Yesterday Forte announced a new partnership with Kongregate. It’s been nine months since Ripple’s
Xpring announced a $100 million gaming fund to be managed by Forte. The aim was to target gaming economies with more than 50,000 active users to incorporate Ripple technology.
Kongregate is best known for its portal featuring thousands of indie games and is one of the most popular gaming sites on the web. But it also develops and publishes games and has a PC games platform. The combined community amounts to 8 million players.
Blockchain has numerous potential benefits for gaming. Perhaps the biggest is the ability to empower better ownership and frictionless trading of in-game assets. Another is to enable cryptocurrency payments or rewards for players, which is the crux of the latest deal.
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