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Gunzilla Games, a Frankfurt-based gaming studio, has raised $30 million in combined funding to bolster the development of its forthcoming web3 title Off The Grid. This cyberpunk battle royale third-person shooter, alongside Gunz – the studio’s blockchain-based platform – is set to benefit from this influx of capital with increased development resources. The funding round…

Today marks the launch of ‘AnimeChain’—a collaborative anime-focused venture by the creators of Azuki (Chiru Labs), alongside the Weeb3 Foundation and Arbitrum. Pooling their resources together, this blockchain platform, powered by the Arbitrum network, aims to be a one-stop solution for anime and web3 lovers.  Revolving around a community-governed approach, it offers an abundance of perks to…

Worldwide Asset Exchange (WAX) has announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to integrate the WAX ecosystem into the Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) service. The partnership seeks to leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure to enhance accessibility and scalability for developers utilizing the WAX platform through the WAX AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). This…

The OPEN Ticketing Ecosystem, formerly GET Protocol, has held its official launch, providing a onchain alternative to solve the problems of the global ticketing industry. Utilising Polygon, Base, Solana and Tezos – and backed by Animoca, Merit Circle, Redbeard Ventures & the Tezos Foundation – OPEN aims to restore control of event ticketing back to…

In a highly unfortunate turn of events, the Blast NFT game ‘Munchables’ faced a significant $62 million loss late last night owing to a security breach by a developer. During the fateful night of the hack, the Munchables team swiftly pinpointed the source of the violation. An X update in the early hours this morning revealed that a…

The popular web3 farming game Pixels is evolving. A new $PIXEL airdrop starts today, and starting tomorrow, Farm Land NFTs will be bridgeable to the Ronin Network. Sky Mavis—the creators of Axie Infinity—are leading the Pixels NFTs onto its very own EVM blockchain to improve land transactions on the Mavis Marketplace. Ronin is favorable for scaling gaming…

The Metaplex Foundation recently announced Metaplex Core, an innovative NFT protocol for the Solana ecosystem designed to reduce users’ costs and enhance developer accessibility. Now live on the Solana devnet, the NFT token standard cuts NFT creation costs by more than  80%, from $4.25 (0.0220 SOL) to just $0.70 (0.0037 SOL), while simultaneously reducing the strain on…

Polygon Labs, a leader in Ethereum scalability, has geared up with ChainGPT, a pioneer in AI-driven web3 applications, to enhance NFTs through the power of machine learning.  Fusing ChainGPT’s AI-powered NFT Generator with Polygon’s blockchain infrastructure, this partnership provides blockchain creators with a straightforward interface for seamless NFT creation and deployment. With ChainGPT’s creation of over…

Avalanche and Alipay+ D-store are brewing up a web3 voucher program for Chinese tourists, cutting the cost of milk tea by up to 50% at over 500 spots from 10 leading vendors across Southeast Asia. MUA DAO—an Avalanche portfolio company—crafts the program’s interactive mini-games alongside digital assets that are usable on mainstream metaverse platforms. Upon completing…

On the sly, Google introduced a feature that integrates on-chain data for Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domains into its search results nearly a year ago.  ENS uses ERC-721 NFTs to map Ethereum addresses, typically random alphanumeric strings, to easy-to-remember names, functioning as a domain system on the Ethereum blockchain. In May 2023, Google Search started…