Revenue P2E and Web3 game monetisation P2E and Web3 game monetisation While Web3-based gaming and with no central control authority. decentralised gaming aren’t quite The development of increasingly as talked about now as in recent sophisticated blockchains and years, this is still an evolving part ofgovernance mechanisms has made the games industry, with significant this possible, including: investments in the last 12 months. decentralised data storage There’s an increasing focus on interoperability, with more games trustless verification of ownership beginning to move from diverse token-based economics, incentive ledger ecosystems to more focused, structures, and decentralised bespoke platforms, such as Polygon, finance (DeFi) Arbitrum, and Immutable. user sovereignty Web3 is characterised by its decentralised control structures. In smart contracts the earliest iterations of the internet,decentralised autonomous content was provided by website organisations. owners and consumed by users. In theory, a web application (or, in Through the social media age, more this case, a video game) can now and more content is provided by users themselves, but still ultimately be built by a group of developers mediated by centralised platforms. not connected by any traditional corporate structure, financed The technological philosophy via tokenomics and DeFi loans/ behind Web3 is an emphasis on user investments, and run via smart ownership of content, enabled by contracts (self-executing pieces of web applications that run across code stored, compiled, and run on distributed, decentralised servers 77