DCL Regenesis Labs wrapped up Season 1 of its Regenesis Grants Program, announcing that six projects were funded and have now shipped — all open source. The program funds small, fast-shipping builds with up to $15,000 in MANA each on a 90-day delivery window, with milestone-based payments.
Season 2 of the grants round is planned to follow.
Creator RishiGirl (@Rishi10561916) released Lasso Lasso, a lasso emote designed by @gwenstacey420 for the RishiGirl's Closet Collection, now available on the Decentraland Marketplace. The emote lets players show off their roping skills and complete a cowgirl or cowboy outfit.
Decentraland retweeted @em_DCL's update to CritterCollect introducing new gameplay skills: Harvesting and Cooking. The update also adds berries as a new harvestable item, expanding the community-built game's crafting and gathering loop.
Decentraland retweeted artist @Miguel_Amargo announcing his Halloween retro drop, Blue Screen, now live in the metaverse. The wearable was sent automatically to players who bought his previous helmet release.
Decentraland promoted a new in-world music event, Digging the Crates with Make by aKIDcalledMAKE, now live in the metaverse and listed on Decentraland's Places page. The session pulls from the artist's "Make'Stack" of tracks, letting players request their favorite songs and share picks during the crate-digging set.
Decentraland kicked off Halloweeks, its month-long Halloween event running throughout October. The promotion highlights new mini games in Genesis Plaza, a full lineup of horror films, a Wearable contest, and a haunted party, with Decentraland's official account announcing the event and adding that it has "officially invaded" the metaverse.
Decentraland issued a security notice warning that a vulnerability in an old Magic Eden trading contract, Payment Processor V2, is being exploited to take NFTs from wallets that previously listed assets on Magic Eden. Decentraland's own smart contracts were not compromised — the exploit is specific to the external Magic Eden contract.
The Decentraland Foundation and @RegenesisLabs acted to identify exposed wallets on Ethereum and Polygon and move Decentraland assets out of reach:
Anyone who listed Decentraland assets on Magic Eden is advised to check their wallet with Revoke.cash's Magic Eden exploit checker and revoke Payment Processor V2 approvals on Ethereum and Polygon. Rescued assets will be returned automatically once approvals are revoked — no claim link, payment, or signature is required.
Decentraland retweeted @em_DCL's update adding new User Profiles to CritterCollect. Players can now open the Leaderboard, choose a player, and explore their backpack directly from the profile view.
The feature extends the community-built game's social and collection mechanics, letting players inspect each other's items and progression in-world. Decentraland promoted the update to its audience via an official retweet.
Decentraland retweeted @AdventureLandX's update on BattleZone (BattleZone.dcl.eth), its fighter-jet combat game playable in the Decentraland Mobile app, where players fly jets and fight other players anywhere. In 10 days since the game's launch, players logged 4,438 player kills, 5,210 drone kills, and earned 14,086 coins, per AdventureLandX, which shared the milestone with a mobile gameplay video.
The official Decentraland Discord server is currently down, with the team working with Discord to resolve it. While the outage persists, Decentraland warned users to stay vigilant of any unsolicited links and to communicate through other trusted community servers instead.
Announced May 24, 2021, the new DAO substituted cost-free, transparent Snapshot voting (via a multisig proxy) for the earlier Aragon-based on-chain voting scheme.
Meilich, who served as CEO and Project Lead since founding, stepped back into an advisory role at the organization in April 2020.
The platform officially released (public launch), presenting Genesis City, a map of 90,601 land parcels, alongside its first version DAO.
The project raised over $26 million (86,206 ETH) in the August 2017 ICO, funding development; digital land parcels initially sold for ~$20 and MANA at ~$0.02.
Development of the Ethereum-based virtual world began in 2015, when the founders posed the question of owning digital space.
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