Weekly GameFi Update (Week 16, 22/04/2022 – 28/04/2022)

Axie Infinity Season 21 is now live. Bored Ape Yacht Club unveils ‘Otherside’ Metaverse, sets land sale on 30 April. Crypto.com, Animoca Brands invest in Yield Guild Games SEA through a US$15 million funding round.

Key Takeaways

• Axie Infinity Season 21 is now live, with the prize pool containing over 120,000 AXS tokens. Axie Infinity also teased land gameplay through a tweeted photo and scheduled an Origin update on 28 April.
• Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) celebrated its one year anniversary and announced its new Metaverse dubbed ‘Otherside’, which is expected to launch a land sale on 30 April. According to their Twitter thread, users are required to complete KYC before minting on the Ethereum blockchain using BAYC’s APE token.
• Yield Guild Games SEA (YGG SEA) completed a US$15 million funding round backed by top blockchain investors, including Animoca Brands and Crypto.com.
• The total market cap for GameFi tokens now stands at US$44.2 billion, down -5.17% from last week.

Highlights

• Decentraland holds its first ever marathon in the Metaverse
• ‘Magic: The Gathering’ creator to design new game mode for ‘Blockchain Brawlers’
• Animoca Brands ‘not done acquiring’ studios to make NFT games: Chairman
• Blockchain gaming startup OpenBlox raises round on heels of surging play-to-earn demand
• Meta to open first physical store to demystify Metaverse

Game Updates

• DeFi Kingdoms releases new map zones in Crystalvale 
• Gods of Asgard NFT minting on 1 May
• Illuvium.io launches beta gameplay
• League of Kingdoms’ Drago genesis sales to start 16 May
• Sorare adds Major League Soccer (MLS) to list of football leagues
• Star Atlas partners with SandBox to host Metaverse contest
• Sandbox Megacity 2 land sale

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