• According to the project’s website, each NFT makes a playable piece useful during a war.
• Many of these NFT game project developers believe Cardano’s core values, vision, and mission make it the ideal blockchain to launch NFT gaming projects.

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Crypto investor and blockchain game developer, Jason Appleton, has announced the launch of wargrum.io. According to Appleton, the game’s creator, wargrum is a Cardano-based digital tabletop war game. The blockchain game developer shared an example of one of the characters – the Commande and the Guardian.

He further explained that each piece would have its spells, abilities, weapons, and skills, which they could use in a tactical war.

https://t.co/Wqjp4AqEoE My #Cardano based digital #tabletop #wargame. Here is an example of one of the #characters. Each piece will their own spells and abilities to use in a tactical war. #comingsoon pic.twitter.com/R3KRTAJ1Tf

— Jason Appleton (Crypto Crow) (@jasonappleton) January 4, 2023

 

Playable pieces useful for tactical war

According to the project’s website, each NFT makes a playable piece valuable during a war. Also, each NFT is one piece. Hence, a 10-man unit can’t be playable with a copy of the unit’s NFT. It will require at least ten copies. The game system has a point system based on each user’s available NFTs, which they can use to unlock pieces and create a battle list.

Users get to earn tokens when they win matches against other players. They can use their earned tokens to buy more unique pieces or 3D model versions to replace their 2D pieces. Ultimately, users can collect 100s of NFTs with varying special abilities.

Thus, enabling them to have a strong squad of playable pieces for various battles. Meanwhile, Appleton didn’t disclose the exact launch date for the new blockchain game. He only teased his followers, saying the project would launch soon. However, the project website states that the team will release unlocked playable pieces by 2024.

Appleton believes that blockchain-based gaming should be an adventure and shouldn’t feel like a job. The wargrum.io website further reveals that Appleton and his team plan to host a ladder tournament annually. Also, it plans to launch a reward tournament play which comprises a ranking system for all players. This ranking system will be automatically updated in real time.

The project’s schedule for this year includes an initial pre-order NFT list, who would constitute the beta users. These beta users will play low-point games to find possible bugs in the game.

Cardano and NFT gaming projects

There have been a lot of development activities on the Cardano blockchain lately, including several NFT gaming projects. A December 29 Santiment data lists Cardano as the leading blockchain for 2022 in terms of development activities. Ethereum occupies the fourth position on this list, with Polygon and Cosmos ahead.

Ethereum’s position is surprising, given its recent switch to become a proof-of-stake (pos) network. However, Cardano ranks 6th in terms of Return on Investment (ROI), as it recorded an average performance for most of last year. Internet computer (ICP) led other blockchain projects in terms of ROI, with Flow (FLOW) and Polkadot (DOT) coming second and third, respectively, per the Santiment data.

Many of these NFT game project developers believe Cardano’s core values, vision, and mission make it the ideal blockchain to launch their NFT gaming projects. Meanwhile, Cardano’s native token, ADA, is up 1.5 percent and trades at $0.2755, according to current Coingecko data. It remains to be seen whether NFT gaming projects could be the main catalyst for ADA’s price to trade at $2.

• NFTs have come a long way, having achieved a lot and gained massive interest in different industries. 

• Cardano co-founder Charles Hoskinson believes that NFTs can represent experiences and achievements like diplomas.

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In his usual Twitter routine, Cardano co-founder Charles Hoskinson took his listeners through the list of possible use cases Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) could have as the sector grows. According to him, NFTs could be very useful to anything that can be collected or connected to something that is far beyond standardization. Per his observation, all of these should be tokenized at some level.

So, for example, a deed of land. Mineral rights. Water rights. Any notion of property rights. In the GameFi [gaming and decentralized finance]space, any notion of your character progressing throughout the game. Your activities within that game. The special powers that you accumulate, all the rewards that you accumulate.

NFTs have come a long way, having achieved a lot and gained massive interest in different industries. Hoskinson believes that NFTs can represent experiences and achievements like diplomas. He also explained the difference between specific and fungible. According to him, graduating from medical school for example is specific, not fungible. 

