SKALE Ecosystem Recap - March 2025

March was an exciting month for SKALE, marked by the launch of the $2 million Indie Game Accelerator, new ecosystem dApp launches, and the successful passing of SIP-2 to increase sChain subscription pricing and boost validator rewards. Additionally, SKALE introduced the SKALEopedia, offering an essential knowledge resource for the community.

Read on to explore everything from March on SKALE!

🔍 Quick Highlights

• Launch of $2M Indie Game Accelerator
• SIP-2 Proposal Passed in Governance Vote
• SKALE makes a splash at ETH Denver, GDC SF, and DAS NYC
• SKALEopedia Launched

🔢 Q1 Growth 

SKALE closed Q1 2025 with over 246 million transactions and nearly 10 million UAWs, a 46% and 33% quarter-over-quarter increase, respectively. This surge reflects growing adoption across gaming, AI, and consumer dApps — all powered by SKALE’s user friendly, gas free architecture.

🎮 $2M Indie Game Accelerator

SKALE launched a $2 million Indie Game Accelerator to support indie developers and studios in building blockchain-powered games. Participants receive funding, mentorship, technical support, and access to SKALE’s gas free infrastructure, streamlining the transition from Web2 to Web3 gaming.

✅ SIP-2 Passes Governance Vote

SKALE Improvement Proposal (SIP) 2: sChain Pricing Addendum has passed governance, introducing significant enhancements to decentralization and validator economics. By increasing sChain pricing, the upgrade generates more revenue for validator operators, incentivizing greater participation and network security.

📚 Introducing the SKALEopedia

The SKALEopedia is now live—a comprehensive knowledge hub empowering users with clear, accessible, and up-to-date information about SKALE’s ecosystem, technology, and community resources. Check out the SKALEopedia today and start exploring!

💥 Zoppel Launches on SKALE & Sells Out Comic

Zoppel successfully launched “The Legend of Furiax,” a thrilling vertical shoot ‘em up set in the Zoppel Comics Universe, powered by SKALE. The game’s first-edition physical comics sold out quickly, showcasing high anticipation for the launch of the game.

🤖 Functionland

Functionland partnered with SKALE to build decentralized AI infrastructure and data sovereignty solutions. Leveraging SKALE’s zero-gas fees and scalability, Functionland delivers affordable, high-performance, privacy-focused data storage and AI services.

❓QSTN

QSTN, a Web3-native survey platform, has launched on SKALE, revolutionizing surveys with gas fee free reward distribution. Businesses can seamlessly fund surveys with tokens or NFTs, and participants automatically receive rewards via SKALE-powered smart contracts.

🔊 SKALE Events

ETH Denver

SKALE showed up big at ETHDenver—connecting with builders, jamming at side events, and showing off blazing-fast gas free tech to the Ethereum community. From deep dev convos to live demos, SKALE made it clear: scalability without compromise is here.

Game Developers Conference (GDC) 

SKALE was everywhere at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), hosting awesome side events, live game demos, and joining the Blockchain Game Alliance meetup. It was an amazing opportunity to connect with developers and showcase what gas free blockchain gaming looks like in action.

Digital Asset Summit (DAS) NYC

SKALE made a major splash at DAS NYC, one of the biggest institutional crypto events of the year. CEO Jack O’Holleran took the stage right before President Trump—talk about prime time! He also joined a live Empire podcast episode, racking up over 200K views combined and putting SKALE front and center across the crypto community. Watch Jack's keynote on why blockchains should be invisible to users.

💻 Developer Corner

New S2S Direct Transfer Feature

The latest SKALE IMA Update makes moving ERC20 tokens between SKALE chains faster and easier by allowing configurable receiving addresses and reducing the steps for bridging. 

SKALE 3.1.1 Network Upgrade

Upgrading all nodes to Ubuntu 22 improves efficiency, sustainability, and software compatibility while keeping systems up to date. Developers can build faster, more efficient apps with improved resource management.

SKALE Portal 4.0 Release

The SKALE Portal 4.0 is now live on mainnet! Portal, Metaport, and IMA-JS have been merged into a single, streamlined repo, making development smoother and CI/CD faster.

As March wraps up, SKALE continues to build momentum across gaming, AI, and decentralized infrastructure. With the launch of the $2M Indie Game Accelerator, major ecosystem expansions, and standout moments at events like GDC and DAS, the network is solidifying its role as the go-to gas free platform for Web3 innovation. And with new resources like the SKALEopedia now live, the path to mass adoption has never been clearer.