Kroma: A gaming NFT community that found their home on Rarible.com

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Imagine a world where your favorite games come alive with unique, collectible assets powered by blockchain tech—this week, we’re exploring how gaming NFTs are doing just that. Dive into the success story of the Kroma network on Rarible.com and see how these NFTs are made to revolutionize gameplay.

What’s so great about gaming NFTs?

You may have heard on CT is that NFTs are revolutionizing the gaming industry by introducing true digital ownership and scarcity. With NFTs, in-game items, characters, and even virtual land become unique, tradable assets that players actually own, rather than the game company. This ownership can extend beyond a single game, allowing for interoperability across different games and platforms in a way we simply haven’t seen in gaming before.

Need to see the numbers?

• Blockchain games lead the web3 space, representing 28% of all blockchain activity (according to DappRadar ’s latest Gaming Report).
• This sector draws in 2.8 million active wallets every day.
• Q2 2024 was a record-breaking quarter for blockchain gaming investments, with $1.1 billion raised— a massive 314% increase from the previous quarter and the highest since Q3 2022.

What’s more, NFTs boost loyalty and grow gaming audiences by offering holders special perks, which keeps players engaged and strengthens the community–and you can see it with Kroma ??

Kroma chain

Kroma is an Ethereum Layer 2, and one of Asia’s leading blockchains. It has a large and ever-growing NFT gaming community, which is a core part of its onboarding strategy. Kroma understands the strength of the gaming industry, and aims to be the chain for web3 gaming and consumer applications.

The Kroma community have made Rarible their de facto home, ever since integration in April of this year. And the activity on Kroma speaks volumes for the success of web3 gaming and NFTs. Just check out these KPIs from their first 5 months on Rarible:

KPIs since April 1st

$616K in GMV?

145k in Trades 9.6k Unique wallets connected.

Not bad metrics at all! Take a closer look at some of the top Kroma collections on Rarible.com to see some of the key strengths of gaming NFTs.

Deverse World Kromatic Isles?

The Kromatic Isles is a collection of playable landscapes created by Deverse World — a role-playing shooter game that operates across multiple chains. This inaugural drop on Rarible hit $20K GMV — a sure sign that the gaming community was locked in!

Deverse World has another Kroma NFT dropping on Rarible today: a second Kromatic Isles collection with exclusive items for holders of the OG drop.?

NFTs provide not only excellent functionality for game players, but are also a great way for projects to engage with their community and reward their loyalty.

Pro Gamer’s Items

At the end of June, Kroma launched Pro Gamers Season 2: a gamified initiative to encourage activity on Kroma through a series of quests. By minting Pro Gamer’s Items NFTs, players could unlock features within the native Kroma gaming experience: Kroma Creative Universe, and increase their eligibility in upcoming airdrops.?

Again, we see a project creating NFTs that are not only desirable and useful for players, but also help increase the product audience. These NFTs have built-in functionality and perks that keep the community engaged and growing.

This collection has reached an amazing $425K GMV and 11K trades! ??

Rarible became the Kroma communities natural home

What’s interesting here is the natural growth we’ve seen on Kroma. This comes back to what we discussed a few weeks back — community. By integrating Kroma, we joined a solid community of NFT gaming lovers.

We provided a solid marketplace that they can rely on, and then network effects took over, making Rarible the place to trade Kroma NFTs. The utility and perks that are built into each NFT mean the community keeps growing and growing.

And honestly, we couldn’t be happier…The future of NFTs in web3 gaming is bright, and we’ll be proud to be able to say - we were there from the start!

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