Pocketful of Quarters becomes a Unity partner for blockchain games
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Pocketful of Quarters (POQ) has become a Unity Partner to enable developers to implement blockchain technology for games.
The company has been certified as a Unity Verified Solution Partner. This means that all game developers on Unity will now have access to the POQ Software Development Kit (SDK), allowing them to easily integrate blockchain technology into their titles.
This means that developers can adopt the token from POQ and use it in a wide variety of games. Rather than taking assets through games, with POQ's Quarter Token you can take virtual currency through a bunch of games.
It's an interesting model for a company that was started in 2018 by a then 12-year-old kid. Yes, George Weiksner and his father Michael co-founded the company, and Michael Weiksner is the CEO.
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> register here"With over three billion video game players and the metaverse representing an $8 trillion opportunity, investors, gamers, and developers deserve a say in the future of the game," Michael Weiksner said in a statement. "As the world's largest blockchain project, POQ ushers in a new era of interoperability in games, empowering gamers and developers to create the future of gameplay and the metaverse we want."
POQ offers Quarters, the company's game-independent digital utility token, designed with the sole purpose of giving players the freedom and agility to switch between games, said Tim Tello , COO of POQ, in an interview with GamesBeat. He sees the token as similar to the physical tokens you used to go to mall arcades to play slots. It was a way to keep the kids in the arcade as long as they had tokens to play, rather than quarters.
“We came up with the idea to change token fragmentation. There are too many games, but none of them are sharing tokens,” Tello said.
POQ can say this is regulatory compliant because the company received a "
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Pocketful of Quarters (POQ) has become a Unity Partner to enable developers to implement blockchain technology for games.
The company has been certified as a Unity Verified Solution Partner. This means that all game developers on Unity will now have access to the POQ Software Development Kit (SDK), allowing them to easily integrate blockchain technology into their titles.
This means that developers can adopt the token from POQ and use it in a wide variety of games. Rather than taking assets through games, with POQ's Quarter Token you can take virtual currency through a bunch of games.
It's an interesting model for a company that was started in 2018 by a then 12-year-old kid. Yes, George Weiksner and his father Michael co-founded the company, and Michael Weiksner is the CEO.
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MetaBeat will bring together thought leaders from across the Metaverse to advise on how Metaverse technology will transform the way all industries communicate and do business on October 3-4 in San Francisco, CA.
> register here"With over three billion video game players and the metaverse representing an $8 trillion opportunity, investors, gamers, and developers deserve a say in the future of the game," Michael Weiksner said in a statement. "As the world's largest blockchain project, POQ ushers in a new era of interoperability in games, empowering gamers and developers to create the future of gameplay and the metaverse we want."
POQ offers Quarters, the company's game-independent digital utility token, designed with the sole purpose of giving players the freedom and agility to switch between games, said Tim Tello , COO of POQ, in an interview with GamesBeat. He sees the token as similar to the physical tokens you used to go to mall arcades to play slots. It was a way to keep the kids in the arcade as long as they had tokens to play, rather than quarters.
“We came up with the idea to change token fragmentation. There are too many games, but none of them are sharing tokens,” Tello said.
POQ can say this is regulatory compliant because the company received a "
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