Web3 gaming on the Superchain expands with Kroma Network and GameSwift partnership

Optimism Weekly Overview - July 30, 2024

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Superchain Ecosystem Numbers

• DeFi total value locked (TVL) across Superchain: $3.10B (-1.70%)

  • Assets onchain: $14.96B (-4.40%)

• Daily average transaction volume:  5.18M (+6.50%)

  • Fraxtal: 6.09K (-9.64%)

  • Mode: 157.51K (+26.91%)

  • Base: 3.93M (+3.97%)

  • Zora: 110.06K (+3.40%)

  • Redstone: 12.60K (-30.92%)

  • OP Mainnet: 451.26K (-10.9%)

  • Kroma: 216.33K (+15.47%)

• Revenue-generating deployers on:

  • Base: 5,756 (+0.24%)

  • Zora: 171 (+7.55%)

  • OP Mainnet: 1,069 (+0.28%)

  • Superchains: 6,462 (+0.34%)

• Superchain transaction fee total savings vs L1s:

  • OP Mainnet: 45,667 ETH 

  • Base: 154,400 ETH

  • Zora: 6,409 ETH

  • Compared to Ethereum, L2 Superchain users saved a total of 206,476 ETH, or $686M on txn fees this week.

The percentages and metrics are pulled from OPLabs data on Dune and are calculated from its change over a 7-day time frame, unless noted otherwise.

Spotlight on Optimism’s Superchain

🔴 What’s happening: Kroma Network, a gaming-centric layer-2 network (L2), announced its partnership with GameSwift, a web3 gaming ecosystem.

🔴 Why it matters: Kroma Network and GameSwift are two chains built on the OP Stack and are a part of the Superchain. Both ecosystems hope to bring their visions of onchain gaming and consumer applications to its respective communities.

For context, GameSwift joined the Superchain back in June after it launched GameSwift Modular Chain, an AI gaming layer-2 blockchain (L2).

The web3 gaming space has been heating up and now Gameswift is taking another step to improve gamers’ experiences. 

By leveraging Kroma’s rollup-based solution, which combines the strengths of Optimistic and Zero-Knowledge (ZK) technology, it could provide a more cost efficient and simplified new player experience. 

This in turn could create a more interconnected gaming ecosystem and enhance user engagement by streamlining the onboarding process for both web3-natives and newcomers.

🔴 What it means for the broader ecosystem: The partnership between Kroma and GameSwift can mark a significant leap for web3 gaming on the Superchain. Given that it aims to provide enhanced scalability, the technology could help meet the demands of an overall rapidly growing market. 

Given the growth of web3 gaming in recent quarters, this partnership opens opportunities for greater development and fostering more interconnected ecosystems that provide developers the opportunity to push the boundaries of what’s possible with web3 tech.

This could also drive expansion for onchain gaming through coordinated online and offline innovation, setting a new standard for the industry.

What’s poppin’ on the Superchain

👤Total number of weekly active addresses by chain: 

• Base: 3.19M 

• OP Mainnet: 411.73K 

• Zora: 108.78L

• Mode Network: 22.81K

• TVL across Superchain chains surged by over $490M, or 19.7%, since the start of SuperFest, according to data shared with Token Relations (shown below)

• Zora introduced Sparks, the platform’s new way of denoting different values of ETH

• Nodekit announced its collaboration with Camp Network to provide data from the Identity Layer to all rollups

• Routescan released Superscan, a block explorer that tracks transactions made on the Superchain

Source: internal OP Labs data obtained by Token Relations

From the Optimism Collective

Highlighting the companies, communities and citizens bound to the Optimism Collective.

• Marek Olszewski, CEO of cLabs, talked about the journey of how Celo joined the Superchain in an interview with Superchain Eco (mintable on Zora)

• X user mykcryptodev hosted a building in public live stream for Onchain Network, an app that aggregates the most popular mints on the Superchain

• Open Source Observer Co-founder Carl Cervone shared insight on Optimism’s Retro Funding 4 and its ballot data

For more Optimism Collective weekly updates, look here. 

Making headlines 

• Talking Tokens episode features Jesse Pollak, creator of Base, and his goal to bring billions of people onchain (Talking Tokens Podcast on YouTube)

• Base's creator wants to bring billions of people onchain (Talking Tokens)

• BASE, the future SuperApp of Coinbase – with Jesse Pollak (The Big Whale on YouTube)

• ETH L2 Lisk, Backed Finance Partner to Foster Real-World Asset Adoption in Emerging Markets (Cryptonews)

Get into the OP Stack

Want to dive into the ecosystem full-time? Find the latest job postings here or get involved at an event below. 

• Participate in Superhack, an online hackathon from Aug. 2-16 dedicated to building applications on the Superchain 

• Details for Retro Public Goods Funding Round 5 have been shared and applications open Aug. 15

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