
Formula E: High Voltage Beginner's Guide—Get Started in the Play-to-Earn Racer
Play-to-earn racing game Formula E: High Voltage pays you crypto tokens for successful finishes. Our guide will get you up to speed.

Play-to-earn racing game Formula E: High Voltage pays you crypto tokens for successful finishes. Our guide will get you up to speed.

Dapper Labs aims to make the blockchain behind NBA Top Shot and CryptoKitties the platform of choice for plenty more NFT experiences to come.
NFTs
Dapper Labs, the firm behind licensed digital sports collectibles platform NBA Top Shot and NFL All Day, will no longer create new football collectibles for its licensed NFL platform, it announced on Wednesday. The decision does not affect existing NFTs on the platform, which can still be bought and sold via the site’s marketplace. “Today we are stopping primary issuance for our NFL All Day product, and announcing the signing of a new licensing agreement with the NFL,” Dapper Labs CEO and Flo...
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Officially licensed NFT collectibles platform NFL All Day is revamping its platform ahead of the start of the new football season, releasing autographed collectibles and adding a real-life presence at NFL stadiums. Built by Dapper Labs on the Flow blockchain, the NFL All Day platform will boast in-stadium activations via partnerships with the New England Patriots, Cincinnati Bengals, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Houston Texans, connecting fans with free digital collectibles in the process. Fans wil...
NFTs
Basketball highlights from Dapper Labs’ NBA Top Shot collectibles platform are now available via physical vending machines in Japan, thanks to a collaboration with Web3 marketing firm 24karat. As part of the initiative, basketball fans and hopeful collectors can engage with AIICO smart vending machines situated in train stations and commercial centers from Hokkaido to Okinawa, adding Top Shot NFT moments on the Flow blockchain to their collection with their mobile phones. “It’s exciting to see...
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Sotheby's is auctioning off NBA Top Shot digital collectibles as the NFT market experiences a modest resurgence amid a broader crypto market boom in recent months. The auction house is selling eight NBA Top Shot NFTs, valued between $500 and $3,000 each, as part of its broader NBA memorabilia sale, a company spokesperson said Tuesday in a statement. Bidding is open through January 21. The sale includes digital collectibles featuring several well-known basketball players, including Jaylen Wells,...
Gaming
Classic Ethereum NFT project CryptoKitties is back—but this time as a Telegram game. This is the first official product launch under the IP since the original NFT collection released in 2017 and serves as a “sneak peek” into the collection’s relaunch on Flow. In recent years Dapper Labs—the creator of CryptoKitties—has focused on expanding its portfolio to include licensed crypto products like NBA Top Shot, NFL All Day, and Disney Pinnacle. But with the recent explosion of Telegram gaming, the c...
Business
Layer-1 blockchain Flow is bringing its Flow World Tour builder series to Singapore later this month. Kicking off on September 19, the Flow World Tour invites blockchain builders to develop the next “killer app” across four categories: decentralized finance (DeFi), Sports, Social, and Gaming. “As major avenues of consumer traction, these four sectors present unparalleled opportunities for Web3 disruption,” a spokesperson for Flow said in a statement shared with Decrypt. The event series will run...
Law and Order
Dapper Labs, the company behind NBA Top Shot and other prominent on-chain collectibles, has settled a yearslong class action lawsuit with disgruntled customers who argued that Top Shot NFTs constituted illegally offered securities, court filings revealed Monday. As part of the settlement, Dapper will pay out $4 million to the suit’s plaintiffs, the company’s CEO, Roham Gharegozlou, told Decrypt. Those funds include monetary relief for the plaintiffs’ claims, and will also cover legal fees. In re...
Gaming
Formula E: High Voltage is the first official game for the eco-friendly motorsport, and it’s bootstrapped with play-to-earn functionality. Therefore, winning is important. The more you win, the more tokens you earn. Launching the game can all be overwhelming—but we're here to make everything clear. Check out our full review, and then read below to get started and pick up a few tips. First things first: head over to the official site and click "connect wallet," then follow the on-screen instructi...
NFTs
Entertainment giant Disney will be the focus of an officially licensed NFT collectibles platform from NBA Top Shot maker Dapper Labs called Disney Pinnacle, the NFT startup announced Tuesday. Inspired by the physical pins that Disney sells at its theme parks and that fans collect and trade, Disney Pinnacle will offer pin-inspired digital collectibles that are minted as NFTs on the Flow blockchain—the same network as NBA Top Shot and NFL All Day. The platform will include digital pins based on Di...
