Portal, a unified blockchain gaming platform, has introduced its PortalPay service. The service aims to lower barriers to entry for blockchain gaming by providing users with an interoperability solution to pay for and cash out of in-game assets using any of the 5,000 digital assets supported.
To access the onchain features of a blockchain game, users must typically connect a MetaMask wallet or another service that allows them to interact with decentralized applications and purchase assets or non-fungible tokens (NFTs) required to play that game. Many gaming tokens are also blockchain-specific and have yet to migrate to other chains.
In an interview with Cointelegraph, Ezra Strauss, the head of partnerships at Portal, highlighted the issue of ecosystem fragmentation in the blockchain gaming sector:
“I think the big problems that we’ve seen are that there are all these different chains, different wallets, and sort of like separate ecosystems that have sprung up. Users, tokens and assets are stuck in all these different pockets of the Web3 ecosystem. It makes new user adoption very difficult.”
Currently, Web3 gamers can solve these issues by bridging or converting digital assets to the required currency to play a particular game. However, the network costs of bridging and converting can be prohibitive.
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