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CouRage and Valkyrae become 100 Thieves co-owners, BMW announces esports manga | ESI Digest #37

Each week, ESI Digest breaks down the weekly happenings in the esports industry, making sense of things so you don’t have to. As well as being housed on YouTube, ESI Digest is available on all major podcast platforms and is also available in written form below. On this week’s ESI Digest we cover, Valkyrae and CouRage being announced as 100 Thieves co-owners, Astralis Group looking to trade in the US market, BMW Esports launching a manga series, Jackson’s LCS and PENTAKILL partnership, plus GRID’s $10m investment.  This edition of the ESI Digest is in

Astralis Group announces intention to trade in US market

Danish esports organisation Astralis Group has announced its intention to trade in the US market through a dual quotation on the OTCQX Best Market. According to the release, the organisation has applied to be publicly listed in the country due to ‘growing US investor interest’ in Astralis Group. Photo credit: Astralis Group / DreamHack RELATED: Astralis extends and expands HP commercial partnership If proven successful, US-based investors will be able to purchase Astralis Group shares. The organisation has also stated that the listing is expected to increase liquidity. Anders Hørsholt,

World Series of Poker® Announces Plans for 2021

LAS VEGAS, April 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Series of Poker (WSOP) today announced much-anticipated plans for 2021, including the return of the live, in-person World Series of Poker event and $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em World Championship, best known as "The Main Event®". World Series of Poker at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino The world-famous tournament series, which experienced record-smashing participation in 2019 and adjusted to a hybrid format to accommodate 2020, will be back in-person at Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino this fall pending applicable state and/or regulatory

Lepricon Channels Luck of the Irish with St. Paddy’s Day Launch

Gaming is the first industry that will utilize blockchain technology to empower its community of users, an essential aspect of Lepricon’s blockchain gaming platform. Using in-game currencies, verifiably scarce items, and Defi principles, Lepricon is innovating in the space to reimagine the gaming experience, including how users can benefit monetarily from this new style of gaming.  To bring a little extra luck to its platform and users, Lepricon will launch on St. Patrick’s day, with its L3P token opening for trade on Uniswap. Lepricon has already garnered massive interest from

Mark Cuban and other billionaires join the NBA Blockchain Committee

As some brand-name decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens sputter, a crop of new projects have emerged that are catching strong bids on the back of aggressive yield farming programs, generous airdrops, and significant technical advances.  It’s a set of outlier projects pushing forward on both price and fundamentals that has led one crypto analyst, eGirl Capital’s mewny, to brand them as DeFi’s “Gen 2.” feels like theres a gen 1 and gen 2 of defi tokens now the former is stagnant and the latter is pamping has nothing to do with

What Happens When Blockchain-Meets-Crypto-Meets-Gaming?

On the surface, ‘Crypto’ and ‘Gaming’ seem like an intuitive couple, yet the current landscape of these largely complementary industries reveals that the fusion of the two is still very much under construction. The challenges posed by accessibility, reach, design, function and a plethora of others immediately springing to mind are bravely being tackled by many crypto and tech wizards, yet only a handful are pioneering this evolution. In this article, we’ll review the industry’s lay of the land and evaluate its most recent developments. A unique opportunity Since crypto

Enjin Pumps After Announced Integration with Aave and Bancor

Enjin Coin (ENJ) has seen an increase of 23.8% following an update that enables the cryptocurrency to be added in Aave’s DeFi protocol. After the announcement, ENJ went from $0.172 to $0.214 in less than two days. As of press time, the gaming asset has retraced back to $0.198 as trading volume appears to be in a downtrend. Enjin and Aave The Enjin platform enables gamers to earn ENJ by playing the platform’s growing collection of games and applications. They can then sell these game items in the Enjin Marketplace,

How the Tokenization of the Gaming Industry Empowers Players

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing is clear: The video games industry is thriving. As people around the world find themselves with more time on their hands thanks to government-mandated lockdowns and a partial economic shutdown, video game sales have skyrocketed. Despite being overshadowed by some of the more glamorous uses for blockchain technology, the gaming industry may be poised for a generational leap forward with the advent of asset tokenization — a practice that could expose the gaming industry to a whole new wave of investors while simultaneously unlocking