While the world is going bananas over art, we are looking to the future: gaming. With Axie Infinity, Upland and Alien Worlds there are already solid games out there, but a lot more is coming. The best of the best in the free-to-play market will make a transition into play-to-earn, and currently Animoca Brands is experimenting with this transformation. At the same time we are preparing for the biggest virtual gaming event the metaverse has ever seen, the Play to Earn Game Festival! I’m hyped and can’t wait to have you and rest of the community walking around the festival location. There’s a play-to-earn revolution coming, players. Do you feel it? — Robert Hoogendoorn
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🎪 Starting Monday: Play to Earn Game Festival
Before we really dive into this newsletter, so quick words about the Play to Earn Game Festival. The event will open its doors on Monday and lots of things will happen during the week. We published the event calendar, but also keep your eyes on our Twitter. This week we announced the presence of CryptoMotors, Synergy of Serra and there’s still more to be revealed. Yes, I’m in crunch mode at the moment. If you’re interested, write it in your agenda and check out our festival page.
🏰 Earn TOWER By Competing in Crazy Kings
Crazy Kings is one of the two mobile games by Animoca Brands that are part of the Tower Initiative. These are free-to-play games, but now for the first time players can earn money by playing them. There’s a competition happening, and everybody can earn TOWER tokens. - Read more about TOWER token
🦸♀️ DC Comics Wants to Dive into NFTs
DC Comics is working with Veve, formerly known as Ecomi, to bring NFT collectibles to the market. At the same time they are very aggressively battling artists, marketplaces and their own freelancers who want to issue NFT art based on characters from the DC Universe. — Read the full story
🐻 ALICE Token for My Neighbor Alice Launched
This week My Neighbor Alice launched their native ALICE token on the Binance Smart Chain. You can find the token on PancakeSwap and the Binance exchange. If you’re curious about the game, it’s a bit like Animal Crossing… but players can own land and other NFTs. — See the trailer of this cute game!
⚫ Sotheby’s Joins NFT Hype with Murat Pak Art
First Christie’s auctioned a $69.3 million artwork by Beeple, and now Sotheby’s is doing something together with Pak. — Read the full story
🦁 Ubisoft: Axie Infinity PVP ‘Big Improvement’
Axie Infinity is probably one of the best play-to-earn games on the market right now. This year the Sky Mavis team will introduce many new things, including a new battle system. They’re collaborating a bit with Ubisoft, and the French game publisher has praised the improvements. — Read what else is coming to Axie Infinity!
More Blockchain Gaming News
🐰 Nestables As Free-to-Play Demo Available to Everybody — No updates though
👽 Alien Worlds Calling for Planet Council Members — Better then US elections?
🏰 League of Kingdoms Opened Competitive Battlefield Portal — OGs dominate
💱 Hodl God To Bring VOID Token to Wax — Not leaving their economy in the void
🏙 MegaCryptoPolis World Demo Out Now — You can win something too
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Collectibles and Art News
🎤 Lindsay Lohan Launching NFTs on Tron Blockchain — Everybody loves Tron
😻 Internet NFT Cats Hype with $11 Million in Trading — Cats everywhere!
🎵 Async Art Changes Tune with Async Music — Now this is cool!
🎨 Proof of Beauty Season 1 Coming Mid-April — Marked my calendar
🤡 Avastars Series 4 Launched Today — Almost sold out already
🤖 Sophia The Robot Will Auction Her Own Art NFT — Cyber art
Community update
This week we’ve seen a hack happen at TryRoll. Many social currencies have been stolen and dumped on the market, plummeting their price. Thankfully PLAY dodged a bullet there, especially considering that we just started launching our liquidity pool on Uniswap. Currently the pool is still very small. Roll doesn’t allow me to move PLAY out of the platform. When they do, we’ll be able to grow the pool on Uniswap.
We’ve been talking about $PLAY for quite some time, it’s the token we launched in November last year. You can earn $PLAY by participating in our community, creating content, and learning about play-to-earn and NFTs. I’m looking for community moderators who want to setup events and help out on Discord.
Grab your PLAY tokens here! And don’t forget to share this newsletter with friends and family, who also want to learn about blockchain gaming and NFTs. This is the time to share knowledge with each other and educate, join us on Discord if you’re looking for a nice chat about all this!
Hey, I really like your Dapps and NFTs news. Could you bring some more information or insight to B20 Token of your Sponsor. This sounds very interesting especially with recent beeple sale of 67millions.
Sorry, I didn't see your response. I actually wrote quite a bit on my own blog about B20 and Beeple. Here's a link to the search option for B20 on my blog: https://www.playtoearn.online/?s=b20
If you're too lazy, here's a summary :)
Metapurse is sharing ownership over their $2.2 million Beeple art collection and the virtual museums where they show the art through the B20 token. A total of 1.6 million tokens sold for 36 cents a piece, which is 16 percent of the total supply.
The entire project has a value of 2.7 million dollars, according to the tokenomics of the project. Metapurse will keep 59 percent of the tokens, while 11 percent goes to collaborators like Metacast, GrowYourBase and Voxel Architects. Eight percent sold in a private sale, four percent goes to stakeholders and two percent will go to Beeple.
Metapurse allows someone to buyout the entire collection. Buyers can do this by getting 100 percent ownership over the B20 tokens, and therefore the collection and all the museums. The smart contract allows minimum bids starting from 12 to 15 million dollars, offered in DAI. Once someone placed a bid, it lasts for fourteen days. Every time there’s been a higher bid, the auction is extended by one more day. Token holders have the option the veto a buyout, which requires a 25 percent vote. The B20 Beeple Collection is an unique project to share ownership over digital art with a larger community.