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Zebedee Partnership With Bitnob Sees African Gamers Rewarded With BTC
African users of the bitcoin gaming and payments app Zebedee will now be rewarded in the form of satoshis when they play games or when they listen to podcasts. In addition to being able to convert their rewards into local currencies, African users of the Zebedee app can use it to make cross-border payments.
Converting Satoshis to Local Currencies
Zebedee, a crypto gaming and payments app, has said its partnership arrangement with the crypto on and off-ramp platform Bitnob will see African users getting rewarded with satoshis each time they play games or when they listen to podcasts. After accumulating enough satoshis, the users will be able to convert these to their respective countries’ local currencies.
While this new feature is currently only open to users from Nigeria, Kenya, and Rwanda, Zebedee revealed in its April 12 blog post that there are plans to add more African countries. Besides earning bitcoins, users of the Zebedee app can also use it to settle cross-border obligations.
ZEBEDEE is expanding into #Africa by joining forces with @Bitnob_official!
Africans in countries supported by #Bitnob can now easily send money anywhere in the world, earn #Bitcoin in tons of games and apps and easily convert and spend in their local currency
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— ZEBEDEE (@zebedeeio) April 11, 2023
The company’s blog post also sought to explain why Zebedee has chosen to grow its footprint in Africa and why the Bitcoin Lightning network is the ideal network for moving funds across borders.
“The integration with Bitnob is Zebedee’s first step into the vast and diverse continent of Africa – but that’s just the beginning. We’re planning to expand our coverage to more countries supported by Bitnob, as well as many others to eventually provide a complete network of entry and exit points to the global economy through the [Bitcoin] Lightning Network,” the blog post explained.
Fiat Rails ‘Too Expensive’
The blog post meanwhile revealed that Zebedee already has opened similar channels in Brazil and in the Philippines. The European Union, the United States, and the U.K. are the other key regions where Zebedee has created such channels, the post added.
Meanwhile, Zebedee’s chief strategy officer Ben Cousens has been quoted in one report explaining why the Bitcoin Lightning Network is the right fit.
“If I’m Activision Blizzard or EA Games and I have 30 million players of my games in Africa, and I run tournaments or giveaways, I cannot pay those players on fiat rails — it is too expensive. I am limited to the U.S., and I lose money from loss of engagement. Try sending .01 to these territories on another rail,” Cousens reportedly said.
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Bloxmith Launches Raiders Rumble, a Mobile Strategy Game for Both Web2 and Web3 Gamers, on the Flow Blockchain
PRESS RELEASE. Taipei, March 13, 2023 – Bloxmith, the player-first Web3 gaming studio, today announced that the open beta for Raiders Rumble, its unique 1v1 squad battler game for mobile powered by the Flow blockchain, is now available for download on Google Play and Apple App Store.
Raiders Rumble challenges players to apply fast-paced strategic decision making in countering the moves of their opponents. Built as a strategic esports game for the masses, it features a daily rotation of tournament modes where the top 50 percent of participants can win in-game items or RUMB tokens, Raiders Rumble’s project token.
Furthermore, players do not need a crypto wallet or digital collectibles (NFTs) to start playing and enjoying the game. To maintain competitive integrity, digital collectibles in Raiders Rumble do not provide any in-battle advantage, though they have several other unique features that make them highly valued by collectors.
“For our first game, we wanted to pioneer a new type of competitive mobile strategy game that would help bridge the gap between traditional and Web3 gamers,” said Bloxmith Co-founder and CEO Wayne Lee. “We are delighted to be working on the Flow blockchain – it solves the scalability problem for games and digital collectibles. With frictionless onboarding, social logins and familiar payment methods, Flow is built from the ground up to make it easier for mainstream users and brands to transition from Web2 to Web3.”
As part of the launch and esports nature of the game, Raiders Rumble will host three Flow-sponsored bonus tournaments. Strategy gamers will have the opportunity to win FLOW tokens, with a total prize pool worth $USD 120,000 in FLOW up for grabs for the best strategy gamers around. These Flow-sponsored tournaments are scheduled to take place between March 23-31, with more details on the Raiders Rumble website here.
“Raiders Rumble is a compelling example of a mobile game that can simultaneously appeal to a mainstream audience while introducing them to the power of Web3 gaming powered by Flow,” said Chirag Narang, Head of Product at Flow. “The Bloxmith team’s innovative take on game design and player onboarding aligns strongly with Flow’s vision and goals for our ecosystem around gaming and onboarding mainstream users to Web3.”
