
BlackPool Bulletin #11
We know that our troops need to be one step ahead of the markets so our apes gathered the latest news about Play & Earn, NFTs, and Blockchain Games from the week.
This week in the news: Everai website is live, Vitalik stands with Ukraine, the first play & earn chess game is out, FTX is everywhere and Guild Of Guardians Closed Beta is coming.
GM GM Shaq!
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— SHAQ.ETH (@SHAQ) February 22, 2022
Table of Contents:
- OpenSea Phishing Attack
- Skyweaver Chief Storyteller interview and more Lore
- CheckMate, Mate
- Dolce & Gabbana & UNXD NFTs
- Guild Of Guardians Pre-Alpha
- Everai "Behind The Art" and Website is live
- Play & Earn types of gamers by Quirky Qwerty
- Risk & rewards by TradeButWhy
- Axie February Dev Update
- FTX Gaming: FTX new service to Web3 Companies
- BAYC hack victim sues Opensea
- Ethereum's 2016 DAO hacker identity revealed
- Daft Punk is back (but not with NFTs)
- OGame: New Generation
- Axie Infinity exceeds $4 billion in sales
- Blockchain Gaming & Polygon by Ryan Wyatt
- FTX Fashion & Luxury
- Sotheby's got punk'd
- Vitalik stands with Ukraine
- Illuvium will be the 'definition of a fair launch', according to its co-founder
- The role of NFTs in gaming by Animoca Brands
- From Play to Earn to Play and Earn by Philip La
- Web3 and Metaverse structure by Messari
- Communities above art and utilities by Wholelottajuju
1. OpenSea Phishing Attack
There's a lot of noise around what people call the OpenSea hack, so here are a few Twitter threads to help understand it better. Seems fishier than what people thought.
Seen confusion about the OS thing so.
— Neso (@Nesotual) February 20, 2022
Attacker had people sign half of a valid wyvern order, the order was basically empty except the target (attacker contract) and calldata, attacker signs other half of order.
Calling it now.
— ℭ𝔶𝔭𝔥𝔯.Ξ𝔱𝔥 (@CyphrETH) February 20, 2022
The hacker used a standard phishing email copying the genuine #Opensea one sent out a few days ago, then got a number of people to sign permissions with WyvernExchange.
No exploit, just people not reading sign permissions as normal. pic.twitter.com/bQj5JCzp6B
🏴☠️ OPENSEA NFT HACK EXPLAINED THREAD 🏴☠️
— isotile 🦇🔊 (@isotile) February 20, 2022
28 days ago the hacker uploads a new smart contract, he already knows well that his goal is to get as many signatures as possible
🧵 1/4 pic.twitter.com/WMD9JrrvII
— veCozy (@c0inalchemist) February 23, 2022
2. Skyweaver Chief Storyteller interview and more lore
NFT Insider interviewed Michael Sanders, the Chief Storyteller at Skyweaver.
We’ve seen the frustration that inconsistent or slow balance patches can create for the communities of other games, so ensuring we had a regular and frequent cadence for balance patches was important as a means of creating consistency for our players.
📢 Have @0xHorizonGames developed the world's best TCG?
— NFT Insider (@NFTInsider_io) February 19, 2022
Our interview with Michael Sanders, Chief Storyteller at @SkyweaverGame, is now live!
We discuss their game-first approach, the Web2 to #web3 bridge, and the reinvention of the #TCG genre!https://t.co/a7TloVQqoJ
Skyweaver lore is now updated! If you want to know more about it, the official website is the place to be.
ICYMI: We updated our official website, which now includes an entire section dedicated to Skyweaver lore! Learn more about the world of Sky here 👉 https://t.co/QUj7TdqDEf#skyweaver #lore pic.twitter.com/Vdl8Dz4zBi
— Skyweaver (@SkyweaverGame) February 20, 2022
3. CheckMate, Mate
The first Web3 Chess game is coming, its Alpha Launch set for March 17, 2022.
