TL;DR

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

• Web3 gaming: Shrapnel lawsuit, Portalcoin, Oh Baby! Games, Neo Tokyo, AOFVerse, and more news.

• Macro Cryptocurrency News: Binance’s new CEO and BUSD, Bitcoin, Argentina’s new president, and Do Kwon.

🎮 Web3 Gaming and Tech

• Directors of Shrapnel filed a lawsuit against a shareholder in a struggle for corporate control, yet the game remains on track. Operators and $SHRAP take a nosedive but also bounce back quickly.

• Illuvium can now be wishlishted and is showing up in the trending section on the Epic Games Store.

• Portal, a crypto gaming platform connected with hundreds of games has its $Portal airdrop campaign live. Taking over Twitter with 1.3M Tweets in only a few days.

• Leading up to its game launch the Defimons rebrands to Spellborne. In anticipation of the game, interest in Apartment NFTs surges.

• Animoca Brands will invest in the TON blockchain protocol and become its largest validator as it eyes GameFi development on the platform. TON is already nearing 170M transactions.

• Oh Baby! Games announced a strategic collaboration with media giant Paramount to expand their transmedia IP. Additionally, Oh Baby Kart, its flagship title will come to Steam soon.

• Pudgy Penguins teamed up with Walmart on Cyber Monday to launch their exclusive influencer box bundle, available on their website.

• The $GRAPES pre-sale: $4M sold in 4 hours. Highly likely to be listed on Binance.

• Gas Hero, STEPN’s second game, announced this week that community testing is officially live. The high volume of their NFTs shows the strength of their community.

• Over 20+ Web3 games and platforms joined the Neo Tokyo community. this week Co-founder Alex Becker expressed his delight in the news. 

• Metaversal releases an article: 8 Crypto Games to Watch. The list includes some under-the-radar picks like Gaus and Kamigotchi.

• Pixels just released Guilds (V1), a new feature revolving around collective resource generation. The membership price to join a Guild will be determined by a bonding curve (inspired by Friend.tech).

🕹️ Gaming Narrative Play

• AOFVerse held a very successful NFT sale, which went from a free mint to a now ~0.66 ETH floor price and 1100+ 24-hour ETH volume. Check out this Nexus thread on how we analyze this project.

• Furthermore, we want to announce that will be working on a 6-part series, an evaluation framework, on how to spot good games. The first part (product) will be out when we launch.

🚀 Nexus Platform Countdown

This is already the fourth edition of the Nexus Newsletter! We hope you are getting ready to leverage your trading success to new heights in 2024. In the meantime, this is how you can get involved:

• Get a Nexus Pass NFT for exclusive lifetime access, or

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

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

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

📈 Macro Cryptocurrency News

• Binance's new CEO, Richard Teng, laid out his vision of 'responsible growth' amid Binance's compliance overhaul. Also, Binance will stop supporting their stablecoin, BUSD, on December 15th. Please make sure to unload any BUSD you might have. 

• Bitcoin crossed $38,000 this week, its highest level since April 2022. Micheal Saylor and MicroStrategy announced that it had acquired an additional 16,130 Bitcoin (BTC) for approximately $593.3 million, bringing its total holdings to 174,530 BTC (average purchase price of $30,252 per BTC).

• Argentina's newly nominated crypto-friendly president, Javier Milei, is standing by his campaign promise that the shutdown of the nation's central bank is deemed a "non-negotiable issue."

• Do Kwon, the founder of Terraform Labs, wanted in both South Korea and the United States, is set to be extradited from Montenegro following court approval for his transfer.

🌟 Token Spotlight by Hustle

• This Week's Pick: $SHRAP

• Recent Gains: Due to the lawsuit, the token dropped to below $0.16. Yet, because Shrapnel’s trajectory remains unchanged, it quickly recovered to the $0.19 - $0.21 range. We hope you bought the FUD.

• Market Cap: At around $48M

• What is Shrap? Shrapnel is a competitive AAA extraction shooter, built on Avalanche. The game will be released in 2024, with early access available in December.

• 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. 

🛠️ Nexus Updates Sneak Peek

Below is a Sneak Peek of our latest update: “NFT Portfolio Tracker”. This feature provides you not only an overview of the NFTs you hold but also shows you their collective value, per category.

See you next week!