Out of the Loop on Web3 Gaming Again?

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June 09, 2025

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

Out of the loop on web3 gaming again?

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What To Expect

  • Web3 Gaming Updates

  • Community Spotlight

  • Job Opportunities

  • Market Analysis

Weekly Web3 Gaming Updates

Upcoming:

  • FIFA Rivals is launching globally for mobile on iOS and Android on June 12, featuring exclusive Adidas-branded digital content, real-time PvP matches, and a built-in marketplace for trading player cards and in-game assets.

  • Eve Frontier's entering a new era on June 11 with fresh content like new sites, ships, and leaderboards, plus they're lifting the NDA so everyone can share and stream freely. Keep an eye out for new trailers dropping during this weekend's Summer Games Shows if you don't wanna miss out on the latest intel.

  • The Moonfrost OG Mystery Box Sale goes live on June 12 at 13:00 UTC, offering buyers a random mix of FROSTprint blueprints, Luck Charms, FROST Workbenches, and OG Gnomes, with higher chances for blueprints and charms and lower chances for workbenches and gnomes.

  • Seraph Season 3 launches June 12, featuring a major reward campaign with 5 million $SERAPH tokens and free Season Passes for new and returning players.

Ongoing:

  • Spellborne's "Enchanted Guild Wars" event is live until July 2, with guilds teaming up to capture rare monsters and compete for a share of 250,000 $BORNE tokens by earning points through in-game activities.

  • Duper Season 5 is running now through July 28, featuring a free cash airdrop for new and returning players, 24/7 Casual mode, improved matchmaking, tiered season passes, and a planned mobile launch on Android and iOS during the season.

  • Zeeverse, a free-to-play monster-taming MMORPG on the Ronin network, has launched its Play-to-Airdrop campaign, offering players a chance to earn from a 150 million $TREE token pool by completing in-game quests and community activities.

  • Pirate Nation launched its new PvE mode "Infinite Tides," where players battle through 25 waves of enemies with a single Ship for escalating rewards and a chance to earn the exclusive Hanzo the Samurai skin by clearing all waves before June 11, with three free attempts available daily.

This past week:

  • Epic Games Store allows developers to keep 100% of the first $1 million in annual revenue per product, starting June 2025, with the standard 88/12 split applying only to earnings above that threshold, and this policy resets each year.

  • Sparkball, a 4v4 sports brawler developed by Opti Games veterans from Riot and Blizzard, has just launched on Somnia’s web3 gaming platform, introducing new on-chain features and preparing for a free public demo during Steam Next Fest from June 9–16.

The Alchemists Community Spotlight

💼 Web3 Gaming Job Opportunities

  • Xsolla: Web3 Game Tester Apply

  • Sorare: Social Media Manager Apply

  • Ai Apocalypto: Web3 UI/UX Game Designer Apply

  • Immutable: Product Manager, Gamer Experience Apply

Websites to Continue Your Job Search

Diminishing Altcoin Seasons: Why Future Gains May Fall Short of Past Cycles (Eric Krown Youtube Summary)

The crypto market’s history of explosive altcoin runs is well-documented — but a closer look at macro trends reveals that each cycle may be offering less in return, not more. Here's a breakdown of what current patterns suggest about the altcoin landscape and what to expect moving forward.

The Bitcoin Dominance Myth

The Bitcoin dominance chart is often used as a compass for predicting altcoin performance. But despite its vertical climb since late 2022, we've still seen isolated altcoin booms — particularly in AI tokens, agents, and meme coins.

This contradiction highlights a key insight: Bitcoin dominance is not a reliable indicator of altseason. Instead, it may be more of a distraction than a useful signal.

A Better Gauge for Altcoin Opportunities

To get a clearer read on potential altcoin rallies, it’s more useful to track specific altcoins versus Bitcoin — particularly those showing strength on the daily timeframe or trading above their 21/55 EMAs. These pairings give a more accurate picture of whether an altcoin is likely to outperform BTC in the near term.

Another strong alternative: analyzing the total crypto market cap excluding Bitcoin, Ethereum, and stablecoins, relative to BTC. This chart strips away the noise and better reflects pure altcoin momentum.

The Trend: Diminishing Returns

A multi-cycle view reveals a consistent pattern: each altseason is producing smaller returns than the last.

  • 2017 (ICO Era): The peak of altseason mania, fueled by unregulated ICOs, saw a nearly 3,000% gain from bottom to top.

  • 2021 (DeFi, NFTs, L2s): A strong cycle but smaller in scale — just a 433% gain, a 37% drop from the previous cycle.

  • 2024 (AI, Meme Coins): The most recent alt rally came in at around 63%, down ~32% from 2021.

This consistent shrinkage signals diminishing returns across cycles, likely due to increasing regulation and a savvier investor base.

Key Takeaways

  • Altseasons Are Getting Weaker: Each new cycle produces lower highs and less momentum, showing a clear long-term downtrend.

  • Old Narratives Don’t Resurrect: Coins that led one cycle (e.g., ICOs in 2017 or DeFi in 2021) rarely lead the next. Expect new narratives — not old favorites — to drive future rallies.

  • Past Leaders Often Lag: Even major names like Ethereum have failed to outperform BTC from one cycle to the next. Most older altcoins only produce weak bounces and fail to reach previous highs.

  • Momentum Is Breaking Down: On high timeframes, altcoin-related market cap charts are breaking structure, with momentum indicators (RSI, stochastic, etc.) pointing lower. Bounces may come, but a full reversal looks unlikely in the near term.

What This Means for Traders

If you're hunting for the next big altseason, temper your expectations. Future rallies may still happen, but they are likely to be smaller, shorter, and narrower in scope. The days of “everything pumps” are probably behind us.

Focus on:

  • New narratives (not 2021 or 2017 leftovers)

  • Alt/BTC pairings

  • Macro momentum (not just daily chart hype)

In short: altcoins aren’t dead — but the game has changed.

Bottom Line: The best approach now is targeted and tactical, not blind belief in another euphoric altseason. The market is evolving, and so should your strategy.

Not Financial Advice. DYOR

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