by Gala | Mar 19, 2026 | Gala, GalaChain, GalaSwap
Gala Swap is approaching half a million transactions, with more than $72 million in total activity processed on GalaChain.
With 476,000 transactions processed, Gala Swap is already part of how users interact with digital assets on GalaChain.
Gala Swap now supports more than 60 tokens, giving users a growing range of assets to work with directly within the ecosystem .
Through https://connect.gala.com/, Gala Swap also connects beyond GalaChain. Built-in bridges enable interaction with ecosystems like Ethereum, Solana, and TON, making cross chain activity more accessible.
It is still early for Gala Swap, with ongoing development and increasing activity across the GalaChain ecosystem.
Explore Gala Swap:
https://swap.gala.com/
by Gala | Mar 18, 2026 | DeFi, Gala
Technology across every industry is accelerating, and Gala is committed to moving forward with even greater focus and momentum. The company is entering a new phase centered on the infrastructure that will drive the ecosystem into its next stage of growth.
GalaChain and the Gala DeFi ecosystem are now the core priorities. The chain, the DEX, the launchpad, and the systems that connect them form the foundation of this strategy. Development of this infrastructure is accelerating, with new features and products on the way, all designed to simplify the experience for builders while creating a more powerful and accessible ecosystem for users.
AI-First
Gala is now a lean, AI-first company moving at startup speed. A team amplified tenfold by AI, laser-focused on one thing: making GalaChain the infrastructure layer it was always meant to be.
AI is now embedded throughout how Gala operates. From development to operations, tools and AI agents are helping the team deliver more, iterate faster, and scale their impact. Every team member is empowered by these systems, enabling Gala to innovate and build at a pace that was previously unreachable.
Looking Ahead
With this renewed level of focus comes a fresh perspective on the ecosystem as a whole. Every component of Gala’s DeFi infrastructure is being reviewed and strengthened, with particular attention to how activity moves across the network and how the system can become even more resilient and efficient.
Concrete updates to GalaChain and the broader DeFi ecosystem are on the way. These include improvements to existing systems as well as new capabilities designed to support builders, projects, and communities that are growing within the ecosystem.
A stronger Gala DeFi ecosystem opens the door to greater innovation, attracting more developers, more projects, and more people discovering what Gala is creating.
This is just the beginning. Stay tuned.
by Gala Games | Dec 29, 2025 | Announcements, Gala
2025 was a wild year to be building in Web3.
Markets swung all over the place. Narratives came and went. But inside Gala, one thing stayed constant: we kept shipping real products with real value.
This was the year Gala truly became a four-pillar company:
- 🎮 Games
- 🎬 Film
- 🎵 Music
- 💱 DeFi
That fourth pillar – DeFi on GalaChain – is already making waves and sets us up incredibly well for 2026. And across all four pillars, we saw real momentum: more users, more content, more partnerships, more on-chain activity.
Here’s a look back at some of the highlights you made possible in 2025.
💱 DeFi on GalaChain: Our Newest Pillar
In 2025, DeFi stopped being “something we’ll get to” and became a core part of the Gala business. We now have a live stack running on GalaChain: wallet → DEX → Launchpad → user-friendly tools.
Gala Wallet
We launched Gala Wallet, the native wallet of GalaChain, and watched adoption climb through the year.
- It’s now used by 7,500+ people every month to hold, move and use assets on GalaChain.
- And has become the preferred wallets for users across Gala
GalaSwap: A Token Exchange for GalaChain
Five months ago we launched GalaSwap, our token exchange built specifically for GalaChain.
GalaSwap has already:
- Processed $40M+ in trading volume
- Facilitated 250,000+ swaps
- Seen almost 200 unique liquidity pools created by the community
- Created the APIs to enable both high-frequency traders along with everyday users
- And become trusted by 28 liquidity providers with their funds
GalaPump: Launchpad for New Tokens
Toward the end of the year we launched GalaPump, our token launchpad that lets communities, artists and projects create tokens on GalaChain in a few clicks.
