Ah, NFL Rivals. The game that once promised blockchain glory and mobile football fun... but kinda fumbled the bag somewhere between Year 1 and “oh crap, no one’s playing anymore.” So here we are, entering Season 3, and Mythical Games is finally admitting what every new player felt in their soul by the end of the tutorial: “We hit a wall in Year 2.” No kidding. When your team power gap makes the 2023 Panthers look competitive, you might have a retention problem. So what’s the solution? Easy: delete everyone's base cards, hand out some Training Points as a consolation prize (kinda like airline miles after your flight gets cancelled), and force everyone to start over—but shinier. Key "Improvements" in Season 3:Base cards? Gone. R.I.P. to the free-to-play dreams. New cards? Locked by default. Can’t trade, can’t sell, just vibes... until you level them up and burn a Mint Token. Want to upgrade your cards? Burn other cards. Including NFTs. Yes, let’s light up that $50 card you pulled last month for a +3 Power Boost. Totally sustainable. And don’t worry—if you’re eyeing that 150-power Legendary Pat Mahomes, you’re gonna need… more Pat Mahomes cards. Or Rank Up Tokens. Or, you know, your soul. Oh, and Stadiums Mode is coming too! Real-time PvP, wagers, skill-based matchmaking. AKA: prepare to lose coins, time, and probably a bit of your sanity grinding for Trophies just to unlock a medium-difficulty stadium that still feels like you’re playing against a Madden AI on Adderall. Let’s not forget the real MVP: the NFT monetization engine (aka Mythical’s actual game). They’re doubling down on it, encouraging everyone to mint more cards, burn more NFTs, and keep the $MYTH printing press humming. Because if you’re not turning your cards into NFTs, are you even playing NFL Rivals correctly? Anyway, good luck in Season 3, degenerates. Hope you’ve been stocking up on Mint Tokens, Card XP, and perhaps a mild addiction to gambling mechanics. Just remember: if it feels like you're playing an NFT ponzi with a football skin... you're not wrong, you're just early. LFG 🚀🏈🔥 TL;DR: Mythical Games is reshuffling NFL Rivals into a more aggressive NFT-burning, wallet-churning machine in Season 3. Base cards are out, card burning is in, and free-to-play just got even less free.

So apparently Lumiterra decided to stop playing it cool and just go full degen with their MegaDrop Part 1 campaign — aka "bribe the entire internet with LUMI to do stuff in-game and on Kaito." And guess what? It’s working. Like, really working. They've opened the LUMI floodgates — well, 10% of it anyway — and are rewarding people for everything from staking pixelated loot to climbing the Yapper leaderboard on Kaito (which, by the way, is basically Twitter but if Twitter paid you in coins no one understands yet). And the best part? You no longer have to download a sketchy-looking PC client from 2023 to play. It runs in browser now. Wild. You can literally farm mystery boxes and fragments on your work computer while pretending to do spreadsheets. As a result, onchain activity on Ronin is exploding — like, over 600K daily active wallets, making up more than half of ALL Ronin activity. It's like everyone collectively decided Axie Infinity was too chill. If this madness continues, Lumiterra’s gonna break its previous ATH of 759,922 DAUWs from July 2024. And frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if they airdrop us for just refreshing the dashboard at this point. Anyway, I’m staking my pixel cow and writing mediocre posts on Kaito for those sweet LUMI crumbs. Not financial advice, but hey — free is free. TL;DR: Lumiterra’s giving away LUMI like it’s Halloween candy, everyone’s logging in, and Ronin’s chain is working overtime. Good times.

Ethereum NFT collection Chimpers is expanding beyond digital with its first physical product: plush keychain blind boxes. The brand is collaborating with Web3 incubator 223 to launch Series 1 exclusively through the 223 marketplace, with retail expansion planned. Each blind box includes NFC tech that unlocks an NFT collectible on Ethereum’s Base layer. Backed by over 1.8 million followers, Chimpers aims to deepen fan connection and emulate the success of Pudgy Penguins’ physical merchandise. Pre-sale access will be available for current NFT holders, with purchases in fiat or crypto.

