Blitz – Earlybirds Invest https://earlybirdsinvest.com Latest Crypto News Fri, 27 Jun 2025 17:46:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.8 https://i0.wp.com/earlybirdsinvest.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/cropped-New-Project-2024-12-17T235703.455.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Blitz – Earlybirds Invest https://earlybirdsinvest.com 32 32 240146708 Otherside Reveals ‘Bathroom Blitz’ as First Otherside Experience https://earlybirdsinvest.com/otherside-reveals-bathroom-blitz-as-first-otherside-experience/ https://earlybirdsinvest.com/otherside-reveals-bathroom-blitz-as-first-otherside-experience/#respond Fri, 27 Jun 2025 17:46:30 +0000 https://earlybirdsinvest.com/otherside-reveals-bathroom-blitz-as-first-otherside-experience/

Otherside has announced the upcoming release of Bathroom Blitz, a fast-paced multiplayer shooter set inside the project’s original “BAYC bathroom”. The experience will go live in July and represents the platform’s first persistent, always-on virtual space.

Built by Command Line using Yuga’s own Otherside Development Kit (ODK), Bathroom Blitz allows two teams of players to compete in a stylised environment designed with BAYC references. It also introduces the new Voyager XP system, which will track engagement across the platform, and will serve as a testbed for Otherside’s live service infrastructure.

The announcement comes alongside several other feature rollouts, including upgraded social hubs, asset releases for creators, and additional testing phases planned for August.

Key Insights

  • Bathroom Blitz will be the first experience on Otherside, launching in July
  • The game is an 8v8 multiplayer shooter set in a miniature version of the BAYC bathroom
  • Voyager XP—a system to track player activity and engagement—will also be introduced
  • A new version of the Clubhouse social hub will support up to 500 concurrent users
  • A second persistent experience—Otherside Outbreak—is expected in August
Otherside Reveals 'Bathroom Blitz' as First Otherside Experience
Source: Otherside

What’s new in Otherside?

The centrepiece of Yuga Labs’ July update is Bathroom Blitz, a third-person, team-based shooter where players enter the environment at a scaled-down size and interact with the BAYC-themed setting using in-game weapons and traversal mechanics. The game will remain online for several weeks as Yuga and the developer gather feedback and monitor system performance.

This experience marks the first real test of persistent gameplay on the Otherside platform—a step toward Yuga Labs’ stated goal of supporting long-term, live virtual spaces. The gameplay will also contribute to a newly introduced progression system, Voyager XP, which will reward users for participating in Otherside content and track overall activity.

Alongside the game, Otherside will release an updated version of its social feature The Clubhouse, rebranded as Meet Me at the Clubhouse. Based on user feedback, capacity has been expanded from 100 to 500 simultaneous users. Deeplink integration will also allow users to stream or join Bubbles (chat environments) via direct URLs.

Otherside Reveals 'Bathroom Blitz' as First Otherside Experience
Source: Otherside

What else can we expect from the platform?

Whilst Bathroom Blitz is the first of its kind on the platform, Yuga Labs has confirmed that it is just one of several planned experiences. In August, Otherside Outbreak will go live as the second large-scale environment available for extended play. It will serve to test concurrency and infrastructure resilience in preparation for a broader persistent-world launch later this year.

Developers are being given access to nearly 1,000 in-game assets sourced from all 29 Otherdeed biomes, allowing for more varied and thematic creations. Yuga Labs has made clear that the same tools used internally—including the ODK—will be shared with external builders.

In addition, creation tools are being rolled out to Otherdeed holders. These include features for producing stickers, emotes, and custom objects, aimed at supporting participation from users without development backgrounds. All content created through these systems will include built-in royalty support, allowing creators to maintain some control over usage and monetisation.

No specific date has been given for the launch of Bathroom Blitz, but Yuga Labs says more information will be shared in the weeks leading up to the game’s release.

