What Are Blockchain Games?

What Are Blockchain Games?

Long advertorial penned by Chainlink.

Trying to find an interesting paragraph...

In-game assets underpinned by blockchain tokens set a new standard for digital asset ownership. When an in-game item is an NFT, the player owns it. It can’t be taken away or erased, and there are ways to do what anyone should be able to do with something that’s theirs—like sell it, trade it, and buy things with it—without a game developer’s explicit permission.

Not exactly true, as the NFT must exist on some trading platform that uses the ability to transfer such NFTs between players. Even without a dev's own marketplace, there must be some transfer protocol baked in - that is the explicit permission to transfer, even if not necessarily to trade.

The NFT has been given permission to be permissionless.

Here comes the plug:

The Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) is an in-development, open-source framework for enabling blockchains and layer-2 environments to communicate with each other. This is the final piece that unlocks a universal environment for blockchain games.

Why would you wish to move game assets across blockchains?

Digital assets can be transported seamlessly from one blockchain to another, player identity and logins can be all-encompassing regardless of the blockchain in use, and cross-chain smart contracts enable game publishers to leverage each blockchain for their individual strengths (i.e., scalability, data storage, security, decentralization, etc.)

Why would you wish to play the same game across platforms? Those bridges have trolls.

All sounds like promoting a digital ID just for the game of it.