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An artificial intelligence (AI)-based, cat-themed gaming altcoin is reaching new all-time highs after being abruptly listed by the world’s largest crypto exchange platform by volume. In a new announcement, crypto exchange Binance says that it will be adding Catizen (CATI) to its suite of products starting on September 20th. “Binance is excited to announce that Catizen will be added to Binance Simple Earn, ‘Buy Crypto’, Binance Convert, Binance Margin and Binance Auto-Invest.” Catizen is a play-to-earn, The Open Network (TON)-based blockchain game launched in March that allows users to take on the role of a town’s mayor, managing an entire virtual city of felines to earn rewards. TON is a layer-1 blockchain that used to be operated by the prominent messaging app Telegram. It has since been under the leadership of an independent network of developers. According to data from the crypto exchange KuCoin, Catizen has over 34 million users, 3.5 million dail...

Taki DAO says the partnership with Flowdesk will help supercharge liquidity for TAKI, the native token of the Taki Games ecosystem. The partnership follows TAKI’s expansion to Polygon in December.  Taki DAO and Flowdesk, a full-service digital asset trading technology firm with market making and OTC services, have announced a key partnership that will see the latter extend its market making services to the TAKI token. The integration means Flowdesk now provides liquidity for TAKI, the native token of the Taki Games Network. TAKI powers Taki Games’ rewards across its ecosystem of popular mobile games, Taki DAO announced on Thursday. “T aki Games is on a mission to bring gaming’s 3B users and $200B in revenues on chain, which means that liquidity is crucial to absorbing increasing sizes of TAKI purchases to power our rewards system. We’re excited to see Flowdesk partner with the TAKI DAO to help make this system more seamless ...

Sky Mavis is the developer of the blockchain-based blockchain Axie Infinity. The partnership brings Japanese Web2 games to Ronin Blockchain. Axie Infinity’s track record positions Ronin as a significant player in the NFT space. The native cryptocurrency of the popular blockchain-based game Axie Infinity, AXS, experienced a remarkable surge of 15% in its price today, closely tied to the recent announcement of a strategic partnership between Sky Mavis and Act Games. The collaboration aims to integrate a series of well-known Japanese video game franchises into the Ronin blockchain, providing an exciting new avenue for blockchain gaming enthusiasts. Axie Infinity developer’s partnership with Act Games  Axie Infinity’s developer, Sky Mavis, recently unveiled a groundbreaking partnership with the Korean Gaming studio Act Games. The partnership signifies a significant step forward in the integration of Japan ese Gaming franchises onto th...

Blockchain-based games platform says it has chosen Amazon Web Services to support for successful deal closures. Immutable, a web3 game development platform, is expanding its strategic partnerships list to accelerate mainstream adoption of video games built on the Ethereum blockchain. In a blog post on Oct. 11, the Sydney-based firm said it partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to make it easier for game developers to launch products on blockchain networks. “AWS is supercharging Immutable’s development by onboarding new game studios, and providing them with resources through our flagship AWS Activate startup program and AWS’s ISV Accelerate Program, which give them the tools to accelerate their global launch.” John Kearney, head of startups at AWS, Australia and New Zealand With AWS, Immutable wants to scale its upcoming offerings, such as Immutable zkEVM, a gaming chain built on Ethereum (ETH) that allows game developers to introduce customized digital owne...

Krafton’s Roblox-like video game is said to rely on generative artificial intelligence and be based on the game engine Unreal Engine 5. South Korea’s game developer Krafton, best known for its global mega-hit PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), is set to compete with Roblox with its new product, according to The Korea Economic Daily (KED), a business daily newspaper. As per the report, the new video game, Overdare (formerly Project Migaloo), is being developed with Naver Z, a metaverse unit of Naver Corp, a South Korean internet conglomerate. Overdare, a mobile-based user-generated content (UGC) platform, is expected to compete with The Sandbox and Roblox, popular building video games. The video game will use Unreal Engine 5 and generative artificial intelligence, although no details on the latter were provided. The report adds that Overdare allows players to customize their digital avatars and chat with friends. You might also like: The rise of b...

Sui 8192 is a tile-sliding puzzle game launched in October 2022 and is fully on-chain. Each move is recorded as a transaction on the Sui Network. A simple blockchain game has been behind a massive spike in daily transactions on the Sui Network, with one data platform even suggesting it has surpassed Solana in network activity. Similar to the 2014 viral browser-based puzzle game 2048, Sui 8192 is a sliding tile game where the players use their arrow keys to shift and combine tiles until they reach a tile worth 8192. It was first launched in October 2022. Each instance of the game mints a new object, similar to minting an NFT, and each move in the game is recorded as a transaction and thus requires a gas fee payment, according to a July 10 blog post from the Sui Foundation. Haha! Finallyyyy!!!! #sui 8192 @EthosWalletXYZ I got it. pic.twitter.com/xzau7SO0Fv — hagoyyds.bnb (@hagoyyds) July 16, 2023 The game was built by Sui wallet provider Ethos Wallet as the first wholly on-cha...

The total NFT market trading volume in Q1 hit $4.7 billion, more than doubling the previous quarter, while Square Enix dropped Final Fantasy trading cards that can't actually be traded, yet. Oddly, following news of a New York Grand Jury voting to indict former president Donald Trump on March 30, the floor price for the officially licensed Trump Digital Trading Cards NFT project pumped. According to data from OpenSea, NFT traders were seemingly spurred into action by the announcement, with the floor price moving from 0.46 Ether (ETH) or $835 at current prices, to as high as 0.6 ETH ($1090) on the same day. Trump Digital Trading Cards floor price. Source: OpenSea It is worth noting that when the project launched in December, it offered exclusive one-on-one experiences to certain NFT hodlers, such as private golf sessions, dinners and conversations with Trump. Given the indict ment news, it could potentially have an impact on the forty-fifth's potential to deliver on such exper...

The game aggregator will allow users to link their Web3 wallets to various games through crypto wallet provider MetaMask. HyperPlay, a Web3-native game launch er with a built -in crypto wallet , has announced its early access launch , according to a Mar. 1 announcement from the developer. The online game launcher was built in collaboration with crypto wallet provider MetaMask, aimed at integrating players' crypto wallets with game libraries such as Epic Games Store, GOG (formerly Good Old Games), and its own HyperPlay Store.  The new platform, founded by former Metamask operations lead, JacobC.eth, doesn’t charge developers any commissions and instead plans to rely on crypto services such as swaps and bridges to monetize the platform. Today, we’re excited to celebrate the early access alpha launch of https://t.co/tXbk7iBEWb, a game launcher that brings Web3 wallets into native games. We aggregate the @EpicGames store, @GOGcom, and our own store to overlay @MetaMask into game exper...

YouTube boxer Logan Paul, who was spearheading the CryptoZoo NFT project, has accused Coffeezilla of publishing “defamation” about him and the project. YouTuber Logan Paul has threatened to sue fellow YouTuber and internet detective Coffeezilla for defamation after he accused Paul’s CryptoZoo nonfungible token (NFT) project of being a “scam.” The two have been battling back and forth on both social media and YouTube videos ever since Dec. 17, when Stephen Findeisen — also known as Coffeezilla — launched the first of a three-part video series attacking CryptoZoo and Paul, who was the face of the project. “CryptoZoo was supposed to be a fun Blockchain game that can earn you money [...] but millions of dollars of investor money later, things are still broken,” he said. In his most recent response, Logan Paul published a YouTube video on Jan. 4 accusing the internet detective of having “led the charge to drive and monetize a narrative telling millions of people that I’m a fraud or I tried...