About Bloxmith
Founded in December 2021 by a group of passionate gaming veterans from Riot Games, Blizzard Entertainment, Pumpkin VR and Facebook Gaming, Bloxmith’s mission is to create player-first games that are still fun even after 1000+ plays. Bloxmith’s investors include Infinity Ventures Crypto, Dapper Labs, Vayala, Moon Holdings, Bitoro, SEA Pixel, and Results.io.
For more information, visit: Website | Twitter | LinkedIn | Discord
For media inquiries, contact: Deon Moh, hello@bloxmith.com
About Flow
Flow is a decentralized layer one blockchain designed for onboarding mainstream consumers. Frictionless, secure and eco-friendly, Flow empowers developers to innovate and push the limits that will bring the next billion to Web3. Today, Flow is home to a thriving ecosystem of creators from top brands, development studios, venture-backed startups, crypto leaders, and more. For more information, visit www.flow.com.
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GameSwift Launches a Web3 Gaming Platform With Revolutionary Passwordless Sign-on System to Help Bring Gamers Into Web3
PRESS RELEASE. GameSwift has announced the open alpha version of its all-in-one Platform for playing and building web3 games. It features the GameSwift ID – a revolutionary passwordless sign-on system with an in-built wallet that offers seamless web3 onboarding for games and players. In addition to this groundbreaking feature, the company has garnered attention for its strategic partnerships with Polygon and Casper Network, which aimed to accelerate the mass adoption of web3 games.
The newly released GameSwift Platform and its Launcher and ID components create a comprehensive hub for gamers seeking an optimal web3 gaming experience. Thanks to this user-friendly and inclusive solution, even those without blockchain knowledge can enjoy playing web3 games.
Web3 Gaming: Onboarding Players Proves to be the Biggest Challenge
Web3 gaming is an exciting new frontier, but one of the industry’s biggest challenges is onboarding new players. This is mainly because the requirements for web3 gaming can be daunting, particularly for mainstream gamers unfamiliar with blockchain technology.
For starters, finding quality information, navigating through different chains, and creating a crypto wallet can be complex and confusing, often leading to skepticism and holding players back from exploring the web3 world. To make matters worse, most wallet solutions available today are not designed with crypto newbies in mind. Storing passwords and seed phrases can be intimidating, and processing transactions without previous knowledge is nearly impossible.
For web3 gaming to achieve mass adoption, a new approach is needed: a gamer-friendly platform with a simple sign-in process that leverages universal logins from well-known services like Google or Facebook. This would allow web3 gaming projects to open doors for new and larger audiences while streamlining onboarding and enabling in-game transactions.
GameSwift’s Solution to Overcoming the Challenges of Player Onboarding in Web3 Gaming
GameSwift Platform offers an easy and user-friendly way to discover and play web3 games without blockchain knowledge. With GameSwift ID, players can enjoy games without worrying about complicated processes. Enjoy a rich library of games with zero gas fees and cash-out rewards through bankcard payments.
A rich list of web3 games is already available on the GameSwift Platform from launch day! The very first titles featured on GameSwift are StarHeroes, Kryxivia, Rocket Monsters, Rage Effect, Solcraft, Synergy Land, NetherLords, MotoDEX, Oyabun, Sollarion, Legends of Elysium, Lazy Soccer, Life Beyond, MetaBots, and Elementies Universe, including both current partnerships and yet-to-be-announced ones!
Game studios and developers can access product suites, SDKs, and infrastructure solutions to accelerate game adoption and tailor to player preferences. Critical data about their games can be accessed with upcoming updates, leading to industry success. Join the web3 gaming revolution with GameSwift today.
GameSwift’s Launcher App
The GameSwift Platform also includes the new GameSwift Launcher app, a cross-platform app designed for fast game download, easy parallel installation, and automatic game updates. The Launcher ensures up-to-date game versions and secure game files and uses a dedicated DRM system. It offers improved security, high performance, and automatic updates for a hassle-free gaming experience. Additionally, the GameSwift Platform offers easy registration, login, password reset, player profile updates, wallet integration, and a full library of games with the ability to filter and add games to a wishlist.
You can register for a new account here.
Also, if you’re a gaming studio in the web3 space and seeking the optimal environment to enhance your product’s growth, you can submit an application here to integrate with GameSwift’s platform and become a part of their community.
