Committed to creating a new concept of sports metaverse ecology

1. Market background

Sports games have always been an important pillar of the global game market. Their large user base, continuously growing market demand, and close ties with the real-life sports industry have made them one of the most commercially valuable game categories. According to Statista, the global sports gaming market has exceeded US$10 billion in 2024 and is expected to maintain an average annual growth rate of more than 7% in the next five years. Head sports games such as FIFA, NBA 2K, and Madden NFL continue to dominate. At the same time, the rise of emerging business models such as e-sports events, virtual sports, and NFT digital collections are also constantly expanding the market boundaries of sports games. Some examples include:

• FIFA Ultimate Team (FUT) generated US$1.7 billion in revenue in 2023, accounting for more than 30% of EA Sports' total revenue, showing players' high recognition of digital assets and the virtual economy.
• As a sports NFT trading platform, NBA Top Shot has exceeded US$700 million in transaction volume in just a few months in 2021, attracting a large number of sports fans and investors into the digital sports market.
• Virtual sports events are gradually becoming mainstream, such as the e-sports version of FIFA and the NBA 2K League, whose influence continues to expand, pushing the sports game industry to develop in a more immersive and diversified direction.

In this context, Web3 sports games are becoming a new direction of market development, which also makes sports games no longer limited to traditional stand-alone or online modes, but has evolved into a more open and interconnected digital sports world, expanding the connection between games and the real sports industry. Web3 sports games not only attract traditional game players, but also cover multiple ecological participants such as sports clubs, professional athletes, sports brands, and fan communities. For example:

• Sorare, an NFT-based football trading game, has reached cooperation with more than 280 professional football clubs. Players can collect, trade and use NFT cards of real players, participate in virtual football matches, and receive rewards. Its market transaction volume has exceeded $500 million, demonstrating the huge market appeal of Web3 sports games.
• Zed Run, a virtual horse racing game based on Web3 technology, has formed a complete horse breeding, competition and trading market, attracting a large number of Web3 and sports enthusiasts, and promoting the exploration of assetization of Web3 sports games.
• The Web3 layout of sports clubs and celebrities is accelerating. For example, top clubs such as Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester City, and Barcelona have launched fan interaction platforms based on Web3 to build a closer fan economic system through Fan Token, NFT, virtual sports experience, and other methods.

Currently, Web3 sports games are in a rapid growth phase, with the market size exceeding $4 billion and expected to continue to expand in the coming years. With the development and iteration of blockchain technology, NFT assets, virtual sports events, social interaction and other fields, the influence of Web3 sports games will further expand, providing more immersive digital experiences and interactive spaces for sports stars, clubs, institutions and fans, and pushing the global sports industry into a new digital era.

Under this trend, DigiGoal will deeply empower developers to create a diversified, high-quality, composable and privacy-protected sports game ecosystem, promote innovation and change in the Web3 sports track, and create a more open and interconnected digital sports world.

2. DigiGoal

DigiGoal is a sports metaverse world with a Web3 game engine based on a zero-knowledge proof scheme as the core. With the help of a full-chain game architecture, DigiGoal provides composability, programmability, scalability and privacy protection, allowing users to enjoy entertainment, creation, social interaction, and share ecosystem benefits in the DigiGoal sports metaverse world to achieve an immersive Web3 sports experience. DigiGoal provides sports stars, clubs, institutions and fans with a new digital experience and virtual space that integrates gaming, sports and entertainment elements.

As a Web3 game infrastructure, DigiGoal aims to solve the core challenges in the Web3 game field from two levels:

• Through the launch of DG Engine, it provides developers with a complete set of ZKP-based development tools, including a series of components such as football simulation algorithms, sports engines, and 3D engines, helping developers build high-quality games with low barriers to entry and supporting seamless migration of traditional games to Web3. In addition, developers can build an exclusive Layer3 APP Chain in a customized and modular manner based on DigiGoal's on-chain engine to achieve a personalized game ecosystem.
• DigiGoal uses a server abstraction scheme that enables games to run completely in Web3 without relying on centralized servers. From small games on the chain to large-scale games with AAA-level features, low-cost, efficient, safe and trustworthy operation is achieved, empowering the Web3 game field to move towards true decentralization and sustainable development.

3. DigiGoal’s technical solutions

3.1 Game engine - exclusive optimization for sports games

1. DG Engine: Sports Game Development Toolset