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• A recently published patent application from tech behemoth Sony, the maker of PlayStation, detailed the concept of “super-fungible tokens” for games, which would be stored on a distributed ledger and transferable from player to player.
• Many gamers have had experiences where they get really into a video game, spend a bunch of money on in-game skins or battle passes, and eventually get tired of the game. When this happens in traditional “Web2” games, players are forced to accept the money spent on in-game assets as a sunk cost, and move on. You typically can't sell those assets.
• The patent application outlines a process of tracking a set of gaming assets associated with a player on an “electronic device” and generating metadata based on those assets. The metadata would then be used to create a super-fungible token—essentially a bundle of various NFTs—where the token is created by the storage of said metadata on a distribut...
• The application implies that Sony is considering allowing NFTs in its games. While the patent does include the term “distributed ledger,” aka a blockchain, it does not specify whether or not it would be a private or public ledger. Sony does specify that the distributed ledger in question would be “associated with the gaming application,” which sugg...

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