While the app broke records with its 45 million daily active users, most of those quickly faded, and today there are only 5 million daily active users around the world. Upon its release, it took the masses to the streets in search of Pokémon blended with the real world via Augmented Reality. The company also brought in other angel investors, such as Mark Pincus, Founder of Zynga, Fred Ehrsam, Founder of Coinbase, William Mougayar, Founder of Token Summit, among others.įor those paying attention, you know something similar happened to Pokémon Go. The support came from Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, two of the largest investment firms in the world, known for backing up Facebook, Twitter, and Coinbase. Nonetheless, earlier this year, the kitty game was able to raise $12 million in funding. While those numbers were impressive and showed the world cryptocurrencies were more than just currency tokens, today’s dismal numbers show a might be a sad ending to this digital story. In total, CryptoKitties was able to raise $6.7 million just in those first days. The following week, that number raised to 6,030, and just 12 days after its launch, on December 10, CryptoKitties peaked at 9,750 users. The game registered 143 unique users during its launch. The first record it set, on December 2, was when Genesis, the first cat, was sold for 246.9255 ETH (roughly $117,712 at the time). The CryptoKitties game was officially launched on November 28, 2017. Not only that, this blockchain game famously clogged up the Ethereum network it runs on, causing massive delays in transactions. Those who tried to get in the game can tell you how expensive these digital pets were, especially the founding generation. That’s a drastic fall from its 9,750 users peak. Yesterday, June 8, the digital cats had only 244 pet owners logging in and playing around. Nowadays, no one really cares CryptoKitties exist, apart from hardcore fans - Igor Barinov, for example, purchased the cat number 127 at a cryptocurrency-themed art auction for $140,000.Īccording to Bloxy, CryptoKitties is barely registering 250 daily active users these days. Things have changed drastically for the digital kitties, though. The game allowed crypto kitty owners to breed their bundles of join and sell their offsprings. The digital pets were unique, at the time, as their very own existence was also unique - no one could own the exact same kitty. Not too long ago, Pokémon Go suffered a similar fate.Īll those who were involved in the crypto world six months ago can definitely remember the hype over CryptoKitties. After peaking at its launch, CryptoKitties has been steadily losing its momentum, showing Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) aren’t the new craze.
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