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Most important NFT news today, February 21, 2024:
- NFT Market Data
- Studio 369 announces MetalCore closed beta with rewards for NFT holders
- After a $39 million airdrop, Optimism says another $2 billion will follow
- Tezos-based NFT cricket game surpasses 12,000 NFT transactions
NFT Market Data
Over the past 24 hours, non-fungible token (NFT) sales volume has fallen 3.6% to $40,640,116.
The number of buyers fell by almost 5.6%, the number of sellers fell by 10% and transactions fell by 5.7%, according to CryptoSlam.
Among the top 10 collections today by sales volume, Pandora And Uncategorized ordinal numbers are the main roles of the day.
Unfortunately, Pandora is still in first place in the overall rankings. Although it is down 13%, its sales volume of $4.3 million is still a far cry from any other collection on the list.
The uncategorized ordinal numbers increased by 45% to 1.65 million and are now in second place.
This is also today’s biggest winner. Meanwhile, Pandora saw the biggest decline in this category.
Studio 369 announces MetalCore closed beta with rewards for NFT holders
Studio 369a game studio that builds the first-person shooter (FPS). Metal corehas sent an official “Call to Arms” to players as the studio prepares for the game’s next milestone moment.
According to the press release, “Call to Arms” is an invitation-only playtest that will give early fans a first-hand look at the updated game.
The MetalCore “Call to Arms” closed beta begins on February 26. This comes with a mission system, new rewards and daily in-game quests with bonuses for top performers.
Additionally, players can get more in-game rewards and exclusive access by playing a MetalCore Genesis Infantry NFT.
This is a collection of 10,000 unique and playable Infantry NFTs, built with a wide variety of traits and rarity levels.
Players who obtain (and hold) their Genesis Infantry before February 29 will see the NFTs playable in the next closed beta cycle.
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A closed beta of Call to Arms begins on February 26
Hurry soldier! The next piece of information is in our Discord.
Pre-register at https://t.co/sY2YwgdLWH and join our Discord to gain your advantage on the battlefield. pic.twitter.com/ichMMWaMq9
— METALKORE | Let’s #PlayMetalCore! (@playmetalcore) February 20, 2024
Created in July 2022, MetalCore Infantry is an emergent NFT collection of playable infantry.
The Open sea Marketplace describes MetalCore as “a visually stunning, open world, mechanized combat FPS game built by experienced game developers and Hugo Award-winning artists.”
Per OpenSea, the total volume of the collection is 687 ETH. The floor price at the time of writing was 0.149 ETH.
Matt Candler, CEO of Studio 369, stated that the Closed Beta playtest “marks a major development milestone for Studio 369 – it’s really the first opportunity for us to introduce players to the MetalCore economy and its deep and extensive mechanics that we have built.”
The announcement added that the “Call to Arms” is the first of several key moments players can expect from MetalCore in the coming months. Studio 369 is preparing for the game’s public open beta launch, currently scheduled for spring 2024.
At the end of January, MetalCore announced that it would be one of the first games Immutable zkEVMdriven by Polygon.
MetalCore will be one of the first games on Immutable zkEVM, powered by @0xPolygon 🌐
With zero gas costs for gamers, ready-made smart contract templates and industry-leading security, we couldn’t imagine building anywhere else
Proud to hold such a position in #Web3Gaming the most… pic.twitter.com/109CEMEyZG
— METALKORE | Let’s #PlayMetalCore! (@playmetalcore) January 31, 2024
After a $39 million airdrop, Optimism says another $2 billion will follow
After the last airdrop, Layer 2 network Optimism has told users not to worry: even if they missed this one, there’s more to come.
The announcement stated that more airdrops are in the pipeline.
“Optimism has committed to giving 19% of the total initial token supply to the community via Airdrops. With the growing community of engaged users across the Superchain, there is much more to offer across the Superchain.”
According to the team, that leaves around 560 million OP for future airdrops, which translates to $2.12 billion at the current price.
At the time of writing, the OP token is down 1% over the past 24 hours. According to CoinGecko, it is trading at $3.78.
It is up 1% in a week and 21% in a month. The price has increased by 45% in the past year.
In May 2022, Optimism conducted Airdrop 1, giving over 200 million OP tokens to 250,000 early adopters and engaged users. The second and third airdrops followed in February and September 2023.
The last airdrop 4 awarded a total of 10,343,757.81 VP to 22,998 addresses. This is worth $39,099,405.
According to the announcement, this is a thank you to the artists and “their ability to bring creativity onchain.”
1/ Create together and benefit together. That’s the Superchain.
Today @Optimism unveils Airdrop #4.
Allocation of more than 10 million OP to more than 22,000 unique addresses.
Learn more about how to make a claim here: https://t.co/smGLcc4yID pic.twitter.com/E8YUGFo8gW
— Optimism (@Optimism) February 20, 2024
According to the document provided, the eligible creators were those who created NFT art on the Ethereum mainnet of optimism Super chaina chain of interconnected Layer 2 networks.
Users can claim the tokens until February 13, 2025.
Notably, the airdrop distributed the tokens based on how much gas users spent during the minting process or while trading NFTs. This means that the creator’s reward amount depended on the popularity of their art.
Source: community.optimism.ioIn the latest NFT news, Cricket starsIndia’s strategy-based NFT cricket game, reached a major milestone last month.
According to the announcement shared with Crypto newssurpassed 5,000 monthly active players and over 12,000 NFT transactions on the Tezos blockchain.
Released in November 2023, the free-to-play Cricket Stars is designed by GoLive Games Studio. It offers a mix of sports strategy and cricket gameplay.
Players collect cricket skills as tradeable playing cards, allowing them to strategize and compete in real-time player-vs-player esports matches, the announcement said.
Jeremy Foo, head of gaming at Trilitecha London-based adoption team for the Tezos blockchain, noted that Cricket Stars’ achievement is “a testament to the growing interest that blockchain technology is bringing to games.”
The team attributes Cricket Stars’ success to GoLive Games Studio’s marketing campaigns, influencer partnerships, participation in college festivals and involvement with gaming networks such as IndiGG And STAN.
The company also plans to expand the game’s tournament feature with larger online tournaments and add offline tournaments in different cities.