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TLDR: xMoney integrates with Sui, improving payment speed and multi-chain merchant access globally. zkLogin allows users to access blockchain services using social accounts for simpler onboarding. Merchants gain DeFi liquidity and capital to scale their operations efficiently and securely. Expansion strengthens xMoney’s global multi-chain ecosystem while maintaining MultiversX partnerships.
xMoney has expanded to the Sui blockchain to accelerate payments and merchant adoption. The move provides faster infrastructure, broader liquidity pools, and cross-border payment tools. 

Sui’s zkLogin simplifies blockchain onboarding through social accounts like Google or Apple. The expansion complements MultiversX partnerships while enabling global reach.

Sui Integration Boosts Efficiency and Liquidity Sui offers deep liquidity, scalable infrastructure, and fast transaction processing for users and merchants. 

These capabilities reduce delays and improve operational efficiency. Besides speed, Sui grants access to DeFi liquidity pools, supporting business growth and funding.

xPortal, a DeFi super app powered by xMoney, recently issued the first Sui-based payment card. This demonstrates practical adoption and ecosystem integration. Moreover, zkLogin allows users to join blockchain networks without complex wallets or private keys.

The integration opens additional capital sources for merchants, enabling faster cash flow and cross-chain customer access. Additionally, broader ecosystem participation allows businesses to leverage Sui’s DeFi financing while expanding revenue streams.

xMoney just plugged into Sui.

Faster rails, bigger reach, and payments that flow.

Let’s build the future of commerce and B2B invoicing. https://t.co/8b0nZ9x1rI

— Sui (@SuiNetwork) September 1, 2025

Benefits and Considerations for Users and Merchants Merchants benefit from access to new capital and DeFi liquidity, improving financial flexibility. 

Consequently, businesses can scale efficiently across multiple blockchain networks. Users gain staking, loyalty rewards, governance, and continued cashback in EGLD while exploring Sui utilities.

However, managing multiple ecosystems introduces complexity and potential regulatory uncertainty. 

Adoption depends on merchant and user willingness to transition to new tools. Despite these risks, stronger liquidity and cross-chain exposure support long-term sustainability and platform resilience.

xMoney emphasized that this expansion does not replace MultiversX but complements its ecosystem. EGLD rewards, merchant solutions, and xPortal partnerships remain active. Hence, global expansion balances growth with continued support for the original community

xMoney Secures $21.5m Strategic Funding Led by Sui Foundation

Crypto projects raised $351 million across 13 deals from September 28 to October 4, led by Flying Tulip’s $200 million seed round, as DeFi and finance-focused ventures dominated the week’s funding activity.

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Flying Tulip raised $200m seed at $1b valuation, leading weekly crypto funding. DeFi and finance startups dominate $351m crypto funding across 13 projects. Payments and gaming projects like xMoney and AmbrusStudio secured millions. Here’s a breakdown of this week’s top announcements, according to Crypto Fundraising data:

Flying Tulip Flying Tulip, a full stack on-chain exchange, raised $200 million in a Seed round Backed by Brevan Howard, CoinFund, and DWF Labs, the startup has a fully diluted valuation of $1 billion. xMoney The payment infrastructure platform secured $21.5 million from various investors, including Sui Foundation and MultiversX (formerly Elrond). So far, xMoney has raised $31.5 million. Lava Lava raised $17.5 million ($27.5 million in total). Its backers include Peter Jurdjevic of Qatar Investment Authority, Bijan Tehrani of Stake, Zach White of 8VC, Saurabh Gupta of DST Global, Terry Angelos, formerly of Visa, and Aaron Suplizo, formerly of Block (previously Square). Today we’re proud to announce we've raised $17.5M in additional funding.

We’re also launching our newest product— earn up to 7.5% yield on your USD by funding bitcoin-backed loans on Lava.

2x more than a high-yield savings account, fully backed by BTC. pic.twitter.com/66TluZdkFZ

— lava (@lava_xyz) October 1, 2025 AmbrusStudio (E4C: Final Salvation) Gathered $15 million in an Unknown round E4C token is operating in Gaming, NFT, P2E, and Sports sectors Investment was backed by Capital Projects < $15 Million Ethena Labs, $14 million in an Unknown round KGeN (ex Kratos), $13.5 million in an Unknown round Talus Labs, $10 million in a Strategic round Yield Basis, $5 million in a Public sale Tea Protocol, $3 million in a Public sale BaseVol, $3 million in a Seed round Novastro, $2 million in a Public sale Nolan, $2 million in a Seed round Drake Exchange, $1 million in a Seed round

Web3 Gamer: Gods Unchained app drops crypto, Kings of Fighters Arena review

Immutable Games, the publisher of Ethereum NFT card game Gods Unchained, announced Monday that it will release an expansion pack called Dread Awakening, which will feature a crossover with the upcoming mobile role-playing game Guild of Guardians.

The Dread Awakening set, slated to drop on April 23, will include 148 cards minted on Immutable X, an Ethereum scaling network originally created by the publisher. Guild of Guardians, also from Immutable Games, is set to hold its global launch on May 15.

"This was a really fun expansion for us to work on because we've been able to lean into the creativity and lore of Guild of Guardians, while working really closely and collaboratively with a team that is quite literally sitting right next to me," said Gods Unchained Executive Producer Daniel Paez, in a release.

The expansion's "cosmic horror" theme “introduces new mechanics and cards that will reshape the meta and hint to a bigger world than ever imagined," the announcement added.

