Enjin is a community creation platform for gamers. They have 18.7 million registered users and over 250,000 gaming communities. It is very popular in the Minecraft community and is used as the basis for sites such as Mineplex and Minecade. Enjin provides people with easy access to create their own customized community. They offer website templates, forums, teamspeak and even custom plug-ins for specific games as part of their service.
Inspiration for Enjin Coin
Having been deeply involved in the gaming community since 2009, they saw an opportunity to merge cryptocurrency and gaming. Leveraging there sizeable existing user base, they aim to create a decentralized platform to manage, distribute, trade, and even create virtual goods.
With Enjin Coin (ENJ) they plan to provide
- an easy to use cryptocurrency targeted specifically at gamers
- players can earn and trade virtual goods in the most popular gaming community creation platform online
- real ownership and value
- players can trade their assets across different games and communities in a hassle free manner
- a solution to fraud and high fees
- there are existing options for trading online virtual goods, but these third party choices are unreliable because of fraud and high fees. ENJ hopes to provide a credible alternative with minimal transaction costs.
Why use Enjin Coin
Aside from advantages listed above, another feature they intend to roll out with ENJ is the ability for communities and developers to mint their in-game items. They will have to stake some Enjin Coin upon the creation of the item. This prevents abuse by not letting them create rare items free reign, and also ensures that the item has an innate minimum value attached to it. These assets can also be converted back to Enjin Coins at the original exchange rate they were created.Resources:
Hey boxmining,
Thanks for the great content
Interesting... I wondered when the gaming industry will jump on the crypto train. It's a perfect fit. Young tech savvy target group that would love to earn some money by pursuing their hobby. Sounds more promising than what DGB tried. I guess DGB gaming is still not working? Website is down at least...
its hard. i've been trying to convince my colleagues to adopt or make some games with crypto.
Yes, like CSGO trading sites are trending now. I was surprised after using Alexa traffic analytics to assess the total traffic on CSGO trading related projects.
I think if Enjin chooses a proper promotion strategy, they can really become one-stop gaming cryptocurrency. But the marketing ability to make this crypto widely spread is the key challenge for such a coin.
If they massively start with the top eSports teams and tournaments - I think this coin may be a really good investment:
eSports teams & tournamets ----> gaming opinion leaders (youtubers, livestreamers, gaming media, etc.) ----> wide end user coverage. And then it will be much easier for them to get in touch with developers and force to built-in the currency into games under development.
What do you think @boxmining, I remember you used to work in the gaming industry?
If Enjin marketed the hell out of their coin, then they could be a major player in the gaming industry. Enjin needs to capitalize on their early lead though, because if Twitch does something similar. They will destroy the competition. They are very big power players in the gaming community. Twitch has a huge user-base and a lot of their streamers are eSport players.