How crypto is helping set gamers free

Adam B Levine thinks this is the hottest use case for crypto tokenization today.

By Bailey Reutzel

1 min read

Mario, Link, Solid Snake, and Vault Boy are just a few examples of gaming characters that have endured throughout gaming history. But while these characters have featured in dozens of different titles, each individual character is trapped inside its own game. Buy a new game? Your character has to start all over again.

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could take your favorite video game characters from one game to the next? So that each time you started, you had all the power-ups, skins and weapons you'd worked so hard to get in the last iteration? Well, Adam B Levine thinks this is the hottest use case for crypto tokenization today.

We sat down with the crypto host of the Let's Talk Bitcoin Show and founder of Tokenly to discover how gaming is getting a crypto makeover.

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