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Game Gems — A New Era for Blockchain Games on Sonic

Sonic Gems have quickly emerged as a powerful catalyst for growth within the Sonic ecosystem, enabling apps to bootstrap user activity, deepen engagement, and earn airdrop allocations through sustained performance.

By aligning incentives across developers and users, Gems have turned competition between apps into momentum and continuous innovation. However, Gems have been exclusively for DeFi apps on the network.

Today, we take it a step further.

Introducing Game Gems

Game Gems mark the beginning of a new chapter on Sonic, where blockchain games are not just part of the ecosystem, but central to its growth.

Just like DeFi apps earn App Gems, eligible games on Sonic can now earn Game Gems, unlocking a share of the upcoming S token airdrop. Similar to the existing App Gems, these allocations are designed to be distributed to players, helping bootstrap in-game activity and drive lasting engagement.

You can view the Game Gems leaderboard on MySonic.

Game Gems Calculation

Each participating game earns a score based on two key factors: growth and activity scores. Together, these metrics determine each game's share of the total Game Gems pool.

1. Growth Score

The growth score uses a transaction-weighted Quick Ratio to evaluate a game’s player dynamics. Specifically, it measures how many new and returning players a game attracts compared to how many users it’s losing or failing to retain.

This formula is designed to reward both new and established games fairly. To prevent manipulation, the score is capped, and scores cannot fall below zero. The metric is dynamic, with flexibility to adjust time windows, weighting, and inputs as new games join the program.

2. Activity Score

The activity score tracks relative player engagement across the ecosystem. It rewards games that command a larger share of total active users in the Game Gems program.

This helps ensure the reward distribution reflects real-time network activity and user interest.

3. Score and Final Allocation

Each game (denoted as g) will receive an overall score, calculated as a weighted blend of the growth and activity scores. These weights (w_g and w_a) are chosen by Sonic Labs to reflect strategic goals and may evolve over time.