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Monday, January 29, 2024

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But can it run Doom? 🌍
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But can it run Doom? 🌍

As more game developers are starting to build their own virtual titles housed within other games, such as Minecraft and Roblox, it seems that the trend has transcended into the crypto gaming landscape as well.

A pseudonymous AI game developer, going by the handle of Dav, has recreated the environments within Diablo 3 in Nifty Island, an NFT game that just entered open beta last week.

Using Nifty Island's readily available tools and stock images, Dav has painstakingly taken more than 20 hours to recreate all 5 acts of the popular RPG on his island.

Additionally, visitors can expect several mini-games on Dav's Diablo-themed island, including an island-wide footrace, a Capture-the-Flag game in the town square, and a Spy Hunt game.

However, Dav stresses that the project aims to emulate the vibe of Diablo rather than outright copying it by using fan-created assets rather than Blizzard's 3D assets.

With more players joining Nifty Island's play-to-airdrop campaign, one can only imagine the level of creativity that's floating around, with new and unique islands popping up more frequently.

We've already seen DOOM on the Dogecoin network, so who's to say that it won't appear on an in-game island?

Editor's Take:
With more sandbox platforms popping up, recreating established IPs in another virtual setting can be a tricky bridge to cross, especially with copyrights being a long-standing issue in the gaming industry. However, it's also allowed builders to develop the types of games that fans want using characters that they know and love (albeit at risk of DMCA takedown requests and copyright lawsuits).

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Selling you Uni-soul 🦄

A new token airdrop for Unibot holders!

Since the public launch of Unibot on Solana earlier in January, the team has decided to launch a new native Solana token called UNISOL, which will also accrue value back to the holders of the original UNIBOT token on Ethereum.

80% of the UNISOL supply would be distributed through a snapshot-and-claim mechanism.

However, long-time holders feared that the creation of a new token would dilute the value of the original token, resulting in UNIBOT's 25% plunge on January 27th from $72 to $54.

But, the developers have since clarified that UNISOL could ultimately extend UNIBOT's value proposition.

According to their latest announcement yesterday, the revenue generated by Unibot on Solana will be equally split into 2 pools.

The first pool will be distributed to holders of the UNIBOT token on Ethereum simply by linking their Ethereum wallet address to a Solana address for receiving rewards.

On the other hand, rewards in the second pool would be distributed to UNISOL holders on Solana.

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Plans to achieve 100K TPS. Ava Labs released the outline for its scaling solution Vryx as it hopes to achieve 100K transactions per second.
The music stops. South Korea's crypto karaoke platform was hacked for over $11.5M.
Another L2 announced. Orbiter Finance, shortly after announcing a strategic investment from OKX ventures, has detailed its plans for Orbiter Rollup, a new zero-knowledge proof powered Ethereum layer 2 network.
BlackRock's ETF now holds 50K BTC. This brings it to $2B in AUM, making it third in asset gathering among all of the more than 600 ETFs that launched in the past year.

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