"What makes this even more exciting for me is the anticipation of things to come from this collaboration,” added Paez. “IP crossovers are just the tip of the potential we can unleash with web3 gaming—true game interoperability is right around the corner.”

Paez previously spoke with Decrypt’s GG about the potential for interoperability in blockchain games. Gods Unchained previously launched on Ethereum years back, but now uses Immutable X for cheaper and faster transactions. The game recently expanded to iOS and Android, with Immutable claiming a 60% jump in monthly active users.

Editor’s note: This article was written with the assistance of AI. Edited and fact-checked by Andrew Hayward.

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Updated Jul 9, 2024, 8:49 p.m. Published Jul 9, 2024, 7:27 p.m.

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Crypto as a whole is, I think, at something of an inflection point. With the recent “bull run” either on hold or cut short with prices below 2021 highs, the mounting crypto-speculative mania of the past decade seems to have settled down. That puts a premium on products that deliver, instead of just making big promises.

That includes blockchain-backed gaming, which has been on the horizon since the announcement of Ethereum, and which I’m happy to report is actually becoming a Real Thing. In the past, “blockchain games” have often been hasty cash-ins designed to entice speculators rather than players. But, as an embarrassingly experienced gamer who spent my childhood loading Doom from a DOS command line, I’m happy to report that blockchain games are now emerging fully-cooked: that is, many are at least as enjoyable as games that have nothing to do with crypto.

What follows is a lightning-round of quick reviews of a selection of blockchain games. Each game is judged on standard metrics of gameplay and graphics. But unlike more conventional games, blockchain games should also be evaluated for their onboarding experience and tokenomics.

Onboarding is significant because games are great ways to attract people without crypto experience, and hitting them with a laundry list of complicated tasks before they can play is a great way to lose their interest immediately. And tokenomics matter because they’re hard to get right, and the temptation for developers to be shortsighted and self-interested is strong.

Also worth noting: The reviews below are mostly based on fairly short play time (and few if any of these games are deep enough to demand more.) The reviews are also based on the current state of these games: Roadmaps and projections are all well and good, given the financial stakes, this is a “verify, don’t trust” situation.

Note: I had also planned on reviewing Nifty Island and My Pet Hooligan. But Nifty Island was offline for maintenance when I tried to log in. While My Pet Hooligan (which is in Early Access) looks and feels great offline, it’s a PVP shooter, and the game’s few servers weren’t cooperating when I tried to play.

Hamster Kombat (Mobile/Telegram)Onboarding: A

Gameplay: D

Graphics: A

Tokenomics: D

It’s new, it’s hot, it’s incredibly effective at what it was designed for – but Hamster Kombat isn’t really “a game.” At present, the only ‘gameplay’ proper is clicking one object for points, then spending those points to earn more points. If there’s any actual “Kombat,” it’s completely opaque to me as a new player. Instead, Hamster Kombat, where you play the role of a growth-minded CEO of a crypto exchange, gamifies social engagement, offering in-game “gold” for things like following and promoting the game’s X/Twitter account, or recruiting friends.

The scammy vibes of this pyramid-built-on-nothing element are impossible to ignore, but one thing can’t be denied – it’s working, driving the “game” to huge popularity (see Jeff Wilser’s recent feature on the growth of Hamster Kombat and other TON-based games. The tiny bit of gameplay is impressively addictive (I’m clicking right now …). And, in most other respects, Hamster Kombat is top-tier, with a flawlessly smooth interface and, most impressive of all, a truly effortless onboarding experience that’s integrated directly into Telegram. That both mutes the impression of scamminess, and leads one to believe promises that a real game will emerge from beneath this perpetual self-promotion machine.

Unfortunately, though, gameplay evolution seems to be a low priority for the devs for the moment. The Hamster Kombat roadmap includes gameplay upgrades like “Squad Kombat,” but by far the most focus is on an upcoming airdrop, with a token that is promised to be integrated into gameplay. It seems iffy to release your token before anything resembling an actual game, so between that and the fact that the financial tease is probably leading to a lot of people wasting their lives clicking on a phone, the hamsters get a “D” on tokenomics.

Pixels (Web Browser)Onboarding: C

Gameplay: A

Graphics: A+

Tokenomics: A

Proof that low-hanging fruit can be delicious. Pixels is a resource-gathering and building game, a bit like Farmville, but with a lot more style. Even the writing is good, in its cutesy way, which is really notable. There are also promised and plausible extensions into more active forms of gameplay, such as dungeons, but the simple harvest-cooking-sale loop is already satisfying in itself. There are definitely periods of downtime in the early game, but that’s what you’re signing up for – this is a game you can run in the background and check in on every once in a while (I’m making Popberry Jam while I write this).

The graphics and overall vibes of the game are also excellent. The game is designed in a nostalgic 8-bit style, one seeming reason that Pixels actually has NFT imports. You can play as your Pudgy Penguin or Bored Ape, and the Pixels team has guidelines that allow any collection to submit game versions of PFPs. This unambiguously rocks, increasing the value of the entire Web3 space, and reflecting what seems to be the team’s more general deep alignment with crypto ideas and values. At the same time, there’s an outright downplaying of the possibility of massive growth in token prices, which is equally refreshing.

