Ahead for Gaming 2024 – Full Report Year Ahead for Gaming 2024 – Executive Summary Key Themes NFTs...NFTs....Gaming Covering mobile markets, opportunities in Asia, the nascent fully on-chain gaming sub-sector,...Theme #1: Web3 mobile gaming markets are primed for growth, especially in Asia.

Once the community is onboarded, they can be engaged through games, discounts and utility via NFTs, and...racing video games....In total, 6634 NFTs were sold....Or even more literally: the NFTs could be used in a game, like Louis Vuitton or Burberry x Blankos Block...The real game-changer comes when NFTs offer actual utility.

...a reported 60M daily active users within one month!...Moreover, anecdotal estimates from incumbents valued the WeChat mini-game market at $6B in 2023, with...According to a CNBC calculation, the operating margin in the gaming business came in just under 6%, forcing...NFTs to progress through the game.

Gaming NFT Market As previously mentioned, Web3 gaming NFTs have shown small signs of recovery over the...NFT collections by marketcap. ...almost doubled from 33 to 64....XAI, and SAGA, all launching with between 6% and 17% of their tokens unlocked (including both controlled...

...funding for 2024 to $673M....Overworld Incarnas – the most hyped NFT collection at the start of this year – lost over 75% from its...Genesis NFTs from collections like Infinigods, CityVerse Tycoon, and Pirate Nation have continuously...grown their floor price, while most gaming NFT collections have been underwater.

Over 60% of playtime went to games older than six years, a remarkable number that underpins the value...video game franchises in history, grossing an estimated $6.7B in lifetime revenue....A game like Skyrim has over 69,000 mods available on Nexus and another 27,000 on the Steam Workshop that...

Gala Games burns $660M in tokens, two new token standards aim to advance NFT utility, exciting updates...DeGame raised $6.5M to build an NFT gaming aggregation platform....Gala Games successfully transitioned to GALA v2 and burned $660M worth of GALA tokens....Welcome to another edition of Delphi’s monthly Gaming Roundup!

This represents a 6% fall from last month, but we are still up compared to the end of 2022....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.

Solayer is the new kid on the block that saw the opportunity to be a first mover in the restaking game...There have been discussions about increasing the fee to 6%, with a proposed split of 3% to the Labs and...>50% market share of SOL LST An imminent dominance in the restaking game.

The average yearly funding amount has dropped by 66% since 2022 and 56% compared to the year prior....Q3 funding in 2023 fell 64% year-on-year (YoY), compared to Web3 gaming’s 66% decline....Additionally, as mentioned in the Year Ahead: NFTs report, advancements with the ERC-6551 token standard...

The project recently conducted its first NFT mint and is also developing a game called BattleMogs....The company’s use of play-to-mint campaigns, where the highest scoring users can mint in-game NFTs, has.... — Illuvium Feb 6, 2023 Crypto Unicorns released a new gameplay trailer for its upcoming Jousting game...

Investments Fusionist raises $6.6M to continue development on its Web3 gaming initiatives....Tabi raises $10M in angel investments to build a gaming-focused NFT platform on the BNB Chain....Select Tezos-based games and NFTs will be featured on GameStop’s upcoming Playr platform as a part of...

...the 1.5%-3% charged by traditional banks (not including international transfer fees, which can reach 6%...Zebedee is currently working with a reported 60 developers and roughly 300 games (~150 of which are live...males (65%) from North America (50%)....This could then, for example, be used to buy back tokens, market-make NFTs, reward UGC, or reduce CAC...

This Polkadot Parachain currently hosts almost 6.3M total accounts and roughly 15k daily active accounts...Players have the option to level up their non-NFT cards into higher-level NFTs, directly purchase NFT...As players spend more time in the game, they organically acquire more NFTs.

Check out our previous NFT Platforms report for a high-level framework for thinking through the many...seeing influxes of activity as a result of the latest hyped-up NFT drop or some other event....Stardust Venly Enjin These projects have attracted serious attention from game developers and NFT projects...

Apple remains the most profitable hardware of choice, accounting for 62% of total in-game spend, and...Outside of hybridcasual, 66% of top-performing mid-core mobile games implemented gacha mechanics, and...and Polygon and should only be viewed as a rough representation of sector trends. 66% of titles specified...

Planet IX continues to do well, with a further 43% increase in the total monthly number of UAW and a 61%...The number of transactions spiked more than 60% during this time as users started buying and trading...Oh Baby Games raises $6M in a seed round of investment.

This decentralized gaming ecosystem, which includes a number of different games, NFT projects, and tools...marketplaces, and represents 95% of all gaming and NFT transactions on the network....But before we talk about the organization and how it has become the leading gaming and NFT ecosystem...

...loans totaling $650M in volume....below $650M....Solana secures the top 3 spots with a 6% volume share this month....a token sale Fusionist, Unity-based crypto gaming infrastructure, raises $6.6M in Seed Mnemonic,...an NFT data & intelligence platform, raises $6M in Seed Openfort, a crypto gaming wallet-as-a-service...

Pudgy Penguins rose to an 11 ETH floor price, while Azuki floor prices have halved to 6 ETH....ERC-6551 — Token Bound Accounts (TBA) ERC-6551 was launched in May 2023 by Future Primitive....Web3 game avatars can directly hold equipment NFTs and earn in-game assets.