
BlackPool Bulletin #4
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 : There is a lot of content so let’s add a Table of Contents shall we? It will be easier for our troops to aim for the information they really need. Castlevania, Disney, Cometh, Cryptolands or Walmart, we have everything you need.
But first, a GM from Serena Williams!
GM
— Serena Williams (@serenawilliams) January 5, 2022
Table of Contents
- Cobie's threads on the backlash of gamer against NFTs
- Aiko's thread on the importance of organic community growth
- Lots of news on Cometh and Cometh Battle
- Lars Doucet's predictions for blockchain gaming in 2022
- Sorare, Sorare and Sorare
- Guilds of Guardians secondary sales and Podcast
- Axie Infinity new blog post on In Game Economic Balancing
- Sandbox Mega City Announcement and Seb Borget Decrypt Article
- NFT profile verification for Twitter
- NFT Treasure's Marketplace flipped Axie Infinity's one and BlackPool announcement
- Opensea's new Series C fundraising
- Cryptolands !
- Michael Arnold's thread and BlackPool is looking for contributors!
- Walmart Metaverse
- Alexis Ohanian on gaming as an onramp for Web3
- Kevin Vitale's thread about Gaming and the Web3 revolution
- Castlevania NFTs
- Polygon fees surge
- YGG milestones
- Vitality x Tezos partnership
- Disney metaverse announcement
- Moxie Marlinspike's (founder of signal) point of view on Web3
- Worlwide Webb NFT fighting tournament
- A must read thread on meeting in metaverse by Garet Scott
- An interesting thread from Cobie on how the outrage from gamers on NFTs is counterproductive.
The outrage from gamers over the inclusion of NFTs is an astronomical unwitting vote against self-interests.
— Cobie (@cobie) January 1, 2022
If gaming cos are able to build more sustainable revenue models without paywall DLC, NFTs can improve player experience even if you opt out of buying them yourself.
And Cobie's response at the question “Is the environmental complaint the only reason gamers aren’t liking NFTs? Is there something else?”
I dont think they even know anymore to be honest. Most of the tweets are just accusatory in ways that don't make sense. They don't appear to -want- to learn, so all conversations are unnecessarily hostile and ultimately futile.
— Cobie (@cobie) January 3, 2022
2. Aiko wrote a thread about the importance for a game to grow a community organically as a tool to keep user retention, and its impact on the game economy.
1/ Every time I talk to teams about growing the community organically, they just think it's not going to work.
— AIKO (❤️🔥,🎮,❤️🩹) (@0xAikoDAI) January 2, 2022
Instead, they're desperate to find KOLs, cooperate with guilds, create buzz, fill the Discord with bots by stupid whitelist invitation rules.
3. Cometh Battle closed beta launched a few weeks ago and the dev team is improving the game update after update. In this week’s balancing update: New “secret” attribute; five new cards around the orbiters, minor balancing changes, and a new game mode: Private Battle.
Hazelstar shines bright in the latest BlackPool Cometh report. lots of alphas and key points for those who look inside.
Jerome de Tichey, co-founder of Cometh and President of Ethereum France talks about Gaming, Defi, and NFT in the latest Univers Bitcoin Podcast (In Baguette).
4. Lars Doucet explains his predictions for blockchain gaming in 2022 :
“We will see at least one blockchain game with over 1 million dollars in VC funding have its assets "go to zero", and we will NOT see ANOTHER blockchain game with over 1 million dollars in VC funding honor the failed game's NFT assets”
Predictions for blockchain gaming in 2022:
— Lars "Totally Texas" Doucet (@larsiusprime) January 2, 2022
1) Pure P2E widely discredited, defenders of the idea evolve it to "Play AND Earn" (already happening)
2) Land-grab UGC games start to show cracks and play out according to Ricardo's Law of Rent
1/X
5. Brian O’Hagan, growth lead of Sorare, explains some data from 2021 and Sorare goals for 2022: mobile app, branding, a new sport (the bulletin writer bet is on American Football), and recruitment.
1/ 2021 was a break-out year for @Sorare
— Brian O'Hagan (@bruhagan) January 3, 2022
A snapshot of our trading volume growth 📈
2019 - $90K
2020 - $7.7M
2021 - $307M
I expect further growth in 2022, here’s why:
Speaking of hiring plans, Sorare is welcoming 6 new key hires for their New York Office.
We've kicked the year off with a bang by welcoming 6 key hires to our growing New York office. 🗽
— Sorare (@Sorare) January 7, 2022
In his blog @ryanspoon shares more about our hiring plans for 2022 and introduces the newest @sorare team members. Read it here! ⬇️ https://t.co/rsRcxbL5y8
We are proud to include our own troops in this Bulletin. YNWA makes a good point on how PFP projects never draw comparisons to yield generating games like Sorare.
