Gaming is now half of Web3

gm. Here's to another exciting week. 🍻

In today's edition:

• 😱 Upland and Gala Games are joining forces to create an open metaverse

• 🏈 Limit Break buys a Super Bowl commercial for $6.5 million

• 👾 Data says Web3 gaming is now 48% of blockchain activity

• 🎉 Announcing: NFT Lately Town Hall! (come chat with us)

Trending collections:

• Nyolings [Floor Price - 0.16 ETH]

• Genuine Undead [Floor Price - 0.82 ETH]

• Kitaro World Official [Floor Price - 0.26 ETH]

Limit Break Purchases Super Bowl Ad

Limit Break buys a 30-second Super Bowl commercial for a whopping $6.5 million.

Here's what we know:

• The ad will showcase Limit Break's NFT project DigiDaigaku.

• More than 50 million people are likely to watch the Super Bowl live on television.

• The floor price of DigiDaigaku NFTs is 13.69 ETH (or around $18,200).

• This news comes shortly after the company raised $200M in funding.

• The CEO of Limit Break is stoked:

What we think:

It's pretty nuts thinking Limit Break will be paying $216k per second of airtime **gulp**.

But, following a $200M raise, they have the cash.

Following last year's ads from Coinbase and eToro, this is going to be the first NFT-focused ad brought to this mainstream of an audience.

We're looking forward to seeing how this affects the price of the collection in real time.

Upland and Gala Create an Open Metaverse

Upland and Gala Games have announced a new partnership, which consists of combining two ecosystems to open the doors to an open metaverse dubbed VOXverse.

Here's what we know:

• Upland will have a headquarters in Gala Games' VOXverse.

• Vox NFT owners will be able to move their ERC-721 tokens from Vox to the Upland ecosystem.

• VOXverse will be "open" - even YOU can join!

What we think:

We are buzzed to see that Upland and Gala Games have joined forces to expand their gaming experiences on both ecosystems. 

Little deets are yet to be revealed. But we hope Gala Music is a part of this partnership and will be dropping some funky tunes! 🎉

🎉Announcing NFT Lately's First Ever Town Hall!

We are super excited to be launching our first Town Hall.

Every other week, we will be hosting a 30-minute Town Hall Twitter Spaces to discuss updates here at NFT Lately, update y'all on what we seeing in the industry, discuss stories you might have missed, and commiserate each other on the general horribleness of this market.

Better yet, we get to meet some more of you degens.

Details of the first one are in the tweet below 👇  Set those reminders and come chat.

Blockchain Gaming is on the Rise

DappRadar’s latest gaming report for Q3 reveals that blockchain games are powering the Web3 revolution.

Like…it’s now literally half of all blockchain activity.

Here's what we know: 

• Gaming accounts for more than 48% of all blockchain activity in Q3.

• The Move2Earn genre is a significant part of this.

• Despite low investment figures last month, the number of wallets in the blockchain gaming includes rose by 8% (912k) month-over-month.

• The most used dApp in September is Gameta, with more than 1.33 million unique wallets.

What we think: 

Honestly, we're pretty surprised by this. 

We love ignoring our partners for half the evening to game on the blockchain, and we are sure we're not the only ones. But, 48% feels...significant.

Is Web3 gaming going to be what powers the next bull run?

WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING

Summarizing the History (and future) of GameStop NFT

Steve Aoki joins forces with Deadfellaz to create Halloween-special clothing

Del Monde files eight trademark applications in the Metaverse and NFT sphere

Reminder: During October, we are giving away hundreds of dollars in ETH and NFTs. All you have to do is refer your friends. The top three subscribers with the most referrals win.

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Today's edition was written by Leah Alger and Ty Smith.

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