According to a recent report by DappRadar, the blockchain game reached a new milestone with 4.2 million daily active users in August.
The Web3 gaming industry saw a 5% increase in daily unique active wallets (dUAW) last month, despite falling to second place as the most active crypto sector amid the AI boom.
Ronin maintains his dominance
Ronin continues to dominate the blockchain gaming landscape with the highest average number of unique active wallets (UAW), which increased by 24% in August to 1.32 million. Pixels and Forgotten Runiverse were the top games generating activity on the network during the month.
The second most active network was opBNB with 688,000 UAW during the period. The network saw a 50% growth in active users, driven by the game “SERAPH: In the Darkness” and the mobile gaming platform Gomble Games.
SKALE Network rounded out the top three most active blockchains for Web3 gaming in August, growing 10% over the month to 352,000 UAW driven by games like motoDEX and World of Dypians.
Multi-chain ecosystem captures users
KGeN became the leading gaming app last month, with over 2.3 million UAW. KGeN is a gaming ecosystem based on nine different blockchains that offers gamified rewards and quests to its users.
Immutable-based mobile game BoomLand had the second-highest number of active users during the month, racking up nearly 1.9 million UAWs. Meanwhile, Pixels rounded out the top three most-played games in August with 1.34 million UAWs.
The report also highlights the completion of the closed beta testing phase of the MMORPG Lumiterra on Ronin. The game, which included a $1 million prize pool, saw a player retention rate of over 80% in the first seven days of testing and a total of 728,000 UAWs in August.
Nearly $580 million invested
According to RootData, the blockchain gaming sector is the crypto industry with the fifth largest amount of capital raised from venture capital (VC) funds in 2024.
The gaming sector has attracted nearly $580 million in investments so far, close to the $583 million raised by centralized crypto platforms.
It is worth noting that the amount raised by blockchain gaming industry projects this year is less than $100 million less than the total of $664 million raised last year.
