⚡Flowverse #37: Flow's Virtual Celebrity
Welcome Lil Miquela to Flow Blockchain
🌊 GM Flowverse Citizens! This week we welcome virtual celebrity, Lil Miquela, to Flow Blockchain and the Flowverse!
Lil Miquela has over 3 million Instagram followers and is dropping a series of PFPs on Flow Blockchain this summer
Created in collaboration with the Brud team
NFTs will offer access to exclusive benefits & future surprises with 1-of-1's representing some of Lil Miquela’s core memories. More info here.
Upcoming Flow ecosystem events 📅
Flowverse AMAs with both Increment Fi (1st June) and Starly (TBC)
New Flow Wave (by community member HipHop, 6th June 6pm PST)
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💡Flow Blockchain News
Enemy Metal construction phase is starting on May 30
EmeraldID now officially supports Dapper Wallet enabling Discord verification
Unblocked’s Billboard Chart Stars onboarded ~74k new users into the Flow ecosystem
Zeedz has already offset 234t of CO2 since their NFT marketplace launch
RCRDSHP integrated Dapper Wallet
Magic Johnson is partnering with NBA Top Shot to release his first NFTs and bring some of his favourite Moments from his career to fans everywhere
Cheeze, photography focused NFT platform, has announced that Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph is joining its board of directors
Genies released their ‘The Fighter Pilot’ collection NFT drop
Flipside Crypto announced Flow Blockchain bounties
🔬 Category Overview: NFT gaming on Flow Blockchain
Games can integrate with blockchain technology by using NFTs for in-game items, characters, avatars that players need to play a game or improve their experience.
It can offer several benefits over traditional gaming with the core aspect being that players can fully own their digital items which may have real-world value based on rarity and importance in the game.
Overall statistics on the Gaming landscape on Flow:
Total gaming projects: 22
Total sales (Primary & Secondary): $7.6m
Discord User Breakdown:
Overview of top projects:
Chainmonsters: Cross-platform massively multiplayer RPG where you catch, battle, trade and compete with digital monsters. 60k+ players with the closed Alpha phase with nearly 10k paid members (season pass). Sold out of their Genesis Drop($1M) within minutes
Joyride Games: Blockchain-powered competitive gaming platform for casual game developers and players on Flow
Zeedz: A play-for-purpose game where players reduce global carbon emissions by collecting plant-inspired creatures: Zeedles
Moxy: Powering the Play and Earn Revolution; Steam for web3 games with the $MOX utility token
Blocklete Games: A first ever investment-style golf management NFT mobile app play to earn game, where your golf game skill determines your outcomes
Dark Country: Dark Country is an NFT trading collectible card game based in the American Gothic setting, inspired by all-time classics like Hearthstone and Magic: The Gathering
The Football Club: NFT based fantasy football manager app where players earn coins, collect & trade officially licensed football & lifestyle NFT items for their 3D Avatar and interact with other players
Enemy Metal: NFT collection that is set across the galaxy, where the first collection is the base on which the Enemy Metal Universe will be built
Stand-out Flow NFT Gaming:
First on Flow: Chainmonsters (Nov 2020)
Biggest community: Joyride (48k Discord Users)
Highest total sales: Chainmonsters ($2.8m)
Most holders: Chainmonsters (15k)
Flowverse Sock-Club Favourites: 1. Chainmonsters, 2. Zeedz, 3. Moxy, 4. Blocklete Games, 5. Basic Beasts (Voting completed by 48 Flowverse Sock NFT holders)
Key upcoming games: Dimension X, Metaverse Football League
Bottom Line: Flowverse believes we are still looking for the best, sustainable blockchain gaming mechanics. As such, there is tremendous opportunity in this space to discover what works. NFT gaming today is comparable to the early days of free-to-play in mobile gaming and a breakout web3 game has the potential to significantly increase the global crypto daily active users overnight.
🆕 New to Flowverse
lil miquela: Lil Miquela is a 19-year-old robot (virtual influencer) living in LA who is dropping a series of PFPs this Summer
FUCHiBOLA: Platform that allows you to collect NFT's from your favorite players and teams
Not So Quiet: Providing educational resources while inspiring current and future generations to speak their truth. This collection honors the women who were unafraid to raise their voices to make a better world for us
⚡Upcoming Flow NFT drops
🛸 Enemy Metal Construction Sale (Enemy Metal, May 30)
⭐ The Fall of Shiganshina Rare Pack (Attack on Titan: Legacy, Jun 1)
🥊 DOJO Pack (UFC Strike, Jun 1)
🏈 FCF #Highlights Pack 2 (Eternal, Jun 3)
💼 Flow Ecosystem Jobs
KLKTN - Sr. Front End Engineer
nWay, Inc - NFT Marketing Manager
Dapper Labs - Frontend Software Engineer (Athlete Studio)
Everbloom - Visual and Motion Designer
View and apply to 200+ other Flow Blockchain ecosystem roles here!
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