ChainCatcher news, the blockchain gaming infrastructure provider UniWorlds has completed its seed round financing, with investments from UniSat and UGC platforms.UniWorlds will launch the first BTC ecological game creation platform, and it is also the first large-scale application on Fractal Bitcoin, the BTC expansion solution developed by the UniSat team. With Web2 user resources and game content supply capabilities, UniWorlds will provide customizable content and autonomous gamified interaction spaces for various communities in the BTC ecosystem, offering diverse application scenarios for interaction, asset display, and asset application in the Web3 community.

ChainCatcher news, EigenLayer's new NFT series EigenWorlds has officially opened for free minting. Anyone is eligible to mint the NFT, but there are 3 different tiers depending on whether the wallet has the following interactions: Restaker (has restaked in EigenLayer), Collector (holds Zora NFT), Base Layer (has no interaction with the EigenLayer ecosystem). The NFT minting deadline is August 30.Additionally, the team has not disclosed whether this NFT minting is merely commemorative or if it has any utility.

ChainCatcher news, the metaverse platform NFT Worlds announced a brand iteration, and the project has officially been renamed to HYTOPIA. After the renaming, the project token TOPIA remains unchanged, and the related contracts will not be migrated.

ChainCatcher news, AI-assisted 3D animation company Kinetix announced the public release of Emote Infrastructure, enabling game developers and virtual world creators to enhance user engagement and open new revenue streams by integrating the Emote SDK compatible with Windows, iOS, and Android platforms through Unity.The Kinetix SDK is free, allowing developers to integrate a cloud-based library of over 1000 emotes and profit from it. This is compatible with their game characters, visual styles, and user interfaces.It is reported that Kinetix aims to provide a platform to assist user-generated content in the metaverse, making creation fast and simple.ChainCatcher previously reported that Kinetix announced the completion of a $11 million seed round financing to promote the development of user-generated content in the metaverse. This round of financing was led by Adam Ghobarah, founder of Top Harvest Capital and former executive at Google and Google Ventures, with participation from The Sandbox, Naver's 3D avatar application Zepeto (NAVER Z), Sparkle Ventures, and others. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, metaverse infrastructure company Worlds has completed a $21 million Series A funding round, led by Moneta Ventures, with participation from Align Capital, Green Park & Golf Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures, Piva Capital, PerotJain, and Capital Factory.It is reported that Worlds, formerly known as Hypergiant Sensory Sciences, went public in August 2021, with clients including Chevron and Petronas. The company is currently integrating IoT sensors, personnel, and processes in a digital twin format to help industrial enterprises monitor their supply and logistics processes. The new funding will be used to continue developing the company's AI platform, bringing AI-based automation to the underlying operations of large industrial companies. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to Crypto Home, the patent for "Cross-Metaverse Item Processing Method, Device, Equipment, and Storage Medium" by Migu Culture Technology Co., Ltd. and China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. has been published. The patent abstract shows that the method includes: when a sale request for an item on the public chain is detected in the first virtual world, determining the transaction chain of the second virtual world that matches the item; if the item is in an off-chain state in the transaction chain, creating a non-fungible token product for the item on the transaction chain, and creating a smart contract for the non-fungible token product on the transaction chain. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to internal documents from Meta, the company's metaverse VR social application Horizon Worlds may not meet internal performance expectations. Meta's initial goal was to reach 500,000 monthly active users for Horizon Worlds by the end of the year, but currently, that number is less than 200,000. Most users have not returned to the platform after logging in during the first month, and the user count has been steadily declining since spring. Only 9% of the content in Horizon Worlds has been accessed by about 50 people, and most content has never been visited.It is reported that at the beginning of October, the Horizon Worlds team was instructed to maintain a "quality lockdown" for the remainder of the year to ensure that quality and performance issues are addressed first. (Wall Street Journal)

According to a report by The Verge, a leaked memo from within Meta shows that there are too many quality issues with Meta's VR social network, Horizon Worlds, to the extent that even its development team does not use it frequently.Vishal Shah, Meta's Vice President of Metaverse, stated in a memo sent to employees that a key issue with Horizon's development so far is that the people building the product at Meta seem to not use it much. He wrote, "For many of us, we don't spend that much time in Horizon Worlds, and the dogfooding dashboard makes that very clear. Why is that? Why don't we like the products we make? A simple fact is, if we don't like it, how can we expect our users to like it?"In a follow-up memo, Vishal Shah wrote that Meta is developing a plan to have each manager ensure their teams use Horizon at least once a week. "Everyone in the organization should make it their mission to love Horizon Worlds, and you can't do that if you don't use it. Get in there, schedule time to interact with our community in both the internal and public versions with your colleagues or friends." (The Verge)

According to Chain Catcher, an internal memo obtained by The Verge reveals that Meta's flagship metaverse virtual world social application Horizon Worlds has too many bugs, and the development team rarely uses the platform. The Horizon Worlds team has been instructed to maintain a "quality lockdown" for the remainder of the year to ensure that quality and performance issues are addressed first. (The Verge)

ChainCatcher news, the ApeCoin DAO community has initiated a new proposal AIP-103, aiming to create a third-person shooter game "Ape Worlds: Shooter Edition" to attract more people into the ApeCoin ecosystem. The voting deadline for this proposal is September 22, but currently, the community seems to have low enthusiasm for developing this game, with the proportion of opposing votes reaching 75.27%. (Source link)