SEI Partners with Drift Zone to Boost Asian Gaming Market

Drift Zone has received a $190,000 grant to integrate its Web3 gaming ecosystem with the Sei network, aiming to bring mainstream adoption through popular Gacha mechanics in the gaming market

Drift Zone, a Web3 gaming studio that is developing the next generation of Gacha games, has received a $190,000 grant to facilitate the integration of its swiftly expanding gaming ecosystem with the Sei network.

Web3 in the Gaming Market

The studio is showcasing the potential of mainstream Web3 adoption by showcasing the potential of familiar gaming experiences in its Telegram mini-game Drift Zone: Arena, which has already attracted over 500,000 active players.

The studio’s strategy is to improve the popular Gacha mechanics, which generated over $4.4B in revenue across Asia last year, by incorporating genuine rewards that are powered by blockchain technology.

By constructing upon Sei, both Drift Zone: Arena and the forthcoming collectible auto-battler Drift Zone: Origins will capitalize on the network’s 380-millisecond block finality and process up to 12,500 transactions per second to provide Web2-like gaming experiences with Web3 benefits.

“What Drift Zone is doing just makes sense,” said Jason Lim, Global Gaming Lead at the Sei Foundation. “They’re taking games that already drive massive player engagement across Asia and enhancing the experience with Sei’s technology. By building on Sei, Drift Zone can deliver seamless, high-performance gameplay, allowing players to stay fully immersed without needing to think about the blockchain running in the background. When players can just enjoy the game, adoption follows naturally.”

The Drift Zone: Arena players are now able to claim rewards directly to Seiwallets and verify achievements on-chain, and the demo of Drift Zone: Origins is now live on Sei. Development is proceeding rapidly. The studio’s expansion into one of the most lucrative gaming markets is facilitated by this technical integration, which introduces genuine rewards to the established Gacha format that Asian players already adore.

“Look at the numbers – players in Asia spend $4.4B annually on Gacha games,” said Vedran Sisak, Founder and CEO of Drift Zone. “These games are already incredibly sticky, but players never see any real value from their participation. We’re changing that equation. We’re evolving the entire format by adding real rewards to mechanics players already love. With Sei’s technology, we can deliver this experience at the massive scale these markets demand.

Try Drift Zone: Arena today. Join the over 500,000 players who have already earned rewards in Drift Zone: Arena and experience the future of gaming powered by Sei. To commence participating immediately, please visit t.me/DriftZoneBot.

About Drift Zone

Drift Zone is a Web3 gaming studio that creates games that users enjoy in order to bridge the gap between Web2 and Web3. Drift Zone: Arena, a Telegram mini-game with over 500,000 participants, and Drift Zone: Origins, a collectible card-based auto-battler, are both part of the studio’s ecosystem.

About SEI

Sei is a Layer 1 that integrates the benefits of Solana and Ethereum: the performance of Solana and the prevalent development standard of Ethereum. Sei becomes the first parallelized EVM with the V2 update. Serving as a novel scaling strategy for the Ethereum ecosystem, it surpasses Solana in terms of performance.

Sei’s mainnet was launched in 2022, and its ecosystem is expanding with the deployment of key teams from Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, Arbitrum, and other organizations. Multicoin, Jump, Coinbase Ventures, and numerous other organizations provide financial support to the team.