Warner Music Group announces partnership with blockchain gaming developer Splinterlands

On Wednesday, Warner Music Group announced it had entered into a concern with fantasy-themed collectible paper crippled developer Splinterlands. The 2 companies volition collaborate and alteration opportunities for WMG artists to make and make play-to-earn, arcade-style blockchain games. Last month, WMG made its archetypal introduction into the nonfungible token, oregon NFT, metaverse realm successful a partnership with The Sandbox with the extremity of providing WMG artists different outlet with which to prosecute their fans. In a statement, Oana Ruxandra, main integer serviceman and enforcement vice president of concern improvement astatine WMG, said:

“By partnering with Splinterlands to physique customized tokenized games, we’ll unlock caller gross streams for our artists who person an involvement successful the abstraction portion elevating the relation of fandom and community.”

Meanwhile, Jesse “Aggroed” Reich, Splinterlands’ co-founder and CEO, said:

“We’re thrilled to beryllium moving with WMG, and I look guardant to caller collaborations astatine the intersection of gaming, music, crypto, NFTs, DeFi and blockchain.”

Splinterlands was founded successful 2018 and is the creator of a blockchain crippled of the aforesaid name. It is simply a one-on-one accomplishment battling crippled wherever players buy, merchantability and commercialized their cards freely, with each transactions recorded connected the Hive blockchain.

The crippled presently has 1.8 cardinal registered users, including 450,000 regular users, and precocious surpassed the milestone of 1 cardinal battles. According to DappRadar, it is the astir fashionable blockchain crippled based connected the fig of users implicit the past 7 days.