Crypto Game Boosts: Daily Active Wallets Reach One Million

Crypto-enabled games continued to grow last month, reaching one million daily unique active wallets (DUAWs) in October, according to a report published Thursday. Dapradar.

In September, Blockchain Games collectively collected more than one million DUAWs in three days. The Blockchain Games in October saw over a million DUAWs in four days, a Chart From the crypto data firm, the overall daily average has been gradually increasing throughout the month.

Overall, it's a modest increase compared to last month, but Dapradar reports that some of the biggest players in crypto are trying to fight back against automated bots.

A large number of users connecting their daily crypto wallets to blockchain games has happened before, for example in late 2021 and Early 2022When games like Splinterlands, Alien worldsAnd Axie Infinity Push numbers have crossed the one million DAU mark. In April this year, the number of users has risen to the same height, says Dapradar Data.

But over the years there have been games like Alien Worlds. Troubled by bot accounts.– Making it clear how many of the users are real people.

They can be deployed by malicious actors. Bots in blockchain games To automate and multiply their token rewards without having to “grind” or actually play the game for hours. It's a long-standing problem with blockchain games that have real-world monetary incentives—even Axie Infinity had to calculate with “Bot farms“In 2021

Last month, the official Twitter account of Alien Worlds reported at least that 1.6 million accounts There were bot accounts using the game, which contributed to October's inflated totals. Alien Worlds did not immediately respond DecryptRequest for feedback.

Last month, games like Alien Worlds, Sweat Economy, SecondLive, Splinterlands and Battle Left Center Right (BLCR) recorded the highest number of unique active wallets every day, Dapradar reported. Report.

While some of Alien World's roughly 133,000 daily UAWs can be attributed to bot accounts, Lab Economy founder Oleg Fomenko says the game ranks second highest with 73,000 DAUWs. Decrypt It's highly unlikely that the October email titled “Move to Get” has a lot of bots or users cheating the game.

“After spending nine years working on the verification of the activity, we are sure that the number of bots that will get SWEAT will be close to zero,” said Fomenko. DecryptReferring to the game's SWEAT token. “It's not zero because there's always someone trying some new rocking style or copying Monty Python's ‘Ministry of Silly Walking' designs,” shared the co-founder.

But what we do know is that they can't be scaled at all, and our models are surprisingly good at identifying whether the walking or running data is real. We are constantly on the lookout for such activities and have seen everything from automatic walking, cradles, shakers, dogs, metronomes, fans and dishwashers,” continued Fomenko.

In recent weeks, casual pixelated MMORPG and farming game pixelated has seen a surge in activity. In October, the Pixel saw zero users, according to Dapradar data. But on October 30, the game was migrated to Axie Infinity's Ethereum sidechain, Ronin, and saw nearly 6,000 UAW connect to the game.

From November 6 to 10, Pixels saw nearly 50,000 unique active wallets connect to the platform, but this peak has since been disapproved by Dapradar data.

But Axie Infinity co-founder Jeffrey “Jiho” Zirlin released a chart late Wednesday saying Pixels has surpassed 100,000 daily active users.

They reached out for feedback, Zirlin said Decrypt As there is a problem with the game chain tracker. As a result, Dapradar's chart may be showing accurate player numbers. Dapradar has not yet responded. DecryptA question of clarification.

Regardless, reports indicate that botting or automated tagging is exaggerating the number of pixels at least slightly. Pixel players And the founder of the game, Luke Barwikowski.

Barwikowski shared on Sunday that the Pixel team has “quietly caught” a number of bot accounts, and added on Monday that the team is developing and deploying countermeasures to prevent the spread of bot accounts.

Game research and consulting firm Navik argued in the long Alien Worlds. Blog post Last year's special wallet figures were generally “prone to bots” and any UAW figures should be “taken with a pinch of salt.” Instead, Navik analyst Karan Gaikward argued that transaction volume is a better metric for measuring actual user activity.

Dapradar's report has been linked to a wide-ranging discussion on social media about how valuable such figures are (or aren't) and whether they paint a realistic picture of the type of demand for blockchain games.

When Dapradar found out that the game was done 33% of decentralized application (Dapp) activity Last month, it was almost impossible to know how much of that activity was real, individual users and how many bots there were on the blockchain.

Edited by Andrew Hayward.