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What are some of The projects on The New GameFi that deserve attention?

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GameFi gives NFT a more practical value through gamification, making them no longer just a commodity to hang on OpenSea for sale.

Author: 0x13, rhythmical BlockBeats

GameFi was first used outside the realm of encryption, as an innovative financial services company aiming to use fun ways to improve the efficiency of corporate employees, and since then, the formerly unrelated words Game and Finance have become inextricably linked.

When the word GameFi comes to encryption, it doesn't just mean "Game+Finance", but "Game+DeFi". The people of DeFi world are not satisfied with the traditional mining project. After pledging LP, they start to integrate mining into the game, which not only lowers the entry threshold for new entrants, but also brings more fun to the mobile mining. Even Andre Cronje, now a Rainmaker at DeFi, has predicted that "GameFi" could be the future direction of DeFi's monetary policy.

What is a GameFi

GameFi refers to the game presentation of financial products and the gamifying of DeFi rules, such as the use of NFT equipment to increase revenue and the introduction of battle mode. Compared with traditional mobile mining, the GameFi project is more interactive with users and more interesting.

In fact, When it comes to GameFi, I have to mention NFTfi. Many liquidity mining projects led by MEME introduced NFT in an unprecedented way at that time, which aroused strong market response and also caused a period of FOMO boom. However, MEME is too monotonous and easy to obtain points by pledge and then exchange for NFT, which is also an important reason for the short duration of the NFTfi craze.

GameFi solved this problem by giving NFT a more practical value through gamification, making it more than just a commodity hanging around OpenSea waiting to be sold.

GameFi will attract more people into the DeFi domain.

First of all, the fun of gamification appeals to users who don't want to understand the complex technology of DeFi project. They don't need to understand the code, logic, mechanics of DeFi project, but just need to figure out how the "game" is played, which is neither brainy nor boring.

Second, GameFi gives retail investors more access. Traditional mining project, the number of benefits depends on the LP in the entire pool accounted for, so early admission of the large family often make a pot full of money, and retail investors have little income, but also at the risk of large family selling caused free loss. Turning the mining project into a "game" gives retail investors the potential to make more money.

Either way, there are two kinds of games: Krypton, which invests a lot of money to get ahead in the game, and Liver, which slowly benefits from the cost of time. GameFi, on the other hand, separates players in these two games and lets them compete with their peers.

For example, in the "Alpaca City", large investors often choose to provide more LP to mine, while retail investors choose more options without providing LP's "alpaca tribe" play; "Axie Infinity" requires players to play strategic battles, and kryptonite players don't necessarily win the game. In contrast, "Node Runners" first obtain NFT cards by pledging LP, and then dig in NFT cards. Both large and retail investors have a chance to obtain NFT, and mining gains are only related to NFT cards.

The GameFi project is worth watching

The current GameFi project can be roughly divided into two categories: one is a further gamification extension to the traditional mining model, and the other is a straight mining process into a game. The former usually needs to pledge tokens or LP and NFT to provide a gain, or directly pledge the item NFT; The latter allows users to play a game in real life, just like people play a game every day, except that the game items can be sold for profit.

GameFi can be seen as a further development of NFTfi, which was a flash in the pan not long ago. Initially MEME and DEGO combined mobile mining with NFT, but now a large number of projects have closely linked mobile mining with chain tourism. GameFi will soon be followed by more people. Rhythmical BlockBeats has sorted out part of GameFi project, which is summarized as follows.

1, Node Runners

Similar to the once popular MEME, Node Runners obtain project points by pledging them first (pineapple points of MEME, Hash of Node Runners), and then use the points to exchange NFT cards created from encrypted domain celebrities.

The difference is that Node Runners extend their gameplay to allow NFT to be pawned by the user after getting the card. More interestingly, the heroes pledged by the users will fight against the villains, and the defeated villain will become an NFT that can be sold. Users will not only benefit from selling the tokens they find, but also from selling the cards.

2. Alpaca City

When anyone familiar with the NFT sees Alpaca City, it is bound to remind them of the crypto cat that a few years ago helped clog the entire Eether network. Whether painting style, basic gameplay, you can see a lot of cryptic cat shadow from the city of Alpaca. However, this project stands out because it extends the gameplay beyond crypto Cat.