Save the date, the World's first Chess games with Play-to-Earn is coming 🚀
— Immortal Game (@TheImmortalGame) February 18, 2022
A Revolution with NFTs and Gamification. Get ready for the Alpha Launch on March 17, 2022 👾
Join the Discord to get a chance to be whitelisted 👇https://t.co/qCZrGBQOrj pic.twitter.com/FDVmBso1sr
4. Dolce & Gabbana & UNXD NFTs
Dolce & Gabbana announced its new drop, in collaboration with UNXD.
After the historic Collezione Genesi debut in September 2021, the journey now continues. @DolceGabbana announces the launch of the highly anticipated DGFamily NFT community exclusively in collaboration with UNXD. #DGNFT
— UNXD. (@UNXD_NFT) February 20, 2022
Discover more at https://t.co/AlaTviffcp pic.twitter.com/7jbnnCmoSg
5. Guild Of Guardians Pre-Alpha
Guild Of Guardians is picking up speed with new abilities and the upcoming Pre-Alpha demo.
GOG afternoon!!!
— GuildOfGuardians (@GuildOfGuardian) February 21, 2022
From FARRAH...The Shadow Assassin 🏹 🔥 pic.twitter.com/pQwMSjKtPS
The registration process for the Pre-Alpha demo is open:
Guardians, the time has come ⚔️
— GuildOfGuardians (@GuildOfGuardian) February 25, 2022
We are excited to announce that applications for the Pre-Alpha Demo are now open! 🔥 🤩
Please visit the following link to apply - https://t.co/mMMhiMdij0 pic.twitter.com/myfgzHhNHj
Guild Of Guardians also reacted to the recent situation in Ukraine:
The safety of our team and operations is the #1 priority for us and our thoughts are with everyone who has been affected by this situation 💙
— GuildOfGuardians (@GuildOfGuardian) February 24, 2022
3. Currently our operations have had minor interruptions but we will continue to run as usual with our upcoming events and announcements - more on this soon!
— GuildOfGuardians (@GuildOfGuardian) February 25, 2022
Thank you for the love and support 💙 🙏
6. Everai "Behind The Art" and Website is live
Everai website is live! Go on https://www.everai.xyz/ to know more about the lore, the roadmap and the game itself!
Color and compositing with @QPointillart. . .
— Everai (@TheEverai) February 21, 2022
Full video: https://t.co/uqt6tcOg9N pic.twitter.com/R83fFj9LPM
Welcome to the Everai Universe: https://t.co/bC4wtjqEoB. . . pic.twitter.com/EBKrtBLflM
— Everai (@TheEverai) February 23, 2022
7. Play & Earn types of gamers by Quirky Qwerty
Quirky Qwerty wrote an interesting thread on the two types of P&E players - the Farmers and the Consumers and what these two approaches have in store for the ecosystem.
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— Quirky Qwerty (@QuirkyQwerty_) February 21, 2022
As with any business, the goal of games and their devs is to maximize profit.
For a game to do well in the long-run, you need Consumers spending > Farmers earning.
Anything else is unsustainable since the deficit is paid for out of the coffers of a Game's finite treasury.
8. Risk & rewards by TradeButWhy
Tradebutwhy wrote up an excellent thread on the risk and rewards of trading.
"Good trades have asymmetry: the reward if you win should be many multiples of what you risk losing."
On the other hand, if you're young/single, have a couple $10k-$100k sitting in crypto but also have a good job, it's not really worth it to start selling now. It's not life-changing money & you'd probably be better off just buying more every month trying to win big long term.
— TradeButWhy (@tradebutwhy) February 21, 2022
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9. Axie February Dev Update
New Origin info, answers to Community Land questions and the discussion around RON - everything you need to know can be found in the Axie February Dev Update.
21/ Currently >75% is focused around product design and development (including art and engineering).
