Web3 games have emerged on the TON public chain. Which public chains are also developing blockchain games?

Author: flowie, ChainCatcher

Since March, the price and market value of TON tokens have been rising steadily. As of May 22, TON's market value was about 22 billion US dollars, an increase of more than 155% from the beginning of March.

Behind the growth of TON's market value, its ecological mini-games such as Notcoin and Catizen have contributed greatly.

According to Jack Booth, marketing director of the TON Foundation, in almost 3 months, the number of Notcoin users has grown to 35 million. Notcoin token NOT has also been launched on exchanges such as Binance and OKX recently, and its market value has reached 820 million US dollars in just 1 hour.

Another TON ecological game Catizen officially disclosed that as of May 17, Catizen has attracted nearly 6 million players, with nearly 500,000 daily active users, 260,000 on-chain users, and more than 2 million on-chain transactions.

As one of the entrances to large-scale adoption, Web3 games have always been an area that cannot be ignored by major public chains. At present, TON has gained a lot of traffic through Web3 social games. Which public chains have active game users and which public chains are actively expanding games?

Ronin is still in a leading position, and the number of active users on the Klaytn chain has increased significantly

DappRadar data shows that the average daily number of active wallet addresses of Web3 games in April reached nearly 3 million, a record high. Ronin and Polygon, the two major public chains, still carry most of the active volume.

Ronin is an EVM-compatible game-specific chain built by Axie Infinity development team Sky Mavis. It has gained a leading position mainly due to the popular Web3 game Pixels. Its dUAW (daily independent active wallets) in April exceeded 790,000, an increase of 45% compared to March.

Currently, Ronin has reached cooperation with many world-renowned game studios such as Directive Games, Bali Games, and Tribes Studio.

As one of the most popular public chains for games in the past, Polygon still faces the situation of Web3 games fleeing the chain, although its dUAW (daily independent active wallets) exceeded 557,000 in April and it has well-known games such as Matr1x and QORPO WORLD on the chain.

Since Pixels migrated from Polygon to Ronin at the end of last year, the card game Zoids Wild Arena TCG under the Korean game developer ACT Games also migrated from Polygon to Ronin.

In January this year, the game Crypto UNICOrns said that due to the surge in fuel costs on the Polygon network, operating costs increased and player experience was damaged, so it moved to Arbitrum's Xai network.

In March this year, South Korean game company Nexon revealed that the chain version of MapleStory Universe also abandoned Polygon and turned to Avalanche.

In April, with the metaverse game Another World, the public chain Klaytn, which focuses on the metaverse, Gamefi and creator economy, achieved a growth of 202%. .

Klaytn was founded by the famous Korean company Kakao. It plans to complete the merger with Line's public chain project Finschia at the end of June and launch the main network. The merged main network will be renamed kaia, aiming to create Asia's largest Web3 ecosystem through the merger.

Several public chains plan to launch Web3 game incentive funds

Arbitrum

In March, the Arbitrum Foundation announced a game incentive proposal: it plans to invest 200 million ARB (about 400 million US dollars) in two years to promote its blockchain game projects. The proposal will be voted on the chain on May 24.

In addition, Arbitrum is also promoting the development of Layer3 game chains. Following XAI, Polychain Monsters launched an L3 game-specific chain based on Arbitrum Orbit through Altlayer.

Immutable

In addition to Arbitrum, the game-specific chain Immutable recently announced the launch of a $50 million Web3 game rewards program, and revealed that its ecosystem is currently working on the development of more than 270 games, including high-profile projects such as Illuvium and MetalCore.

In addition, Immutable, King River Capital and Polygon Labs have also jointly launched a $100 million "Inevitable Games Fund", which will combine the three parties' expertise in the fields of games and blockchain to find and invest in potential game studios and Web3 infrastructure.

Immutable is also actively building the zkEVM chain system Immutable Nexus to ensure that games built on the Immutable chain (including Immutable zkEVM, dedicated zkEVM) can obtain the best liquidity, security and accessibility.

Sui

Sui is similar to the TON public chain, promoting the on-chain Web3 game ecosystem by cooperating with traditional Web2 giants.

Sui recently announced a partnership with ByteDance's technology solution subsidiary BytePlus, focusing on games and socialfi. BytePlus provides services such as content distribution, personalization and AR technology to support Sui's developers and promote the development of applications with global influence.

In addition, 5 games will be launched on Sui soon.

Starknet

In March, the Starknet Foundation announced the establishment of a gaming committee composed of six experts whose mission is to promote the growth of games on Starknet. The committee's role includes analyzing, developing strategies and recommending plans to expand Starknet's gaming ecosystem, and will measure games through usage indicators such as daily active users, retention rate and revenue.

Starknet also supports the on-chain metaverse game Realms.World by donating 2 million STRK.

Manta Network

Recently, Elfin, a game project invested by Binance Labs, announced that it would join the Manta Network ecosystem, transplant 100,000 blocks of Elfin Land to Manta Pacific, and donate 10,000 blocks of land to the Manta Foundation as a user incentive.

The Elfin team plans to deploy multiple game projects on the Manta Pacific chain and build the game Layer3 based on Manta.

Linea

At the end of February, ConsenSys's Layer2 network Linea launched the Web3 game task Linea Park. The task partner is the Web3 task and bounty platform Layer3. Users can experience game projects and earn Linea LXP.

At the end of April, Linea announced on the X platform that during its Web3 game task Linea Park event, a total of 48 million tasks were completed, with 1.48 million participating users, 7.9 million visiting users, and 840,000 completed certifications.

Saga

Saga is a modular one-click chain-issuing platform based on Cosmos for the game field. Saga launched its mainnet in April and subsequently went live on Binance.

Previously, Saga announced the establishment of Saga Origins, a Web3 game publishing division, to publish games for the Saga Layer-1 blockchain protocol.

Tabi Chain

The game blockchain Tabi Chain, built on Cosmos, launched its testnet in March this year and recently announced

It will airdrop 800 million TABI tokens to Voyager event participants, GG holders, public sale participants, Captain node holders, ecosystem project builders, testnet contributors, etc.

Oasys

Oasys is also a blockchain designed specifically for games. Recently, Oasys announced a strategic partnership with Com2uS, a well-known Korean game developer, and then joined hands with Metabora SG, the Web3 game division of Korean Internet giant Kakao.

In addition, the blockchain version of the well-known Japanese football comic series "Captain Tsubasa" has been officially launched on the game-centric blockchain Oasys. The game was developed by Mint Town, Co.Ltd. and BLOCKSMITH&Co. (a subsidiary of mobile game giant KLab Inc.).

Nim Network

Nim Network is an AI game chain built on Dymension. On May 1, Nim Network went online on the mainnet, and Dymension TVL had the largest intraday increase of nearly 550%. Nim Network also launched a staking function.

Previously, Nim Network also launched the AI ​​Game Alliance, which was joined by Polygon modular blockchain project Avail, decentralized data sharing protocol OceanProtocol, on-chain competition platform JokeRace and Web3 social simulation game Today.