In January-March 2022, the volume of investments in blockchain games was $ 2.5 billion (for 2021 – $ 4 billion). Such calculations are provided in the DappRadar and Blockchain Game Alliance report.

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The biggest deals were investment rounds from Animoca Brands ($359 million), Yuga Labs ($450 million) and Polygon ($450 million).

In March, owners of 1.22 million unique wallets interacted with smart blockchain gaming contracts, equivalent to 52% of all activity in the blockchain space. During the year, the figure increased by 2000%. The lead game of interest was Splinterlands.

Interest in metadata has waned after the hype caused by Facebook’s rebranding. During the quarter, trading volume in this segment decreased by 12% to $430 million. The average price of virtual lands in Decentraland and The Sandbox decreased by 40%, while transaction volumes decreased by 20% and 60%, respectively.

Analysts recalled a hacker attack with $ 625 million damage to the side chain of the Ronin NFT game Axie Infinity. Two weeks before the event, in January – 55,000, while 20,000 unique active wallets interacted with the project.

Experts explained such dynamics by changing the emission order of SLP markers. Axie Infinity developers took this step to reduce inflation and support the game economy. Overall, the daily audience of the NFT game has reached 1.5 million active users.

Recall that analysts of the largest international bank Citibank predicted in a new report that the metaverse economy will grow to 13 trillion dollars by 2030.