OneLandStake your Sandbox LAND &/or $SAND with OneLand
At OneLand, we want you to invest wisely in Virtual Real Estate (VRE), and are building features to enable you to obtain the most value from your VRE. In line with this, we are happy to announce the launch of OneLand’s LAND & $SAND Staking protocol for The Sandbox.Staking with The Sandbox The Sandbox enables users to stake $SAND, but not LAND. The current APY for staking $SAND with The Sandbox is 5.37%*. If you hold LANDs in your wallet, you’ll earn a higher APY. However, this higher APY is l...
OneLandNFTs: A Gamer’s Journey - Part 5
Hi NFT-game designers, I’m a gamer. NFTs are not my thing. But hey, they’re getting more popular. So I decided to give it a shot and try myself at NFT gaming. But my little experiment raised many questions. So I decided to write about my journey, hoping you could find in it useful info to help you onboard other traditional gamers like me. I broke down my NFT gaming journey into 5 challenges. May they inspire you.Challenge #5: “Wait but… It’s not even a good game?”Let’s be honest: during the l...
OneLandOneLand Weekly Report: Mar 12–18
Keyword: The Sandbox Alpha Season 2 (aka Alpha S2)Part 1: Data ReportThere has been a certain increase in the popularity of each project this week. The Sandbox held onto its position as champion in the “Market share contest”.TSB’s Alpha S2 launched its Snoop Dog Day, the unbridled enthusiasm of the OG’s fanbase propelling the trade volume to new heights.It is also worth noting that Somnium Space launched its VR meeting tool this week on March 13. The introduction of this timely tool led to a ...
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Highlights
OneLand launches LAND & $SAND staking for The Sandbox! Earn your best possible APY.
TOPIA releases its Master Plan to take on Web2 gaming giants Roblox & Fortnite
The Sandbox reveals the winners of its Mega City 3 LAND Sale; sale ends today!
Web 3 Shark Tank shows launched by both CoinMarketCap & Binance, as famous show ‘The Voice’ sets up in Decentraland
Updates for Illiuvium, Apecoin, Worldwide Webb…&
Attention, devs… Sign up for the Upland Developer Program!
💹 MARKET DATA
With OneLand, earn 3.79%* APY staking your Sandbox LAND. With OneLand, earn 11.8% APY staking your $SAND. (*15.9.2023). Stake with us.
OneLand 7-day data shows land market cap for the 10 listed projects up 1.86% to 774,717 ETH (or $1.394 billion, -2.44%). ETH fell 3.85% to $1,800.37.
7-day VRE trading volumes were down across the board last week, the main exception being TOPIA whose volume rose 140% only on account of a resumption in trading that followed its migration from NFT Worlds that concluded May 5.
Prices dipped too, bar the exceptions of BYOLands and TOPIA Worlds. Otherside, meanwhile, picked up a second big sale in consecutive weeks, with Otherdeed #85720 passing hands for 170 ETH.
Metaverse tokens $SAND (-9.1%), $MANA (-9.8%) and $WRLD (-14.2%) fell for a 5th straight week in line with the larger 7-day slide in the crypto market.
Meanwhile, over at The Sandbox, the Mega City 3 Land Sale kicked off May 11, leading to a flurry of sales. May 11 went on to register the project’s highest daily sales count (193) in 8 months, and highest 7-day count for the year. Overall, weekly sales almost doubled (+97%) those of the previous week.
🗞️ MARKET NEWS
ONELAND — 5.10: OneLand launched its LAND and $SAND staking for The Sandbox.
The staking protocol enables LANDowners to stake their LANDs to earn $SAND, something not possible with The Sandbox. Plus, it offers an APY double that of The Sandbox for staking $SAND. Find out more:
https://oneland.medium.com/stake-your-sandbox-land-with-oneland-406a91821bcd
Join us to view a demo & learn more in our Discord Tuesday 16 May, 4am UTC.
KMPG — 5.8: A KMPG study showed 47% of people in the UK believe that the Metaverse will be widely adopted in the next decade.
METAMASK x PAYPAL — 5.9: Metamask now enables users to buy $ETH with PayPal. How?
