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MegaETH has rolled out Wave 3 of its Terminal apps platform, adding five new applications to the points-and-boosters ecosystem. The new lineup includes AveForge (the mech arena game incubated by BadBunnz), Offshore Protocol, Stomp, and two additional apps. Players can now boost their preferred Wave 3 apps weekly with a rocket and follow the actions listed in Terminal to start earning points toward the MEGA airdrop, with the rollout extending the engagement loop kicked off by Season 1's launch in late April.

LOL Land has rolled out Leaderboard 2.0, a sweeping rework of the casual degen board game's competitive layer. The new structure splits competition across four independent leagues built around different multiplier tiers, lets players stack points across multiple leaderboards simultaneously, and expands the rewards bracket from Top 5 to Top 10 finishers depending on the league. The weekly prize pool sits at roughly $1,200 distributed across all tiers, with weekly resets ending Sundays at 2 PM SGT, 3 PM KST, and 6 AM UTC.

Cambria has published the full whitepaper for its upcoming Dungeons mode, with invite-only early access opening May 14 at 7am PT. The Diablo-style onchain dungeon crawler runs on USDC stakes, with 10 Keys equal to $1 USDC. Players pick a class, stake Keys, push through up to 8 randomized floors, defeat bosses, collect Artifacts, and find Corrupted Tomes that raise the Reward Multiplier up to 15x. Weekly USDC payouts flow from Dungeon Coins, Reward Multiplier, and Keys staked, with rare Ruined Diamonds capable of triggering large USDC jackpots.

NEAR Protocol has officially confirmed the integration of FIPS-204 (ML-DSA), the NIST-approved post-quantum signature standard, into the network. Account holders can rotate their keys to become quantum-safe with a single transaction, leveraging NEAR's account-based architecture rather than requiring a hard fork or coordinated mass migration. The rollout extends quantum-safe Chain Signatures to more than 35 external chains through NEAR's existing cross-chain infrastructure, positioning the network as a quantum-safe signing environment for the broader Web3 ecosystem.

Sleepagotchi has launched a new Loyalty Program at hub.sleepagotchi.com ahead of its long-awaited Token Generation Event. Users can now earn Sleep Points to become eligible for the upcoming airdrop, with the studio framing the launch as a structured countdown to TGE. The Sleep-to-Earn mobile app combines sleep tracking with idle RPG mechanics, and the new Hub gives players a centralized destination to convert engagement into airdrop allocation ahead of the $SHEEP token launch.

MegaETH has gone live with Terminal, its new points platform built around a city-style live app map. Season 1 runs from April 28 to June 23 across 8 weeks, with App Wave 2 opening on April 30 alongside the long-awaited MEGA token generation event. Players can pick up to 3 apps weekly, only those benefit from booster multipliers, and Fluffle NFT holders stack additional ecosystem-aligned multipliers. The Terminal launch is positioned as the first wave players need to clear by April 30 ahead of the TGE.

Gala Games has launched the exclusive alpha release of Mirandus: Eternal Night, opening the gates to its persistent 3D hex-based exploration and auto-battler RPG. Players step into the Echo Realm as Echoes to test the core gameplay loop of explore, risk, gather, and return alive, with Energy and HP management as the core survival mechanics. The Store, a massive new Boss Event, and Mirandus NFT support are all coming soon, with this phase positioned as the head start to stockpile resources before everything scales.

Visa has officially added Base, Coinbase's Ethereum Layer 2, to its global stablecoin settlement pilot. The expansion brings the program to nine supported blockchains and pushes the annualized stablecoin settlement run rate to $7 billion, up 50 percent in a single quarter. Base joins Polygon, Canton, Arc, and Tempo as the five newest additions to the pilot, with the move positioned as a structural step toward making onchain payments a daily reality for billions of people.

May 2026 might be the busiest month crypto gaming has ever had, and we're not exaggerating. From Ronin's migration to a full Ethereum Layer 2, to a $50,000 Lamborghini-themed esports tournament kicking off, to a brand new Diablo-style mainnet launch, every game on this list has a specific, dateable event happening in May. These are the top 5 play to earn games 2026 has lined up to watch right now. Five blockchain games across five different chain ecosystems, all with real activity and real player numbers behind them.

The Solana Foundation has confirmed that core developer teams have aligned on Falcon as the network's post-quantum digital signature scheme. Anza and Jump Crypto's Firedancer studied migration paths independently and reached the same result, with early implementations already published on GitHub. The Foundation outlined a phased three-step roadmap covering research, new wallet rollout, and eventual migration of existing wallets, while flagging Blueshift's Solana Winternitz Vault as a quantum-resistant primitive that has been live on the network for over two years.