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 trends?
Last night, Musk posted on the X platform stating that too many game studios are owned by large corporations, and xAI (Musk's AI startup, which previously raised 5 billion dollars at a valuation of 45 billion dollars) is about to launch an AI game studio to make gaming exciting again. In fact, at last year's Global Game Developers Conference, the combination of AI and games was already brought to the forefront of the traditional gaming industry. Perhaps, under Musk's promotion, more and more projects combining AI and GameFi narratives will emerge.
Below, Odaily Planet Daily will summarize the AI+GameFi projects that have issued tokens.
Colony: AI game of the Echelon Prime ecosystem.
Colony is a sci-fi themed NFT card game Parallel launching a new AI game on Solana. In the game, AI agents will be able to autonomously trade on-chain and store assets in their own wallets.
According to the white paper released in March this year, Colony will serve as an important deployment of the Echelon Prime Foundation in the Web3 gaming ecosystem. The Echelon Prime Foundation is dedicated to empowering the new generation of distributed Web3 games, providing a community-governed environment and shared resources built around the Echelon PRIME token and its smart contracts and gaming infrastructure.
Colony, as a project of the Echelon Prime ecosystem, has a project token of PRIME, currently valued at 590 million dollars, with a weekly increase of 56.0%.
AI Hero: The first AI blockchain game under Binaryx.
AI Hero is the first AI blockchain game project under Binaryx. It is a Web3 game that combines 'RPG + Battle Royale + DND', generated with the participation of AI. Players must first choose their race and profession according to their preferences and explore different storyline options in the competition based on AI-generated plots combined with their attributes to earn equipment rewards and enhance their character attributes. During the competition, players will encounter other opponents, and the last surviving player will achieve victory and win rewards.
AI Hero, as a Binaryx ecosystem project, has a project token of BNX, currently valued at 145 million dollars, with a weekly increase of 25.5%.
Zentry: An open gaming universe connecting Web2 and Web3.
Zentry is the metagame layer of the game, connecting Web2 and Web3 in an open gaming universe. This means Zentry combines multiple game elements to create a fully immersive MMORPG. A unified universe that brings together 3.3 billion players worldwide.
Zentry provides the infrastructure for this open universe, shaped by residents according to their wishes. To realize this vision, the metagame stack has four elements: consumer applications, infrastructure, IP-rich worlds, and treasury, among which consumer applications include the cross-platform metagame Radiant, the social entry point Nexus of the Zentry universe, Zigma, and the cross-world AI partner Azul.
Zentry's project token is ZENT, currently valued at 139 million dollars, with a weekly increase of 19.6%.
Ultiverse: An AI-driven one-stop Web3 gaming platform.
Ultiverse is a one-stop platform for AI-driven Web3 game production and publishing, facilitating the large-scale adoption of AI-enhanced Web3 games. Ultiverse connects different game worlds through generative AI based on the Bodhi protocol. Its core team members have participated in the development of well-known games such as (The Lord of the Rings), (Prince of Persia), and (Assassin's Creed).
According to ROOTDATA, Ultiverse has raised funds three times, with a total funding amount of 13.5 million dollars, specifically:
In March 2022, Ultiverse announced the completion of 4.5 million dollars in seed round financing, led by Binance Labs and Defiance Capital, with other investors including Three Arrows Capital, SkyVision Capital, etc.;
At the end of March 2022, Binance Labs added 5 million dollars in equity investment into Ultiverse. In addition, Nicole Zhang, the head of Binance Labs, stated that the additional equity investment was to ensure Binance Labs has a say in the future development of the project;
In February 2024, Ultiverse announced the completion of 4 million dollars in strategic round financing, led by IDG Capital, with participation from Animoca Brands, Polygon Ventures, MorningStar Ventures, Taiko, ZetaChain, Manta Network, DWF Ventures, and Jacob KO (partner at Superscrypt). This financing valued Ultiverse at 150 million dollars.
The Ultiverse project has a token named ULTI, currently valued at 102 million dollars, with a weekly increase of 17.3%.
Sleepless AI: A Web3+AI virtual companion game.
Sleepless AI is an innovative 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 immersive gaming experiences. Investors in Sleepless AI include Binance Labs, Foresight Ventures, and Folius Ventures.