In what will become a theme, however, I was annoyed by Pixels’ onboarding process, which frankly seems to directly contradict the care and values on display elsewhere in the game. While Metamask login is teased, it no longer works for new players, who must instead download and install a boutique wallet for Sky Mavis’ Ronin Network – an EVM chain that has its own flavor of Wrapped Ether (WETH), but otherwise seems to only handle assets on Mavis’ own Ronin Network. This is an illustration of a common misalignment of incentives in Web3 gaming: there are big incentives to use an attractive game to rope users into your niche network, instead of improving interoperability by using a more widespread public network. It’s a toxic dynamic the industry should be wary of.

Gods Unchained (PC, Mac, iOS, Android)Onboarding: B

Gameplay: A

Graphics: A

Tokenomics: B

It’s time for a horrifying confession: In 2019, I decided to spend money on Gods Unchained NFT cards instead of buying a Cryptopunk. I could have retired by now on a Punk or two, but it is illegal for anyone to make fun of me for my choices. (Mostly, buying a Punk was just incomprehensibly complex back then.)

In 2019, Gods Unchained was a concept rather than a working game, so I am ecstatic to report that not only has it become a game, it has become a really good game, with a blockchain use case that makes sense. It also has really solid user and trading metrics, with more than 200,000 holders recently trading over $250,000 worth of NFT-based cards per day. I also had great luck with matchmaking – casual queues are very short, indicating a lot of players are online actually playing, not just trading.

One possible criticism of Gods Unchained is that it’s, in essence, a copy of Hearthstone, the World of Warcraft-based CCG. Of course, there are other digital card games out there with similar-enough formats and gameplay, but GU has detailed similarities, down to the points and stats of specific (reskinned) cards. Honestly, though, there’s no real shame in that – Hearthstone is an incredible game, and, having familiar mechanics, makes GU quick to jump into.

Gods Unchained also looks and plays great, though its designs and illustrations are quite generic. Specifically, the way the game marks the rarity of cards is pretty opaque, muting one major fun part of playing a CCG.

That doesn’t mean there weren’t downsides. GU becoming part of the “Immutable Passport” ecosystem adds a seemingly pointless layer of intermediation. Why can’t I just sign in with Ethereum via Metamask, where my cards are, and which the game ultimately connects to anyway? Plus, Immutable itself uses Google or email login rather than its own wallet – which seems convenient until you remember this is an entirely superfluous step already. On the other hand, I was surprised by how smoothly I was able to connect back to my pre-Immutable GU account.

Finally, the tokenomics of Gods Unchained barely matter … and that’s great. You earn cards and packs for playing in a way that, again, will be familiar to Hearthstone players. And there are daily quests that can earn you $GODS tokens, which I would assume can be swapped for real money somehow. But, in stark contrast to Hamster Kombat, these are nice bonuses for playing a game that’s inherently rewarding – not bribes for endlessly clicking on a static image.

Guild of Guardians (iOS and Android)Onboarding: A

Gameplay: F

Graphics and presentation: D

Tokenomics: C

I’ll admit up front this is Not for Me, but somehow, this dungeon roguelite auto-battler with actual animation is less engaging than clicking a still image in Hamster Kombat. “Auto-battlers” strike me as bleak artifacts of our era, games that play themselves with the goal of producing player satisfaction without player effort or skill. In the case of Guild of Guardians, the only gameplay seems to be tapping a few heroic special abilities, if you feel like it – but you’ll “win” either way. I wrote this review while the game was playing for me, and I don’t think I missed much.

The game is also aesthetically janky as hell, from middling graphics to truly bad interface and design, and generally feels like it was built by contractors working to an investor spec rather than actual game designers. On the plus side, it was seamless to log in to, and I didn’t get a cringey crypto-based sales pitch. On the other hand, I can’t imagine any human ever caring about this game enough to connect a crypto wallet to it, and its backend tokenomics are utter boilerplate, with a vesting schedule that seems to privilege insiders.

Rumble Racing Star (PC, Mac)Onboarding: C

Gameplay: D

Graphics and Presentation: D

Tokenomics: F

One thing I noticed during these reviews is that many games built or backed in Asia still appear to be in a token-bubble mindset. The homepage of Rumble Racing Star is a good example, starting with an immediate pop-up encouraging users to spin a wheel and win obscure crypto tokens and NFT prizes. At the same time, I was unable to find any meaningful description of the game’s token design from the front page. Where you’d normally find a white paper there’s only a vague gameplay description.

Unfortunately, the game itself reflects this – it’s basic and, to be blunt, janky as hell. At its core it’s a Mario Kart knockoff with lawnmowers for carts, but the tracks, characters, and vehicles are uninspired, and worst of all, the controls are unreliable and “squishy.” This surely isn’t the last we’ll see of blockchain games that haven’t figured out that they have to be good games first – but hopefully, they’re a dying breed.

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Gods Unchained, a digital collectible card game, topped CryptoSlam’s non-fungible token (NFT) sales chart on Wednesday for the second consecutive day, though it recorded a drop from the previous day.

Gods Unchained had over US$612,000 in sales on Wednesday, down from US$930,000 on Tuesday.

The Immutable network, where Gods Unchained resides, recorded over US$806,000 in total sales on Wednesday, which was the fifth in the industry.

Ethereum led all chains in NFT sales with US$4.37 billion.

The second-ranking collection for the day was DMarket on the Mythos network. The collection, which represents in-game items, had US$539,193 in daily sales across 26,277 transactions.

Solana Monkey Business took the third spot with daily sales of US$567,134 across 117 transactions. The Solana-based collection has been climbing the all-time charts.

It currently has US$207.7 million in all-time trades and is eyeing the 30th spot, now occupied by SATS, a BRC-20 NFT set, with US$211.4 million.