NFTs, as a format, I think in each of those areas, is useful. So it’s a larger space than the fungible world.

Hoskinson explains the involvement of Cardano 

In his submission, Hoskinson explained that anyone can pick anything that is NFT and convert it to something associated with the revenue stream. Speaking on his interest in the ecosystem and how his Cardano project could get involved, he mentioned that he is wary of things like governance, and interoperability.

What I want to do is just get involved with the high-level, you know, metaverse, GameFi, and something related to collectibles and then watch how those things evolve. 

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Hoskinson also sees NFTs playing a crucial role in connecting brands and influencers to their audiences. In this case, he believes TikTok could be the first platform to tokenize its brand. He also expressed his surprise at the growth and scale of the NFT industry from nothing within a very short time. Hoskinson further mentions the complex intellectual property negotiations in the NFT field. He believes that the conversation of how to represent a patent portfolio as NFT has already been discussed. Similarly, a discussion of how one can sell the rights to the portfolio and how that can be converted into interest-earning future profit on that has been held. 

We can securitize patents as a non-diluted way of guaranteeing capital for a business. If you’re a pharmaceutical company, for example, you have to sell stock. You can pre-sale part of your patent portfolio in anticipation of it generating money. There’s a lot of little stuff like that that can be done.

The involvement of Cardano in the industry could have a huge impact on its adoption which could also reflect in its price. Also, there is a huge possibility that this will drive the ADA price to $1 in the long run. 

 

• Shiba Racing Team, a motorsport racing-themed P2E Shiba ecosystem game, set to launch its first NFT collection. 
• The game developers also plan to launch a second collection of NFTs that will complete the game’s launch requirements.

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The Shiba Inu (SHIB) ecosystem welcomes another bullish development. Shiba Racing Team, a motorsport-themed play-to-earn game, has announced the launch of its genesis non-fungible token (NFT) collection.

The game developers gave details of the collection in an official release. Per the release, the collection was inspired by the Shiba Inu token and Formula-1 racing elements. It features 9,990 unique ERC-721 standard-based NFTs on the Ethereum network.

Each piece in the collection is a variant of one of the five motor racer characters in the play-to-earn Shiba Racing game. These include Ace (The Shiba Inu), Max (The Bull), Char (The Dragon), Milo (The White Tiger), and Bubbles (The Bear).

The digital art pieces will also feature different traits, including eyewear, headgear, background, fire suits, and much more.

The NFTs will add value to the game, as well as offer real-world utility to their collectors’ portfolios. The release notes that the NFTs will allow collectors to gain steady revenue flow from the game’s P2E opportunities. It added that the NFTs will facilitate the player vs. player gaming model.

“While metaverse can house new innovations and advancement, the gaming industry’s strong presence in the metaverse is eminent, and we strive to provide better & immersive racing experience by launching our meticulously crafted NFTs,” Jason Scoby, founder of Shiba Racing Team, said in the statement.

Meanwhile, the release also notes the metaverse game will launch a second NFT collection featuring supercars as NFTs. When this launches, players will be able to try out different racer and supercar combinations. They will also be able to participate in Grand Prix tournaments that the metaverse game plans to organize to win exciting prizes.

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Shiba Inu gaming ecosystem gaining steam

Shiba Racing Team is not the only metaverse game that the Shiba Inu ecosystem has welcomed. Back in October, Shiba also saw the launch of Shiba Inu Eternity, a collectible card game.

The launch of multiple games is bullish for the GameFi utility of the Shiba ecosystem. The has already made significant progress, currently featuring Shiboshis (an NFT collection), ShibaSwap (a DEX), and BONE and LEASH (a governance token.

It also features several liquidity pools and fundraising campaigns for Shiba Inu Rescue Association. Meanwhile, it is also preparing for the launch of Shibarium (a layer 2 scaling network), and SHIB:The Metaverse, a metaverse platform.

SHIB, the memecoin that powers the ecosystem, currently trades at around $0.0000086, down 0.62% in the last 24 hours. However, the bullish ecosystem developments may see the token rise to new highs as the token gains more utility. Additionally, SHIB is also seeing real-world adoption which also points to it having a bright future.