In related news, PayPal’s crypto holdings rose 56% in Q1 to almost $1bn, mostly BTC & ETH.
UPLAND — 5.10: Attn: Developers - apply to UDN PRO to access exclusive perks & support to launch your project.
The UDN (Upland Developers Program) does not restrict building to Upland. Devs can connect existing games/metaspaces to the Upland experience and/or use a preferred tech-stack.
APECOIN DAO - 5.10: Apecoin DAO Is currently voting on two proposals. AIP-233 aims to promote $ApeCoin via Twitter Spaces, while AIP-209 intends to strengthen Apecoin & the entire BAYC ecosystem by incubating projects that utilise Apecoin and BAYC IP.
BULL BITCOIN — 5.10: Bitcoin exchange Bull Bitcoin introduced a method to buy Bitcoin, bypassing KYC. It enables Canadians to purchase BTC without giving away too much personal information, or if they do not have a bank account.
https://www.bullbitcoin.com/blog/bull-bitcoin-launches-no-kyc-bitcoin-purchases-with-cash-or-debit
BLEND — 5.11: Blur’s NFT lending platform Blend is absolutely dominating the NFT lending market with 75% market share since its launch 2 weeks ago, registering 3,400+ loans valued at over 55k ETH, or $100m.
‘THE VOICE’ — 5.12: TV reality show ‘The Voice’ launched ‘The Voice Studios’ in the Decentraland entertainment hub Vegas City, offering interactive experiences to fans incl. actual auditions for the show.
https://nftevening.com/you-can-now-audition-for-the-voice-in-the-metaverse/?swcfpc=1
🌄 Sales & Mints
STARRY NIFT — 5.10: Launch of AI ANIMO Mystery Box Episode 2 Public Sale! Mint Price: 20 $SUI. Mint Entrance.
https://medium.starrynift.art/ai-animo-mystery-box-episode-two-is-coming-d1b155fa9a92
THE SANDBOX — 5.11: The winners of the Mega City 3 LAND sale raffle were announced. The sale ends today at 11am UTC.
For those who didn’t win in the raffle, Mega City 3 auctions — for 12 1x1 LANDs & 6 Estates — went live on OpenSea.
UPLAND — 5.12: Upland kicked off the Landmark Reverse Auction for The Holy Name Cathedral. The cathedral, completed in 1875, is one of the most iconic landmarks in Chicago, attracting visitors from across the world.
🎪 EVENTS, CONTESTS & GIVEAWAYS 🏅
ONELAND — 5.16: Join us Tuesday 23 May, 4am UTC for a demo of our new #LAND staking & $SAND staking for The Sandbox, which earns you a higher APY than The Sandbox.
TOPIA — 5.10: @3MaskTear took out the winning entry in the Topia Theme Song Competition. Check it out. Topia will be working with them to produce more of Topia’s soundtrack, & SFX.
THE SANDBOX — 5.8–21: 50k $SAND are up for grabs in the Steve Aoki Game Jam.
https://medium.com/sandbox-game/steve-aokis-game-jam-24ffcdc0c3b3
5.11–6.12: Fan favorite experiences are back for The Sandbox May Festival, with 70+ experiences to enjoy, up to $1m SAND to win, plus exclusive prize pools of 350k $SAND each for LAND and avatar owners!
DECENTRALAND x SOUL MAGIC — 5.12–22: Meditate at the **Soul Magic Meditation Event **to claim a floating meditation emote!
https://events.decentraland.org/event/?id=a45fa7e2-01ee-47b4-a7ca-7cb7966d9fa4
5.8–18: Soar through the Metaverse in an aerial journey over the AlUla heritage sites Hegra & the Tomb of Lihyan in the infamous Saudi AlUla Skies Festival.
BINANCE — 5.12–6.2: Binance kicked off its Web3 version of ‘Shark Tank’, with Ep. 1 of ‘BuildTheBlock’. In it, 12 teams battle it out in front of an audience and judges to become the next big Web3 entrepreneur.
Meanwhile, CoinMarketCap is also launching its own Shark Tank-themed reality TV show ‘Killer Whales’ in partnership with Web3 entertainment company Hello Labs.
