THELOGICALINDIAN - Two crypto firms are partnering to action blockchainbased items to Minecraft players
Minecraft players will be able to use in-game items alien from non-fungible Ethereum tokens. The affection will be formed out with a third-party plugin from blockchain gaming aggregation Enjin.
In-Game Cryptocurrency Swag
Enjin, a blockchain aggregation that offers in-game items, has partnered with the Japanese crypto barter Coincheck to abutment the trading of in-game Minecraft cryptocurrency tokens, Coincheck said in an announcement today.
The tokens in catechism can be alien into the bold via Enjin’s EnjinCraft plugin. Each badge corresponds to a abstracted item. For example, the screenshot beneath shows one user captivation the Forgehammer item, which the user alien from a non-fungible badge in Enjin’s Multiverse series.
It is not bright whether Coincheck affairs to affair its own alternation of Minecraft-specific tokens, or whether it alone intends to abutment Enjin’s absolute band of non-fungible tokens. Neither close has replied to Crypto Briefing’s appeal for comment. It should additionally be acclaimed that these tokens can be acclimated in amateur other than Minecraft. Enjin’s Multiverse accepted agency that several added amateur additionally abutment the company’s NFT tokens.
Minecraft and Cryptocurrency
This is not the aboriginal time that third parties accept attempted to accommodate Minecraft and cryptocurrency. Players accept created actionable servers that abutment Bitcoin payments such as BitQuest, MinecraftCC, PlayMC, and SatoshiQuest. Those servers accolade players based on their activity, or accolade players for award items. Third-party developers accept additionally created Minecraft clones such as Cryptovoxels and Craft.cash, which almanac acreage buying on the Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash blockchains, respectively.
Minecraft itself does not accept any official abutment for cryptocurrency, but that abridgement of abutment has acutely larboard allowance for admirers to accommodate cryptocurrency in artistic ways.
