The trading volume of Layer3 gaming blockchain Xai has soared up to 60 times, which has sparked a new wave of enthusiasm.

Author: Zen, PANews

In the past week, Xai's Transactions Per Second (TPS) skyrocketed by more than 60 times, reaching a peak of 111.96 on June 18, accounting for about 40% of the Ethereum scaling network, including L2 and L3. This unexpected sudden surge began with the "Xai Vanguard: Genesis" event, which was officially launched on June 10 and is planned to continue until November, aiming to provide the Xai community with a full set of new game releases, missions, achievements, and rewards.

"Xai Vanguard: Genesis" is the first major event launched after the official launch of Xai's Mainnet, and is a continuation of its "Xai Odyssey" launched last year. In "Xai Odyssey", based on the technical and financial support of Arbitrum, Xai attracted the participation of a large number of users and players, and achieved good results such as more than 500,000 connected wallets and more than 5 million daily transactions.

As of June 20th, Xai Vanguard: Genesis has launched seven chapters, each involving a different part of the Xai Gaming ecosystem, corresponding to different tasks on Galxe, including NFT minting, Discord community, XAI stake, participating in games, XAI bridge, and following various game projects in the ecosystem. According to Xai, the theme of the event in June is "Ecosystem Partners", which is intended to focus on introducing and educating users about Xai's partners and the range of dApps deployed in the ecosystem. Starting from the minting of the second chapter "Vanguard NFT" that opened on June 12, Xai's volume kicked off the "rush forward".

From July to November, Xai Vanguard: Genesis will enter the gaming phase, focusing on various games that actively engage players within the ecosystem. By completing in-game tasks including Crypto Unicorns, Final Form, and Lost Glitches, or connecting with the gaming community, players can earn corresponding points. Currently, the Genesis tasks involve three games, including Crypto Unicorns.

Crypto Unicorns

A pet collection and simulation game developed by Laguna Games. The gameplay includes farm management, martial arts, racing, and team RPG battles. Due to different corresponding abilities, each game mechanism has unicorns that are more suitable for use. In terms of farm management, land NFT is the foundation of all activities. Players can use the land to increase productivity and make materials to upgrade buildings. In this way, players can customize their farms and showcase them to the world by combining individual lands into communities, which is also suitable for highly social gameplay.

Crypto Unicorns was originally a collection of 10,000 NFTs, which initially took the form of unicorn eggs and could hatch into the first generation of unicorns on the Polygon blockchain. Starting from May 28th this year, Crypto Unicorns began migrating from Polygon to XAI, with the migration expected to be completed in late June. At that time, Crypto Unicorns will Play to Airdrop the first season, providing $XAI token rewards for players participating in key activities.

As one of the flagship projects in the Xai ecosystem, Crypto Unicorns had already gained a lot of popularity before migrating to the Xai ecosystem. In March 2022, Crypto Unicorns also raised $26 million through token sales, with Metaverse company TCG and venture capital fund Backed VC leading the investment, and participation from BITKRAFT Ventures, Delphi Digital, and others. The game, as the theme of the fifth chapter of Genesis, has been launched on Galxe and is currently the only activity that requires playing games to earn mission points.

Tarochi Game

The first full-chain RPG released on XAI, developed by Paima Studios. Tarochi adopts the retro style of pixel art, set in an immersive, autonomous Decentralization world. In terms of gameplay, Tarochi shares some similarities with Pokemon, where players will embark on an adventure, completing quests, exploring, fighting, and catching monsters. Tarochi Game is listed in the newly released "Genesis Chapter 7 - Ambassadors", and you can currently earn quest points just by following the official Twitter, and it is expected to be online soon.

The Lost Glitches

A collectible card game, Lost Glitches combines the strategic complexity of a collectible card game (CCG) with the immersive narrative and character development of a role-playing game (RPG). In the world of 'Deep Space' in Lost Glitches, players ally with a faction in the game, create personalized decks to engage in tactical battles, and its card battle mechanism is similar to other blockchain-based card combat games such as Parallel and Gods Unchained. In April of this year, the Xai Foundation announced a collaboration with game publisher Mimunga and developer Honig Studios to bring The Lost Glitches into the Xai blockchain network. The Xai Foundation has also invested in this project with undisclosed funds. Similar to Tarochi Game, The Lost Glitches is also listed in Chapter Seven of Genesis.

In addition to targeting gamers, Xai Vanguard: Genesis also encourages developers to participate and provides a series of builder tasks that allow developers and studios to earn points and rewards. Many of these tasks will utilize Xai Builder, an integrated L3 developer control platform for building AAA games, which was launched at the end of last month with support from Sequence, aiming to seamlessly integrate new applications into the Xai blockchain. By providing technical support and funding rewards while attracting players through task rewards, Xai intends to continuously attract developers and players, forming a virtuous cycle and promoting the healthy development of the ecosystem.

However, there are also signs of a 'high opening and low walking' trend in 'Xai Vanguard: Genesis', with a significant downward trend in the number of participants in the tasks launched on Galxe. Only the number of participants in the tasks of Crypto Unicorns has shown a significant recovery, which to some extent indicates that tasks related to participating in games will be more popular with users in the Web3 game ecosystem.

It is foreseeable that, in the continuous six-month activity, Xai will gradually attract development teams like Crypto Unicorns to deploy in its ecosystem to attract more gamers to participate continuously. Whether Xai's initial success will last or be short-lived requires time to answer.