Introduction Holding gaming guild tokens has been max pain for crypto investors in 2022....It begs the question; do crypto gaming guilds have product-market fit in the absence of hyper-growth...In the context of crypto gaming guilds, gaming is obviously their focal point....play-to-earn games?

In order to capitalize on this new frontier in gaming, we are seeing the emergence of guilds that deploy...Generally speaking, guild activity manifests across scholarship provision, investing in core game assets...by Yield Guild Games (YGG)....Already, between these two guilds we see a divergence in game and asset focus.

Yield Guild Games continues to position itself as a major stakeholder in the ever expanding play-to-earn...Splinterlands is the game at the centre of Yield Guild’s new SubDAO....As Yield Guild’s reach expands across more games, additional SubDAOs will naturally arise from the YGG...on the Guild’s Quest Lodge.

We are very excited to announce that Delphi has led Yield Guild’s seed round....continues to be an ardent supporter of the NFT ecosystem and its potential for impact across video games...One of the many exciting aspects of this emerging landscape has been the rise of games such as Axie Infinity...game environments.

🪩 This Past Month in Web3 Gaming Welcome to another edition of Delphi’s monthly Gaming Roundup!...and non-gaming dApps, has just under 62% of tokens staked. ...Gameta is an NFT gaming platform on BNB Chain that hosts multiple hyper-casual and casual Web3 games....partnership with Gala Games.

Web3 games....Yield Guild Games raised $13.8M via a token sale from treasury reserves....This round should help the Web3 gaming guild throughout the crypto bear market as they continue to branch...We took a deep dive into the current state of Web3 gaming guilds here and revisited how guilds are pivoting...

To combat this, Stedari proposes a game mechanic called the Forge....Balancing in-game items and economies is no easy task....with in-game mechanics to achieve this objective....base and make the game unplayable....Most people play games as entertainment and will hesitate to have their game’s parameters determined...

Inventing highfalutin vocabulary words and playing the political blame game is always tempting but never...In macro circles, this reckoning is known as the “End Game” and focuses on, you guessed it: the U.S....This, my friends, is the End Game....And timing the End Game is reminiscent of Arthur Hayes’ kaiseki meal — the destination is known, but...

🪩 This Past Month in Web3 Gaming Welcome to another month of Delphi’s Gaming Roundup....Web3 gaming fund....Blockchain gaming studio Pixion Games raises $5.5M in a Seed round of funding....games....#1 Sports game in the App Store!! #6 so far out of ALL games in the App Store!!

...play games, so taking the path towards implementing games natively in-app was natural....mini-game experience....Gaming & User Acquisition UA has become a key metric for any mobile gaming studio....Notable TON Games The TON gaming ecosystem has been on the rise over the last few months.

gaming ecosystem....EA Co-Founder Jeff Burton joined Web3 gaming guild P2Earn....Jeff will act as the guild’s Chairman of its board of advisors and believes there is still hope for the...future of Web3 gaming guilds, something we discussed at length in Delphi’s 2023 Guide to Web3 Games...

Rainmaker Games started as a P2E guild before raising funding last December to build out its own P2E...Like many other Web3 guilds, the company is still in the process of pivoting to a more sustainable business...YGG Japan, a sister company to Yield Guild Games, raises $2.95M in funding with participation from Square...

Solayer is the new kid on the block that saw the opportunity to be a first mover in the restaking game...>50% market share of SOL LST An imminent dominance in the restaking game....Out-of-protocol   Restaking Risks and Market Dynamics Incentives Here, Incentives There The restaking game...

This decentralized gaming ecosystem, which includes a number of different games, NFT projects, and tools...Some stakeholders have now spent over 12 months mining for MAGIC in Bridgeworld or forming guilds to...If Treasure is the game console that incubates indie games and supercharges their growth, Bridgeworld...

The common denominator between the two is game theory....With the amount of ETH staked with Lido accelerating, Ethereum’s decentralization is betting on Lido’s Game...

Some of the biggest forever games originated from mods....the video game industry for years to come....mechanic designed for their PvE game “Save the World” to create a fresh game loop....Instead of playing about 1.5 games per session, Roblox users usually play around eight different games...become one of the most-played Chinese mobile games.

In this month’s edition of the Gaming Roundup, we will take a look at the markets and how gaming assets...Redemption Games raises $7M to build F2P games that leverage blockchain and AI technology....MYSTiC GAMES raises $1.3M to further develop its mobile game, Call of the VoYd.

Some noteworthy game updates, drama from Epic and Mythical Games, and more firms and executives joining...  🎮 Web3 Gaming Compared to last month’s roundup, there are very few standout Web3 games for December...($100M) and Fenix Games ($150M), neither of which are strictly Web3 games.

Web3 Gaming Guilds The rise of play-to-earn drove an explosion of activity around gaming guilds that...model, with most privately funded games having at least one guild on their cap table....Many of the early-stage investments made by guilds were for in-game assets in first-generation P2E games...