AI+GameFi Ushers in a New Round of Market Following the AI+Meme Craze

Last night, Musk posted on the X platform that too many game studios are owned by large companies, and xAI (Musk's artificial intelligence startup)

Following the AI+Meme craze, will AI+GameFi also usher in a new round of market?

Last night, Musk posted on the X platform that too many game studios are owned by large companies, and xAI (Musk's artificial intelligence startup, which previously completed $5 billion in financing at a valuation of $45 billion) is about to launch an AI game studio to make games exciting again. In fact, as early as last year's Global Game Developers Conference, the combination of "AI and games" was pushed to the center of attention in the traditional game industry. Perhaps, driven by Musk, there will be more and more projects that integrate the two narratives of AI and GameFi.

Next, Odaily Planet Daily will review the AI+GameFi projects that have issued tokens.

Colony: Echelon Prime Ecosystem AI Game

Colony has launched a new AI game on Solana for the sci-fi themed NFT card game Parallel. In the game, AI agents will be able to conduct transactions autonomously on-chain and deposit assets into their own wallets.

According to the white paper information released in March this year, Colony will serve as an important deployment of Echelon Prime Foundation in the Web3 gaming ecosystem. Echelon Prime Foundation is committed to empowering a new generation of distributed Web3 games, providing a community-governed environment and shared resources built around Echelon's PRIME tokens and its smart contracts and gaming infrastructure.

Colony is an Echelon Prime ecological project. The Echelon Prime project token is PRIME. The current market value is US$590 million, with a weekly increase of 56.0%.

AI Hero: Binaryx's first AI blockchain game

AI Hero is Binaryx's first AI blockchain game. It is a Web3 game that combines "RPG + Battle Royale + DND" and is generated by AI. Players first need to choose their own race and profession according to their preferences, and explore different plot options through the plot randomly generated by AI in the game, combined with their own attributes, so as to obtain equipment rewards and improve their character attributes. At the same time, you will encounter other opponent players in the game and fight with other 12 players. The surviving players will win the final victory and win rewards.

AI Hero is a Binaryx ecological project. The Binaryx project token is BNX, with a current market value of US$145 million and a weekly increase of 25.5%.

Zentry: An open gaming universe connecting Web2 and Web3

Zentry is the metagame layer of the game, connecting the open game universe of Web2 and Web3. This means that Zentry combines multiple game elements together to create a comprehensive and realistic MMORPG. A unified universe that brings together 3.3 billion players around the world.

Zentry provides the infrastructure of this open universe, where residents can shape different worlds according to their own wishes. To achieve this vision, the meta-game stack has four elements: consumer applications, infrastructure, IP-rich worlds, and treasury. Consumer applications include the open world cross-platform meta-game Radiant, the social portal Nexus and Zigma of the Zentry universe, and the cross-world AI partner Azul.

The Zentry project token is ZENT, with a current market value of $139 million and a weekly increase of 19.6%.

Ultiverse: A one-stop Web3 gaming platform powered by AI

Ultiverse is an AI-driven one-stop platform for Web3 game production and publishing, promoting the mass adoption of AI-enhanced Web3 games. Based on the Bodhi protocol, Ultiverse connects different game worlds in a generative AI way. Its core team members have participated in the development of well-known games such as "Ancient Rings", "Prince of Persia", and "Assassin's Creed".

According to ROOTDATA data, Ultiverse has received three rounds of financing, with a total financing amount of US$13.5 million, namely:

In March 2022, Ultiverse announced the completion of a $4.5 million seed round of financing, led by Binance Labs and Defiance Capital, with other investors including Three Arrows Capital and SkyVision Capital;

At the end of March 2022, Binance Labs added $5 million in equity investment to Ultiverse. In addition, Nicole Zhang, director of Binance Labs, said that the additional equity investment was to give Binance Labs a say in the future development of the project;

In February 2024, Ultiverse announced the completion of a strategic round of financing of US$4 million, led by IDG Capital, with participation from Animoca Brands, Polygon Ventures, MorningStar Ventures, Taiko, ZetaChain, Manta Network, DWF Ventures and Jacob KO (Superscrypt partner). This financing brought Ultiverse's valuation