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AIRDROPS + ALPHAMar 13, 2025
Gaming
‘My Pet Hooligan’ Will Launch on Arbitrum 'Studio Chain' for Games and Entertainment
The Karrat Foundation, which is linked to the battle royale game My Pet Hooligan, announced Thursday that it is collaborating with the Arbitrum Foundation to launch a gaming-focused chain called Studio Chain, which is aimed at fostering Web3-native capabilities in entertainment and video games. The collaboration places the KARRAT token at the forefront of the chain built with Arbitrum’s Ethereum layer-2 scaling tech, and makes My Pet Hooligan (MPH)—which is available via the Epic Games Store—the...
Feb 12, 2025
Coins
Tether Chooses Ethereum L2 Arbitrum for Cross-Chain USDT Infrastructure
Tether has picked Layer 2 Ethereum protocol Arbitrum to provide the infrastructure for its new cross-chain initiative, Legacy Mesh. The news follows Tether’s launch of a new token, dubbed USDT0, in mid-January to facilitate smoother cross-chain transfers of USDT outside of blockchains that already support it. The aim was to do it without needing to use techniques like wrapping tokens or blockchain bridges. USDT0 is pegged one-to-one with Tether’s flagship stablecoin, USDT. It's currently the wor...
Jan 27, 2025
DeFi
Why Ethereum L2 Arbitrum Just Saw a DAO Voting Shakeup
Lobby Finance — a decentralized organization priding itself on “binging lobbyism to DAO governance” — just became the top Arbitrum (ARB) delegate. In what Arbitrum delegate Paulo Fonseca described on X, formerly Twitter, as “the biggest governance move to date,” Lobby Finance suddenly became the top delegate in Arbitrum’s decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). With a single on-chain transaction, Lobby Finance gained control over the voting power of 20.54 million ARB tokens. Arbitrum’s gove...
Jan 23, 2025
Coins
Animecoin: Everything You Need to Know About the Azuki-Linked Ethereum Token and Airdrop
The anime industry is booming, and is projected to grow to $60 billion by 2030. Yet, despite its massive popularity, the Animecoin Foundation sees a significant opportunity to tap into fans who have remained passive consumers of the art form. Intending to build an open and decentralized anime universe, the Animecoin Foundation has launched ANIME, a token designed better to align incentives between creators and fans of the genre. Here’s everything you need to know about ANIME, which just launch...
Jan 23, 2025
Coins
'Not Just Hype': How the Azuki-Linked Animecoin Drop Aims to Fuel Collaborative Anime
Imagine a world where co-creating and contributing to the growth of your favorite anime series is both encouraged and rewarded. Through this collaborative model, new stories have the opportunity to be told, new monetization strategies can surface, and anime culture can continue to spread worldwide. This is what the Animecoin Foundation is trying to accomplish. It wants to bring the global anime fan base on-chain, where creators can have a more accurate picture of fan engagement and attribution,...
Jan 13, 2025
Coins
Azuki-Linked ANIME Token Launching on Ethereum This Month
The Animecoin Foundation announced it will launch its culture coin, ANIME, on Ethereum and Arbitrum this month. Linked to popular NFT project Azuki, the Animecoin Foundation will issue a total of 10 billion ANIME tokens, nearly 77% of which will be circulating on day one. The Foundation aims to use the token launch to “transform the anime ecosystem into a community-owned creative economy,” better aligning incentives for creators and fans of the growing industry—which the Animecoin Foundation su...
Dec 11, 2024
Gaming
Treasure Launches New Ethereum Gaming Chain With ZKsync, Leaving Arbitrum
Crypto gaming ecosystem Treasure has launched its new Ethereum layer-2 scaling network, marking its departure from Arbitrum. This move will see the project build on a network tailor-fit to its gaming-specific needs, opening what it says are new possibilities for gamers. Treasure’s newly launched Ethereum layer-2 network is part of ZKsync’s Elastic Chain—a network of interoperable zero-knowledge rollup chains—and will natively use the project’s MAGIC token. As a result, over 15 games, hundreds of...
