Skill Tree #11 - March 19
Arbitrum airdrop, MapleStory's web3 strategy, Immutable teases big announcement, and more!
🔥 Highlight
Arbitrum airdrop on March 23. you can already check your allocation here.
The token airdrop marks the launch of the Arbitrum DAO. Teams can apply to be granted a license to build their own L2 with Arbitrum’s tech stack. The Decision is done by the DAO
Layer 3s can be built on top of Arbitrum chains permissionessly (Arbitrum Orbit). Orbit L3 chains will also support the upcoming release of Arbitrum Stylus, which will allow developers to use the C, C++, and Rust programming languages for their chains, in addition to Solidity and other EVM languages.
Arbitrum will make use of self-executing DAO Governance and established a Security Council for time-sensitive security tasks.
Arbitrum users and projects with DAO treasuries are eligible for the token airdrop. 12.75% of the ARB token supply will be airdropped on March 23.
📰 News
Immutable teases big news to be revealed at GDC on monday [🔗 Link]
MapleStory reveals web3 plans [🔗 Link]
thecoreloop coming in clutch with a breakdown
Epic Games Store has nearly 20 web3 games in its pipeline [🔗 Link]
Epic Games is also getting ready to push its mobile apps
LimitBreak acquires FreeNFT [🔗 Link]
Paradise Tycoon runs Genesis Chest mint and directly adds utility for their NFTs to the game (home decoration, pets) [🔗 Link]
Zeeverse joins TreasureDAO [🔗 Link]
Tollan Worlds is coming to Immutable [🔗 Link]
Jungle raises $6m seed round led by Bitkraft and Framework Ventures to build a mobile extraction shooter [🔗 Link]
📚 Education
Value accrual case study: Yuga Labs [🔗 Link]
Questions about web 2.5 gaming [🔗 Link]
Maverick Capital categorizes crypto gaming into genres and stack layers to identify red and blue oceans
Unity Gaming Industry Report 2023 [🔗 Link]
State of mobile gaming marketing [🔗 Link]
Building virtual worlds with generative AI [🔗 Link]
a16z about AI for games [🔗 Link]
Podcast: Shima Capital’s Investment strategy [🔗 Link]
🕵️ New projects
Shiba Shiba Doge
Twitter: @ShibaShibaDogeG
Online multiplayer social deduction game developed by Chainge Games. WL hunt has started.
Delabs Games
Twitter: @delabsOfficial
New game studio founded by former Nexon CEO Joonmo Kwon. First game: Rumble Racing Star (cart game). Other games: Space Frontier (survival game), Meta Bolts. Mint details for Delabs Adventure Pass are coming soon.
Rogue Star
Twitter: @ScifiRogueStar
Sci-fi ARPG