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Soulbound is a decentralized gaming community focused on enhancing the metaverse through the establishment of a chain-agnostic market infrastructure. Its platform caters to dedicated players in the evolving landscape of decentralized gaming, connecting guilds, gamers, and game developers. By rewarding gameplay and fostering engagement in the Play & Earn model, Soulbound aims to create an interactive environment that elevates the gaming experience and promotes blockchain gaming.

Anything World Limited specializes in developing a software platform that enables users to create virtual 3D worlds in real time. Founded in 2018 and based in London, the company offers innovative products such as Rabbids Playground, an augmented reality application that features a pet in a real-world playground, and Speak To Anything, which allows users to interact with imagined creatures through voice commands. The platform leverages artificial intelligence, speech computing, and three-dimensional rendering, incorporating publicly available 3D assets based on user audio and text inputs. By integrating these technologies, Anything World aims to streamline the user experience, allowing for efficient creation and interaction within virtual environments.

Soulbound is a decentralized gaming community focused on enhancing the metaverse through the establishment of a chain-agnostic market infrastructure. Its platform caters to dedicated players in the evolving landscape of decentralized gaming, connecting guilds, gamers, and game developers. By rewarding gameplay and fostering engagement in the Play & Earn model, Soulbound aims to create an interactive environment that elevates the gaming experience and promotes blockchain gaming.

T.E.A.M DAO is a decentralized gaming guild focused on the Web3 economy, catering to both aspiring players and asset managers. The organization develops a fantasy non-fungible token league platform that allows users to engage in GameFi activities. Through its esports platform, T.E.A.M DAO enables gamers to participate in blockchain-based metaverses, where they can play, buy, and sell virtual teams. This structure provides opportunities for users to generate income across various games and metaverses, fostering a new ecosystem within the gaming industry.

MetaDojos are adaptable 3D structures that can be easily embedded into websites or deployed into metaverses.

Everyrealm is a company that specializes in digital real estate, focusing on investments in virtual worlds through non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The firm manages and develops a range of assets, including virtual real estate, metaverse platforms, and gaming infrastructure. It operates a comprehensive ecosystem that integrates various elements of the virtual landscape, such as gaming guilds and a metaverse gaming development studio. By providing tools for investment, management, and development in immersive media, Everyrealm aims to create a robust platform for the evolving digital economy.

Mines of Dalarnia is a blockchain-based gaming platform that offers an adventure-oriented mining experience for players, featuring both single and multiplayer modes. The game allows users to navigate through various levels to collect rare relics and artifacts, which can be utilized to upgrade equipment and uncover hidden secrets. Players can enhance their gaming experience by purchasing cosmetics and minerals in an NFT marketplace. Additionally, Mines of Dalarnia owns in-game land plots, which they can rent out to other players for a fee. Holders of the platform's tokens have the opportunity to vote on proposals that impact the land economy, miner policies, and game development, thereby fostering community engagement and participation in the platform's evolution.

Highstreet is a commerce-centric metaverse that operates on browsers and native PC VR, aiming to connect the physical and digital worlds. The platform enables users to explore a vast virtual environment, form parties, and own and expand their virtual estates. Highstreet allows users to purchase tokenized products from various brands, facilitating interactive transactions through non-fungible tokens. By combining elements of gaming and e-commerce, Highstreet seeks to redefine how financial products are marketed and consumed, creating a unique and immersive shopping experience.

Trace Network Labs is a metaverse technology company focused on the fashion and lifestyle sectors, providing an immersive shopping experience within a virtual environment. The firm specializes in developing personalized avatars that allow users to work, play, and socialize across various virtual realities. By leveraging NFTs and blockchain technology, Trace Network Labs enables brands to explore and offer Web 3.0 products and services, enhancing customer engagement in the metaverse.

X World Games, established in 2018 and headquartered in Singapore, focuses on creating a next-generation decentralized gaming metaverse. The company aims to bridge the gap between traditional gaming and blockchain technology, encouraging more game developers to enter the crypto space by providing a robust blockchain framework. Its innovative products include the crypto game Dream Card, an NFT Marketplace, and a DeFi Pool, catering to over 2 million registered gamers and positioning itself as a rapidly growing platform in the crypto gaming sector. X World Games fosters a virtual environment where players can trade NFTs, create and tokenize customized in-game items, and engage with diverse crypto gaming communities from around the globe, supported by a dynamic team of over 100 professionals.

Terra Virtua Limited operates an online marketplace for digital collectibles and games, featuring a blockchain-based virtual reality (VR) entertainment platform. Established in 2016 and based in London, this platform allows users to browse, buy, and sell games and immersive VR experiences. It includes a digital art gallery for still and animated works, as well as auction services for digital items. Users can engage with the platform using Terra Virtua tokens, facilitating transactions within its ecosystem. Additionally, the company offers a mobile application designed for displaying three-dimensional collectibles. Terra Virtua emphasizes community engagement and aims to create a robust economy around its unique virtual offerings.

Snook is an online, multiplayer, Snake-like IO game… [gulp…I mean… comparing it to the old Nokia Snake is like comparing Bruce Banner to the Hulk.] It is a kill-or-be-killed, adrenaline-charged, multiplayer game that is pioneering NFT game characters. That means players’ performance directly affects the NFT face value (more about that below). Unlike some play-to-earn NFT-gamified/NFT-infused games, in Snook the players' in-game character IS an NFT, with your skill and gameplay achievements immutably recorded on chain. This snook-NFT, your game character, as long as it does not die, can be played in future games. It also retains value as a digital asset and collectible on the secondary market. Snook is the first game in a new NFT crypto-space – one that determines the face-value and affects the market value of NFTs through measurement of skilled "work" invested in their creation and development. It's a crypto meritocracy and similar to that thing your parents used to say: 'if you work hard and apply yourself, you'll reap the rewards'… This merger between a relatively new, decentralized, trust-agnostic, and immutable economic paradigm and one of humanity’s most popular pass-time - gaming - is surprisingly natural and seamless. Players spend time playing. They develop skills with patience and persistence. Until today, their efforts were measured in their score, ranking and/or character evolution. Rewards were emotional and social. It felt good, and you got "street cred". However, like all economies, if one invests work/effort/energy in something, it should be possible to exchange the "fruits" of that labor with other things that also store value. Those could be money (e.g., Fiat or FT/cryptocurrencies), commodities (which are still fungible, i.e., they are the same and replacing one with another does not affect its value), or non-fungible items (e.g., NFTs). Which leads us to Snook – a game that allows players to monetize their performance and capture their unique gaming achievements in their NFTs. Moreover, Snook makes certain achievements especially difficult to realize, allowing exceptional players to monetize their skill. As such, Snook is a steppingstone towards: As such, Snook is a steppingstone towards: - Curtailing inflation in the NFT market by providing a value metric that is not only based on buzz and speculation. - Bringing the cryptocurrency and blockchain economy and ecosystem closer to mainstream economy and day-to-day transactions - Realizing a working model for capturing the value of skill and performance Whitepaper: https://whitepaper.snook.gg/