Despite only being live for just over a month, GalaPump has already:
- Seen 650+ unique tokens created
- Hosted multiple community collaborations with artists and meme communities
- Helped new projects launch and then “graduate” onto GalaSwap for wider trading
The goal isn’t just speculation – it’s about giving communities tools to reward, coordinate and engage in new ways, inside the same ecosystem as our games, music and film.
Making DeFi More Accessible
DeFi can be intimidating. So we also shipped tools designed to make it feel approachable:
- Easy Mode – a guided flow that helps users get a wallet set up, acquire some tokens and join a simple, stable liquidity pool without having to learn complex DeFi concepts.
- A new Liquidity Pool Management platform that makes it much easier for LPs to monitor and manage their positions.
These tools are the starting point. In 2026, Easy Mode will evolve further, with automation and bots helping users manage positions, trades and even bridging even more seamlessly.
GalaChain Liquidity
Finally, we rolled out Node Staking, tying Founders Node rewards more directly to activity on GalaChain:
- Node rewards are now connected to on-chain GALA balances and liquidity, aligning incentives with the health of the network.
- This helped drive over 4 billion GALA bridged onto GalaChain, with 7.5 billion+ GALA now held there in total.
Together, these pieces – Wallet, GalaSwap, GalaPump, Easy Mode, Node Staking – turned DeFi from an idea into a real, functioning fourth pillar for Gala.
🎮 Gala Games: Milestones, Liveops and New Worlds
On the games side, 2025 was about maturing live games, growing economies and stepping further into the mainstream.
A Historic White House Moment
One of the standout moments of the year:
Gala became the first blockchain partner of the White House Easter Egg Roll.
Our Easter Egg Hunt mini-game was played over 600,000 times, welcoming thousands of new users into the Gala ecosystem as families discovered Web3 gaming on the South Lawn.
Town Star: A Stable, Levelled-Up Year
Town Star had one of its most solid years so far:
- It levelled up with Gems, unlocking new layers of utility and progression.
- Ran weekly events and regular sales, delivering a consistent liveops cadence.
- Shipped a major inventory UX upgrade, making it far easier to search, manage and use NFTs and in-game items.
Town Star continues to be our proving ground for how to run sustainable, long-term on-chain economies.
Mirandus: Building a Living World
For Mirandus, 2025 was about turning a high-concept fantasy MMO into a constantly evolving world you can actually live in:
- We set a monthly update cadence, adding content and systems throughout the year.
- We introduced events and brought crypto (both burning and minting) into the game loop itself (for gear repairs, in-game NFT minting, and more).
- We made Mirandus free-to-play, while preserving advantages for Exemplar owners.
- We added cosmetics, pets and new play zones like Narrows Landing (remastered) and Skywound Mine.
Mirandus is now firmly in “live game” territory, with an economy and world that evolve alongside the community.
VEXI Villages: From VOX to VEXI
We rebranded VOX to VEXI and launched VEXI Villages, an idle harvesting and worker placement game on GalaChain.
Over the year, VEXI:
- Introduced daily challenges, achievements and login rewards
- Expanded city blocks and added a Town Hall and Mayor slot
- Rebuilt key parts of the UI/UX to make the game smoother and more intuitive
- Ran weekly events and monthly special drops
Other news
Two more big moments for games:
- We signed an agreement to relaunch hit Web3 FPS Shrapnel on GalaChain (from Avalanche), becoming the first foreign Web3 game approved in China via the government-backed TCC framework and opening access to around 600 million Chinese gamers.
- Sweepstakes saw its 100,000th ticket submitted, and over 17 million GALA rewarded.
🎵🎬 Music & Film: Web3 Firsts and Deepening Engagement
While DeFi and Games were evolving fast, Gala Music and Gala Film were quietly racking up their own Web3 “firsts”.
Gala Music: Mixtape Leagues & Artist-Led Futures
Gala Music now hosts:
In 2025 we reshaped the core experience:
- Launched Mixtape Leagues, where users build collections and curate playlists around weekly themes.
- This helped drive engagement up by over 20x, with listeners spending much more time actively playing and discovering music instead of just passively streaming.
We also:
- Partnered with the Fashion Institute of Technology for a second year, supporting the student Entrepreneurship Competition.
