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$15M 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

*Gaming Infrastructure tokens: ENJ, FLOW, WAXP, UOS, MBOX, DAWN, GALA, IMX

*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

* Week-on-Week (WoW) % change is calculated based on the differences between two consecutive 7-day periods
* 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

Top 15 Largest Tokens by Market Cap

Source: CoinGecko, Crypto.com Research

Daily Gamers by Blockchain

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