Artha - BlackPool

BlackPool Bulletin #39

How to scam millions of people, but silently? Do it slowly. That is how a big group of influencers drained more than $200M through hundreds of projects. Mainly through little NFT collections.

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The Alpha: Influence

In case you missed what Influence is, you can think of a blockchain and browser based version of Eve Online. You will be on a journey through the vast expanse of space.

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BlackPool Bulletin #38

The Bear Market mood is affecting most of the fading twitter space. How to keep pushing when the main centralised social media is falling apart? Still massive news is dropping every week.

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BlackPool Bulletin #37

Not a lot is happening in the blockchain gaming universe this week. But the paradoxical mood of this bear market is still omnipresent: you can see, side by side, beautiful community-owned projects like TreasureDAO, and clowns with their omnipotent and designed-to-die projects like Genesis or FTX.

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The Alpha: Illuvium Zero

After a few weeks on Illuvium Overworld, as landowners we had the opportunity to try Illuvium Zero. The bad news is that we have a past addiction to autobattlers, RPG & tycoon games. The good news is that Illuvium Zero is actually a good tycoon, even at its beta stage.

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BlackPool Bulletin #36

Yuga Labs starting the year with a mint announcement is kind of a game breaker on the NFT side, and Illuvium nominated for 7 categories at Gam3rs’ Choice Awards…

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BlackPool Bulletin #35

We are quietly heading into 2023. No drama this week, two massive blockchain games coming to mobile phones… How will the industry react to this step? Mobile phones are the most used gaming platform, so the war will be intense.

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The Alpha: Illuvium Overworld

While we intended to wait until the release of Illuvium Zero before writing our first review of this exciting new ecosystem - after playing the beta for Illuvium Overworld it was impossible for us to remain silent any longer.

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Blackpool Bulletin #34

New year, new us? Not really. Just changing a number on the calendar won’t do alchemy tricks on the market and its actors. But the future of blockchain gaming seems bright. Will 2023 be the year of the bull? Or another year of the bear?

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BlackPool Bulletin #33

NFT Gaming growing (almost) silently with big game changers: Yuga Labs new CEO from Activision, Square Enix investing more and more into future NFT Gaming infrastructures, Illuvium becoming more and more promising…

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The Alpha: Mighty Action Heroes

Last weekend, The Herd had the great privilege of participating in the first closed test for Mighty Action Heroes - a browser-based, blockchain, battle royale game inspired heavily by the iconic action films of the 1980s.

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BlackPool Bulletin #32

SBF getting arrested, Illuvium opening their gates for 30 000 people, Axie partnering with Cloud9, Trump minting his own rare NFT, Metamask partnering with Paypal…

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Partnership Announcement: Mighty Action Heroes x BlackPool

We are excited to announce our partnership with Mighty Action Heroes, a web3 mobile-first battle royale game, from the leading multi-platform game development studio Mighty Bear Games.

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BlackPool Bulletin #31

A free mint during the Super Bowl, the Ledger Op3n setting new standards and revealing the Stax, Illuvium launching the new test phase, The Beacon running a mini tournament… Rugs and fun for this week in the crypto space.

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Bossfight #4 : Cross The Ages

It would be hard not to know anything about Cross The Ages. But really, what is Cross The Ages? A trading card game (TCG)? A luxury Reversi? A mobile game? Basically all of that, but we will dive into the details to understand more about this game.

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BlackPool Bulletin #30

This week: some massive acquisitions by Animoca Brands, Uniswap release their NFT aggregator, Opensea integrates a new chain, Sorare continues building, and some economical tweets to top it all off. Grab your coffee, it’s time to learn!

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The Arcade 2022 - Debrief

For the first time in Herd history, we all gathered in a huge central place for more than a week. A web3 hub, centered on the future of gaming. It was intense, exhausting and beautiful.

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BlackPool Bulletin #29

After all the FTX mess, it is hard to go back to the usual bear market. No big scams or incredible news this week, but it’s still time to learn new tricks: how to avoid ConsenSys collecting your IP, new blue-chips floor prices and why is Apecoin pumping? Enjoy the ride, folks!

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Interview with Oresto - The Immortal King

I like the feeling of being a trailblazer. I have been with the project practically since the very beginning. Even when I didn't yet understand what it was all about, I could feel something interesting was emerging. Something interesting was coming to light.

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BlackPool Bulletin #28

Apple Store games making millions, a BAYC sold for $115, a CS:GO skin listed for $455k... The market is sweetly volatile and chaotic. Might be worth losing yourself in a Netflix documentary for a couple of weeks if that scares you, it doesn't look like it's getting better any time soon...

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BlackPool Bossfight #3: Gods Unchained

Trading Card Games (TCG) are nothing new. Games such as Magic The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh, World Of Warcraft and of course the incredibly successful Pokemon TCG have all contributed over the years to make this gaming genre one of the most popular and lucrative around.

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BlackPool Bulletin #27

It is hard to not focus on the ongoing FTX drama this week. We know that SBF playing LoL has been debunked many times, but let us believe please. The rekt is so strong it's still ongoing. What will remain of this circus in a few weeks? Who will survive?

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BlackPool Bulletin #26

We have some bad news... No REKT this week :'( Except that, a lot of gaming news, the Ballon d'Or on a Ledger, Azuki delivering good stuff & a bump about The Arcade. Did you know we were organizing a web3 games tournament? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. An Alpha about CRV, Ape? 2.

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BlackPool Bulletin #25

Big and small REKT, new adoption on OpenSea, some technical threads... A lot of fun news for the weekly update from your favorite Apes! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finance 1. How to use Blockchain Explorer correctly. 2. A big thread about MEV and on-chain arbitrage. NFT 3. Next-gen Zucc. 4. Smol rekt for

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BlackPool Bulletin #24

More regulation, one of the biggest Rekt ever, another Bored Ape scam and RTFK still breaking the NFT game. A big week in the crypto space, trying to process everything going on. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finance 1. More and more regulation... Not for the best. 2. 3d place on Rekt podium! 3.