21 November 2025 | Weekly news roundup

[0:40] Nexpace has announced a $50 million ecosystem fund for MapleStory Universe.

[3:48] As a reminder Nexon funded Nexpace two years ago with $100 million of funding.

[4:17] Technically the fund is "up to $50 million" - likely mainly NXPC tokens and work-in-kind etc.

[6:56] MapleStory N is the core, but the fund is to encourage third party games and app around it.

[8:55] This is a trend for many fully onchain games such as Soccerverse and EVE Frontier.

[12:10] There's also a deeper trend with stablecoins becoming payment rails for Tradfi.

[14:03] Our Mavens discussed the balance of financials and fun for blockchain games.

[17:22] Wemade has expanded the custom server business for its Legend of Ymir MMORPG.

[18:00] It originally auctioned 10 servers for +$20,000 each. You can earn 15% of in-game

[21:37] Indian social gaming app Stan extended its Series A funding to $10.5 million.

[23:08] One likely reason is India banned real money games so apps like Stan are now an alternative.

[26:29] Jon had Maxwell from Hytopia on the podcast this week.

[29:12] The platform is now live with its HYBUX token also live on Base.

[30:16] Maxwell says "Crypto is cool but fun is #1".

[33:13] Moku has launched the 4 week preseason for its Grand Arena game.