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Sei has officially joined Mastercard's Crypto Partner Program, lining up the high-throughput Layer 1 with a global payments network that already counts more than 85 partners. The collaboration will be followed by a joint blockchain framework paper, the project announced on its official channel. Sei now sits alongside Solana, Polygon, Avalanche, Aptos, Stellar, and Tron inside the program, which links blockchain firms to Mastercard's payment, remittance, and settlement infrastructure. For Sei's onchain gaming ecosystem, the move could open new pathways between in-game economies and mainstream card rails.

Lightning Forge Games launches the Imperials in its 2v2 hero battler Gladiator Mayhem today, adding a fourth playable faction to the AI-powered arena title. The dying conquerors join Barbarians, Kingdom, and Ancients in the fight over the Forge Key. The studio paired the rollout with a short cinematic trailer and made the new heroes available immediately on web, iOS, and Android. Players can jump in directly through the game's site.

The AMGI Studios franchise opens its token generation event today with a 1 billion fixed supply on Solana. Eligible ETH and SOL wallets receive vouchers that route into either a direct claim or a browser-based mini-game for a larger allocation. The seven-day claim window goes live at 10:00 UTC on May 15. Holders who skip the instant claim can keep playing for performance based bonuses.

WAGMI Game Co. has announced it will suspend NiFe WARS: Last Defense (formerly WAGMI Defense) indefinitely on May 31, redirecting full company focus, capital, and team behind a transmedia franchise spanning comics, collectibles, original art, and an anime. The team frames the move as a business decision driven by data rather than financial necessity. Genesis NFT, Comic NFT, and $WAGMIGAMES token holders will retain holdings and gain new utility through holder-exclusive 30 percent presale discounts on every major product drop. The first drop launches within days.

Gigaverse has detailed how Gigling Racing will work ahead of its imminent launch on Abstract. The new game lets players race their Giglings, the project's two-legged horses, against other players onchain for ETH stakes. Each Gigling has four race-phase stats (Start, Speed, Stamina, Finish), a track-condition preference, a faction loyalty, hidden traits, and a finite race career before retiring into breeding. Six rarity tiers run from Uncommon to Giga. The game launches at giglingracing.com without requiring a Gigaverse account, making it the first Gigaverse mode to work both inside the existing world and as a standalone experience.

CHAMPZ has officially launched Phase 1 of Legends of Champz on Base, opening early access to waitlist players ahead of the broader public launch next week. The new title lets players roll a unique Legend, battle for leaderboard dominance, compete for the Guardian throne, and earn weekly rewards. Built natively on Base and accessible through base.app, Legends of Champz extends the CHAMPZ ecosystem's reach from its origins on Ethereum and Immutable zkEVM into Coinbase's growing consumer Web3 layer.

Fishing Frenzy has officially launched Chapter 3, described by the studio as the biggest update in the game's history. Guilds of up to 10 players are now active, the new Fish Quality system spans five tiers from D to S with S-rank catches granting 7x the standard EXP, and Boss Fish encounters can be summoned by sacrificing an S-rank fish and 1,000 gold. The cozy mobile fishing RPG is now playable directly from a mobile browser with no pop-ups and no crypto knowledge required. Karma has been corrected and redistributed, Chapter 2 Dive tickets have been refunded, and Premium Dive has been switched to USDC.

The Solana Foundation and Google Cloud have jointly launched Pay.sh, a pay-as-you-go payment gateway that lets AI agents discover, access, and pay for APIs using stablecoins on Solana. Agents tap services like Gemini, BigQuery, Vertex AI, and over 50 community API providers per request without accounts, subscriptions, or API keys. The system runs on the x402 protocol and Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), with payment itself acting as the credential. Pay.sh is live now, fully open source, and integrates with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Openclaw, and Hermes.

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.

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.