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Fireblocks to provide a custody solution to institutional clients of Gunzilla Games’ blockchain, GUNZ
Gunzilla GamesAAA gaming studio and blockchain developer GUNZ announces it has integrated Fire blocksan enterprise platform for building blockchain applications and managing digital asset operations.
As part of the integration, institutional holders of GUN tokens and GUNZ Validator NFTs will be able to hold and manage their assets through the Fireblocks platform. GUNZ validator NFTs allow players to mint new NFTs in-game, while validators earn fees in the native GUN token for minting and exchanging transactions.
Additionally, Fireblocks’ non-custodial enterprise wallets-as-a-service (WaaS) will integrate with GUNZ, providing a non-custodial option for all existing and future GUNZ Wallet users. This will allow GUNZ users to maintain full ownership of their game assets across all games based on the GUNZ chain. To date, GUNZ boasts over 800,000 wallets on its testnet.
Reacting to the integration, Vlad Korolov, CEO and co-founder of Gunzilla Games, said: “We are excited to announce the completion of the integration of GUNZ with Fireblocks. This will open the door for institutional clients to manage their GUN tokens and GUNZ Validator NFTs with Fireblocks’ leading enterprise-grade platform with multi-layered security. The integration also provides a non-custodial option for GUNZ users, strengthening the in-game digital economy offering on GUNZ. We are proud to work with Fireblocks to provide this critical building block as we create a new standard for blockchain-enabled gaming.”
GUNZ is a blockchain-based digital economy platform built on a custom Avalanсhe subnetwork, allowing AAA game developers to build player-driven economies with full player ownership of game assets, such as tradable NFTs. The first project to launch on GUNZ will be Gunzilla Games’ highly anticipated cyberpunk-style battle royale Off The Grid, which releases on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S this year.
The Gunzilla SDK and white label components will be available to other AAA game developers looking to launch their game projects on GUNZ.
Omer Amsel, Head of Web3 at Fireblocks, commented: “We are pleased to work with Gunzilla Games to create a seamless Web3 onboarding experience for Web2 users and provide a secure environment for player assets. By integrating Fireblocks’ non-custodial wallets into the GUNZ platform, players have complete ownership of their game assets, providing them with full autonomy to easily buy, sell or trade in-game items and enhancing the overall gaming experience.
The news follows that of Gunzilla Games integration with OpenSea and a recent one $30 million funding round co-managed by CoinFund and Avalanche Foundation’s Blizzard Fund, with participation from Republic Capital and Morningstar Ventures.
About Gunzilla
Founded in 2020, Gunzilla Games is the independent AAA video game developer and publisher behind the revolutionary new battle royale game Off The Grid and its underlying gamer-first ecosystem and GUNZ blockchain; in three metropolitan locations: Frankfurt, Germany (HQ); Kiev, Ukraine; and London, United Kingdom. The company is led by CEO Vlad Korolov and CSO Alexander Zoll. Gunzilla is based on the desire to innovate and push the limits of the gaming industry.
Gunzilla’s formidable team of talent comes from a variety of industry-leading studios and publishers (Ubisoft, Electronic Arts (EA), THQ, etc.) as well as Oscar-nominated writer, director and producer Neill Blomkamp, Chief Visionary Officer and the author of the Altered Carbon series, which was adapted into a popular Netflix show, Richard K. Morgan, Script Writer.
Gunzilla’s management team includes well-known industry professionals such as Timur Davidenko, Chief Technology Officer (Far Cry, Warface and Crysis), David Nicholson, Executive Producer (Halo Wars 2), Dmitriy Markov, Technical Director (Metro Exodus, ARKTIKA.1) , Volodymyr Savin, Audio Director (Cut the Rope, Metro Exodus, HBO Chernobyl series), Petr Cherkes, Design Director (The Last of Us, Uncharted 3, Star Wars: The Old Republic), Krasimir Nechevski, Animation Director (Adam, Book of the Dead), Nikolas Gekko, Lead Art Director, (Call of Duty: WWII, Halo Infinite, Destiny) and Kiran Pulicheri, Technical Art Director (Control, Far Cry 6).
About Fireblock
Fireblocks is an enterprise-grade platform that provides a secure infrastructure for moving, storing, and issuing digital assets. Fireblocks enables exchanges, lending desks, custodians, banks, trading desks and hedge funds to securely scale digital asset operations through the Fireblocks network and MPC-based wallet infrastructure. Fireblocks serves thousands of financial institutions, has insured the transfer of over $4 trillion in digital assets, and has a unique insurance policy covering assets in storage and in transit. Some of the largest trading desks have moved to Fireblocks because it is the one solution that is popular with both CISOs and operations teams. For more information please visit www.fireblocks.com