The Solana blockchain, hosting the Solana Monkey Business collection, reported total sales of US$3.13 million for the day, the second-highest sales tally among blockchains.

DogeZuki Collection on Solana came in fifth for the day with US$414,755 in sales, while c_HyPC on Ethereum came in sixth with US$338,791.

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Gods Unchained stole the spotlight after topping the NFT collections ranking, courtesy of strong sales. GODS registered a ‘God candle’ as whales demonstrated an interest in the project. Play-to-earn game Gods Unchained [GODS] has experienced a surge in activity in the last two days as the crypto market enjoyed some bullish relief. This contrasted with the slow situation that has gripped the market for weeks.

Recent data indicated a strong uptick in Gods Unchained-related activity. This included transaction activity, especially in relation to in-game NFTs.

According to Cryptoslam.io, Gods Unchained had the highest NFT sales in the last 24 hours at $761,618. This represented a 12.76% uptick during the same period.

Source: Cryptoslam The number of Gods Unchained-related transactions rose by 68.65% during the same 24-hour period and to 89% in the last seven days.

Gods Unchained: Who is driving the momentum? The surge in demand for Gods Unchained NFTs correlated with the demand for the game’s native token. AMBCrypto’s analysis revealed that the robust momentum was whale-driven.

The large holders net flow metric revealed that large holders net flows surged by 952,830 GODS in the last two days.

Source: IntoTheBlock But how has this affected the GODS price? The token pulled off an impressive 221% uptick in the last seven days, with most of the gains occurring between the 15th and the 17th of July.

This aligned with the surge in NFT trading activity that we observed during the same period.

Source: TradingView Pump and dump, or the start of a major rally? GODS’ chart revealed that its price traded at $0.3696 at press time, which represented a 12.46% dip in the last 24 hours. So, there was some profit-taking after the bullish bounce this week.

The dip also signaled that the momentum might not be backed by continuous demand.

Zooming out on the price chart, AMBCrypto discovered that the massive price surge this week occurred after bouncing from near its lowest historic levels.

Therefore, we will continue observing to see if the recent whale activity may attract more attention towards the GODS token and the Gods Unchained game.

If so, there is a likelihood that the bullish momentum might be sustained for longer.

In summary, although the recent price surge and the associated demand for the GODS token has triggered some excitement, there is still a long way to go.

Read Gods Unchained [GODS] Price Prediction 2024-25

GODS peaked at $8.34 during the 2021 bull run, and it traded at a 95% discount from its all-time high at press time.

Therefore, the GODS token may offer significant gains for traders if it sustained robust bullish demand in the next few months. The fact the game is still registering healthy activity is a good sign. 

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Over the recent 7 days, the non-fungible tokens saw a significant rise in sales. The top NFT collections over this week in terms of sales take into account Solana Monkey Business, DMarket, DogeZuki Collection, Guild of Guardians Heroes, and Gods Unchained Cards. The well-known NFT data aggregator CryptoSlam has provided the respective ranking of the NFT projects.

Solana Money Business Maintains Its Top Position among the Top NFT Projects in Terms of Sales According to the platform, Solana Monkey Business took the 1st position among the NFT collections witnessing significant sales. In this respect, the non-fungible token collection recorded sales of up to $4,185,567 worth this week. This figure indicates a decline of nearly 18.42% in Solana Money Business’ sales over this period. The Mythos-based NFT collection DMarket witnessed $4,108,309 in terms of sales during this week.

CryptoSlam added that DMarket went through a dip of 0.54% in the recent seven days. After that, another Solana-based DogeZuki Collection occupied the 3rd place with sales of nearly $3,291,844 worth. Dissimilar to the above-mentioned two NFT collections, the DogeZuki Collection saw a rise in its sales rather than a slump. The NFT collection experienced a 3.12% in its sales this week. A week ago, the Gods Unchained Cards NFT was standing at the 3rd spot while DogeZuki Collection obtained the 4th position. Additionally, $?? BRC-20 NFT was the 5th on the list at that time.

Gods Unchained Cards Drops from 3rd to 5th Spot The Immutable-Zk-based Guild of Guardians Heroes obtained the 4th spot in the list with a sales volume of almost $3,099,078 worth. The NFT collection made a remarkable spike of up to 235.80%. The last entry in the list includes the Immutable-based Gods Unchained Cards. The NFT collection secured the 5th position with a sales volume of $2,766,701 worth. However, as per CryptoSlam, it went through a 21.12% plunge in sales over the above-mentioned time.

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Gods Unchained, a trading card game on Ethereum layer-2 network Immutable zkEVM, announced the launch of a battle pass ahead of its upcoming season and the new Fallen Age expansion coming on February 18.

The pass, which comes has one free tier and two paid tiers of premium rewards, will be available for pre-purchase from February 9 to February 17, offering users a 25% discount on the top two tracks, Premium and Shiny which are priced at $6.99 and $39.99 respectively. 

With each pass tier, users are granted perks like new exclusive cosmetics, as well core card packs and Fallen Age packs from the new expansion.

As users move up tracks, they are granted additional perks like the Gods Unchained token (GODS) on Ethereum. Purchases of Premium or Shiny tracks will offer users 28 and 47 GODS tokens respectively, approximately $3.35 and $5.63 worth at current prices, with additional GODS rewards available as they play through the season.

The Fallen Age expansion set that arrives with battle pass season one will feature 56 cards, with seven legendaries and seven mythic variants, including two new gameplay mechanic cards: “Wither” and “Raid.” 

