This month's Monetization & Business Models category contains 2 filed patent applications, both from Games2Coins.
The company's patents describe a middleware layer that converts fiat currency into blockchain tokens and facilitates their exchange for in-game rewards across multiple game titles. Games2Coins' approach uses blockchain as a settlement mechanism to enable cross-game and cross-chain resource exchanges between players and game studios.
Games2Coins received 2 patents covering a middleware system that connects real-world currency, blockchain platforms, and game economies into a unified exchange network. Both patents describe architecture that treats blockchain transactions on external crypto platforms as triggering events for distributing rewards inside game titles, using a proprietary token as the shared unit of account across all three domains. The system creates a neutral intermediary layer that sits between multiple game platforms and multiple blockchain networks simultaneously, allowing players to move value across games that would otherwise maintain entirely separate economies. One patent emphasizes a revenue-sharing structure designed to compensate participating game studios, addressing the incentive problem that prevents platforms from opening their closed-loop economies to external conversion systems.
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