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Gala and the trouble with owning the farm
The people who helped make virtual farms a business now want players to own the land. Gala’s experiment has grown into games, music, film and a blockchain - with some very real bills attached.
The Blockchain That Voted to Stop Being a Blockchain
ThunderCore spent seven years making a blockchain fast enough to feel ordinary. Then exchange delistings forced a harder invention: deciding what was worth saving when the chain itself no longer was.
Cartridge
Cartridge is an onchain gaming infrastructure company building the tools and platform that let studios ship fully onchain games and autonomous worlds. It leads development of Dojo, an open-source engine and toolchain for provable games on Starknet, and pairs it with the Cartridge Controller (a game-native smart contract wallet using passkeys, session keys and a paymaster) and Slot, a rollup-as-a-service execution layer. The goal is to give players real ownership of in-game economies while keeping onboarding as smooth as a traditional game.
Ola Guild Games
Ola Guild Games (OLA GG) is the largest Web3 gaming community in the Spanish-speaking world, operating as a regional subDAO of Yield Guild Games. Founded by lifelong Hispanic gamers, it onboards players across Latin America and Spain into blockchain games through NFT scholarships, Web3 education, and a shared-rewards model that lets people play and earn without upfront cost. In 2022 it raised $8 million in seed funding from investors including Galaxy Interactive, BITKRAFT, and Arca.