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XRP’s price posted a +6% green candle for the week on Friday, but other than BNB at +2% and TRX down -1%, it trailed the top 10 crypto assets by market cap. BTC posted +12% gains, ETH +12%, SOL +15%, DOGE +18%, ADA +17%, and SUI an eye-catching +74% candle.

So Ripple’s token may be undervalued at a long-term outlook, and the value buy this weekend for long-term holding crypto investors shopping out of the most favored assets by online and commercial telecom markets.

Here are five recent developments keeping market demand rolling for the massive cross-border payments company’s signature fleet of XRP tokens:

1. XRP Flips Ethereum in Diluted Market Cap

XRP’s fully diluted market cap is nearly 1/8th of Bitcoin’s in April. That is a remarkable development and a key fundamental metric in the supply/demand economics at play in the daily market price of these currencies.

Bitcoin’s market cap on Friday, Apr. 25, was $1.8 trillion. Ethereum’s was $215 billion, and XRP’s was a distant third at $128 billion.

But, its fully diluted market cap is the market capitalization if all the currency’s tokens were in circulation. By that metric, XRP surpassed ETH for the first time in the final stretch of April.

That’s important over the long term because XRP is supposed to become a scarce digital token with a supply cap of 100 billion coins. Meanwhile, Internet and institutional demand for the asset is high, and its use case is focused yet plentiful with expansion opportunities.

2. Paul Atkins Sworn In As New SEC Chair

Meanwhile, after Ripple’s lengthy and costly lawsuit with the SEC, Paul Atkins assumed office as the new agency Chair on Apr. 21, which is especially important for XRP market prices.

In the private sector, Atkins helped develop best practices for cryptocurrencies for a global strategy, hedge, and regulatory consultancy he founded. This has raised hopes of a final resolution to the lagging Dec. 2020 lawsuit against Ripple Labs.

There are many vast institutional conglomerates that rely on the SEC to do business and won’t invest in something the agency is suing. Only time will tell how many of them are waiting on the government with their eye on Ripple prices.

Patrick Bet-David of the “Valuetainment” YouTube podcast recently said that if the lawsuit is dropped, it will have a big impact on XRP prices going forward.

3. Coinbase Launches CFTC-Regulated XRP Futures

Furthermore, the Nasdaq-listed US crypto exchange Coinbase just launched a CFTC-regulated XRP futures product in April.

This could be a test for demand for XRP from cautious institutional investors and a potential leading indicator for new price support when things with the SEC are finally settled, pat and dry.

But it may be a big hit with leverage traders who find crypto’s volatile markets, with their frequent big double-digit daily swings, not exciting enough without multiplying the risk-reward factor.

Coinbase announced the new feature on X on Apr. 3 and rolled it out on Apr. 21.

4. Whales Are Buying The XRP Dip in April

“Whales are taking over!” Brett Crypto X tweeted on Apr. 21 to some 90K followers.

The last time Brett Crypto X warned about XRP was in the middle of a strong upward trend channel that lasted for months until the financial industry took a haircut, starting in February, over trade jitters.

In one of the threads, a replier begged Crypto X to tell them what blockchain updates software gives them that Star Trek-looking market cap monitor.

Crypto whales have an affinity for trading Ripple and are supporting XRP prices in April. Addresses between 10 million and 100 million XRP moved in April to make up about 1% more of the total share of circulating tokens.

Whale support means greater scarcity and higher exchange prices for a token economy, but add to its risk of future volatility if whales sell.

However, many whales on the blockchain are likely conscious of its economy and other peers and seem to follow Satoshi Nakamoto’s example by waiting months or even years to trade such substantial amounts.

5. Ripple Daily Active Addresses Surge

Ripple also saw its daily active addresses surge 67% from 27K to 40K over ten days in mid-April. That’s a more fundamental analysis of the tension against the market valuation of the most recent crypto rally.

Meanwhile, the XRP price chart exhibited an inverse head and shoulders pattern, usually a bullish formation indicating the beginning of a rally in the asset’s price.

The combination of fundamental/market decoupling and bullish technical indicators signals that XRP prices in the last week of April may be hiding bigger green candles.

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