Pixelmon, the next-generation monster-collecting franchise, has announced a strategic partnership with Ava Labs to expand its IP. Launching with its flagship mobile game title, Warden’s Ascent, this collaboration brings Pixelmon’s immersive gameplay, community-driven storytelling, and true digital ownership to millions of mobile players worldwide, all backed by Avalanche’s high-performance blockchain infrastructure. With a mobile-first strategy and a vision to lead the monster-collecting genre for young adults, Pixelmon is shaping the future of interactive media franchises.

The partnership marks a pivotal achievement for Avalanche’s rapidly expanding gaming ecosystem. Avalanche has surpassed six million wallets with a balance and recently achieved over 3 million monthly active users as of last week, demonstrating proven scalability and growing developer trust. The network handles millions of daily transactions, creating the foundation needed for frictionless gaming experiences.

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Pixelmon’s upcoming titles on Avalanche include its flagship game Warden’s Ascent, which transports players into the fantasy world of Nova Thera, where they'll embark on a turn-based RPG adventure built for iOS and Android. Players will discover, hatch, and evolve over 100 unique Monsters as they battle through challenging campaigns and trials. The game's distinctive gatcha hatching mechanics, deep strategic elements, and PvP competitive features establish it as a new force in the monster-collecting genre. It is a market segment with massive growth potential across the gaming, anime, and collectables industries.

“By launching on Avalanche’s C-Chain, we’re able to bring blockchain features to players quickly and with minimal friction,” said Giulio Xiloyannis, CEO of Pixelmon. “As our needs evolve, we’ll seamlessly upgrade to our own Avalanche-based Layer 1—giving us the power to fully customize performance, costs, and gameplay without compromising the player experience.”

With Pixelmon’s strong native community across Asia, this partnership also strengthens Avalanche's foothold in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, which now represents over 50% of global gaming revenue and is home to more than half of the world’s gamers. With mobile gaming as the dominant platform across APAC markets like Japan, South Korea, India, and Indonesia, the combination of Avalanche’s expanding regional footprint and Pixelmon’s anime-inspired aesthetic and mobile-first gameplay positions puts both brands at the forefront of the next entertainment wave across the fastest-growing markets in the world.

“Pixelmon’s expansion onto its own Avalanche L1 marks an exciting step forward for mobile gaming,” said Parker Heath, Ecosystem Growth Lead, Gaming at Ava Labs. “By leveraging Avalanche’s powerful infrastructure, Pixelmon is able to create fast, fluid gameplay at scale, while giving players real ownership and a stake in the world they help shape. This collaboration highlights Avalanche’s growing momentum in gaming, especially across Asia-Pacific, and reinforces our commitment to supporting the next generation of interactive franchises.”

Avalanche’s track record in gaming is already proven. Off the Grid, a AAA battle royale developed by Gunzilla Games, has onboarded over 13 million players and reached more than 450,000 daily active users as of February 2025 MapleStory Universe, the blockchain expansion of Nexon’s iconic franchise, achieved a 92% daily active user engagement rate during closed testing and processed over 846,000 on-chain transactions in a single day on Avalanche’s subnets.

Now with Pixelmon, a next-generation monster-collecting franchise built for mobile and community-driven ownership, Avalanche adds another cornerstone entertainment property to its growing portfolio of premium gaming experiences. Beyond Warden's Ascent, Pixelmon plans to expand its universe with additional games, including a trading card game, an idle RPG, an anime series, and community-driven storytelling. This will create a dynamic world where players actively shape the franchise's evolution.

Together, Avalanche and Pixelmon are crafting a new kind of media franchise — one where players transcend fandom to become world-builders. Through Avalanche's technical prowess and Pixelmon's evolving universe, the new standard for Web3 gaming isn't just a distant vision, it is unfolding right now.

About Avalanche Blockchain Network

Avalanche is a high-performance blockchain platform designed for builders who need to scale. Engineered with a revolutionary three-part Layer 1 (L1) architecture, Avalanche is anchored by its Avalanche Consensus Mechanism, ensuring near-instant finality for transactions. The platform also features an open-source Layer 0 (L0) framework, enabling the seamless creation of interoperable Layer 1 blockchains with high throughput on both public and private networks.

Supported by a global community of developers and validators, Avalanche offers a fast, low-cost environment for building the next generation of decentralized applications (dApps). With its unique blend of speed, flexibility, and scalability, Avalanche is the preferred choice for innovators pushing the boundaries of blockchain technology.

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About Pixelmon

Pixelmon is a next-generation monster-collecting franchise that blends gaming, anime, and digital collectables into an immersive, multi-platform universe. Born from Web3 and built for a global audience, Pixelmon empowers players to play, collect, and truly own the worlds they love.

Rooted in the fantasy realm of Nova Thera, the Pixelmon franchise spans mobile games, a trading card game, an anime series, and community-driven storytelling, all powered by the $MON token. From a competitive turn-based RPG, Warden’s Ascent, to idle adventures with Nova Thera Chronicles and fast-paced PvP card battles through Pixelmon TCG, each experience offers deep progression and digital ownership at its core.

Backed by leading investors like Delphi Digital and Animoca Brands, Pixelmon has transformed from an internet meme into one of Web3’s most ambitious entertainment IPs. With more than 200 unique creatures, a mobile-first strategy, and an expanding presence across Asia-Pacific, Pixelmon is reimagining what fandom and franchise-building look like in the Web3 era.

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