Why is it important?

Gamers are crypto curious and large in population (2.5b). They need a quality blockchain with enjoyable applications to engage on.

What does success look like?

Cardano becomes the go to blockchain for gamers, with a steady base of developers building rewarding experiences.

Key Metrics to measure

• Total users of gaming based applications on Cardano

• Total developers of gaming based applications/infrastructure on Cardano

• Number of gaming based applications (experiences for users/gamers)

• Amount of gaming based infrastructure (tools for developers)

• Total market cap value of gaming based assets, applications, and infrastructure on Cardano

• Number of partnerships/collaborations between gaming applications/infrastructure

• Number of fungible tokens with gaming based utility

• Number of non-fungible tokens with gaming based utility

• Number of proposals submitted to this proposal (illustrates demand)

• Amount of ADA votes on proposals in this challenge (illustrates interest)

• Number of unique wallets connected to gaming applications

  Challenge brief

In order for Cardano to be successful it needs to obtain and maintain a diverse set of individuals that engage with applications, infrastructure, and assets. The single greatest population for easy onboarding, or on-chaining, are gamers. There are 2.5b of them, they come from all over the world, and they actively volunteer to participate in digital economies where they don’t really own the assets connected to their account. Blockchain can provide them real value through its implementation into the gaming market.

Gamers are also very community oriented and viral in nature. There are massive amounts of content streamed and created every day from gaming-based content creators to their audiences. Putting an exciting and enjoyable Cardano enabled game in front of these creators and their audiences would do wonders for onboarding new users.

Types of Proposals to Include

<u>Applications</u>

Applications relate to any games or experiences being developed in order to serve gamers through the use of the Cardano blockchain.

<u>Infrastructure</u>

Infrastructure relates to any tools or services being developed in order to serve developers of games or gaming-based experiences on the Cardano blockchain.

Potential Success Metrics for Proposals

<u>Applications</u>

• Number of daily, weekly, and monthly active users
• Amount of value paid out to gamers
• Number of gamers onboarded to Cardano
• Number of unique wallets connected

<u>Infrastructure</u>

• Number of devs using tooling
• Number of projects that used tooling
• Number of game devs onboarded to Cardano
• Amount of revenue generated by use of tooling