Using Telegram mini-programs as a window, the TON ecosystem saw an explosive growth in active users for over six months around the first half of this year due to the "Tap to Earn" trend. According to TON Stat data, the TON ecosystem reached its peak (early October this year) with more than 100 million monthly active addresses, but in mid-October, the number of active users in the TON ecosystem began to decline on a large scale.

Although Tap to Earn is an extremely user-friendly method, the expectation of airdrops is the only bond that ties these applications to users. After the airdrops of the leading applications in this field are cashed out, the retention rate and secondary conversion rate of users are extremely low. Public data shows that the retention rate of Catizen is 14%, while Hamster only has 7%.

It is evident that TON's Tap to Earn has brought a temporary surge of interest to the GameFi market, but this is not the ultimate solution. In fact, the majority of Mini-Games on TON have not attracted loyal DeFi users or genuine Web3 gamers. In reality, Mini-Games in the TON ecosystem still face some typical GameFi issues, including insufficient game performance and content innovation, deviating from the core of entertainment, and gradually evolving into financial products. At the same time, the unreasonable design of project economic models leads to an imbalance between players' returns and investments, and over time, the motivation of both developers and users to participate significantly decreases.

On the other hand, developers, as the source end of games, face high barriers when developing games based on the Web3 stack. Due to the relatively niche development languages supported by smart contracts, complex game logic is difficult to implement on-chain, coupled with high on-chain Gas and storage costs, technical fragmentation, and incomplete development tools and infrastructure, which limit the development and deployment of quality games. In addition, the migration of traditional games to the chain also faces difficulties, making it hard for the Web3 gaming ecosystem to achieve a breakthrough.

At this stage where the Web3 gaming field is in a period of transition, the AAA game developer MetaArena has taken the lead in perceiving the essence of these issues and has launched a series of facilities that significantly reduce the barriers for developers to develop and deploy games, provide perfect support for game operation, and establish pipelines for all users to participate in the game ecosystem through engaging Web3 game content. This aims to improve the current state of Web3 games and promote the development of blockchain games to the next stage.

MetaArena is a company focused on the Web3 entertainment and gaming sector, dedicated to the development of the innovative Realm AI gaming engine that supports AAA-level games. This engine has successfully launched its first AAA-standard game, "Final Glory," achieving multi-chain compatibility and delivering an immersive top-tier gaming experience for players. At the same time, MetaArena is actively exploring the application of cutting-edge technologies such as ray tracing and AI interaction, continuously driving innovation in gaming effects and technology.

On the developer side, the MetaArena gaming engine not only integrates development tools and engines with AI training, providing SDKs and middleware, significantly reducing the development barriers for developers, enhancing efficiency, and accelerating the development cycle, but it has also established a deep partnership with the world's fastest Layer1 blockchain, <SEI>, to jointly build a new generation of Web3 gaming that is high-performance, decentralized, and highly interoperable. Whether Web2 or Web3 developers, they can easily get started, thereby eliminating technical barriers and smoothly entering the Web3 space.

On the user side, as a user-centric Web3 gaming ecosystem based on blockchain technology, the MetaArena engine provides a decentralized, player-led fair economic system and creates an autonomous world metaverse centered around multiple interconnected games that are sustainable, allowing players to enjoy exciting gaming experiences and dynamically allocate rewards based on player contributions (game time, UGC creation, community governance, etc.), transforming players from "consumers" to "beneficiaries."

Focusing on the MetaArena gaming engine, its infrastructure stack includes three parts: MetaOS, CollabSphere, and GameFun Marketplace.

MetaOS

MetaOS is a key component of the MetaArena engine, serving as the underlying engine that provides support for game operation. MetaOS offers developers a highly scalable and compatible operating system. It encapsulates a range of development tools and plug-and-play game modules, capable of providing modular interfaces that are compatible with mainstream Layer1/2, assisting developers in seamlessly executing cross-chain operations. Based on the decentralized architecture of Realm Engine 5.3/4, MetaOS can also continuously connect computational resources within the ecosystem in a distributed manner, providing support for the operation of games.

With the MetaOS system, developers can not only efficiently create content in a familiar environment and rapidly deploy it to the platform, but also support the perfect operation of games and provide a foundation for players to participate in games with low barriers.