Sleepless AI was previously one of the four outstanding projects invested by Binance Labs' MVB VI and later became the 42nd project in Binance's new coin mining.
This week, Sleepless AI announced on X platform that a new version of the HIM APP is about to go online.
Sleepless AI's project token is AI, currently valued at 85 million dollars, with a weekly increase of 49.5%.
Gaimin: A distributed computing infrastructure platform for gamers.
Gaimin aims to combine cloud computing power and game platforms, building a dAPP that can provide game download and login services, and in idle times, allow players to rent out their hardware's GPU power to earn extra rewards, and leverage the high-performance GPU power of most players to build a decentralized distributed supercomputing platform gaimin.cloud, which can provide data processing services such as video rendering, AI deep learning, and blockchain computing power.
Gaimin's project token is GMRX, currently valued at 81 million dollars, with a weekly decrease 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 over 760,000 users and a distributed computing infrastructure that supports a large number of player demands. GamerHash AI will also support the use of AI on players' personal PCs in a completely private manner without requiring technical knowledge.
GamerHash AI provides a solution to the GPU crisis, leveraging its global network of consumer-grade GPUs primarily installed in gaming PCs to create a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) aimed at meeting the urgent demand for AI computing power.
GamerHash AI connects global gamers with AI projects that need scalable solutions. These gamers already own GPUs and can share excess capacity to help run AI tasks like inference. Players can earn rewards by contributing hardware, earning GamerCoin (GHX), while AI developers can access a vast pool of computational resources that are flexible, cost-effective, and support the liquidity of GamerCoin (GHX).
GamerHash AI's project token is GHX, currently valued at 52 million dollars, with a weekly increase of 21.9%.
MATR1X: Infrastructure and distribution system for Web3 culture and entertainment.
MATR1X is an innovative cultural entertainment platform that combines Web3 gaming, AI, esports, and blockchain infrastructure, dedicated to transforming the global gaming and digital content industry through blockchain and AI technologies, accelerating the arrival of the Web3 era. Currently, the MATR1X platform includes four Web3 native games: MATR1X FIRE, MATR1X BATTLE, CASTILE, and Evermoon.
According to ROOTDATA, as of now, MATR1X has gone through multiple rounds of financing, with a disclosed total funding amount exceeding 20 million dollars, with specific information being:
On September 19, 2022, it announced the completion of 10 million dollars in seed round and A-1 round financing, led by Hana Financial Investment (Hana Financial Investment is part of Hana Group, which owns Hana Bank, the second largest bank in Korea by total assets). Other institutional investors included Hashkey Capital, Amber Group, SevenX Ventures, etc.;
On November 23, 2023, it announced the completion of 10 million dollars in A-2 round financing, led by Folius Ventures (a top Web3 fund and lead investor in StepN's A round) and SevenX, with other institutional investors including ABCDE, Find Satoshi Lab (StepN's investment fund), Jambo Ventures, etc.
Subsequently, MATR1X received strategic investments from several well-known investment institutions, specifically including:
On December 12, 2023, it announced the completion of A 2+ round financing, with specific amounts not disclosed, and the only investor in this round was OKX Ventures;
On February 21, 2024, it announced receiving strategic investment from Animoca Brands, with specific funding amounts not disclosed;
On July 26, 2024, it announced receiving investment from Makers Fund, one of the three major gaming funds in the United States.
MATR1X's project token is MAX, currently valued at 33 million dollars, with a weekly decrease of 2.7%.
Phantasma: A Layer 1 for gaming, entertainment, and content creation.
Phantasma is a Layer 1 public blockchain for gaming, entertainment, and content creation, providing Unity SDK, smartNFT technology, and AI smart contract coders, allowing users to build DApps without code through Phantasma AI.
Phantasma's project token is SOUL, currently valued at 19 million dollars, with a weekly increase of 5.8%.
GameGPT: An AI-driven game engine.
GameGPT is an AI-driven game engine that powers the next generation of blockchain games. GameGPT v1 was developed in 2020 and can automate the game code library, visual effects, and in-game economy. Currently, GameGPT has completed all four rounds of AI agent NFT collection, and details of the pre-sale and auction will be announced soon.
The project token for GameGPT is DUEL, currently valued at 10 million dollars, with a weekly increase of 63.2%.