About GameSwift
The GameSwift Platform offers gamers the ultimate web3 gaming experience, including a Launcher and infrastructure, making it the easiest way to play web3 games and enjoy true ownership of digital assets. With GameSwift, players can discover, download, and play multiple games on any chain. They can also earn rewards and easily cash them out without needing any blockchain knowledge.
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STEPN Kickstarts Gamers’ Interest As GMT Capitalizes On Bullish Retracement
And the game is on for STEPN as the GMT token plays in sync with other cryptocurrencies amplified for the bull run. In the past couple of weeks, STEPN has been making upgrades on its network to rekindle the waning interest of gamers. And the token seems to be making a lot of progress.
The move-to-earn game has recently rolled out Health Points that set a certain life cycle for STEPN sneakers. They also were brewing an exciting STEPNrun Contest that is scheduled to kick off from July 25 to August 8 which is meant to get the word out about STEPN on social media. The contest is designed to run on both Instagram and Twitter.
GMT Token Price Warms Up At .01
The GMT token price is currently at .01 and is forecasted to take off in the past couple of days. It looks like STEPN is just warming up at this point with its recent updates.
When the contest was launched, GMT tokens gained support and advanced to .92. The GMT price has since then remarkably increased by 4% as seen in the past few days.
Alongside the GMT price growth, trading volume also surged for the same period. GMT’s trading volume has spiked by over 25% or at 492.16 million as of this writing. It only took a couple of days for the token to gain some traction. Additionally, GMT’s total token’s market cap has also jumped to 6.36 million from 3.76 million.
With the prices still showing an upward trend overnight, CoinMarketCap showed a 4.12% spike in STEPN’s GMT price in the last 24 hours.
STEPN’s GMT Token Set To Go Bullish In Coming Days
Meanwhile, STEPN’s GMT token seems to be hovering towards the overbought domain as seen on the 4-hour chat with the Money Flow Index or MFI at 74.02. Moreover, the token’s RSI was also spotted at 59.63.
On the other hand, GMT’s social dominance has lagged behind by 23%. Its social volume also declined by 67% as seen in the past couple of days. The token is seen to be moderately volatile or on the average when pitted against other cryptocurrencies.
With that being said, STEPN is currently in the top 43% of cryptocurrencies in terms of volatility.
STEPN’s GMT price is geared for an uptrend. With resistance at .03 and support found at .935037596620583, this sets up STEPN to go for a bullish movement before it faces hurdles from selling pressures.
Crypto total market cap at .06 trillion on the daily chart | Source: TradingView.com
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Gamer’s Zone: Polinate Games & Guilds to Support Ambitious Projects to Raise Funds
Undoubtedly, Play-to-earn has dominated the industry of gaming in recent times. Several game enthusiasts, individual and institutional investors across the globe have adopted this novel approach that represents the future of gaming and decentralization. Through the widespread use of play-to-earn, vigorous and vibrant economies have led to raising billions of dollars in funding for growing projects. Aside from highly innovative projects and ever-growing communities, various factors contribute to the advancement of the P2E space with significant ones involving crowdfunding platforms.
Crowdfunding platforms for games and guilds are the most efficient approach for individuals to enter into gaming investments, and explore virtual economies where assets are enhanced to maximize utility. These platforms make the P2E industry more accessible.
Raising funds is less of a challenge in decentralized economies since leading investors are consistently backing innovative ideas. Blockchain startups and crypto projects seeking financial aid to launch their products utilize crowdfunding platforms as one of the popular methods of fundraising. It is estimated that over billion in funds have been raised worldwide employing crowdfunding platforms. These platforms are built with easy-to-use tools that provide a smooth and robust experience for individuals, strategic investors and early backers.
Empowering the Decentralized Gaming Metaverse
Polinate is a future-proofed crowdfunding platform for emerging games and growing guilds on the blockchain ecosystem. Since the perfect fusion of gaming, metaverse and decentralized finance became run-of-the-mill, it has been the best approach for innovations. However, one of the challenging aspects that emerged from this sector is the ease to raise funds securely and in the most efficient manner possible.
