This year's prize pool For PlayToEarn's Blockchain Game Awards is the largest yet, with a staggering value exceeding $2M! This year's contest is also our largest in size, spanning eighteen categories across the web3 gaming space.
And best of all, we're not just rewarding the top web3 games, we're also rewarding the voters as well! Not only can you earn PlayToEarn Points by voting, but each voter is also entered into a raffle to win a PS5 or $100 USDT!
Voting open from December 5th, 2024, 12pm CET, until December 19th, 11:59 CET.
Started in 2021, PlayToEarn held the first ever blockchain gaming awards pushing the industry culture forward. Each year has seen larger participation than the previous year. With user voting at its core, the event aims to recognize and amplify the best in blockchain gaming.
In 2023, the PlayToEarn Blockchain Game Awards generated 1 million impressions and saw over 125,000 visitors exploring our site to vote or discover new blockchain games.
Now, we return in 2024 for the 4th edition of our Blockchain Gaming Awards, celebrating excellence in blockchain gaming.
The process is pretty simple. Starting on December 5th, 2024, voting opens up for our Blockchain Game Awards. Users can visit https://playtoearn.com/awards and make their selections across all eighteen categories.
There are a lot of games to choose from, so each voter can select their five top choices from the lists in each category.
Voting closes on December 19th. Then the votes will be tabulated and the winners announced on December 20th. The rewards for the winners will be distributed in February of 2025.
How to Vote for the Blockchain Game Awards
Voting in the PlayToEarn Blockchain Awards is open to everyone, though you will need to login to the PlayToEarn site. This can be done with a web3 wallet or a Google login. After that, head over to the Awards page and start submitting your votes!
Each voter gets 5 votes per category. And aside from the good feeling that comes from supporting your favorite games and creators, voters also earn rewards of their own!
Each voter receives 10 PlayToEarn Points per category they vote on. Every voter is also entered into a special giveaway that includes a PS5 and five $100 rewards as prizes.
How are Nominees for the Blockchain Game Awards Selected?
Game Nominations: All games are automatically nominated based on their PlayToEarn score.
Content Creators & Guilds: Creators and guilds are manually nominated based on reputation, engagement, and impact in the web3 gaming space.
Nominees for Game of the Year and Most Anticipated Game are selected by the PlayToEarn team based on a variety of criteria including (but not limited to), player activity, development milestones, social presence, blockchain tech incorporation and advancement, and which games we find the most fun to play.
Building on past success, this year’s awards will feature 18 categories across four divisions to honor the top games, content creators, gaming guilds, and gaming ecosystems shaping the industry.
And the prize pool for this year's Blockchain Game Awards is unparalleled, boasting a value that surpasses $2M!
A special thank you to our partners:
BGA: The Blockchain Game Alliance is an organization committed to promoting blockchain within the game industry.
SEI: SEI is the Fastest Layer 1 Parallel Blockchain. SEI stands to unlock a brand new design space for consumer facing applications.
Altura: Building and scaling the next generation of games. An all-in-one platform for integrating web3 and AI
AVAX: Avalanche® is the fastest, most reliable smart contracts platform in the world.
Mantle: Build dApps with exceptional UX, all while relying on Ethereum's unrivaled security, with our high-performance Ethereum layer-2 network built with modular architecture.
Sequence: Sequence is the leading platform developers use to integrate blockchain and web3 into their games. An all-in-one platform for developing Web3 Games.
Tezos: Tezos is an energy-efficient, self-upgradable blockchain network that supports smart contracts and decentralized applications, offering security, scalability, and a vibrant ecosystem for developers and users.
This year, PlayToEarn will honor games across fourteen categories covering twelve different genres as well as Most Anticipated Game and Game of the Year.
Genre Categories:
The total prize pool for the Blockchain Games Awards categories exceeds $1.5M in value, including:
The prize breakdown for the Game Awards are as follows.
1st place in each category will receive,
2nd - 3rd place
4th - 10th place
11th - 20th place
Additionally, the first place in the Game of the Year and Most Anticipated Game categories will receive a 1 year BGA Basic membership (value $500)
* terms and conditions apply
What are games without content creators? Whether we’re watching our favorite streamer rack up the headshots, or learning the tricks to play and earn with an intricate game economy, content creators have it all.
This year, the PlayToEarn Blockchain Game Awards will honor content creators in two categories, Best Content Creator (English speaking) and Best Content Creator National (all others), with prizes worth over $50,000 up for grabs.
Prize pool +$50.000
$50,000 in PlayToEarn Ad Credits
1,000 PlayToEarn Points (Points will be changeable for our upcoming Token)
1st place
2nd - 3rd place
4th - 20th place
Gaming guilds have long been a part of online gaming. And in the world of blockchain gaming, they are taking an even larger role than ever before with player DAOs, scholarship programs, and even educational videos. In this category of Best Gaming Guild we're looking for the gaming guild that has made the most impact in the web3 space.
Prize pool +$20.000
1st place
2nd - 4th place
5th - 10th place
Blockchain technology has allowed the development of gaming ecosystems, interconnected games and apps that are a unique feature of web3 gaming. For the Best Gaming Ecosystem award, we're letting you choose which chain has done the most to advance blockchain gaming in 2024.
Prize pool +$20.000
$50.000 in PlayToEarn Ad Credits
1st place
2nd - 4th place
5th - 10th place
The Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA) is an organization dedicated to promoting blockchain technology within the gaming industry. It works to raise awareness about the potential of blockchain to revolutionize how games are created, distributed, played, and monetized. By fostering collaboration between members, the BGA aims to drive the adoption of decentralized gaming technologies and establish best practices for this evolving sector.
Altura Gaming is a blockchain-based platform aimed at empowering game developers to integrate NFTs and blockchain features into their games. At its core, Altura provides developers with tools like APIs and SDKs to create, update, and manage in-game NFTs, referred to as "Smart NFTs." These Smart NFTs can have dynamic properties that evolve based on time, real-world events, or gameplay conditions, offering players unique and customizable digital assets.
SEI is a cutting-edge blockchain network designed to provide unmatched speed, scalability, and compatibility with Ethereum-based applications. As a Layer 1 blockchain, SEI has made significant strides in addressing the limitations of existing blockchain infrastructure, making it particularly appealing for decentralized applications (dApps), decentralized finance (DeFi), and NFTs.
Avalanche (AVAX) is a decentralized blockchain platform known for its high performance, scalability, and eco-friendly consensus mechanism. It aims to provide a fast, secure, and flexible platform for decentralized applications (dApps), decentralized finance (DeFi), and enterprise solutions.
Mantle Network is a next-generation Ethereum Layer-2 (L2) scaling solution designed to deliver efficient, secure, and scalable blockchain experiences. Its modular design focuses on reducing transaction costs and enhancing performance while maintaining Ethereum's robust security infrastructure. Mantle achieves these goals through technologies like optimistic rollups and EigenDA (a data availability layer powered by EigenLayer), which significantly lower gas fees and improve transaction throughput compared to other L2 solutions
Sequence is a comprehensive Web3 development platform offering tools like wallets, marketplaces, and analytics to help games onboard, monetize, and retain players. It streamlines blockchain integration for developers, enabling seamless user experiences and supporting the growth of Web3 gaming.