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Crypto:The Game just went live: https://x.com/cryptothegame_/status/1752055176087933225?s=46&t=rJz-hourJzoZWBXdtmfPxQ

Lord of a Few (Loot Realms) on the Rise of Micro Studios https://x.com/lordOfAFew/status/1751804175514783774?s=20

Treasure Chain to use $MAGIC as Gas Token https://x.com/themeiquer/status/1751293147450069257?s=52&t=rJz-hourJzoZWBXdtmfPxQ

https://twitter.com/aiwaifugg — AI Waifu Companion Game that will be building on Blast Being built by Virtual Protocol (Former PathDAO) using their Virtuals Stack

THE WATCH will be launching their Alpha Access on February 2. The game is now available for wishlisting on Epic Games https://x.com/TheWatchCom/status/1750911555695202546?s=20

Mon Studios raises $1.35m from 32Bit Ventures, Momentum6, Yunt Capital, D64 Ventures, County Capital and various angels to continue building Spellborne https://x.com/spellbornegame/status/1750881437405106472?s=20

Weekly Onchain Gaming Roundup #18 Headlines • Realms World marketplace is now live • Autonomous Worlds Name Service launches on Base • $LORDS-$ETH pool now available on Nostra Read More Below 👇 ------------------------------- 📰 FOCG Bulletin (News, Releases, and Updates) • BNB Chain Hackathon focused on fully onchain applications • Cartridge pledges $4,000 bounty for the best game built with Dojo in the upcoming Starknet Winter hackathon • Cellula’s Ambassador Program reaches 400+ applicants • Dark Fores Ares v0.1 Round 2: Pinkship is ongoing • Gabby World $MANTA rewards for Beta v1 Season 2 is now available to claim • Influence Marketplace sneak peek • Midnight Heist final public playtest live, $10,000 worth of free entries up for grabs • Mithraeum will soon launch mini-games, which are accelerated tournaments • Nine Chronicles Rune balancing update and Guild roster reveal • Paima integrates Hardhat • Pirate Nation collaborates with Skyborne Legacy and Revolving games to give out WL spots • Realms World is approaching 5000+ games played on mainnet • Rising Revenant second round of beta testing • Sky Strife has added the custom Mountain Pass map to their game • Sky Strife World Sky League Season 2 is underway • Solana Civ v0.2.1 is now available on devnet • Tarochi reveals new art for battles • Words3 community airdrops rewards to participants of their first Words3 community round • Zeebit $USDT and $SOL betting, and onchain leaderboard in now available on Mainnet Alpha • Zeebit short-term roadmap ------------------------------- 📖 Must-Reads • 5 fully onchain gaming coins to keep an eye on • Airdrop Meta in 2024 • Building a Multiplayer Media Empire: Loot + Collaborative Worldbuilding • Pistols at Ten Blocks cheat sheet • Dope Wars x Mean Streets Developer Update • Everything you need to know about Pirate Nation’s Exploration • Eternum weekly dev log • January recap of everything that happened in Lorak • Overview of the Tilt blockchain • Pirate Nation PvP alpha • The Future of the MUD Ecosystem • The State of Funding For Onchain Games ------------------------------- 📺 Must-Watch (Videos, Podcasts) • Arbitrum x Cosmik Battle • Autonomous Worlds Assembly Instanbul Recordings • Autonomous worlds and godless games • Cafe Cosmos January Updates • Cairo Workshop Part 3 • Loot Survivor 2 • Midnight Heist Strategy by Kix • Pirate Nation PvP Tips and Tricks ------------------------------- 🔎 Onchain Discoveries (Newly Spotted) • Crypterra (@Crypterra_app) - onchain deck-building game set in a sci-fi universe • Kist - hex based unlock game from the Realms World LH grant program • Omnizone (@omnizonegame) - fully onchain game that combines tactical role-playing elements with a high-stakes battle royale format, running on omnichain

Gods Unchained now live on Epic Games Store https://x.com/GodsUnchained/status/1750549145511752141?s=20

Aurory: Hatchathon (Jan 24 - Feb 7) https://x.com/AuroryProject/status/1750207997366653132?s=20

👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — Jan 18 to Jan 24 🔄 Gaming Updates • Fusionist — Released ACE Arena (Web-based pixel-style MOBA) • WorldShards — Moving towards Early Access • Paragonds DAO — Released 2023 Treasury Report • Axie Infinity — Launched Homeland Beta • Mahjong Meta — Token System Update • Rumble Racing Star — Launched mobile release & $RRS Point Program (Exchangable for $DELABS in the future) • Blast Royale — Q1 2024 Dev UpdateDevelopment • DeLabs — Playtest for Pass Holders • Pixelmon — Launched MON Protocol, future of IP Governance • Nifty Island — Launched Open Beta (Ongoing Points Program) • Engines of Fury — Token in 2024 • Moonfrost — Dev Update & LiveStream (Jan 25) • Bladerite — Live on mobile & PC • MixMob — Snapshot soon prior to TGE • Mavia — Global mobile launch on Jan 31 • BLOCKLORDS — Released info on upcoming GameDrop • Footium — Transtitioning to Arbitrum • Endless Couds — Partnering up with IMX 🔖 Gaming Reads • AI Arena — $NRN P2A event details • Matthew Ball — The Tremendous yet Troubled State of Gaming in 2024 • Daniel (Supervillian Labs) — Web3 Games Shouldn't Focus on Earning Through Token Farming • Conglomerate (TheCoreLoop) — Deep Dive into Tilt Blockchain • Jonathan Huang (Bitkraft) — Reflections on game design, target market & VC-funding for games based on Palworld's Success • Aiko (Folius Ventures) — How a small team managed to create a blockbuster game in Palworld • Jihoz (Axie Infinity) — Learnings from Pixels Online • RealJonahBlake (RealThirdWeb) — Why Palworld is popular & what Web3 can learn from it (marketing-wise) • Sparkc (Wolves DAO) — How Web3 Games can learn from Palworld's Success • JACL (Delphi) — How Palworld gained attention but not thru game design • TIN (Sipher) — What we can learn from Palworld • Karel Vuong (TreasureDAO) — Builders Dilemma ▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens • Smolverse for Beginners • Gamecraft — State of Play: 2024 💸 Gaming Fundraising • Beacon — Secured Arbitrum Grant hope helpful wuwu 😆💞 — https://t.me/thecoreloopweb3

Ronin Bulletin #3 Headlines • Google is now a Ronin Network validator • Pixels ends their p2a campaign with 225k unique wallets, $1m farm land volume, and $300k+ rev • Huge updates to the Ronin Wallet Read More Below 👇 ------------------------------- Apeiron • Launched their play-to-airdrop campaign • Reached 14,610+ active wallets ------------------------------- Axie Infinity • $AOC tokens migrated to Ronin • Axie Raylights can now be played directly from Mavis Hub • Homeland Beta is coming soon • Origins Hotfix deployed to fix minor bugs • Released onboard.axiedao.org platform • Updates to upcoming Homeland Beta ------------------------------- The Machines Arena • Beta Season 2 is ending on January 29 • Loyalty reward skin revealed for S2 ------------------------------- Other Updates • Battle Bears airdrop campaign for a chance to win a Blue Ronin Skin and $RON packs • Pixels releases details on what to expect after their p2a campaign • Ronin Wallet now supports Ethereum, Polygon, and BNB Chain • Wild Forest Patch Fix version is available on Android and iOS

Weekly Onchain Gaming Roundup #17 Headlines • Kix, currently building the Tilt chain, is calling all PvP-focused FOCG builders • TarochiG will feature mobile support for S1 • Land, Labor, and Capital secures Questbook x Arbitrum grant Read More Below 👇 ------------------------------- 📰 FOCG Bulletin (News, Releases, and Updates) • Arcane Assembler announces a fully playable version of their game, playtest coming soon • AW Research opens up registration for upcoming AW Laboratory London Hackathon • ARPA launches an AW X Spaces series • Cosmik Battle launches their Captain Fit's FIT FOR SPACE Challenge • Crypts and Caverns edition of Loot Survivor competition • Crypts and Caverns resets their leaderboard due to some bugs encountered • Dark Forest Arena Speedrun: Epoch 2 is live • Demo of the WalletConnect support coming to Tarochi season 1 • Dojo v0.5.0 is out • Force Prime Heroes’ first onchain tournament is coming soon • Komorebi's Hacker House for Autonomous World/Fully on-chain game builders in Denver • Loot Royalty DAO will move to BiblioDAO Frontinus House • Nine Chronicles in the top 5 for the highest web3 games transactions • Pre-registration for Dark Forest ARES v0.1 Round 2: Pinkship is now open • SolCiv v0.2.0 is out with significant updates • Winners from the Dojo Holiday Game Jam • Words3 is back, community rounds hosted by WASD and [WE] • World Sky League Season 2 is underway, the biggest Sky Strife tournament • Zeebit mainnet alpha testing round 2 ------------------------------- 📖 Must-Reads • $PAPER and $LORDS monetary experiment by cs_eth • 2024 predictions from StarkWare • apix's top 4 favorite onchain games from the Dojo Holiday Game Jam • Blade Games 2023 Year in Review by Blade DAO • Everything You Need To Know About Words3 by WASD • How Influence is building the biggest onchain game of 2024 by apix • Loot Survivor Deep Dive by Raiden • Pirate Nation Deep Dive by persun_sami • Realms: Week in Review - Pistols at 10 Blocks Fasted Draw at Dojo Game Jam by Herald of Loot • Sky Strife Advanced Gameplay Mechanics by Composable Hub • Summary of initial feedback from Rising Revenant’s first playtest • The Arena: Canvas Wrench Guide by Composable Hub • Untangling the Threads: The Inspirations behind Chain Of Trust • Why is $LORDS dumping? by NFTBulbhead ------------------------------- 📺 Must-Watch (Videos, Podcasts) • The Cookhouse Calls Calls Ep. 1 - ft. Kix from Tiltyard • DQ Season 4: Mithraeum AMA • Primer on Midnight Heist, pre-final playtest • Web3 + Gaming. Charles & Paima talk Autonomous Worlds ------------------------------- 🔎 Onchain Discoveries (Newly Spotted) • Arcane Assembler (@ArcaneAssembler): a play2die spellcrafting game made using Dojo within Realms World • Movescriptions (@MoveScriptions): MRC20 with SFT &NFT&FT functions; first smart inscriptions building $MOVE Autonomous World on Sui • The CookHouse Calls (@CookhouseCalls) - FOCG/AW podcast hosted by @0xChanglu, powered by Catalyst

