ThunderCore and YGG SEA Join Forces in a Strategic Partnership to Revolutionize the Blockchain Gaming Industry

ThunderCore has partnered with Yield Guild Games Southeast Asia (YGG SEA), Southeast Asia’s largest blockchain gaming guild, to launch a developer program that will tap into the growing demand for blockchain-based games and virtual worlds.The partnership is a manifesto of our commitments to bridge the South East Asia developer talent into Web3 and attract global Web3 talents into the region. South East Asia is a key market for global economic growth and will be a key driver for the Web3 community growth as shown in the booming of blockchain gaming in 2021/2022 with Axie Infinity, the region’s home-grown blockchain game.

ThunderCore and YGG SEA will together establish a developer program that helps game developers build their Southeast Asia gaming community and showcase their projects on ThunderCore’s platform to a wider audience.

Partnership to boost SEA Web3 gaming development

ThunderCore and YGG SEA’s partnership is exciting news for the Southeast Asian blockchain gaming industry and a great opportunity for game developers to grow their projects and gain a substantial user base in the SEA market. For developers, YGG SEA’s massive Web3 user base and ThunderCore’s strong user retention skills offer the perfect market and conditions to enter the SEA market as painlessly as possible, with immediate access to an established and loyal localized audience and a powerful EVM-compatible blockchain.

The developer program is expected to help YGG SEA grow its community of players and creators and support the development of blockchain games in the region, while it will aid ThunderCore in its quest to build out its presence and user base in Southeast Asia.

As YGG SEA continues to grow its user base, they have partnered with over 80 games and have more than 175K community members and deployed more than 20,000 scholarships to date. In line with YGG SEA efforts to onboard more users into their blockchain gaming ecosystem and the gateway into metaverse for anyone, YGG SEA also provides language specific support on its platform. It has a stellar track record of helping games establish market presence in SEA and features some of the biggest success stories in blockchain gaming to date.

Axie Infinity sparked the P2E gaming craze during the last bull run after enjoying tremendous early adoption in countries like the Philippines. The Sandbox is the leading decentralized metaverse with a market cap of nearly $1 billion, where players can buy, sell, and create virtual real estate and other assets, while Guild of Guardians combines elements of role-playing games (RPGs) and collectible card games (CCGs).

Thanks to its battle-tested fast and secure infrastructure, ThunderCore is perfectly positioned to support the development of high-performance Dapps required for blockchain gaming. It excels at acquiring and retaining new users, frequently clocking over 100,000 daily active users (DAU) according to DappRadar due to its entertainment-first approach to growing its ecosystem. This proven ecosystem retention mechanism will help developers retain users and build a strong community around their projects in the long term.

Future Plans

With its mission to create the biggest and most sustainable play-to-own (P2O) virtual economy focused on Southeast Asia, the partnership between ThunderCore and YGG SEA is expected to create a more diverse and vibrant game ecosystem in the region.

Roger Hsu, CEO of ThunderCore, had the following to say:

“Our YGG SEA partnership is an important step for ThunderCore as we expand our presence in the SEA market to help grow the blockchain gaming industry and create new opportunities for ourselves as well as developers, investors, and gamers in the region.”

About YGG SEA

YGG SEA is a gaming guild with a strong community presence in South East Asia. The DAO (Decentralised Autonomous Organization) is YGG’s first guild partner (previously called as SubDAO) and its focus is to become that friendly face in onboarding anyone into the metaverse through gaming, providing access to information and opportunities to yield in the metaverse.

We believe blockchain technology is here to disrupt many aspects of lives and the first challenge for the entire ecosystem is ease of access. YGG SEA as part of the ecosystem believes that gamification is the way to onboard the next billion users and that “playing” is everyone’s birthright. Second challenge is, once the community is onboarded, what can they do within the metaverse. We are here to create opportunities alongside our ecosystem partners like Thundercore and game developers within this program to create opportunities for our communities to have a real job and impact within the metaverse. — Irene Umar, Co Founder of YGG SEA.

About ThunderCore

ThunderCore is the only platform growing DApp users organically through ecosystem retention, which will be the key driving force behind the real mass adoption of blockchain. Its proof-of-stake (PoS) architecture, EVM compatibility, entertainment-first ethos, and deep developer support provide a battle-tested home for the next generation of crypto innovators across Web3, DeFi, NFTs, GameFi, and the metaverse.

Thanks to its unique PaLa consensus mechanism, ThunderCore can handle 4,000+ TPS with sub-second confirmation times and ultra-low gas fees kept at a fraction of a cent.

ThunderCore Token (TT), the chain’s popular native asset, can be stored in the feature-rich TT Wallet, together with other supported ecosystem assets.

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