— The Jiho.eth 🦇🔊 (@Jihoz_Axie) February 21, 2022
Our operations department houses most business related tasks such as business development and financial management
& the growth department includes marketing and ecosystem dev pic.twitter.com/73U2NJl3Dc
10. FTX Gaming: FTX new service to Web3 Companies
Ok now it's official, FTX is everywhere...wen FTX Fashion?
1/ We at @FTX_Official are excited to launch our gaming division, offering FTX-as-a-Service (FaaS) to gaming companies across the world who are innovating in web3.https://t.co/9O8coGE5Mm
— Amy Wu (@amytongwu) February 21, 2022
FTX to launch its own gaming unit, aimed at encouraging more studios into embracing crypto and NFTs https://t.co/W194hr7bXr via @markets
— Bloomberg Crypto (@crypto) February 21, 2022
Introducing FTX Gaming
— FTX (@FTX_Official) February 21, 2022
There's a future where two billion gamers get to own what they earn, and we want to help build it. FTX's new gaming division provides complete solutions for companies and projects looking to take that next step into web3.https://t.co/VR8A00ZMqc
11. BAYC hack victim is sues OpenSea
After the OpenSea bug (or hack) caused a man to lose ownership of his Bored Ape, he proceeded to sue the NFT Marketplace.
Well, it finally happened. Victim of an OpenSea hack is suing for the loss of his Bored Ape. Case is McKimmy v. OpenSea, No. 4:22-cv-00545
— Crypto Law (@dubz0922) February 21, 2022
12. Ethereum's 2016 DAO hacker identity revealed
Crypto journalist Laura Shin published a book recently and revealed the identity of Ethereum's 2016 DAO hacker.
I've published an article on Forbes revealing this person's identity:https://t.co/sZpqmU7pdl
— Laura Shin (@laurashin) February 22, 2022
I also unveil their identity on today's episode of @Unchained_pod, which also features an interview by @Steven_Ehrlich of @ForbesCrypto with me about the findings:
13. Daft Punk is back (but not with NFTs)
Daft Punk is back with a re-edition of their 1997 album "Homework"
— Daft Punk (@daftpunk) February 22, 2022
14. OGame: New Generation
Remember OGame? Ametel01 sure does. As he played a lot of OGame when he was younger, he now decided to build an implementation of it where Planets are NFTs and resources ERC20 tokens.
For anyone who played @OGame in the glorious early 2000’s, I am building an implementation of it in @CairoLang where planets will be NFTs and resources ERC20 tokens. https://t.co/D3ZFRzFcDx
— ametel01 (@ametel01) February 23, 2022
15. Axie Infinity exceeds $4 billion in sales
The Play-to-Earn blockchain game, Axie Infinity, has become the first NFT series to cross US$4 billion in sales.
Other #NFT series that have exceeded US$1 billion in sales include CryptoPunks, Bored Ape Yacht Club, and Art Blocks. @AxieInfinity 👏👏
— Tech in Asia (@techinasia) February 23, 2022
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Want to be on top of the latest #funding deals in Asia? Sign up for free at https://t.co/iw8XtHxxLv#techinasiahttps://t.co/9f37h43Uol
16. Blockchain Gaming & Polygon by Ryan Wyatt
I think things like having governance tokens and allowing communities to really weigh in on developer decisions, macro level decisions and having users feel like they’re a part of things can help. Over time, this could help that user base build up and provide more stability
-Ryan Wyatt, Polygon Studios CEO
The alternative model of blockchain gaming is cash in, and cash never out - @Fwiz, Polygon's CEO.
— Blockworks (@Blockworks_) February 23, 2022
By @morgan_chittum https://t.co/9fYavhbe8A
17. FTX Fashion & Luxury
Ok, Anon, FTX Fashion and Luxury is really happening. Nice look, SBF!