Jan 17 Recap 🧠 Research Threads: • Delphi Digital: Year ahead for Gaming 2024 — Link 📰 Product Updates: • Limit Break: Released PermitC as free & open-sourced to make NFTs better and safer (helps stop wallet drains of ERC20/721/1155 tokens and NFTs) - Link • Rumble Racing Star: Mobile Playable on Jan 18 for Delabs Adventure Pass holders - Link • Mixmob: Capsule Opening Party (Jan 19) - Link • Beam: Haven's Compass (Futuristic FPS built on UE5) will be launching on Beam - Link • Axie Infinity: Origins AXP Update - Link • Tiltyard: Creating an FOCG blockchain that offers a user-friendly experience with no gas fees, quick email signup, integrated wallets, tournament infrastructure, development support, and incentives for developers that launch PvP FOCG games that are played a lot - Link 👀 Actionable: • Nifty Island Open Beta and start of Play-To-Airdrop Campaign (Jan 18) - Link • FOCG token deploying on top of OP as L3 app with Loot style NFTs and sub 10m mc 👀📃 - Link hope helpful wuwu 😆💞 — TCL ❤️

Ronin Bulletin #2 Headlines • Ronin is the top 1 blockchain for the largest increase in active addresses (2nd straight month), and top 3 blockchain in DAU at 585k • Apeiron goes live on Mavis Hub • $SLP Monetary Policy has been updated Read More Below 👇 ------------------------------- Apeiron • Play-to-win $ANIMA campaign has started • Partners with The Machines Arena for PvP playtest access • Planet, S2.R Apostles, and $RON stakers now have a chance to win an Apeiron Star land NFT ------------------------------- Axie Infinity • Axie Merch Store is closing soon to prepare for the release of the next collection • Axie Origin Coin (AOC) tokens are migrating to Ronin • Origins Season 7 is now live, with some balancing updates • Premium Cursed Coliseum is now live in Axie Classic • $SLP returns to Axie Classic via Premium Cursed Coliseum ------------------------------- Wild Forest • Season 3, "The Power of Battle" begins • Latest patch v0.0.1 is out, with the introduction of Damage Numbers • Create New Wild Forest Unit contest is ongoing until January 19th ------------------------------- Other Updates • Chomp Squad is now an official guild on Pixels • CyberKongz VXs are coming to Nifty Island's Open Beta, with a boost in $ISLAND allocation • Footprint Analytics is live on Ronin • Tribally Games has significant updates to their Pixels Timer tool • Tribesters Litepaper has been released

Jan 16 Recap 🧠 Research Threads: • How important Korea market is for global crypto + web3 gaming scene - Link • Web3 gaming sees a rise in social PvP mini-games with economic aspects - Link • Nifty Island: Play-To-Airdrop - Link • Fisher8 - Why we're bullish on Hytopia heading into 2024 and how this fits into our broader GameFi thesis - Link 📰 Product Updates: • Mighty Action Heroes Townhall Jan 16, 2024 - Link • OhBabyGames: Shogun's Curse enters Alpha Testing - Link • Apeiron now live on Mavis Hub - Link • Guild of Guardians: Regional Test Launch in Canada - Link • Skyweaver: Launched Season 29 - Link 🪂 Airdrop Announcement: • E4C: Final Salvation 1st NFT Governance Voting & Airdrop - Link • Nyan Heroes Early Access Play-to-Airdrop Announcement - Link 👀 Actionable: • Beramonium Staking is NOW Live - Link • PGX Staking: Stake to Mint (For Guaranteed Mint to Petopia NFT Sale) on Jan 16 - Link • Treeverse Care Package Mint (Jan 16) - Link • ChronoForge: Prospective Deed Mint for $CHRONOS (Jan 17, 5pm EST) - Link hope helpful wuwu 😆💞 — TCL ❤️

