NASA and Epic Games team up to post a challenge to help build a ‘Martian Metaverse’. Samsung plans to create its own Metaverse and creates a dedicated task force. Crypto.com Capital participates in the $7.5M funding round for Nyan Heroes, a play-to-earn AAA battle royale shooter.
Key Takeaways
- NASA has teamed up with Epic Games, posting a challenge to help build a ‘Martian metaverse’ experience with the help of Unreal Engine 5. The aim is to help prepare astronauts for the experiences and situations that will be encountered on Mars.
- Last Friday, Samsung’s Vice Chairman Han Jong-hee revealed that Samsung is planning to create their own version of the metaverse. The company has reportedly created a dedicated task force to explore metaverse topics.
- Nyan Heroes recently closed a $7.5M funding round with the help of Crypto.com Capital, among others. The game is a AAA Battle Royale shooter, and is focusing on building an immersive gameplay experience with sustainable play-to-earn mechanics.
- The total market cap for GameFi tokens now stands at US$34.98 billion, down -14.56% from last week.
Highlights
- Untamed Planet gets US$24.3M to build natural world in metaverse
- P2E game Illuvium preps auction of 20,000 virtual plots
- NFT Plazas launches world’s first automated Metaverse advertising system
- Ready Games raises $3M to bring Web2 gaming to the Web3 world
- ‘Tamagotchi on crack’: Irreverent Labs raises $40M for NFT cockfighting game
- Jamestown spending $500M to bring the Metaverse experience to Times Square
- The Vatican is creating a Metaverse art gallery
- Susquehanna leads $10M funding in metaverse platform StarryNift
- The Global Esports Federation sets up the Metaverse council
- League of Kingdoms game introduces new-gen play-to-earn mechanics
- Lighthouse raises $7M to be the search engine of the Metaverse
Game Updates
- Axie Infinity: Origin goes live for Android devices
- Axie Infinity releases marketplace update
- Metamon team to use transaction fees to buy back metamons
- Sunflower Land releases new features
- New patch notes for Super Galactic
Top Gainers and Losers
*Gaming Utility tokens: AXS, MANA, SAND, ALICE, ILV, ATLAS, POLIS, GODS, GMT, DAR, AURY, APE, PYR
*Gaming Guild tokens: YGG, MC, UNIX, GGG, AGV
Top Games Metrics
* Users refer to the number of unique wallet addresses interacting with the dApp’s smart contracts
* Weekly Volume refers to the total amount of incoming value to the dApp’s smart contracts during the 7-day period
* Weekly Transactions refer to the no. of transactions made on the dApp’s smart contracts during the 7-day period
* Stickiness refers to the ratio of daily active users (DAU) to monthly active users (MAU). A high stickiness means users consistently return to the dApp.
* Weekly volume using Splinterland data is approx US$818K.
* Splinterlands, Alien Worlds, MOBOX, Bomb Crypto, Axie Infinity, DeFi Kingdoms, Pegaxy, X World Games data from DappRadar
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