SENSE4FIT SUMMIT — 6.17: Fitness experts & enthusiasts from the Web3 fitness movement will gather at the Sense4Fit Summit in Bucharest, Romania, June 17. Early-bird tickets expire May 17.
🔈 Catch up with this week’s TWITTER SPACES, PROJECT STREAMS & INTERVIEWS
DECENTRALAND: 3D Spatial Worlds & Their Impact on Human Interaction w/ DCL Creative Director
SOMNIUM SPACE: Weekly Creator Session — every Sunday w/ VR artist Denevraut / Jokes on You — every Thursday
TOPIA: Master Plan | Weekly WRLD
THE SANDBOX: From the Streets to the Metaverse: The 1st Urban Artist in HK
WORLD OF WOMEN x THE SANDBOX: Activism in the Metaverse: The Time is WoW
METAVERSE STANDARDS FORUM: Vision of the Future Metaverse: Interview w/ Forum Chair, Neil Trevett
OTHERSIDE: Otherside weekly updates w/ OtherGuild / Apecoin DAO Metaverse Working Group
YUGA LABS: Interview w/ CEO Daniel Alegre / Interview w/ Chief Gaming Officer Spencer Tucker
🛠️ PROJECT UPDATES
ONELAND — 5.10: OneLand launched its new LAND and $SAND staking product for The Sandbox.
You can now stake your LANDs and $SAND — easily and conveniently without restrictions — on OneLand to earn the highest APY.
DECENTRALAND — 5.12: The Places tab now includes all published scenes, from which you can instantly jump in & explore!
ILLUVIUM — 5.8–13: The community voted for members of the Illuvium DAO (aka Illuvinati Council), including Governance, Community, Marketing, Strategy and Game Sub-Councils.
5.10: Monthly roadmap update:
Illuvium: Overworld Private Beta 2 is about to launch, feat. fresh challenges & game mechanics, 2 new regions, 10 new Illuvials, and the mysterious Morphopods. Sign up.
Illuvium: Zero Season One will also soon commence.
Merch Store — products have begun arriving
Progress is on track as per roadmap!
TOPIA — 5.12: Topia dropped its Master Plan to go beyond Web3 and compete with centralised titans like Minecraft and Roblox. The Plan centres around:
Modernized Game Engine
Cross-Compatibility
Free, Everywhere
Support Creators
Leverage Competitor Shortcomings
More documentation is on its way incl.:
World utility — staking, renting, in-game monetization, content creation…
Revamped Avatar utility incl. staking, rewards…
Player XP/Level systems
Players to earn soulbound $TOPIAxp tokens
Details on upcoming TOPIA Chain
Updated token details
TOPIA Wallet — all players get one!
OTHERSIDE WIKI — 5.10: Otherside Wiki keeps improving its awesome Otherside support with 2 new features in its wallet inventory tool:
Otherside Portfolio Value — w/ detailed breakdown of Otherdeeds, Kodas, Vessels
Sediment Info Box — incl. a list of Otherdeeds with that Sediment, when you click on it
Otherside Wiki recently also added an interactive map with multi-wallet filtering, offering a comprehensive view of Otherside.
WORLDWIDE WEBB — 5.12: The project released a new roadmap feat. an upcoming Dungeon Test, AI Demo & MMO Play Test.
👬 PARTNERSHIPS
THE SANDBOX x AFFYN — 5.9: The Sandbox partnered with Web3 studio Affyn to expand interoperability in the Web3 gaming/metaverse space. On May 10 Affyn revealed the new partnership, as well as details on its new game that is soon to launch.
DECENTRALAND x doWOW — 5.9: Decentraland’s Community Highlight shines the light on partner doWow.tv’s interactive billboards, a Web3-ready broadcasting tool users can create in seconds without code to stream, teleport, buy wearables, enter social media contests & more.
NFT PLAZAS - 5.9-10: NFT media platform NFT Plazas reported on all things Web3 (to a predominantly Web2 audience) at the FT Live conference in London, and will also be official media partner to Block 3000: Blockchain Battle in Lisbon.
NFT Plazas is also an official partner of OneLand, and publishes our Metaverse Market Analysis each Monday:
https://nftplazas.com/author/oneland/
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