Rainmaker Games launches cross-chain NFT marketplace for blockchain games

Rainmaker Games introduced that it has launched a cross-chain market for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for blockchain video games.

Will Deane, CEO of Rainmaker, stated in an interview with GamesBeat that {the marketplace} represents a brand new advance in blockchain-based sport finance, or GameFi. With the brand new market, players can discover aggregated high GameFi NFT listings from throughout Web3, full with guides, methods, and opinions. 

Again in December, Rainmaker Games closed a spherical of funding, elevating $6.5 million. Its traders embody CoinFund, Polygon Studios, and Animoca Manufacturers amongst others. On the time, the corporate was engaged on “play-to-earn” blockchain video games the place gamers can personal their wares and promote them if they want.

Buying and selling NFTs for video games turned a multibillion-dollar market in 2021, as collectors had been pushed by hype and hopes of income as they invested in NFTs. The issue is that players are pressured to buy NFTs on platforms that solely cater to particular marketplaces and their respective blockchain structure, resembling Solana or Polygon.

Deane stated most players and traders are left confused about what to purchase, which NFTs carry out finest, which pockets to obtain, and tips on how to get began. Including to that could be a normal lack of unbiased opinions and correct score techniques for true gaming communities. 

Deane’s answer is Rainmaker’s new NFT Market. Rainmaker needs to empower players to play and make investments smarter. This gamer-focused NFT market integrates with Rainmaker’s sport discovery engine, ushering within the subsequent era of frictionless expertise whereas delivering instructional assets.

The shop has been in testing mode and it’s getting a thousand guests a day. There are about 100 video games set as much as launch on the corporate’s new launch pad, and there are about 400,000 folks in its neighborhood throughout varied platforms like Discord, Twitter, and Telegram. The corporate has partnered with greater than 60 video games thus far.

Deane stated energetic customers are rising about 30% a month. Deane stated the corporate has began a brand new spherical of fundraising. The corporate has about 20 folks.

Cross-chain NFTs

Rainmaker stated it’s tying collectively dozens of Web3 video games multi functional NFT market. The corporate stated it’s aggregating video games throughout all out there blockchains with a deal with probably the most enjoyable, worthwhile, safe and developed Web3 video games. 

Rainmaker’s NFT market provides a broader overview of what buying and selling video games and NFTs are literally in-demand. A crew of fifty die-hard players and GameFi specialists analyze every sport on the location, offering a rating that offers much-needed transparency to gaming knowledge.

Poorly-designed or unpopular video games with underperforming NFTs are monitored and red-flagged, leaving solely the perfect video games for the Rainmaker neighborhood.

Shopping for Guides

Players have entry to complete Shopping for Guides to assist them take advantage of knowledgeable decisions in addition to a “Getting began with NFTs” information for NFT newcomers. It’s a curated expertise the place players discover probably the most goal opinions on the market.

Rainmaker’s Shopping for Guides are helpful in relation to reducing by the noise and making knowledgeable choices on which video games are value your time – and which of them don’t match up. You may examine in-game footage and different media, transaction charges, startup prices, assessment the ins and outs of hundreds of digital property, and way more. 

The NFT market gives the NFT assortment ground value in addition to a value estimate of upcoming characteristic updates utilizing proprietary algorithms. Rainmaker’s data-driven estimates be certain that customers have probably the most related and up-to-date information available for every sport they select to discover. 

Rainmaker’s curated listings are a part of a platform that simplifies what it means to play on-line video games by appearing as a portal to expertise any sport with none blockchain boundaries. From The Sandbox’s Ethereum blockchain to Farmpoly constructed on the Binance Good Chain, all are suitable on Rainmaker. 

It is possible for you to to pick from hundreds of blockchain video games all over the world, based mostly on classes resembling new video games or top-rated video games. It additionally has user-generated opinions.

“We’ve began as a cross-marketplace aggregator and we simply doing video games,” Deane stated. “We expect that could be very helpful to our neighborhood and we’re already seeing traction.”

The corporate is including extra blockchain protocols with the intention of getting the whole lot.

Whereas Deane believes possession is vital to blockchain gaming’s enchantment. It permits folks to spend money on property and take them out of the sport if wanted.

“I feel the perfect argument for folks is there is no such thing as a draw back,” he stated. “I feel numerous players need liquidity.”

Deane acknowledges there have been crypto scams, however he doesn’t suppose players have explored true utility for NFTS but. He thinks issues will change when massive triple-A sport corporations begin launching high-end blockchain video games.

After all, the corporate is conscious that we’re getting into a bear market, notably for the cryptocurrency merchants and collectors.

“We’re answering that query, ‘The place do you go to find out about blockchain video games?’” Deane stated. “The quick reply is Twitter. There’s actually no discovery engine to find out about new upcoming video games, free to play video games, what has the good graphics, you recognize, and discover sport opinions.”

Proper now, there are greater than 600 video games throughout each blockchain on the Rainmaker platform, Deane stated. Deane stated the plan is so as to add one other 1,400 video games.

“Others let you know a token value and transaction quantity. Players actually need to know what video games are enjoyable, what’s the most recent sport, all these various things,” Deane stated.

There are different corporations additionally attempting to turn out to be the Steam retailer of Web3, however the market is fairly fragmented now. Some rivals like Fractal are targeted on particular markets, like Solana.

“We’re utterly cross-chain,” Deane stated.

The crypto winter

As for the crypto winter, Deane stated it’s a “helpful factor.”

“I’ve been an entrepreneur my entire life,” he stated. “I bought corporations earlier than. Being scrappy is a core attribute of what makes nice corporations on this setting. We’re going to see numerous nice tasks with utility come out and I feel that’s what blockchain wants proper now. Everyone needs it was a bull market, however in a bear market you’re going to see the cream rise to the highest.”

He believes {the marketplace} is a part of the flywheel. As soon as gamers can find the perfect video games, they may play extra and the market will develop. There are blockchain sport haters, he acknowledged, however he thinks they haven’t skilled possession but.