Weekly updates 3.23 This week we updated dropper, talked about essential technology for web3 games, and are launching the first mini-session of Reda games today!… Read More »Updates on drops management and mini-games announcement
Games have different mechanics off-chain but due to web3 gaming being relatively new, existing on-chain mechanics in gaming are pretty universal. Apart from innovative technology… Read More »Essential Mechanics For a Web3 Game
Weekly updates 3.16 This week we are celebrating being a part of the most exciting ecosystem for open gaming! Moonstream is partnered with Polygon Labs… Read More »Moonstream in Blueprint by Polygon Labs
Weekly updates 3.09 ETH Denver is officially over, and we are back on the usual track. Here are the weekly news: > We’ve met quite… Read More »Lists of projects building in web3 and community updates
The economies of web3 games are very different from web2. Web3 games run economies, i.e. people play these games to earn money, in turn, creating… Read More »How to Scale Web3 Game Economies
Are NFTs good for games or are they just another form of microtransactions? How can games implement NFTs? Web3 games vs. web2 games The way… Read More »Sustainable Gaming NFTs – Myth or Reality?
Weekly updates 3.02 It has been a particularly busy and exciting week thanks to ETH Denver! We’ve met a lot of interesting people there but… Read More »First week of ETH Denver
The idea behind Great Wyrm We are creating a game where players grow the game world for each other. A game where content creators are… Read More »The Great Wyrm – A Player-Owned RPG
Weekly updates 2.23 > ETH Denver is about to start and we have been doing our best to prepare for the event. As a reminder,… Read More »Final preparations for ETH Denver and a new interview on game economies
Weekly updates 2.16 > Game7’s Press Release about NFT Inventory made in collaboration with Moonstream went live. You can read it here. And here’s our… Read More »New State and Metadata Crawlers
Game7 and Moonstream.to have a common goal to build open source infrastructure for web3 games. We want to advance the web3 gaming industry. Make it… Read More »Moonstream collaboration with Game7 on new NFT Inventory technology
The tabletop gaming industry has had its fair share of controversies over the last couple of years. Scandals surrounding an Open Gaming License, publishers sidestepping… Read More »Tabletop Controversies: Is It Time To Decentralize the Game Industry?
Weekly updates 2.09 > We’re working on consolidating all of Moonstream features into a single portal: portal.moonstream.to As of now, that page can be used… Read More »Coming Up With Better UI
Weekly updates 2.02 Great Wyrm updates >With the design doc finalized, we have deployed the Great Wyrm RPG character contract on Polygon Mumbai testnet! Give… Read More »Great Wyrm New Releases and Updates
Weekly updates 1.26 > This Friday, January 27th, we meet at the Orange DAO Node 0 for a Hacktogether. Let’s build some cool stuff! If… Read More »Hacktogether in San Francisco
Weekly updates 1.19 This week’s updates: > We’ve been talking a lot about decentralized gaming. Today it’s time for us to announce our secret project… Read More »Decentralized RPG Owned by Players
Let’s assume that you don’t think of games as an investment. That you actually want an immersive and fun experience or at least engaging gameplay.… Read More »Do games actually benefit from blockchain technology?
Weekly updates 1.12 First work week after the holidays and we’re here again with the weekly updates. Happy New Year everyone, and let’s hope this… Read More »Decentralized Gaming Plans for 2023
Weekly updates 12.15 Our updates this week are: > We released Entity API client on PyPI. Entity is used to store any web3 address (including… Read More »Moonstream Entity API on PyPI
Web3 gaming needs mass adoption to become sustainable. If there are no players there is no utility. To do that it needs to have clear… Read More »Gaming NFTs – Do We Need Them?
