Overview
DEGA is a no-code builder for blockchain games and the AI characters that populate them. Someone with no programming background can create an interactive AI agent in a web browser, and each account gets one for free1. The agents are made to inhabit DEGA's own game world as characters a player meets1.
DEGA was founded by Carlos Rene2. Its ONE API is the core component of an upcoming suite of Web3 game builder tools, an underlying SDK built to be understood by those already versed in Web2 APIs and functionally deployed with limited key partners3. The DEGA token, used across the game-building tools and the project's NFT marketplace, exists both as a Cardano native asset and as an Ethereum contract4. DEGA's open development work also reaches Midnight, a privacy-focused blockchain, whose ecosystem catalog lists DEGA under its AI category5.
Key Features
- Build a game character without writing code. DEGA Agents runs in a web browser and is a first move into creating an interactive character on DEGA Realms. Each account starts with one free agent1.
- Own the maps you make. DEGA Realms is a 2D open world its community builds together, and its Map Minter turns a map you design into an NFT, so the creator holds it rather than the platform6.
- ONE API. DEGA's One API simplifies infrastructure and asset management via a platform that empowers companies to deploy and scale Web3 games and metaverse applications7.
- A kit of pre-built game parts. DEGA Studio, marked in development, packages virtual worlds, avatars, tokens, bridges, and a marketplace as components a developer assembles, described on DEGA's site as an AWS-like experience for developers8.
- Wallets that AI agents can hold. DEGA's midnight-mcp code gives an AI agent its own wallet on the Midnight network, keeping each agent's seeds, transactions, and backups in isolated storage9.
What to Expect
You start at Build Your Agent, a no-code AI Agent builder that runs in the browser. Agents are a first move into creating an interactive character on DEGA Realms, with the first release limited to 50 agents and one free agent per account1.
Creators come for DEGA Realms. The Map Minter is the piece that has shipped3, and what you mint through it is yours to keep6, while the wider Realms workflow around it carries an in-development label on DEGA's own page10.
Developers arrive through a different door. The ONE API and DEGA Studio are aimed at teams that want the blockchain side of a game handled for them8. DEGA's public code is where its Midnight work lives, including the wallet server that lets an AI agent hold and spend funds on that chain9.
Token holders have a third path. DEGA trades on VyFinance on the Cardano side and Uniswap on the Ethereum side, and the project's Elements NFT collection pays out the token to the people who hold it11.
