Made Mobile Legends Bang-Bang’s ‘The Aspirants’: Launch, Other Details

• The popular gaming platform Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) launched its first NFT collection, “The Aspirants.”
• The collection was launched on January 19, 2024, and was available until February 2.
• The Aspirants has some unique characters in its newly launched Mobile Legends Bang Bang NFT collection.

On January 19, 2024, at 11:00 am UTC, Moonton released its first Mobile Legends Bang Bang NFT collection on the Binance NFT marketplace. The NFT collection is titled “The Aspirants.”

History of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang

MLBB was first launched in 2016 and since then, it has been among the leading mobile multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA), along with Honor of Kings and Brawl Stars, as the third highest-grossing MOBA for the last three years.

The new NFT collection has two Mobile Legends Bang Bang NFT characters, namely Fanny and Layla with 12 unique mystery boxes, each of which contains digital figures and exclusive character animations.

MLBB has crossed one Billion downloads worldwide with 100 Million monthly active users. The game has gained more popularity in Southeast Asian countries.

The Rise of Bang Bang

Sensor Tower, a market research company, is a real-time platform that delivers responsibility-sourced insights into the global digital economy. The Sensor Tower stated that MLBB had 54 Million downloads in the first half of 2021.

The significant number of downloads made it the most downloaded mobile MOBA for the period, ahead of Brawl Stars and Honor of Kings. Looking at the download bifurcation, Google Play contributed to 88.5% and others were from the App Store.

During the same period, MLBB games accumulated around $220 Million in consumer spending, with 64.5% of revenue from Google Play. ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company based in China, acquired Moonton for $4 Billion in 2021.

The first week of July 2023 marked a remarkable beginning of a new era as the inaugural Mobile Legends: Bang Bang tournament took place within the Web3 community. 

Development of Mobile Legends Bang-Bang NFTs

Bang-bang is focused on integrating reality and modern technology. It is currently working on multiple projects, including Bunny Warriors, Kung-fu Warriors, Investmansky, Bossy Lion, Dao, and Hertz, co-creating versatile artworks with digital art and modern art.

The founder also mentioned the original intention of establishing a physical art gallery for NFT.

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang NFT collection- The Aspirants 

On January 11, 2024, at 11:00 AM UTC, one of the world’s top mobile multiplayer online games, with the support of NFKings- the leading NFT creatives and distribution, launched its first-ever NFT. 

The NFT series “The Aspirant” consists of 24,700 digital figures and creations from the mystery boxes on the Binance NFT marketplace. Excited fans attracted attention to this series of NFT mystery boxes and within two minutes, total revenue crossed over $617,500.

It has twelve unique mystery boxes of four different ranks, each containing digital figures and exclusive animations of two popular female heroes: Layla and Fanny, bringing to the fans the upcoming in-game skins, including ‘Miss Hiraki and Blade of Kibou”.

With this collection, MLBB has taken the first step towards the new world of NFTs. This will boost the growth of the metaverse concept and interest in non-fungible tokens has risen.

There will be a total of 25,000 mystery boxes for $25, and a user is not allowed to buy more than 100 boxes. Each mystery box comes with an opportunity to win in-game prizes. These were only available from January 19 to February 2, 2024.

Mobile Legends Bang Bang NFT Aspirants: Limited in-game skins giveaway

If a user can collect some higher-ranking NFTs, are there any limited in-game skins that they can qualify for:

• Collecting 1 Super Super Rare (SSR) NFT to qualify for the newly released “Miss Hikari” and “Blade of Kibou” in-game skins. (Limited to 10)

• Collect 2 different Super Rare (SR) NFTs to qualify for the limited editions “Bunny Babe” and “Lightborn-Ranger” in-game skins (Limited to 10)

Collect 1 SR NFT to qualify for the limited edition Lifeguard and S.A.B.E.R Breacher in-game skins (Limited 10)

What if a user collects all 12 different NFT characters?

If a user manages to collect all 12 different editions of the Mobile Legends Bang Bang NFT, then the user will be able to share a prize pool of US$20,000.

However, to appear for the prize, a user needs to be one of the first 22 qualified participants.

FAQs

What is the Mobile Legends Bang Bang NFT based on?

It is based on Mobile Legends: Bang Bang which is one of the biggest MOBA mobile games in the world.

When was the game released?

The game was first released in 2016.

Who is the creator of the game?

Shanghai Moonton Technology Co. Ltd. has created and developed this unique game.

Amanda Shinoy is one of the few women in the space invested knee-deep in crypto. An advocate for increasing the presence of women in crypto, she is known for her accurate technical analysis and price prediction of cryptocurrencies. Readers are often waiting for her opinion about the next rally. She is a finance expert with an MBA in finance. Quitting a corporate job at a leading financial institution, she now engages herself full-time into financial education for the general public.