Gods Unchained released its Tower of Dread expansion pack in October. The turn-based card game is available and free to play on iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac.

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An under-the-radar virtual reality metaverse altcoin teased an upcoming app release on the new Apple Vision Pro headset and surged by more than 24% in a matter of hours on Friday.

Victoria VR (VR) is a blockchain-based virtual reality metaverse powered by the 3D creation tool Unreal Engine.

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The massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) advertises realistic graphics, a digital real estate marketplace and non-fungible token (NFT) trading.

The project’s native token, VR, was trading around $0.0347 when Victoria VR teased a new release on the Apple Vision Pro just before 6 am PST on Friday.

By around 9 am PST, it had surged to a high of $0.0432, though it has since partially retraced and is trading at $0.0374. The 256th-ranked crypto asset by market cap is also up nearly 66% in the past seven days.

The Apple Vision Pro is the tech giant’s first 3D camera. It launched in US stores on Friday and offers immersive viewing for games, shows and movies.

Additionally, the Seychelles-based crypto exchange giant Bitget listed VR in its innovation zone on Friday morning.

Despite the token’s price gains this week, VR remains nearly 94% down from its all-time high of $0.616, which it set back in December 2021, according to CoinGecko.

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Victoria VR, a leading virtual reality developer, has announced a pioneering integration with OpenAI into its AI Builder. This historic collaboration positions Victoria VR as the first Web3 project to fuse artificial intelligence with virtual reality, offering unprecedented capabilities in VR content creation.

Empowering Creators with No-Code VR Development Victoria’s VR AI Builder is a user-friendly platform that democratizes virtual reality design. It allows individuals, regardless of their programming knowledge, to craft their own virtual realities, games, and applications. Users can monetize their creations, whether they are games, digital shops, interactive showrooms, virtual offices, online schools, or entirely new VR worlds.

The integration of OpenAI into Victoria’s VR AI Builder promises to unlock a plethora of new creative avenues. It facilitates the design of custom in-game items, virtual accessories, characters, and even entire Metaverses. With OpenAI prompts, users can generate bespoke VR content effortlessly, eliminating the need for coding and enabling the on-demand creation of rich digital spaces.

AI-Powered Content Creation and Rapid Prototyping Scheduled for a late 2024 rollout, the OpenAI integration will be the first of many AI technologies to be incorporated into Victoria’s VR AI Builder. Additional AI capabilities, including DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, will further enhance the platform’s functionalities, accelerating the content creation process.

By integrating these advanced AI technologies, Victoria VR enables users to design intricate 3D assets and environments with ease. The platform empowers creators to bring their imaginative VR worlds to life, supporting mini-games and Metaverse applications built using the Victoria’s VR AI Builder.

One of the standout features of Victoria VR is its support for content rendering as NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens). Creators maintain full ownership and control over their digital assets, allowing them to trade and monetize their VR content as they see fit. This innovative approach transforms users into creators, fostering a vibrant ecosystem of unique VR experiences.

Victoria VR sets itself apart with its ultra-realistic graphics and immersive gameplay, delivering a top-tier virtual reality Metaverse experience. Compatible with devices like Apple Vision Pro, Oculus Quest 3, and others, Victoria VR harnesses the power of virtual reality and Web3 technology to create a unique digital realm filled with endless possibilities.

Breaking Down Barriers in VR Development The traditional complexities associated with VR development, such as coding, texture mapping, model creation, and animation, often deter many from entering the VR space. However, Victoria VR’s AI Builder aims to remove these barriers, making virtual reality development accessible to everyone. This accessibility is further supported by the $VR tokens, which drive the Victoria VR ecosystem.

Victoria VR is a cutting-edge Virtual Reality Metaverse equipped with the VR AI Builder, empowering users to create, trade, and monetize VR content as NFTs. Built on Unreal Engine, Victoria VR leverages the latest advancements in virtual reality technology to offer immersive entertainment, discovery, and learning experiences. As the first Web3 Metaverse available on Apple Vision Pro, Victoria VR is paving the way for the future of the Metaverse.

In essence, Victoria VR’s integration of OpenAI marks a significant milestone in the evolution of virtual reality and the Metaverse. By combining the power of AI with user-friendly VR development tools, Victoria VR is poised to redefine the landscape of virtual reality, unlocking new realms of creativity and innovation for creators and users alike.

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Today, Victoria VR, a leading virtual reality developer, announced breakthrough news of integration with OpenAI that might be a game changer in implementing how AI-based virtual worlds’ capabilities are done.

Revolutionizing virtual reality creation  Faced with democratizing the creation of virtual reality content, Victoria VR integrated OpenAI into its VR-building platform. This cutting-edge step positions Victoria VR as the first Web3 project to beautifully synthesize AI capabilities within the virtual reality environment, all to make the content creation process for VR as easy and intuitive as possible.

One of the unique points of this integration is the special Victoria VR AI Builder tool, which allows users to build their VR worlds, games, and applications from scratch without having prior programming skills. Personal features, such as characters and virtual landscapes, can be created easily and with simple instructions using the technology provided by OpenAI. Such innovative tools will further strengthen personalization in the virtual experience.

Enhancing immersion with realistic graphics and gameplay With devices like Apple Vision Pro and Oculus Quest 3, the Victoria VR metaverse is expected to provide the highest level of immersion possible with photorealistic graphics and unbeatable games. It uses the Unreal Engine and thrusts its users into scenic, beautiful fantasy environments that redefine the standards of VR technology.

The company will take these frontiers further and line up new integrations by the end of 2024 with the most futuristic artificial intelligence technologies. Such improvements will enable developers to express their ideas as a 3D asset and setting more rapidly, easing the development of game environments and other metaverse applications.

Victoria VR’s program looks forward to enabling producers to display their content as non-fungible tokens (NFT), which are attached to empowerment in the control and ownership of digital assets. This makes the approach very conducive to developing a virtual world with a friendly environment for creative production, which then, in turn, would nurture a vibrant and crowded society of producers and explorers.

Driving accessibility and engagement with $VR tokens The $VR tokens strive to enhance the VR experience, making it accessible and engaging. By doing so, Victoria VR is again at the forefront of changing the game of how people experience virtual reality, this time with simplicity and engagement like never before.

With OpenAI integrated into its platform, Victoria VR’s goal is to democratize access to and creation of virtual reality content. This frontier effort will open up new chances to innovate and personalize within the virtual world and thus vividly emerge in a lively manner in VR.

This is big; the integration with OpenAI is a major milestone for AI-powered virtual worlds by Victoria VR in its virtual reality builder. With hopes to empower users, expand creative horizons, and ensure accessibility, Victoria VR is a poised brand that turns the tides in the landscape of virtual reality, all for an altogether immersive and engaging product for the creator and explorer alike. Being a pioneer in the metaverse revolution, Victoria VR brings massive new opportunities for the future of VR.

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Victoria VR, a blockchain Virtual Reality World and AI VR builder developer, today announced the launch of its latest game, VRtap. Designed as a cutting-edge Strategic PvP for Telegram, the new title mixes play-to-earn with strategic PvP battle to connect realistic Virtual Reality gaming to mobile users.

Allowing players to engage in dynamic gameplay by developing unique characters and champions, competing in strategic PvP battles, and gathering valuable resources, the game features an immersive experience that incorporates the principles of the five natural elements of Feng Shui. Players can master and purchase a variety of champion characters, each with unique abilities, and level them up to enhance their skills in battle. Exclusive champion skins and a quest and task system are essential to gameplay, furnishing additional customization.

With strategic PvP battles at the heart of the game, players use spells to outmaneuver and defeat their opponents. Players earn VR Points as both active and passive income from winning battles or mining resources, offering multiple strategies for wealth accumulation in a unique play-to-earn VR environment.

“With the launch of VRtap, we are bringing a new level of strategic gameplay to mobile devices while introducing immersive experiences that our VR games are known for,” said Adam Bém, CEO & Co-Founder at Victoria VR. “Combining the tactical depth of strategic PvP battles with the accessibility of Telegram, we are creating a bridge between mobile and VR gaming. This integration enables our community to engage across platforms in an innovative manner. Additionally, there are rumors that VRtap active users may be rewarded with a completely new category of airdrop, which has never been seen before!”

The Telegram game is a mobile extension of Victoria VR’s PvP Arenas, integrating with the existing VR game to allow players to connect with the community and compete for VR Points.

Play the game here.

About Victoria VR Victoria VR is a blockchain-based Virtual Reality World with Realistic Graphics. It combines MMORPG elements with a revolutionary VR AI Builder, allowing anyone to create their own VR experiences without any coding skills.

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Coins raining down on an umbrella (Getty Images)Lyra’s new offering allows liquid restaking token holders to automate and package any yield-bearing strategy into an ERC-20 token, which can be used elsewhere.Initially, users will be allowed to tokenize basis trade, followed by a covered call strategy later.Decentralized options platform Lyra Finance now allows holders of liquid restaking tokens (LRT) to generate an additional yield. The platform will let holders of LTR earn extra income using automated versions of popular strategies like basis trade and covered calls.

The so-called tokenized derivatives yield product has been launched in partnership with liquid restaking protocols Swell NEtwork and Ether.Fi.

It will help holders of rswETH and eETH tokens earn an annualized percentage yield of 10% to 50%, according to a press release shared with CoinDesk. That’s significantly higher than the 10-year yield of 4.47% on U.S. treasuries, traditional finance’s proxy for the risk-free rate.

rswETH and eETH are native liquid staking tokens of Swell Network and Ether.Fi, respectively. Staking refers to the act of locking cryptocurrencies in a blockchain network in return for rewards.

Liquid restaking protocols, such as Ether.Fi and Swell Network allow users to deposit their ether {{ETH}} or liquid staking tokens like stETH, which are then restaked in EigenLayer. In return, users receive liquid restaking tokens or LRTs, which can be exchanged with ETH at any time.

Users only need to deposit rswETH and eETH in Lyra and mint a yield-bearing derivative token, which then automatically executes a predefined yield-bearing strategy on-chain. In other words, any yield-bearing strategy can be automated and packaged into a composable ERC-20 token, which can be used elsewhere.

“We believe that tokenized derivatives yield is a game-changing primitive that will underpin the bootstrapping of networks and the expansion of sustainable crypto economic markets,” Forster said.

Forster added the total value locked in the restaking protocols could double to $30 billion in the next 12 months, and Lyra stands out as the only protocol providing a new layer of derivatives yield for stakers and restakers.

Initially, users can tokenize basis trade, a popular market-neutral strategy that seeks to profit from discrepancies in two markets. Lyra told CoinDesk that tokenized covered calls will be made available later.

“The basis trade is a delta-neutral strategy that users can execute to earn an extra yield on the tokens that are already generating restaking yield as well as ETH yield,” Nick Forster, co-founder of Lyra Finance, said in an email.

