Author: fragbytes

$19.5B in App Store gaming revenue at the highest margins in Services — Apple’s quiet gaming push has a very loud spreadsheet.

$3.1B vs $1.4B in gaming, datacenter dwarfing both — AMD and Nvidia gaming revenue is now a fraction of their respective businesses.

Domestic gaming flat at RMB 33B, international up 28% to RMB 16B — Tencent’s gaming mix has quietly shifted toward the West.

$170M pre-launch, $150M first-year post-launch — Take-Two’s leaked GTA 6 marketing budget is the largest interactive-entertainment campaign ever planned.

14 public rounds, 8,400 AAA roles eliminated, plus 3,200 in indie/mid-tier — Q1 2026 is the worst quarter for game-industry layoffs ever recorded.

XMR transaction count up 40% YoY, shielded ZEC at all-time highs — privacy coins look healthier on-chain than their de-listings suggest.

$20B in on-chain RWAs, $11.4B of it tokenized US Treasuries, BlackRock leading — the category most crypto coverage misses in 2026.

Uniswap $48B, Hyperliquid $32B breakout, Curve’s decline — the top 5 DEXes by April 2026 volume tell a meaningfully different story.

$2.4B vs $1.8B TVL, 290K vs 380K daily users — Polygon zkEVM and Linea competing for different audiences in the zk-rollup race.

$5.4B weekly Solana memecoin volume and 2.1M active traders — but is memecoin season really back, or just loud and concentrated?