TL;DR

• Follow the Hustle and the Nexus Twitter accounts for the latest news.

• Web3 gaming and tech: Parallel Colony whitepaper, $MON stakers and partnered token airdrops, OPEN, Maple Story x Avalanche, Kaidro's free mint, Portalcoin: Magic Eden integration, Cornucopias gameplay, Mocaverse x Aethir Cloud, and more news.

• Macro Cryptocurrency News: Proposed cryptocurrency regulations, Coinbase's petition, Tesla x DOGE coin, ETH completes Dencun upgrade, BNB introduces the new BEP 336 upgrade, CPI rose by 0.4%, and Bitcoin achieves another ATH.

🎮 Web3 Gaming and Tech

• Parallel Colony shared another trailer, which showed and explained more of the innovative game’s features

  • Additionally, they just released its whitepaper, which made the floor price of Parallel Avatars dip first, but then skyrocket

• GAM3S.GG teased it will be having a mint on Magic Eden with a 333 supply

  • Recently, the gaming platform also announced its $G3 token

• Kermit notes that $MON stakers will receive token airdrops from all their current partnerships

  • This means that stakers will likely receive airdrops from BLOCK, RIFT, E4C, Revolving Games, Ember, Glory, Delabs, Nyan, Valeria, Kuro, and more

• OPEN, the game that is using the Read Player One IP and is coming to Futurevere, just released its trailer

• Kaidro concluded its free mint, but “a new shipment of crates is inbound”

  • As a holder of the Kaidro NFT, you can claim a skin in Pixels

• Maplestory Universe (MU) migrates from Polygon to Avalanche

  • MU will build a subnet on the chain that hosts its ecosystem of dApps

• Portalcoin welcomes Ancient8 to its ecosystem

  • Ancient8 is gaming L2 on ETH backed by Pantera Capital

• Portal opened up a Telegram to receive more information about becoming a node operator - the waitlist is still open

• Portal announced it is now fully integrated into MagicEden

  • Every NFT on ME will be purchasable in $PORTAL

• Ivan on Tech shares gameplay on Cornucopias

  • The footage is about half an hour and guides us through their game world

• Mocaverse partners with AethirCloud’s Initial Node Offering

  • They are offering a pool of 760 nodes at Tier 4-10

• The Elixir Games Launcher announced its upcoming Season Pass, covering 12 games with different rewards

  • Additionally, the studio will have its IDO soon

• XBORG changed its mint from ETH to Polygon last minute and postponed it as well (WL is live now)

  • Additionally, XBORG announced the KOL round Batch#2, which included Alex Becker, Dingaling, and more notable influencers

• Neo Tokyo released episode 20 of its podcast, which features Jamie Thomson, the founder of Vulcan Forged

• Animoca made a strategic investment in Param Labs

  • Param Labs is the studio behind Kiraverse and Pixel To Poly

• SuperVerse DAO partners with another large Web3 game: Shrapnel

  • $SUPER holders can obtain rare in-game items and NFTs

• Gaimin starts its pre-TGE airdrop farming campaign

  • By engaging with their Twitter you can earn ELO, which can be redeemed for its $GMRX token in a later stage

• The proposal for the Arbitrum Gaming Catalyst Program is now live on the forum

  • This proposal includes a 200M ARB ($400M+) program to make Arbitrum the destination for Web3 gaming

• Imaginary Ones launched another game called Bubble Rangers, which you can play for a $BUBBLE airdrop

• The Starknet Foundation announced the Gaming Committee

  • The committee is meant to analyze, strategize, and recommend programs to expand Starknet’s gaming vertical

• The Imaginary One’s co-founder sits at the table with Animoca Brands, talking about how they are planning to become the “Roblox of Web3”

• Shards is introducing a new way monetization layer for gaming: friendtech x Guilds

  • This initiative is coming from MiraiLabs, the studio behind Petopia, Pegaxy, and PetM

  • CCP Games, the developer behind EVE, unveils the initial details of Project Awakening, a Web3 Space MMORPG

• Sappy Seals had its Open World Tech Demo this week

  • The reception isn’t too good, however, people don’t realize this playtest is used to test the networking infrastructure, which will be used for its actual game: Project O

• The Portalcoin-alike social campaign for BlockGames is live

  • You can gain points through social engagement, which grant you an allocation to $BLOCK

• Sony is trying to carve a new niche within the NFT sector, as hinted by the company's recent patent application - “Super Fungible Tokens”

• Pixels destroys another milestone of a 1M MAU

• Aether Games launched their $AEG token this week and will be hosting their launch tournament from March 8th to April 8th.

