when can a game can call itself onchain?

b3 raise, Dojo updates, onchain gaming on Movement and more...

bonjour, it was quite a busy week, many small updates and discussions, enjoy!

Dojo shared an ecosystem update and their first weekly recap, $pirate holders staked over 13% of the whole supply, Beanie’s gmcapital invests into onchain heroes, TxSpaces is edging closer to mainnet, Uncharted received 3000 $op through retro funding 4, 6529 capital member Bharat writes why he is bullish on onchain gaming.

Kamigotchi introduces Mochis to their idle game, Lattice is on another podcast, onchain games are building on Movement, the Good Game pod talks about autonomous worlds and Mirage comes in hot with another big update.

the new Gangster Arena round is live, MOCS starts first playtest on Redstone, the AW Tokyo hacker house is live in collab with Komorebi and they have several events and talks planned, Rafael from 1kx/Lattice shares insightful learnings from experimenting with tokens in Skystrife and Bankless talked about bots in onchain games and.

If you’re looking for a new onchain game to play, Calc posted a comprehensive thread on all games building in the world of Realms.

b3 raised $18m for a “onchain gaming” L3?!

b3 announced a (surprisingly?) big $18m raise led by Pantera which puts their total at $21m. b3 is a L3 on Base for “onchain gaming” being built by a bunch of ex Coinbase employees.

now a lot of people questioned how “onchain” focused the chain actually is, since a lot of their testnet games are not fully onchain.

this resurfaced the reoccurring discussion of what a onchain game (or however you wanna call it") truly is, which leads us to…

what it means to be onchain?

fully onchain, autonomous world, or just onchain

there are many different names for this niche of crypto games and get mistaken often.

the b3 fundraise sturred up a lot of questions on how onchain they actually are. can anyone just call themselves onchain? and what does it mean to build an onchain game. (i use onchain game as synonym for FOCG/AW)

i wrote my personal opinion on twitter.

just storing some of your assets or a leaderboard on a blockchain doesn’t justify calling yourself an “onchain” game. onchain games go deeper. on the other hand i don’t think you need or should be 1000% extreme, for example i personally consider Pirate Nation fully onchain, while others don’t.

i think ultimately the definition is somewhere between “is a meaningful part of the game logic onchain” and “can i play the whole game through smart contracts”

what we can all agree on is that there are too many games pretending to be onchain when they’re just mediocre games with NFTs slapped on top.

anecdotes on onchain games, overheard on twitter