Top 5 Winning GameFi Projects at ETHGlobal You Should Know

2023.06.09

Top 5 Winning GameFi Projects at ETHGlobal You Should Know

In this article, crypto analyst Surf selects 5 projects from the 132 entries at the ETHGlobal hackathon—let's take a look together.

2023.06.09 - 04:03:13

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In this article, crypto analyst Surf selects 5 projects from the 132 entries at the ETHGlobal hackathon—let's take a look together.

Written by: Surf

Translated by: TechFlow

Hackathon projects represent the purest form of ALPHA. In this article, crypto analyst Surf reviews 132 projects from the ETHGlobal hackathon and selects five standout examples—let’s take a look.

Overview of this hackathon:

• Primarily ETH-based GameFi projects;

• Participants used MUD, a new framework designed for on-chain games;

• Total prize pool of $50,000;

• Focused on building multi-author worlds (e.g., metaverse) through on-chain games, worlds, and art projects.

There were four main award categories:

Optimism (3 winners) — MUD applications running on OP;
0xPARC (3 winners) — Advanced cryptography applied to MUD;
Lattice (3 winners) — Most creative use of MUD;
NFT Storage (10 winners) — Best application using Storage helpers.

MUD is a programming language for developing on-chain games on Ethereum.

1. Pledger

Award Category: NFT Storage — $500

TLDR on Pledger:

• A game built on the principle of public positive commitments. Users make and prove commitments, earning "reputation" from their achievements.

• Uses NFT Storage to upload images to IPFS, storing content hashes as part of the commitment's "commitment artifact."

2. Autonomous Game of Life

Award Category: Finalist (Third Place)

TLDR:

• A decentralized multiplayer game based on MUD2.

• Built with MUD v2 on OP Goerli, optimized for storage size and supporting both autonomous and multiplayer gameplay.

3. Trade Wars

Award Category: Finalist (Tenth Place), Lattice — $1,000

TLDR:

• An on-chain interactive 2D game using MUD v2 and a React frontend, enabling sea trade, combat, and resource arbitrage within an autonomous, location-constrained AMM economy.

• Facilitates player battles via an on-chain attack system.

4. OPCraft2

Award Category: Finalist (First Place)

TLDR:

• OPCraft extends user-created blocks (redstone) to enhance gameplay and encourage behaviors similar to those in Minecraft.

• Players can build complex circuits just like in Minecraft.

5. Mudtendo

Award Category: Optimism — $5,000

Mudtendo is an open-source NES (a classic Nintendo gaming console) emulator written in Go.

TLDR on Mudtendo:

• Mudtendo is a MUD application that allows short sessions playing classic Nintendo games. Each session creates a blockchain-like "checkpoint," from which any player can resume, making every move potentially lead to a different game reality.