Dec 11, 2024
Gaming
Ubisoft Sets Launch for ‘Captain Laserhawk’ Game as Free NFT Mint Begins
Gaming giant Ubisoft, the publisher behind franchises like Assassin’s Creed and Just Dance, has pinned down the launch date for its upcoming game Captain Laserhawk: The G.A.M.E. on Ethereum layer-2 network Arbitrum. And a free NFT mint for the game is getting underway today. Captain Laserhawk: The G.A.M.E. will launch on December 18. Set in a dystopian world inspired by the Netflix animated series "Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix"—which is based in part on a game in the Far Cry game fran...
Nov 26, 2024
NFTs
How NFTs are Evolving to Add ‘Meaning and Story’: RARI Chain
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are evolving to create more “value and utility” for their creators and users, according to a recent panel discussion on "Navigating the Evolving NFT Landscape" at the TEN by RARI x Refraction event in Bangkok. While the creator economy is the “flagship use case” of NFTs for consumers and retail, “There's going to be a lot of other applications of NFTs which are just in the backend,” Jana Bertram, Head of Strategy at RARI Foundation, told Rug Radio creator Pukerainbow....
Nov 4, 2024
DeFi
Bitcoin DeFi Project EverValue Raises Over $4.7 Million in Token Presale
Bitcoin-backed DeFi project EverValue’s token presale was an “exceptional success,” raising over 75 BTC ($4.7 million) and surpassing its initial target of 35 BTC within the first week of launch, the project said. In a statement shared with Decrypt, EverValue CEO Flor Ayala said that the raise, “underscores the strong backing from the community and reinforces EverValue’s unique value proposition in the cryptocurrency space,” as it raised 120,000 USDT in just one hour on crypto exchange XT’s Laun...
Nov 3, 2024
Technology Guides
What Are Layer-2 Networks and Sidechains? Ethereum Scaling Explained
Blockchain infrastructure has evolved to encompass an ecosystem of layer-1 and layer-2 networks. In this article we’ll explore the difference between the two, and how layer-2 networks and other scaling methods like sidechains attempt to address the scalability challenges of layer-1 blockchains. What are layer-2 networks? Simply put, layer-2 networks are blockchain networks that live atop a layer-1 network such as Ethereum, with the layer-1 network providing the base layer of infrastructure and s...
Oct 21, 2024
Gaming
ApeCoin Doubles in Price as ApeChain Launches With Pump.fun Clone, 'Top Trader' Game
ApeChain, a new Ethereum layer-2 network, was launched by the ApeCoin DAO on Sunday at ApeFest Lisbon, leading to APE doubling in price. The anticipated mainnet launch of the Bored Ape Yacht Club-aligned network came with numerous apps and games, including a meme coin launchpad, a leverage trading simulator, and other games. Earlier this year, more than half of the ApeCoin DAO’s voting power went towards selecting Arbitrum technology to power the new scaling network—beating out other Ethereum sc...
Oct 18, 2024
DeFi
Radiant Capital’s $50M Breach Among ‘Most Sophisticated Hacks’ in DeFi History
Decentralized finance (DeFi) project Radiant Capital has claimed that groups analyzing its breach earlier this week “believe this was one of the most sophisticated hacks ever recorded in DeFi” and that “many protocols are at risk”. Radiant and Web3 auditor Hacken estimated the approximate scale of the theft at $50 million, and it’s thought that USDT, USDC, and ARB tokens were stolen. Multiple pools have been fully drained, including:- USDC- USDT- wbETH- bBTC- wBNB- WETH- WBTC- ARB- wstETH — Hac...
