The number one crypto of 2021 is a gaming platform one step ahead of the competition. GALA GAMES Covered: Gala Is Number #1 Zuck Pumps Gamified Land That’s right. The number one Year-to-Date gainer of 2021 is GALA, mooning nearly 43,000% YTD. Our only criteria are the crypto had to be trading since January. The […] The post And The Number One Crypto Of 2021 Goes To… appeared first on CryptosRus.

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The number one crypto of 2021 is a gaming platform one step ahead of the competition.

  1. GALA GAMES

Covered:

  • Gala Is Number #1
  • Zuck Pumps
  • Gamified Land

That’s right. The number one Year-to-Date gainer of 2021 is GALA, mooning nearly 43,000% YTD. Our only criteria are the crypto had to be trading since January. The other is that we are only looking at the top 100, on CMC to be specific. Hot on the heels of GALA is, naturally, Axie Infinity, Polygon, and Sandbox.

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Gala Games 2021: The Rise Of The Gaming Chain

The rise of Gala this year has been unprecedented. To put it in perspective, on January 3rd, 2021, Gala was ranked #648 on CMC. Now, it sits at #50 less than 12 months later. That means the protocol skyrocketed in market cap 1,196% YTD.

Notably, the top 4 biggest gainers YTD are all ERC-20 tokens, and 3 out of the 4 are metaverse/gaming. Gala, Axie, and Sandbox. Metaverse and game-fi truly stole the show in 2021, starting with Axie and ending with Sandbox and Gala.

Even on November 7th, just more than a month ago, Gala was only trading at 0.09 cents and was ranked #231 by market cap. As you can see below, during the second week of November, the incredible ascent began.

Thanks for the Pumps, Zuck

At the end of the day, Gala and its holders can thank Mark Zuckerberg for the rise to fame, because when Facebook changed its name to Meta on Oct 29th, the ‘god-candle’ commenced shortly after.

Since its launch in 2019, Gala has grown to 1.3 million monthly active users and sold over 26,000 NFT’s. The protocol seeks to bring web 3.0 ownership to gaming, blockchain gaming specifically, giving players “control over their games.”

In-game tokenization of assets, governance, and blockchain tech are the core concepts of Gala. The games on Gala are mostly in beta and developmental stages, with prominent IPs like the Walking Dead releasing games.

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Gala Games 2021: “Programmable, Gamified Land”

Being a distributed network, over 16,000 player-run nodes are currently powering the network. Gala’s appeal is in being more than just a singular game, like Axie, and being more than virtual land, like Sandbox or Decentraland.

It is a combination of both. You could call Gala a network to create “programmable, gamified land.” Of course, play-to-earn being another critical cornerstone. Games are built on Gala the platform, and in those games, such as TownStar, players can actually own the town, through buying land. Gala is really one of the first iterations of a dynamic metaverse.

credit: townstar

When you look at how the platform is constructed, Gala could even become a competitor to Twitch by employing a streaming capability. The founder, Eric Schiermeyer was the man behind Zynga Poker, the most popular online poker game of all time. They have also partnered with Brave to integrate the BAT token and bring more adoption to Gala.

The whole idea of blockchain games is still a nascent concept and industry, but reimagining how games are conceived, distributed, played, and economized all to give more power to the creators and users is another iteration of the good that crypto can do.

2021 crypto can be summed up by NFT’s, Metaverse, Web 3.0, and Game-Fi. Gala Games is all of those things. Congratulations to the team and the holders. 

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