NFT marketplace OpenSea has acquired mobile-focused Web3 platform Rally in a bid to expand into mobile-first NFT and token trading. As part of the deal, Rally’s co-founders—Chris Maddern (now CTO of OpenSea) and Christine Hall—join OpenSea to help build a mobile app and new DeFi tools launching later this year. This move supports OpenSea’s broader ambition to become a full on-chain platform, integrating more DeFi features and AI-driven tools. Meanwhile, the NFT market continues to decline sharply, with 2025 marking its weakest year yet. Sales dropped from $4B in early 2024 to just $823M in Q2 2025. Despite innovations and platform upgrades like OpenSea’s OS2, interest in NFTs has waned significantly.

So Bravo Ready, the folks behind the "risk-based shooter" BR1: Infinite (where you pay real money to die repeatedly), just acquired Honeyland – a mobile web3 game built on Solana. Terms of the deal? 🤷‍♂️ Completely undisclosed, so we can all just pretend it was a billion-dollar acquisition and call it a day. Honeyland, in case you haven’t been farming bees on the blockchain lately, has racked up 300K lifetime users. Sounds impressive until you realize it’s pulling just 4K daily active players – which in web3 land makes it basically an MMO. Hexagon, the OG devs based in Singapore, raised $4M at a $20M valuation last year. So either Bravo got a bargain or they're really leaning into their "buy low, pray for moon" strategy. Bravo’s big pitch is they’re not just betting on one moonshot game, but building a platform powered by their READY token (because obviously there’s a token). With BR1: Infinite letting you pay $0.10, $0.25, or $1 to spawn and hopefully shoot your way into profit, and Bonk Arena keeping things mini and meme-friendly, Honeyland's bee-themed clickfest just fits, I guess? CEO Evan Ryer says they're not looking for a single breakout hit but building an ecosystem. Translation: “We’ll take anything with NFTs, slap it on Solana, and call it synergy.” Anyway, bullish on bees? Or is this just another step in the slow gamification of losing money? Let me know what y’all think. 🚀🐝💸 TL;DR: Bravo Ready acquired Honeyland. Web3 gaming continues to be the weirdest intersection of venture money, blockchain dreams, and people willingly paying $1 to respawn.

So, Sequence — yeah, the same folks who gave us the web3 TCG SkyWeaver that your cousin probably rage quit — is back. But this time, they’ve traded in card battles for... a single-player resource builder called Flourish Islands. Don't worry, it’s not a pivot to become the next Animal Crossing. This is more of a glorified demo. Why? Because apparently, Sequence is done just making games — now they want to be the devs behind the devs. Their whole angle now is “Hey game devs, you wanna build blockchain stuff without wanting to scream into the void? Use our tools.” Flourish Islands runs on Arbitrum Sepolia (yep, testnet only — so your in-game NFTs are officially worth $0.00, congrats). It's distributed via the Epic Games Store, because that’s where real games live now, right? The twist? Players can log in with regular web2 accounts (no seed phrases, no Metamask-induced headaches), and all the blockchain magic just happens in the background. Their Unreal SDK and Embedded Wallets do the heavy lifting. Sequence’s message is basically: “Look! We put blockchain in a game, and no one died of confusion. Web3 doesn’t have to be a UX disaster.” Honestly, as someone who’s seen more web3 "games" that are just DeFi dashboards with XP bars, this is... not the worst thing. It’s a decent flex, if only to prove web3 games don’t have to make players go full Discord archaeologist mode to understand how to click "Play." TL;DR: Sequence made a sandbox game to prove you can release blockchain games on Epic without turning your players into unpaid QA testers for Metamask. Devs, take notes. Or ignore it and build another staking simulator. 🤷‍♂️ Thoughts? Anyone try it out yet, or are we all just here for the NFTs that aren’t worth anything?

In recent years, professional basketball has embraced the digital world through NFTs and cryptocurrencies, reshaping how fans interact with the game. Platforms like NBA Top Shot pioneered this shift by letting users collect tokenized highlights, with some NFTs selling for over $50,000. Games like Sorare NBA blend fantasy basketball with NFT trading, while leagues like BIG3 offer fans partial team ownership via tokens. Even the MLB is exploring crypto collaborations. These initiatives open new revenue streams, deepen fan engagement, and push forward digital literacy—marking a transformative era where fans can collect, vote, and even co-own parts of the game.

