Guild of Guardians: Updating a Web3 Game for 2024
In today’s issue, we look at how Immutable has reworked Guild of Guardians ahead of its global release in May, and there’s must-read highlights from around the gaming world.
Yuga Labs’ Gaming Ambitions
Today’s issue packs in Yuga Labs’ gaming entry, the origin story of new gaming juggernaut Savvy Games Group and our regular weekly market and financing update.
June 2023: Web3 Gaming Monthly Market Update
June marked yet another month of slow downward trends in many areas of web3 gaming, with a degree of resilience persisting within the sector. As a whole, Unique Active Wallets (UAWs) largely remained stable in June compared to May. More specifically, casual games continued to drive more significant increases, while more transaction-driven (and bot-heavy) games…
May 2023: Web3 Gaming Monthly Market Update
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.
What Will the Saga Phone Do For Web3?
In this episode, we dive into the frustrations of bringing web3 experiences to mobile platforms and explore a unique solution that Solana has taken: building their own phone, the Saga phone.
Your host, Niko Vuori, speaks with Laura Shen, the marketing lead for Solana Mobile, to learn more about the Saga phone and its significance. We explore the challenges of mobile-unfriendly web3, including app store restrictions, and the importance of making web3 accessible on mobile devices to drive mass market adoption.
Laura shares details on the Saga phone’s features, such as the Solana Mobile Stack (SMS) that includes the Seed Vault (a secure crypto hardware wallet) and the dApp Store (a web3 app store). We discuss the categories of dApps launched for the Saga and the $10 million fund dedicated to supporting third-party developers.
Gaming’s role in the Saga phone and its potential impact on mass adoption is also discussed. We touch upon the pricing of the Saga phone and its early adopter target audience of crypto-native users, as well as potential plans for cross-chain compatibility.
The Great Reset: Your 2023 Guide to Web3 Games
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.
Blockchain Gaming Q3 2022 Report: New Frontiers And The Path Forward
Source: Coinmarketcap.com Download the Full PDF Report Sign up with your email address to receive the full PDF report, and sign up for Naavik Digest.Sign Up Outline Executive Summary Even though blockchain gaming continues its struggle out of the broader crypto bear market, Q3 2022 was a quarter filled with much game building, market movement,…
Assessing Blockchain Gaming’s Environmental Impact — and What Can Be Done About It Today
This essay was written collaboratively between Naavik with BITKRAFT Ventures. BITKRAFT is one of gaming’s top venture firms, investing in notable companies like Epic Games, Manticore, & Yield Guild Games. Maxime Eyraud and Abhimanyu Kumar contributed from Naavik’s side. Source: Business Insider If you follow the crypto space even remotely, you may have seen one…
Blockchain Gaming in a Crypto Bear Market
In this week’s Crypto Corner Sebastian Park and Ryan Foo join your host Nico Vereecke to understand what blockchain gaming might look like in a crypto bear market. The team also dives into the unrealistic expectations that consumers place on Blockchain games and common errors in assessing probabilities for success in entrepreneurship.
Luna Crash and the Bear Woke Up
In this week’s Metacast Roundtable episode, Anton Gorodetsky, Nicolas Vereecke and Aaron Bush, join your host Maria Gillies to discuss the recent Luna/UST Crash – why it happened, who it impacts and what happens next. The team also discusses the broader bear market and dives into InvestGame’s recent Q1 2022 report.