CollabSphere Marketplace

CollabSphere is a coordination market aimed at game development, allowing multiple developers to collaborate in real-time on projects that are either not yet completed or already developed but still require refinement. By sharing resources, code repositories, and development tools, developers can efficiently collaborate in a virtual workspace, which is especially crucial for large-scale game development projects.

CollabSphere's collaboration system transparently records each developer's contributions through blockchain smart contracts and automatically allocates profits based on the complexity of different tasks. This system provides developers with a transparent and fair collaborative environment, ensuring that all contributions are appropriately rewarded. Through this decentralized collaboration mechanism, developers can collaborate seamlessly on a global scale, enhancing project development efficiency and significantly improving game quality.

GameFun Marketplace

GameFun Marketplace is the trading market within the MetaArena gaming engine, designed to provide a safe, free, and decentralized trading environment for game developers and players. GameFun Marketplace supports the management and trading of multi-chain virtual assets, significantly enhancing the liquidity and market transparency of virtual assets. Players can freely transfer assets between multiple blockchains, easily managing in-game virtual items and NFTs. Similarly, players and developers can create, manage, and trade their assets across multiple blockchain networks, forming a unified virtual economic system. The platform ensures that all transaction processes are based on blockchain technology, secure, transparent, and without intermediaries, effectively reducing transaction costs.

Currently, MetaArena has launched its first game, "Final Glory," a Western fantasy-style MMORPG game that has received rave reviews since entering the market. The number of players has already exceeded 200,000, with active users numbering between 20,000 and 30,000, covering potential regions such as South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and Singapore. The success of "Final Glory" has also given MetaArena's ecosystem a head start in expansion.

"Final Glory": The Benchmark for Web3 AAA Games

"Final Glory" is a Western fantasy-style massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Developed based on MetaArena's Realm AI gaming engine, the game offers an immersive gaming experience, allowing players to truly enjoy the fun of "play to earn."

In the game, players can choose different professions and grow through adventure, combat, and resource acquisition. Each profession has unique branches and abilities, which determine the player's role in the game society. Players can form powerful guilds, participate in guild missions and competitions, and vie for core resources. The game adopts a free exploration mode without quest prompts.

The game graphics of "Final Glory" are developed with MetaArena's high-efficiency 3D rendering engine, achieving top-tier visual effects at the level of movie quality, while ensuring smooth game operation and low latency. At the same time, "Final Glory" sets a vast variety of gameplay, including PvP, PvE, exploration, and more modes, each of which further contains layered game content. Players can also upgrade and combine different items to create various game effects and have asset ownership. "Final Glory" itself presents a high degree of freedom, allowing players to trade freely in the game, which will provide a wealth of business opportunities and lay the foundation for building their own world.

In fact, "Final Glory" has been able to match traditional large-scale Web2 games in terms of playability and game production, and has brought the game back to its essence instead of continuously transitioning into the financial field. Currently, it is not difficult to see from the performance of its active player data that the market has already made its judgment on quality games.

We see that the AAA game "Final Glory" is becoming a benchmark masterpiece in the Web3 gaming field, and it is also an important touchpoint for MetaArena's ecosystem to expand its visibility. Similarly, it is precisely because of the potential for development in the MetaArena ecosystem and its significance to the blockchain gaming field that the Sei Foundation has extended an olive branch, choosing to become an important partner and investment institution for MetaArena.

Summary

Looking back at the development history of the GameFi market, the short game lifecycle and the lack of blockbuster games are essentially due to the lack of infrastructure, leading to poor game quality. MetaArena is solving the problem at its root, laying a solid foundation for a qualitative leap in the playability of on-chain games.

By leveraging MetaArena's suite of infrastructure, developers can develop and deploy AAA large-scale games with low barriers to entry, and even seamlessly migrate traditional high-quality games to the chain, allowing users to deeply participate in the construction of the game, further enriching the game content and expanding the ecological boundaries. It can be anticipated that MetaArena will lead the construction of high-quality Web3 games, allowing players to immerse themselves in the fun brought by the game, create inherent value over the long term, and attract a broader range of Web2 players by significantly lowering the entry threshold for players, thus promoting the great integration process of the two Webs.

Finally, in the current context where narratives such as P2E, X2E, and TON mini-games have briefly surged in popularity and then quickly faded, MetaArena is taking over the torch of on-chain gaming market heat and will become the new solution to drive the enduring prosperity of the Web3 gaming sector.