🧵 Reflecting on the insane growth of #NFTs in 2021 it's fascinating how the most popular PFP projects such as #cryptopunks @BoredApeYC @RTFKTstudios etc only draw comparisons to one another but never to yield generating NFT games like @Sorare ⚽️
— YNWA (@blockchainYNWA) January 5, 2022
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6. Guild of Guardians
Guild of Guardians saw its biggest secondary market Guild sale yet with a Legend Guild gone for 39 ETH!
🔥 We've just seen the biggest secondary market Guild sale in our history - a Legends Guild, which went for 39 ETH (~$146,000 USD)
— GuildOfGuardians (@GuildOfGuardian) January 3, 2022
🚨 We've also had more than $1.5M USD of total trade volume in the last seven days - with NO gas fees!
People. Are. Waking. Up 🤫
GOG MORNING!!! pic.twitter.com/ATupd8Xh82
How much do you think a Mythic Guild token will go for? Julien Bouteloup has a clear idea.
>1billy ? 👀 pic.twitter.com/QA4kZ0fPvI
— Julien Bouteloup - bneiluj.eth (@bneiluj) January 3, 2022
About Mythic, the lucky owner of the NRGgg Mythic Reborne hero is selling it for 78.75 ETH. The owner of it will have the opportunity to go on an all-expense trip to Los Angeles to meet the NRGgg eSport teams. Snapshot: 22 January 2022.
I have decided to list the 1/1 @GuildOfGuardian @NRGgg Mythic - Reborne hero! 🔥
— g-f-o-r-c-e (@gforceth) January 5, 2022
In addition to being a playable character in the upcoming GoG mobile game AND looking incredible - there is one additional perk! 👀 pic.twitter.com/gQgVcrdnaU
Episode 2 of the official GoG Podcast is out with special guests GoGacademy and WT779.
7. Axie Infinity puts together a blog note on their thoughts about in-game economy and its balancing.
We’ve put together a blog to share some of our thoughts on the Axie economy and some of the short-term solutions that we are discussing. Many of them are in-line with suggestions we’ve seen directly from the community!
— Axie Infinity🦇🔊 (@AxieInfinity) January 4, 2022
Full post 👇 https://t.co/0NH1Ko4GnY
8. Sandbox’s co-founder and COO, Seb Borget, thinks that 2022 will be a breakout year for in-game NFTs in a new decrypt article.
The Sandbox announced multiple Hong Kong partnerships in film, music, entertainment, acting, professional services, finance, real estate, and gaming sectors to create Mega City, a new cultural hub, in the Metaverse.
🏙️ Welcome to Mega City, the latest expansion of #TheSandbox map!
— The Sandbox (@TheSandboxGame) January 5, 2022
This cultural hub is filled with Hong Kong talents and will paint the #Metaverse with its energy and vibrant culture!https://t.co/46GH4mKLYj
9. Justin Taylor, Head of consumer product marketing for Twitter, is teasing an NFT Profile verification.
Since people keep asking me:
— Justin Taylor (@TheSmarmyBum) January 4, 2022
Yes, we are still working on NFT Profile verification.
No, i don’t have any timing updates i can share.
But I’m currently testing it on my phone :)
10. The Treasure NFT marketplace has flipped the Axie Infinity one and is now the 2nd largest NFT marketplace in the world!
The @Treasure_NFT NFT marketplace has flipped the @AxieInfinity NFT marketplace and is the 2nd largest NFT marketplace in the world over the past 24 hours with over $8mm dollars today so far. $MAGIC https://t.co/sHjYHkMLdL / https://t.co/cC1JLo07FL pic.twitter.com/9W3n1Ad87E
— Mike_Crypto (🪄,🧠) (@Mike_Crypto) January 4, 2022
BlackPool is backing Treasure DAO with a participation in the $3 million investment in $MAGIC led by 1kx, and acquired 347,222 $MAGIC. More alphas in the blog post.
11. Opensea announced new funding of 300 million dollars in Series C.
12. You like crypto? You like Lands but are tired of SandBox or Axie? You will like CryptoLands! An Island for crypto bros with crypto parties, crypto drinks, and crypto hangovers! What is your opinion? Web3 Fyre Festival or real project?
◇ INTRODUCING CRYPTOLAND ◇ 👇 MUST WATCH 👇 #cryptoland https://t.co/APghr5Rcut
— CRYPTOLAND (@cryptoland) November 6, 2021
13. Michael Arnold, one of BlackPool’s core team members is coming back on a thread he wrote last January. Interested in contributing to BlackPool? DM him!