• SHIB gets added to top-up options for Guarda’s Wallets Prepaid Visa Cards. 
• The integration is the latest in a string of payment use cases that SHIB has been gaining. 

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Shiba Inu (SHIB) clinches a new milestone in its emergence into the multi-billion-dollar payment market. Leading non-custodial cryptocurrency wallet platform, Guarda, has announced that payments using SHIB are now enabled at over 60 million stores worldwide.

The feat is thanks to Guarda’s integration of the memecoin on its prepaid Visa card offering. The platform also announced the integration of other tokens, bringing the total number of supported cryptos to over 20. Other new additions include BUSD, DAI, DOGE, AAVE, and ATOM.

‘Tis the season for #crypto shopping

Top up your Guarda @Visa Card with 20+ #cryptocurrencies… then pay in over 60M+ stores worldwide!

More assets supported to top-up your card $BUSD$DAI$SHIB$DOGE$AAVE$ATOM

Book yours now https://t.co/a744QvRweW pic.twitter.com/kHzEKM3yVD

— GUARDA (@GuardaWallet) December 15, 2022

The integrations are aimed at allowing Guarda Wallet users easily top up their Guarda prepaid Visa cards to shop during the holiday season.

The platform launched the card offering back in August this year. At the time, it stated that the offering was available in over 25 European Union countries. It includes options for both physical and virtual cards. The cards can also be added to other payment solutions like Apple Pay and will work everywhere Visa cards are supported.

“Guarda Wallet is thrilled to announce the release of its own prepaid Visa card. You can use this card anywhere Visa is accepted, which means you can use it for online shopping, in-store purchases, and much more,” the company noted.

Guarda is not the only payment solution to announce support for SHIB recently. Last month also saw FCFPay roll out further support for the memecoin. The company announced that SHIB holders can now pay for flight tickets with SHIB at both American Air and Air Canada.

FCFPay crypto-enabled prepaid Visa cards were already accepted at hundreds of online merchants including Netflix and Amazon. Similar to Guarda’s integration, FCFPay cards can also be added to Apple/Google pay, but only in the U.S. and Canada.

It added that SHIB can now be accepted by hundreds of online merchants including subscription-based streaming service Netflix and e-commerce giant Amazon. FCF Pay also enables users of its virtual Visa cards to connect to Apple/Google Pay in the U.S. and Canada and convert their crypto to local currency.

Will payments use case adoption drive SHIB to new price highs?

The adoption SHIB is seeing in the payments industry has the potential to move the token from being a memecoin to a coin with more utility. This could in turn drive the price of SHIB to higher price levels.

At press time, SHIB was trading at around $0.0000088, up 3.08% in the last 24 hours. This marks an about 90% drop from its previous all-time high price of $ 0.0000875 reached in October 2021.

Meanwhile, payments are not the only use case for which SHIB is seeing adoption. The Shiba Inu ecosystem is also awash with anticipation for the launch of projects including a metaverse platform and a layer 2 scaling solution.

• Web3 User Group has launched a new project, the Xmas NFT collection. The project aims to spread the knowledge of Web3 among the young and old.
• The Group featured different educators in the Cardano ecosystem and some music tracks in the NFT collection.

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On December 15th, @Soorajksaju2, a blockchain evangelist in a Twitter thread, announced a new project. The project aims to develop a safe environment where people can learn about Web3 technology.

 

To the #CardanoCommunity

Today I want to introduce you all to a new project

That aims to create a safe environment for people to learn about #Web3 through #Cardano

Here’s a Thread

— Sooraj (@Soorajksaju2) December 15, 2022

 

Web3 User Group e.V. is the entity behind the latest project. The Group comprises members that are part of the Cardano community. This Group is a non-profit organization located in Germany.

The organization has two major goals. The first is to create an enabling environment where people can learn about Web3. Also, the organization supports IT education in developing countries through proceeds from its projects and donations. Thus, the members of the Group who are IT enthusiasts plan to make IT education will be available to people everywhere.

