The Solana chain game recently showed signs of warming. The Kintara, FarmTown and other MMO projects have begun to attract back players and give renewed attention to previously long-margined games.
Kintara and FarmTown drive back active litres
Kintara comes online at the end of May and plays around collecting, making, collecting and charging. The game economy is driven by the original KINS, and the player needs to hold it to participate. According to Dune data quoted in the text, the market value of the Kintra game has exceeded $450,000.
According to the project party, in order to reduce non-natural activities, Kintara has blocked over 400 thousand robotic accounts. The game became one of the most recent items of interest to the Solana chain as trade activity rose.
On June 17, the Farm Town lined up with similar growth. According to the article, the project has attracted more than 20,000 wallets over the past seven days, showing that economic-like games along the chain are creating a new flow of users.
Coin incentives remain the main driving force.
At the heart of this cycle of warming remains the attraction of rising prices of chain-based coins. The article mentions that both $KINS and $FARM have recorded significant increases since they went online, prompting players to continue participating in the current economic cycle of the game.
However, the pressure on such models is clear. In the case of Farm Town, players usually need to re-introduce game proceeds into the system and eventually recover the initial cost by selling $FARM. Similar “play-by-play” structures have revealed inflation and retention problems on several occasions during the last cycle.
The article argues that, once the growth of users slows or the price of assets in the game falls, then the player entering may be at a higher risk, and this is one of the most difficult problems for the chain economy model in the long term.
It's beyond Solana's early chain trip.
In comparison with data, the new game is now significantly more active than the early Solana chain. According to the article, The Heist, which was red on Solana in 2023, had a single-day transaction of approximately US$ 61.66 million on 25 August of that year.
According to Blockworks historical data, on that day Solana-wide DEX transactions amounted to approximately US$ 1960 million, meaning that US$NA once accounted for 3.14 per cent of total transactions. And now, in chains like Kins, daily trade volumes have stabilized to millions of dollars.
This means that, while the share of the chain in the overall ecology of Solana is still small, the new batch of projects, both in terms of user activity and in terms of trade scale, has outpaced the same products as in the past. Only because of the faster expansion of Solana's other tracks, the existence of the board remains relatively limited.