Nifty News: Dan Harmon’s NFT show set for season 3, NFT-friendly Square Enix CEO steps down and more…

Krapopolis, the NFT-affiliated cartoon bid from Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon has been renewed for a 3rd play by Fox, contempt play 1 not adjacent airing yet.

The Krapopolis squad announced the renewal via Twitter successful March. 2, and emphasized that NFT holders tin inactive prosecute with the amusement earlier it airs.

Speaking to Deadline connected March. 2, Michael Thorn, Fox’s president of scripted programming noted that “We’re truthful bullish astir the enactment that we privation to enactment and its quality to find an assemblage and succeed,” arsenic helium emphasized his religion successful Harmon. “While [a 3rd play order] is atypical, it was a no-brainer for america with Krapopolis,” helium added.

Krapopolis is an animated drama acceptable successful past Greece that follows a “flawed household of humans, gods and monsters that effort to tally 1 of the world’s archetypal cities without sidesplitting each other.”

The lawsuit includes immoderate large names specified arsenic Richard Ayode, Matt Berry, Pam Murphy, Duncan Trussell and Hannah Waddingham.

The bid is produced by Fox Corp’s NFT steadfast Blockchain Creative Labs, which besides provided the NFT-related elements for the show.

The NFTs themselves are called “Krap Chickens” and picture cartoon chickenhearted avatars successful the aforesaid benignant of creation arsenic the show. There are 10,420 tokens successful total, with immoderate inactive up for mint astatine 0.18 Ether (ETH).

Krap Chickens: Krapopolis

Holders are fixed exclusive entree to experiences, content, rewards and voting rights connected definite aspects of the show.

Square Enix’s CEO steps down

Square Enix’s NFT-friendly CEO Yosuke Matsuda is stepping down aft astir 10 years astatine the helm of the steadfast down the Fantasy franchise.

In a March notification of institution changes, Square Enix outlined that Takashi Kiryu volition instrumentality implicit the relation of CEO from Matsuda. The determination won't officially beryllium finalized until an yearly shareholders gathering successful May however.

While Web 3 and NFTs weren’t referenced explicitly successful the notification, the steadfast did bespeak that it is inactive looking to propulsion connected with caller tech integrations, suggesting its blockchain-related plans whitethorn stay unhindered.

“Under the accelerated alteration of concern situation surrounding the amusement industry, the projected alteration is intended to reshape the absorption squad with the extremity of adopting ever-evolving technological innovations and maximizing connected the creativity of the Company’s group,” the filing read.

During his clip astatine Square Enix, Matsuda outlined bullish sentiments connected Web3 gaming connected respective occasions.

In a New Year’s missive from Jan. 1 successful particular, Matsuda emphasized Square Enix had devoted “aggressive concern and concern improvement efforts” towards the abstraction successful 2022, and would proceed to bash truthful successful 2023.

“Following the excitement and exhilaration that surrounded NFTs and the metaverse successful 2021, 2022 was a twelvemonth of large volatility successful the blockchain-related space,” helium mentioned successful the note, adding that:

“However, if this proves to person been a measurement successful a process that leads to the instauration of rules and a much transparent concern environment, it volition decidedly person been for the bully of the maturation of blockchain entertainment.”

Under Mastuda’s leadership, Square Enix rolled retired tokenized Final Fantasy quality collectibles successful July 2022 and partnered with the Oasys blockchain gaming project successful September. In December, the steadfast also invested $52.7 million into mobile crippled developer Gumi Games, to assistance make mobile-based play-to-earn titles.

Mint Madness

Multi-chain NFT marketplace Magic Eden has launched a “Mint Madness” run that offers escaped access, oregon “free mints” to 13 Web3 games successful March.

Mint Madness went live connected March. 3, and the sanction is simply a motion to the celebrated NCAA assemblage hoops tourney dubbed "March Madness" which sees astir 67 hoops games crammed into the month.

The blockchain games are dispersed crossed Polygon, Ethereum and Solana, with nine, 3 and 1 apiece respectively. Magic Eden is besides offering a 20,000 Polygon (MATIC) prize excavation worthy astir $23,200.

The prizes volition spell to the apical 10 traders of the NFTs related to 9 of the caller games based connected Polygon, with the apical prize fetching 4,500 MATIC ($5,220).

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The afloat database of disposable games during the promo includes Planet Mojo, Meta Star Strikers, Alaska Gold Rush, Shrapnel, Petobots, Blast Royale, Rogue Nation, Tearing Spaces, Freckle Trivia, Realm Hunter, Legendary: Heroes Unchained, Shrapnel, and Papu Superstars.

Disney-backed studio’s sell-out drop

Nine-time Emmy Award-winning, Disney-backed Baobab Studios sold retired its archetypal postulation of 8,888 NFTs successful conscionable 9 hours aft motorboat connected March. 2.

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The cartoon avatar-focused driblet is called “Momoguro” and is tied to an upcoming role-playing (RPG) crippled connected layer-2 Ethereum scaling solution, Immutable X.

The crippled itself has breeding elements, on with quests successful a satellite named “Uno Plane,” with NFTs being a cardinal portion of the gaming experience.

According to information from CryptoSlam, the NFTs person generated $8.1 cardinal worthy of secondary income to date, with $7.6 cardinal of that coming connected the time of launch.

Other Nifty News:

Layer-1 Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) blockchain Flare welcomed its first NFT platform, aft Sparkles went unrecorded connected March. 2. The level is acceptable to hone successful connected the interoperability of autochthonal Flare protocols to summation usage cases for NFT utility.

On March. 1, Trading level Robinhood launched its Web3 wallet connected Apple’s App Store, becoming disposable to iOS users successful implicit 130 countries.