Meanwhile, the Web3 User Group e.V. and @Naretoi_eV partnered to launch the Xmas NFT Collection project; it is the Group’s first project. Both entities plan to use proceeds from this project to fund a 4-week computer class for several young people in Talek and other parts of Kenya, including Masai Mara.

The fundamental concept behind the Xmas NFT series is to start a new practice in Wiernsheim, Germany. This practice will encourage adults and children to exchange Xmas NFT cards. Consequently, they will use the earnings from the NFT sales to sponsor IT education in developing countries. However, most of the persons involved know little about blockchain.

This project will help attract those with a negative attitude towards NFTs and blockchain. “Imagine ten years from now and a 20 years old person comes across a NFT Xmas cards from their relatives or friends. This was most likely their first interaction with the blockchain sector and #Cardano is making this happen,

the blockchain evangelist tweeted.

Users Have Until December 25 To Mint Their NFTs

Furthermore, the Web3 User Group featured different educators in the Cardano ecosystem in the NFT collection. Interestingly, the cards also contain some music tracks. Finally, @Soorajksaju2 called on individuals to support the project by minting NFTs and participating in the whole experience. Meanwhile, minting of the NFTs will begin on December 17th.

Furthermore, the sales of the NFT Xmas cards will be made randomly. This will be similar to buying Pokemon trading cards from a supermarket. Meanwhile, @Soorajksaju2 noted that this project’s policyID would expire on December 25th. Hence, users have until then to mint all their NFTs.

Any NFT not minted before and on that date will not exist. Apart from the awesome experience, holders of the Xmas NFT will get an airdrop of 3 GPS adventure passes and a 50% discount on all Trading Tent transactions. The blockchain evangelist concluded his tweet by saying Snapshot would be taken on December 26th. He also announced an NFT giveaway for his community.

Meanwhile, Trading Tent is a platform where two users can exchange Cardano-based assets in one transaction. However, both users must agree and sign before such a transaction occurs. Moreover, the platform does not require smart contracts, and there are no locked assets.

According to CoinGecko, Cardano (ADA) has been trading around the $0.2000 region. Despite predictions that ADA will surpass $5 in 2022, the market condition has been bearish in recent months. It is unlikely that the latest project would affect ADA’s price positively.

• Shiba Inu’s metaverse platform is being built using the latest iteration of Unreal Engine, UE5.1. 
• The Shiba ecosystem has also welcomed multiple bullish announcements that could boost the price of SHIB. 

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The Shiba Inu (SHIB) community just received confirmation that the “SHIB: The Metaverse” project is being built with the latest iteration of advanced real-time 3D creation tool, Unreal Engine 5.1 (UE5.1).

The revelation came after the metaverse development team released new stunning images of Wagmi Temple. This is one of the segments of the virtual environment its first prototype was showcased back in September.

According to Brandie Konopasek, a well-known name in the entertainment industry who joined the team earlier this year, the just-released images are direct pulls from the environment within the SHIB environment.

Official photo release of Wagmi! It’s been incredible to bring this from concept to reality. These are direct pulls from the environment from within @ShibTheMV https://t.co/2LYc3Vi5zQ

— Brandiekono (@brandiekono) December 9, 2022

The community has been speculating for a while that the metaverse project was being developed using Unreal Engine based on hints by the pseudonymous creator of the memecoin Shytoshi Kusama. Kusama noted on Discord back in July the project will look “unreal.”

The speculation also received more credence when The Third Floor (TFF), a world-class visualization studio with vast experience working with UE, was named a partner in developing the metaverse platform. In a statement, TFF said it intends to carry out rapid prototyping powered by UE.

Shiba Inu Ecosystem inundated with bullish developments

Meanwhile, the SHIB: The Metaverse project is not the only source of exciting news in the Shiba Inu ecosystem that could drive up the price of the memecoin both in the short and long term.

‘Shib Tropias’, a member of the Shiba Inu team, shared a cryptic update about developers having completed the version one design of an unnamed project. Later clarifying that the update is talking about the entire SHIB ecosystem, the developer added that the finalization of content for the project has been ongoing and that it would be released in phases to help with content flow.

