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Gaming
Ethereum gaming metaverse platform The Sandbox will launch its Alpha Season 5 on Monday, March 31, bringing a number of new game experiences tied to major franchises.
The six-week gaming event will introduce over 40 new games from an array of brands and franchises, including Jurassic World, Teletubbies, Atari, Attack on Titan, Terminator: Dark Fate, and Hellboy.
As Decrypt previously reported, the season's flagship experience, Jurassic World: Dinosaur Preserve, invites players to manage a dinosa...
Gaming
Ethereum metaverse game The Sandbox is kicking off its fifth season with a new in-game Jurassic World experience created in collaboration with Universal and Ambling Entertainment, allowing the player to become an employee of a dinosaur park.
The high-profile launch of Jurassic World: Dinosaur Preserve comes as part of a six-week long season that will pack in over 40 new experiences including content from other entertainment brands like Attack on Titan, The Smurfs, and The Terminator, all built o...
Gaming
Following the recent closure of the Midnight Society gaming studio, disgruntled fans of the discontinued shooter game Deadrop have started claiming refunds for early access passes through their banks and credit card providers.
Players have mobilized in game studio Midnight Society’s abandoned Discord server to spread information on how to successfully chargeback their purchases.
Deadrop was the vertical extraction shooter developed by Midnight Society, co-founded by controversial streamer Dr. Di...
NFTs
Web3 luxury fashion brand 9dcc has teamed up with Mastercard for a limited edition apparel series at the PGA Tour’s Arnold Palmer Invitational in Bay Hill, Florida.
The limited edition collection, called the Pass to Priceless: Bay Hill Capsule, will allow Mastercard cardholders at the four-day event to select from nine curated items ranging from $10 to $50. A selection of items are also available for purchase for U.S. residents only at passtopriceless.9dcc.xyz.
“I think people are beginning to...
Law and Order
DraftKings has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit which alleged it violated Federal Securities Law when it sold NFTs on its marketplace, according to a Federal court filing on Wednesday.
The settlement, which was negotiated by both parties “at an arm’s length,” would see the company pay $10 million cash to a settlement fund which will pay for legal fees, settlement costs, and compensation to each participating class member, defined as “persons or entities who purchased, acquired, sold, dis...
Gaming
Seven months after controversial streamer Dr. Disrespect was booted from his own game studio for alleged misconduct, Deaddrop game developer Midnight Society confirmed Thursday that it is shutting down.
"Today, we are announcing Midnight Society will be closing its doors after three incredible years, with an amazing team of over 55 developers contributing to our new IP Deadrop," the company wrote on X (formerly Twitter) Thursday afternoon.
The confirmation comes after Midnight Society Level De...
Gaming
Ubisoft, the massive gaming brand behind the Assassin's Creed and Just Dance franchises, will drop a new series of avatars this week for Ethereum metaverse game The Sandbox—and this time around, they're also based on a Web3-native game.
Avatars based on Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles—an original blockchain game released by Ubisoft last fall—will be released for The Sandbox as NFTs on Ethereum scaling network Polygon.
The Champions Tactics NFT avatars will be released on Wednesday, Januar...
Law and Order
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission served Coinbase with a subpoena in relation to the booming prediction market Polymarket, a person familiar with the matter told Decrypt Thursday.
The regulator’s request sought “general customer information” in relation to Polymarket, the blockchain-based prediction platform that gained notoriety in the run-up to the November elections. A screenshot of an email sent by Coinbase to certain users regarding the request was shared on X (formerly Twitter) by E...
Profiles
Four years ago, he was just another callow entrepreneur, hacking away in a makeshift bathroom office at his passion project—a prediction market that would blend gambling with real world events. This year that project, Polymarket, emerged as one of the most interesting and potentially valuable use cases in the burgeoning crypto industry.
Shayne Coplan’s blockchain-based prediction platform captivated bettors and spectators alike this year. With each twist and turn in the 2024 U.S. presidential ra...
Health
There’s a new Polymarket bet for how long Bryan Johnson’s penis stays erect during nighttime. The antics of a man who injected his teenage son's blood into his veins and underwent “penis rejuvenation therapy” has been a persistent topic on the prediction market—or more precisely, his penis has.
“This market will resolve to ‘Yes’ if Bryan Johnson sustains a nighttime erection for 2 hours and 12 minutes or more based upon the highest of three readings taken during the last week of December 2024,”...