“The covered call strategy involves more risks but uses liquid restaking tokens as collateral to sell ETH calls. So if ETH finishes above the strike price [at which calls are sold], they will potentially have to give up some of their upside but get the USDC yield in return,” Forster added.

The covered call involves selling call options or upside protection at strikes higher than the underlying asset’s going market rate while holding the asset in the spot market. The premium received for selling insurance against bullish moves represents extra yield on top of the spot market holding. Lyra’s self-custodial vaults automate the strategy.

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Flamingo Finance, a DeFi protocol operating on the blockchain NEO, has commenced an exclusive partnership. As per the company, it is joining forces with AlphaNet (a cutting-edge AI forum dealing with crypto trading) to enhance the range of products for consumers. The platform took to its official account on the social media forum X to disclose this endeavor.

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Flamingo Finance Commences an Exclusive Collaboration with AlphaNet In its recent X post, the firm expressed its enthusiasm for the respective development. It pointed out that the firm will provide the consumers with the products that AlphaNet offers. Nonetheless, the platform clarified that the procedure of introducing the respective products would take place gradually. In addition to this, it mentioned that with the help of the products coming from AlphaNet, the Flamingo ecosystem will benefit users.

The Development Includes the Provision of AlphaNet’s Cutting-Edge Services to Flamingo Finance Users It revealed that this development will reportedly enhance the trading operations of the users. In this respect, the users will get trading insights as well as signals to efficiently carry out their on-chain activities. According to Flamingo, the initiative will also bring AI tools to the consumers. As a result of this, the clients will reportedly get an improved trading experience.

AlphaNet operates as an innovative AI system offering crypto trading services. It reportedly consists of a package of AI-based strategies, signals, and insights. With the help of artificial intelligence, it caters to the exclusive requirements of crypto consumers. As included in this collaboration, it will facilitate the Flamingo Finance users with its services.

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A prominent decentralized finance (DeFi) project, Flamingo Finance ($FLM), saw the highest weekly growth on Total Value Locked (TVL). According to data shared by Phoenix Group, which is derived from DeFiLlama, FLM hit a raised TVL of 153%. With a relatively modest market capitalization of $16.5 million, the protocol now has $15.2 million in locked assets.

$SOLV and $NOTE were two of the top gainers after FLM. Total value locked for $SOLV saw a 51.8% increase and currently stands at $1.1 billion. On the other hand, $NOTE gained 45.2% with $10 million in TVL. The native token of QuickSwap, $QUICK, increased by 44%, taking its TVL to $214.3 million. This showed this project’s traction in their ecosystem increasing activity from the user and liquidity side.

Moderate Growth Seen in HYPE, CHESS, Polymarket, and Others Other protocols also grew, but modestly. Accordingly, $HYPE and $CHESS records weekly increases at 21.2% and 19.8%, respectively. $HYPE currently manages $44.6 million locked in assets while $CHESS controls $134.6 million. The next, Polymarket, followed with an 18% increase in TVL, coming in at $31.2 million which does not seem to have a reported market cap figure in the dataset.

$BLUE, $PENDLE, and $LON also observed TVL growth of 15.4%, 13.3%, 11.8%, and 11.4%, respectively. However, $PENDLE and $LON occupied $4.1 billion and $850,700, respectively, in TVL. Though lower in absolutes, these weekly percentage gains show increased momentum in their protocols.

Gradual Growth Continues Among Lower-Ranked Protocols On the lower end, the TVL changes of $VELO, $XCN, $ENA, $ZEUS, and $MORPHO range from 10% to 6.1%. $VELO’s TVL skyrocketed to $103.6 million, and $XCN’s increased to $136.3 million. Another factor worth noting was that $ENA reported a TVL of $5bn and a 9.2% increase in TVL, while ZEUS and $MORPHO had TVL growth of 6.7% and 6.1%, respectively.

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Flamingo Finance Community Lagoon AMA Notes — October 28, 2025

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Flamingo community, below you can read an overview of what the community and team discussed in October’s Community Lagoon AMA on X Spaces.

October’s AMA focused on new frontiers for Flamingo: real-world assets (RWA) and prediction markets. Guests discussed how these on-chain financial products could be built using Flamingo’s existing DeFi infrastructure (Lend, OrderBook+, FUSD).

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Core products remain stable, and the team continues exploring next-generation DeFi use cases for 2026.

Real-World Assets (RWA)RWAs like tokenized Treasury bills, bonds, and commodities are rising in DeFi. Flamingo’s FUSD and modular design make it well-suited for RWA-based lending or trading once the ecosystem matures. Regulatory and oracle challenges remain, but the team is optimistic and researching this direction further.

Prediction MarketsCommunity discussed building prediction markets on Flamingo, where users could stake FUSD or FLM on real-world outcomes. The concept could leverage Orderbook and smart contract pairs for event-based settlements. The team is open to partnerships or community prototypes exploring this idea.

Platform & EcosystemFlamingo Lend and OrderBook+ continue running smoothly after previous upgrades. FLOCKS revenue sharing ongoing with stable weekly distributions. Team is researching new bridge solutions to improve interoperability and UX. Ambassadors are encouraged to lead education and content efforts.

What’s Next for FlamingoNear-term: keep core systems stable, reintroduce Meme-to-Earn events, and publish more educational content. Long-term: potentially expand into RWA integrations, yield-bearing stablecoins, and prediction-based DeFi products.

