Polygon Ecosystem Recap
WAU Chart: 1.87M
Top Dapps of the Week:
Here are the top 10 dapps for the week according to DappRadar:
- overall, we see the same groups of projects listed in the top, aside from Stellum, which seems to be one of the recent ones making the list.
- Stellum is a space simulation game where users travel from planet to planet collecting resources in order to sell for their STM tokens, Another aspect of the game is that along the way, you enhance your NFT character, which will also be able to be sued across various other games that launch over time. It looks like this was a Binance native game prior to Polygon. I was not able to find a direct reason for their recent uptick in activity, as their Twitter account is suspended.
- Looks like Sushiswap was the project replaced from the rankings from last week
Ecosystem Updates:
- Mastercard will launch the Mastercard Artist Accelerator on Polygon, “a web3 based, fan-driven initiative to develop and launch emerging musical artists in the digital economy”
- According to the official post, “Mastercard is launching a spotlight program for emerging musical artists built on the Polygon blockchain to help up-and-coming creators tap into the power of Web3 and blockchain technologies.”
- “A first-of-its-kind curriculum will teach the artists how to build (and own) their brand through Web3 experiences like minting NFTs, representing themselves in virtual worlds and establishing an engaged community.”
- here is the website to the accelerator program
- National Geographic is dropping an NFT collection on Snowcrash NFT, an NFT trading platform on Polygon
- On Jan. 12th, the zkEVM initial testnet will be deprecated. Users will be able to transition to the performance-enhanced version. This will be the final testnet before full mainnet launch
- some of the stats for the initial testnet include:
- Total tx’s: 21,966
- total deployed contracts: 2,264
- total zk-proofs created: 14,930
- total wallet addresses: 10,508
- Virtualness has won an exclusive deal with PBA (Philippines Basketball Association) for end-to-end rights to their digital collectibles.
- they will build an easy to use digital experience for basketball fans to discover, explore, collect, trade, buy & own memorable game moments via branded digital collectibles. Here is their website
- Here are some stats posted by the Railgun team, a dapp system that any wallet can integrate in order to enable private transactions
- Altogether, Railgun had about $68.6M in deposits/withdrawals for 2022 ($54.9M on Ethereum, $9.5M on Polygon, and $4.2M on BSC)
- That said, Polygon led in total tx’s, accumulating over 4.5K on the network (48%)
- In general, railgun activity seems to have been climbing throughout the year, as shown here
- Here’s a deep-dive by the Sandbox game about their game maker 0.8v. Recently updates include new multiplayer game functions, video & audio streaming, and other social aspects
- Lens protocol reaches 10M tx’s under its closed beta phase
- DanuGames started opening up their game to certain NFT holders
- this is a P2E RPG fantasy open world building natively on Polygon, but will also deploy on Ethereum, Binance, and Wax
- game actually looks descent, and looks like has some experienced team members (story written by a game of thrones alumn, with other members coming from gaming backgrounds
- here is their website
- Lensta drops its mobile app to the public. Lensta is a platform for exploring and curating images on Lens