Gaming is the fastest-growing entertainment industry in India. The number of online gamers in India has nearly doubled to 510 million from 269 million in 2018. With the emergence of new gaming genres, Web3 games have seen an interesting bearing. Marching in the limelight of Web3 games, Bowled.io, a Singapore-based social gaming company aims to create an ecosystem of hyper casual to mid strategy games. Bowled.io’s mission is to create an exciting and rewarding experience for gamers and sports fans, giving them a voice and reason to celebrate. Bringing the vision to life, Bowled.io has extended strategic partnerships with prominent ecosystem players such as IndiGG, Glip, Metanomy, BlueLearn, while multiple others are in the pipeline. “These strategic ecosystem partnerships will enable us to reach and engage with a significantly relevant audience and build Bowled.io’s brand among this TG”, said Rahul Singh, Co-founder of Bowled.io. “Our aim is to work together with our partners and create a meaningful and enjoyable experience for our combined user base and push the boundaries on web3 adoption in India and beyond.”, he further added. Even though Web3 and metaverse technologies have not reached their full potential yet, many sectors have started exploring their use case to boost innovation, involvement and engagement with new technologies. Moreover, with communities becoming a big part of today’s marketing era, Bowled.io is seizing the day by anticipating the next move and understanding how the future promises an ‘immersive commerce’ for all. Bowled.io’s ecosystem partnerships are a step forward towards the advancement of Web3. Glip’s gamer tools app with crypto wallet allows gamers to record and stream their gameplay on social media, enabling over 5M gamers to experience exclusive Bowled.io content, rewards, and early access to new releases. Metanomy and IndiGG, two of the biggest gaming guilds, creating a vibrant gamer community space with Bowled.io, are not only a channel partner but also a strategic investor. Bowled.io is also the Web3 knowledge partner for BlueLearn, educating the next generation of students on various aspects of blockchain gaming thereby not only expanding its own footprint, but also preparing the next set of Web3 builders. The Bowled.io app recently crossed 20K installs within two weeks of its closed test release, thanks to their community of alpha testers. The highly anticipated public beta release is slated for the end of October 2022. This release will have features like a wallet where users can hold their digital assets, a marketplace to buy and trade the assets, user profile and leaderboard, along with improved versions of the current games. Large scale adoption of Web3 gaming is inevitable. The future of Web3 games looks bright especially with companies like Bowled.io, that are invested in creating a better and immersive experience for gamers. Even though Web3 is not here to dethrone Web2 anytime soon, it creates infinite possibilities to develop an ideal ecosystem for experimentation, automation and co-creation – paving the path for a new and improved experience for all! Website: https://bowled.io/ Contact Person: Rahul Singh Contact email: Hello@bowled.io Country: Singapore Telegram: https://t.me/dfxcricverse Twitter: https://twitter.com/Bowleddotio Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bowled.io/ Medium: https://medium.com/@dfx_club Discord: https://discord.com/invite/tcSrDWQTyj

DUBAI, UAE / ACCESSWIRE / September 30, 2022 / Paxo Finance, a decentralized money market seeking to open up cryptocurrency investment, allowing users to access up to 5X of their capital, is whitelisting users ahead of their launch on the Polygon mainnet. The alpha version of the mainnet will be open to select few who register for whitelisting on the paxo website. The users that register for the whitelist and are selected will be the OGs of paxo and will be involved in building and improving paxo. Early users will have a say in new features development, adding new coins, governance, partnerships, security discussions etc. Currently the alpha mainnet version will only be available to a selected few. The users will only be able to invest upto $5000 usd worth at a given time. Alpha mainnet will have only a limited number of assets which lenders and borrowers can interact with. The assets available will be BTC, ETH and Matic. The critical milestone follows the official conclusion of the incentivized Testnet on Polygon, which saw over 19,000 users participate and over 500,000 transactions processed on the testnet. By whitelisting crypto addresses before deploying on Polygon, Paxo Finance is setting a solid base ensuring that only authorized users can access the protocol. This step is also a security step to deter malicious attacks and protect the first cohort of users trying the system on the mainnet. The Paxo Finance Incentivized Testnet on Polygon was free for all interested persons and parties. It opened its doors from May 27, 2022, to June 26, 2022, and ran for 30 days. There were 200,000 PAXO, the native token of the Paxo Finance protocol, for distribution to active participants. It was in addition to a Referral program that ran in parallel, where the platform distributed up to 3000 USDT in PAXO to winners. Participants were required to subscribe to any of our social media channels to register. Afterward, they would receive 50 test USDC. Typical of a testnet, the objective of the 30-day program was to draw as many people to the protocol, allowing them to thoroughly test every core component of the platform before submitting valuable feedback. Their feedback was used to refine the platform, allowing Paxo Finance to deliver precisely what its global pool of active users and investors are desirous of: changing the crypto investment landscape through a protocol where users can borrow with a 5X leverage and invest in top-tier crypto assets. 