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Bitcoin mining giant Hashrate is going after the halving's Epic Sat and may go after many of the first Runes mints, of which now only the first will be hardcoded. Magic Eden is launching a Runes platform. Also, the Quantum Cats just published the whitepaper for CatVM, a solution that can actualize slicker trading UX around Runes, plus a proposal for reenabling OP_CAT, a Bitcoin opcode that CatVM would depend on, was just updated. The Runes era is just beginning, the sparks have begun to fly, and the coming implications are big for Ordinals and beyond. You ready?
๐ฐ General news
- 3DNS reached 10k tokenized DNS domains
- ethOS sold out its regular order phone mint
- Enjoy kicked off its latest $ENJOY tipping allocation
- Kraken unveiled its multichain Kraken Wallet featuring NFT support
- The Fellowship of ENS pledged to protect ENS DAO from governance attacks
- Wayfinder demo'd AI-powered transactions on Ethereum, Base, and Polygon
- Yuga Labs opened preorders for the CryptoPunks: Free to Claim book
- Zapper added support for tracking Solana assets
๐จ Cryptoart & music
- 0xfff announced Honest Work, an onchain conceptual art drop
- Art Blocks unveiled a new homepage experience and announced its 4th Marfa Weekend event
- Deca rolled out artist leaderboards
- Fingerprints acquired 2 editions of Bushi's conceptual SNOW CRASH series
- Highlight launched creator rewards and minting with $DEGEN
- John Karel dropped Death and Taxes on Base
- Misha de Ridder is releasing glitch via Fingerprints on April 25th
- Redlion Gazette presented its final issue
- Supermetal Bosch x Yeche Lange are releasing King-Mega Morphing Mons on Solana next week
๐ Digital collectibles
- Messhup intro'd Mintamons on Base
- Sofamon launched its EigenLayer collection
๐ฑ Onchain social
- Bello intro'd searching via Lens Profiles
- Warpcast rolled out a new priority ordering system for replies
๐ฎ Decentralized gaming
- Axie Infinity intro'd the Daily Bounty Board
- Crypto the Game finished Season 2 with Player #733, a collective backing Tornado Cash's legal defense fund, winning the 80 ETH prize pot
- Fantasy, a social TCG, opened FAN points claims for Bitcoin Puppets, Mad Lads, Milady, Pudgy Penguins, and Quantum Cats holders
- Parallel is preparing for players to test its new Bonds asset-sharing guild system
- Ragnarok: Monster World is coming to Ronin
- Realms offered 100k $LORDS grants for 5 teams to build new games on the Realms L3
- YOLO GAMES unveiled a 60 second-mode to its ETH/USD Moon or Doom game
- Yuga Labs sold its HV-MTL and Legends of the Mara (LoTM) titles to Faraway
๐ช NFTfi
- Arcade launched $ARCD on Ethereum
- Astaria added $ONCHAIN as a supported collateral type and intro'd the Daily Claim
- NFTfi.com is partnering with NFTX to add support for NFTX pool positions as collateral
๐ Virtual worlds
- Decentraland published its Q1 2024 Foundation report
- Spline intro'd AI 3D generation
- โ๏ธ Infinite Story Machine โ A commemorative drop for my Ethereum Investor Club essay, which you can read in full here; 0.001 ETH per mint, 20% of proceeds go to Ethereum core devs via Protocol Guild.
- โ Mintโ A vibey drop by Stephan Dybus depicting a cute character smashing a "Mint" button with his face. He's just like us fr. 0.000777 ETH per mint, a little bit under one day remaining!
- โญ GLYPHS โ Created by Chris Martz, this interactive drop highlights Zora's HTML support with an endlessly churning sea of colorful geometric glyphs; 0.005 ETH per mint, edition of 1,000.
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Have you heard of Star Atlas? It's a multiplayer sci-fi game and one of the most promising rising titles in the Solana gaming scene.
Take note, then, because tomorrow, April 20th, Star Atlas is running a couple of playtests for its new faction vs. faction vs. faction game mode, Surge.
The format looks like a fun arena shooter, and testers will be able to earn rewards ranging from Common Crews to Rare Crews for future battles.
If you're keen to dive in, be sure to head over to the Star Atlas Discord and see if you can snag an access code before the Surge tests begin!
- โ๏ธ L3s Explained Like I'm Five - David Tso
- ๐จ Art in the Age of Crypto Reproduction - Li Jin
- ๐ The Creator Is the Brand - YB
- ๐ช CENTS as a Store of Value - Become.eth
- ๐ $NOUNS? Big If True - Nounsletter
- ๐ฑ Programmable Anythings and Headless Apps - Jared Hecht