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San Antonio Spurs rookie phenom Victor Wembanyama has already made waves in the NFT world with a six-figure sale via Sorare NBA last week, and now the 19-year-old hoops star is set to debut in NBA Top Shot this afternoon. Wembanyama is one of the fresh-faced NBA players featured in the Rookie Debut: Headliners Web pack dropping at 3pm ET Tuesday, along with Brandon Miller, Scoot Henderson, Amen Thompson, Ausar Thompson, and Chet Holmgren. Each pack includes five total NFT collectibles, each depi...
Games
Formula E: High Voltage puts a strategic twist on racing games, elevating the genre’s competitive nature with play-to-earn functionality. It’s a fun browser-based game with a unique vibe, though the lack of in-game direction and tutorials may slow your roll as you get started. You might be familiar with Formula 1 with stars like Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, but Formula E is the eco-friendly spin on the sport, opting for electric batteries rather than 1.6-litre V6 turbocharged engines. In t...
Coins
Although the SEC took official action against the world's two largest exchanges, it also chose to name a number of cryptocurrencies that it describes as unregistered securities, triggering a drop across many altcoins. Two of them—Algorand (ALGO) and Flow (FLOW)—fell to all-time lows over the weekend. Their inclusion in the SEC's actions has called their regulatory status into question, along with many of crypto’s leading altcoins, like Polygon (MATIC), Solana (SOL), and Cardano (ADA), which have...
NFTs
Now you can enter the world of the Fast and Furious—and it won’t cost you the pink slip to your car. Timed alongside the release of the latest installment of the Fast & Furious film franchise, iconic toy maker Mattel is set to launch the newest edition of its Hot Wheels NFT Garage Series based on the global blockbuster series on May 22. The Hot Wheels NFT Garage x Fast & Furious collection will reside on the Flow Blockchain and feature cars from the movies, including Dominic Toretto's 1970 Dodge...
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Just in time to celebrate May 4 (“May the 'Fourth' be with you”), the so-called annual "Star Wars Day," NFT startup Cryptoys announced on Thursday the upcoming launch of digital collectibles based on the massively popular entertainment franchise. Dropping on May 24, the Star Wars NFT collection is the latest in Cryptoys pop culture “digital toys,” following its previous Masters of the Universe collections with toy brand Mattel. Like previous collections, Cryptoys says that the Star Wars NFTs wil...
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Doodles is expanding from its Ethereum profile picture (PFP) origins to fully customizable avatars. Today's launch of the Doodles 2 Character Builder within The Stoodio app for NFT holders marks a big step forward—with help from Pharrell Williams and Adidas. Alongside the launch of the Character Builder, which lets Doodles NFT holders change their apparel and attributes for a full-body avatar, Doodles has announced an upcoming airdrop for a “Pharrell Pack.” The NFT pack includes digital apparel...
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Doodles 2, the larger-scale successor to the popular Ethereum NFT collection, takes its next step towards a broader launch today with the long-awaited opening of the Genesis Box: a tokenized bundle of digital wearable items first auctioned last June. Inside each Genesis Box are two pieces of digital apparel—which could include headwear, clothes, shoes, and accessories—along with a beta pass for the upcoming Doodles 2 platform. That will let holders customize full-body avatars featuring the same...
Long Reads
The multi-billion dollar NFT market has for years anxiously awaited the answer to a single question: Will the U.S. government classify non-fungible tokens as securities? A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday gave the first glimpse of an answer, ruling against one of the top companies in the NFT space: CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot maker Dapper Labs. Dapper sought to dismiss a lawsuit against the company over allegations that it violated securities laws in its offering of NBA Top Shot NFT...
Business
Dapper Labs is laying off 20% of its full-time staff in a renewed bid to restructure the organization, according to a letter to staff sent Thursday by founder and CEO Roham Gharegozlou. “We are restructuring the Dapper Labs organization to improve our focus and efficiency, strengthening our position in the market and better serving our communities,” Gharegozlou wrote, adding that those who did not receive a notification were not impacted. It is the second notable round of layoffs. In November, D...
NFTs
Are NBA Top Shot NFT moments unregistered securities? That’s what a lawsuit filed against Top Shot creator Dapper Labs in 2021 alleges—and the judge apparently agrees. United States District Court Judge Victor Marrero today denied Dapper’s request to dismiss the suit, writing that the NFTs offered on Dapper's platform indeed appear to satisfy the requirements of a security. In his ruling, Marrero used the Howey Test—referring to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case—and determined that the NBA Top...
NFTs
NBA Top Shot, the officially licensed basketball NFT platform that has generated more than $1 billion in sales to date, is headed to mobile with the launch of smartphone apps through Apple’s iOS App Store and Google’s Android Play Store. For NBA Top Shot users, the native apps aim to provide a smoother way to access and buy digital collectibles on the go. But for creator Dapper Labs, which developed the Flow blockchain and also runs platforms like NFL All Day and UFC Strike, it’s the first step...