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App Store’s NFT Guidelines: Imminent peril or entry ticket for blockchain games?

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It’s tempting to treat these updates as a way of Apple saying “Death to blockchain games!”. In the end, we all saw how their privacy changes affected the whole mobile gaming business, which causes everyone to interpret Apple’s stance in the harshest ways. year-on-year Newzoo forecasts game market will shrink 4.3%

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Reflecting Upon the Last year in Blockchain Games

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Wonder if they will say the same in 2026… On one hand, this creates a very experimental environment with a large space for innovation. The rules of the game are not established yet, and, as a game developer, you are expected to create them. a16z saying “It’s still early for crypto” in 2022. They were saying the same in 2018.

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