
BlackPool Bulletin #5
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 : NFT Paris is coming, Spice Dao won their auction, Julien Bouteloup presents BlackPool's First year and The Australian Open launched its Chainlink powered Tennis Ball NFTs.
Tables of Content :
- There is no such thing as a coincidence
- 0xRyze definition of Play-to-Earn and the interest of growing your P&E in a responsible environment
- TokenBrice's thread on how the current Gaming NFT backlash is base on a lack of knowledge
- Julien Bouteloup and the growth of BlackPool in less than a year
- The problem of Cross-Platform items usability by Xavier Coelho-Kostolny
- Sorare growth and interoperability
- CryptoRaiders Guides and News
- Economics Design Play-to-Earn Report
- Xcopy and Play-to-Earn
- The Pudgy Pinguin controversy explained by 9x9x9eth
- Axie Infinity Ronin hidden alphas found by JDHyper
- Go GoG Go ! Podcast, Special Abilities and ROI
- Second Life and the Metaverse
- Aave Gang and the power of community
- The Australian Open, NFT and Chainlink with Ao.Artball
- Crypto wallets integration coming to Twitter
- Gm from Game of Block and new many games and documentation
- Hack3r.eth opinion on NFT Gaming
- Axie January Dev Update
- Ledger x Fendi, gonna flex in da metaverse
- Spice Dao, those who control the $SPICE control the DAO
- Treasure DAO and the decentralised Nintendo
- Zk Rollup Tweeter Storm by Odin-Free
1- There is no such thing as a coincidence, even in the Metaverse!
There is NO such thing as a coincidence @NeerajKA. pic.twitter.com/2EFvUKj400
— williamknight.eth (@william__knight) January 10, 2022
2- Two little threads by 0xRyze. ย
The first one on how itโs important to set up systems that embody the value of responsibility in P&E games, and how the system shall spill fruit bountifully for all stakeholders.
0/ ๐ฑ Play and earn is intensely ecological.
— Ryan in SG (๐ฎ, ๐พ, ๐) (@0xRyze) January 8, 2022
Be a responsible tender & steward of your game's garden. Your community trusts you to do so.
Set up systems that embody those values, and then the system shall spill fruit bountifully for all stakeholders.
The second one is laying down the definition of Play-to-Earn.
0/ Ok folks, laying down definitions.
— Ryan in SG (๐ฎ, ๐พ, ๐) (@0xRyze) January 9, 2022
Play to Earn
- There are earners and spenders in the game system.
- Earners are able to get real-world currency by earning and selling in-game resources.
- Spenders spend on whatever goods and services earners provide.
3- TokenBrice thinks the current NFT backlash for P&E is a matter of knowledge.
I think the current #NFT backlash in the gamer community comes from a lack of understanding of what a digital asset truly is
— tokenbrice.eth (ฮ, ฮ) (@TokenBrice) January 9, 2022
Seems like most gamers are not aware of the ownership model of their current in game items, and the trust placed in the game editors
4- Our dear Julien wrote a long thread on the evolution of BlackPool: a $6M pre-seed round, metaverse, academy, scholars, Tokenomics, and... the Bulletin!
How @BlackpoolHQ, first Quantitative Hedge Fund for NFTs raised a $6M pre-seed 8 months ago from people behind one of the biggest hedge fund in the world (Steven Cohen: Point72 & Digital)+others: @Delphi_Digital,@playventures,@BackedVC, @CherryVentures etchttps://t.co/kBeutQfz5a pic.twitter.com/1iVLfcj4wp
— Julien Bouteloup - bneiluj.eth (@bneiluj) January 8, 2022
I forgot to add @BlackpoolHQ 's Bulletin ๐ฆhttps://t.co/RWnc1Fb3Xv
— Julien Bouteloup - bneiluj.eth (@bneiluj) January 9, 2022
5- Xavier Coelho-Kostolny, a 3D Character Artist who worked on Ratchet and Clank, Spider-Man and multiple others games explains how the cross-platform usability for items is not a viable thing. ย
I know a lot of press people and gamers follow me, so let me explain why this is deeply, unbelievably, intensely incorrect and near-impossible.
— Xavier (@xavierck3d) January 9, 2022
1/ pic.twitter.com/buNms0IKjd
6- A point of view not totally shared by Nicolas Julia, Co-Founder and CEO of Sorare.
NFTs bring power back to gamers. One of the coolest feature is interoperability (portability in different worlds) ๐ฅ https://t.co/lrNj3StnLj
— Nicolas Julia (@ni2las) January 12, 2022
Sylvain Utard, head of engineering at Sorare is thrilled by the final numbers of 2021 and the goals for 2022.
