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Sep 23, 2024

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'NFL Rivals' Delivers Fun Mobile Football With Just the Right Level of NFT Integration

Condensing the football experience down to a mobile-friendly game is not easy. With so many things going on during each play—all of which you’d want to have control over—the somewhat limited controls of a touchscreen have typically held mobile football games back. NFL Rivals doesn’t have the perfect answer to this problem, but this NFTs-optional free-to-play game certainly makes a solid attempt across iOS and Android. On the field, NFL Rivals dumbs down football to its simplest form. There’s no...

by Mike Stubbs · 4 min read

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by Mike Stubbs · 4 min read

Sep 11, 2024

Gaming

What Is ‘NFL Rivals’? The iOS and Android Football Game With NFTs on Polkadot

When it comes to American football games, the Madden franchise has long been the cream of the crop. But now it has some competition—not just from EA Sports’ own College Football game, but also in the form of mobile game NFL Rivals, which incorporates NFTs. While NFL Rivals isn't trying to top Madden when it comes to presenting a lifelike simulation on your game console, it’s a free-to-play, arcade-style mobile football game that has the same official licenses from the league and players, offeri...

by Mike Stubbs · 5 min read

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Gaming

New NFL Rivals Season Adds 'Biggest Upgrade' Since NFT Marketplace

NFL Rivals, an officially licensed mobile football game from Mythical Games, announced Friday that its second in-game season will launch on September 5 alongside the real-world season kickoff of the National Football League (NFL). Mythical Games said that the mobile game attracted over 5 million downloads and more than 115 million games played in its first season. Its second season, called "Year 2," will introduce new game modes, “distinctive” pack drops, and new ways for fans to engage with the...

by Ryan S. Gladwin · 3 min read

Jul 19, 2024

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Polkadot 2.0 is a catch-all term for a new vision for the future of the Polkadot network. Polkadot founder Gavin Wood hopes that Polkadot 2.0 will represent an “agile, ubiquitous, compute resource” once introduced. What is Polkadot 2.0? Although it sounds like a technical upgrade, Polkadot 2.0 doesn’t refer to one specific event. Instead, it’s a collection of changes that will radically alter what the blockchain is capable of. At a top level, Wood has used the metaphor of a pancake business to e...

by Will McCurdy · 6 min read

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Polkadot Marketing Cost Controversy Sparks Claims of Discrimination

Polkadot’s recent spending has ignited a firestorm of debate among stakeholders who fear the project is burning through cash fast. But the outcry has given way to a new controversy as some within the Polkadot community say it’s not just a problem of how much is being spent but also on whom, alleging discrimination. Victor Ji, co-founder of Manta Network, criticized Polkadot’s ecosystem as "highly toxic” Tuesday, urging Asian founders to consider development work on other platforms. In an intervi...

by André Beganski, Murtuza Merchant · 6 min read

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by Will McCurdy · 4 min read

Jun 21, 2024

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The Week in Polkadot: $60 Million JAM Prize Fund Open for Applications

Welcome to Decrypt’s Week in Polkadot, our regular round-up of the latest developments in the Polkadot ecosystem. $60 million JAM Prize pool open for applications The JAM Prize is now officially open for applications. Developers working on implementations of JAM, the next stage in Polkadot’s evolution, will be able to win prizes from a pool of 10 million DOT tokens and 100,000 KSM tokens, roughly $60 million and $1.8 million at the time of writing. Developers can now find out exactly how many to...

by Will McCurdy · 3 min read

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The Week in Polkadot: Moonbeam Launches $13 Million Funding Initiative

Welcome to Decrypt’s Week in Polkadot, our regular round-up of the latest developments in the Polkadot ecosystem. Moonbeam Network, consistently one of Polkadot’s most popular parachains since it first launched in January 2022, has launched a $13 million funding initiative. The new initiative will look to boost Moonbeam’s ecosystem in several key areas such as gaming and real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, alongside supporting its sister blockchain Moonriver, hosted on Polkadot’s canary network...

by Will McCurdy · 3 min read

Jun 8, 2024

Technology Guides

What is JAM? Polkadot's Biggest Ever Upgrade Explained

Announced in April 2024, the Join Accumulate Machine (JAM) represents the biggest-ever update to Polkadot since the blockchain first became fully operational in 2021. It will bring deep changes to the Relay Chain, the center of the project’s ecosystem, which underpins all its independent parachains. The JAM upgrade’s proposed technical principles and aims were outlined in the JAM Gray Paper, penned by Polkadot creator Gavin Wood. Polkadot relies on decentralized leadership to decide the future o...

by Will McCurdy · 7 min read

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The Week in Polkadot: Pudgy Penguins Mobile Game Coming to Polkadot

Welcome to Decrypt’s Week in Polkadot, our regular round-up of the latest developments in the Polkadot ecosystem. Pudgy Penguins land on Polkadot with mobile game Web3 gaming studio Mythical Games is set to release a Polkadot-based mobile game based on the well-known NFT brand Pudgy Penguins. The Pudgy Penguins brand has made inroads into the mainstream in recent months; physical toys based on its intellectual property have been released in Walmart and Target, while the brand has hit the pages o...

by Will McCurdy · 4 min read

May 31, 2024

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The Week in Polkadot: JAM Upgrade Passes in Near-Unanimous Vote

