Minecraft's ban of non-fungible tokens decimated NFT Worlds, a project which relied on the Microsoft-owned game's implicit approval. Now, the team behind the project is hoping for a new beginning. 

NFT Worlds, since rebranded as Hychain Games, the developer of the crypto video game Hytopia, is launching a node sale for Hychain, the game's Layer 2 blockchain. The company said Hychain is based on Arbitrum’s Orbit technology.

Free-to-play Hytopia, which looks to be heavily inspired by Minecraft, is slated to release an "invite only" beta version of the game by the end of the first quarter, according to a statement. Hytopia's beta has more than 1 million players pre-registered, the statement also said. "Hytopia emerged from the vision of transforming the Minecraft experience with …