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.

BlackPool

16 Jan 2022

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.

The first one on how it’s 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/ 🌱 Play and earn is intensely ecological.

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.
— Ryan in SG (🎮, 👾, 📊) (@0xRyze) January 8, 2022

The second one is laying down the definition of Play-to-Earn.

0/ Ok folks, laying down definitions.

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.
— Ryan in SG (🎮, 👾, 📊) (@0xRyze) January 9, 2022

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

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
— tokenbrice.eth (Δ, Δ) (@TokenBrice) January 9, 2022

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 🦍https://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.

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.

1/ pic.twitter.com/buNms0IKjd
— Xavier (@xavierck3d) January 9, 2022

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) 🔥 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:
📈 40x growth on sales volume
🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏾 4x growth on team size
⚽️ 1 sport: soccer
🛠 ruby rails ts react

2022 🔥:
📈📈📈 exciting announcements coming 🤫
🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏾🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏾🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏾 hiring 40 engineers, team to 200ish
⚽️❓❓ more sports 🙈
🛠🛠🛠 golang ruby python rails swift kotlin ts react
— Sylvain Utard (@sylvainutard) January 14, 2022

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/🧵 @crypto_raiders is the next big thing in NFT GameFi, a thread👇.

Full disclosure, I own:
• 3x CR Characters
• 1x CR Mob pic.twitter.com/9yl69B18Z8
— threadguy.eth 💫 (@DiscoverXnft) January 10, 2022

I’ve 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

A non-whale’s guide 🧵👇🏽
— ap (@0x_ap) January 14, 2022

8- Economics Design just released its Economics of Play-to-Earn Gaming Economy report.

Economics of Play to Earn Gaming Economy

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
— Economics Design (@EconsDesign) January 10, 2022

9- That’s the difference between Play-to-Earn and Play & Earn.

it’s not play to earn if the game sucks - that’s a job
— XCOPY 🏴 (@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.
— 9x9x9🆘 (@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

Let's take a look at the alpha hidden in @AxieInfinity Ronin pic.twitter.com/hZB8Q8eVy1
— Josh (@JDHyper) January 11, 2022

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 all…

LIA says GOG Morning 😎 pic.twitter.com/DgLdOhykAF
— GuildOfGuardians (@GuildOfGuardian) January 12, 2022

Freia

Describe Freia's Ultimate Ability in five words...

Annnd GO! ⚡️👇 pic.twitter.com/wjNhWZHA8W
— GuildOfGuardians (@GuildOfGuardian) January 13, 2022

Rufus

Fill in the blank:

Rufus's Ultimate Ability is “_______” ?? 🪶⚔️ pic.twitter.com/URziTaZ6TX
— GuildOfGuardians (@GuildOfGuardian) January 14, 2022

Felicia

Who is your favourite Hero, and why is it Felicia? 🔥😉 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).

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 ᵍᵍ | 💯👻👀🧠 (@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 🔎 Reveal 👀on 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 📲 https://t.co/bvgyFG6KYB
— WalletConnect 📲 (@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

⚔️New to our Mini-Game?

🧠Check out the full documentation on how to play. https://t.co/1tRvlcWnEL

➡️https://t.co/xTesIOKc4G
TLDR below... pic.twitter.com/d83oi3Lp1a
— Game of Blocks (@game_of_blocks) January 15, 2022

18. Hack3r.eth has a statement to make about NFT Gaming. What’s 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.

There, I said it.
— hack3r.eth (@WebbEmotional) January 15, 2022

19. Axie just published its January Dev Update!

January Dev Update!https://t.co/R3o1ffo24x
— The Jiho.eth 🦇🔊 (@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 men’s 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. “The greatest movie that was never made” is closer to us now, thanks to a DAO.

We won the auction for €2.66M. Now our mission is to:

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
— Spice DAO (🏜,🏜) (@TheSpiceDAO) January 15, 2022

For those interested, go watch the Jodorowsky’s 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 ✨ is enabling the formation of a "decentralized Nintendo"

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
— John Patten (@jpatten__) January 15, 2022

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?

The last 28 days in a Twitter storm:

1/24
— odin-free.eth🎡 (@odin_free) January 16, 2022

That’s 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)

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
— NFT PARIS 🇫🇷 (@nft_paris) January 9, 2022

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