- Continued to support Gala Music artists as they prepare to launch their own tokens on GalaPump, connecting music communities directly into the broader GalaChain economy.
Gala Film: From TVs to Theatres (and Back Again)
Gala Film delivered several big Web3 milestones in 2025:
- Secured an LG TV deal, rolling out from 2026 to over 200 million TVs and making Gala one of the first Web3 platforms integrated directly into TV software.
- Brought Witchboard to theatres across the US – the first Web3-backed film at this scale.
- Celebrated Four Down winning Best Film at Sunscreen Film Festival, another first for a Web3 studio.
- Co-produced an action thriller with a top-three Hollywood studio, currently in post-production and set to land in Q1 2026.
🧩 Platform: The Rails Underneath
A lot of important work in 2025 happened “under the hood” – the kind of things that don’t always make headlines, but make everything above them possible.
This year we:
- Shipped the Solana bridge, making it easier to move value between ecosystems.
- Relaunched Referrals 2.0, allowing users to earn rewards from up to five layers of friends, with over 1 million $GALA already given back to the community this year.
- Delivered a GalaScan revamp and GalaChain SDK v2, making it easier for developers to build on the network.
- Brought multisig support on GalaChain to the brink of launch, adding more secure options for teams and treasuries.
Looking forward to 2026
It’s been a challenging year to build in this space. But because of the work our teams and community have put in, Gala ends 2025 as a four-pillar, GalaChain-native, AI-accelerated ecosystem.
We:
- Turned DeFi into a real business pillar,
- Levelled up our other 3 pillars – Games, Music and Film – with new content, partnerships and on-chain activity,
- And strengthened the infra and tools that everything else depends on.
A great foundation as we move into 2026 to support many new innovative propositions, partnerships and events we have in the pipeline.
To everyone who played, watched, listened, traded, launched, built or just hung out with us this year:
Thank you.
Onward to 2026. 💜
by Gala Games | Oct 1, 2025 | Gala
This October, the Gala Games ecosystem is summoning the spirits for a connected Halloween celebration like never before. Step into Town Star, Vexi Villages, Mirandus, Champions Arena, and Eternal Paradox as the Haunt and Haul unfolds—a saga where every reward powers your next challenge.
From chilling NFTs to festive bonuses, your Halloween adventure is about to begin.
A Haunted Journey Across Worlds
For the first time, Gala Games is uniting its worlds with a linked series of events. What you collecting one game becomes your advantage in the next.
- Town Star (Oct 14–17)
Win the VEXI Scaremel (Epic). Only 225 exist, granting affinity with the Candy Cart (small) and 30 Event Points in Vexi Villages.
- Vexi Villages (Oct 23–27)
Collect the Link of the Brittle (Uncommon), a special Mirandus NFT with 235 units available. Its unique power will be revealed soon.
- Mirandus (Oct 30–Nov 3)
Secure the Zombie Chemical Engineer Skin (Rare) for Town Star. With 250 in circulation, it boosts Chemical Engineer speed by 10% in the next Town Star event.
- Town Star (Nov 4–7)
The finale closes the circle with one last Town Star showdown for glory (and plenty of $GALA).
And for the brave souls who dare to join, every participant will receive the exclusive Haunted Circle Member Discord role — a chilling badge of honor proving you’ve walked among the shadows.
The Great Halloween NFT Exchange
Each reward isn’t just a keepsake—it’s a key to future success:
- From Town Star to Vexi Villages → The Scaremel fuels your Candy Cart.
- From Vexi Villages to Mirandus → Link of the Brittle (Uncommon)
- From Mirandus back to Town Star → The Zombie Chemical Engineer accelerates your strategy.
The more you play, the more the ecosystem opens before you.
Champions Arena Joins the Celebration
Beyond the haunted chain of events, Champions Arena brings its own thrills this Halloween:
- 👻 Halloween Avatar Skin Wardrobe (Oct 22–Nov 5)
Unlock limited-time avatar skins to bring spooky style to the battlefield.
- ⚔️ Hot Time Events (Oct 24–31)
Windows of boosted rewards, reduced upgrade costs, and accelerated gains to supercharge your Champions.
