BGA Research

Our BGA Reports offer in-depth qualitative insights into the blockchain gaming industry, capturing the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities through expert analysis and comprehensive data. These reports provide valuable perspectives for professionals seeking to understand the evolving ecosystem and make informed decisions.

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AGENTIC AI IN GAMING AND THE EMERGING DIGITAL ECONOMY

This report emerges from a simple observation, the three most consequential shifts in digital entertainment; the rise of blockchain-native ownership, the maturation of AI reasoning, and the emergence of programmable payment rails which are converging at exactly the same moment.

The Blockchain Game Alliance has brought together practitioners, researchers, and builders from across gaming, AI infrastructure, compliance, and digital finance to map what this convergence means in practice. The contributions gathered here are not theoretical. They come from teams that have shipped autonomous agents managing real capital, built identity frameworks for machine actors, navigated the regulatory grey zones of in-game economies, and designed governance architectures for production agentic systems.
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Get your hands on the latest BGA 2025 State of the Industry Report

Now in its fifth year, the BGA State of the Industry Report presents data collected from an online survey to provide a viewpoint of the current state and trajectory of the blockchain gaming industry from the perspective of its professionals. It highlights the challenges, opportunities, and trends in the ecosystem heading into 2026.
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Stablecoins & Gaming

From in-game economies to treasury strategies, stablecoins are quietly becoming the backbone of gaming. This new report dives into how they're used, what founders need to know, and where the next wave of innovation is headed.

Whether you're a studio, investor, or builder, this is your cheat sheet to the future of game finance.
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2026 Regulatory Landscape

The launch of this Global Regulatory Framework for Blockchain Gaming: 2026 Report comes at a pivotal moment for our industry. Across the globe, we are witnessing regulators grappling with a rapidly evolving ecosystem where digital game assets are no longer confined to the boundaries of entertainment, they intersect with financial markets, data privacy, consumer protection, and increasingly, artificial intelligence.

This report treats blockchain gaming as a regulatory stress test for the digital economy. Rather than analysing games as products, it examines them as systems: systems where ownership is tokenised, value moves on-chain, participation is global by default, and rules are increasingly automated. The objective is not to advocate for a particular regulatory outcome, but to understand how different legal systems are responding to the same underlying challenges.

BGA State of the Industry Reports

2024

BGA 2024 State of the Industry Report

2023

BGA 2023 State of the Industry Report

2022

BGA 2022 Member Survey &
Report

2021

BGA 2021 Member Survey &
Report