Assassin’s Creed NFT Pass, LG Electronics Files for NFT Patents, Yuga Labs New CEO Buys $90K Bored Ape

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Top Stories

• Ubisoft/Assassin’s Creed: French video game publisher Ubisoft recently teamed up with the entertainment reality platform Integral Reality Labs to create ‘Assassin’s Creed Smart Collectibles,’ an NFT access pass based on the popular game franchise (D).

• LG Electronics: According to information by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), South Korean tech conglomerate LG Electronics has filed a patent application for its smart TV with NFT trading features (CT).

• Starburst Juicyverse: Mars Wrigley-owned candy brand Starburst has announced the launch of the ‘Juicyverse’ experience on ‘TheMall,’ a metaverse mall that utilizes MetaVRse Engine 2.0 (VB).

• Yuga Labs new CEO Daniel Alegre bought a Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT for 50 $ETH ($90979.50 as of this writing). Known as Bored Ape #3575, the digital collectible features the renowned chimpanzee donning a sea captain’s hat and thick-rimmed eyeglasses (NFTN).

• Tamadoge: Social arcade Web3 game Tamadoge has partnered with viral “meme coin” SpongeBob. The partnership will grant Tamadoge players access to SpongeBob’s $SPONGE token airdrop on crypto exchange Bitget (YF). 

Web3 Games

• Eldarune: Action fantasy role-playing game (RPG) Eladrune has introduced its “Dragon Army” community, which is currently looking for passionate social media-savvy members to help carry out tasks and gain rewards (TW). 

• Crabada: Avalanche-based autobattler NFT game Crabada has announced the closure of its Marketplace and Battle Game activity, to be followed by the snapshot of Crabada character NFTs, and their re-issue on C-Chain on May 20 (TW).

• MechaFightClub, a Solana-based shooter game by Irreverent Labs, is pausing its production indefinitely due to uncertainties and regulatory issues in the crypto industry, particularly in the United States (D). 

• CyberTitans: Autobattler strategy Web3 game CyberTitans is holding an offline tournament on May 16 at the Esports City Fest Andorra, where eight players will battle for the $3,000 prize (TW).

• SIDUS: Sci-fi massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) SIDUS has launched a pre-alpha test for its Nidum Arena prototype. 50 lucky participants will get the chance to try out the project’s new battle mechanics (TW).

• Ev.io: Web3 gaming platform Fractal is holding on May 22, the ‘S2 Death Match’ for MMO first-person shooter (FPS) game Ev.io. Gamers may trade in a platinum POP to enter the competition (TW).

NFT News

• Line Next, a subsidiary of Asian social app Line, has announced the first five games that the company plans to launch on its Web3 gaming platform Game Dosi. The titles are as follows: Drawship Kingdom Reverse, KEROZ, Project GD, Sweet Monster Guardians, and Vestria the Last Order (D).

• Worldcoin: Open AI CEO Sam Altman’s project the Worldcoin protocol has launched its mobile crypto wallet app World App. In time with the release, the company also dropped its ‘Introducing World App’ NFTs (TC).

• Blend Protocol: NFT marketplace Blur’s lending protocol Blend recently recorded $135 million in loans in the span of two weeks, fueling a sudden surge in the NFT lending market’s total volume  (NFTG).

• Jack Butcher: Creative agency Visualize Value’s founder Jack Butcher is launching ‘Checks Elements,’ an NFT project that consists of 152-piece generative art pieces paired with hand-drawn physical copies (CD).

• Spacebrat: Artist Jasmine Monsegue aka Spacebrat, has launched her first NFT project ‘Gleam,’ which fans can obtain through an open-edition mint. The digital collectible has been minted over 300,000 times since its release (D).

Into the Metaverse

• The Sandbox: Metaverse platform The Sandbox has announced that it is taking part in the upcoming Thailand Partner Day 2023 on the 25th of May to connect with the community and share the latest updates from the team (TW).

• Hex Trust: Institutional-grade digital asset custodian Hex Trust has partnered with The Sandbox to integrate LAND into Hex Safe, a bank-grade platform for securing and managing digital assets (CFI).

• Viking Rise: Simulation game Viking Rise is holding a metaverse art exhibition on virtual world game Decentraland’s Crypto Valley Art Gallery featuring over 20 images and an immersive video (TW).

• Upland: Metaverse game Upland announced over the weekend its ‘Mother’s Day BE Sale,’ which featured the launch of “mother’s day-inspired block explorers all throughout Upland” (TW).

DeFi World

• ImmuneFi/TraderJoe: Blockchain bug bounty platform ImmuneFi has launched a $100,000 bug bounty campaign for Trader Joe, a decentralized exchange (DEX) on networks Avalanche, Arbitrum, and BNB Chain (TW).

• Pancake Swap: Popular DEX Pancake Swap has announced that the Space ID v3 Farm is now live on its platform. The new version’s annual percentage rate (APR) will drop as liquidity increases (TW). 

• Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume, is withdrawing from Canada, weeks after the Ontario Securities Commission tightened the country’s regulations for digital asset trading platforms (R).

• Pangolin: Pangolin DEX recently announced that it has integrated the cross-chain Dex/Bridge aggregator Rango into BridgeSwap for “cross-chain swapping on 18 EVM, 19 Cosmos, and 4 other networks” (TW).