THELOGICALINDIAN - The bold banker is gluttonous at atomic eight new hires for its NFT team
Retail gaming aperture GameStop has appear eight new job listings apropos to NFT development, as apparent on its careers page.
GameStop Posts Eight Listings
GameStop acquaint similar job listings and alike launched a website accompanying to NFTs beforehand this year. However, this week’s postings acknowledge appreciably added capacity than before.
The aggregation aims to appoint eight associates for three altered positions. All positions are alien but are based in four cities.
The job announcement gluttonous a Senior Software Engineer asks applicants to accept “NFT exchange experience,” which suggests that GameStop affairs to actualize a full-fledged NFT marketplace. By contrast, abounding companies such as Twitter and TIME Magazine accept artlessly launched NFTs on a third-party exchange such as Rarible or Sorare.
The aforementioned announcement asks applicants for “knowledge of crypto, Ethereum, and Ethereum Layer 2 products.” That implies the aggregation could advantage Immutable X or addition Layer 2 agreement for faster trading times and lower transaction fees.
Why NFTs Have Potential In Gaming
NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are apparent as accepting abeyant because abounding online amateur already accomplish use of transactions. For example, in-game collectible items could be tokenized as NFTs. This access would assure adjoin affected items while additionally giving players accurate buying over the items that they accept purchased.
One GameStop announcement mentions “Web3 Gaming,” a appellation acclimated to call such crypto economies. “Future creators won’t aloof body amateur but additionally the components, characters, and equipment…Blockchains will ability the business underneath,” GameStop notes.
Despite this potential, some gaming companies such as Steam accept introduced a ban on NFTs. That accommodation prompted adversary Epic Amateur to accompaniment that it is accessible to acknowledging amateur with NFTs. Other gaming brands like Ubisoft and Atari—and now GameStop—are exploring the abeyant of NFTs as well.
GameStop acquired acceptance amid crypto investors earlier this year as it acquired cachet as a “meme stock”—an asset that increases in amount due to advertising rather than aggregation performance.
Disclaimer: At the time of autograph this columnist captivated beneath than $100 of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and altcoins.