6,000 feedback were received from 19,600 active participants, mainly from Indonesia, East Europe, and the U.S, who experimented on all lending, borrowing, and trading components of the protocol. From the testnet, the platform allowed participants to get paid as they trial the dApp, learning how they can easily invest in crypto via an undercollateralized protocol guided by secure smart contracts. Additionally, by opting to launch on Polygon, all users, including liquidity providers whom Paxo Finance will now allow to earn passive income, would not have to pay huge on-chain transaction fees because of the network’s high throughput. Polygon was tactically selected as the testing protocol. The same chain is now being used to anchor Paxo Finance as the protocol goes live on the mainnet. PAXO Finance is building a revolutionary product allowing users to invest MORE with LESS capital regardless of prevailing crypto market conditions. Learn more about PAXO Finance from our white paper here. For more information about PAXO Finance, visit us on: Website: https://paxo.finance/Twitter: https://twitter.com/paxofinanceMedium: https://medium.com/@paxofinanceTelegram: https://t.me/paxofinanceDiscord: https://discord.gg/a9MQpH7SMr SOURCE: Paxo Finance View source version on accesswire.com:https://www.accesswire.com/718284/Paxo-Finance-White-Listing-for-Alpha-Mainnet-is-Now-Open

Who We Are Polygame is the world’s first decentralized platform utilizing smart contract technology to equip eSports players and teams with tools to enhance live streaming. The first blockchain-based platform to present any gamer or streamer with new opportunities to connect and earn from content production. The platform offers users unique and original opportunities to earn from both streaming and watching. Game enthusiasts can not only play the games they adore on a single global platform, but they can also earn by doing so in the process. Early adopters have touted our attractive, transparent revenue-sharing model matched with our industry-leading streaming service and content delivery network, which offer seamless, stable, and low latency gaming content to millions of viewers. Polygame is the only platform embracing the reality of modern-day gaming: technology has changed how we find content creators, and, as such, we are providing the gaming community innovative ways to own and earn.  Opportunities  eSports is a fast-growing industry. Nowadays, eSports is as legitimate as any other in-real-life sporting event, and is growing in popularity every day. eSports competitions and game streams are viewed in over 180 countries. The global eSports market generated nearly $1 billion of revenue in 2020 and is expected to generate $4.75 billion annually by 2030. In recent years, we have seen eSports prizes continuously increase, with several competitions becoming highly lucrative; this intrinsically entices even more global interest. The total valuation of eSports collectibles is currently estimated to be more than $7.5 billion! A recent survey by eSportsinsider shows that 63% of gamers would increase their spending on eSports assets if these assets had more real-world value. Polygame has solutions to supply the liquidity to make this real for many of them. Watch-to-Earn PGEM Polygame has changed the landscape for all gamers worldwide by introducing an exceptional “watch-to-earn” system. Viewers will be able to purchase fan tokens, which is analogous to an investment in the creator’s future. This exclusive watch-to-earn method lets viewers watch their favorite content creator and earn PGEM in the process. The PGEM token powers the ecosystem and powers the community, creating a new digital currency positioned to make enormous waves in the morphing landscape of cryptocurrencies.  PGEM tokens can be utilized within the ecosystem as a currency or exchanged securely and transparently in the open market. Content creators can mint NFTs of key gameplay moments and sell them to their fans and collectors, similar to trading cards. Inspiration The concept behind Polygame is that revenue generated from streaming games and minting associated NFTs will eventually surpass yields seen in the real world. As a result, game developers, streamers, and gamers will all profit from our well-thought-out ecosystem. Polygame’s thriving local eSports and content delivery ecosystem will transform the gaming industry permanently.  We grant streamers and viewers the opportunity to interact decentrally with each other and earn. The platform also provides an opportunity for streamers to create unique experiences for their target audience and generate revenue without the constraints or impediments imposed by legacy streaming companies.  Support Polygame To support Polygame and further explore our community, please visit us at:  https://t.me/Polygamers https://www.reddit.com/r/Polygame https://polygame.io/

Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This Week “Largest Bitcoin event in history” kicks off in MiamiSun, sea and satoshis were on the agenda as the biggest Bitcoin event in history kicked off in Florida.Organizers were expecting a huge turnout for the sold-out event, with some predicting there would be more than 50,000 attendees.Day one saw MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor reveal more about his experience in the crypto space so far. He said: “I realized that I first bought Bitcoin one year ago yesterday, and so this is the end of my rookie year.”Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey also declared that “Bitcoin changes absolutely everything.” He told the conference: “We don’t need the financial institutions that we have today” — and for money to be created for the world, it has to be developed internationally.One particularly eye-opening on-stage discussion came from Brian Brooks, a former regulator turned CEO of Binance.US. He said: “If you’ve never worked in a big bank, you have no idea how bad the problem is.” It’s Mati Greenspan versus the Maxis at “Shitshow” 2021For many, Bitcoin 2021 in Miami is the first physical event for many since the coronavirus pandemic began, enabling celebrities, cryptographers and CEOs to rub shoulders. Alas, you can’t please all the people, all the time.Quantum Economics founder Mati Greenspan had tweeted an innocuous comment about how Bitcoin 2021 was set to be the “Biggest crypto conference ever!”But he was quickly set straight by the likes of Bitcoin Magazine editor Pete Rizzo, who said: “It’s a Bitcoin conference, about Bitcoin. Bitcoin is the subject and hence why it’s used as an adjective.”To be fair, organizers were crystal clear that it is a Bitcoin-only event, meaning no altcoins are allowed.But as DeFi Pulse’s founder Scott Lewis pondered…is it really possible to go for two days without talking about Ethereum?  “Discounted” Bitcoin more likely to hit $100,000 than $20,000 in 2021, says Bloomberg analystAlthough the party is in full swing in Florida, the fact that Bitcoin has been struggling to break $40,000 will undoubtedly have put a dampener on proceedings.That said, Bloomberg Intelligence’s Mike McGlone says there are still plenty of reasons to be bullish.In his latest Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index report, he said BTC is “stronger, greener and less extended” than during the height of the rally in April.He also maintained that Bitcoin’s bull market appears to be intact, with a $100,000 price target more likely than a retrace to $20,000.Alas, not everyone agrees with McGlone’s prognosis following the worst May for Bitcoin’s price in 10 years, with JPMorgan strategist Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou writing in a research note that weakened institutional demand could drag BTC below $30,000. Feast or famine on Dogecoin as Coinbase pump triggers whales’ returnDogecoin — likened by some to “digital plastic” this week — has enjoyed quite a surge of late. The joke cryptocurrency’s price climbed 40% in a single day, driven by Coinbase announcing it would open its door to DOGE deposits on June 1.DOGE’s surge shook out more than $16 million worth of bearish leverage in a single hour, with the altcoin almost returning to a pre-crash high.One analyst, @HsakaTrades, declared that a “bored market” was gravitating to DOGE and rotating out of other altcoins. NFT sales down 90% since market peakWe’ve all become painfully familiar with the endless declarations surrounding the death of Bitcoin. Now, with the sale of nonfungible tokens sinking 90% since they peaked in early May, some are sounding the death knell for NFTs.After $102 million worth of NFTs were sold in a single day on May 3, just $19 million worth were sold in the past week. Over $170 million worth of NFTs were sold in the seven-day window on either side of the market top, equating to a near 90% decline since then.The number of NFT wallets showing any signs of activity on a daily basis is also down 70% since early May, after falling from 12,000 to 3,900. NFT sales and wallet movements were down across the entire range of token categories, spanning gaming, decentralized finance, collectibles, art, utility, metaverses and sports. Winners and Losers At the end of the week, Bitcoin is at $37,733.41, Ether at $2,787.12 and XRP at $0.99. The total market cap is at $1,710,804,430,870.Among the biggest 100 cryptocurrencies, the top three altcoin gainers of the week are Theta Fuel, Curve DAO Token and Siacoin. The top three altcoin losers of the week are UNUS SED LEO, Decred and Nano.For more info on crypto prices, make sure to read Cointelegraph’s market analysis.   Most Memorable Quotations “Who forgot to invite Elon to the #Bitcoin conference?”David Gokhshtein, Gokhshtein Media founder “Bitcoin is more likely to resume appreciating toward $100,000 resistance rather than sustaining below $20,000.”Bloomberg Intelligence “Right now, if you buy and sell gold, you get it taxed, they can do that. If you make a profit in Bitcoin, you read stories about people being taxed on it. You can’t tax money, you don’t tax it.”Ron Paul, former presidential candidate “Digital currencies are not substitutes for gold. If anything, they would be a substitute for copper, they are pro-risk, risk-on assets. They are a substitute for risk-on inflation hedges, not risk-off inflation hedges.”Jeff Currie, Goldman Sachs global head of commodities research “When something gets big enough, things like consumer interests and money laundering come into play. So there’s good reason to believe that [regulation] will happen.”Stefan Ingves, Sveriges Riksbank governorPrediction of the WeekBitcoin bulls give “conservative” 10-year estimate for hyperbitcoinization to hit Back to Miami now, where an eye-opening panel suggested that we may just be 10 years away from “hyperbitcoinization” — marking the moment BTC takes over global finance.Make no mistake, this would be no easy feat. It would involve billions of new users being onboarded by 2031. Then again, Bitcoin has already attracted hundreds of millions of users over the past 10 years.Unchained Capital’s Parker…

