Question:

According to Spire, gaming has been picking up on Solana ____

Between Star Atlas, Genopets, and Aurory, games are beginning to allow users to experiment with what they have been building over the past year and a half. Create a dashboard showing user activity and growth of these three games. Is there any crossover between these three games in terms of users or does each game seem to have its own fan base? What is the profile of gaming users on Solana? What types of activities are these users doing within the games and within the Solana ecosystem?

Overview of essay:

In this essay, we are going to investigate the activity of popular games on Solana over the selected time period. For this purpose various parts have been analyzed to assess the user activity of these games.

This analysis divided into the following parts:

• Activity on Games (General and overtime)
• What users do on each game?
• Activity of users on Solana
• Summary and references

Star Atlas

Star Atlas is a blockchain-based, space-themed, grand strategy video game built on the Solana blockchain. It is a massive multiplayer metaverse set in the distant future, in the year 2,620.

The gaming platform explores some of the recent technological breakthroughs by using Unreal Engine 5’s Nanite to create cinematic quality video games and visual experiences. 

Players on the Star Atlas metaverse can trade, obtain and create non-fungible tokens (NFTs) within the Star Atlas universe thus enjoying an economy that reflects the tangibility, ownership, and value of real-world assets. 

Ref→ Coinmarketcap

Methodology:

To handle this investigation, the Data provided by Flipside community has been adopted, accordingly.

The data related to Solana network have been shown by Solana tables on Flipside. The sub-parts of this mentioned table have been utilized by its application:

• The user activity on games of Solana
  • Games→ Star Atlas, Genopets and Aurory
  • Metrics→ Total users, Average user per day, interaction per user, Over time analysis of these metrics, cumulative analysis, Newcomers, Time difference between first two transactions
  • Crossover analysis→ Every combination of crossover between users of these games
  • Price analysis of tokens for each game
• What users do on these games?
  • Metrics→ Various applications (staking, marketplace and …) have been analyzed.
• Activity of users on Solana
  • Sectors and programs→ DEX, DeFi and NFT sectors. Most popular programs by users of these games.
  • NFT sector→ Most popular NFT collections and marketplaces among users
  • Swap activity→ Popular swap programs and asset pairs

Solana blockchain:

Solana is an open-source, public blockchain that supports smart contracts, peer-to-peer tokens (NFTs), and a wide range of decentralized applications. Coin is a native of the Solana SOL network, which, in addition to the role of exchanges, is also used to secure the network through staking or depositing. Solana network has the ability to process 50 to 65 thousand transactions per second. For this reason, it considers itself a serious competitor for Ethereum.

The core of Solana's scalability solution is the use of a decentralized time clock called Proof of History (PoH). This technology is presented in order to solve the problem of time in distributed networks where there is no centralized and trusted entity. Proof of history using Verifiable Delay Functions allows each node in the network to generate timestamps locally using SHA256 hash calculations.

Aurory

Aurory is a Solana-based free-to-play and play-to-earn role-playing game and NFT ecosystem. It is set in a retro-futuristic universe called Antik. It is a rich and diverse universe populated by Nefties. These magical creatures are designed as NFTs which can be caught, evolved, used in battle and traded on the marketplace.

The game will have two major game modes: a story-driven single-player mode (Player vs Environment - PvE) and a competitive battleground (Player vs Player - PvP).

Ref→ Yahoo finance

Genopets

Genopets is the first Free-To-Play, Move-To-Earn NFT game built on Solana. Genopets aims to reward users with cryptocurrencies while keeping themselves fit. A Genopet is your digital companion which grows with you. As you move around, be it running or walking, you will earn steps that can be used to increase the level of Genopet giving you an advantage when you battle. In Genopets, in-game NFT items include Habitats, Crystals, and Items. Habitats represent Land in the Genoverse and they are the NFT homes for your Genopets.