Oct 7, 2024
Business
Arbitrum Foundation to ‘Go Big’ in Asia With Road to Devcon
The Arbitrum Foundation has announced its Road to Devcon initiative as it “doubles down” on Asia’s potential for rapid growth. Pointing to factors including the region’s burgeoning developer community and increasing rates of retail crypto adoption, the Foundation announced a three-pronged campaign ahead of Devcon 2024 in Bangkok. A pair of face-to-face ArbiLink events in Vietnam and Indonesia will provide opportunities to connect with two of the fastest-growing local developer communities, where...
Oct 4, 2024
Gaming
Ubisoft Reveals Plans for 'Captain Laserhawk' Ethereum Game NFT Mint
Gaming giant Ubisoft is set to launch a 10,000 piece NFT collection on Ethereum scaling network Arbitrum in the coming weeks via the Magic Eden marketplace. These NFTs will allow holders to play the upcoming top-down shooter Captain Laserhawk: The G.A.M.E. early. Set in a fascist dystopian world inspired by the Netflix series "Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix"—which itself is inspired by Ubisoft’s Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon game—the competitive multiplayer game promises to include iconic ch...
Sep 16, 2024
Markets
DeFi Protocol DeltaPrime Suffers $5.9 Million Loss in Private Key Exploit
Crypto cybersecurity firm Cyvers has reported a security incident affecting DeltaPrime, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol on the Arbitrum network. According to a tweet from Cyvers, the ongoing incident resulted in an initial estimated loss of $4.5 million—subsequently updated to $5.93 million as a “suspicious address” continued to drain funds from DeltaPrime’s liquidity pools. 🚨ALERT🚨@DeltaPrimeDefi has faced a security incident on their admin keys. Attacker had control on the private k...
Sep 6, 2024
Gaming
Arbitrum Goes Big With Web3 Gaming Showcase at WebX Asia
Arbitrum Foundation brought Web3 gaming to this year’s WebX in Tokyo, Asia’s leading Web3 conference, with a programme including panel discussions, playable demos and evening soirées. On the show floor, hundreds of attendees stopped by the Arbitrum Foundation and ApeChain booth for the opportunity to get hands-on with playable key titles including onchain RPG Tarochi, memecoin racing title Kitty Kart Racing, and GameFi battler Gensokishi. Image: Arbitrum Also showcased were titles such as Aavego...
Sep 1, 2024
Gaming
Ethereum Gaming Network Geist Is Members-Only to Prevent 'Industrial Farming'
Pixelcraft Studios, the company behind crypto game Aavegotchi, is creating a “members-only” Ethereum layer-3 gaming network called Geist, built with the scaling tech of both Arbitrum and Base. The move comes as the company fears that “industrial farming” is an issue preventing real players from enjoying crypto gaming. “A lot of crypto games are farms,” the pseudonymous CEO and founder of Pixelcraft Studios, Coder Dan, told Decrypt, “[and] there’s nothing wrong with a farmer.” “But the problem is...
Aug 28, 2024
Gaming
Crypto's Hamster Obsession Gets a New Fix: Betting on Rodent Car Races
Every day in crypto seems to bring a new race to capture the attention and coins of the world’s degen traders—many of whom have an apparently insatiable desire for the next sufficiently amusing, ridiculous, or grotesque premise on which to spend their collective billions. Now, a newly organized betting platform is hoping to entice those gamblers with something they (hopefully) haven’t seen before: wagers on real hamsters, racing in real (plastic) cars, streamed in high definition with live comme...
Aug 18, 2024
Gaming
This Week in Crypto Games: 'The Lost Glitches' Beta Hits Epic Store, Members-Only Ethereum Chain
The crypto and NFT gaming space is busier than ever lately, what with prominent games starting to release, token airdrops piling up, and a seemingly constant array of other things happening at all times. It’s a lot to take in! Luckily, Decrypt’s GG is all over it. And if you need a quick way to get caught up on the latest moves around crypto video games, we’re happy to present This Week in Crypto Games. Our weekend roundup serves up the biggest news from the past week, along with a few other tid...





