Blockchain technology will revolutionize the game industry by allowing players to truly own in-game items and digital assets. This will shift power to gamers by giving them a stake in the games' success. While the blockchain gaming sector is still small compared to the overall games market, sales of blockchain-based games and items grew to $1.1 billion in 2021. As mobile games popularized free-to-play models, blockchain could do the same for gaming by putting gamers in control through community ownership and an open marketplace for digital goods. The challenge is finding a balance between player value and successful monetization models.

1. How blockchain
will revolutionize
the game industry

3. Blockchain?
What chain?

6. $1.1 billion

25. Sales: 446,145
Unique Kitties Sold: 352,617
Total Sales (ETH): 49,976
Total Sales (US$): $26,239,846
Average Kitty Sale Price: $58.81
Median Kitty Sale Price: $16.93
Most Expensive Kitty (ETH): 203
Most Expensive Kitty (US$): $140,000 (then), $45,000 (now)

51. Challenges

52. Games >$100b
Blockchain game sector funding $1b (1%)
Blockchain Games <$100m (<0.1%)

64. “Gamers want a bigger
stake in their games.
Blockchain items give
them ownership.”
John Linden
Seismic/Niantic Labs

65. Community
A shared stake
in success

66. Scarcity ≠ Value
Scarcity + Community = Value

67. 2018: dApps, browser/MetaMask - 10k DAUs
2020: PC-driven complexity, item trading, esports - 100k DAUs
2023: Mobile-driven accessibility, full ecosystem - 1m DAUs

70. As F2P revolutionized mobile games,
so with blockchain and gaming,
but this time it will be gamer-led
Challenge/Opportunity
Finding the sweet spot between value
and monetization
● Community
● Ownership
● Value
● Ecosystem

71. Thanks
jon@blockchaingamer.biz
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