Weekly GameFi Update (Week 16, 22/04/2022 – 28/04/2022)
Axie Infinity Season 21 is now live. Bored Ape Yacht Club unveils ‘Otherside’ Metaverse, sets land sale on 30 April. Crypto.com, Animoca Brands invest in Yield Guild Games SEA through a US$15 million funding round.
Key Takeaways
- Axie Infinity Season 21 is now live, with the prize pool containing over 120,000 AXS tokens. Axie Infinity also teased land gameplay through a tweeted photo and scheduled an Origin update on 28 April.
- Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) celebrated its one year anniversary and announced its new Metaverse dubbed ‘Otherside’, which is expected to launch a land sale on 30 April. According to their Twitter thread, users are required to complete KYC before minting on the Ethereum blockchain using BAYC’s APE token.
- Yield Guild Games SEA (YGG SEA) completed a US$15 million funding round backed by top blockchain investors, including Animoca Brands and Crypto.com.
- The total market cap for GameFi tokens now stands at US$44.2 billion, down -5.17% from last week.
Highlights
- Decentraland holds its first ever marathon in the Metaverse
- ‘Magic: The Gathering’ creator to design new game mode for ‘Blockchain Brawlers’
- Animoca Brands ‘not done acquiring’ studios to make NFT games: Chairman
- Blockchain gaming startup OpenBlox raises round on heels of surging play-to-earn demand
- Meta to open first physical store to demystify Metaverse
Game Updates
- DeFi Kingdoms releases new map zones in Crystalvale
- Gods of Asgard NFT minting on 1 May
- Illuvium.io launches beta gameplay
- League of Kingdoms’ Drago genesis sales to start 16 May
- Sorare adds Major League Soccer (MLS) to list of football leagues
- Star Atlas partners with SandBox to host Metaverse contest
- Sandbox Megacity 2 land sale
Top Gainers and Losers
| Price Change (%) | Infrastructure | Games | Guilds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Top Gainers | — | DAR (+69.49%) APE (+48.77%) GMT (+15.17%) | — |
| Top Losers | UOS (-14.54%) GALA (-10.62%) IMX (-10.22%) | PYR (-19.25%) AXS (-18.01%) AURY (-15.41%) | AGV (-20.32%) GGG (-16.05%) MC (-7.05%) |
*Gaming Utility tokens: AXS, MANA, SAND, ALICE, ILV, ATLAS, POLIS, GODS, GMT, DAR, AURY, APE, PYR
*Gaming Guild tokens: YGG, MC, UNIX, GGG, AGV
Top Games Metrics
* Users refer to the number of unique wallet addresses interacting with the dApp’s smart contracts
* Weekly Volume refers to the total amount of incoming value to the dApp’s smart contracts during the 7-day period
* Weekly Transactions refer to the no. of transactions made on the dApp’s smart contracts during the 7-day period
* Stickiness refers to the ratio of daily active users (DAU) to monthly active users (MAU). A high stickiness means users consistently return to the dApp.
* Splinterlands, Alien Worlds, MOBOX, Bomb Crypto, Axie Infinity, DeFi Kingdoms, Pegaxy, X World Games data from DappRadar
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