Assassin’s Creed Maker Ubisoft Backs Yet Another Crypto Gaming Network
Murderer’s Creed and Rainbow Six: Siege writer Ubisoft is becoming a member of Korean sport writer WeMade’s Wemix’s blockchain node council as a companion, Wemix introduced late final week.
Ubisoft is now considered one of Wemix’s 40 companions operating validator nodes for its new “Wemix 3.0” community, which is an Ethereum-compatible EVM blockchain. Beforehand, Wemix’s blockchain existed on the Klaytn mainnet. Now, WeMade has renamed the older chain and corresponding token “Wemix Traditional.”
The brand new Wemix blockchain operates on a proof-of-stake authority consensus algorithm—which is a mixture of a proof-of-stake construction and proof-of-authority mannequin. Like different blockchains, Wemix’s community wants nodes to validate transactions. A blockchain node is a pc that runs a duplicate of the blockchain’s software program and confirms transactions. Node operators sometimes obtain automatically-distributed cryptocurrency rewards for his or her machines’ work.
All the Node Council Companions (NCP) will run Wemix nodes to validate the blockchain, in keeping with Wemix, with Ubisoft now set to hitch the group as quantity “26.” The Wemix crew is asking every of those node companions “Wonders.” At time of writing, Wemix has introduced 23 out of the whole of 40 companions.
🌐 Ubisoft is now WONDER 26 on WEMIX3.0 NCP!
🎮 #Ubisoft, the creator of iconic video games like Murderer’s Creed and Simply Dance, brings technical experience and sources as node operator to boost WEMIX’s ecosystem by becoming a member of as WONDER 26.
Hold posted with #WEMIX for the newest… pic.twitter.com/dpHvRbskcl
— WEMIX (@WemixNetwork) January 12, 2024
Ubisoft was early to the blockchain gaming house—particularly amongst massive, Western publishers—and it has proven no signal of slowing down its funding within the crypto trade. In 2021, Ubisoft added free in-game NFTs to its Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint shooter sport, however confronted appreciable backlash from players for embracing crypto tech.
Ubisoft continued to discover crypto, nevertheless, turning into a node operator for the Hedera blockchain in 2022 and for the Cronos blockchain in 2023. Final 12 months, Ubisoft additionally teased its first blockchain sport, the upcoming Champions Ways, and launched the sport’s first free NFT mint. It noticed tens of millions of {dollars} in quantity traded in only a few hours.
Ubisoft is casting its blockchain web far and large with its newest dedication to Wemix—although it has additionally made contemporary commitments to exploring AI-generated online game dialogue, as properly.
Edited by Andrew Hayward
