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Binance to launch USD-Margined SLPUSDT Perpetual Contracts

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Why is Fantasy Top moving to Base — Read More
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TON Wallet is now LIVE in the US — Read More

All users in the United States can now access TON Wallet right inside Telegram and access the following features:

💱 Buy and trade USDT, TON and hundreds of other tokens
💬 Send crypto to friends in DMs
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💰 Earn passive income just by holding your tokens in TON Wallet
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2024 Live Streaming Trends Report

• Global live-streaming viewership hit 32.5B hours in 2024, a 12% YoY increase, nearly back to pandemic-era peaks

• In 2024, YouTube Gaming increased viewership by 66% from 2023 (Also +800k increase in streamers compared to 2023)

• Non-Gaming genre increased viewership in 2024 by 12%

• VTubers saw massive jump in popularity throughout 2024 with only 2 of the top 10 seeing small drops in viewership


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👋 Web3 Gaming Recap — August 3 to 4 🗓

💭 Authors Notes

Wuuu long time no see 🥺 show some new updates in the Web3 Gaming

• Shrapnel migrate to the GALAChain (Move from Avalanche)

• FIFA Rivals surpass 1m downloads after 7 weeks

• Delabs complete Binance IDO and launch they token ($DELABS) — As of write $10M mcap, $40m FDV

• Pixel team announce staking system update such as spend/stake-only $vPIXEL & allow game monetize via USDC & offer non-dilutive rewards

• YGG announce they degen casual game publisher (YGG Play) on Abstract

• Gunzilla release July Monthly Report (Expand
$GUN to Solana, Launch Off The Grid on Steam & begin OpenSea Rollout for they secondary markets)

• Interest read are "The Engineered Economy of Roblox" (John Wang) & Toy Makers in Gaming (Naavik)


• Observe not much fundraising this 2025 (most web3 game funds already pivot, stop deploy, or have not raise new fund) but see The Lost Glitches raise $1million from Arbitrum Gaming Ventures & German Game Funding Program


🔄 Gaming Updates
• Mythical Games — FIFA Rivals surpasses 1 million downloads
• Delabs — Launched $DELABS token
• Shrapnel — Announced migration from Avalanche to Galachain
• Spellborne — Expanding to Abstract
• L3E7 — Released Open Beta Season 0
• Gotchi Guardians — Launched their 8-player roguelite TD brawler
• Sparkball — Downsizing team after funding deal falls through

🔖 Gaming Reads
• YGG — Introduced YGG Play, a casual degen game publisher on Abstract
• Daydreams — Intro to Daydreams Router
• Pixels — Updates to $PIXEL staking system
• John Wang — The Engineered Economy of Roblox
• Dith — Building Gigaverse (Volume 1)
• Gunzilla Games — July 2025 Ecosystem Report
• Memento — Breaking Down Crypto Gaming is "Dead" Again
• Naavik — Toy Makers in Gaming
• GameDiscoverCo — Which game genres get the most playtime
• GamesTX — Play to Earn's Exit Tax

▶️ Gaming Watch/Listens
• Wolves DAO — What if unsustainability is a feature (Derek Lau x Wesley x Memento)
• Naavik — Why the Games Industry Might Triple Despite its Challenges (Owen Mahoney, Former Nexon CEO)

💸 Gaming Fundraising
• The Lost Glitches — Raised $1million from Arbitrum Gaming Ventures & German Federal Government Games Funding Program

hope helpful wuwu 😆💞

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Grug's Lair — How to make our small studio stand out in an industry dominated by giants 🧵

• Be obsessed with data
• Operate game like a living system
• Measure what matters, every single day

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obb chain 😳 — Source
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*GTA 6 TO BE RELEASED MAY 26TH, 2026
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Google Opening the Gates: External Payment Links Are Coming to Android in the US

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Roblox wuwu 🕺
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LimitBreak — Announced LBAMM, a liquidity layer built for AppTokens

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Coverd — Raised $7.8M to gamify personal finance

The seed round was led by Yolo Investments with participation from a16z Speedrun, Volt Capital, WndrCo, Tusk Ventures and Arbitrum Gaming Ventures


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Neon Machine — Secured $19.5M to Power Shrapnel’s Global and China Launch

Seattle-based Neon Machine, creator of the Web3 FPS Shrapnel, has raised $19.5M across two funding rounds, led by Gala Games with backing from Griffin Gaming Partners, Polychain Capital, and others.

The deal brings Shrapnel into Gala’s ecosystem and supports its upcoming global and China launches with closed access planned for late 2025 and open access in early 2026, marking it as the first licensed Web3 game approved for China’s Trusted Copyright Chain


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Google Play Store — Imposed New Licensing Mandate on Crypto Wallet Apps

New app store policy now requires cryptocurrency wallet developers including non-custodial wallets to hold banking or money service licenses (e.g. US FinCEN MSB registration, EU MiCA CASP license, or equivalent thereof) to operate in 15 key jurisdictions (as of writing), in a move to ensure a safe and compliant ecosystem for users


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Crypto Gaming's Original Sin — Read More

Earning drives retention, not acquisition
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