Marblex Gaming Network From Mobile Giant Netmarble Teams With Saga

Billed as a “complete collaboration,” Marblex and Saga will work in tandem to launch and promote crypto video games. Marblex will make the most of Saga’s layer-1 blockchain community to assist its personal chain, whereas Saga will assist with consumer acquisition; each manufacturers will use their respective channels to advertise such video games.

“Saga has a model and ethos that’s actually devoted to enabling the subsequent technology of gaming,” mentioned Marblex CEO Hong Jin-Pyo, in a launch. “Placing a precedence on bridging the very vast hole between conventional and Web3 gaming supplied Saga with a succinct understanding of what builders must get us there.”

Saga is constructed across the idea of chainlets, which might be mixed to energy video games and apps very like a standard sport would possibly use a number of cloud computing situations. Saga co-founder and CEO Rebecca Liao beforehand described it to Decrypt’s GG as a “chain to launch chains.”

It’s additionally designed to allow cross-chain constructing, so studios which have deployed video games on different blockchains may faucet into Saga’s community to assist their operations. That’s how Marblex plans to make use of Saga, plus Saga has current collaboration agreements with the groups behind Polygon, Avalanche, and Celestia.

Saga is at the moment working a “play-to-airdrop” marketing campaign throughout quite a few video games constructing on its community, in addition to video games on different chains like Avalanche and Polygon. A Saga consultant informed Decrypt’s GG that the airdrop marketing campaign isn’t at the moment tied into its collaboration with Marblex, however that Saga is “positively exploring future ones” with companions, “together with Marblex.”

“Marblex will deliver their neighborhood as a part of our joint go-to-market, and Saga is constant to fine-tune the consumer acquisition machine in Web3 for gaming,” Liao informed Decrypt’s GG.

The community claims to have 320 initiatives constructing on it, with roughly 80% of them being video games. Saga plans to launch its mainnet this spring, with play-to-airdrop occasions persevering with within the meantime to reward players with SAGA token allocations.

Marblex helps plenty of video games from common current franchises, together with titles like The King of Fighters Enviornment and Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds. The chain is constructed across the MBX token, which has a market cap of round $69 million.

Editor’s notice: This text was written with the help of AI. Edited and fact-checked by Andrew Hayward.