Working in direction of a minimum of two main web3 sport launches within the coming months, Legendary Video games is already exhibiting encouraging numbers of the continuing exercise on its Polkadot-based Mythos blockchain.
It claims it’s not too long ago hit:
- 7 million energetic gamers,
- 4 million complete transactions, and
- over $650 million in quantity from accomplished transactions.
Extra usually, the Mythos chain at the moment ranks because the fourth chain by way of buying and selling quantity behind Ethereum, Polygon and Bitcoin however forward of Solana and Immutable.
Legendary itself pinpoints cellular as the principle cause behind this success, “Cellular onchain gaming works as a result of gamers give attention to the sport, not the tech. They gather gadgets they really need to personal, with out complexity,” it stated in a press release on X.
The principle driver of this exercise is its sport merchandise market DMarket. Its annual NFT buying and selling quantity has now exceeded $400 million. Notably, following the expansion development of buying and selling AI brokers, 20% of this exercise is estimated to be pushed by AI buying and selling.
However whereas DMarket is principally used for purchasing and promoting skins and sport gadgets for web2 video games like CS:GO and DOTA 2, Legendary has additionally launched numbers on onchain exercise inside its personal video games.
The sport accounting for the best variety of customers is its mobile-based American soccer sport NFL Rivals. Its QuickTrade characteristic permitting for simpler trades by bundling NFTs has been hailed as a giant success. Certainly Legendary CEO John Linden has known as it “essentially the most important factor we’ve completed in web3”.
Legendary hasn’t damaged out particular knowledge for these video games, nevertheless it beforehand acknowledged NFL Rivals had completed over 6 million downloads, whereas its lifetime NFT buying and selling quantity is estimated to be approaching $13 million.
Different portfolio video games with considerably decrease onchain exercise embody Nitro Nation: World Tour and the at the moment in-development Blankos cellular.
With extra cellular titles corresponding to Pudgy Penguin IP sport Pudgy Celebration and FIFA-licensed soccer sport FIFA Rivals dropping later in 2025, this progress is more likely to speed up to new highs.
Discussing how AI might finally affect its video games and market Legendary Market, Linden has talked about the mixing of AI sports activities brokers that might assist information gamers by buying and selling, amongst different options, to drive adoption.