The Fusion of Gaming and Social: The Future Prototype of Web3?

The integration of Web3 social and gaming is becoming a highly关注ed field. Decentralized social aims to empower users to truly control their identity and data through blockchain technology, while gaming provides rich scenarios and content for social interaction. The combination of the two is expected to bring a brand new user experience and business model.

Currently, there are mainly three approaches in this field:

1. User-centric GameID platforms, such as Carv and DeQuest, are dedicated to building cross-game user profiles.

2. Communication protocols that provide cross-platform social features, such as XMTP, Web3MQ, etc., allowing users to socialize seamlessly across different applications.

3. Games that support NFT integration, such as Arcade, Worldwide Webb, etc., allow users to bring their NFT assets into the gaming world.

In the future, with the development of technology, we may see more innovations:

• AI-based virtual relationships, such as projects like rct AI, Mirror World, etc. are being explored.
• A more open and interoperable gaming ecosystem.
• The integration of social mini-games and Web3.

Overall, the integration of gaming and social interaction is expected to become an important scenario for Web3 to break through the current user scale bottleneck. Although it is still in the early stages, many potential projects and ideas have already emerged. I believe that in the near future, we will see applications that truly have a phenomenal impact.