TL;DR

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

• Web3 Gaming and Tech: Web3 gaming watchlist, Pixelmon’s new game, Age of Dino’s NFT sale, $100M Web3 gaming fund, Honeyland’s in-game marketplace, and more news.

• Macro Cryptocurrency News: Microstrategy acquires more BTC, Thunder Terminal hack, Bitcoin ETFs, SOL flips BNB, and Paxos USDP stablecoin.

🎮 Web3 Gaming and Tech

• Abhi shares a list of 30 Web3 gaming projects that are worth keeping an eye on in 2024.

• Pixelmon will launch its second hyper-casual game, Pixelpals, in early 2024.

• Age of Dino announced its NFT sale which gained significant social traction.

• The studio will use an auction model for their mint, called the Vickrey auction. The 4K highest bidders will receive an NFT.

• Yellow Panther shares the top gaming stories in 2023.

• Grail.eth, a whale in Web3 gaming buys into Tatsumeeko.

  • One of the most promising games on SOL, with its governance token coming out in Q1 2024.

• South Korean game publisher Wemade and Singapore-based Whampoa Digital have recently announced an impressive $100 million Web3 gaming fund.

• The Ronin token, $RON, reached a milestone of 1 million monthly active wallets.

• “2024 is a growth year in terms of bringing people on to Web3”, says Yat Siu, the co-founder of Animoca Brands.

  • Many highly anticipated Web3 games have a game launch scheduled in 2024.

• Honeyland launches its in-game NFT marketplace, allowing players to directly buy, sell, and list NFTs inside the app on Magic Eden.

🕹️ Gaming Narrative Play

• In terms of gaming, Solana is still a wildly developing space when compared to ETH and AVAX. Despite this, there a a few promising projects that we believe will dictate the attention, once we see the attention on SOL move to gaming.

• Here’s our top 7:

  • MixMob, The Heist, Genopets, Honeyland, Photo Finish, Tatsumeeko, Star Atlas, and Aurory.

🚀 Nexus Platform Countdown

This is already the eighth edition of the Nexus Newsletter! We hope you enjoyed your holidays and wish you all the trading fortune in 2024. Prepare yourself for the Nexus launch very soon.

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, YouTube channels, and Nexus Twitter.

📈 Macro Cryptocurrency News

• MicroStrategy has acquired an additional 14,620 BTC for $615.7 million at an average price of $42,110 per Bitcoin. 

• A Thunder Terminal hack led to more than 86 ETH and 439 SOL drained.

• The SEC instructs aspiring issuers of spot Bitcoin ETFs to implement their ultimate modifications by the end of the year.

• SOL briefly flipped BNB and became the 4th largest crypto. The token price has risen above $100 once again, marking the first occurrence since early 2022.

• Paxos reveals the expansion of its USDP stablecoin on the Solana blockchain.

🌟 Token Spotlight by Hustle

• This Week’s Pick: $CROWN.

• Market Cap: ~$60M.

• What is CROWN? CROWN is Photo Finish Live’s utility token, it can be used to purchase track licenses which generate a revenue share in the $DERBY token. It’s one of the more well-known SOL games and saw a nice retrace down from $1, where around $0.80 is a good level to accumulate.

• 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

• This Week’s Pick: Meekolony Passes

• Why Tatsumeeko?

  • Narrative: SOL (gaming)

  • Raised $8M from Binance, Animoca, Delphi, and Bitkraft

  • The game works entirely inside Discord (150M MAU)

  • Tatsugotchi (minigame) has 60M lifetime players

  • Plans to launch on mobile, WeChat, and Telegram

  • A high % of NFTs staked

• Utility: $MKLN (governance token) airdrop, staking for utility tokens, free season passes, discounts at the in-game store, and character optimization options.

• Catalyst: Tatsumeeko has its first playable version coming in Q1 2024, and has yet to promote the airdrop campaign. Bullish if it will be Play2Airdrop.

• Note: the collection was pumped recently and reached an ATH in terms of $. The play would be to get involved after a cooldown, but just before the airdrop campaign.

See you in the new year!