Ref→ Coin.ph

Part 1: Activity on Games (General and overtime)

Useful links:

• Star Atlas
• Genopets
• Aurory

Part 4: Summary and references

Conclusion:

By considering the outcomes of this analysis the following statements could be concluded:

• Solana is a fast, secure, and decentralized blockchain platform that enables developers to quickly build, deploy and scale high-performance applications. It provides an innovative Move to Earn program which allows users to earn rewards for playing games and creating Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs).
• The Move to Earn program has helped Solana become one of the fastest growing blockchains in the world. It also helps developers create innovative applications that can be used in different industries such as gaming, finance, healthcare and more. With its scalability, security and ease of use, Solana is set to revolutionize the way we interact with blockchain technology.
• On metaverse games, which means it allows users to interact with each other in a virtual world. This type of game has been gaining traction over the past few years and Solana is leading the way. With its scalability, high throughput, and low latency, Solana provides a great platform for developers to create innovative applications and games. As more developers join the Solana ecosystem, we can expect to see an increasing trend of new games and applications being built on this blockchain platform.

Part 3-1: Sectors and programs

Key Findings:

The aim of this part is to determine the activity of users of these games on Solana ecosystem. For this purpose 3 sub-sections have been placed in this part:

• The first sub-section reveals the interaction of these users with various sectors and programs on Solana.
• According to the outcomes, the NFT sector is the most popular sector for users of all of the three games from count of usage point of view.
• The popular programs among users of these games shown the difference between share of popular programs. For example, the Magic Eden and Jupiter are tow of the common programs between users of various games.
• As expected, the Magic Eden V2 is the most popular NFT marketplace among users of games. Also, the popular NFT collections are different for active users of each game.
• The Jupiter aggregator and swap programs are two of the most popular swap programs among active users of these three games.
• One of the important feature of the active users are popular swap pairs among them. According to the outcomes, the popular swap pairs among active users of Star Atlas contains ATLAS token most of the time.
• Also, the wrapped SOL and USDC token are two of the popular tokens on Solana, so its normal that this swap pair appears on popular asset pairs.

Part 3: Activity of users on Solana

Key Findings:

• The Star Atlas has the highest count of active users among these selected games on Solana. Also, the average user per day for Star Atlas is more than other two while Genopets stands in the second rank.
• The users of Star Atlas and Aurory have more transaction per user compared to Genopets.
• The over time and cumulative analysis demonstrate the domination of Star Atlas and Genopets over Aurory in the selected time period.
• The highest count of newcomers happened on the first day of investigation (December 12, 2022).
• The average time (hour) between first two transactions reveals that the Aurory has the highest time difference and Star Atlas has more sticky users compared to other two.
• The price of ATLAS token followed the increasing pattern as well as GENE and AURORY tokens. The spikes on the price of AURORY and GENE were more than ATLAS token.
• Only 19 users have participated on the all of the three games and the common users between Star Atlas and Genopets are more than other two combination.

Key Findings:

This part concentrated on the activity of users on these games over the selected time period:

• On Star Atlas, the domination activity is FLEET program with near 50% of active users.
• The Habitats program is the most popular activity among Genopet users on this game. From the average transaction per user point of view, the Alchemy program has the highest frequency of participation compared to other programs on Genopets.
• The activities on Aurory are very close together and Governance staking takes the lead with tiny superiority. However, the average transaction per user on Aurory programs indicates the dominance of Expeditions over other activities.
• The highest count of active users on Star Atlas happened on December 20, 2022.
• The over time and cumulative analysis validate the previous statements and break points to demonstrate the grow of various programs on each game.

Part 2: What users do on each game?

The time frame of this investigation can be changed between (30, 60, 90 and 180 days) by logging into the Flipside crypto website.

Also, the time basis of this investigation can be changed between Day, Week and Month.

By default the time period is considered for the past 60 days on the daily basis.

Part 3-1: NFT collections and marketplaces

Part 3-1: DEXs and popular swap pairs

Author:

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