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In writing these Friday Roundups this year, one thing that's stood out to me is the sheer amount of interesting crypto gaming advances we've seen in 2024.
Here, progress is stretching out in all directions. Gaming will become a Trojan Horse for bringing onchain experiences to the masses, and the paths forward are being paved as we speak.
Just take the current pulse of the space to see what I mean.
Abstract, the upcoming consumer crypto L2, is welcoming its first games like Onchain Heroes. Cambria, the chill Runescape-like battler, is coming to Ronin. Dojo, the Starknet gaming engine, just hosted its Demo Day featuring big updates from upcoming onchain gaming projects like Eternum.
Then there's Duper, which is innovating an entirely new game format on Arbitrum. EVE Frontier, from the creators of the hit EVE Online MMORPG, is ramping up on Redstone. And of course there's Fren Pet, which is evolving and maintaining impressive stats while Base continues to field new game launches, like Dappmon and Chains.
That's all just the tip of the iceberg too. I could go on and on. Pirate Nation continues to drop new features and is contending with major activity levels with its unique bespoke infra, Primodium is preparing to launch on mainnet, The Treeverse is starting to ramp up its Alpha launch on Immutable, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
When I hear people say nothing much excites them in crypto right now, I suspect either that 1) they're not gamers, or 2) they're just having trouble keeping up with the incredible stream of crypto gaming updates that have been flowing lately. It's truly been a deluge this year, and I'm very excited for where these new footholds will lead. Watch this space...
📰 General news
- Magic Eden embraced Metaplex's Core NFT standard and introduced its Unified Liquidity system
- Rug Radio acquired Lucky Trader
- thirdweb unveiled its DIY ERC721C deployer
🎨 Cryptoart & music
- BasePaint rolled out a new splits system in collaboration with Moshicam
- $BOTTO completed its migration to Base
- Botto, an AI art bot, participated in the Notable Pepes Series 7 art release
- Highlight added support for ERC1155 NFTs
- Shape, the L2 for Ethereum creatives, launched
- Songcamp launched its revamped onchain music app
- Sound is building a new platform for onchain musicians, Vault
- SuperRare unveiled its newest curated gallery series, In Screens
- Zora updated its secondary markets countdown to start at 1,111 mints
🏆 Digital collectibles
🎮 Decentralized gaming
- Magic Eden partnered with Ubisoft for the upcoming launch of the Captain Laserhawk Universe game
- Nouns Esports renewed its partnership with Matcha
- Parallel launched its Season 8 open beta gameplay
📱 Onchain social
- Bountycaster is now a complete Farcaster client
- EFP saw its first NFT list secondary sale
- Drakula unveiled a new memecoin-centric app on Base
- Warpcast released an update to its channels system
🪙 NFTfi
- Gondi facilitated a 632k USDC loan against two XCOPY pieces, Last Selfie and MORTAL
🌐 Virtual Worlds
- Nifty Island added support for Solana assets and is preparing to launch a Play-to-Earn system
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