A growing number of eSports projects have embarked on crypto industry lately. This is not surprising — both blockchain and eSports industries are booming and share much in common: gamers are well aware of the concept of in-game currency, have an inquisitive mind trained by the years of following games’ storylines and quests. So, it is fair to assume they are ready to delve into the interesting topic, another ‘quest’ — let it be a streaming platform based on the blockchain, an Ethereum-based eSports tournament platform, a skin trade platform or any eSports project that has seen its potential in merging with blockchain technology.
We have classified the most popular eSports crypto projects in four categories based on two parameters — impact they make on the gaming industry (this denotes how they generally affect the gaming industry) and comprehensiveness (denotes the product scale— either it addresses some single, momentary concerns of the users and the market, or represents a full-fledged solution with a broad functionality).
Indeed, this classification is subject to the bias and covers only a fraction of the numerous eSports projects that show up daily in crypto, however we can clearly postulate a shortfall in the number of comprehensive projects that are aimed to revamp the gaming industry backed with qualified teams and a solid product vision. We can recall just a few — MobileGo, Chimaera, and of course Play2Live. Our product will allow to bring new users to the crypto world first (each user of the platform will have a wallet created for them); and secondly, features of the platform form a truly comprehensive solution for eSports market considerably boosting interaction between the streamers and the viewers.
This article will give an insight in the most promising ICOs in eSports — both successfully ended and upcoming.
The most prominent eSports ICOs
Passed:
MobileGo: https://mobilego.io/ — mobile gaming platform and store for in-game purchases. The project managed to raise $53m! MobileGo is currently the biggest crypto eSports platform.
Enjincoin: https://enjincoin.io/ — skin trade platform. Raised $21m.
GameCoin: https://gamecoin.global/ — a currency for games. It has raised almost $9m during the token sale.
Firstblood: https://firstblood.io/ — is a blockchain based eSports platform that allows players to directly challenge each other to matches and win rewards. Raised $5,5m just in minutes!
Hunt.Bet: https://huntbet.io/ — betting and gambling platform for eSports. The project raised more than $4m during its ICO.
Upcoming ICOs
DMarket: https://dmarket.io/ — a decentralized marketplace for turning every virtual item into a real commodity. Raised almost $11 mln, and the second round of token sale has recently started. Currently, MobileGo is one of the best-known projects in the market.
TriForce: https://triforcetokens.io/ — a decentralized platform which will provide users within the online gaming community with decentralized P2P trading, anti-piracy protection, and the world’s first honorary rewards system.
Esports: https://esports.com/ — aiming to be the largest eSports portal in the world.
DreamTeam: https://token.dreamteam.gg/ — the world’s first esports recruitment and management platform for amateur, semi-pro, and pro teams.
Aether United: http://aetherunited.com/ — uses blockchain to build an esports brand that allows it’s fans to vote on team decisions and participate in team activities.
Ether Sportz: https://ethersportz.com/ — an Ethereum-based eSports tournament platform for popular games like DOTA 2, League of Legends, StarCraft II, CS-GO, and PUBG. Competitors can participate in prize pool tournaments by registering for EtherSportz hosted events and paying a Cash, Bitcoin or Ether entry fee.
LEAP: https://www.leap.gg/ — a blockchain platform to govern relations and transactions between fans, coaches, players, teams, leagues, advertisers, and game publishers using smart contracts.
Chimaera: https://chimaera.io/token/ — The Chimaera blockchain acts as a decentralised gaming backend that is scalable, secure and reliable. Gamers can benefit from massive immersive game worlds with thriving economies, fair gameplay, fair acquisition and true ownership of in-game assets and items, and the ability to trade in a trustless fashion.
Referum: https://refereum.com/ — aims to remove the legal costs of individualized marketing deals while making digital advertising middlemen irrelevant.
FLIP: https://tokensale.gameflip.com/ — Decentralized ecosystem where digital goods on all gaming platforms — mobile, PC, console, and VR/AR — can be sold as liquid assets using trustless (i.e., fully secure) smart contracts executing on blockchain technology.
Nitro: https://www.nitro.live/ — a new blockchain-based platform designed to democratise and revolutionise the video-games industry through the creation of a new crypto-currency called NOX and an integrated online marketplace called NITRO Marketplace.
Eloplay: https://ico.eloplay.com/ru.html — Eloplay introduces Smart Tournaments with decentralized prize pools. They work on the smart contracts technology and allow players and brands to organize eSports tournaments.
PLAYKEY: https://playkey.io/ — First Decentralized Cloud Gaming Platform.
Play2Live — a turnkey solution for eSports crypto industry
Play2Live introduces a unique mixture of interactive features and monetizing tools, currently unavailable on existing streaming platforms. The further development of Play2Live’s Level Up Chain on the basis of Graphene fork allows to create the ultimate end-to-end solution for streamers, gamers and eSports fans, providing the key advantages of blockchain technology.
We have elaborated on the functionality of Play2Live in detail in the separate article where we compare our product to the existing streaming platforms — check it out.
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