Big Shifts Are Happening Quietly Across Web3 Gaming

Here’s what just dropped and why it matters

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Blockonaut
July 21, 2025

Welcome to This Week's Edition of The Alchemists Informer!

Big shifts are happening quietly across web3 gaming.

Here’s what just dropped and why it matters.

What To Expect

  • Web3 Gaming Updates

  • Community Spotlight

  • Market Update

  • Job Opportunities

Weekly Web3 Gaming Updates

Today:

  • Haunted Space Arena launches today July 21 on Epic Games.

Upcoming:

  • The Star Atlas Summer event launches July 28, featuring Community Week and a three-part Town Hall series tied to major game updates.

  • Pudgy Penguins is launching Pudgy Party, a casual multiplayer mobile game with quick obstacle-course challenges, vibrant customization, and a $5,000 PENGU token giveaway, available soon on the App Store and Google Play with pre-registration now open.

This past week:

  • Hytopia is migrating its gaming ecosystem from its own HYCHAIN to Coinbase’s Base blockchain to gain better infrastructure, lower fees, and expanded user access, accompanied by the introduction of a new $HYBUX token.

  • Wilder World is launching three major reward programs enabling users to earn $WILD and $MEOW tokens through staking, gameplay, daily activity, and ecosystem participation.

  • Wilder World's "Operation Titan" is a major initiative launching one of the largest $WILD token buybacks to date, deploying four strategic mechanisms to absorb token supply, enhance scarcity, and strengthen ecosystem-wide economic sustainability ahead of its Super Early Access launch.

  • Off The Grid, the cyberpunk battle royale developed by Gunzilla Games, officially launched on Steam with full cross-play support on July 17.

  • The adidas Radiant Blaze Season kicked off in FIFA Rivals on July 17, offering players exclusive adidas gear, themed boots, kits, and new in-game rewards through limited-time events and challenges.

💼 Web3 Gaming Job Opportunities

  • Aethir: Web3 QA Engineer Apply

  • Offchain Labs: Marketing Manager Gaming Apply

  • Swissborg: Business Developer Gaming Brands Apply

  • Immutable: Project Manager, Gamer Experience Apply

Websites to Continue Your Job Search

Ethereum Price Forecast: Why $5,700–$7,500 Is a Realistic Target Before 2026

Ethereum is showing strong momentum in the current market cycle, and all indicators point to a realistic price range that could extend well beyond its previous all-time highs. Based on historical patterns, risk metrics, harmonic models, and macro comparisons, a probable target range of $5,700 to $7,500 emerges as a rational expectation—assuming broader market conditions remain intact.

Key Levels and Price Targets

Three major analytical methods converge on similar conclusions:

  • Butterfly Harmonic Pattern: Using this technical framework, a conservative target of $5,700 is derived. This aligns with a 1.618 Fibonacci extension and represents a key level where profits may begin to make sense.

  • Extended Harmonic Projections: The more aggressive 2.24 extension in the same pattern suggests Ethereum could climb to $7,500, or even slightly higher.

  • Historical Risk Metrics: Ethereum’s custom risk model—ranging from 0 (low) to 1 (extreme)—shows that $5,700 aligns with the 0.8 risk level, while $7,700 corresponds to the 0.9 band. Historically, Ethereum has spent very little time above the 0.8 threshold, making these upper levels less frequent but still within the realm of possibility.

Macro and Historical Comparisons

A compelling analog exists between Ethereum’s current structure and the S&P 500 from 1989–1990, which has followed surprisingly similar movements, suggesting a continued upward trajectory. Additionally, in past cycles, Ethereum's major rallies followed a predictable pattern:

  • ETH/USD climbs while ETH/BTC weakens

  • ETH reaches a “home” base before breaking out

  • A surge to all-time highs follows, before eventually topping

Notably, this pattern occurred in Q4 2016 and Q4 2019—and now appears again in Q2 2025, reinforcing the reliability of this cycle.

Timing and Cycle Considerations

Historically, bear markets have followed Bitcoin halvings, with downturns hitting roughly every four years—notably in 2014, 2018, and 2022. If this trend continues, Ethereum may have a six-month window before a new bear market in 2026 emerges. That puts a potential top for ETH sometime in late 2025 to early 2026.

Short-term, a correction is possible—especially around the August to September window, which has historically brought market pullbacks. However, if the trend continues post-correction, ETH could still make that final leg upward into higher territory.

Strategy: Dynamic DCA Out

With so much uncertainty in timing and price peaks, a smart approach is to scale out of Ethereum holdings gradually:

  • Sell 10% around $4,000 (conservative range highs)

  • Sell 20% more near $4,800 (prior all-time highs)

  • Continue scaling out with 30% near $5,700, and 40% up to $7,500

  • Keep a portion of ETH in reserve in case of unexpected price surges to $9,000 or beyond

This method provides flexibility to capture gains without needing to time the exact top and cushions against emotional decisions during corrections.

Conclusion

Ethereum’s road ahead appears promising, with a base case range of $5,700 to $7,500 grounded in technical analysis, historical precedent, and risk modeling. While external economic shocks could alter the path, current data supports a bullish trajectory into 2025. Traders and investors would be wise to prepare now, not just with price targets, but with a rational, tiered exit strategy that prioritizes steady profits over speculative hype.

The above is a summarization of Benjamin Cowen’s Youtube video. Not Financial Advice. DYOR

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