Weekly Onchain Gaming Roundup #16 Headlines • Over $2 million in funding for 5 FOCG projects | Link • 477 $WETH theft attempt from Loot treasury | Link • $274,871 of Starknet gaming tokens detected by Smart Money | Link • Realms World funding from Loot Royalty DAO | Link Read More Below 👇 ------------------------------- 📰 FOCG Bulletin (News, Releases, and Updates) • Bibliotheca DAO proposal BIP-28: Formation of Ecosystem Council • CafeCosmos new Jungle Theme • Cartridge partners with Dope Wars for DIP-87: Layers of Dope aka PAPERCHAIN • Mahjong Meta launched a new skill card • Mahjong Meta updates to their rewards system • Nine Chronicles Heimdall Arena Season 2 has started • Nine Chronicles' "Happy New Year Event," 20% off for essential items • Paima Studios developed a tool to generate Docusaurus compatible docs for Solidity smart contracts • Pirate Nation new ATH for DAU • Sky Strife conducted their season pass mint • Sky Strife is now fully open source • Tarochi Game reaches 4500+ testnet players for Season 0 • Tiltyard final playtest next week, last chance for rewards towards $TILT airdrop • Zeebit Zeebros reveal went live, after selling out their NFTs • Zeebit mainnet alpha is now live ------------------------------- 📖 Must-Reads • 4 Onchain Games You Should Have on Your Radar | WASD • 6 key pillars for interoperability | PaimaStudios • A Lord's guide to Eternum | apix • A Look At Dojo Game Submissions | Composable Hub • Designing an Open Game Economy (Part 1) | 0xHeimdall • Difference between Autonomous Worlds and the Metaverse | raulonastool • Early Alpha: Tarochi Game | yellowpantherx • Essay 1: Autonomous Agents in Autonomous Worlds | James Brodie • Realms • a history in TLDR format | Schmeaulin • Starknet Gaming Map | Starknet • Summary on what caused the $PAPER pump | Composable Hub • The Herald Special Issue #1: Unkillable Loot and the Mad Lords of BiblioDAO | heraldofloot • The Loot Comeback Thesis • 2 Year Anniversary of Loot | TianranZhang • Zeebit Zeebros NFT Utility | Zeebit ------------------------------- 📺 Must-Watch (Videos, Podcasts) • #13 • Game UX in onchain games with Primodium and Realms.World | OwnerOfJK • Cafe Cosmos: Remembering 2023 | CafeCosmosHQ • InStarkStream-Gaming Magazine | Nurstar • Loot Survivor: On-chain mini-game on Starknet | WORLDS • Realms on L3: provable games with Cartridge & Starknet | Realms.World • Sky Strife Walkthrough | Fun Blocks ------------------------------- 🔍 Onchain Discoveries (Newly Spotted) • Modular Onchain Spaceships (MOCS)@MOCS_GG: a turn-based onchain rogue game • Onchain Clash @OnchainClash: seamlessly blending territorial claims and expansion dynamics inspired by Pixel War, Go Game, and Paperio • words3 community @words3xyz: WASD and World Explorers community rounds on Base

Axie Infinity announces updates to $SLP Monetary Policy 💰 • Supply capped at 44 billion • 2 SLP minted to buyback and stability fund (for every 10 SLP burned) • Target is to hit 2% deflation for SLP (In 2023, SLP deflation was 2.8%) Reward currencies ($SLP) - Can be emitted rapidly but need stable value and deep liquidity Value accrual tokens ($AXS, $RON) - Can be emitted slower but need to be designed to coordinate work between participants & designed to appreciate based on network value

DoubleTap Podcast - Episode 03 with Yat Siu (Chairman at Animoca Brands) - Link • Insights into digital ownership and shareholder capitalism • Animoca Brands has quite a lot of projects / portcos that are set to launch so its always great to see where their heads are at and given the trend of playdrop, there could be some opportunities on that end 👀

Ronin Bulletin #1 — Aggregation of major Ronin-related announcements and updates Link Brought to you by thecoreloop 🤝

Pixelmon - Launched their community pre-sale for $MON (more details to be released closer to TGE) - Link • Guaranteed Lots will be given to Pixelmon & Gold Trainer NFTs • Pixelmon NFT holders & Trainers will also be given waitlist codes to share with friends and family • Each code is redeemable once Visit presale.monprotocol.ai to claim & redeem waitlist spot