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Each CryptoKitty is a non-fungible token (NFT). Each is unique and owned by the user, validated through the blockchain, and its value can appreciate or depreciate based on the market. CryptoKitties cannot be replicated and cannot be transferred without the user's permission, even by the game developers.
Cards for the game operate on Reality Gaming Group's Digital Asset Trading (DAT) Platform. Each card is minted as an NFT on a "sidechain” and can be traded and sold on marketplaces. [ 4 ] Prior to the game's release, cards were available to collect starting from October 2020.
The first known game to use blockchain technologies was CryptoKitties, launched in November 2017, where the player would purchase NFTs with Ethereum cryptocurrency, each NFT consisting of a virtual pet that the player could breed with others to create offspring with combined traits as new NFTs.
A subset of these games are also known as play-to-earn games because they include systems that allow players to earn cryptocurrency through gameplay. Blockchain games have existed since 2017, gaining wider attention from the video game industry in 2021. Several AAA publishers have expressed intent to include this technology in the future ...
The concept of non-fungible digital assets that could be owned on a blockchain predated ERC-721, with projects like Colored Coins on Bitcoin in 2012. [7] In 2017, just prior to ERC-721’s publication, Larva Labs launched the CryptoPunks NFT project on Ethereum using ERC-20 (a fungible token standard).
The first known "NFT", Quantum, [24] was created by Kevin McCoy and Anil Dash in May 2014. It consists of a video clip made by McCoy's wife, Jennifer. McCoy registered the video on the Namecoin blockchain and sold it to Dash for $4, during a live presentation for the Seven on Seven conferences at the New Museum in New York City.
CryptoPunks is a non-fungible token (NFT) collection on the Ethereum blockchain.The project was launched in June 2017 by the Larva Labs studio, [1] a two-person team consisting of Canadian software developers Matt Hall and John Watkinson.
While the project had generated US$21 million in the first two to three years since its inception, it raised $485 million between July and August 2021 alone. [ 30 ] The value of the game's associated token, Smooth Love Potion (SLP) (formerly known as Small Love Potion by the community), crashed in February 2022 amid a wider NFT and ...