Saga Airdrop, Notcoin Trading, and PlayStation NFT Plans

Fortunately, Decrypt’s GG is throughout it. And in case you want a fast option to get caught up on the newest strikes round crypto video video games, we’re debuting This Week in Crypto Video games.

Our weekend roundup serves up the largest information from the previous week, together with a number of different tidbits you might need missed. We additionally showcase a number of of our unique tales from the week.

Greatest information

Saga airdrop begins: Saga, a layer-1 blockchain with an enormous deal with gaming, launched its SAGA token final week and started the airdrop declare for over 200,000 distinctive wallets. A few of these wallets come from its play-to-airdrop marketing campaign throughout video games on Saga, Solana, Avalanche, and past, whereas others get tokens for DeFi staking throughout Cosmos, Celestia, and elsewhere. Click on right here for extra particulars.

Notcoin buying and selling: Viral Telegram recreation Notcoin is rapidly changing into the buzziest factor in crypto gaming forward of its upcoming token mint on The Open Community (TON), and the hype solely grew final week because the challenge launched pre-market buying and selling. Customers with Notcoin balances of at the least 10 million can convert them into NFT vouchers after which commerce them to invest on the long run worth of the on-chain NOT token.

PlayStation NFTs: Will PlayStation embrace NFTs for user-owned belongings? Sony is contemplating it, at the least, in line with particulars from a patent utility that was not too long ago revealed. It factors to a “super-fungible token” format that bundles up NFTs for in-game belongings and makes it attainable for customers to port them throughout video games—and probably commerce them too. We’ll see whether or not Sony truly does something with the idea… however this isn’t its first gaming NFT patent push.

Costs surge: As Decrypt’s GG reported earlier Sunday, gaming tokens are skyrocketing in worth this weekend, with Pixels (PIXEL), Beam (BEAM), and Parallel (PRIME) hitting new all-time excessive costs whereas Gala (GALA) and Immutable (IMX) set multi-year peaks. Click on right here for the total rundown of the largest gaming gainers proper now.

ICYMI

• Gaming big Ubisoft is bringing its Watch Canine gaming franchise to card-battler Cross the Ages through NFT playing cards that shall be bought in April.
• Ubisoft double-dipped on crypto bulletins final week, additionally saying that it’s going to be a part of the XPLA gaming community as a validator.
• Coinbase and Base—the Ethereum scaling community that it incubated—are giving out free in-game playing cards and foreign money for NFT recreation Parallel.
• Avalanche first-person shooter Shrapnel introduced final week that it has revised its token unlock schedule, and about 75% much less SHRAP will unlock in April.

• One week after dropping its token, Portal introduced that it’s going to host an esports event for in style PC recreation Dota 2 this month, full with collectibles and loot bins. No different particulars have been revealed but.
• BloodLoop, an Avalanche-based hero shooter akin to Overwatch, launched its play-to-airdrop marketing campaign final week and says it now has 100,000 gamers signed up.
• Apeiron, a hybrid god recreation and roguelite on Ronin, will launch a sale for its APRS token starting March 12. The sport’s play-to-airdrop marketing campaign is at present underway.

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Listed below are a number of of our unique tales from this previous week that we expect are effectively value a weekend learn: