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Here’s what we got for you this week:

• Trikon token launch is imminent

• Best play-to-airdrop opportunities

• Market commentary

Let’s get started!

Trikon Token Launch is Imminent

The moment y’all been waiting for is finally here. Trikon is getting ready to launch its token, $TRK. The token will play a crucial role in the Trikon ecosystem that will be home to several top-notch Web3 games. It will help with purchasing of in-game assets, governance proposals, and many more activities. 

Over the last couple of years, we have been heads down building some of the best gaming solutions to make the lives of players and developers easier. We have built a one-of-a-kind gaming wallet that supports new modes of verification where the player never has to worry about seed phrases and private keys. 

In addition, we are supporting players by abstracting gas fees and enabling developers to easily sponsor it for players. With our customised paymaster, developers can use different gas fee policies to improve engagement and implement unique campaigns. 

With our evolving product suite, we are really excited to bring the benefits of $TRK to our community and add more utility to the platform. To get started, we encourage you to participate in our airdrop campaign on Zealy and climb the leaderboards.

We have many things planned leading up to our token launch. We want to keep it as fair and transparent as possible. So stay tuned for more updates and get ready to experience a new way to play in Web3 gaming.

Best Play-to-Airdrop Opportunities

The gaming market is heating up. Projects are raising new rounds of funding, hinting at dropping tokens with play-to-airdrop events. But how do you select which ones to farm when there’s a new one dropping every other day? 

There’s no secret to finding the best farms. However, you can maximise airdrop rewards by finding protocols and games that you actually like to use and play. For example, most users of Soalan dApps never thought about rewards last year. They simply used it for their needs and got rewarded. The same can be applied for games, although it has gotten more saturated to farm anything these days. 

Nonetheless, I want to share a few games and projects that are good to farm now as they just began their airdrop campaigns. First up, there is Xterio Games. They have socialfi campaigns, similar to BlockGames and Portal. You have to mention $XTER and tag their account to farm points. It can be annoying to farm this way, but we have all seen how successful and rewarding it can be.

Pirate Nation is another project that really interests me. They announced booty points and season 1 will be live soon. It is a pirate-themed RPG, so you can simply play the game and earn points. I tried out the game and it’s actually really good. You can win a couple battles every day and farm a good amount of points. Feels like a no brainer.

Illuvium recently raised a new round of funding and hinted at an airdrop campaign. It is expected to kick off on 28th May. To get a headstart, try to get into the private beta. Spellborne is another game that’s going to do an airdrop campaign but details are yet to be revealed.

Market Commentary

The market is looking really healthy again. Funding has cooled down and ETF flows are consistent. We got a clean reclaim of the previous ATH and aim to put new highs this week. The first thing that stands out is the outperformance of ETH here. We may see this continue in the coming weeks. 

Despite the market being sideways for most part, the excitement hasn’t budged a bit. This is mainly because of the new tokens launching every other week. We saw ENA and W reward users tens of thousands of dollars in airdrops. This will have second order effects where investors try to reprice similar protocols that are lagging. 

TNSR is another token launching this week that will capture attention. If successful, it can help start a new run for Solana NFTs. If you’re a trader, the opportunity I see is comparing valuations of top marketplaces in the space. For example, if TNSR launches at multi-billion mcap, it is good to long BLUR because it is sitting below 1 billion now. 

Besides airdrops, the current theme of interest is social applications like FriendTech. The team announced $FRIEND will be the ticker. Many top influencers are going back to farm more points and increase the value of their keys. This can be the top meta for coming months as many new social platforms are going live on their mainnets.

• Pirate Nation season 1 is going live soon and players can start earning booty points for future rewards.

• Elixir raised $14 million in seed round funding from Square Enix, Solana Foundation, and Shima Capital. 

• Planet Mojo raised $10.5 million in a new strategic funding round from Animoca Brands, Merit Circle, and Courtside VC. 

• GAM3S revealed details of their airdrop, rewarding NFT holders, questers, and several partner communities. 

• Kaidro Chronicle’s spark suit NFT mint goes live on 9th April on Ronin blockchain.

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