Web3 Farmville is here! 🌾

GM builders,

Welcome back to thirdweb weekly: where we highlight how web3 is disrupting everything from the creator economy to gaming. 🚀 

In case you missed it, we’re rewarding every builder that has deployed a smart contract during the bear with a free NFT pack! See if you’re eligible and claim your reward. 🎉 

Pixels Builds an Immersive, Open-World Web3 Game 🌎️ 

In the last decade, gaming has seen explosive growth — and in 2021 alone, gamers spent over $54 billion on in-game purchases. But the issue with most games is that players don’t truly own their items: they’re locked into closed ecosystems, where only the company extracts all of the value.

Enter Pixels: an open-world, massively multiplayer online (MMO) game with 100k+ active wallets — where players can explore, gather resources, advance their skills, complete quests, and socialize with each other.

But beyond building a game, Pixels is using the blockchain to enable true digital ownership for its players — creating a thriving in-game ecosystem by deeply embedding on-chain assets & NFTs into the game.

Learn more about how Pixels is building an immersive web3 game, and unlocking digital ownership for its players in the process:

🪂 Bear Market Builders Airdrop: Claim a Free NFT Pack!

For builders, there is no bear market.

To celebrate the progress that’s been made in web3 over the past 18 months, we’re rewarding every builder that deployed a smart contract during the bear with a free NFT pack! 🪂 

Simply head to our dashboard to get the full details, see if you’re eligible, & claim your prize. 🥇

📹️ YouTube Tutorial: How to Create an NFT Marketplace

In this video, learn how to create an NFT marketplace with buy, sell, & auction features in 1 hour from scratch. We’ll take you step-by-step through:

• Deploying a Marketplace smart contract to any chain, in 1 click

• Using our pre-built Marketplace template to build a full web3 app

• Allowing users to buy, sell, list, & auction NFTs with other users

📚️ Guide: How to Deploy a Smart Contract to the Scroll zkEVM Network — in 5 Minutes

In this guide, learn how to deploy any smart contract to the newly-launched Scroll zkEVM Alpha Testnet — a zero-knowledge rollup built on top of the Ethereum blockchain. We’ll take you step-by-step through:

• Adding the Scroll zkEVM network to your dashboard & getting testnet funds in your wallet

• Deploying any smart contract to Scroll zkEVM testnet in 1 click

• Building a full-stack web3 app on Scroll using thirdweb’s SDK

🚀 Product Launch: Introducing thirdweb Dashboard V2!

🗓️ Events Schedule: Consensus & Office Hours

🚢 thirdweb Changelog: Weekly Product Updates

Here are some of the updates we’ve made in the past few weeks:

• Marketplace v3 Smart Contract Release

• React Native SDK for Mobile Web3 Apps

• Revamped Connect Wallet UI in React SDK

• Unity SDK v2 Stable Release

• Solidity SDK Docs for 30+ Extensions

We’re constantly shipping product updates to make thirdweb better. Get the latest updates in our Changelog.

Have a great rest of your week shippin’! 🚢 🛠️ 

And if you’re ever looking for 35,000+ other builders to learn from & share your web3 journey with, look no further than our Discord community 🤝