Zynga (NASDAQ:ZNGA) is preparing to launch an NFT game to boost its stock as it gets in on the Web 3.0 and blockchain hype.
Let’s take a look at what the casual gaming company has in mind for NFTs below!
- Matt Wolf, Zynga’s blockchain chief, recently spoke about the future of NFTs at the company.
- According to him, ZNGA plans to release an NFT game sometime in 2022.
- It’s also looking to expand its blockchain and NFT game team to as many as 100 people by the end of the year.
- Currently, it only has 18 members of this team.
- Wolf notes that Zynga isn’t planning to introduce NFTs to Farmville and Words with Friends.
- The company has concerns that this might cause confusion for current players and hamper those games.
- That’s why it’s focusing on launching a new game that makes use of NFTs.
- This game will be made with a focus on NFTs, rather than on the gameplay.
Wolf said the following about Zynga’s NFT plans in a statement to Axios.
“When they enter into one of these products, they come at it from an investor or, a whale, point of view and are interested in specific elements including yield.”
For the record, “whale” is a term used to describe a big spender on a mobile game. Many mobile games are designed with these types of players in mind as a way to generate revenue from their spending habits.
ZNGA stock is up roughly 1% as of Thursday morning.
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