Key Takeaways

• NASA has teamed up with Epic Games, posting a challenge to help build a ‘Martian metaverse’ experience with the help of Unreal Engine 5. The aim is to help prepare astronauts for the experiences and situations that will be encountered on Mars. 

• Last Friday, Samsung’s Vice Chairman ​​Han Jong-hee revealed that Samsung is planning to create their own version of the metaverse. The company has reportedly created a dedicated task force to explore metaverse topics.

• Nyan Heroes recently closed a $7.5M funding round with the help of Crypto.com Capital, among others. The game is a AAA Battle Royale shooter, and is focusing on building an immersive gameplay experience with sustainable play-to-earn mechanics.

• The total market cap for GameFi tokens now stands at US$34.98 billion, down -14.56% from last week.

Highlights

• Untamed Planet gets US$24.3M to build natural world in metaverse

• P2E game Illuvium preps auction of 20,000 virtual plots

• NFT Plazas launches world's first automated Metaverse advertising system

• Ready Games raises $3M to bring Web2 gaming to the Web3 world

• ‘Tamagotchi on crack’: Irreverent Labs raises $40M for NFT cockfighting game

• Jamestown spending $500M to bring the Metaverse experience to Times Square

• The Vatican is creating a Metaverse art gallery

• Susquehanna leads $10M funding in metaverse platform StarryNift

• The Global Esports Federation sets up the Metaverse council

• League of Kingdoms game introduces new-gen play-to-earn mechanics

• Lighthouse raises $7M to be the search engine of the Metaverse

Game Updates

• Axie Infinity: Origin goes live for Android devices

• Axie Infinity releases marketplace update

• Metamon team to use transaction fees to buy back metamons

• Sunflower Land releases new features

• New patch notes for Super Galactic

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$818K.
* 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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