Moonveil is Building a Gamer-first Web3 Ecosystem on Agglayer

tl;dr

• Why it matters: Moonveil is building a dedicated Agglayer CDK blockchain that’s building a full-stack ecosystem for gaming to embrace web3
• What’s inside: A three-layer stack—flagship games, an ops & identity layer, and the Agglayer CDK chain, already live on testnet
• What’s next: Mainnet in the coming months, Season 2 content, and an open invitation for third-party studios to plug into Moonveil’s gamer-first economy.

Rewind to 2022 and you’ll recall that crypto wasn’t having a good time. The year began with fortune favoring the brave and ended with FTX burnt to the ground. Overall, things looked bleak.

Amid this chaos, a stalwart group of former gaming executives, graduates of Riot Games and Tencent, looked around at the smoldering landscape and thought, “You know what? Now’s a good time to build. Gamers deserve better.” 

And thus Moonveil was born, grit in its guts. 

What started as a gaming studio has blossomed, in just three years, into a full-stack web3 gaming ecosystem that promises to do right by gamers: give them more of the value they create, in the way only blockchain can bring. 

In 2024, Moonveil’s fate crossed with Polygon when Moonveil announced a dedicated blockchain built with Agglayer CDK, a software development kit for designing highly customizable blockchains unified via Agglayer. 

Polygon Labs anchored $2M in node funding to Moonveil, demonstrating faith in the team and alignment with Agglayer’s vision.

With a brand-new chain, Moonveil is positioned to break down gaming silos with more than simple “play-to-earn” mechanics that fade out over time. 

Moonveil is a gamer-first ecosystem with achievement-based player profiles that glide over a multi-game economy. The ecosystem addresses key pain points in gaming as a whole, and web3 gaming in particular: 

• cross-chain and cross-game identity
• building onchain reputation
• creating a developer-friendly ecosystem where gameplay > hype

It’s all about co-creation. Games in the Moonveil landscape don’t extract value from gamers, but collaboratively produce value instead.

This is Moonveil’s story, three years on. Building a chain with Agglayer CDK unlocked the ultimate value-add for an ambitious vision that’s remaking games as we know them. 

The Hero’s Journey, from Gaming Studio to Full-stack Ecosystem

Moonveil’s founding in 2022 by hardcore gamers begins like a good adventure game: a ragtag band of intrepid heroes are called to action. 

They launched a new studio, Moonveil, focused on games too good to not play. 

Building with crypto gave them an edge by allowing users to truly tap into the value they invested over the hours they play. 

Success struck early with AstrArk, Moonveil’s initial mobile-based tower-defense, which validated a product-first mindset: 2M+ unique wallets, 48K+ PvP battles.

But the founders discovered a fundamental limitation. Crypto infrastructure wasn’t robust enough to do what they needed it to do. Identities across different web3 gaming ecosystems were fractured. Different game or chain? Different identity, leaving behind rewards and special items. Integrating native in-game blockchain mechanics was cumbersome.

Given the realities of Web3 when they launched, there was only so far they could go to do what they wanted to do. 

So they made a major decision that changed strategy and transformed the company—and maybe all of gaming as we know it. 

Breakdown of Moonveil’s three-layer structure

Moonveil decided to build blockchain infrastructure itself. 

Doing this meant building its own blockchain. 

No longer a simple gaming studio, Moonveil would set benchmarks with its own products, then invite others to build on its infra and leverage its systems. Unlike most web3 gaming ecosystems, that means it wouldn’t just rely on a play-to-earn model.

The vision is more holistic: offer other developers a customizable environment for building web3 or web2.5 games. Aggregate with blockchain-native mechanics for better UX. 

Here’s the three-layer structure that makes this possible.

1. Product layer: The OG expertise at Moonveil, this is the layer of flagship games. Right now, that’s AstrArk, Bushwhack (pre-registration), Starry Sort, and more. With a product-first obsession, Moonveil is making games people actually want to play.
2. Ops & identity layer: Building games with crypto mechanics that reward gamers is only one part of the equation. Solving for identity porting from chain to chain and game to game is the second. This layer introduces loyalty programs (like Moon Beam points), Soulbound Tokens, and identity frameworks that truly aggregate and unify a fractured web3 gaming landscape.

Infra layer: Agglayer CDK-built blockchain, live in testnet. This is the invisible, under-the-hood technology that powers the entire ecosystem and is natively connected to Agglayer for seamless unity. Mainnet coming soon.

Moonveil’s present and future

Redefining what a gamer-first ecosystem looks like means providing the infra for game devs to build the best game they can make. 

Moonveil offers: 

• AI dev tools
• identity SBTs
• integrated wallets
• a loyalty program to track gamer experience; and
• custom UX per game. 

That’s all on offer, right now. Start building today.

AstrArk was a hit. But there’s more on the horizon. 

Upcoming games include Bushwhack, open for pre-registration, and Flaming Pets, among others.

‍Season 2 will bring expanded gameplay, better loyalty systems, and deeper ecosystem mechanics to create a truly unified gaming experience. Expanding the Moonveil Punch initiative on-boards third-party games for even more user choice.

Plus: Mainnet launch is expected in the next few months, with Agglayer integration opening the door to seamless game-to-game liquidity and identity transport across different web3 gaming ecosystems.

Moonveil’s journey has only started. Three years of grinding, leveling up, facing down and slaying new mini-bosses. 

Stage one, complete.