‘Grand Theft Auto’ dev’s first crypto game sees $5 million in NFT trading

Billing it as the primary occasion of a serious cell recreation developer constructing a crypto recreation from the bottom up, Take-Two subsidiary Zynga introduced its new Ethereum-based title “Sugartown” in August.

In roughly three weeks, 1000’s of the sport’s entry tokens, referred to as Oras, have generated greater than 3,000 ether (about $5 million) in buying and selling quantity, in line with OpenSea knowledge. That yield comes because the NFT market continues to face a steep decline in quantity and energetic merchants.

The ground value for Oras is presently sitting at about $430, additionally in line with OpenSea.

Take-Two, developer of the well-known “Grand Theft Auto” franchise, acquired Zynga final 12 months. Zynga is the writer of the wildly standard FarmVille recreation. In August, the 2 corporations introduced “Sugartown” as their first foray into web3 gaming.

Whereas on the time the businesses mentioned they’d drop 10,000 tokens as a part of their preliminary providing, solely 6,000 NFTs have been launched final month, in line with OpenSea knowledge. The NFTs dropped on Sept. 13 in line with a publish on X.

Gamers will use Oras, an Ethereum (or ERC-721) token, to entry “Sugartown” and “earn vitality,” which permits avid gamers to earn “an in-game forex,” the businesses mentioned on the time.