This Week in Crypto Games: Sonic SVM TikTok Airdrop on Solana, MLG Meme Coin Soars – Decrypt

Cryptocurrency and NFT The gaming world is busier than ever these days, with big-name games starting to be released, token airdrops piling up, and other things that always seem to be happening. There's a lot to take in!

Fortunately, decryptionGG is displayed on the entire surface. And if you want a quick way to keep up with the latest developments in crypto video games, we'd be happy to introduce you to our Crypto Game of the Week.

In our weekend roundup, we bring you the biggest news from the past week and some other trivia you may have missed. We also have some original stories from this week.

biggest news

TikTok airdrop: Sonic SVM, a layer 2 gaming chain built on Solana, launched its SONIC token on Tuesday. The peak of the token is Market capitalization is $443 million However, it has since fallen to $277 million. With this, players of the game Sonic X, which can be earned through the project's TikTok taps, can now claim their token allocation. Your billing period ends on the 26th. January 30th.

The game follows the simple tap premise that most games in this genre follow, but innovates by launching the game via TikTok rather than Telegram. This allowed the project to reach more than 2 million players, which Sonic SVM says has proven the project a success. Now, Sonic SVM wants to bring in third-party projects that follow in its footsteps.

Call of Duty meme coins: 360noscope420blazeit (MLG) soared 5,200% in just 6 days Thanks to Call of Duty-themed nostalgia. of Solana Meme coins harken back to the supposed golden age of Call of Duty, before the omnimovement and overly complex killstreaks, or the flood of microtransactions and goofy skins. It's not just the atmosphere. They launched a custom online server for the classic Call of Duty game to bring in a community of crypto gamers.

The approach quickly gathered a cult following, but once members of the iconic esports team FaZe Clan started shilling for the token, the token rose parabolically. Richard “FaZe Banks” Bengtson believed in the token so much that he even got a tattoo of the original MLG logo, Major League Gaming, the organization that was at the center of the Call of Duty esports scene.

Of course, MLG tokens are not officially offered by the Activision-owned tournament organizers, but that hasn't stopped them from recording monster profits. MLG's price peaked at nearly $0.178 at the time of writing, giving it a peak market cap of about $177 million on Saturday. Since then, it has fallen nearly 30%.

Machine Arena on Steam and PS5: Ethereum hero shooter The Machines ArenaPowered by gaming network Ronin, the game is coming to new platforms and will be released on major PC marketplace Steam and PlayStation 5 console. However, both platforms have restrictive encryption policies, so these versions of the game may have no or limited encryption capabilities.

Steam doesn't have any encryption features at all. however, playstation 5 releasesaid David Gracia, Directive Games Design Manager. decryption The company is still in talks with Sony about how cryptographic elements can be implemented. This is notable since we have yet to see a game successfully implement live crypto functionality on PlayStation (Off the Grid's early access had the TestNest blockchain on the backend, but the current There is no player-side blockchain). chain function).

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• Telegram game claims to have surpassed Trump's empire Total number of players: 4 million.
• a stubby penguin game is in development playeris set to launch on abstract.
• Transak goes live on the Ethereum gaming network Ronin Use fiat-to-cryptocurrency infrastructure.
• An AI agent called Jaihoz—Based on Axie Infinity co-founder Jeff ”Jihozu“ Zirlin — launched on Ronin thanks to Virtuals Protocol.
• PIXEL, a token associated with social farming games pixelis set to receive staking Right away.

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Here are some original stories from last week that we think are worth reading over the weekend.

Edited by Andrew Hayward