ASPHODEL STUDIOS

We build immortal worlds.

Games meant to outlast us – utilizing blockchains to their highest ideal.

Asphodel's Prologue · Coming to Ethereum · June 2026
The Thesis

Permanence invites concern.

Most games are temporary by design. Servers go dark, economies reset, and everything players built disappears. We take the opposite bet. By building our worlds onchain, we make them sovereign and persistent — able to outlast the studio that created them. That permanence isn't a technical footnote. It's the reason players treat our worlds as real: real stakes, real ownership, real consequence.

The Proof

Kamigotchi World is the pudding.

A living onchain game — a sovereign sandbox where players compete for real stakes. Not a prototype. A live, commercially proven economy hosted on our own appchain Yominet.

the average player spend of traditional gaming
300+
smart contracts to comprise a vibrant MMORPG world
10×
more sophisticated than any comparable product on the market
Why Now

Blockchain has crossed a chasm.

For a decade, "onchain gaming" meant compromise — too slow, too costly, too fragile to host a real economy. That era is ending. After years of scaling, Ethereum is becoming viable for gaming. Its throughput is expected to triple again this year, and its compute costs keep falling.

Harboring a $350B capital base, Ethereum is the most premium virtual context known to humankind by nearly 10x. And it's finally opening up for business.

What We're Building

A sovereign virtual economy.

We're not shipping a game and moving on. We're constructing a single, expanding onchain economy — built piece by piece, world by world — with the ambition to eventually rival the scale of nation-states. We appear to be the only team capable of building this way, and the only one with a commercial track record doing so. The frontier is wide open. No competitor today is bold enough to engage it.

The Prologue

We stake our claim
this month.

Asphodel's Prologue comes to Ethereum in June 2026 — our first step onto L1, and a generous head start in a category with no rivals. The sovereign economy begins here. Be there at genesis.

For Investors & Partners

The frontier has
one team on it.

Asphodel Studios is building the sovereign virtual economy that onchain gaming promised for a decade and never delivered. The only proven model, the only commercial track record, a multi-year head start. If you're building the future of permanent worlds — or backing it — let's talk.

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