The update could mean upcoming releases in relation to the Shiba Inu layer two protocol Shibarium, as well as several decentralized exchanges and games that the developers have been working on.

Another bullish update the community has welcomed this week is the announcement by Okcoin Japan that it has decided to list SHIB by Feb. 2023. The announcement comes after SHIB faithfuls in Japan have been clamoring for local exchanges to list the memecoin.

The price of SHIB meanwhile has continued to trade sluggishly in the market. The token is trading at a price of around $0.0000092, down 1.20% in the last 24 hours. The price, taken at the time of writing, represents an 18.4% drop quarter-to-date.

• A new partnership for the meme coin will see it enter yet another market as it expands its visibility and the community eyes a trading price of $2 for the asset.
• Data shows that Ethereum whales remain the largest holders of SHIB tokens.

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Despite being new to the market, meme coins have emerged as one of the industry’s most popular crypto assets, with Shiba Inu leading the way. The Dogecoin rival has become one of the most sensational assets making waves in the crypto space.

Strategic partnerships and collaborations are at the core of the SHIB network’s continued growth and development. When most virtual currencies find it challenging to stay afloat amid the broader crypto market turmoil, Shiba Inu has managed to pen a massive deal.

“The most comfortable shoes in the known universe” Enjoy 10% off @AtheistShoes with code HANDMADECOMFY through December 16th. Shop with #crypto: https://t.co/uqxB8KfzzM

— BitPay (@BitPay) November 26, 2022

According to a recent announcement, the crypto payment solutions provider, BitPay has partnered with the footwear maker Atheist Shoes to accept Shiba Inu for payment. Interestingly, customers looking to pay with the canine token can take advantage of a 10 percent discount, which lasts for a limited time.

Furthermore, the meme coin has been steadily developing into a utility crypto asset that travelers can use, as most platforms have begun to enhance the use of the token on their payment networks. Shiba Inu has evolved into one of the most widely used utility assets among other cryptocurrencies.

Binance boosted its visibility after adding it to the Binance Card, which allowed Visa Card holders to spend SHIB at close to 60 million merchant outlets worldwide. As its main rival, Dogecoin, continues to lag, Shiba Inu has taken the chance to become the leading meme token as it enjoys more support from its robust community.

Developed as an alternative to DOGE, SHIB is among the most widely used meme tokens for transactions, with several businesses already integrating it for payment via BitPay. The new partnership is another important milestone for the top meme cryptocurrency, which seeks to consolidate its position as the best over Dogecoin.

SHIB emerges first in holdings among ETH whales

Data from the whale tracking platform, WhaleStats, shows that the top 2,000 ETH whale holdings contain several crypto tokens. But SHIB occupies the top spot. The ETH whales are reported to hold over $68 million worth of the meme cryptocurrency.

The top 5000 #ETH whales are hodling

$68,094,707 $SHIB
$41,065,783 $UNI
$35,631,148 $BEST
$34,133,612 $BIT
$33,377,324 $LOCUS
$32,732,502 #UnknownToken
$29,965,328 $MOC
$29,276,720 $LINK

Whale leaderboard https://t.co/kOhHps8XBB pic.twitter.com/coHedRMdEj

— WhaleStats (tracking crypto whales) (@WhaleStats) November 28, 2022

However, UNI holds the second position with over $43.5 million, with BEST tokens in the third position. Similarly, an evaluation of the top 100 ETH whales revealed that SHIB bagged fourth place as the most-held crypto token. These top 100 ETH whales currently hold 74,299,481,235 SHIB tokens worth $690,838.

Nevertheless, the number of whale addresses holding SHIB is increasing, and the recent activity shows that the token offers prospects for the large ETH whales. But the market volatility cannot prevent whales from holding more of the meme asset.

Hence, the real question is, will SHIB benefit from the increased whale activity? The crypto market price is influenced mainly by speculation and two incidents – partnerships and whales’ recent activity. Hence, SHIB’s price may increase as these two incidents have recently occurred in the ecosystem. At the time of writing, Shiba Inu trades at $0.000009399, down by 2.7 percent in the last 24 hours, according to our data.