What happens when you combine ‘Snake’ with Bitcoin? | Star News - July 11, 2024
Welcome to the latest edition of Star News. We’re back to our regular schedule following the 4th of July celebrations!??
This week, Attack on Titan joins the metaverse, and ‘Snake’ gets a web3 makeover. Let us know your thoughts on this week’s stories in the comments below!
?? June's top blockchain games are in! Pixels’ Chapter 2 update "broke the bots," according to community manager Heidi Christine. Boomland’s Hunters On-Chain kicked off its play-to-airdrop campaign, while Nine Chronicles and Alien Worlds continued their steady growth. See the complete analysis from BlockchainGamer.biz below.
?? From Rabbids to The Voice, we’ve highlighted several @The Sandbox partnerships at Star News. Attack on Titan is the latest, bringing a themed area to the voxel metaverse valued at 1 billion dollars. Players will be able to claim a portion of the land as real estate NFTS. This partnership, which arrives later this year, is another example of The Sandbox using recognizable IP to introduce web3 mechanics to fans who may not have experienced NFTs within gaming before.
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?? The current crypto user onboarding process is complicated and riddled with friction points. That’s according to Chintan Turakhia, senior director of engineering at @Coinbase. Chintan shares that challenges such as setting up a wallet with a complicated seed phrase and paying transaction fees hinder mass crypto adoption in 2024. We recently described our own wallets-as-a-service solution as invisible, believing that wallets should be a seamless part of the gaming experience. Read the full Coinbase interview below.?
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?? Snake. It’s a classic game that has now been given the web3 treatment thanks to developers @THNDR. As spotlighted in Cointelegraph Magazine, the title combines the familiar gameplay of Snake with the objective of picking up tickets. The more tickets collected, the higher the chance of winning a weekly prize pool of Bitcoin. Can this raffle system be described as play-to-earn? Let us know your thoughts!
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?? The author of this week’s final article is our very own Founder and CEO, @Canaan Linder, who is penning an opinion piece for crypto news! We’ve proposed a new way to categorize web3 gamers by analyzing their behavior and motivation for gaming. Take a look below.?
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