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Market tracker DappRadar and the Blockchain Game Alliance, oregon BGA, published the Blockchain Games Report for Q1 2022 connected Wednesday. After citing that $720 cardinal was invested into blockchain games and infrastructures successful February successful a erstwhile report, the latest fig for full Q1 concern is $2.5 billion. VCs and different investors raised $4 cardinal successful 2021.
The biggest deals listed successful the study see Animoca Brands raising $360 million, brining its valuation to $5 cardinal and becoming a starring Web3 brand. Sequoia Capital led a $450 cardinal concern successful Polygon (MATIC), portion Yuga Labs, the workplace down Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs, received a $450 cardinal investment led by Animoca Brands, with The Sandbox, FTX, and Coinbase to motorboat its Otherside metaverse with play-to-earn (P2E) games.
According to DappRadar, Blockchain games attracted 1.22 cardinal unsocial progressive wallets (UAW) successful March, and much than fractional of the industry’s activity came from crippled dapps, oregon gaming applications with play-to-earn incentives. Splinterlands is named the fig 1 play-to-earn dapp. And Polygon is the Layer 2 sidechain with the apical played P2E games, specified arsenic Crazy Defense Heroes, Pegaxy, Arc8 and Aavegotchi.
Cointelegraph asked Sebastian Borget, co-founder of The Sandbox metaverse and president of the Blockchain Game Alliance, wherefore helium thinks Polygon has benefited the astir from P2E mechanics and NFTs compared to different ecosystems similar Wax, Harmony and BNB Chain. He listed a fewer main reasons, namely that Polygon remained EVM compatible and the Polygon Foundation supported them heavy successful selling and grants. Another crushed is that guilds easy migrated their users to Polygon, portion keeping MetaMask arsenic the main wallet.
Borget besides pointed retired that Polygon was the archetypal L2 blockchain for NFTs connected OpenSea, which drove further liquidity for NFTs. He predicts that the emergence of NFTs and blockchain-based games connected ImmutableX, Tezos, Solana oregon Binance Smart Chain volition "definitely displacement the organisation successful the 2nd fractional of 2022."
"NFTs correspond an accidental for crippled developers to make games with player-owned economies; wherever the assemblage of holders are some the aboriginal supporters of the crippled but besides the main actors of its improvement and existent stakeholders of its success."Related: Immutable raises $200M to put successful blockchain gaming, bringing valuation to $2.5B
The study besides recovered that the metaverse is "one of the astir breathtaking opportunities successful the blockchain industry." Even though the trading measurement successful virtual worlds decreased somewhat from Q4 2021, it reached implicit $430 cardinal successful Q1 2022. Platforms similar The Sandbox, which completed its 2nd Alpha season, are attracting players and brands similar Warner Bros, Ubisoft, and HSBC. At the aforesaid time, manner metaverse Decentraland hosted a Fashion Week successful March for brands to further prosecute with consumers.
DappRadar underscores an important constituent erstwhile it comes to the Metaverse: "The ownership entitled by NFTs and the underlying fiscal ecosystem enabled by cryptocurrencies and play-to-earn games volition displacement the paradigm from the accepted metaverse that is constricted to a virtual, augmented reality."
Additionally, portion Axie Infinity is among the apical 10 astir played games based connected regular usage, the study pointed to a alteration successful UAW aft the $650 cardinal hack of Axie Infinity’s Ronin bridge successful mid-February.
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