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Digital property rights and how NFTs aids it for gamers

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Over time, heavyweight actors and players have overtly championed series of investments into the virtual space without any consequent acquisition of the digital property rights of such investments. However, as the virtual environment continues to consistently expand, the increasing demand for the right tends to dominate the space, particularly among tech experts, developers, etc. Now, the materialization of these digital property rights seems realizable with gaming assets in courtesy of NFTs. As mandated, this article intends to enlighten all readers as regards the potential of the rights and how NFTs aid its realization.

Digital Properties and its rights

Digital properties usually manifest as any information created and programme to fly in the digital space. These properties on the other hand appears as digital assets, including cloud storage, database and so on. Simply recall that the conversation as regards digital property rights came into the scene in the wake of plundering manifesting in the virtual environment. The rights depict intelligence property rights which provide a strong case for trademark projects, copyrights, etc. Similarly, digital property rights entail internet accounts, data, or anything contractual and intellectual property rights.

Over time, owners of digital properties usually safeguard their assets using encoding, watermarking, or encryption. These techniques play an instrumental role in averting unapproved access to those assets. Despite these possibilities, owners are still dissatisfied and believe only ownership protection instilled by blockchains tends to allow the digital environment maintain full sanctity.

Virtual games as digital assets


Till this moment, digital games as virtual assets seem to lack balanced digital property rights. As designed, games serve as spices to our daily existence as humans. According to research, gamers expend an average of three hours playing games in a single day.

Similarly, all players indulge in specific and directional missions and consequently acquire valuable rewards for recorded successes. They further reinvest huge funds to upgrade their gameplay statuses by purchasing weapons or other virtual tools. In some other games, participants cough out funds to even fasten their levels or mission accomplishments. As earlier noted, the gaming space, just as obtainable in other virtual segments lacks property rights. Though with the increasing rate of blockchain-based games, hopes about digital property rights coming into the limelight remain in sight.

NFTs in Video games

Non-fungible tokens (NFT) on their own emerges as a virtual asset, usually purchased via blockchain technology. NFTs also manifest as real-world items, art songs, sports cards, video games, fashion items, and real estate. These creative arts consequently become minted as tokens that can be traded, purchased, and sold. With this, creators grossly relay their respective works of art into the NFT digital market. Each of the tokens possesses a distinctive code which makes their trading easy.


Occasioned by Nonfungible tokens, digital property rights in blockchain-oriented games seem attainable. Recall that the tokens manifested as distinctive assets, used to provide property rights to game owners. Also, with NFTs, digital properties attain comprehensive worth.

How NFTs deliver digital property rights for gamers

To kick the ball rolling, the gaming world appears the best space as hosts of its participants know and appreciate the worth of digital goods. More so, the trend becomes more obtainable on a blockchain that enables protocols without permissions. With the provision of such ownership rights on the blockchain, NFT game properties get traded between all respective holders.

Without any ado, these processes allow game applications to possess more tokens and thus aid digital property rights. Animoca Brands in recent times developed a blockchain game, identified as F1 Delta Time. The game which consequently acquired the approval of Formular 1 became tokenized. Its contents entail drivers, cars, tires, engines and other parts enveloped in the car. As stipulated in the owner’s prerogative of the game, participants own and manage all its functions and contents. As programmed, all these run as nonfungible tokens occasionally ed by gamers to trade In a marketplace.

With the aforementioned in place, F1 gamers acquire hundreds of dollars consistently as rewards for their gaming operations. More so, NFT paves way for all the contents in blockchain gaming to interact and function with one another reciprocally. Similarly, the virtual token functionally fosters the gaming experiences of involved players. With this, gamers enjoy ownership of NFTs, deployed in gaming softwares, especially through their ability to earn without restraints.

Olaleye Komolafe
Olaleye Komolafe
Olaleye is a professional reporter with vast experience in web3, cryptocurrencies, and NFT journalism. He enjoys writing about the evolving metaverse sphere and the prevalence in the crypto sphere. Notably, some of his contents have been published in numerous international publications. Away from the crypto world, Olaleye is a political scientist and a lover of football

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