Metaverse Weekly Wrap-Up: Mar 20-26

Market Data | Market News | Sales & Mints | Events Contests & Giveaways | Twitter Spaces Project Streams & Interviews | Project Updates | Partnerships |

Highlights:

  • 7,200 Voyagers join The Second Trip to the Otherside

  • US Terra founder Do Kwon finally arrested & charged

  • AfricaRare hosts first physical auction of virtual land

  • Splinterlands is launching LAND NFTs

  • Project Updates at Arcade, Decentraland, Voxels, Illuvium, Upland, and Fortnite…&

  • A heavyweight partnership to scale Web3 gaming, as The Ledger secures LANDs in The Sandbox


💹 Market Data

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🗞️ Market News

OTHERSIDE - Mar 25: Yuga Labs launched Otherside’s The Second Trip, with an estimated 7,200 Otherdeeds holders and guests simultaneously joining in the hotly anticipated metaverse experience.

IMMUTABLE <> POLYGON - Mar 20: Ethereum scaling heavyweights Polygon and Immutable teamed up to build a Web3 gaming network pairing Polygon’s zkEVM with Immutable to make games faster and easier for studios and devs.

CCP GAMES <> a16z - Mar 22: Creators of MMO ‘EVE Online’ CCP Games secured $40m led by a16z to build a new AAA title that utilizes blockchain tech set within the EVE Universe.

MAGIC EDEN - Mar 22: The cross-chain NFT platform launched Magic Eden Games - a place where Web3 games devs can grow their player communities, and where players can keep up to date with and access the latest games and games news.

TERRA LUNA / DO KWON - Mar 24: Montenegran police arrested and charged Do Kwon for forging official documents. South Korea is seeking his extradition.

Do Kwon was the co-founder of the stablecoin TerraUSD and Luna cryptocurrency which both collapsed in May 2022, wiping out near $45b.


🌄 Sales & Mints

SPLINTERLANDS - Mar 21: Blockchain trading game Splinterlands published its Land Phase 1.5 white paper: The Secret of Praetoria, introducing 150,000 Land NFTs across 150 regions for players to build on, mine resources from and mint new tradeable & rentable cards for use in battle.

Land survey public testing runs Mar 28-Apr 3. Official release is Apr 4.

UPLAND - Mar 21-23: Upland kicked off its Ultra Rare Property Sale for properties in Staten Island.

AFRICARARE - Mar 30: AfricaRare, backed by AuctionInc, will hold the world’s first physical auction of virtual land. The 3x3 village in Ubuntuland’s inner ring in the Africarare metaverse goes on auction in Johannesburg, South Africa on Mar 30.

ILLUVIUM - till June 6: Illuvium: Beyond D1SKs Sale - Wave 1. Mega D1SKs: 0.0249 ETH, Standard D1SKs: 0.005 ETH. Each Illuvitar has a power rating determined by its rarity and rarity of accessories added.

New region reveal - Brightland Steppes:


🌄 Events, Contests & Giveaways

THE SANDBOX - Mar 23-Apr 6: French Weeks in Le Métavers. Open to all, with 100k $SAND in prizes plus French memorabilia NFTs up for grabs.

Mar 23-Apr 3: The Ledgerverse in The Sandbox will incorporate a French twist.

DECENTRALAND - Mar 31-Apr 7: Fashion lifestyle brand Poppy and RPG Soul Magic launched a Wearables Crafting Event in Dragon City during MVFW23. Find details in Soul Magic's Discord.

UPLAND - Register by May 12: Upland launched a 3-track hackathon (FIFA Women’s World Cup, Innovation and Design), each with big-money prizes and opportunities to bring unique experiences into Upland.


🌄 Twitter Spaces, Project Streams & Interviews

DECENTRALAND: Creator Series Spotlight - Sandstorm

WearableWednesday feat. #MVFW23 NEO Designers

ILLUVIUM: Showcase 21: 🎧 HEADPHONES ON 🔊Audio Episode feat. Head of Sound Nico

OTHERSIDE: Selecting the right Otherside Otherdeed hosted by OtherSpaceFM

Otherside 2nd Trip Recap hosted by OtherGuild

SOMNIUM SPACE: Biweekly Twitter Space - XR Hardware & more

SPLINTERLANDS: Town Hall - The Secret of Praetoria

VOXELS: Voxels Updates

THE SANDBOX:

Mon: VoxEdit Monday - New Patch & Features

Wed: News, @MadballsX event & Giveaway

Fri: Friday Highlight - GameMaker v0.8

Sat: Live VoxEdit Contest with Pandapops and Luka

French Weeks Experience with Luka & HalfD0rk


🌄 Project Updates

ARCADE - Mar 21: Arcade released its latest product release themed Explore & Showcase. Updates incl. the new Projects Zone, 10 hot project HQ buildings & 8 buildings showcasing other brands, plus a Lobby Mini Map for easy navigation (instant travel coming soon).

DECENTRALAND - Mar 22: Spawn points were improved so players now always spawn to the spawn point closest to the selected coordinates. Players with large scenes can include several spawn points, or spawn regions. Details here.

Mar 22: Chat mentions went live. Use the @ symbol & start typing a user’s name. Any mention turns automatically into a hyperlink to the player’s context menu.

VOXELS - Mar 21-22: Voxels launched its Merch store.

Meanwhile, the emoji voting system is back; choose up to 3 emojis per parcel, per wallet.

WORLDWIDE WEBB - Mar 21: Blockbusterz Season0 - feat. a 5v5 PvP Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) - is about to launch.

ILLUVIUM - Mar 22: Illuvium will transfer the proceeds of Illuvium: Beyond's sale to a multi-signature wallet (with same signers as the initial DAO wallet) to begin accumulation of the Illuvitar Sale Safety Pool.

Patch Notes: Bug Fixes, plus new Marketplace Uplink to import/export resources to/from plots.

UPLAND - Mar 22: Upland’s User-Generated Content (UGC) Royalty program is reallocating 2.5% of every transaction fee to UGC creators, while more royalty incentive pathways are in the works.

Each item in Upland can be utilized by 3rd-party developers via Community Dev Tools.

FORTNITE - Mar 23: The Beta of the Unreal Editor for Fortnite can now be downloaded on the Unreal Engine website for Web3 creators to build and integrate high-quality immersive games and experiences into the open metaverse.


🌄 Partnerships

THE SANDBOX <> Ledger - Mar 24: Ledger will bring scalable security and treasury management into The Sandbox, enabling brands to protect their LANDs with the best self-custody solution.

IMMUTABLE <> POLYGON - Mar 20: Ethereum scaling heavyweights Polygon and Immutable teamed up to build a Web3 gaming network pairing Polygon’s zkEVM with Immutable to make games faster and easier for studios and devs.

DECENTRALAND MVFW23 - Mar 20: Digital fashion platform altr partnered with Jessica James to bring Yoruba tribal heritage to MVFW23 - Mar 28-31.


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