There are two modes of mining in Alpaca City. Large households often choose to pledge a large amount of ALPA/ETH LP and add a miner alpaca with a high energy value to dig up ALPA tokens. More retail investors choose alpaca tribe, pledge alpaca NFT, and dig ALPA token through the ratio of its energy value synthesis. It can be said that both large and small investors can compete with the same kind of players, each type of player can get profits.

In addition to mining, players can also study the traits and genes of alpacas to breed two alpacas. New alpacas with high energy value and low algebra can often be sold at a high price at OpenSea.

3, Axie Infinity

While the above two projects add a lot of gameplay attributes to fluid mining, Axie Infinity makes mining a complete game, with little kryptonite in mind.

The player buys three Axies, matches them, and then enters the game to play against NPCS or other players. After winning the battle, you will receive "Little Love Potion (SLP)", which is an ERC-20 token that can be sold on Uniswap, Coinan and other platforms. Instead, the battle is more tested by players' line-up, skill selection, and matchmaking strategy than by the PRICE of Axie, putting both large and small players on the same playing field.

In addition to selling SLP, the player can also use SLP to breed two Axies, and sell the offspring for a profit. And just like alpaca City, players need to take the Axie gene into account when breeding Axie to make their offspring more competitive.

Once launched on Launchpad, the game held the no. 1 spot in DApp data and was far ahead of other projects. Although the recent game update required players to buy more Axie for more strength, greatly lengthened the cycle and caused a lot of user loss, the game's design, style, and philosophy are still very much talked about.

4, AnRKey X ™

AnRKey X™, a DeFi games and NFT art studio, is notable for its impressive art style and future plans, with products including NBSP; Raged Wave 2323 ™. The company's proprietary gDEX protocol, which represents a decentralized financial game trading platform, merges DeFi, esports, and Web 3.0 NFT into a new competitive industry, M $Ports ™. They were the first to do so.

AnRKey X™ liquid mining introduces competition in addition to the regular LP pledge. Each week, all participating users will be divided into nine teams, and the winners of each week will be determined based on the total liquidity and APY provided by each team, in addition to the token reward each team receives.

The winner will also receive "Sacred Relics" NFT, which can be sold on the secondary market or used for gains on liquidity excavation for the following week.

Rhythm understands that AnRKey X™ does not need to be expanded in the Chinese market. It has gained a large number of users' attention in foreign markets through project design, painting style, mechanism and concept, and generated users' spontaneous hype without promotion. That may be why his team has the confidence not to expand into the huge Chinese market.

The ANRX tokens will go on sale on December 7. Prior to the public sale, AnRKey X™ completed a private sale involving well-known venture capital firms and DeFi influencers that was heavily oversubscribed. It will be interesting to see how the project evolves.

5, see Colour. Finance

Many projects combine gaming with mining in the 'mining' process, while Colour.Finance combines mining after mining. See Colour. Finance based on Ethernet fang block chain describes himself as a "social experiment products", users need to see Colour tokens, accessed by the pledge LP, and then use the project in 64 different shades of color processing into any design, then design and see Colour tokens, combine to form a unique NFT, see Colour tokens used in casting NFT will be destroyed, the user can also NFT is decomposed into color piece and see Colour tokens, but after the decomposition of the number of color piece and tokens only had 80%.

This project combines NFT authoring with DeFi, unlike most projects that focus on NFT casting and then DeFi, is a new Angle worth exploring.

6. Evolutionary planets

Evolution planet is a virtual management of boca Ecology blockchain game. The game is divided into 26 continents, each of which is deployed on a different block chain. Governance parameters (such as trade tax rate, etc.) are set by users autonomously. Users can buy and sell land, dig elements for them through apostles, build buildings, and make props, etc.

The game is played by first buying land and apostles, then placing the apostles on the land to start digging, each piece of land can dig out different resources, each apostle's ability value is also different. In addition to this basic gameplay, players can also rent out apostles to work for other players.

In addition to this, the evolutionary planet also includes a breeding game where you can breed an apostle of the same race or sex. In addition to breeding two of your own, you can also breed in the matchmaking market and other players' apostles.

Not long ago, Evolutionary Planet also launched the NFT drill bit, players can open different levels of treasure box will get different rarer bits, and the bit and mining elements can be combined to get the human drilling machine NFT increased mining income.

Evolutionary planet almost incorporates all recent popular excavation method: breeding, simulated operation, form, NFT gain, virtual land and so on, and combined with the wave of card, such as hot spots across the chain, coupled with the game development team since 18 years, constantly in combination with the most popular style, innovation, is worth looking forward to the next step of development.