I wrote this tweet storm a year ago and it’s more relevant than ever:
— Michael Arnold | akzent.eth (@marnold_mch) January 5, 2022
Guilds are the new VCs.
DM me if you want to contribute to @BlackpoolHQ - there’s a lot breeding right now 🧪🦍 https://t.co/K17PtSLJeX
14. Tired of shopping? Walmart wants you to do your groceries in the Metaverse.
This is how Walmart envisions Shopping in the #Metaverse.
— Homo Digitalis (@DigitalisHomo) January 3, 2022
Thoughts? 💭 pic.twitter.com/5l7KhoBse7
15. Reddit co-founder and founder of the VC firm 776, Alexis Ohanian, is sure that games will be an onramp for millions of people to Web3.
Games will be an onramp for millions of people to Web3. And once people realize the true value of their time — even when they're PLAYING GAMES — nothing will be the same, bc if u know how valuable your time is when you're "wasting time," you'll absolutely value work differently.
— Alexis Ohanian 7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣ (@alexisohanian) January 5, 2022
16. Kevin Vitale is in the same mindset and wrote a thread about gaming and the web3 revolution.
0/ My longest 🧵 ever: a true-life parable about pre-#internet #gaming, and how #web3 ushers in a new revolution for ultra-high quality games by enabling us to express our “personal value systems” in digital spaces. 🎮
— kevinvitale.eth 🦇🔊 (@blasteasy) January 3, 2022
17. The Japanese game company Konami announced Castlevania NFTs to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the game. The collection can be seen on Opensea.
To celebrate Castlevania's 35th anniversary, Konami has announced Castlevania NFTshttps://t.co/Jbn2flqulQ pic.twitter.com/ejMB1BCSky
— Nibel (@Nibellion) January 6, 2022
18. If you used Polygon this past week, you might have seen the fees surging. The cause is Sunflower Farmer, a Polygon Game. Owen Fernau wrote an interesting piece on it for the defiant.
19. YGG published its 2021 milestones and achievements in a medium article.
The full recap of Yield Guild Games in 2021 🏆
— Yield Guild Games (@YieldGuild) January 7, 2022
From our partnerships, to hitting our 10k scholars milestone, make sure to check out the full article and get to know what we've been up to 🚀#WeAreYGGhttps://t.co/0lQBiY6jet
20. Vitality, a leading european esport organisation revealed a partnership with the Tezos blockchain to create a new fan experience.
21. Disney officially announced the creation of its own metaverse.
OFFICIAL: Disney is officially creating its own Metaverse after its CEO announced plans to do so in November. pic.twitter.com/70XzbMMUOk
— Blockworks (@Blockworks_) January 7, 2022
22. Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of the signal app wrote notes about its first impression of Web3.
Wrote some notes summarizing my first impressions of web3: https://t.co/16MoPROOGc
— Moxie Marlinspike (@moxie) January 7, 2022
Interesting takes of which Vitalik Buterin responded:
Responded!
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) January 8, 2022
I think the status quo comes from a present-day "missing middle" where we have centralized-but-easy things and decentralized-but-hard things, but new tech (w lots of cryptography!) actually is on the cusp of giving us the best of both worlds.https://t.co/XIx8f2oiVi pic.twitter.com/phTSrGW0OR
23. Worldwide Webb will host an open tournament for an NFT platform fighter game. Different collections of NFTs, each with different abilities. Will you be the final one standing ?
We are releasing an NFT platform fighter game and want to host an open tournament in the @worldwide_web3 with a juicy prize.
— hack3r.eth (@WebbEmotional) January 7, 2022
Different integrated NFTs will have different abilities.
Which collection will become the alpha? pic.twitter.com/nCS59fisl2
24. To end this bulletin, a very good thread by Garret Scott on meeting in the metaverse.
Just had my first meeting in the Metaverse.
— Garrett Scott 🕳 (@thegarrettscott) January 7, 2022
Here’s the top 16 reasons I’ll never take a meeting any other way:
That’s all Folks ! Have a great week and see you IRL this week in Paris for the NFT special week, and soon back on Twitch !
Our #NFT Special Week 2022 is coming very soon 🔥
— NEFTURE - NFT SPECIAL WEEK 2022 (@nefture) January 6, 2022
And it’s time to have you meet a wonderful guest of ours @BlackpoolHQ
Our NFT Special Week includes the Biggest NFTs Hunt IRL, and who says NFT Hunts, says Games, and #Blackpool is one of the #PlayToEarn leaders in 🇫🇷
1/4 pic.twitter.com/2FgXBllRXw
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