So recently we at Moonstream.to developed a new kind of web3 game leaderboard. Together with Laguna Games and GetBISmart we made a leaderboard that combines… Read More »Surprising effects leaderboards have on web3 game economies
Weekly updates 12.08 >Week 1 of Shadowcorns: Throwing Shade went smoothly. We built our own leaderboard for the event. This one ranks Shadowcorn NFTs and… Read More »Web3 Game Economy Tools
Who watches the watchers? Disclaimer: this post went live on Dec 6, 2022. The most up-to-date information regarding Moonstream security operations will be contained in… Read More »Moonstream Security
Building a project on the blockchain can be intimidating. Especially when you have to get into all of the technical details and build things from… Read More »5 web3 infrastructure tools for games
Weekly updates 11.24 While the turkey is in the oven, check out our weekly updates (: > Crypto Unicorns together with Moonstream launched the Fall… Read More »Moonstream Web3 Innovations
Weekly updates 11.17 Another crazy week for crypto with all the insane details coming out about FTX, Alameda, Genesis.. But Moonstream continues building. > While… Read More »Moonstream.to at TechCrunch
Weekly updates 11.10 This week’s updates: > Moonstream Query API now supports Polygon Mumbai testnet. For any developers who want to test their smart contracts… Read More »Testnet Support for Our API
This article is taking notes of how data can be used in gaming. If you’re interested in analytics, read on! If you’re not exactly tech… Read More »How to Use Data for (Web3) Gaming
Weekly updates 11.03 This week was mostly all about the San Francisco Blockchain Week, so not a whole lot of updates. Here they are nevertheless:… Read More »SF Blockchain Week Updates
Weekly updates 10.27 Moonstream > You’re gonna love this! We just released documentation for our multiplayer choose your own adventure mechanic: the Garden of Forking… Read More »Web3 Conferences to Attend
If you’re regularly using tools for web3 data analytics or just data analytics in general, you must have seen a lot of “ACTIONABLE data” marketing… Read More »Is actionable data a buzzword?
Weekly updates 10.20 Another spooky week has gone by and it was filled with busy work. Our updates: Moonstream > Our authentication service — Brood… Read More »Our Web3 Builders Meetup
It’s time for.. Weekly updates 10.13 Moonstream >How many airdrops would a Moonstream Dropper drop? This Wednesday after another batch of Crypto Unicorns’ airdrops, we… Read More »Our 100th Airdrop
Weekly updates 10.06 ‘Tis the spooky season but time for weekly updates nevertheless. This was our first week back after vacation and it was full… Read More »Web3 Authentication for Web Apps
Source: Photo by Michael Dziedzic on Unsplash During this long stretch of the bear market people are beginning to doubt web3 technology more and more.… Read More »Designing Fun NFT Games is Easier Than You Think
What does web3 bring to the table? Does web3 allow creators to be fairly compensated for their work? Can web3 allow game developers to make… Read More »How to Use Blockchain to Fund a Game
Weekly updates 08.25 Latest news this week: > Our team participated in Paradigm CTF 2022, a web3 focused security competition. The competition consisted of a… Read More »Moonstream DAO Reputation System updates
Weekly updates 08.18 This was a busy week. Here are our updates: > We’ve been working on reliability of our product. Before last week, we… Read More »Downsides of Crawling Data with Infura and Alchemy
Weekly updates 08.11 This week’s updates are: Crypto Unicorns > Player portal lootbox tool update: technical difficulties. The contract requires a signature from the Crypto… Read More »Adding Multi-chain Support on Moonstream Engine API
Weekly updates 08.04 I’ve come once again to bring you fresh updates. Crypto Unicorns > This week Moonstream is working on a tool to batch… Read More »On-Chain Reputation System for Discord
Weekly updates 07.28 Our updates this week are: Crypto Unicorns > Moonstream on-chain usage report for CU community. We’re happy to bring value to the… Read More »20 Times Faster Blockchain Data Crawlers
What is one of the main problems game developers have to solve when building a game on the blockchain? After figuring out the gameplay and… Read More »Blockchain bridges: a case study of Crypto Unicorns stashing tool
Weekly updates 07.21 Our updates for this week are: Moonstream > We’re slowing down our work on our gaming-oriented NFT marketplace for Crypto Unicorns –… Read More »Crypto Unicorns Custom Marketplace Update
Don’t you hate it when you open a recipe and the first page of it is just someone’s life story? Yeah, me too. So I… Read More »How to Move Your Money to Ethereum L2
Weekly updates 07.14 This week’s updates coming right up! Moonstream > We’ve been working on a new way to use Moonstream’s technology – a reputation… Read More »A Reputation System for the Blockchain
