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Illuvium will crown the first champion of its Arena Challengers Series on Sunday, October 4. Eight players will meet in the Grand Finals, which start at 7:00 PM UTC and will be broadcast live with SylenCasts hosting. The final lands just days after Arena update 1.18.7 reshaped the meta with nerfs to Rypter Omega and buffs to several other Illuvials. The series marks Illuvium's latest step in building a regular competitive scene for its auto battler.

NEAR Intents paused its services on October 1 after a bug in the Omni deposit and withdrawal infrastructure led to a loss of around 3.8 million USD. The team has patched the contract side flaw and says all affected funds will be compensated in full. Deposits and withdrawals on 11 networks, including BSC, Polygon, TON and Avalanche, were set to stay offline for about 12 more hours while fixes were completed. The NEAR token fell 7.5 percent after the announcement.

Blast has announced it will wind down its Ethereum layer 2 network after the cost of running the chain outgrew the revenue it generated. Users are being asked to move all assets, including balances in the Blast PWA, back to Ethereum mainnet before October 26, 2026. Withdrawals will pause for about a week while Blast unwinds its Lido positions, then resume with a shorter 24 hour delay. The network once held more than 2 billion USD but had fallen to around 32 million USD at the time of the announcement.

KOMPETE has opened two new ways to earn free skins. The October Ticket offers 15 exclusive Halloween themed rewards and can be claimed for free from the main menu until October 31. Fame Season 11 adds 20 exclusive rewards for players who climb the ranks before it ends on December 31. Both run inside the free to play, cross platform multiplayer game built on Unreal Engine 5.

Porsche has announced the end of its Web3 project and the PIONEERS CIRCLE community after nearly four years. The PORSCHE 911 NFTs will stay with their holders and remain onchain, but the official Discord becomes a read only archive and the project's X account stops posting. Trading in the collection had slowed to around 2,900 USD in the past month, against roughly 20 million USD in all time volume. The move follows a similar wind down by Nike's RTFKT in late 2024.

October comes with dates attached. RavenQuest opens its Fortune's Frontier extraction mode on October 16, Grand Arena moves its AI-controlled Mokis onto a soccer pitch for Season 2, and Big Time heads into the first full month of a new prize program with a 10,000 dollar monthly pool. Legends of Elumia is days into Season 4, and Infinity Rising, the game formerly known as Cornucopias, just gave its testers free flight. We ranked these crypto games by PlayToEarn Score, so the strongest standing comes last, and every segment covers how the game plays, what players own, and the latest dated update. If you follow play to earn games 2026 month by month, keep these five open.

Blast has announced it will wind down its Ethereum layer 2 network after the cost of running the chain outgrew the revenue it generated. Users are being asked to move all assets, including balances in the Blast PWA, back to Ethereum mainnet before October 26, 2026. Withdrawals will pause for about a week while Blast unwinds its Lido positions, then resume with a shorter 24 hour delay. The network once held more than 2 billion USD but had fallen to around 32 million USD at the time of the announcement.

Moonfrost will launch into Steam Early Access on October 12, priced at 14.99 USD. The cozy farm life RPG from Oxalis Games arrives with around half of its main story, Temple levels up to 19 and 11 villagers to befriend. Village rebuilding, expanded character customisation and a new in game map are also part of the launch build. The release follows the studio's move away from web3 earlier this year.

Chainlink has been selected as the official price oracle for OUSD, the new Open USD stablecoin from Open Standard. The oracle network will supply pricing data for lending, DEX and derivatives applications built around the token. OUSD launched on September 30 on Base, Ethereum, Solana and Tempo, backed by founding partners Coinbase, Mastercard, Shopify, Stripe and Visa. More than 1 billion USD in launch liquidity has been committed.

A whitehat operator pulled 3,832 NFTs out of hundreds of wallets on September 25 after an exploit was found in Limit Break's Payment Processor V2, the protocol Magic Eden used to settle Ethereum trades in 2024. The haul covers blue chip collections including Bored Ape Yacht Club, Otherdeed, Azuki and Captainz, with an unverified estimate of around 1.4 million USD. Magic Eden says no live listings were affected and that NFTs listed between roughly February and October 2024 could be exposed. Holders are being told to revoke the Payment Processor V2 contract on Ethereum, Polygon and Base.