🔴Onchain TCG Gacha: $230 million in revenue per month for the next potential niche in RWA?

In May 2026, users spent up to $230M just to buy gacha in onchain card games. This figure has increased ~22 times in just 17 months, from $10.4M in January 2025.
Onchain TCG gacha spend data by chain shows a broader picture:
- Solana accounts for 63.7% ($146.6M)
- Polygon accounts for 25.5% ($58.8M)
-> Only 2 chains hold nearly 90% of the entire market. The remaining share is contested by Base, BNB Chain, MegaETH, Abstract, which together make up 11%.
🔴 Why does Solana dominate?
Gacha is a small, high-frequency transaction model, not a DeFi model. Users can pull dozens of times in a single session.
-> With this structure, transaction fees and speed are decisive factors. And Solana was built for Gacha TCG: nearly zero fees, finality under 1 second, the smoothest wallet UX on the current market.
🔴 What keeps Polygon at 25%?
It has no tech advantage; Polygon wins by being early — many major TCGs built on it from 2021–2023, when it was almost the only low-cost EVM gaming option.
-> User base has been accumulated, games deployed, smart contracts live. Switching to another chain is costly and risky. Polygon isn’t the best chain in 2026 — but it arrived first, and the high switching risk kept developers loyal.
🔴 Base is the most interesting case to follow
From zero in 2025, Base grew to $14.3M and 6.2% market share by May 2026.
If Coinbase truly pushes gaming seriously through Base, this is a chain to watch closely over the next 12 months.
The weakness of Gacha TCG is still overly dependent on events or game launches, not maintaining stable organic growth. Evidence is September 2025, when volume surged from $35M to $122.6M in one month, then dropped again in the following month. Now is the time to gradually pick the trend for the upcoming season.