Key Takeaways

• On Saturday, the Otherside metaverse land sale took place, raising almost US$320M — one of the largest NFT mints to date. The sale guzzled $166M worth of gas fees and crashed popular blockchain explorer Etherscan.

• Square Enix has sold a number of its games and game studios, including Tomb Raider. The $300M deal will aid its transition into blockchain-based games. 

• Spotify is entering the metaverse, announcing a virtual presence called ‘Spotify Island’ on Roblox. Players can create music, interact with artists, and go on mini-quests. 

• The total market cap for GameFi tokens now stands at US$40.94 billion, down -7.96% from last week.

Highlights

• Ronin Network to increase validator nodes to 21, introduce $1M bug bounty and audits to prevent the next DeFi hack

• Animoca Brands’ GAMEE partners with Man City to launch football-themed P2E games

• Dior premieres 2022 men's fashion on Baidu metaverse

• Italy's Serie A brings soccer to the metaverse

• Gatorade trademark applications hint at joining the metaverse

• Shiba Inu can now be used to purchase land in SHIB's Metaverse

Game Updates

• Axie Infinity releases an overview of how Land Staking will work

• Axie Infinity: Origin early access is live

• The Sandbox reopens Central Town

• STEPN enters Public Beta Phase IV

• DeFi Kingdoms releases development update for April

Top Gainers and Losers

*Gaming Infrastructure tokens: ENJ, FLOW, WAXP, UOS, MBOX, DAWN, GALA, IMX

*Gaming Utility tokens: AXS, MANA, SAND, ALICE, ILV, ATLAS, POLIS, GODS, GMT, DAR, AURY, APE, PYR

*Gaming Guild tokens: YGG, MC, UNIX, GGG, AGV

Top Games Metrics

* Week-on-Week (WoW) % change is calculated based on the differences between two consecutive 7-day periods
* Users refer to the number of unique wallet addresses interacting with the dApp's smart contracts
* Weekly Volume refers to the total amount of incoming value to the dApp's smart contracts during the 7-day period

* Weekly Transactions refer to the no. of transactions made on the dApp’s smart contracts during the 7-day period
* Stickiness refers to the ratio of daily active users (DAU) to monthly active users (MAU). A high stickiness means users consistently return to the dApp.

* Weekly volume using Splinterland data is approx US$434K.
* Splinterlands, Alien Worlds, MOBOX, Bomb Crypto, Axie Infinity, DeFi Kingdoms, Pegaxy, X World Games data from DappRadar

Top 15 Largest Tokens by Market Cap

Source: CoinGecko, Crypto.com Research

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