Gaming activity on L2 blockchains is up by more than 20,000%

According to a recent DappRadar report, gaming activity on L2 blockchains increased by more than 20,000% last month. Despite this increase, the daily active wallets dropped to 5.8 million.

The report mentioned that AI-focused Dapps have seen increased activity of up to 900%, and AI plays a big role in blockchain gaming. 

DappRadar mentioned that Abstract, an ETH layer-2 blockchain, grew by 20,000%. Sony’s ETH Layer-2 blockchain, Soneium, grew by more than 3200%. Third was another L2 blockchain, Linea, which marked 1000% growth.

Gaming was the primary use case that led to the growth of these L2s. On the Abstract chain, the blockchain game Treasure Ship was a major driver for the growth. The game has more than 72k unique active wallets daily. On Soneium, Evermoon drove the growth with 32,000 unique user wallets. 

For gaming, opBNB remained the most dominant blockchain with 1.28 million daily unique active wallets. It is an L2 built over the BNB smart chain. Aptos, which is an independent L1 blockchain for decentralized apps, also remained relevant with 603k active wallets daily.

Overall, this activity brought in investments of over $55 million in February, marking an increase of 243%. At the same time, 92% of these funds will be used to develop new infrastructure.

Which blockchain games stayed on the top?

World of Dyspians stayed on top with 29.1M monthly unique active wallets, while popular game pixels marked 6.18M active wallets in the month, a decrease of 22%. 

Off The Grid, on the other hand, maintained a consistent user base. In specific, attention was drawn to its OTG IRL Championship announcement at the HyperX Arena in Las Vegas. The event featured a prize of $2,000 per game with live streams over Twitch. Then, it announced gameplay enhancements and a new playable area for March, leading to increased activity.

Solo Mode is officially back with extended testing times!

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— Off The Grid (@playoffthegrid) March 13, 2025

Trading volume and sales of gaming and sports NFTs in Feburary 2025

NFTs related to sports and gaming were dominantly traded. Typically, profile picture NFTs are more commonly traded on marketplaces like OpenSea. Gaming NFTs are now coming in second in terms of trading volume. 

In February, the trading volume of gaming NFTs increased to $41 million, and a total of 421,853 assets were traded. ImmutableX, in particular, handled 72% of the transactions. The rest of the trading activity was predominantly linked to collections such as Gods Unchained and Guild of Guardians.

Sports-related NFTs also marked significant trading volume of up to $7.7 million with 659,097 trades.

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