2021 @Sorare:
— Sylvain Utard (@sylvainutard) January 14, 2022
๐ 40x growth on sales volume
๐ง๐ผโ๐คโ๐ง๐พ 4x growth on team size
โฝ๏ธ 1 sport: soccer
๐ ruby rails ts react
2022 ๐ฅ:
๐๐๐ exciting announcements coming ๐คซ
๐ง๐ผโ๐คโ๐ง๐พ๐ง๐ผโ๐คโ๐ง๐พ๐ง๐ผโ๐คโ๐ง๐พ hiring 40 engineers, team to 200ish
โฝ๏ธโโ more sports ๐
๐ ๐ ๐ golang ruby python rails swift kotlin ts react
The magic of Sorare by NepentheZ.
The person who finished 2nd in Casual Tier on @SoRare from the GW that just ended, only created his SoRare account 4 days ago. The free to play side of things really is pretty good, would be nice if it paid down a bit further (25 perhaps) but still a madness from him!
— NepentheZ (@NepentheZ) January 14, 2022
7- CryptoRaiders news and guides by 0x_ap and DiscoverXnft.
1/๐งต @crypto_raiders is the next big thing in NFT GameFi, a thread๐.
— threadguy.eth ๐ซ (@DiscoverXnft) January 10, 2022
Full disclosure, I own:
โข 3x CR Characters
โข 1x CR Mob pic.twitter.com/9yl69B18Z8
Iโve been getting more and more into @crypto_raiders and thought it would be helpful to outline my strategy for anyone else getting into the game
— ap (@0x_ap) January 14, 2022
A non-whaleโs guide ๐งต๐๐ฝ
8- Economics Design just released its Economics of Play-to-Earn Gaming Economy report.
Economics of Play to Earn Gaming Economy
— Economics Design (@EconsDesign) January 10, 2022
Blockchain or not, when designing game economies, there are 2 extremely difficult aspects to design.
1. Design of gameplay, game universe, and aesthetic. This is very complicated. #P2E #PlayToEarn #CryptoGaming #NFTGame pic.twitter.com/2xCi6ofQKZ
9- Thatโs the difference between Play-to-Earn and Play & Earn.
itโs not play to earn if the game sucks - thatโs a job
— XCOPY ๐ด (@XCOPYART) January 11, 2022
10. 9x9x9eth wrote a good long and important thread about the latest Pudgy Penguins controversy.
I m gonna talk about the recent rumours about me taking over pudgy penguins, I did not want to talk about it first, but with so many DMs, I felt responsible for keeping everything as transparent as possible. So people will not make any investment decisions based on rumours.
— 9x9x9๐ (@9x9x9eth) January 6, 2022
11. JDHyper found interesting hidden alphas on Axie Infinity Ronin.
1/ A little over 14hrs ago, 5 new token types were added to the Land Item Contract. In plain sight you can see the data for these...and it's AMAZING
— Josh (@JDHyper) January 11, 2022
Let's take a look at the alpha hidden in @AxieInfinity Ronin pic.twitter.com/hZB8Q8eVy1
12. GoG News for Guild of Guardians!
Tomahawk created an ROI table for the price of GoG NFTs.
I see a lot of people speculating on @GuildOfGuardian #NFT prices & value... I was just curious, so I created this quick table... Please reply with your analysis/conclusions in the comments! Giveaway of a common pet amongst the best comments!!! #WeAreGuardians pic.twitter.com/Ah3IWI53nu
— Tomahawk (@NicolasTomahawk) January 12, 2022
GoG is teasing us with multiple heroes special abilities:
Lia
Thought we'd muck around and start sharing some Ultimate Abilities for you allโฆ
— GuildOfGuardians (@GuildOfGuardian) January 12, 2022
LIA says GOG Morning ๐ pic.twitter.com/DgLdOhykAF
Freia
Describe Freia's Ultimate Ability in five words...
— GuildOfGuardians (@GuildOfGuardian) January 13, 2022
Annnd GO! โก๏ธ๐ pic.twitter.com/wjNhWZHA8W
Rufus
Fill in the blank:
— GuildOfGuardians (@GuildOfGuardian) January 14, 2022
Rufus's Ultimate Ability is โ_______โ ?? ๐ชถโ๏ธ pic.twitter.com/URziTaZ6TX
Felicia
Who is your favourite Hero, and why is it Felicia? ๐ฅ๐ pic.twitter.com/iMjBcaCBgC
— GuildOfGuardians (@GuildOfGuardian) January 15, 2022
and the latest episode of Guardians United Podcast is out. This week's subject is the Community with Nick!
13. The Second Life creators are coming back to the Metaverse.
If you want to go deeper in the Rabbit Hole, Sylvqin is your guide to Second Life (Baguette speaking but subtitle available).
