Cryptocurrency acquisition for gaming prediction in 2025, influx of 50 million gamers per month: Web3 Gamer

Web3 gaming executives have high expectations for user numbers and adoption in 2025.

As 2025 begins, everyone in the Web3 gaming industry, from executives to developers, is sharing their predictions for the year. agreement? They’ve stopped raving about how Web3 games will be “more fun” in the future, and are betting on a massive surge in actual user numbers as traditional game publishers and platforms jump on the bandwagon.

Ava Labs games leader “Park” said in a December 29 post that Web3 games will hit 50 million monthly active users (MAU) this year and that “top” Western game publishers will move to Web3 games or Web3 games. “Will be acquired by a major publisher”

Yield Guild Games corporate development and finance manager Serge-Raymond Nzabandora also believes there will be a large influx of users. He told Web3 Gamer that several games will hit 1 million daily active users (DAU), with a “selected few” hitting 5 to 10 million DAU.

Raymond believes that Off The Grid, a third-person battle royale game based on the Avalanche blockchain, will surpass 1 million DAU after its official launch and launch of the GUNZ token.

Raymond says Off The Grid did “very well” when it launched in console early access in October.

He believes this is a reasonable assumption, since one of the most popular Web3 games of 2024, laid-back adventure game Pixels, surpassed 1 million DAU last year.

Traditional gaming companies exploring Web3 games

“Many of the games funded in the last cycle are entering more mature stages of their game development roadmap,” adds Raymond.

Raymond also believes that Web3 gaming will continue to find new distribution platforms, more major studios will enter Web3 gaming, and the center of gravity will shift from Asia to the United States.

Tim Moore, head of growth and revenue strategy at Immutable, said in a December 27 video that Web3 games will no longer be a separate category and that by 2025, they will “just be games.”

Meanwhile, Thomas Zaepffel, co-founder and CEO of Coliseum, says he believes 2025 is the year mobile games will “take over the industry and start taking off.”

“Like most memecoin traders use mobile wallet apps,” says Zaepffel.

And how about inputting the AI ​​agent’s predictions as well? AIXBT, a popular AI chatbot, believes utilities will dominate the Web3 gaming scene by 2025.

Web3 games based on pure token economics will disappear. Only real games with real governance and player-owned assets will survive.”

Gamers can now guess how the year will go with the ‘Forkast’ prediction platform

If you can make a few of your own cryptocurrency gaming predictions. A new prediction market platform launched this week for gamers to help us achieve great results.

On January 7th, Community Gaming will launch “Forkast”, the first prediction market for gamers on the Ronin Network.

Users can be rewarded with CGX, a cryptocurrency token, by correctly guessing what will happen to the gaming industry.

“Imagine the market for the question, “Will Pixel reach 2 million DAU by Christmas?” Ronin said in a statement on December 24. Users can vote for or against, and will vote correctly if the goal is reached by the deadline. “You will receive on-chain rewards from your counterparties,” one user added.

Forkast, which is not affiliated with the cryptocurrency news publication, confirmed in a post on December 29 that CGX will have a total supply of 1 billion tokens.

57% of those tokens will be set aside to be delivered to the community through staking rewards, tournament prizes, airdrops, and prediction market incentives, and 12% will be delivered to the community on launch day.

Savvy gamers might think this is an easy way to earn money, but experience from other platforms shows that it’s not that simple.

Polymarket, a decentralized prediction market platform that allows cryptocurrency users to bet on world events, had just 12.7% of user wallets.

According to data from Layerhub, an on-chain analytics tool, in October, 149,383 of Polymarket’s 171,113 cryptocurrency wallets, or 87.3%, were not profitable.

Yellow Panther launches ‘Agent YP’, total MC of AI agents expected to exceed $100 billion

Yellow Panther, one of the biggest Web3 gamers on the planet, is going all in on its new artificial intelligence gaming agent and is confident it will be a top performer.

“There are only a handful of AI agents for gaming right now, but I would have to bet on myself and say Agent YP,” Yellow Panther tells Web3 Gamer.

Currently, Agent YP serves as an information and alpha agent on social media platform X and boasts over 6,000 followers. It is powered by AI ecosystem Virtuals Protocol and on-chain AI accelerator Agent Starter.

The 26-year-old is one of the first Web3 gaming celebrities to release an AI agent and says Yellow Panther-style cosmetics and skins – items that allow players to customize their character’s appearance – are already in “over 20 Web3 games”. .

“Agent YP aims to be the gaming AI agent that delivers the fastest and most accurate alpha in cryptocurrency games,” he adds.

YP agents can interact with other gamers.

Yellow Panther has big plans for its agents, which will soon be able to play on-chain games, act as non-playable characters that can interact with other players, and even live stream. He thinks it’s “highly likely” that AI agents will compete directly with Web3 game creators.

Overall, Yellow Panther believes that at least one of the AI ​​agent ecosystems will enter the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization and that the total market capitalization of AI agents will exceed $100 billion.

The largest AI agent ecosystem by market capitalization is Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL), which had a market cap of $4 billion at the time of publication, according to CoinMarketCap.

Yellow Panther is also excited about upcoming games that incorporate AI. In particular, we are looking forward to the social simulation game Today The Game, the survival simulation game Parallel Colony, and the fighting game AI Arena.

Other news

— Web3 gaming ecosystem Planet Mojo has launched its first AI agent “Emma”, designed to assist players with game strategy in the leading chess battle game Mojo Melee.

— Action RPG Fableborne has revealed its Season 3 stats, boasting 803 years of playtime, over $500,000 in revenue, and over 3.5 million raids.

— Ubisoft, the French video game company known for the Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Tom Clancy series, has launched Captain Laserhawk THE GAME on Ethereum layer 2, Arbitrum.

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Ciaran Lyon

Ciaran Lyons is an Australian cryptocurrency journalist. He is also a stand-up comedian and radio and TV presenter for Triple J, SBS and The Project.