Meet us at Gamescom 2026, August 26-27th 
Meet us at Gamescom 2026, August 26-27th
This Naavik Exclusive features a comprehensive breakdown of the web3 gaming market for the month of May, including a detailed analysis of notable web3 game releases, unique active wallet stats, transaction trends, and funding announcements.
This issue, we have a guide to fully on-chain games and what to expect from the future of decentralized gaming.
Interoperability between game ecosystems and economies has been held up as a possibility that is opened up by decentralized protocols, blockchain technologies and web3 – but until now, it has mostly been a pipedream rather than a reality.
But now two web3 companies, metaverse avatar developer Ready Player Me and open-world shooter developer Faraway Games, have partnered up to deliver on the promise of interoperable game worlds. Your host, Niko Vuori, chats with Alex Paley, Founder & CEO of Faraway Games and Timmu Toke, Founder & CEO of Ready Player Me, about interoperability, closed vs open game ecosystems and the promise of web3.
This week, we’re taking at look at Magic Eden’s “Mint Madness” promotion and how this novel approach in the heated NFT marketplace competition is proving fruitful. We also go over the launch of Illuvium Beyond alongside the best of this week’s market news and analysis.
This week, we’re discussing Unity’s major launch of more than a dozen verified web3 development solutions, and the rising profile of Games For a Living’s Elemental Raiders now that EA founder Trip Hawkins has come aboard.
In this episode, Manish Agarwal – ex-CEO of Nazara Technologies and founder of IndiGG, a web3 gaming DAO focused on India – joins Naavik co-founder Aaron Bush to discuss what guilds initially got wrong, why he prefers to not use the term “guild,” and how India might become a digital asset factory. Manish also talks about the size of the web3 gaming opportunity in India, and why India could be a uniquely effective market for web3 gaming, sharing learnings from working in a DAO – the underappreciated benefits and the ongoing challenges. Lastly, he mentions what IndiGG’s strategy is going forward, plus his views on what he looks for in partnerships and games.
This week, we discuss the all-out war that’s erupted between OpenSea and upstart marketplace Blur and what it means for the future of NFTs, alongside other web3 market updates and news.
Testing Hypotheses Around Token Economies In a previous deconstruction, we looked at the token and economic systems of a variety of games, applying a “smoke test” to look for potential sustainability problems. That test involved making an assumption that the number of players remains constant (with new and churning players in equal amounts) and seeing…
Web3 game developers have choices to make regarding which blockchain they build on. In this episode, your host Niko Vuori talks with Solana’s Director of Gaming, Kuleen Nimkar, about Solana’s support for the growing web3 gaming ecosystem, making direct investments into web3 gaming startups, the company’s ambitions for their upcoming Saga mobile phone and much more.
Web3 gaming faced incredible challenges in 2022, yet we remain optimistic about the future. Of course, that future must look different from the past. Naavik’s joint report with Delphi Digital covers everything you need to know — from games, guilds, infrastructure, regulations, and more.
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