Ah, NFL Rivals. The game that once promised blockchain glory and mobile football fun... but kinda fumbled the bag somewhere between Year 1 and “oh crap, no one’s playing anymore.” So here we are, entering Season 3, and Mythical Games is finally admitting what every new player felt in their soul by the end of the tutorial: “We hit a wall in Year 2.” No kidding. When your team power gap makes the 2023 Panthers look competitive, you might have a retention problem. So what’s the solution? Easy: delete everyone's base cards, hand out some Training Points as a consolation prize (kinda like airline miles after your flight gets cancelled), and force everyone to start over—but shinier. Key "Improvements" in Season 3:Base cards? Gone. R.I.P. to the free-to-play dreams. New cards? Locked by default. Can’t trade, can’t sell, just vibes... until you level them up and burn a Mint Token. Want to upgrade your cards? Burn other cards. Including NFTs. Yes, let’s light up that $50 card you pulled last month for a +3 Power Boost. Totally sustainable. And don’t worry—if you’re eyeing that 150-power Legendary Pat Mahomes, you’re gonna need… more Pat Mahomes cards. Or Rank Up Tokens. Or, you know, your soul. Oh, and Stadiums Mode is coming too! Real-time PvP, wagers, skill-based matchmaking. AKA: prepare to lose coins, time, and probably a bit of your sanity grinding for Trophies just to unlock a medium-difficulty stadium that still feels like you’re playing against a Madden AI on Adderall. Let’s not forget the real MVP: the NFT monetization engine (aka Mythical’s actual game). They’re doubling down on it, encouraging everyone to mint more cards, burn more NFTs, and keep the $MYTH printing press humming. Because if you’re not turning your cards into NFTs, are you even playing NFL Rivals correctly? Anyway, good luck in Season 3, degenerates. Hope you’ve been stocking up on Mint Tokens, Card XP, and perhaps a mild addiction to gambling mechanics. Just remember: if it feels like you're playing an NFT ponzi with a football skin... you're not wrong, you're just early. LFG 🚀🏈🔥 TL;DR: Mythical Games is reshuffling NFL Rivals into a more aggressive NFT-burning, wallet-churning machine in Season 3. Base cards are out, card burning is in, and free-to-play just got even less free.

So apparently Lumiterra decided to stop playing it cool and just go full degen with their MegaDrop Part 1 campaign — aka "bribe the entire internet with LUMI to do stuff in-game and on Kaito." And guess what? It’s working. Like, really working. They've opened the LUMI floodgates — well, 10% of it anyway — and are rewarding people for everything from staking pixelated loot to climbing the Yapper leaderboard on Kaito (which, by the way, is basically Twitter but if Twitter paid you in coins no one understands yet). And the best part? You no longer have to download a sketchy-looking PC client from 2023 to play. It runs in browser now. Wild. You can literally farm mystery boxes and fragments on your work computer while pretending to do spreadsheets. As a result, onchain activity on Ronin is exploding — like, over 600K daily active wallets, making up more than half of ALL Ronin activity. It's like everyone collectively decided Axie Infinity was too chill. If this madness continues, Lumiterra’s gonna break its previous ATH of 759,922 DAUWs from July 2024. And frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if they airdrop us for just refreshing the dashboard at this point. Anyway, I’m staking my pixel cow and writing mediocre posts on Kaito for those sweet LUMI crumbs. Not financial advice, but hey — free is free. TL;DR: Lumiterra’s giving away LUMI like it’s Halloween candy, everyone’s logging in, and Ronin’s chain is working overtime. Good times.

Ethereum NFT collection Chimpers is expanding beyond digital with its first physical product: plush keychain blind boxes. The brand is collaborating with Web3 incubator 223 to launch Series 1 exclusively through the 223 marketplace, with retail expansion planned. Each blind box includes NFC tech that unlocks an NFT collectible on Ethereum’s Base layer. Backed by over 1.8 million followers, Chimpers aims to deepen fan connection and emulate the success of Pudgy Penguins’ physical merchandise. Pre-sale access will be available for current NFT holders, with purchases in fiat or crypto.

