#41 - July 2024 Development update
Welcome to the 17th official newsletter from Merit Circle.
Welcome to the official newsletter from Merit Circle.
In our previous newsletter, we covered the Water Toren event, showed our latest treasury report, a wide range of new games building on Beam and shared some news around Sophon. Since then, we have more games committed to Beam, Sophon has opened the doors to all $BEAM holders and a lot more!
Important: the $MC token is migrating to $BEAM – This requires all holders to migrate their tokens on meritcircle.io/migrate – Full article here.
Read on for a summary of what’s been happening and what’s to come…
Sophon launches $BEAM farming
Sophon, the entertainment-focused ecosystem built as a modular rollup leveraging zkSync's technology, has opened their farming period. The Sophon Farm is designed to allow users to contribute to Sophon's growth while earning rewards.
As the very first farm to open, $BEAM token holders can deposit their tokens to earn Sophon Points. As a result, over 200M in BEAM has been deposited so far.
Beam Goes Gamescom
With excitement, we invite you to an exclusive evening event at Gamescom on August 21st, 2024. We’re thrilled to gather everyone from gamers, marketers, and investors to game developers with one shared passion: gaming.
Tickets and more information can be found here.
$MC to $BEAM token migration
We’re getting closer to the October deadline with only a few percentages of $MC that has yet to migrate over to $BEAM. As of today, 96.7% of all tokens have been migrated over, and only 21,171,595 $MC remain untouched.
Still have your $MC? Migrate today at meritcircle.io/migrate.
Merit Circle Water Toren 2.0 presentations
On the 11th of May this year, we invited everyone in Amsterdam for our annual community event. It was a lovely gathering filled with gaming, networking and a ton of chatter about the future of Beam. The future-vision is best explained in the video above, with three presentations by Marco, Steven and Doron.
New games building on Beam
We’re thrilled to continuously have a large influx of exciting games joining the Beam network. Following names such as TrialXtreme, Forgotten Playland, Castle of Blackwater, Edenhorde and many others we have recently added a variety of new games.
Forgotten Playland Summer Roadmap
Starting off strong on the 30th of May, Forgotten Playland is all hands-on-deck this summer. There’s a lot happening behind the scenes, and since the first public launch in May, two new games have been added to the game. It’s all fun and games, but there’s a ton more in the works, that will be revealed on that big day, the 26th of September.
Try the game yourself, available on Hyperplay!
Introducing Flayer
As a result of the merger between NFTX and FloorDAO, with the assistance of Merit Circle, ƒlayer has been brought to life. ƒlayer protocol is a novel solution for providing fungible liquidity to non-fungible token (NFT) collections. We’re thrilled to reveal what’s been cooking in the background for the past couple of months in the upcoming quarter.
🔗 Discover more: flayer.io
📖 Whitepaper: flayer.io/whitepaper
“What I saw in 2010 with mobile, I’m seeing again now”: BoomLand CEO Hannibal Soares on why blockchain is the future of gaming
What happens when the founder of a publicly traded gaming studio with over 350 employees and more than 2 billion total downloads enters the web3 gaming market? We sat down with Hannibal Soares who, with Hunters On Chain, is doing just that.
Read the full article here.
Together, we grow
Another two months have passed with tons of new games committed to either build on the Beam network, or use the Beam products and launch on Sphere. We’re seeing more games experiment with the SDK, ramping up for further deployment of their account solutions and more, on-chain.
Again, thanks everyone for your support. Together, we’re changing the game!
Our next newsletter will be sent early July 2024.