Roblox founder and CEO David Baszucki has attracted web3 headlines since revealing a future prospect of NFTs on the popular UGC platform. During an interview with CNBC, Baszucki was asked both about his vision for the platform’s Robux currency expanding outside Roblox and whether NFTs could one day become reality in the game.
“There’s a bit of a dream here about objects and NFTs moving from platform to platform,” he said. Talking particularly about the potential prospect of exclusive NFTs earmarked for charity, Baszucki added “We would imagine someday that those would go off-platform, as an NFT, possibly get sold off-platform, and then come back on-platform.”
While it’s been teased before, as one would imagine, the interview has stirred up plenty of excitement among the web3 gaming crowd. Some of its experts have been quick to weigh in with their responses.
Animoca Brands co-founder and chairman Yat Sui said via X, ”Sentiment is changing & the spillover due to the shared network effect inherent in web3 would have a massive impact to everyone in the NFT space.”
Roblox has over 200 million MAU's and approx. 65 million daily active players.
— Yat Siu (@ysiu) November 10, 2023
Sentiment is changing & the spillover due to the shared network effect inherent in #Web3 would have a massive impact to everyone in the #nft space especially platforms like @TheSandboxGame… https://t.co/NYVfwMBuoH
While Sky Mavis co-founder and COO Aleksander Leonard Larsen (see main picture) commented, “David has been an investor in Sky Mavis since 2021.
“We regularly update him and the rest of our investors on our plans for Ronin and Axie. Games with NFTs will be more immersive and engaging. Its inevitable.”
Not surprised at all to see this.
— Psycheout.ron (@Psycheout86) November 10, 2023
David has been an investor in @SkyMavisHQ since 2021.
We regularly update him and the rest of our investors on our plans for Ronin and Axie.
Games with NFTs will be more immersive and engaging.
Its inevitable.
@paulbarrontv https://t.co/CQzITUpRmc
You can watch the CNBC interview below, where NFTs are mentioned 6:30 min into the clip.
We recently reported that Roblox stock soared as Q3 results surpassed expectations.
This article was first published on BlockchainGamer.biz.
Data fiend and editor-at-large Jon Jordan has been writing/speaking about the games industry since 1999. He's always been a man who's a step ahead, gaze firmly fixed beyond the horizon, rarely content with the here-and-now. So he's particularly pleased the rest of us are finally catching up – but he knew we eventually would.
