GameFi developers may be facing big fines and hard time if they don't speak up
Enjoy Axie Infinity, DeFi Kingdoms, and other cryptocurrency games while they last, because lawmakers are poised to crack down by mid-2023. Are cryptocurrency games innocent fun? Or are they Ponzi schemes facing an imminent crackdown by regulators in the United States?Tokens related to cryptocurrency games — known colloquially as “GameFi” — were worth a cumulative total of nearly $10 billion as of mid-August, give or take a few billion. (The number may vary depending on whether you want to include partially finished projects, how you count the number of tokens that projects technically....
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