Polinate is solving this problem by providing unmatched support for games and guilds. The platform is dedicated to creating a zone of opportunities where investors, game developers, and individuals from different parts of the world can raise funds to facilitate the growth and success of their projects. Polinate is driven by a passion to be a huge part of developing projects as they advance. As a platform, Polinate serves as a bridge between play-to-earn gaming projects and active crypto communities. The crowdfunding venture intends to become a highly inventive go-to platform for NFT creators, tech designers, and enthusiasts. The platform supports both Dutch Auction Mechanism and Standard Fixed Sale approach to encourage innovative teams.
From aiding and initiating projects to pitching powerful ideas to communities, the platform’s sole objective is to support ideas through successful and seamless funding rounds. Polinate unleashes the potential of gaming projects in various domains.
A Vibrant Community Of Gamers And Guilds
Polinate is building a community of spirited gamers and guilds. Members of the Polinate community participate actively in raising funds for premature projects. In the quest of driving its initiative, the crowdfunding platform has recently partnered with Nitro League. Nitro league is a leading-edge decentralized gaming metaverse where the Polinate community can explore the virtual world of amazing in-game activities by racing modern cars and earning tokens. Nitro League will be a part of Polinate’s funding mission, raising funds on the platform for a number of innovative projects while giving members the opportunity to access exclusive rewards.
The native community is redefining the conventions of crowdfunding. While most crowdfunding communities and platforms demand high commission fees based on the aggregate investments without an inclusive fundraising system, Polinate’s network is accessible to every individual part of games and guilds, including sponsors and fans to communicate in a permissionless manner.
Titan Hunters: A Brave New NFT Gaming Project That is Poised to Capture Millions of Gamers
Titan Hunters’ CEO Vu Duy Tiep unveils his plan to create a video game that many will love while attempting to challenge the top leaders in the gaming industry with the latest Non-Fungible Token (NFT) implementation.
Titan Hunters – a GameFi Test for the Veteran Mobile Studio Topebox
Topebox is a mobile gaming studio behind critically acclaimed titles like Sky Dancer and Gun N Dungeons. Many major publishing powerhouses, such as Bytedance (the company behind TikTok) and Miniclip (the world’s largest privately-owned online gaming website), have collaborated with Topebox and acquired the right to publish their games.
However, Topebox has not settled with these consecutive successes. Instead, the company is always adaptive and flexible toward the industry’s latest trends.
“We believe that when talented people have creative freedom and work together, they will make extraordinary video games that achieve the unexpected and move the industry forward. We just knew we wanted to make great games that people would play for years” said by Tiep Vu – CEO of Titan Hunters
Titan Hunters – Topebox’s latest GameFi project – is the company’s most recent effort to combine traditional video gaming with blockchain technology flawlessly.
The NFT gaming market is something of a trial by fire due to the growing number of competitors, but the endeavor of Titan Hunters has captured many believers. Notably, numerous established and prominent venture capital (VC) firms, including Icetea Labs, Rikeisoft, DAOmaker, GameFi, Evangelion Capital, and many more, have taken an interest in Titan Hunters, and offered to either invest in the project or provide strategic partnerships. As a result, Titan Hunters’ presale round has raised more than million in funds.
What is Titan Hunters?
Titan Hunters is a shoot ’em up MMORPG with an incredible voxel graphic style combined with a simple, pure and innovative gameplay. In Titan Hunters, people role-play as the Hunters to discover the mysterious yet exciting world of the Titans and immerse in heroic battles against epic bosses.
Hunters can play solo or with teammates in Co-op Mode to collect materials from fallen foes and craft new gears to subdue even deadlier Titans. As an easily accessible but high-quality NFT game, Titan Hunters aims to bring everyone a friendly and safe environment via the free-to-play and invest-to-earn model.
Why is Titan Hunters a Serious GameFi Contender?
Topebox has carefully analyzed the top-performing video game series globally and hand-picked only the best aspects that would set their success in stone. As a result, the team has condensed the following features into Titan Hunters:
- Colorful voxel graphic: Inspired by Minecraft’s blocky world and Roblox colorful universe, Titan Hunters is seeking a potentially massive audience from all over the world.
- Easy to pick-up gameplay: Titan Hunters’ gameplay is easy to learn while popular genres such as MOBA (e.g., League of Legends), FPS (e.g., CSO), Card Battles (e.g., Hearthstone) and are far too complex and require gamers to invest their time to learn correctly.
- Multi-platforms support: Cross-platform support has appeared in many blockbuster games, such as Minecraft and Roblox. Titan Hunters will follow these games’ successful path and introduce as many players as possible to NFT gaming.
