Key Takeaways

• Move-to-earn game STEPN reportedly generated US$122.5M profit in Q2 2022 through its platform fees. The funds will be used to improve the platform, including security and server enhancements, anti-cheat systems, expansions, partnerships, and a ‘buyback and burn’ program of its native token, GMT.

• Last Friday, the Shanghai city government released a policy paper outlining its plans to cultivate a metaverse industry worth US$52B by 2025, focusing on virtual reality headsets, chips, cloud computing, and 5G technology.

• Animoca Brands has completed its second funding round worth US$75.32M, boosting its valuation to $5.9B.

• The total market cap for GameFi tokens now stands at US$8.51 billion, down -7.9% from last week.

Highlights

• Vietnam’s Ancient8 gets US$6M to build infrastructure software for GameFi

• Disney launches startup accelerator program focused on NFTs and the metaverse

• Blockchain-based games see an uptick in users despite bear market conditions

• Believe it or not, metaverse land can be scarce after all

• Hyundai dives deeper into metaverse with NFTs, virtual clothing and more

• Volumes surge 205% in Axie revival as co-founder claims project is ‘healing’

• Playboy to build a ‘MetaMansion’ in the metaverse

• Chip maker Pringles is hiring for the metaverse

• KPMG adds metaverse hub to its client service

• Indie gaming studio Bravo Ready raises US$3 million seed round

• Axie Infinity Origin bug fixes and Challenger Mode changes

Top Gainers and Loser

*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 Metric

* Week-on-Week (WoW) % change is calculated based on the differences between two consecutive seven-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 seven-day period

* Weekly Transactions refer to the no. of transactions made on the dApp’s smart contracts during the seven-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 Splinterlands data is approx US$379K.
* Alien Worlds, Splinterlands, MOBOX, Sunflower Land, Pegaxy, SecondLive, Axie Infinity, DeFi Kingdoms data 

from DappRadar

* STEPN data from Dune Analytics

Top 15 Largest Token

Source: CoinGecko, Crypto.com Research

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