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Pumpville has pushed a sizeable live update headlined by the launch of its in game marketplace, which is now running in a testing phase using in game coins before any transition to the projects $PUMPVILLE token. Alongside the marketplace rollout, the team shipped a broad batch of fixes focused on performance, security, and smoother logins, plus a long list of gameplay quality of life improvements that touch fishing, resource gathering, enemy spawns, and social features. Several map areas were also refreshed, including the town square and docks, while new zones like a beach area and snowy forest replace prior seasonal content.

ZBD has closed a 40 million dollar Series C round backed by Blockstream Capital Partners, positioning the company to scale its Bitcoin Lightning powered payments stack deeper into games and adjacent creator economy use cases. The funding is aimed at expanding embedded rewards, broadening payments infrastructure, and accelerating licensing driven market access across North America, Europe, Latin America, and APAC. ZBD says the objective is to make earning and spending real value feel like a native part of gameplay, without adding friction or breaking immersion.

Nexira DAEP has rolled out Plot & Bloom as a new tactical duel mode inside Celestial Garden, positioning it as a faster, mind game style format where players compete across a fixed set of rounds. The mode centers on simple decision sequencing and direct player versus player outcomes, with Ruby rewards tied to match results. Ruby is Nexira’s reward point system that ultimately maps to the project’s broader token distribution mechanics, meaning wins can translate into larger reward positioning over time.

Saga has paused its SagaEVM chainlet while it investigates and remediates a security incident that the team says involved a coordinated sequence of contract deployments, cross chain activity, and liquidity withdrawals. Based on Saga’s current forensic findings, roughly $7,000,000 in assets including USDC, yUSD, ETH, and tBTC were transferred out and bridged to Ethereum mainnet. Saga says the broader network remains structurally sound and that there has been no consensus failure or validator compromise, with the pause framed as a safety first move while mitigation work is completed.

Immortal Rising 2 has published a new developer letter outlining a broad rebuild of its core gameplay systems, with changes targeting progression clarity, build diversity, and long term grind incentives. The update direction includes a full skill system renewal, a revamped guide quest flow, the introduction of a new Earth attribute, and the expansion of high end growth materials with new U5 and U6 grade Arcane Stones. The team also confirmed that long requested cosmetic and companion features are in active development, including a sequential rollout of a Skin System and a new Pet System designed to fight alongside players.

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OpenSea has partnered with MetaMask Rewards Season 1 to distribute MetaMask points based on where users finished in the most recent “Wave” of OpenSea’s rewards program. The drop is tied to OpenSea chest tiers, meaning eligible wallets may already have MetaMask points waiting once they opt in through MetaMask. The move effectively links OpenSea’s past activity-based rewards positioning to MetaMask’s new season-based points system, creating another on-ramp for users who are already active across NFT marketplaces and onchain apps.

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