Chain Bazaar Make it easier for the blockchain to land

Chain Bazaar Make it easier for the blockchain to land

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Blockchain games, crypto games, play2earn games and everything surrounding this gaming segment are still relatively new concepts. The crossover between cryptography and blockchain technology and games is more or less inevitable, and now such a trend has emerged and is rapidly gaining popularity. There are many existing and aspiring blockchain gaming companies, and hundreds of upcoming projects that will be involved. We also tend to overlook the different games and what they are about.

That’s why we’ve compiled a list of some of our favorite blockchain gaming companies, promising up-and-coming companies or established companies that are making a huge impact on the blockchain gaming space. As a visionary user, you need to keep up with the trend and pay attention to these "heavyweight players".

Fifth Decentraland

Decentraland is a decentralized land transaction online game platform, released in 2017, with a large number of unique items. Users can buy, sell, trade and use virtual land in the form of encrypted tokens, and then decorate and display these lands according to their wishes. People are already using it to build online stores, art galleries and virtual fashion stores.

In addition, Dcentraland also provides an avatar system, with collectibles and various tools, allowing users to fully control their own space. In fact, Dcentraland aims to one day become a proper metaverse, a collectively shared virtual world where the physical world and virtual space are interconnected and overlapped. Similar projects include CryptoVoxels and SomniumSpace, both land-based crypto gaming platforms.

4th Mythical Games

Mythical Games is another large blockchain game company that released the Blankos Block Party game in 2020. Unlike many different projects, they did not launch a pre-sale token, nor did they release a proof-of-concept or alpha version of the game. This approach to community-based development is common among small, independent projects in the crypto gaming space, but Mythical Games is taking a different approach.

They released the game after it was complete, taking a different approach to marketing their game rather than focusing solely on the blockchain technology aspect of the game. Mythical Games tries to emphasize that the in-game economy is player-driven. On that alone, they deserve a spot on this list!

Third place OpenSea

Although OpenSea is not a game company, it is one of the core platforms in the current blockchain game world. OpenSea is an NFT trading platform where users buy, sell and auction their tokens on OpenSea. These tokens will then be used in actual blockchain games such as Axie Infinity and Decentraland. Despite not having its own games, OpenSea is essential as a trading platform for blockchain game fans.

In addition to allowing users to buy and sell game NFTs, OpenSea also allows users to exchange other types of NFTs, such as collectibles, works of art, and more. The platform’s sales have exceeded billions of dollars, and sky-high NFTs often appear.

2nd place Sky Mavis

Sky Mavis, the company behind Axie Infinity, is probably the most important blockchain gaming company in the space right now. Not only was it one of the first hits, it has stood the test of time to this day and has enjoyed a huge following for quite some time.

Axie Infinity is on our top 5 NFT mini-games list. Like other NFT-based games, NFTs called Axies can be sold or traded on OpenSea, and users can breed new ones and then sell them to others.

Axie Infinity is actually a Play2Earn game (Play2Earn refers to play to earn, which is a type of game that earns while playing). In the field of encrypted games, making money by playing games is a real possibility. For many people, especially in third world countries, this is actually an amazing way to make money, whereas in the West, users are often just earning pocket money to back their investments.

No. 1 Dapper Labs

This development studio is closely related to the launch of the overall blockchain gaming trend. Back in 2017, they released CryptoKitties, the first successful Play2Earn game featuring NFTs and crypto games. While the current game itself has waned in popularity, DapperLabs has created more content, including Cheeze Wizards.

Without DapperLabs, it is likely that the blockchain game economy would not exist as it is now. Or at least, it will look very different. This will continue to solidify DapperLabs as a cornerstone of crypto gaming history, making it a well-deserved number one.

The Investgame game transaction activity report for the first half of 2021 stated that "the game industry is experiencing a boom in games powered by blockchain technology. As of the first half of 2021, crypto game companies have completed 24 transactions (12 in fiscal year 2020) transactions), with a total value of more than $476 million. 75% of the total financing came from 3 rounds of financing, namely Forte ($185 million), Animoca Brands ($89 million) and Mythical Games ($75 million).

Although the following projects are not as influential in the blockchain gaming space as the above companies, they offer something unique and interesting to the existing crypto gaming space.

Voxie Tactics

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The Voxie Tactics game itself has been in development for years, and while it has yet to launch, the associated Voxie NFT has been steadily increasing in price while nurturing an active and surprising community.

Animoca Brands

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