ASI Alliance launches Cortex — Decentralized AI for industrial needs

Cortex’s volume surged as its price dropped by over 54% on the charts If the trend reversal solidifies itself, CTXC could see a breakout Cortex (CTXC) crypto’s trading volume rose sharply while its price itself declined significantly on the charts. In fact, CTXC’s volume spike was a 4x, in comparison to previous weeks. This was alongside a sharp price drop from a high of approximately $1.05 to a low near $0.37, constituting a fall of around 45%.

CTXC’s ‘orderblock’ at $0.25 historically acted as both support and resistance and at the time of writing, the price seemed to be approaching there. This zone triggered a modest rebound, suggesting some resistance to further declines on the charts.

Source: Trading View Despite the bearish trend, however, the hike in volume accompanying the price drop indicated accumulative activities by traders anticipating potential value.

The MACD indicator pointed to a close convergence and a potential bullish crossover, hinting at possible upward momentum. If this trend reversal solidifies itself, CTXC could register a breakout.

This suggested what the critical area for this potential rally could be if CTXC can sustain itself above the $0.40 resistance level. This is likely to pave the way for a more significant recovery.

Profitability at break even price CTXC’s distribution of addresses based on their profitability, relative to the break-even prices, saw 41.19% in profits. These addresses entered the market at $0.385250.

On the contrary, 57.19% of addresses faced losses with the price points at $0.40 and above up to $0.50, where the largest losses were concentrated. The addresses at break-even were just 1.61%, indicated minimal trading activity.

Source: IntoTheBlock The future market behavior of CTXC could pivot around these levels as addresses in losses could decide to sell if the price approaches their entry points, potentially capping upward price movements.

Conversely, sustained upward trends might convert more addresses to profitability, encouraging a more bullish sentiment in the Cortex market.

CTCX new adoption rate New adoption rate of Cortex saw a notable spike in May 2018, reaching nearly 50%, coinciding with a price peak of approximately $0.30. This trend demonstrated that high adoption rates previously propelled price surges, although this connection lessened over time.

Subsequent spikes in adoption throughout 2019 and 2020 showed a similar, albeit more insignificant, impact on the price. This pointed to diminishing returns from new adoption surges on the asset’s price.

Source: IntoTheBlock By 2024, the adoption rate has steadied around 8.97%, significantly lower than its previous highs. Also, it did not correspond to any notable price changes, as the price stabilized at around $0.80.

This pattern indicated that while early surges in adoption significantly influenced Cortex’s price, the effect has waned. Likely due to market maturation or reduced responsiveness to adoption changes.

If the adoption rate continues to increase, its previous impact on the price suggested that future price movements could no longer correlate strongly with new adoption rates. By extension, this hinted at a decoupling of user growth from direct price incentives.

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Much of the blockchain API plumbing that stablecoins and other crypto applications use will see a 66% reduction in latency.Alchemy’s new “Cortex Engine” architecture reduces average response times from 300-400 milliseconds to less than 50 milliseconds.Stablecoins, the dollar-pegged tokens that now rival the volumes of Visa and Mastercard for international payments, are about to get faster.

While their traditional finance rivals can process upwards of 65,000 transactions a second (TPS), the web of decentralized blockchains in existence today offer a variety of latency values. However, the connections between large chunks of today’s Web3 architecture are about to improve dramatically, according to Alchemy, a blockchain infrastructure firm sometimes described as the “AWS of crypto.”

The firm, which handles data exchange between many decentralized applications, says it has achieved a 66% reduction in delays over crypto’s transaction rails, including much of the plumbing for stablecoins.

Stablecoins may have started out as a way to park money while users traded cryptos or participated in decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, but these days dollar-pegged tokens handle a large flow of payments, rivalling the volumes of the big card networks.

“We power the vast majority of stablecoin issuers (Paxos, Circle, etc.),” said Alchemy CTO Guillaume Poncin in an email. “We do not directly support Tether Holdings Ltd today, but we facilitate a large fraction of activity that relies on USDT for various purposes – whether money movement, or Defi, or trading, or payments.”

Founded by computer scientists from Stanford University back in 2017, Alchemy emerged with developer tools to make it easier to run blockchain nodes at enterprise scale. The firm, which works with the likes of Coinbase, Stripe, JPMorgan and Anchorage, went on to offer programmable links between programs known as APIs, allowing for data indexing, smart contract automation and wallet optimizations.

In terms of actual speed, Alchemy’s new Cortex Engine architecture reduces average response times from 300-400 milliseconds to less than 50 milliseconds, enabling instant settlement experiences that rival traditional payment rails, according to Poncin.

“We all love when things go faster,” Poncin said in an interview. “I think it's easier for people to understand how things are faster, but we also massively improved the throughput, the scale that we can reach, which is incredibly important once we get to the NASDAQ scale of transactions.

Attempting to put this into perspective, around 200 milliseconds is known to be the point below which people don't notice the response time from computers. Previously, the typical response time on a transaction confirmation or on the screen refresh in a wallet app, was of the order of half a second, and now it's 100 milliseconds, Poncin said.

When it comes to throughput, Alchemy has entered the realm of hundreds of thousands of requests per second, which is roughly the scale of very large applications. In terms of running a blockchain node, this has seen a 1000x increase on the throughput of a single node on any one blockchain, he said.

Users will definitely notice improvements, Poncin said, adding: “We rolled this out to some of our users, silently, without telling them we were doing it. I was trying to see what the response would be like. And people were like, ‘Hey, I opened the app this morning and everything is twice as fast. What did you guys do?’”

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