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SEI supports Drift Zone to improve the Asian gaming market

Umito November 15, 2024

Hong Kong, Hong Kong, November 15, 2024, GamingWire

Drift zoneWeb3 gaming studio building the next evolution of Gacha games, has secured a $190,000 grant to integrate its growing gaming ecosystem with the Sei Network. With over 500,000 players already active in its Telegram mini-game Drift Zone: Arena, the studio is demonstrating how familiar gaming experiences can unlock mainstream adoption of Web3.

The studio’s approach focuses on enhancing popular Gacha mechanics – which generated over $4.4 billion in revenue in Asia last year – with real rewards powered by blockchain technology. Building on Sei, Drift Zone: Arena and upcoming collectible auto-battle game Drift Zone: Origins will leverage the network’s 380-millisecond block finality and process up to 12,500 transactions per second to deliver gaming experiences Web2 type with the advantages of Web3.

“What Drift Zone is doing just makes sense,” said Jason Lim, global head of gaming at the Sei Foundation. “They take games that already have massive player engagement across Asia and enhance the experience with Sei’s technology. By leveraging Sei, Drift Zone can deliver smooth, high-performance gameplay, allowing players to stay completely immersed without having to think about the environment blockchain is running in the background when players can simply enjoy the game, adoption follows naturally.

Development is progressing quickly, with Drift Zone: Arena players can now claim rewards directly on Seiwallets and check their achievements on-chain, and the Drift Zone: Origins demo is now live on Sei. This technical integration allows the studio to expand into one of the most lucrative gaming markets, introducing real rewards to the proven Gacha format that Asian gamers already love.

“Look at the numbers: Asian gamers spend $4.4 billion a year on Gacha games,” said Vedran Sisak, founder and CEO of Drift Zone. “These games are already incredibly sticky, but players never see the real value in their participation. We’re changing that equation. We’re evolving the entire format by adding real rewards to the mechanics players already love. With technology from Sei, we can deliver that experience at scale that these markets demand.

To try Drift Zone: Arena Today. Experience the future of gaming powered by Sei – join over 500,000 players already earning rewards in Drift Zone: Arena. Visit t.me/DriftZoneBot to start playing now.

About the Drift Zone

Drift Zone is a Web3 game studio that creates games that players love to bridge the gap between Web2 and Web3. The studio’s ecosystem includes Drift Zone: Origins, a collectible card-based auto-battle game, and Drift Zone: Arena, a Telegram mini-game with over 500,000 players.

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About SEI

Sei is a layer 1 that combines the advantages of Ethereum and Solana: the dominant development standard of Ethereum with the performance of Solana. The V2 update for Sei makes it the first parallelized EVM. Serving as a new scaling approach for the Ethereum ecosystem while achieving even faster speeds than Solana. Sei launched its mainnet in 2022 and has a growing ecosystem with the deployment of key teams from Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, Arbitrum and others. The team is supported by Multicoin, Jump, Coinbase Ventures and many others.

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