Jay is the Bitcoin OG who created a meme by buying a Lamborghini with the cryptocurrency. He went from a poverty-level existence to enjoying a well-off lifestyle in a gated community thanks to mining Bitcoin in the early days — but not without having to worry for his family’s safety.As BTC first broke the $1,000 milestone in December 2013, former Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan suggested that Bitcoin could not actually be used to buy anything of value.That’s when Jay (not his real name), then in his early 30s, and with the help of his wife who is also a Bitcoiner, used almost 217 BTC to purchase what is believed to be the original Bitcoin Lamborghini at the Lamborghini Newport Beach dealership. He then provided the evidence on the anonymous imageboard 4chan.This proved that Bitcoin had real value — who would accept fake money for a Lamborghini? A meme was born that launched a million other memes.“It’s kind of overwhelming as an individual — I created a meme.”An archetypal Bitcoin OG, Jay got his start around 2010. Despite being broke and supporting a family on very low earnings in Southeast Asia, he ended up setting up 20 GPUs, resulting in electricity costs that were six times his rent.  Buying a Lambo with Bitcoin in 2013. “I was really poor — I made like $8,500 per year while supporting a family, and babies cost money. I had businesses and savings before, but going to university and starting a family got me damn close to $0,” he recalls, bewildered.“It’s amazingly hard to HODL bitcoin when you eat pasta every day and make fuck-all, and spend what you do have on computers and miners. But I had that faith, I knew this was world changing.”   Today, Jay lives in a gated community within a small city of under 100,000 in Southeast Asia with his wife, three children, and three dogs — one of them a professionally trained and imposing guard dog whom I had no doubt was ready to rip my face off on command when I visited.His home actually consists of two houses on two streets, discreetly connected in the middle, creating an understated facade. Whereas the front garage contains “normal” luxury vehicles, the back holds none other than Bitcoin Lamborghini 2.0.“Sadly because I was so close to $0 and had kids, I had to sell so much BTC so early because I wanted some safety net. I could add at least one zero to my net worth if I had no family — but it’s a paradox because family is why I do it.”The Bitcoin Lambo in Texas at a CryptoWomen meetup in 2014. Supplied. Wealth worriesJay’s fortune is crowned by a loaded 1,000 BTC Casascius “physical Bitcoin” gold coin of which only a few exist. It is, in fact, the most valuable coin in the world, with a face value of approximately $60 million dollars and a collector premium of many millions more.This is how we came to meet, as I act as a broker of such rarities and wrote the Encyclopedia of Physical Bitcoins and Crypto-Currencies. For Jay, owning such coins can, however, prove stressful “if someone connects me to holding tens of millions of dollars in what are effectively bearer bonds.” Such coins hold the private key to the stated amount of Bitcoins under a tamper-proof label, making them comparable to bearer bonds, gold or cash.Such privilege is “difficult to deal with” on the family front, Jay says. Living in a country with a huge wealth disparity, he explains that money can be metaphorically used to build either a bigger wall to separate himself from the masses, or a bigger table in order to bring them to his side. “Honestly, I have to do both, but I want to build a bigger table,” he says. He feels that he faces very real threats, including the kidnapping of family members by international criminals.“I had issues with some Russian oligarchs in the past, but I don’t think I’m a target now.” A loaded 1,000 BTC Casascius coin, which Jay bought for $5,000Still, it’s hard to put worry or paranoia aside — states of mind that Jay considers natural to him. Late one night, as we enjoyed beer and burgers on the edge of town, Jay’s merriness suddenly turned to keen attention as he spied a vehicle loitering near his Lamborghini. “It’s been there over 30 seconds,” he said, appearing still nervous after the car drove off. “They were probably just admiring the car — but what if?” He was visibly uneasy.InitiationJay describes a normal childhood in an average lower-middle-class family in the U.S. midwest. Money was sometimes tight, but basic needs were covered and school was OK. He excelled in geography, which simply came naturally to him without the need to study.He started working at the age of 12, stapling large boxes together at a warehouse owned by a family friend. The work was repetitive and it was actually illegal to employ such a young child, but Jay was there willingly and feels that he gained a valuable perspective from socializing with business owners at such a young age.   After high school, Jay enrolled in a university close to home to study international relations and computer engineering. He, however, became disillusioned, believing that “a lot of what the university was teaching me was absolute bullshit” and mostly aimed at making him into “a good wage slave.” As he studied money, “it blew my mind that fiat money was based on nothing — it was debt.” He dropped out to run his own book-selling business, which he later sold to a firm that itself went on to be acquired by Amazon.“The realization of the financial system and money being bullshit helped motivate me to drop out of university in the U.S.A. and do my own thing.”Jay used the money to travel, first heading to Mongolia, which he felt might be a “missed gem” and might hold economic opportunities. Later in Kazakhstan, he spent…