How blockchain game economies work — ownership, on-chain vs closed platforms, what survives a shutdown.
How blockchain game economies work — ownership, on-chain vs closed platforms, what survives a shutdown.
Games die — and NFT gaming has already buried enough titles to have a track record. The assets don’t vanish (the tokens persist on-chain), but what they become depends entirely on how the shutdown is handled. This explainer uses the ecosystem’s actual endings as the evidence. The four ways NFT games have ended 1. The…
“Which chain is the game on” used to be an esoteric question. In 2026 it’s a practical one: the chain determines your wallet, your transaction fees, which marketplace can see your items, and whether the game’s platform is stable infrastructure or a shrinking island. This is the ecosystem-level view — for what blockchains are generally,…
“You own it” is the most-used and least-explained phrase in NFT gaming. What a player actually holds when a game issues them an NFT is worth being precise about, because the honest answer is: you own a token on a ledger, not the thing it represents. The three layers of “ownership” 1. The token (what…
“NFT game” hides a spectrum. Some games issue real on-chain tokens you control; some run hybrid systems where only premium items are on-chain; and some sell digital items that never touch a blockchain at all, while wearing the language anyway. This explainer lays out the three models this site uses to classify every platform —…