- 🔮 New Feature: Equipment Refine
A brand-new reroll system for secondary stats, letting you lock what you love and reshape your gear with precision.
Eternal Paradox: Halloween Frenzy
The chaos doesn’t end there—Eternal Paradox is unleashing its own 72-hour Halloween showdown.
- 🗓️ Event Dates: Fri Oct 31, 2025 00:00 UTC – Mon Nov 3, 2025 00:00 UTC
- 🎃 Event Name: Halloween Frenzy
Compete in Arena PvP battles to prove the strength of your Mercenary team. Defeat other Captains, climb the leaderboard, and collect Event Points to claim your spot at the top.
Boost your chances with:
- The Event Pass, available in-game.
- The all-new Obscure Keep Fortress Skin.
- Using Dark-affinity Featured Mercenaries for extra multipliers.
At the end of the frenzy, one thing is certain—only the strongest Captains will emerge from the shadows with the ultimate new Mercenary.
More details will be shared in the Eternal Paradox Discord announcements channel.
Step Into the Haunt and Haul
From October 14th through November 7th, the Gala community will gather across multiple worlds for a season of strategy, surprises, and shadowy rewards. Whether you’re farming in Town Star, scheming in Vexi, venturing through Mirandus, commanding Champions, or battling in Eternal Paradox, this Halloween is all about playing together, collecting rewards together, and haunting together.
Gala Halloween: Haunt and Haul begins October 1st. Are you ready to embrace the shadows?
by Gala Games | Jul 1, 2025 | Gala, GalaChain
GalaChain SDK is about to take a significant step forward with the upcoming 2.0 release.
This update will introduce new capabilities, improved integrations, and a faster path from idea to deployment.
Whether you are already developing on GalaChain or planning to get started, SDK 2.0 will provide tools that make real-world Web3 development more practical and efficient.
This update supports our ongoing goal to make decentralized experiences intuitive for developers and end users alike.
What’s New in SDK 2.0?
SDK 2.0 was rebuilt with developers in mind. Here’s what makes this upgrade a game-changer:
- Streamlined API Calls: Simpler, more expressive interfaces that reduce boilerplate and increase readability.
- Expanded Feature Set: New support for token management, asset controls, metadata updates, and more.
- Improved Gala Wallet Integration: Smoother auth and signing flows, with enhanced dev tooling.
- Modular Design: Cleaner architecture means easier customization and faster iteration for any project.
- Robust Documentation & Examples: Better guides, clearer walkthroughs, and faster onboarding.
This isn’t just a patch or polish — it’s a complete toolkit upgrade for building the future of decentralized games, music, film, and beyond.
Built for Real Builders
GalaChain SDK 2.0 is already powering tools, experiences, and marketplaces across our ecosystem. This release is the result of real-world testing, hands-on feedback, and collaboration with internal and external developers building on GalaChain today.
With this release, creators can go from concept to chain faster — no deep blockchain expertise required.
Whether you’re shipping your first smart NFT, building a full-scale game economy, or launching an on-chain social system, SDK 2.0 helps you get there faster with fewer headaches.
Ready to Build?
GalaChain SDK 2.0 documentation is available here
If you’re serious about shipping on GalaChain, this is your moment.
by Gala Games | May 16, 2025 | Announcement, Gala
Gala is proud to announce a new integration with Tapbit, a leading centralized exchange platform. This collaboration enables users to withdraw and deposit $GALA directly on GalaChain.
This integration further strengthens GalaChain’s position as a user-centric Layer 1 blockchain designed for accessibility, utility, and real-world use cases. Through Tapbit’s intuitive platform, Web3 users can now onboard into the Gala ecosystem faster than ever.
The ability to withdraw and deposit $GALA reflects GalaChain’s commitment to real-world usability. GalaChain isn’t just fast and efficient, it’s designed to be inclusive. Whether you’re playing Web3 games, streaming Gala-powered music, watching content on Gala Film, or interacting with community tools, this integration helps users join the ecosystem faster and easier than ever before.
As Gala continues to empower decentralized entertainment through games, film, and music, partnerships like this reduce barriers and make blockchain technology more practical for everyday users.