Welcome to Decrypt’s Week in Polkadot, our regular round-up of the latest developments in the Polkadot ecosystem. The Join-Accumulate Machine (JAM) upgrade, the next stage in the technical evolution of Polkadot, has now been ratified in a collective vote by Polkadot’s community members, passing with a near-unanimous landslide vote among the network’s validators. JAM, which was announced by Polkadot founder Gavin Wood in Dubai back in April at Token2049, will be the most significant upgrade since...

by Will McCurdy · 3 min read

May 30, 2024

Gaming

Pudgy Penguins Mobile Game Coming to Mythos Chain on Polkadot

Ethereum NFT brand Pudgy Penguins has expanded from tokenized profile pictures (PFPs) to plush toys in major retailers and beyond—and next it’ll enter the mobile gaming world via a new collaboration with publisher Mythical Games. Billed as a “AAA” mobile game, the Pudgy Penguins title is set to debut in 2025 on the Mythos Chain, a Polkadot-based gaming network that was spearheaded by Mythical Games. The studio is the developer behind games like NFL Rivals and Blankos Block Party. John Linden, co...

by Andrew Hayward · 3 min read

May 24, 2024

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The Week in Polkadot: New Ways to Raise Cash and a Gaming Chain Migrates

Welcome to Decrypt’s Week in Polkadot, our regular round-up of the latest developments in the Polkadot ecosystem. Funding platform hits Polkadot Polimec, a new decentralized and community-centric funding protocol, has officially launched on Polkadot. The platform allows its community members to assess and support Web3 projects, granting them access to funding information and project evaluations, and allowing them to join funding rounds. The protocol, according to Polimec, is specifically built w...

by Will McCurdy · 4 min read

May 17, 2024

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The Week in Polkadot: The Founder Institute Backs Polkadot Start-ups

Welcome to Decrypt’s Week in Polkadot, our regular round-up of the latest developments in the Polkadot ecosystem. The Founder Institute to collaborate with Polkadot The Founder Institute, a Silicon Valley start-up incubator that has helped firms such as Udemy, OddBox and FightCamp raise money, has announced a strategic collaboration with Polkadot. The Founder Institute will help early-stage Web3 startups that are accepted into the latest cohort by offering them resources, mentorship and access t...

by Will McCurdy · 4 min read

May 10, 2024

Coins

The Week in Polkadot: Monthly Active Accounts Hit All-Time High

Welcome to Decrypt’s Week in Polkadot, our regular round-up of the latest developments in the Polkadot ecosystem. The number of monthly active accounts on Polkadot reached an all-time high in April, the highest since the start of 2022 when parachains, one of the ecosystem’s key distinguishing factors, first launched. Meanwhile, ahead of the community vote on Polkadot’s JAM Upgrade being implemented, many parachains, including the smart contract platform Moonbeam, achieved near record highs in ac...

by Will McCurdy · 3 min read

May 3, 2024

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The Week in Polkadot: JAM Pushes Toward ‘Original Concept’ of World Computer: Gavin Wood

Welcome to Decrypt’s Week in Polkadot, our regular round-up of the latest developments in the Polkadot ecosystem. Gavin Wood gives deep dive on JAM upgrade Polkadot founder Gavin Wood sat down to answer some of the questions surrounding the network’s proposed Join-Accumulate Machine (JAM) upgrade, following the publication of its graypaper last month. In a hour-long podcast interview with The Kusamarian, Wood touched on how JAM represents a step towards his “original concept” of a world computer...

by Will McCurdy · 3 min read

May 2, 2024

Technology Guides

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With an ever-growing number of blockchain projects, achieving interoperability and scalability between blockchains is increasingly important. Polkadot’s solution to this challenge is ‘parachains,’ a technical approach to allowing distinct blockchains to scale and work together effectively and safely, leveraging the Polkadot network’s guarantees of security, isolation, and communication. What are parachains? Unlike most other blockchains such as Ethereum, Polkadot isn’t built to have much inheren...

by Will McCurdy · 6 min read

Apr 26, 2024

Coins

The Week in Polkadot: Web3 Foundation Backs Decentralized Storage

Welcome to Decrypt’s Week in Polkadot, our regular round-up of the latest developments in the Polkadot ecosystem. Following last week's major announcement by Gavin Wood about the new JAM protocol at Token2049, several new projects built around Polkadot have been announced in the past week. The Web3 Foundation threw its weight behind decentralized storage, backing Moonsong Labs’ StorageHub as part of its Decentralized Futures Program. The project aims to provide a full Polkadot native storage so...

by Will McCurdy · 3 min read

Apr 19, 2024

Technology

The Week in Polkadot: Gavin Wood Unveils ‘Major Upgrade’ JAM at Token2049

Welcome to Decrypt’s Week in Polkadot, our regular round-up of the latest developments in the Polkadot ecosystem. At the Token2049 conference in Dubai this week, Polkadot co-founder Gavin Wood introduced a graypaper outlining the Join-Accumulate Machine (JAM), billed as “a proposal for the future of Polkadot.” In a “major revision,” the JAM protocol would replace Polkadot’s Relay Chain with a “more modular, minimalistic design,” building a permissionless object environment akin to Ethereum’s sma...

by Decrypt Staff · 3 min read