Play to Earn or Insecure to Play? - Pentestmag

Play to Earn or Insecure to Play?

Feb 21, 2023

by Marlon Fabiano of CySource

The success of the game Axie Infinity sparked a massive wave of Play to Earn or "play to win" that has reached most of us. Until now, the term NFT, or non-fungible token, was only related to images of famous artists like Beeple, or to the sought-out collection of cryptopunks. The privilege of making money playing video games was restricted to big YouTubers and pro-players. However, with Axie Infinity, the dream job of making money playing video games was opened to everyone. Anyone can have fun playing and earning money with NFTs.

The idea of this dream job was so well received by the community at large that more and more games started popping up almost instantly, one after the other. A flood of games has been created, even more than the number of players who are aware of this possibility.

With regards to De-Fi, which enables the delivery of financial services without the need for any intermediary, Dapp enables the creation of decentralized applications based on the blockchain. Taking advantage of this freedom, "NFT games" grew in the shadow of these concepts since anyone could create a game without the need for subject matter experts, such as software development, infrastructure, or even security professionals. But from a security point of view, what does this mean?

Note: Many of the released NFT games....

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