Today I have a few freebies for you, plus an anime series that raised $7 million from a16z Crypto and Variant.

Faze Forever V.A.S. Cartridge

If you’re into gaming, you might have heard of the Faze Clan. For those who don’t know them, they’re a Counter-Strike (CS) team. 

Despite being around for over two decades, CS continues to attract millions of players and spectators. Faze Clan benefits from this attention: it’s currently a little shy of 6 million followers on Twitter.

The team now has a Metaverse-themed website that offers visitors to mint a free V.A.S. cartridge. The NFT service is provided by MoonPay, which is famous for its ties to the Bored Apes Yacht Club collection. 

All you have to do to get a cartridge is register with your Web 2.0 credentials. Most likely, you will get a chance to mint it on-chain at a later date.

The Smurfs’ Society Riddle

The Smurfs are very popular: their movies alone generate hundreds of millions of dollars. Now, the franchise is heading to the Metaverse, and you have a chance to get early access to its products.

The team behind The Smurfs’ Society NFT project crafted a series of riddles that should open access to something. That something will probably be an allowlist, or a minting form. 

I will spare you looking up solutions for the first four puzzles and give you this link that appears after solving them. The link contains another riddle and an invitation to come back after the next new moon, December 23, 2022, if you can’t solve it.

If you have time, it’s worth checking the project’s Discord server daily and using the search bar to find the answer to the final quest. You can use keywords like “quest 5” or “fifth,” or check the pinned messages. Alternatively, come back after the new moon.

Eykar Testnet Quests

Anything on StarkNet is good, period. While everyone else is obsessed with Arbitrum, zkSync and StarkNet are turning out to be the real hidden gems. The more activities you do there, the better.

Eykar is a strategy game. At this point, you can mint your character on the StarkNet Goerli testnet. Then, you can complete quests that also require transacting in some cases.

There’s a high chance that you can mint something or get an airdrop once the game goes to the mainnet. Moreover, when StarkNet gets hyped, you might get a good exit.

$7 Million Anime

Pplpleasr is a solid influential figure, often covered by Fortune magazine. She and her team conducted several successful sales of NFT collections. Now, they are focusing on Web 3.0 movies.

Shibuya, pplpleasr’s film platform, recently raised $6.9 million from a16z and Variant at a $50 million valuation. That’s much more than a lot of yield-generating DeFi projects.

Pplpleasr eventually wants the platform to help others make movies. Still, right now, the only way to participate is by buying her anime series NFTs, staking them, and voting for the upcoming episodes. 

The NFTs became rather expensive after the announcement of the raise, so you might want to wait until the initial hype subsides before pulling the trigger. Ideally, you need both passes.

Source: OpenSea

After purchasing the passes, head over to Shibuya, click on the staking page and stake the passes. You will receive WRAB tokens for voting with them.

Follow Shibuya and turn notifications on. That’s how you will know about the upcoming episodes. At the end of each, you will have an opportunity to decide where the story goes.

WRAB will likely become valuable in the future. So, the plan is to buy NFTs, stake, watch a $7 million anime, and stack WRAB.

That’s it for today. Thank you for reading.