Trending News In NFT, Blockchain and Web3 Gaming 2022 Q2-Q4
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GameStop launches NFT marketplace
Snap explores plans to let users showcase NFTs as filters
Blockchain Gaming Publisher Animoca Brands raises $75M
GameInfinity Announces its presale
GameStop launches NFT marketplace
On July 11th, 2022 GameStop announces the launch of its Non-Fungible-token (NFT) marketplace. The company previously stated that the marketplace would be released by the end of the second quarter of the fiscal year 2022.
The marketplace is described by the company as a “non-custodial, Ethereum Layer 2-based marketplace.” The marketplace is built specifically on the Loopring.
GameStop is an American video game, consumer electronics, and gaming merchandise retailer.
GameStop's NFT marketplace surpassed $1 million (1028 ETH) in volume on 12th, July.
Snap explores plans to let users showcase NFTs as filters
Snap is exploring ways to let artists to show off their digital collectibles as AR filters on Snapchat.
The Los Angeles-based social media platform Snapchat is making ready-to-check a characteristic that might enable NFT artists to showcase their designs on the Snapchat platform as augmented actuality filters.
According to the report from Financial Times, the platform will start testing the NFT filter with a limited set of creators in August 2022.
The NFTs will be created and minted on the other platforms (NFT marketplace) and then import into Snapchat as Lenses. The report also reveals that the creators will not be charged to show off their NFTs.
Blockchain Gaming Publisher Animoca Brands raises $75M
Blockchain game developer Animoca Brands has raised $75.3 million following a fundraising drive that now values the firm at $5.5 billion.
Animoca Brands - an Australian company based in Hong Kong - said the raise was the second part of a $360 million round in January. The funds to invest in more games and advance the vision for the “open metaverse.”
Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, said in a statement, “the current market conditions will not kill Web3, the open metaverse, NFTs, or cryptocurrencies. There will be bumps on the road, cyclical variations, and the occasional black swan event, but the map to the future is legible by anyone who takes a broader and longer view.”
GameInfinity Announces its presale
Gamenfinity a Web3 gaming platform officially announces its $GAMEIN token presale 1.
According to the announcement: Only 4% of the total is available for presale 1. the platform is offering its token at $0.0027 per $GAMEIN, the will be listed on the PancakeSwap at $0.015 per token.
Currently, the platform is working on the new site which will be released by the end of July 2022.
Interested users can Join the Presale: www.gameinfinity.io
More details: https://gameinfinity.medium.com/