- Low-entry barrier: Frequently appearing on news and social media, NFT is somewhat a buzzword that may confuse new users. Titan Hunters will simplify, educate and make learning about NFT as entertaining as possible.
- Free-to-play: Not everyone can pay a steep upfront fee to access a video game. For instance, Axie Infinity’s 0 entrance fee for a playable team of Axies has turned off many people wanting to set foot in the NFT space. Meanwhile, Titan Hunters believed free-to-play is the way to go for the most significant audience reach and enjoyment.
On the other hand, Titan Hunters targets the conventional mobile gaming space, a highly competitive platform, and currently is the hub for more than 2.2 billion gamers. With a hypothetical calculation, Titan Hunters is competing with:
- Brawl Stars: a 3 vs. 3 team battle mobile game with 87 million players.
- Roblox: Video game development platform with more than 250 million users.
- Minecraft: Cross-platform sandbox video game exceeding 200 million players.
- Titan Hunters: Combining all of the above characteristics, hundreds million players would hypothetically be possible.
Plans for the future
Titan Hunters is announcing its dual IDO on the most prominent crypto launchpads in the market, DAO Maker, GameFi and Gate.io on November 18, 2021. Follow the company’s official Twitter or Telegram for more details.
Online Gaming Platform Lets Gamers Collect BTC In First-Person Shooter Game
n P2P online gaming platform lets gamers hunt for Bitcoin in a fully lightning-native multiplayer first-person shooter gamen
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Calling All Gamers: Razer Wants You to Mine Cryptocurrency Using Idle GPUs
Razer, the multi-billion-dollar gaming equipment manufacturer, released a new program that allows gamers to easily utilize their idle GPUs to mine cryptocurrency. The catch to this seemingly simple program, however, is that users don’t actually get to keep the cryptocurrency they mine.
Razer Releases Cryptocurrency Mining Software Called SoftMiner
The new program, called SoftMiner, allows PC users to utilize their expensive GPUs while they are not using their computers, whether that be while they are at school, sleeping, or at work, and in exchange Razer rewards them with something called “Razer Silver.”
The San Francisco and Singapore-based tech company announced the program in a tweet earlier this morning, marketing their new program as a way to earn rewards for doing “nothing at all.”
“Have a gaming rig on idle at home? Here’s a new way to score Razer Silver: launch Razer SoftMiner on your PC and start racking up Silver—one step closer to the reward you want, for doing nothing at all.”
Once the software is downloaded, it will automatically activate the PC’s GPU when the computer is not in use and will disburse Razer Silver rewards depending on how much cryptocurrency is mined over a set period of time. Razer has not specified which cryptocurrency will be mined.
A Good Deal for Razer, But not a Good Deal for Users
Although SoftMiner seems like a simple way for users to obtain rewards points that can be exchanged for “coveted Razer rewards like our latest peripherals, games, discount vouchers, and more,” users could run mining software themselves and cash out their cryptocurrency for fiat currency.
Razer claims that with the proper set-up, users can generate up to 500 Razer Silver credits per 24-hour period, which basically amounts to .67 per day worth of rewards based on a Razer reward costing 1,500 credits.
The comments on the Razer SoftMiner announcement on Twitter signal that nobody is too excited about this new program.
One user wrote “Seriously? This is an early April fools joke right?” While another user referenced the high cost of electricity incurred while mining cryptocurrency, saying “I’m just going to need to forward my electricity bill to you [Razer] every month and have you pay it.”
Another user criticized the “trade deal” Razer is offering users, calling it the “worst trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever.”
Asus and Quantumcloud recently released a similar program that allows gamers to mine cryptocurrency using their idle graphics cards, although their program allows users to cash out the proceeds (minus a fee) to either their PayPal or WeChat accounts.
Although it is clear that SoftMiner isn’t the best deal for users, it does signal a growing trend for tech companies who are looking to generate additional income through mining cryptocurrency.
Programs like SoftMiner and the one being offered by Asus may also introduce more people to the crypto markets and could act as a gateway that leads gamers into the world of cryptocurrency mining.
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Streaming Platform for Gamers Starts Public Beta Testing of Its Own Blockchain
n Earning money on streaming games may become easier not only for streamers or organizers but for viewers as well. A platform launches its own blockchain to give all participants the option to monetize on streaming SPONSOREDn
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