Blockchain technology is more and more boldly entering the gaming industries due to Web3 games. What’s more, we observe a fascinating change – more and more game developers are moving away from Ethereum to Avalanche. FC (formerly FIFA), Maplestory, Off the Grid and Inversion are just some of the high -profile projects that have recently launched (or plan to start) their chains on Avalanche technology. But why did Avalanche become a magnet for the largest gaming projects? Is this just a temporary trend or a symptom of a permanent change?
Avalanche9000 – a revolution that changed Gaming Web3
Avalanche9000 is the biggest network improvement in history that came into force in December 2024. The Avalanche9000 update reduces the costs of implementing blockchain by 99.9%, increasing the scalability and institutional adoption in DEFI and Gaming Web3. It was the own version of “The Merge” for Avalanche – a fundamental change that completely rebuilt the economy of the validators. Game developers also noticed this.
The key change came with ACP-77, which replaced the high, constant requirements for staking Walidators (2000 AVAX) with a “Pay-AS-YOU” payment model with low costs. This change meant that the launch of the sovereign Avalanche L1 chain became extremely financially attractive, probably even cheaper than Rollup Celestia or Cosmos Appchain.
Savings beyond the costs of starting
If you don’t know what’s going on, it’s about … costs;) Financial benefits do not end with low implementation costs. Avalanche L1 teams can use the entire infrastructure, which C-Chain (Avalanche’s liquidity center) has already built. In the context of integration of blockchain technology with Web2 and Web3 games, this is even crucial.
For example, Avalanche L1 can offer users convenience of CEX ramp via C-Chain, without the need to pay significant percentage of their tokens for direct integration.
This is one of the main proposals for Avalanche values. From a go-to-market perspective, it saves teams a lot of time and millions of dollars on integration fees.
– What Luigi d’Onorio Demeo, the main strategist of Ava Labs, in one of the interviews.
This applies to the majority of standard chain infrastructure, which C-Chain already has-RPC, indexes, explorers, NFT markets, etc. All this can cost up to USD 13 million for independent L1 with independent building. Therefore, the choice of game developers is not surprising, while Avalanche enters the gaming mainstream when it comes to blockchain solutions for the electronic entertainment industry.
Interchain Messaging – the key to Avalanvche’s success in web3 gaming
Web3 games must be based on an ecosystem, which will be not only reliable, but also economical. In Avalanche, everything is based on the “Interchain Messaging” protocol (ICM), which Avalanche L1 uses to easily transfer assets to the Hall of C-Chain. The growing popularity of games containing Web3 elements meant that many creators experimented with various blockchains. The fact is perfectly about the fact that Gaming Web3 is interested in such giants as Ubisoft with their game Champions Tactics: Grimora Chronicles based on Blockchain Oasys.
Returning to Avalanche, C-Chain to Henesys (Maplestory chain) is today the most active in both directions on ICM, supporting thousands of messages a day. This shows how practical use of this technology already works in real gaming projects.
Value accumulation, i.e. a real advantage over Ethereum L2, which is noticed by gaming web3
Avalanche L1 can create bright streams of values accumulation for their native tokens through:
- Bootstrap of your own sets of validators
- Issuing block prizes
- Using your own native token as gas
The Ethereum L2 cannot use the same mechanisms and therefore they have limited or any streams of accumulation of values for their tokens, except management.
Technical changes have been designed in such a way as to attract developers to the ecosystem and let them create their own personalized blockchains, known as subnet. Avacloud’s Hypersdk provides a high degree of customization L1 – a clear advantage over the restrictions with which L2 faces by building at today’s technological piles of rollups.
How does Avax accumulate value?
Considering the problems with the accumulation of values that harassed ETH and Atom, it is worth looking at how Avax accumulates the value:
- Burning fees – 100% of all C-Chain fees are burned, compared to partial combustion for Solan or Ethereum. Avax combustion had a monthly average of about 453 thousand. dollars in 2025.
- STAKING WALIDATORS – Walidators are still stacing Avax for validation of the main networks – about $ 8 billion ($ 360.2 million) is currently being wandered.
- L1 fees – Each Walidator Avalanche L1 pays a small monthly continuous fee at Avax, as part of the ACP-77. Depending on the number of validators, these fees range from hundreds to thousands.
- ICM fees – There is a minimal, indirect fee for ICM, which is burned when transactions interact with C-chain.
Maplestory – a case study of web3
Maplestory N, built on the Henesys Avalanche network, combines the classic charm of 2D (Side-Scrolling) game with the player’s real property. His momentum was powered by launching off the grid, a shooter built on a Gunz subnet, which meant a transition towards attracting mainstream players, not only crypto-native.
Maplestory revived Avalanche, exceeding 1 million daily transactions twice a week. The NXPC token platform increased rapidly at the price after starting on Thursday, making it one of the most valuable gaming tokens.
Avalanche business strategy – long -term growth
Avalanche business strategy sounds familiar: Reduce initial costs to subsidize long -term growth. Ethereum does the same, giving up short -term fees for making for L2 in the hope of attracting fees for data availability in the long run.
A popular misunderstanding about Avalanche is the belief that he does not want to be a fast chain – which according to Demeo is not true. Both ACP-125 and ACP-176 (Octane) have introduced reduction of minimum C-chain base fees and a dynamic fee mechanism to optimize gas fees-both contributed to 96% reduction of fees from the beginning of 2025.
The future of Avalanche in Web3 Gaming
The fees will continue to fall under the network plans this year the “Asynchronous Execution (ACP-194)” implementation. The accumulation of values to Avax has not yet been at a significant level, but the bright path lies in front of us.
With 66 active L1 in the Avalanche ecosystem and even more in the onboarding process, Avalanche is well positioned to develop its own network effect. For the creators of Web3 games, Avalanche not only offers technical possibilities, but also economic attractiveness, which can be crucial for long -term success of projects (especially gaming ones).
In a world where the costs of launching and maintaining blockchain infrastructure may decide about the success or defeat of the gaming project, Avalanche puts himself as a platform that understands the needs of game developers and offers solutions tailored to the real challenges of the Web3 Gaming industry.
