ava Labs launches Evergreen subnets.
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