Exciting life update! I'm thrilled to announce I have joined @FTX_Official and the visionary @SBF_FTX as Head of Fashion & Luxury Partnerships leading FTX's next chapter into the 300 billion dollar luxury market. https://t.co/19jX701swk via @mktsinsider
— Lauren Remington Platt (@laurenremington) February 23, 2022
18. Sotheby's got punk'd
After announcing the BIGGEST sale of CryptoPunks ever Sotheby's got some bad news. The owner withdrew their offer.
This is BIG. Major. Maybe the biggest. We're proud to announce that our next #SothebysMetaverse sale 'Punk It!' will feature a single lot of 104 CryptoPunk NFTs, sold during a LIVE Evening Auction on February 23 in New York. Mark your calendars. https://t.co/I3upjERjFm
— Sotheby's Metaverse (@Sothebysverse) February 8, 2022
THE OWNER WITHDREW IT ??! 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/z9evsNOkIQ
— andrew wang (@andrwwang) February 24, 2022
19. Vitalik stands with Ukraine
The Russo-Canadian developer stands with Ukraine.
Очень расстроен решением Путина отказаться от возможности мирного решения спора с Украиной и вместо этого начать войну. Это преступление против украинского и русского народа.
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) February 24, 2022
Хочу желать всем безопасности, хотя знаю, что не какой безопасности не будет.
Слава Украине.
Reminder: Ethereum is neutral, but I am not.
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) February 24, 2022
20. Illuvium will be the 'definition of a fair launch', according to its co-founder.
Kieran Warwick, Illuvium co-founder, is advertising what kind of a fair launch Illuvium will be.
Illuvium will define what is considered fair launch in game-fi.
— Kieran.eth (@KieranWarwick) February 23, 2022
- No whitelists
- No early-bonuses
- 0 playable NFTs sold or given away pre launch
Illuvium Zero - land sale
- No whitelists
- No special treatment for guilds
- Dutch Auction
We will always make it fair
21. The role of NFTs in gaming by Animoca Brands
Yat Siu is discussing the role of NFTs Gaming with Henri Arslanian in the "The Future of Money" podcast.
🎮 What role will play #NFTs in gaming industry?
— Animoca Brands (@animocabrands) February 24, 2022
🎙️ Check the latest episode of @HenriArslanian podcast, where our CEO @ysiu discuss with Henri future of gaming.
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Full episode: https://t.co/S8kAYUEer8 https://t.co/U98quFDbgZ
22. From Play to Earn to Play and Earn by Philip La
Philip La comes in with his view on the economy and reasons to play Axie Infinity, and how games should evolve from the Play-to-Earn to the Play-and-Earn model.
Earning opportunities will always exist in the game, it just needs to be balanced against what is actually available to be earned. The more players spend for fun, then the more there is available to earn back too 🙂 That's why the focus will always be around driving the former
— Philip La (@philipla) February 18, 2022
I completely agree that PAE is the way to go.
— Loopify 🧙♂️ (@Loopifyyy) February 24, 2022
I also want to say Axie might be one of the only projects in Web3 that understand what’s wrong with their model, and are actively trying to change it. I wouldn’t bet against them to be honest. Props to the team.
23. Web3 and the structure of the Metaverse by Messari
Messari came up with an explainer on how Web3 is divided and what improvements are to be made before we achieve the 'real' Metaverse.
3/ Web3 will be the foundational backend infrastructure for the Metaverse.
— Messari (@MessariCrypto) February 24, 2022
Learn more about the Metaverse in this Enterprise article from @masonnystrom.https://t.co/KNCXz7LG6C
24. Communities above art and communities by Wholelottajuju
Wholelottajuju explains why community is more important than anything in his recent thread, focusing on projects that had immense success by focusing on it.
1/ Blue chips projects are the leaders of the NFT world for one good reason: They’re the perfect marriage between community, utility, and art.
— wholelottajuju (@wholelottajuju) February 24, 2022
Have a good week, the Blackpool bulletin writer stands against tyranny and hope our fellow Russians and Ukrainians apes are safe.
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