HYTOPIA pauses infrastructure and websites for 1-3 months after IRS tax refund delay stalls funding
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Promote with Leviathan NewsHYTOPIA — the voxel gaming platform built by the ex-NFT Worlds team — is pausing all infrastructure and websites for an estimated 1-3 months, blaming a delayed IRS tax refund for leaving them in a funding crunch. The project raised $8M in a node sale and positioned itself as Minecraft-with-blockchain after Mojang banned NFTs in 2022. Yet another web3 gaming casualty, though the trigger here is less tokenomics collapse and more "IRS is running months behind in 2026."
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