News on PlayToEarn

PlayToEarn is 8 years old and marking it with 8 days of rewards running from August 24 to August 31, 2026. PlayToEarn Plus is free for everyone during the campaign, ads and game listing packages carry 18 percent off with code EARN8, and an anniversary airdrop puts 50,000 P2E Points on the table. All deals close on August 31 at 23:59 UTC.

Cambria has taken its extraction dungeons into hardcore territory with a release built around survival based rewards. Necromancy joins the game as a new mechanic, and clearing a run can now win Cut Gems worth 1,000 keys each. New Side Rooms expand what players find between floors. Dungeons players have risked 5 million USD in keys across more than 242,000 runs.

Chainers has opened a community art contest asking players to draw a silly bee by hand or in Paint, with AI generated entries excluded. Five winners each receive 250 CFB, an Uncommon Bee, and Legendary Bee Food. Entries close on August 26, 2026 and require a repost, a like, a follow, and a Chainers Wallet address. The contest follows two bee themed events that introduced the insect as a playable animal earlier in August.

Pett.ai has announced it is winding down operations, with its digital pet ecosystem shutting off on September 7, 2026. The studio thanked the PettBros, creators, supporters, and partners who followed the project, saying its purple friends will go to sleep on that date. The AI driven pet game ran on Base with the AIP token and integrated five large language models. AIP has fallen roughly 99 percent from its peak reached in January 2025.

Mattle Fun has started Season 17 of Mattle Run, resetting the leaderboard and putting a combined prize pool of 500,000 MATTLE and 100,000 SKR in front of players. The season runs from August 21 through September 20, 2026. SKR rewards return to the format after being absent from recent seasons. Points come from quests, shop purchases, and referrals on top of the survival gameplay itself.

Shard Legends: Clan Wars has locked in August 25, 2026 for its SLCW Token Generation Event and trading launch on a top 10 centralised exchange. The exchange name stays sealed until a co announcement on August 24 under NDA terms, with a second listing date following on August 26. Eleven days of content expansions run into the event, covering PvP, personal islands, and a titles system. SLCW carries a maximum supply of 200 million tokens.

A leaker known as Cyberleek claims Grand Theft Auto VI will include an in game currency that can be exchanged for real life money. The claim arrived alongside a wave of gameplay footage and map images released in August 2026, and a Solana memecoin launched by the same source. The token traded roughly 11.8 million USD in a single day before settling near a 1.73 million USD market cap. Rockstar has not confirmed the material and has issued takedown notices against posts carrying the footage.

Anchorpoint, the joint venture between Standard Chartered, Animoca Brands and HKT, has launched HKDAP, the first regulated Hong Kong dollar stablecoin. The token opened to institutional users on August 12, 2026 through authorised distributors, with retail access targeted for the fourth quarter. HKDAP is backed one to one by high quality liquid HKD reserves under Hong Kong's Stablecoins Ordinance. Animoca's involvement puts a major web3 gaming investor at the centre of the country's regulated money infrastructure.

Idle Donkeys, a play-to-earn tycoon loop built on the Solana network is now available to play for free in any browser - no downloads, sign up or wallet required.

The Bank of Russia has cleared Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT for trading on licensed domestic exchanges, naming the three assets that meet its criteria for public access. Retail investors face an annual cap of 300,000 rubles per intermediary and must pass a risk test first, while qualified investors trade without limits. XRP did not make the list. The framework takes effect on September 1, 2026 with exchange compliance due by mid 2027.