Web3 Game Takes Top Spot In App Store

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Today we have

  • Web3 game hits #1 in the app store

  • The coldest crypto wallet ever

  • ChatGPT on iOS

  • The Sneakies

  • Funded Gems

Web3 Game Takes Top Spot In App Store

The moment has finally arrived. A web3 game made it to the top spot on the Apple App Store. šŸ„³

And that game is not Axie. Itā€™s Cross The Ages, Trading Card Game (TCG) on Immutable.

Ok, it was #1 in the Strategy Games category in France, but thatā€™s still pretty impressive. Just look at the games it beat.

So far, they claim to have 100k+ downloads and 50k+ community players, according to their website.

Why this is a big milestone

Remember when no sprinter could go sub 10 seconds until Jim Hines in 1968? Now that barrier has been broken 149 times. We might be getting exactly that for web3 games.

Itā€™s moments like this thatā€™ll start the true rise of web3 games.

The Coldest Crypto Storage Ever

Ledger created Ledger Recovery, now you canā€™t trust them?

Well, someone swung to the other end creating the coldest, iciest crypto storage ever. This is the very reason we love crypto. No walled garden sh*t here.

So whatā€™s this storage?

Itā€™s a GameBoy turned crypto wallet byĀ Joseph Schiarizzi on Twitter. My childhood dream handheld device is now a wallet šŸ˜Š.

The dev is calling it Game Wallet, and it converts any GameBoy you have collecting dust into a secure offline wallet.

What we know

  • You get a physical cartridge that lets you use your GameBoy as a cold storage. With it, you can create and save your seed phrase securely offline.

  • Once you have inserted the cartridge, you create your seed phrase by completing quests like an RPG.

  • Then you chat with an NPC that provides your seed phrase generated by a hash of your first 500 button presses.

  • Unlike most hardware wallets, there is no firmware update ever! No Pokemon-style evolution for this one.

  • Since the GameBoy lacks any internet connection whatsoever, itā€™s the coldest storage you can get.

  • Originally started as a side project, but now itā€™s going open-source with KeyP.

Lootbringerā€™s take

When people say blockchains change ā€œDonā€™t be evilā€ to ā€œCanā€™t be evilā€, this is exactly why. Ledgerā€™s new release of Ledger Recovery got quite a few people concerned, then this drops?

Stuff like this would never happen in the walled gardens of Meta and Google.

If youā€™ve got a GameBoy you want to convert, this is where to go https://www.gamewallet.gg/.

ChatGPT Is Coming To iOS

ChatGPT comes to iOS, and it didnā€™t waste time being the #1 Productivity app on the App Store.

Just looking at the top 10, AI is on a tear at the moment, with 6 out of the 10 apps being AI apps.

Looking to the day itā€™s crypto apps up there.

The Sneakies

Funded Gems

  • Odsy Foundation raised $7.5 million to improve crypto wallet security by making private keys only one piece of the data required to sign transactions rather than the only one.

  • Community-owned game publishing platform World Play League raises an undisclosed amount for a pre-seed round from Genesis Vault Capital.

  • Future Twitch competitor Rooter raises $16 million for its game streaming platform to strengthen its tech capabilities.

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