Daily Insights: Updates on Crypto, Blockchain, NFTs, Web3, and Play-to-Earn Gaming

The world of Web3 was buzzing with excitement as major players announced game-changing partnerships and events on "Super Sunday". Immutable and Polygon joined forces, while gamers eagerly anticipated the Eternal Dragons Tournament and Yuga Labs' second trip into the metaverse. Here's a closer look at the exciting developments shaping the future of Web3.Another edition of Super Sunday with a lot of blockchain gaming industry news. This week saw several massive developments including Immutable and Polygon, two of the big guns in the blockchain industry, joining hands to launch zkEVM. Moreover, we have Eternal Dragons Alpha Tournament, CCP Games planning an AAA blockchain game, and popular and nostalgic Neopets planning a comeback as a Web3 game. A major update by Yuga Labs this week is the launching of Second Trip to the other side, Spider Tanks releasing a massive update, and finally, Mocaverse reveals Moca NFTs.

Decentraland fashion week, Champions Ascension tournament, NFTs making headlines, and Undead Blocks rolling out Play and Earn features in this week's Web3 gaming news. A lot of play to earn and blockchain gaming activity happened earlier this week. Several games like Undead Blocks, Champions Ascension, Decentraland, and more have come up with their updates. Now you can earn ZBUX by killing zombies, play Champions Ascension without a Web3 wallet, and more. We also saw the winner of Dookey Dash Key NFT making millions by auctioning it off. Moreover, we also have a Web3 metaverse fashion week coming up in Decentralnad. Mirandus also has a playtest open for players to test rolling dice. We also saw some big partnerships where Animoca Brands expands to the MENA region and join hands with Manga Productions and more.

After selling the Dookey Dash Key NFT, Mongraal, the winner of Yuga Labs' Dookey Dash NFT game competition, received 1000 ETH.

Blur dominates the NFT marketplace and OpenSea trials; this article checks some of the facts and happenings in the Web3 NFT industry 2024. The hype was real surrounding the airdrop, as Blur has dominated OpenSea's NFT trading volume. According to Dune Analytics statistics, the marketplace had a volume of $601 million over the past seven days compared to the $104 million of OpenSea. These numbers correspond to Blur Marketplace controlling an 85.2% market share compared to OpenSea's 14.8%.Daily volume numbers are also evident in this comparison. According to DappRadar statistics, Blur achieved a trading volume of $98.6 million in the last 24 hours. While OpenSea, in second position, only managed $17.92 million. Additionally, compared to OpenSea, its daily average transaction price has consistently been greater.It's important to note that Blur has designed its incentives strategy to avoid rewarding volume in order to discourage wash trading. By tweaking its royalties reward structure, the market has attempted to bypass OpenSea's constrictive approach. This policy change is a defensive measure designed to safeguard its survival as it was forced to make this decision as a result of OpenSea's non-competitive position. Blur and OpenSea do not pay royalties to the same creator on both platforms.

Yuga Labs' latest crypto NFT game Dookey Dash is having a promising run so far. According to the Delphi Digital report, Dookey Dash has seen spending of a whopping $2 million+ USD since its launch on January 17th. Professional blockchain gamers are in a fierce race to top the game’s leaderboard.

The famous Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT's has made headlines yet again! BAYC is going Hollywood. Yes, you read that right, lets go Apecoin.

After the tremendous popularity of the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection, Yuga Labs decides to launch virtual real estate.

Great news for Bored ape NFT's holders as new projects and games involving the Bored NFTs are about to go sky-high.