NFT & Blockchain Gaming Weekly – 📉 Broad NFT Market Downtrend Over The Past Week

Broad NFT market downtrend over the past 7 days. Azuki launches ‘AnimeChain’ on Arbitrum. Munchables, another game on Blast, is exploited.

Mar 28, 2024
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Chart of the Week

In the latest weekly report, the NFT market declined by -32.4% week over week, with the total trading volume slowing to ~US$227 million. Notably, the top blockchains in terms of NFT sales have declined significantly. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana saw their weekly trading volume dip by nearly -42%, -32%, and -22% respectively.

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The following table shows selected top games by weekly volume in USD:

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Gaming Token Performance

The total market cap for gaming tokens now stands at $39.91 billion, increasing by +4.42% from last week.

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News Highlights

  • Azuki launches ‘AnimeChain’ on Arbitrum. It aims to be a one-stop platform for anime and Web3 lovers, offering original and licensed anime, games, merchandise, NFTs, and more in a community-governed ecosystem.
  • Munchables, a Web3 game built on Ethereum L2 blockchain Blast, suffered a hack of over 17,400 Ether (ETH) (worth approximately $62 million at the time of writing), reportedly linked to a developer within the team. Subsequently, the Munchables team mentioned that the developer shared all the assets’ private keys to assist in recovering the funds. This was the second exploit which happened to games built on Blast in one week, following the Super Sushi Samurai hack.
  • Pixels Farm Land’ NFTs are live on the Ronin network. Pixels, a Web3 farming game, introduced a $PIXEL airdrop and enabled Farm Land NFT bridging to the Ronin network. Sky Mavis, creator of Axie Infinity, integrated ‘Pixels’ NFTs into its EVM blockchain, promising smoother land transactions and exciting in-game rewards for players transitioning to Ronin.

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