So, in today’s episode of “Web3: Now With More Chains,” Gunzilla Games (yeah, the same folks who built their own blockchain — GUNZ, running on Avalanche) have decided, “You know what? Let’s hop onto Solana too.” Yep, starting Thursday, July 10th, you can bridge your precious $GUN tokens over to Solana if you’re feeling spicy. Not mandatory though — which is great, because nothing screams “streamlined Web3 experience” like choosing between three different chains to manage your stuff. 🙃 Honestly, this move feels a bit like building your own restaurant, then deciding to set up a food truck in someone else’s parking lot because that’s where the customers are. Can’t blame them though — Solana is the land of memecoins and degen liquidity, aka “massive die-hard community” if you're quoting PR. To be fair, this could be a smart play. The U.S. user accessibility angle checks out, and if you're chasing that sweet, sweet player base for Off The Grid (still moving from testnet to mainnet, slowly but surely), visibility on Solana might help more than quietly vibing on GUNZ. Oh — and don’t worry, Gunzilla’s regulated custodial wallet (because why not add some TradFi spice to your crypto taco) is in its “final stage.” Whatever that means. Also: 21K wallets already on mainnet, but a casual 16.8 million more are apparently waiting to migrate. NBD. Just your average queue at the DMV — if the DMV had laser guns and NFTs. TL;DR: $GUN token expanding to Solana. You can bridge tokens from July 10 — but don’t have to. Gunzilla wants in on the Solana clout and liquidity. Off The Grid mainnet migration incoming. Wallet upgrades, new drops, and imminent partnerships on the way™. Let’s see if this is a 200 IQ multichain strategy or just more fuel for the "Why Is My Token on Five Chains Now?" fire. 🚀🧯

Well well well... look who just swung back into the App Store jungle. SaruTobi — that old monkey-flinging game that got the boot for daring to use The Forbidden Crypto (Bitcoin) back in 2013 — is back. And this time, it's not just slinging primates... it's slinging sats. Yup. Actual Bitcoin microtransactions on iOS.Not fake tokens. Not monkey-bucks. Real, spendable sats. On. An. iPhone. 😲 The game now runs on ZBD's Lightning-powered system, meaning you can earn sats while flinging your digital chimp into the abyss. And then — here's the kicker — you can spend those sats inside the game on upgrades, boosts, whatever. Or send 'em to your ZBD wallet and save them like a true degen stacking for the next bull run. To put it in perspective:1 dollar = 920 sats (as of today)Each sat = 0.92¢So yeah, we’re officially monetizing fractions of pennies in games now. What a time to be alive. Apparently, Apple gave this whole idea the green light. Which is kinda wild considering they’ve had tighter control over in-app payments than the Fed does over interest rates. But hey — guess regulatory winds are shifting, and someone at Apple finally decided, “Yeah, let’s let the monkey game handle real Bitcoin.” ZBD’s CTO is calling it a “historic shift” and says this tech could rewrite game monetization entirely. And honestly? He's not wrong. Programmable, borderless payments in-game? No more devs begging users to drop $9.99 for 100 gems. Now it's earn to play, not pay to win. So what's next? FlappyBird 2.0 with on-chain staking? Candy Crush NFTs?Either way, welcome to the next level of game-fi. And remember kids: stack sats, fling monkeys, and never fade the Lightning Network. ⚡🐒 Let the microtransaction wars begin.

Ethereum NFT collection Chimpers is expanding beyond digital with its first physical product: plush keychain blind boxes. The brand is collaborating with Web3 incubator 223 to launch Series 1 exclusively through the 223 marketplace, with retail expansion planned. Each blind box includes NFC tech that unlocks an NFT collectible on Ethereum’s Base layer. Backed by over 1.8 million followers, Chimpers aims to deepen fan connection and emulate the success of Pudgy Penguins’ physical merchandise. Pre-sale access will be available for current NFT holders, with purchases in fiat or crypto.