Original | Odaily Planet Daily ( @OdailyChina )
Author | Asher ( @Asher_0210 )
Following the AI+Meme craze, will AI+GameFi also usher in a new round of market?
Last night, Musk posted on the X platform that too many game studios are owned by large companies, and xAI (Musks artificial intelligence startup, which previously completed $5 billion in financing with a valuation of $45 billion) is about to launch an AI game studio to make games exciting again. In fact, as early as last years Global Game Developers Conference, the combination of AI and games was pushed to the center of attention in the traditional game industry. Perhaps, driven by Musk, there will be more and more projects that integrate the two narratives of AI and GameFi.
Next, Odaily Planet Daily will review the AI+GameFi projects that have issued tokens.
Colony: Echelon Prime Ecosystem AI Game
Colony has launched a new AI game on Solana for the sci-fi themed NFT card game Parallel. In the game, AI agents will be able to conduct transactions autonomously on-chain and deposit assets into their own wallets.
According to the white paper information released in March this year, Colony will serve as an important deployment of Echelon Prime Foundation in the Web3 gaming ecosystem. Echelon Prime Foundation is committed to empowering a new generation of distributed Web3 games, providing a community-governed environment and shared resources built around Echelons PRIME tokens and its smart contracts and gaming infrastructure.
Colony is an Echelon Prime ecological project. The Echelon Prime project token is PRIME. The current market value is US$590 million, with a weekly increase of 56.0%.
AI Hero: Binaryxs first AI blockchain game
AI Hero is Binaryxs first AI blockchain game. It is a Web3 game that combines RPG + Battle Royale + DND and is generated by AI. Players first need to choose their own race and profession according to their preferences, and explore different plot options through the plot randomly generated by AI in the game, combined with their own attributes, so as to obtain equipment rewards and improve their character attributes. At the same time, you will encounter other opponent players in the game and fight with other 12 players. The surviving players will win the final victory and win rewards.
AI Hero is a Binaryx ecological project. The Binaryx project token is BNX. The current market value is 145 million US dollars, with a weekly increase of 25.5%.
Zentry: An open gaming universe connecting Web2 and Web3
Zentry is the metagame layer of gaming, connecting the open gaming universes of Web2 and Web3. This means that Zentry combines multiple game elements together to create a comprehensive and realistic MMORPG. A unified universe that brings together 3.3 billion players around the world.
Zentry provides the infrastructure of this open universe, where residents can shape different worlds according to their own wishes. To achieve this vision, the meta-game stack has four elements: consumer applications, infrastructure, IP-rich worlds, and treasury. Consumer applications include Radiant, an open-world cross-platform meta-game, Nexus, the social portal of the Zentry universe, Zigma, and Azul, a cross-world AI companion.
The Zentry project token is ZENT, with a current market value of $139 million and a weekly increase of 19.6%.
Ultiverse: A one-stop Web3 gaming platform powered by AI
Ultiverse is an AI-driven one-stop platform for Web3 game production and publishing, promoting the mass adoption of AI-enhanced Web3 games. Based on the Bodhi protocol, Ultiverse connects different game worlds in a generative AI way. Its core team members have participated in the development of well-known games such as Ancient Rings, Prince of Persia, and Assassins Creed.
According to ROOTDATA data , Ultiverse has received three rounds of financing, with a total financing amount of US$13.5 million, namely:
In March 2022, Ultiverse announced the completion of a $4.5 million seed round of financing, led by Binance Labs and Defiance Capital, with other investors including Three Arrows Capital and SkyVision Capital;
At the end of March 2022, Binance Labs added $5 million in equity investment to Ultiverse. In addition, Nicole Zhang, director of Binance Labs, said that the additional equity investment was to allow Binance Labs to have a say in the future development of the project;
In February 2024, Ultiverse announced the completion of a strategic round of financing of US$4 million, led by IDG Capital, with participation from Animoca Brands, Polygon Ventures, MorningStar Ventures, Taiko, ZetaChain, Manta Network, DWF Ventures and Jacob KO (Superscrypt partner). This financing brought Ultiverses valuation to US$150 million.
The Ultiverse projects token is ULTI, with a current market value of $102 million and a weekly increase of 17.3%.
Sleepless AI: Web3+AI virtual companion game
Sleepless AI is a groundbreaking Web3+AI virtual companion game that uses AIGC and LLM to create rich story-based gameplay and evolving interactions with characters, providing players with emotional support and an immersive gaming experience. Sleepless AI investors include Binance Labs, Foresight Ventures, and Folius Ventures.
