2022 - A revolutionary year for gaming blockchain
It’s already 2022, a year that will be bring many events in the field of GameFi and Metaverse. According to The Sandbox founder, Sebastien Borget, the metaverse economy is becoming bigger than in real life (discover here why).
The metaverse boom has started since Facebook rebranded as Meta, which caused a huge parabolic spike on the Google search engine.
Source: Google Trends
Before narrowing down into specific project news, we thought it would be smart to reveal the investment portfolios for 2022 from large institutions and from here associate which tokens are closely related to Metaverse and GameFi.
📈 Grayscale holdings
Source: dailyhodl.com
From the list, we can see that Grayscale opted for Decentraland and Solana as the GameFi and Metaverse picks.
⭐️ Shark tank star: Kevin O’Leary
Another big player is the shark tank star Kevin O’Leary. His allocations are placed on Ethereum, Polygon Matic, Solana and HBAR.
All his selections except HBAR are working in the GameFi niche.
Huge news for Enjin and Seedify
This year is starting strong for both Enjin and Seedify.
Enjin
Efinity has won the 6th Polkadot parachain slot, thanks to 7,7 million DOT contribution by over 20.000 community members.
Efinity will specialize bringing NFTs to Polkadot.
Seedify
Metaverse asset program - $10 million grant for digital artists
Metaverse expansion that allows the community to create clothes, homes, cars, tattoos etc… Hence, artists can build new indentities in the metaverse.
Source: medium.com
Find out your favourite Play to Earn (P2E)
The popular crypto tracking portfolio page Dappradar, has selected the top 50 highly anticipated crypto games for 2022.
We have mentioned in our previous articles games such as Genopets and Metasoccer, which now also include in Dappradar’s list. For us it is important to choose games that are fun, authentic and have a great playability. Last year’s goal was more about trying out innovative Play to Earn mechanisms, while this year, along with financial rewards, the goal is to create an immersive experience where users even forget to make an income while playing.
Other games from the list that caught our attention are Big Time and Chainmonsters.
As far as Big Time is concerned, the theme is very well conceived and the storyline is compelling, plus the NFT characters have beautiful details.
When we saw that Chainmonsters is a Pokemon-inspired game we simply could not ignore. It is also interesting the fact that the game is built on the Flow blockchain.
Metavisa
Layer-3 middleware protocol
On-chain credit system optimization
Decentralized identity integration into DAO and GameFi
Features already applied into NFT DAO giant Yield Guild Games (YGG)
Source: cryptomode.com
Farming Tales - a new staking economy
Farming Tales is a 3D farming game that combines aspects of real-life farm and it is built on the WAX blockchain.
Daily Cubitus token (CBIT) are rewarded thanks to advanced staking systems. By staking, liquidity is reduced, and with the right incentives, players will gain enough trust to lock-up their game tokens for a certain amount of time.
Source: playtoearn.online
New projects, partnerships and events
✅ Ajuna - First decentralized gaming platform in the Polkadot ecosystem
✅ SolFantasy x Netvrk partnership
✅ Thetan Arena gift box whitelist - until 4th of January
✅ Pixelverse INO - 6th of January
✅ Superlauncher x Good Games Guild INO - 6th of January
✅ The Parallel NFT box - 3rd - 18th January
✅ Syn City IDO - 7th of January
Other games we recommend you to follow
👾 Sipher