TL;DR

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

• Web3 Gaming and Tech: Top-performing gaming tokens of 2023, Overworld reveal, Star Symphony’s Play-2-Airdrop campaign, top 10 games of 2024, Binance invests in MEME token, and more news.

• Macro Cryptocurrency News: SBF trial, South Korea proposes a ban for crypto credit card payments, Radiant Capital reported a flash loan attack, new IRS rules on crypto transactions, and more news.

🎮 Web3 Gaming and Tech

• The top-performing gaming tokens of 2023.

  • Notably CROWN, WRLD, and BIGTIME all launched (or relaunched) this year, allowing them to take advantage of the changing market sentiment.

• The Web3 gaming winners of 2023.

  • NFL Rivals, Mocaverse, and Ronin left the greatest impact on 2023.

• The Overworld reveal was received very positively.

  • Surprisingly the floor price even rose after the reveal, which is very uncommon and a good indicator of the project’s ongoing hype.

• Star Symphony started its Play-2-Airdrop campaign.

  • Here’s a detailed guide on how to position yourself.

• Binance Labs has invested in MEME, the native token of Memeland.

  • Beyond its NFT and token, Memeland offers MEME farming and has plans to introduce several upcoming features.

• Portal partners with Ronin’s most recent entrant, Apeiron.

• Yellow Panther shares a list of the top 10 games on Arbitrum.

  • Seraph, The Beacon, Pirate Nation, AI Arena, and ZTX are included.

• Payton shares his top 10 games of 2024.

  • Fableborne, Champions, Dimensionals, Shrapnel, and The Bornless are included.

• Gas Hero goes live, which is the second game coming from the STEPN studio.

  • In terms of volume Gas Hero is the largest project on Polygon.

• Following the launch of a $100 million Web3 fund, Korean gaming firm Wemade is now facing a tax obligation of $41 million.

• In January 2024, Bitcoin and Friends are set to initiate a treasure hunt with NFTs, featuring a prize pool of $150,000.

🕹️ Gaming Narrative Play

• With its token price moving, Legends of Elumia (LoE) has been gaining more traction lately.

  • LoE is one of the few good Web3 MMORPGs out there. The game seems to have more content than Big Time and so is less repetitive.

  • It’s a great genre fit for Web3, because of deep economies (think of crafting/skilling) and heavy social elements, these stimulate collecting, demand, and P2P trading.

🚀 Nexus Platform Countdown

Happy New Year and welcome to the ninth edition of the newsletter! This year is no different because we are heads down working on the launch of the Nexus platform. 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

• U.S. prosecutors have stated that there are no intentions to pursue a second trial against Sam Bankman-Fried. He was recently convicted of embezzlement from customers of his now-defunct FTX cryptocurrency exchange.

• South Korea proposes a ban on credit card payments for crypto.

• Michael Saylor, co-founder of MicroStrategy Inc. and the individual responsible for transforming it into the largest publicly traded holder of Bitcoin, is divesting nearly $216 million worth of shares in the software company. 

• Radiant Capital, a cross-chain lending protocol, has suspended its lending and borrowing markets on Arbitrum following a reported flash loan attack resulting in a loss of $4.5 million.

• New IRS rules require reporting data from $10k crypto transactions in 2024.

🌟 Token Spotlight by Hustle

• This Week’s Pick: $HXD

• Market Cap: ~$45M.

• What is HXD? $HXD is Honeyland’s token, a casual mobile game on SOL. It’s one of the few promising live games on the network, which is backed by a solid team that has been building through the bear. Most recently, the studio introduced a direct in-game marketplace, allowing players to directly list on Magic Eden from the app.

• 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: Genesis Dimensional Stones.

• Why Dimensionals? Dimensionals is backed by a solid team, which was responsible for hits like Cat Game and Mino Monsters. The studio is experienced in building universes and growing IPs, which is in line with Dimensionals. The NFT collection, however, has been going under the radar, because the project has been ‘building in silence’ and not posting on Twitter.

• Utility: Factory NFTs (reward you all future NFT collections) - NFT heroes will have strong P2W elements. The first collection that holders could claim was EVE, which has P2W features and will have some kind of factory NFT element as well.

• Catalyst: Their game ‘Alpha Trails’ is still in closed access, only accessible to code/NFT holders. However, once they release their beta, there are plans to make it publicly known. This will lead to more attention, so more liquidity.

• Note: It’s a collection of only 1.000 pieces.

🛠️ Nexus Updates Sneak Peek

Below is a sneak of our latest update: “Solana Wallet Tracker”. Whilst most wallet trackers only show you EVM (compatible) wallets, we will incorporate a specific tracker for SOL wallets as well. Nexus is here for all your trading needs.

See you next week!