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Tokenizing In-Game Assets

Tokenization is empowering gamers by giving them more control over their in-game items, avatars, and currencies. What was once controlled by gaming studios by default is now being placed in the hands of players—and exciting player-driven game economies are emerging as a result. In this post, discover how tokenization is changing games.

What Do Blockchains Have To Do With Tokenization?

Tokens are effectively digital certificates stored on a blockchain that represent ownership of an asset.

Storing tokens on blockchains—decentralized, permissionless networks—makes them censorship resistant, user controlled, accessible to all, and interoperable across the Web3 ecosystem. Through the use of smart contracts, blockchain-based tokens can then be coded to behave according to preset logic, thereby tightly coupling value with programmability. Tokenization has democratized access to financial markets, helped streamline backend processes for enterprises, and helped create meaningful online communities centered around NFTs. Now, tokens are transforming gaming.

Game Token Types: Fungible, Non-Fungible, and Dynamic

In-game assets can be represented as tokens, NFTs, and dynamic NFTs (dNFTs).

Comparing Game Token Types

NFTs for In-Game Assets

Avatars

Many Web3 games let you use your NFT avatar as your game character. The same NFT avatar can even be used across many Web3 games.

Web3 game Illuvium features NFT avatars known as “Illuvitars.” (Source)

Items

NFTs can represent a vast array of in-game items, such as weapons, armor, tools, trophies, and energy packs. Players can then trade items in NFT marketplaces to help them advance through the game faster.

Planet IX enables players to purchase and trade Energy, Astro Credit, BioM0d, Blueprints, and other NFT assets. (Source)

Land

Players can buy, sell, and build on land in a game’s metaverse. By creating fixed amounts of land within a virtual world, games can mirror the supply/demand dynamics of real estate in the physical world.

Players can buy land NFTs in Planet IX (Source)

Skins

Player skins alter an avatar’s appearance, generally for aesthetic rather than performance purposes. Web3 games can enable any creator to design new skins and limit the availability of NFT skins to increase their rarity.

Over 200 million players will be able to purchase skins for the Wild West-themed Web3 game Grit on the Epic Games Store and the Gala Games Platform (Source)

Dynamic NFTs for Upgradability and Connectivity

Evolving Avatars

Dynamic NFTs can represent an avatar that evolves as a player progresses through a game. Their dNFT avatar could start out as a soldier, level up to a knight, and even become a king. Discover how to build your own dNFT.

Dynamic NFTs can evolve as a player progresses through a game.

Upgradable Items

Similar to an avatar, dNFTs can also be used for upgradable items. A sword could be upgraded to a lance, which could then be upgraded to a staff.

dNFTs can be upgraded based on real-world events.

Fungible Tokens for Sustainable Game Economies

In-Game Currencies

As games evolve, players often want to trade their in-game NFT items and rare dNFT avatars. Instead of relying on inefficient barter dynamics, in-game currencies help players seamlessly trade items.

GameFi project Aavegotchi rewarded players with 1.5M GHST tokens (Source)

Real-World Money

As games become more popular, rare in-game assets in high demand can gain significant real-world value. Explore the future of sustainable in-game economies.

In-game currency can be traded for in-game NFTs or real-world money.

Advantages of Tokenizing In-Game Assets

Tokenization unlocks exciting opportunities for Web3 gaming projects.

Digital Asset Ownership

NFTs give players complete control over their in-game assets. When stored in a Web3 wallet, they can use them whenever, wherever, and however they want.

Open Markets

Asset ownership enables players to trade in-game items, currencies, and avatars across open marketplaces, no longer gated and controlled by game publishers.

Gaming Incentives

Incentives with real-world value can make games more fun and exciting, kickstart early-stage adoption, and be used to recognize loyal users. Players’ time, creativity, and contributions can be rewarded in what’s called play-to-earn gaming.

Cross-Platform Compatibility

Tokenized assets aren’t locked into any single gaming platform or ecosystem. Players can move their hard-won weapons or customized avatar seamlessly across different chains and games.

Web3 enables the same NFT to be used in multiple games.

Player-Driven Economies

Any game developer, creator, or player can contribute to a gaming project, or even start their own. Permissionless infrastructure, NFT game communities, and open markets make the gaming economy accessible to all.

Enhanced Security

Web3 infrastructure is natively designed to provide trust minimization, cryptographic guarantees, and transparency, enabling players to protect their assets—even in the presence of malicious actors.

Web3 Gaming Is Powered by Chainlink

Chainlink CCIP is being built to unlock a cross-chain gaming ecosystem.

Chainlink Web3 services can help everyone from indie game developers to leading gaming studios create the highest integrity and most engaging blockchain-based games possible.

Combining Chainlink Functions with Chainlink Automation can enable dynamic NFTs to update automatically, and Chainlink VRF can help fairly distribute NFTs from loot boxes.

Disclaimer: This post is for informational purposes only and contains illustrative examples of what may be possible surrounding the use of tokenized gaming assets in the future. Notably, many practical considerations surrounding the future use of tokenized gaming assets fall outside the scope of this post.

Read more: https://blog.chain.link/tokenization-of-game-assets/

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