NFL Rivals breaks $7 million of trading volume

Slower summer but still going strong

Growth has slowed a little for Mythical Games’ mobile sports title NFL Rivals during June and July.

Compared to the 26 days it took to move from $5 million to $6 million in total trading volume, it’s taken 43 days to reach $7 million, according to data from CryptoSlam.

At current velocity, total trading for July looks like it will be down 28% compared to June’s total, which itself was down 11% compared to May’s peak of $1 million.

Still it’s summer and the NFL season doesn’t start up again until September, so no alarm and no surprises.

Indeed — once again — I am part of the problem, not the solution, as although some of my listed NFTs have been sold, I’ve not been playing NFL Rivals that much recently.

And that dynamic is reflected more generally, with June being the first month in which there were more wallets selling NFTs than buying.

More generally, it’s worth the reminder that everyone playing NFL Rivals gets a non-custodial blockchain wallet created for them in the background when they play the game.

NFTs can be bought (also swapped or sold) directly in-app or minted by levelling up a non-NFT player and combining them with their blueprint; itself an NFT. Of course, there is no mention of NFTs and crypto in the game.

(Crypto-natives can trade on the web-based marketplace getting better prices due to the 30% tax imposed by Apple and Google in-app.)

In this manner, NFL Rivals remains an interesting blockchain game to track as it’s distributed through app stores with strong primary IAP payment rails but the entire economy actually runs on the Mythos blockchain.

Hence it provides something of a test case for how gamers interact with player-owned economies, without any (much) influence from crypto speculation.

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Calendar

• Hunters On-Chain’s play-to-airdrop campaign ends — 24th July

• Mocaverse-supporting Cosmic Royale starts closed beta — 24th July

• Champions Tactics reveals champions NFTs — 24th July

• MapleStory Universe’s Pioneer testing starts — 24th July

• Illuvium goes live — 25th July

• Snapshot for Hunters On-Chain Tier 3 chest sale — 27th July

• Otherside’s Project Dragon; more details TBA — 27th July

• The Machines Arena starts play-to-airdrop campaign — 30th July

• Forgotten Runiverse’s closed beta event on Ronin — 31st July

• Polygon upgrades, MATIC becomes POL — 4th September

More Telegram Numbers news

• Am I being too sceptical about Telegram and TON metrics? Some people think so. Either way, the metrics keep on coming. Telegram CEO Pavel Durov now claims 950 million active users and predicts more than one billion during 2024. More significantly, he also says he expects Telegram to become a profitable company in 2025.

As for the games, they keep on coming too. Animoca has announced Crazy Rush Heroes, which will be the seventh game using its TOWER token. The token launched on TON a couple of months ago.

Crazy Rush Heroes is a very simple auto-fight game, with power-ups and level-ups. I don’t think there’s any blockchain elements yet, at least in this alpha version. You can play it here, even using my referral link.

Finally, how this for some crazy KPIs? It’s claimed tap-to-earn game Catizen has over 26 million players, and has generated more than $16 million in revenue, with a current ARPU — do they actually mean peak ARPDAU? — of $30.70.

Personally I’ll stick to my default setting of ‘divide every Telegram KPI by 100’.

MetalCore Selling Out news

• PC shooter MetalCore has sold out four of its five vehicle NFTs mints. This is the first time it’s sold NFTs since its original soldiers were launched in 2022. Ranging from hover tanks to mechs and aircraft, the NFTs prices were demarcated in its own MCG token — bridged from Ethereum to Immutable zkEVM — ranging from $100 to $500. And you can still get into the action with 102 Raider tanks available at time of writing for $60.

The MCG token hasn’t performed so well however. Since its 28th June launch, its price has dropped 80%.

As an aside, developer 369 Studios has also announced MetalCore Arena, an immersive idle battle game in which squads of infantry and mechanized units compete in league-based matches.