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Polyient Games has teamed up with automated esports tournament platform Community Gaming to launch a $100,000 tournament series as a way to introduce mainstream gamers to cryptocurrency and blockchain.
Polyient, the parent company of Polyient Games, has invested heavily in non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which use blockchain, the secure and transparent digital ledger, to verify one-of-a-kind items. NFTs can verify the authenticity and rarity of digital collectibles and in-game items. Polyient will draw attention to both mainstream esports games and blockchain games.
Craig Russo, Polyient Games cofounder, said in an interview with GamesBeat that the decentralized tournament series with Community Gaming is a step towards bringing mainstream adoption to this new part of the game industry.
“We saw an opportunity to