14. WaBjoern is sharing a good example of the power of community. A GotchiGang member made the mistake of his life, and was not REKT, thanks to the amazing gesture from Bearded, another AaveGotchi community member.
The community is a key factor for the success of a project. There are communities out there, that are one of a kind. One of them is definitely the #gotchigang @aavegotchi Honor to whom honor is due. @TheBeaardedLady has shown why #gotchigang will gone make it. #wagmi pic.twitter.com/lo0c8NJPZf
— Ties แตแต | ๐ฏ๐ป๐๐ง (@WaBjoern) January 13, 2022
15. Interested in owning the first Australian Open NFT with an interactive chainlink connected experience? AO.Artball is for you!
What's all the fuzz about? Each AO generative ball is created through a 3D art randomisation process. Every pattern and colour is one-of-a-kind. Right down to the the hair ๐ Reveal ๐on the 16th of Jan. pic.twitter.com/H4B2uhEUIT
— AOmetaverse (@AOmetaverse) January 13, 2022
16. Crypto Wallets are coming to Twitter, with an integration powered by WalletConnect.
Powered by WalletConnect ๐ฒ https://t.co/bvgyFG6KYB
— WalletConnect ๐ฒ (@WalletConnect) January 14, 2022
17. Game of blocks is on fire with new Mini-Games ! They published their full documentation if you want to check it, but first a good GM!
gm!~ GoB fam how are the vibes this weekend? pic.twitter.com/AJi7MbLDeO
— Game of Blocks (@game_of_blocks) January 15, 2022
โ๏ธNew to our Mini-Game?
— Game of Blocks (@game_of_blocks) January 15, 2022
๐ง Check out the full documentation on how to play. https://t.co/1tRvlcWnEL
โก๏ธhttps://t.co/xTesIOKc4G
TLDR below... pic.twitter.com/d83oi3Lp1a
18. Hack3r.eth has a statement to make about NFT Gaming. Whatโs your opinion on it?
Gamers are mad because the current NFT games suck and the industry is trying to tell them these types of games are the future.
— hack3r.eth (@WebbEmotional) January 15, 2022
There, I said it.
19. Axie just published its January Dev Update!
January Dev Update!https://t.co/R3o1ffo24x
— The Jiho.eth ๐ฆ๐ (@Jihoz_Axie) January 15, 2022
20. Ledger announced a partnership with the Italian luxury house Fendi with the release of tech accessories designed by Silvia Venturini Fendi.
At the crossroads of cutting-edge virtual technology & the eternal iconography of @Fendi style, a debut collection of tech accessories designed by Silvia Venturini Fendi (1/5)
— Ledger (@Ledger) January 15, 2022
Powering the Web3 revolution with @Ledger. Discover the #FendiXLedger collection, unveiled on the #FendiFW22 menโs runway. pic.twitter.com/BfvZGQvROs
— Fendi (@Fendi) January 15, 2022
21. Spice DAO, won the $2.66M Christie's auction for the Dune movie manuscript by Franck Herbet, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Jean Giruand a.k.a Moebius. โThe greatest movie that was never madeโ is closer to us now, thanks to a DAO.
We won the auction for โฌ2.66M. Now our mission is to:
— Spice DAO (๐,๐) (@TheSpiceDAO) January 15, 2022
1. Make the book public (to the extent permitted by law)
2. Produce an original animated limited series inspired by the book and sell it to a streaming service
3. Support derivative projects from the community pic.twitter.com/g4QnF6YZBp
For those interested, go watch the Jodorowskyโs Dune documentary.
22. John Patten, co-founder of Treasure Dao, explains how Magic is enabling a base layer on which everything can be built.
$MAGIC โจ is enabling the formation of a "decentralized Nintendo"
— John Patten (@jpatten__) January 15, 2022
Treasure is a base layer on which many games, metaverses, and DAOs can be built. Inside the machine, a feedback loop is happening. pic.twitter.com/fE2oopGSAz
23. Want to know more about what happened in the ZK/Starkware ecosystem, Odin-free.eth is coming with a good Twitter Storm!
What's going on in the ZK/StarkWare ecosystem?
— odin-free.eth๐ก (@odin_free) January 16, 2022
The last 28 days in a Twitter storm:
1/24
Thatโs all Folks! Have a great week and see you IRL this week in Paris for NFT Paris with S.A.M. and Julien Bouteloup as speakers!
Here is the program of the day ! (1/2)
— NFT PARIS ๐ซ๐ท (@nft_paris) January 9, 2022
You'll be able to go between the conferences and the 'NFT Fest' with booth of start ups and art exhibitions freely. pic.twitter.com/uONaGheyBO
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