GOAT Gaming goes for B3
Base-based L3 picks up steam
Releasing news on a Friday isn’t a good move but sometimes you just have to roll with the punches.
Specifically in the case that Mighty Bear Games’ GOAT Gaming has announced it’s launching on Base-based L3 B3, it reinforced my plan to kick off next week writing about how Coinbase’s Optimism-based L2 blockchain is increasingly becoming a go-to-chain for gaming.
As for examples, it’s already seen the successful deployment of Blocklords Dynasty — heavily botted of course — as well as Atari’s retro NFT games and the forthcoming launch of Planet Mojo’s MOJO token, which joins existing tokens such as Animoca’s TOWER. Less successfully to-date, Skrice Studios’ Heroes of Mavia also uses Base for its RUBY token and cosmetics marketplace.
What’s interesting about Mighty Bear’s decision is that it originally launched its Mighty Action Heroes battle royale game on Polygon, before switching to TreasureDAO a year or so ago. For the record, Treasure is launching its own Treasurechain but that uses the rival L2 Arbitrum.
As for B3, it’s a new entrant. Founded by Coinbase/Base executives, it recently announced a sizeable $18 million series A funding round, which was led by Pantera with participation from respected crypto VCs such as Makers Fund, Hashed, Sfermion and Collab + Currency. This takes its total funding to $21 million.
Notably it doesn’t look like Coinbase itself has invested. Make of that what you will.
Mighty Bear says it’s chosen B3 because of its focus on “bringing web3 to the masses”, something it’s also seeking to do with the launch of GOAT Gaming on Telegram.
“With B3 removing much of the hassle around crosschain account management and abstraction, we believe in B3's ability to make the onchain experience much more seamless, thereby paving the way to onboard millions of players into web3,” it says.
Find out more at B3.fun or check out the games using it here.
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Weekly News Roundup
Off The Grid completes its first playtest on PlayStation 5.
Two years on, Limit Break teases DigiDaigaku mobile game details.
Eden Games’ David Nadal on Mocaverse-launched Cosmic Royale racer.
The Lost Glitches launches open beta via Epic Games Store.
Guild of Guardians mixes up the meta with new character mint.
Autoverse Studios secures $8 million in funding.
READYgg rebrands to PLAY.
Floki announces English Premier League ad campaign for Valhalla game.
Italian soccer club Napoli launches in The Sandbox.
Oasys L2 Uprising mints out genesis NFTs ahead of token launch.
PIXEL token is listed on OKX.
Skale launches its Swell questing platform.
Immutable integrates Fireblocks.
Some of which is discussed below (I rant about bots a little bit…)!
Not Considering Second Order Implications Tweet Of The Day
Further to yesterday’s discussion of ‘Whether crypto is bad for blockchain gaming?’, CEO of gaming community Tribally gets over his skis into crypto speculation prior to its TGE in September. I wonder what it means for the TRIBAL token price? 🤔
Additional Links
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Gamee’s TON-based WAT Protocol has been backed by the new TON VC fund.
Use USDC to buy items IRL from your iPhone as Apple opens up NFC to thirdparties.
Check out the Big Blockchain Game Report Q2 2024 👀 here.