• GuildFi brings out a teaser for one of its new initiatives ZentryHQ

• Ubisoft broadens its Web3 presence by joining XPLA as a network validator

🕹️ Gaming Narrative Play

• Gaming Chains: Once the attention diverts back to gaming, infrastructure will likely be one of the first points of attention.

  • Ronin’s attention keeps growing and is on track to beat BNB regarding active wallets.

  • AVAX recently partnered with Maple Story Universe. One of the most prominent Web3 games is building a subnet.

  • Immutable onboarded over 75+ games in the past 3 months, the likelihood of IMX finding a breakout hit soon is becoming pretty realistic.

🚀 Nexus V1 Alpha Launch

Welcome to the nineteenth edition of the newsletter! Yesterday Hustle shared a teaser of the type of features you can expect in the future, the icons are pretty telling we can say.

Furthermore, we are still working hard on the public launch. In the meantime, this is how you can get involved:

• Get a Nexus Pass NFT now for exclusive and immediate lifetime access.

When we launch publicly, you can:

• Subscribe for $49/month to unlock the full potential (live at a next-stage launch), or

• Use the free version (limited in features) of the platform

Don't miss out—follow our journey on Hustle's Twitter, YouTube channels, and Nexus Twitter.

📈 Macro Cryptocurrency News

• President Biden’s proposed 2025 budget includes new cryptocurrency regulations, in the form of a mining tax and the implementation of a 'wash sale rule'.

• Coinbase petitioned an appeals court to instruct the SEC to begin drafting regulations for cryptocurrency.

• Elon Musk announced that Tesla will eventually facilitate payments with Doge, stating, "Dogecoin to the moon."

• Ethereum completes the ‘Dencun’ upgrade, marking a significant step towards reducing data fees. 

• BNB chain introduces the BEP 336 upgrade, which will significantly decrease transaction costs and boost network performance.

• The CPI rose by 0.4% for the month and 3.2% compared to a year ago. The monthly figure met expectations, while the 12-month reading was slightly elevated.

• Bitcoin surges past $72,000 to achieve yet another new all-time high.

🌟 Token Spotlight by Hustle

• Coin of the Week: $GF

• Market Cap: ~$300M

• What is GuildFi? GuildFi is an open interconnected ecosystem of games, entertainment, communities, and NFTs, with a bunch of products in the pipeline: an infrastructure player network, an RPG metagame, plans to become a publisher, and an NFT storytelling battle pass. The idea is that the potential of GuildFi to become a major infrastructure player in the gaming space isn’t priced in yet.

• Delve into Hustle's market wisdom with his “Daily Watchlist” and deep-dive analysis available on the TTOO Discord server and through his “In the Game" show. 

✍️ NFT of The Week

• Pick of the Week: Fableborne Primordials

• Why Fableborne?

  • Killed five game loops prior (commitment to finding PMF)

  • Uses a viable formula of iterating on Clash of Clans

  • Leadership is well-experienced in building, launching, and scaling mobile games

  • Raised $7.8M from Shima Capital, Merit Circle, Eldridge, and more

  • In development for ~2 years, and on the road to completion

  • More potential for value accrual

  • In a good buying range now of around ~0.2E

• Utility:

  • Airdrop of Primordial Essence (PE), an off-chain, nontradeable currency

  • In-game cosmetics

  • Access to exclusive tournaments and rewards.

  • Holder-exclusive playtests.

  • Allowlist for future mints

• Catalysts:

  • Holders of PE will likely have perks when Fableborne (potentially) decides to release an on-chain token

  • The team expands on what you can buy with PE, on the currency-specific marketplace

🛠️ Nexus Feature Highlight

Check out our latest feature highlight video, where we showcase the dashboard in detail.

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See you next week!