Gaming
The crypto and NFT gaming space is busier than ever lately, what with prominent games starting to release, token airdrops piling up, and a seemingly constant array of other things happening at all times. It’s a lot to take in!
Luckily, Decrypt’s GG is all over it. And if you need a quick way to get caught up on the latest moves around crypto video games, we’re happy to present This Week in Crypto Games.
Our weekend roundup serves up the biggest news from the past week, along with a few other tid...
Gaming
A pristine, first-edition, shadowless Holographic Charizard Pokémon card from 1999 is going up for auction Friday, tokenized via Ethereum scaling network Polygon and auctioned by collectibles platform Courtyard.
Polygon Labs and Courtyard have teamed up to tokenize the PSA 10-graded card, securely stored in a Brink's vault, with an estimated value of $250,000. The 30-day online auction aims to demonstrate blockchain's potential in the collectibles market, the companies said.
"This auction isn't...
The Projects
Decentralized prediction markets such as MYRIAD, launched by Decrypt and Rug Radio, have rapidly gained traction in recent years, enabling users to bet on the outcomes of events such as the U.S. Presidential election.
So what are decentralized prediction markets, and how do they differ from conventional prediction markets? Read on to find out.
What are prediction markets?
Prediction markets have existed in one form or another since the 16th century. They allow users to speculate and bet on the o...
Business
After weeks of escalating tensions between Polymarket and the French government, the popular prediction betting market opted to block France-based users on Friday—cutting out a major market for the site.
Users attempting to access the site from France today found a new pop-up preventing them from doing so.
“You appear to be located in the United States, France, or another related jurisdiction,” the new pop-up reads. “Trading is not available to U.S. persons, persons located in the United State...
Gaming
Flickplay, an NFT interactive character platform, has teamed with Bandai Namco Entertainment—one of its investors—to launch a Pokémon Go-style scavenger hunt to celebrate the 45th anniversary of classic arcade game, Pac-Man.
Set to debut in February 2025, the partnership will begin with the release of two series of exclusive Pac-Man digital collectible “toys.” One series will only be available to those in the Japanese neighborhood where Pac-Man was first seen in 1980, Shibuya.
Flickplay is a pla...
Law and Order
Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan was the target of a law enforcement raid Wednesday, the company confirmed to Decrypt, describing him as the victim of "political retribution" after his phone and electronics were seized.
The spokesperson claimed that Coplan is being targeted after Polymarket “correctly called the 2024 presidential election,” after bettors on the crypto prediction market platform correctly picked a White House victory for Republican Donald Trump.
The seizures, conducted Wednesday in...
Gaming
Roblox-style metaverse game Nifty Island concluded its play-to-airdrop campaign last week. Over the nine-month push, the game attracted more than 140,000 unique active wallets—but now it's preparing for the ISLAND token launch and airdrop.
Nifty Island entered open beta at the start of the year as a sandbox-style title, letting players create and share their own game worlds (called Islands) to keep a potentially endless flow of fresh content on the platform. Since the play-to-airdrop campaign be...
Markets
Prediction market Polymarket shot to prominence amid the recent U.S. election, attracting monthly trading volume just shy of $2.5 billion in October with over $1.2 billion more already racked up in November. Some users made millions betting on the election—but ultimately, data suggests that most bettors have actually lost money using the platform to date.
Polymarket has allowed users to bet on most events and cultural questions circulating this year, from who will win the U.S. Presidential elect...
Technology
Aiming to solve the growing issue of liquidity fragmentation across Ethereum-compatible networks, Magic Labs and Polygon Labs have teamed up to launch Newton, described as a “chain unification network."
Newton is designed to boost interoperability across Polygon’s AggLayer, which connects layer-1 and layer-2 chains with shared liquidity. Magic Labs will deploy a wallet on Newton called Passport that lets users store and transfer various digital assets across various blockchain platforms with “si...
Markets
As Donald Trump prevailed at the ballot box Tuesday, so did several Polymarket users, who backed the former President’s White House bid to the tune of millions of dollars.
Representing the blockchain-based prediction platform’s largest market by volume and open interest, Polymarket’s U.S. presidential election contest concluded Wednesday. Overall, the contest registered $3.6 billion in total trading volume before it resolved in Trump’s favor.
With Trump projected to win the country’s popular vot...
