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Anichess has told players to claim their M8 from both staking pools by Sunday, September 13, 2026 at 23:59 UTC. The deadline comes as the spell chess title completes its return to Base after nearly a year on Abstract. M8 functions as the game's onchain points layer, earned through weekly matches and CHECK staking rather than bought. Unclaimed balances need to move before the transition closes.

Big Time is launching Big Time Rewards on Monday, September 14, 2026, distributing 10,000 USD in rewards every month. Players complete daily objectives to qualify and build toward larger prize pools across daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly tiers. Payouts come in Time Crystals and BIGTIME tokens. A new Rewards Leaderboard is live now on the official site.

Moku has detailed the mechanics coming to Grand Arena Season 2, replacing constant lineup management with portfolio building around tokenized shares of Mokis. Mokiball becomes the automated game AI Mokis play, with each Moki's stats determining performance. The season runs around four weeks with weekly payouts and reduced fees. A portion of Grand Arena revenue will be used to purchase Schiffy.

Nike is now tradeable on Solana as a tokenized equity issued by Backpack Securities and listed through Sunrise. The token represents real shares held in custody and remains redeemable 1:1 for the underlying stock, trading around the clock rather than on market hours. Sunrise listings now total 40 tokens on Solana, with 14 tokenized stocks accounting for 1.5 billion USD in cumulative spot volume. The listing puts one of the largest consumer brands in the world onchain.

The Sandbox has opened its compensation claim process for holders affected by the August 22 bridge exploit. Anyone holding legitimately bridged SAND on Base or BNB Smart Chain before the incident is eligible for full 1:1 compensation in SAND on Ethereum. The claim window runs from September 8 to September 22, 2026 at 4 PM UTC, and requires a single transaction with no approvals or signatures. Exchange held balances are handled directly without user action.

A score decides this list, not an opinion. Our platform tracks thousands of blockchain games and keeps a single number on each one, and on September 1 these five held the highest marks in our September ranking of play to earn games 2026. Four of the five open straight in a browser tab with no download, two of them have Android builds if you would rather install, and the chain split is four on Solana and one on Ronin. Stay for the whole countdown and you will see what each of these crypto games actually asks of you before it gives anything back.

Decentraland has opened Creator Success, a funding programme that pays creators to build games inside the virtual world. The first stage grants 1,000 USD for proving a core game loop, with a second stage worth 3,100 USD for building the first playable version. New AI Game Design Skills help turn a rough concept into a structured Game Design Document covering the core loop, social play, retention, and scope. Applications are open to the public now.

Every game in this countdown has a real Ethereum footprint we checked by hand: mainnet tokens, bridgeable land deeds, or payouts that land in an external wallet. From a AAA creature franchise to a mining sim that has run since 2017, these are the blockchain games worth your time on Ethereum right now, and a fair look at what each one asks before it pays. If you are hunting play to earn games 2026 that actually stayed alive, start here.

Polygon does not get much attention, so most of the games that pay on it get missed. We ranked every one listed on our platform and kept the top five: a farming MMO reporting more than 700,000 players, a mining arcade that has paid out since 2017, a voxel world with 20,000 landowners, a mobile shooter in beta, and a browser MMO that built its own sidechain. Each pick gets its real mechanics, its items and tokens, and the update that shipped most recently, all checked against official sources. If you are sorting through play to earn games 2026 for the ones still alive on Polygon, this is the September list.

Crypto.com chief executive Kris Marszalek has confirmed a security breach at Tectonic, the largest lending protocol on Cronos, with roughly 75 million USD drained. Validators stopped producing blocks on August 30, 2026, freezing every transaction on the network as a precaution. The attacker inflated the price of the TONIC governance token 100 fold in 20 minutes to borrow against worthless collateral. Around 60 million USD remains stranded on the halted chain.