NFT is a recent hot topic in the blockchain field. NFT (Non-Fungible Token), a non-homogeneous token, is an encrypted currency token used to represent the uniqueness of digital assets. A tweet, a picture, a piece of music, a video clip or a certificate can all be converted into NFT, collected or traded.
According to data from the encrypted data analysis platform DappRadar, the sales of NFT in the first half of 2021 reached 2.5 billion US dollars. Since March this year, the weekly sales of NFT have remained between 10,000 and 20,000. In June, the monthly sales volume of OpenSea, an NFT market, was close to 150 million US dollars. In July, the monthly trading volume of the NFT market OpenSea reached a new high, reaching 325 million. As of August 9, the cumulative trading volume of the NFT trading market OpenSea in August reached 547 million US dollars, an increase of 68% compared with the entire monthly trading volume in July.
The NFT sector is hot, and one of the directions is NFT games. The market cap of Axie Infinity’s token $AXS grew from $200 million to a $2 billion market cap during July. In July, Axie Infinity’s daily active users peaked at more than 250,000, and within a month, the transaction volume of playable characters (axies) in the game exceeded 500 million US dollars.
On August 11, according to TokenTerminal data, the NFT+ blockchain game project Axie Infinity had a single-day income of 10.86 million US dollars, a total income of 101.9 million US dollars in the past 7 days, and a total income of 300.74 million US dollars in the past 30 days. According to the market, the current AXS quotation is 71.36 US dollars, an intraday increase of 55.04%. With the rise of Axie infinity, the slogan make money while playing games is becoming more and more popular in the blockchain game world.
There is no doubt that NFTs are revolutionizing the way gamers think about online gaming. In the traditional game world, those weapons and props with inherently scarce attributes, as well as the identity accumulated through huge energy and financial consumption, have never been realized, let alone retained as an asset forever , or realize free trade, this is indeed a big pain point for players.
With the rapid growth of the global game industry, NFT provides technical support for the development needs of the game industry. The assets in games driven by NFT are unique, rare and indivisible. NFT will promote ownership, interoperability and immutability in the game field, and stimulate new developments in the game industry.
The improvement of playability may be an important reason why NFT games can continue to attract users. The gameplay of NFT games has also become richer. It is no longer the simple pledge income before, but there are many ways to develop and fight, and the stickiness of users has become very high.
In terms of gameplay, Axie Infinity combines Hearthstone and Pokemon. In the game, players compete against each other using the Axies they have collected with different characteristics. Before the game, players line up their Axies. After the duel, players can choose when to allocate energy to their Axies. Axies throw skills at the opponent to attack the opponent.
The wealth creation effect of NFT is the main reason why NFT games can stand out and rise rapidly. NFT has broken the circle in a series of popular events in March and April this year. NFT application scenarios have also gradually changed from simplification to diversity, with encrypted artwork, games, music, sports, NFT tickets, etc. all laid out. Relying on the tens of millions of dollars of auction prices of star cards produced by NBA Top Shot or works of art, the entire NFT market is booming, and the wealth-creating effect of NFT has begun to appear.
Recently, the benefit effect of NFT has spread to the game field. The popularity of the metaverse concept and Axie Infinitys earn while playing have completely ignited the NFT game field. Now more and more teams are entering the field of NFT games.
The well-known social platform Facebook also recently announced its Metaverse plan. In June, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new plan. According to this plan, Facebook will create a collection of all-encompassing and interconnected science fiction experiences. Simply put, Facebook will create a Metaverse world. At the end of July, Facebook announced that it would form a metaverse product group led by Instagram vice president Vishal Shah. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview that Metaverse is the successor of the mobile Internet, and that Facebook will transform from a social media company to a metaverse company.
At present, there is no real leader in NFT games, and the production of games is still at a relatively simple stage. None of them, including Axie Infinity, can truly meet the design specifications and screen experience of traditional large-scale games. One of the important factors is the restriction of the performance of the public chain, but the development of the public chain will definitely be faster than we imagined, and the performance breakthrough may be in the near future. In fact, after the realization of Ethereum 2.0, adding a second layer When the network is mature, the performance of Ethereum will definitely take a leap forward. By then, the design constraints of the game will be reduced and the development will be faster. NFT games are indeed in an early stage and have a very broad space for development.
NFT is going out of the circle, and NFT games are indeed an area worth looking forward to, paying attention to, and worthy of deployment.