So, in today’s episode of “Web3: Now With More Chains,” Gunzilla Games (yeah, the same folks who built their own blockchain — GUNZ, running on Avalanche) have decided, “You know what? Let’s hop onto Solana too.” Yep, starting Thursday, July 10th, you can bridge your precious $GUN tokens over to Solana if you’re feeling spicy. Not mandatory though — which is great, because nothing screams “streamlined Web3 experience” like choosing between three different chains to manage your stuff. 🙃 Honestly, this move feels a bit like building your own restaurant, then deciding to set up a food truck in someone else’s parking lot because that’s where the customers are. Can’t blame them though — Solana is the land of memecoins and degen liquidity, aka “massive die-hard community” if you're quoting PR. To be fair, this could be a smart play. The U.S. user accessibility angle checks out, and if you're chasing that sweet, sweet player base for Off The Grid (still moving from testnet to mainnet, slowly but surely), visibility on Solana might help more than quietly vibing on GUNZ. Oh — and don’t worry, Gunzilla’s regulated custodial wallet (because why not add some TradFi spice to your crypto taco) is in its “final stage.” Whatever that means. Also: 21K wallets already on mainnet, but a casual 16.8 million more are apparently waiting to migrate. NBD. Just your average queue at the DMV — if the DMV had laser guns and NFTs. TL;DR: $GUN token expanding to Solana. You can bridge tokens from July 10 — but don’t have to. Gunzilla wants in on the Solana clout and liquidity. Off The Grid mainnet migration incoming. Wallet upgrades, new drops, and imminent partnerships on the way™. Let’s see if this is a 200 IQ multichain strategy or just more fuel for the "Why Is My Token on Five Chains Now?" fire. 🚀🧯

Well well well... look who just swung back into the App Store jungle. SaruTobi — that old monkey-flinging game that got the boot for daring to use The Forbidden Crypto (Bitcoin) back in 2013 — is back. And this time, it's not just slinging primates... it's slinging sats. Yup. Actual Bitcoin microtransactions on iOS.Not fake tokens. Not monkey-bucks. Real, spendable sats. On. An. iPhone. 😲 The game now runs on ZBD's Lightning-powered system, meaning you can earn sats while flinging your digital chimp into the abyss. And then — here's the kicker — you can spend those sats inside the game on upgrades, boosts, whatever. Or send 'em to your ZBD wallet and save them like a true degen stacking for the next bull run. To put it in perspective:1 dollar = 920 sats (as of today)Each sat = 0.92¢So yeah, we’re officially monetizing fractions of pennies in games now. What a time to be alive. Apparently, Apple gave this whole idea the green light. Which is kinda wild considering they’ve had tighter control over in-app payments than the Fed does over interest rates. But hey — guess regulatory winds are shifting, and someone at Apple finally decided, “Yeah, let’s let the monkey game handle real Bitcoin.” ZBD’s CTO is calling it a “historic shift” and says this tech could rewrite game monetization entirely. And honestly? He's not wrong. Programmable, borderless payments in-game? No more devs begging users to drop $9.99 for 100 gems. Now it's earn to play, not pay to win. So what's next? FlappyBird 2.0 with on-chain staking? Candy Crush NFTs?Either way, welcome to the next level of game-fi. And remember kids: stack sats, fling monkeys, and never fade the Lightning Network. ⚡🐒 Let the microtransaction wars begin.

Ethereum NFT collection Chimpers is expanding beyond digital with its first physical product: plush keychain blind boxes. The brand is collaborating with Web3 incubator 223 to launch Series 1 exclusively through the 223 marketplace, with retail expansion planned. Each blind box includes NFC tech that unlocks an NFT collectible on Ethereum’s Base layer. Backed by over 1.8 million followers, Chimpers aims to deepen fan connection and emulate the success of Pudgy Penguins’ physical merchandise. Pre-sale access will be available for current NFT holders, with purchases in fiat or crypto.

So Craft World is about to hit the Ronin mainnet in 3 days, and Voya Games just dropped some spicy numbers from the test campaign. Here's the tea: 2.7 million accounts registered via social logins. (Bot check? Hello?) 475k actually did something in the past month. $75,000+ in RON spent to open gacha boxes for “multipliers.” Because why earn crystals like a peasant when you can pay-to-flex? You can also buy testnet DynoCoin (the "currency" of the game) with RON to juice your in-game grind. Yep, even more multipliers. Because one layer of monetization wasn’t enough. But here’s where it gets interesting:Top 25,000 players get free mainnet DynoCoin when it launches July 10. The #1 player bags 12.5 million tokens (not dollars… tokens), and even #25,000 gets 8,855. A few small details they definitely didn’t want you to miss: DynoCoin has uncapped supply (yes, really) It’s a pure utility token (so no illusions of Lambo dreams, ok?) Only usable in Craft World and future titles in the “Angry Dynomites” universe (including Dynogotchi, their Tamagotchi-style AI pet game — not making this up). So yeah, people are throwing real money into a testnet campaign for the privilege of being early in a token with no cap and no intrinsic value outside a cartoon dino ecosystem. But hey, if you believe in the vision, more power to you. I’ll be over here loading up on RON and praying for a miracle pump while pretending I definitely didn’t just blow $80 opening gacha boxes. Not financial advice. Unless it works — then I told you so.