Sleepless AI was previously one of the four MVB VI outstanding projects invested by Binance Labs, and later became the 42nd project of Binance New Coin Mining.
This week, Sleepless AI announced on the X platform that a new version of the HIM APP will be launched soon.
The token of the Sleepless AI project is AI, with a current market value of US$85 million and a weekly increase of 49.5%.
Gaimin: A distributed computing infrastructure platform for gamers
Gaimin started from the field of gaming, with the goal of combining cloud computing power with gaming platforms to build a dAPP that can provide services such as game download and login, and can rent out its own hardware GPU computing power when idle to allow players to receive extra rewards. It also uses the high-performance GPU computing power of most players to build a decentralized distributed supercomputing platform gaimin.cloud, which can provide customers with data processing services such as video rendering, AI deep learning, and blockchain computing power.
The Gaimin project token is GMRX, with a current market value of $81 million and a weekly decline of 9.9%.
GamerHash AI: A distributed computing infrastructure platform for gamers
GamerHash is a distributed computing infrastructure platform for gamers. According to the team, GamerHash has more than 760,000 users and has a distributed computing infrastructure that supports the needs of a large number of players. GamerHash AI will also support the use of AI in a completely private way on the players own PC without the need for technical knowledge.
GamerHash AI offers a solution to the GPU crisis. Leveraging its global network of consumer-grade GPUs, primarily installed in gaming PCs, it is creating a Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network (DePIN) designed to meet the urgent need for AI computing power.
GamerHash AI connects gamers around the world with AI projects that need scalable solutions. These gamers already own GPUs, and they can share their excess capacity to help run AI tasks such as inference. Gamers can be rewarded for contributing their hardware and earn GamerCoin (GHX), while AI developers can access a massive pool of computing resources that are both flexible and cost-effective while also supporting the liquidity of GamerCoin (GHX).
The token of the GamerHash AI project is GHX, with a current market value of $52 million and a weekly increase of 21.9%.
MATR1X: Infrastructure and distribution system for Web3 culture and entertainment
MATR1X is an innovative cultural and entertainment platform that combines Web3 games, artificial intelligence, e-sports and blockchain infrastructure. It is committed to changing the global game and digital content industry through blockchain and artificial intelligence technology and accelerating the arrival of the Web3 era. Currently, the MATR1X platform includes 4 Web3 native games, namely: MATR1X FIRE, MATR1X BATTLE, CASTILE, and Evermoon.
According to ROOTDATA data, MATR1X has completed multiple rounds of financing, with a total amount of financing exceeding 20 million US dollars. The specific information is as follows:
On September 19, 2022, it announced the completion of a $10 million seed round and A-1 round of financing, led by Hana Financial Investment (Hana Financial Investment is affiliated to Hana Group, which owns Hana Bank, the second largest bank in South Korea by total assets). Other institutional investors include Hashkey Capital, Amber Group, SevenX Ventures, etc.
On November 23, 2023, it announced the completion of a US$10 million A-2 round of financing, led by Folius Ventures (top Web3 fund and lead investor in StepNs A round) and SevenX. Other institutional investors include ABCDE, Find Satoshi Lab (an investment fund under StepN), Jambo Ventures, etc.
Afterwards, MATR1X received strategic investments from several well-known investment institutions, including:
On December 12, 2023, it announced the completion of its A 2+ round of financing. The specific amount has not been disclosed. The only investor in this round of financing is OKX Ventures;
On February 21, 2024, it was announced that it had received a strategic investment from Animoca Brands, but the specific amount of financing was not disclosed;
On July 26, 2024, it was announced that it had received investment from Makers Fund, one of the three largest game funds in the United States.
The MATR1X project token is MAX, with a current market value of US$33 million and a weekly decline of 2.7%.
Phantasma: Layer 1 for Gaming, Entertainment, and Content Creation
Phantasma is a Layer 1 public chain for games, entertainment, and content creation. It provides Unity SDK, smartNFT technology, and AI smart contract encoder. Users can build DApps without code through Phantasma AI.
The token of the Phantasma project is SOUL, with a current market value of US$19 million and a weekly increase of 5.8%.
GameGPT: an AI-powered gaming engine
GameGPT is an AI-driven game engine that powers the next generation of blockchain games. GameGPT v1 was developed in 2020 and automates the games codebase, visual effects, and in-game economy. Currently, GameGPT has completed all 4 rounds of the AI Agent NFT Collection and will announce the details of the pre-sale and auction in the near future.
The GameGPT project token is DUEL, with a current market value of $10 million and a weekly increase of 63.2%.