Weekly updates 07.07 The team is back from vacation. Here are our updates this week: Moonstream Roadmap > We have been building like maniacs for… Read More »Moonstream Roadmap Announcements
Weekly updates 06.24 Some weekly updates for you this Friday: Crypto Unicorns > Last week we announced our Player Portal update for stashing any amount… Read More »Updating the web3 gamers’ Player Portal
A guide to finding good NFT games and avoiding scams in 10 steps So you decided to look into NFT gaming and play-to-earn games on… Read More »How to find promising NFT games and avoid scams
It’s already the middle of June, can you believe it? Anyways, here are this week’s updates: Moonstream > We are steadily adding new functionality to… Read More »Weekly update 06.17: Player Portal, Gamelabs, NFT NYC, and Podcasts
This week’s updates are as follows: Crypto Unicorns > Crypto Unicorns new items and badges that were distributed with Moonstream’s API: I Survived Launch! Badge… Read More »Weekly updates 06.10
It’s time for some updates! Moonstream >We’ve been working on the Moonstream Engine at https://engine.moonstream.to and made a bunch of API improvements. It is now… Read More »Weekly updates 06.03
This week was very busy for us. However, most of the updates are either on the back-end or.. a secret for now. Crypto Unicorns >… Read More »Weekly updates 05.27
Want to create loot boxes for your NFT game? Afraid of losing money on airdrops? Looking for the best way to airdrop items to players?… Read More »How to add loot boxes to NFT games without creating a smart contract
What a hectic week for crypto! With the markets crashing, Terra’s Luna and UST completely obliterated, FUD is everywhere. What does it mean for web3… Read More »Weekly updates 05.13
For most players, NFT gaming is just GameFi right now. It’s about making money. And there are several ways to earn money in play-to-earn games.… Read More »Reasons Why Leaderboards Are a Game Changer in GameFi
Operational secrecy trumps openness of tooling. Rationale Our team at Moonstream has a deep belief in free software, in openness, and in transparency. We have carried… Read More »Open tooling. Hidden operations.
Web3 is still a controversial topic in game development. Large and established gaming companies have received massive backlash when implementing NFTs into their game economies.… Read More »Open Gaming: Building the metaverse together
So you decided to make some money with an NFT collection? But you are not sure where to start and what to do. What are… Read More »Minting art NFTs on OpenSea
Image Credit: Laguna Games Crypto Unicorns is a Polygon-based NFT game developed by Laguna Games. Moonstream supported the launch of Crypto Unicorns on the Polygon… Read More »Crypto Unicorns and Moonstream: launching one of the top Polygon NFT games
A common misconception about Ethereum’s Merge and Eth2 is that it’s going to solve the ridiculously high gas prices. However, it only addresses some of… Read More »Polygon – a solution to Ethereum’s problems?
Hi guys! Moonstream team here. We work hard to help you understand exactly how people are using your smart contracts across multiple blockchains. It’s like… Read More »Free lifetime access to cross-chain analytics
What is a smart contract? According to IBM.com, smart contracts are programs stored on a blockchain that run when predetermined conditions are met. On the… Read More »Smart Contracts and Where to Find Them
Moonstream.to launched an open source tool for the quantitative analysis of the NFT market. We used this tool to analyze over 7 million NFT transactions… Read More »Moonstream.to releases an analysis of over 7 million Ethereum NFT transactions
Following the recent 17-hour blackout of the Solana blockchain, let’s talk about what Solana is. Solana, one of the main Ethereum competitors, is a blockchain… Read More »Solana – scaling through centralization
What is a DAO? A DAO, or Decentralized Autonomous Organization, is an organization that has no central control. Usually an organization has CEOs and a… Read More »The Importance of DAOs and the role of developers
What are people doing with your smart contracts? Moonstream is an open source project bringing discovery to blockchains. Our machine learning algorithms scan the billions… Read More »6 reasons why you want to use Moonstream as a smart contract developer
While Ethereum is planning to switch to a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism, the Bitcoin community is quite aggressively against the idea of such a change in… Read More »Bitcoin proof-of-work to proof-of-stake argument
Everybody and their mama wrote an article on the environmental impact that crypto mining has on our planet. These articles have done very little to… Read More »Running a blockchain without killing the planet
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Lots of people are getting into cryptocurrency now. No wonder, it can be a great way to earn passive income. However, especially with the rise… Read More »5 short paragraphs to help you get consensus mechanisms