Much of the current NFT market lives on Ethereum and its sidechains and scaling solutions, as well Solana—and that’s true of NFT-powered crypto games, too. But in recent months, we’ve seen more and more developers begin building games on Avalanche.

Over the last 30 days, Avalanche play-to-earn game Crabada has overtaken the struggling Ethereum-based Axie Infinity in terms of NFT trading volume, and has racked up over $225 million worth to date—making it the highest-grossing overall NFT project on Avalanche, per CryptoSlam.

First-person shooter Shrapnel—described by its creators as a “AAA game”—will also build on the platform, while online social game Highrise will launch its Web3 metaverse on Avalanche. Other notable projects include mobile game Castle Crush and online role-player Ragnarok.

Why build on Avalanche, one of the leading so-called “Ethereum killers?” On the latest episode of Decrypt’s gm podcast, Ava Labs President John Wu explained that Avalanche’s subnets feature is ready-made to power potentially sizable crypto game economies.

A subnet on Avalanche acts like a separate instance of the platform designed for a certain decentralized app (dapp) or game—almost like a white-label solution for a custom blockchain, yet still part of Avalanche. It inherits the security from Avalanche, but acts as a dedicated space that isn’t affected by (and…