Bitcoin companionship Xapo announced a partnership alongside e-sports companionship CEVO in addition to bitcoin-based gaming service Leet to supply a seamless, bitcoin-enabled competitive gaming sense to players.
“We believe that gaming presents 1 of Bitcoin’s close exciting growth opportunities, equally fast, cheap in addition to secure bitcoin payments accept the potential to opened upward the global gaming community to players who lack access to a banking company concern human relationship or credit card,” notes the XAPO announcement. “CEVO users volition straight off hold upward able to earn in addition to challenge their friends for bitcoins across simply about of the world’s close pop games.”
Founded inwards Dec of 2004 alongside the intention to transform competitive online gaming into a professional person sport, CEVO (“Cyber Evolution”) hosts costless in addition to pay-to-play tournaments across a diversity of AAA games such equally Counter-Strike, a first-person shooter video game developed past times Valve Corporation, League of Legends in addition to Team Fortress 2. Most CEVO e-sporting tournaments are based on the latest game inwards the Counter-Strike franchise, the online tactical first-person shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (abbreviated equally CS:GO). Leet too offers CS:GO in addition to League of Legends tournaments.
CS:GO players bring together either the Terrorist or Counter-Terrorist squad in addition to attempt to consummate objectives or eliminate the enemy team. Players buy weapons in addition to equipment at the showtime of every round, in addition to winners have compensation later the game ends. CS:GO is extremely realistic in addition to addictive to hordes of adrenaline-filled online gamers who plenty unloose energy (and money) inwards the game to justify the label “e-sport.”
Upcoming Virtual Reality headsets such equally the Oculus Rift, are expected to hold upward able to supply fifty-fifty to a greater extent than realistic 360-degree immersion inwards online games, volition farther increase the appeal of e-sports.
“Over the terminal several months Xapo has invested substantial resources inwards trying to meliorate sympathize how Bitcoin tin hold upward used to improve a game’s engagement, retentiveness in addition to monetization,” says XAPO’s Director of Business Development Fernando Gouveia. “As constituent of that effort, nosotros accept been developing novel APIs that allow game developers to easily construct in-game functionality for managing bitcoin deposits, withdrawals in addition to transactions.”
“Do y'all play @CounterStrikeGO?” – asks Gouveia on Twitter. “Well straight off y'all tin play against your friends for #bitcoin alongside @xapo, @cevo in addition to @leetgg! “
XAPO of late partnered alongside multiuser Minecraft server BitQuest to explore the potential of bitcoin inwards online games in addition to virtual worlds. BitQuest leverages the Xapo API in addition to the open-ended characteristic prepare of the massively pop Minecraft game to exercise a compelling online gaming sense alongside an easy-to-use internal economic scheme based on bitcoin.
“Bitcoin is the best candidate to hold upward the official currency of virtual worlds in addition to BitQuest, making it beyond gambling, using it to fuel virtual societies for fun in addition to connecting people together, is a leap forrad inwards the direction nosotros desire to run across Bitcoin inwards gaming,” primary BitQuest developer Cristián Gonzáles told CoinDesk.
BitQuest has “serious gaming,” including a virtual architecture contest. That’s but a firstly illustration of converging virtual reality in addition to blockchain technology, in addition to shows how bitcoin tin hold upward a enterprise foundation for the in-game economies of social games such equally Second Life in addition to forthcoming virtual worlds such equally “Second Life successor” High Fidelity.
Meanwhile, CEVO is giving away $21,000 inwards bitcoin to novel users who opened upward a CEVO concern human relationship in addition to link it to their XAPO bitcoin wallet.