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The latest addition to the Epic Games Store goes by way of Blankos Block Party, an NFT-powered game published by Mythical Games. Although already possessing a reported one million users, the Web3 game designed for Mac usage will now be exposed to the almost 200 million user base...
Ukraine’s crypto wallet has officially sold the CryptoPunk NFT which it received back in March as part of the country’s crypto fundraising campaign. The sale of the Punk was announced earlier this week by Alex Bornyakov, the country’s deputy minister of digital transformation, wherein he stated that the...
A recent policy update of China’s leading social media network WeChat has instated that accounts which provide access to crypto or NFT-related services are no longer allowed on the platform.  More specifically, the new guidelines have ruled that any of the platform’s 1.1 billion active daily accounts that are...
Cristiano Ronaldo, the arguable GOAT of football that has a following of 459 million on Instagram, has inked a multi-year deal with industry leading Web3 platform Binance. The partnership sees Ronaldo (a.k.a.CR7) join a consortium of high-profile football players who’ve also dived into Web3, such as Brazil’s Neymar...
For the second time in just over seven months, world-renowned magazine Rolling Stone has teamed up with Bored Ape Yacht Club to launch an exclusive NFT offering. The co-branded digital collectibles on offer this time around is a pair of 1/1 art print NFTs based on apes of both...
In an exciting turn of events, UniSwap Labs, founders of Ethereum-based crypto exchange UniSwap, has acquired NFT aggregation platform Genie. Genie is the first NFT marketplace aggregation platform to allow users to discover and trade NFTs across almost any marketplace. Through its acquisition, UniSwap will expand its products into ERC-20...
As planned, Sky Mavis, the studio behind the ever-popular P2E Web3 game Axie Infinity, has announced that it will be closing the ‘Classic’ version of the game (a.k.a. Axie Infinity V2) once Season 21 ends on June 24th.  In wake of the closing, Sky Mavis will continue developing Axie Infinity...
In a deal which combines the global reach and reputation of an indisputable e-commerce powerhouse with the extensive know-how of one of the leading platforms within the Web3 space, eBay has acquired UK-based NFT marketplace KnownOrigin. The deal was completed on June 22nd, with further details of the acquisition...
In what can quite possibly be seen as an effort to rejuvenate the NFT market amid these bearish times, one of the biggest NFT platforms of them all, Rarible, has announced that it has lowered its marketplace fees by over 50%.  Prior to the company’s announcement of the change in...
NFT scaling platform Immutable has launched a $500 million ‘Immutable Ventures’ fund dedicated to developing Web3 games and NFT projects. The dedicated pile of cash, which is Immutable’s inaugural development fund, comes just three months after the company raised $200 million in a Series C funding round led by...