So I downloaded Pudgy Party from the UK Play Store (thank you, VPN gods), and yes, it’s exactly what you’d expect from Mythical Games’ next big thing after FIFA Rivals. It's bright, it’s bouncy, and it screams "Fall Guys for people who think Web3 is a conspiracy." The gameplay? Basically Stumble Guys with a penguin skin. You run, you jump, you occasionally fling another poor soul into the abyss—standard party game stuff. Genuinely fun, if you like chaotic physics and watching your digital penguin faceplant into candy-colored obstacles. BUT—and here’s the kicker—no blockchain integration yet. No wallet connection. No tokens. No NFTs. No secret whale features. Just pure, uncut mobile gameplay like it’s 2014. Honestly, I had to double-check if this was really from Mythical Games or if someone hijacked their dev team and forced them to build something normal. Gacha reward boxes? ✅Multiple in-game currencies? ✅Battle pass? Of course.Actual monetization or Web3 elements? ❌ Nope. Nada. Zero. So yeah, we’re clearly in the “retention test” phase here. I guess they want to make sure people enjoy the game before they start layering in the monetization sludge and blockchain spaghetti. TL;DR: Pudgy Party is live in soft launch (UK + some other spots), it’s actually kinda fun, and your digital penguin army isn’t tokenized—yet. Enjoy it before the crypto bros ruin it (again). 🐧🕹️ Anyone else tried it? I give it 7/10, would grind battle pass before the inevitable pay-to-win rug pull.

Ethereum-based NFT brand Chimpers is launching its first physical merchandise through a partnership with Web3 incubator 223. The debut product is a blind box collection of plush keychains featuring Chimpers characters, integrating NFC tech to unlock NFT collectibles on Ethereum’s Base network. With over 1.8 million followers, Chimpers aims to turn fans into long-term supporters through tangible products, following in the footsteps of Pudgy Penguins. The items will be sold online via 223’s platform, with future retail expansion planned. NFT holders will receive early access, and payment can be made in crypto or fiat.

Well well well, looks like Lumiterra is back at it again, this time with MegaDrop Part 1™ — because one MegaDrop is never enough, obviously. They’re releasing 10% of the LUMI supply like it's a Black Friday sale, and surprise surprise: onchain activity is exploding. We're talking 300K DAUWs. That’s half of all activity on Ronin right now. Yes, half. Because nothing says “innovation” like browser-based pixel farming. You can now play in your browser instead of downloading a PC client. Big win for people who still think Metamask is a Firefox extension. Anyway, players are getting LUMI for doing useful things like staking assets, posting on Kaito via Yapper (yes, that’s a real sentence), or holding Mystery Boxes and Fragments (which I assume are ancient artifacts from the Web3 bull market of '21). And if you’ve been hoarding monsters, congrats — they now double as unpaid labor on your pixel farm. Because nothing says GameFi quite like forcing your NFT Chimera to gather herbs so you can stake them on Lumi Finance in exchange for some delicious, delicious LUMI. Speaking of which, Lumi Finance is now apparently a full-on DeFi protocol, complete with a stablecoin and swap features. So if farming mushrooms and crafting boots with your monster army isn’t alpha enough, you can always jump into LPs and yield farm like it’s 2022. Sure, they spiked to almost 800K DAUWs last July during closed beta tests — and yeah, it didn’t last — but hey, maybe this time it’s different. (We say that every cycle.) TL;DR: Lumiterra’s MegaDrop is live, the browser version is here, NFTs are working overtime, and LUMI’s getting sprinkled like DeFi parmesan on everything. Trade carefully, anon. Or just stake and pray. #GameFi #Ronin #LUMI #Lumiterra #DeFiFiFarmFi