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• Work w/ the Mythical Games Team • August 29, 2025 launch date?

$3.2M mcap $10.4M FDV 90 ETH liq

10% Ecosystem 19.2% Investors 20% Team 50.8% Community

• Treeverse announce $END token and release token whitepaper — View Here • Azuki TCG docs released — View Here • Interest see the $PIXEL token will soon shift towards staking/governance with goal to lock most in staking & $vPIXEL contracts to unlock fiat spend • Some interest listen are Game Economist Cast: Best Web3 Arguments + Animoca Brands: Spearheading Web3 Adoption in Asia with Kaia + GameMakers: HTML5 Gaming is back but this time it's different

TLDR • 📉 Burn reduced from $7.5M/year to $3.8M/year (Goal: $3M) 💸 Runway: ~$2.4M in stables, extendable to $3.2M via FlowDesk recovery ✂️ 15 contributors let go, publishing stack retired 🔚 Treasure Chain proposed to be shut down (cost: $450K/year) 🎯 Key Products: Bridgeworld, Smolworld, Marketplace, AI Agents 🧠 AI tech: Agents interacting on-chain with NFTs, Unity clients ⚰️ Grant model killed: No more MAGIC giveaways without value return 📜 Governance proposals coming: strategy ratification, asset withdrawals, marketplace relocation

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• Not many GDC announcements + not as many physical booths + sentiment was very poor (likely lowest ever for Web3 gaming so far). Add more information about GDC insights and learnings soon but good to see LimitBreak technology is now expand to Ronin (721C/1155C/20C) • Forgotten Runiverse now on iOS + approved for Nintendo/PlayStation/Xbox. Global early access on March 26 • Slingshot DAO release $SLING token: $1.4m mcap, $41m FDV (as of write) — DexScreener • FAME Network (Powering Rumble Arcade) launch $FAME token: $807k mcap, $4.1m FDV (as of write) — DexScreener • Interest read on the Showdown(#1 ranked MTG & #1 ranked Hearthstone) building TCG on MegaETH (they are also raising) • Another interest listen is the "goodGame — How Long will this Bear Market Last?" since gaming sector has performed very bad all this time, helpful especially for founders navigating this period • Karel is now stepping back as co-founder of Treasure DAO after 3 years ($MAGIC as of write — $42.9m mcap, $49.7m FDV) • 4 new funding rounds announced — Kamigotchi World (they also complete community echo round), Slingshot DAO, PlaysOut and Game Beast (now Ephyra AI)

List of all Web3 gaming side events for GDC! Drop a DM if you'll be around to meet @kapital_k @wassiecapital 👋 Hope helpful wuwu 😆

• Excite for the GDC, see you all ❤️ • Interest read on the PIXELS Ronin Validator (100% validator commission will go back to Pixels Community when $PIXEL staking goes live in early April 2025) • Revolving Games 2025 Roadmap — Project Nova Mobile & PC Client Launch in May 2025 and $RCADE TGE on May 22, 2025 • Can claim key to try ARBO: Arena Tactics Steam Playtest — Link • Another interest infographic on entire Runiverse ecosystem by Arualex (Twitter) — View Here • 2 new funding rounds announced — Sugarverse (Casual mobile studio on Tezos) & M10 (Shooter studio on Sui)

Very important watch especially since >75% of Web3 games have explored either Browser, PWA (Progressive Web App), or TWA (Telegram Web App) builds beyond Steam/Epic/Apple/Google 🌐 — Watch Here • The history of browser gaming and where it stands today • The limitations that have historically prevented the browser from becoming a mainstream platform for AAA-quality gaming • The forces of change that are expanding the browser gaming category • The current size of the browser gaming market, and it is expected to grow in the medium term • The web technologies that enable high-fidelity browser gaming experiences • Whether most console streaming services will end up in the browser

• Treeverse announce their launch on Windows + Google Play Store, BEAM Nodes now live (user can start delegate $BEAM) + PlayDuper announce ACE migration 🎮 • Some interest listen are Deconstructor of Fun: Future of Skill-Based Gaming especially since see more games pivot towards skill-based PvP (instead of P2E) + Blockchain Gaming World interview w/ Hilmar Peturrson regarding EVE Frontier Ethos & Building Better Games: The Real Cost of Founding a Game Startup — Very apt especially for Web3 game studios & founders trying to survive the bear market 📉 • Interest see today strategic equity investment from ATMA (Developers of Star Atlas) into Shaga (Decentralized Cloud Gaming Platform) 🎮

• Today another studio also announce shut down — Speaks volume about even trying to survive is hard 🥺 • Interesting to see how Parallel TCG mobile performs (March 18) when launch on traditional app stores as Web3 elements will likely be obfuscated and only accessible in D2C web shop / browser) 🤔 • Interesting read from Ronin about the Ronin Growth Playbook (Share they experience from Axie, Pixels, etc) • WILDCARD release they $WC whitepaper (100% community unlock) — But believe there is a governance token that will be issued later on as well*)

• Today another studio also announce shut down — Speaks volume about even trying to survive is hard 🥺 • Interesting to see how Parallel TCG mobile performs (March 18) when launch on traditional app stores as Web3 elements will likely be obfuscated and only accessible in D2C web shop / browser) • Interesting read from Ronin about the Ronin Growth Playbook (Share they experience from Axie, Pixels, etc) •

They are also pausing the development of the creature-collector game, Anterris 🫤