Aglet's NFTs keep selling out.
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Aglet passes 3.5M active users in its Web3 sneakerverse

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 7 min

Aglet has built a healthy community of 3.5 million active users for its “sneakerverse,” a metaverse-like online world for “sneakerheads.” This makes it one of the most popular blockchain games of all time.

Aglet is a sneaker world that is the brainchild of the startup Onlife and its CEO Ryan Mullins. And it started out with a foundation in the Web2 world and it has expanded into Web3 by selling non-fungible tokens (NFTs) which use the blockchain to authenticate unique digital items. In this case, Aglet is getting people excited about virtual sneakers, in part because it is so hard to get cool sneakers in real life.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.