Gunzilla Games, the AAA game studio and developer of the GUNZ blockchain, announces that it has integrated Fireblocks, an enterprise platform for building blockchain applications and managing digital asset operations.
As part of the integration, institutional holders of GUN tokens and GUNZ Validator NFTs will be able to hold and manage their assets through the Fireblocks platform. The GUNZ Validator NFTs enable players to mint new in-game NFTs, while Validators earn commissions in the native GUN token for the minting and trading of transactions.
In addition, Fireblocks’ enterprise non-custodial wallets-as-a-service (WaaS) will integrate with GUNZ, providing a non-custodial option for all existing and future users of GUNZ Wallet. This will allow GUNZ users to maintain full ownership of their in-game assets across all of the games built on the GUNZ chain. To date, GUNZ boasts over 800,000 wallets on its testnet.
Reacting to the integration, Vlad Korolov, CEO and Co-founder of Gunzilla Games, said, “ We are thrilled to announce the completion of GUNZ’s integration with Fireblocks. This will open the door for institutional clients to manage their GUN tokens and GUNZ Validator NFTs with Fireblocks’ leading enterprise-grade platform with multi-layer security. The integration also provides a non-custodial option for GUNZ users, strengthening the offering of the in-game digital economy on GUNZ. We are proud to be working with Fireblocks to provide this core building block as we create a new standard for blockchain-enabled games.”
GUNZ is a blockchain-based digital economy platform built on a custom Avalanсhe Subnet, empowering AAA game developers to build player-driven economies with full player ownership of in-game assets, such as tradeable NFTs. The first project launching on GUNZ will be Gunzilla Games’ highly anticipated cyberpunk-style battle royale Off The Grid, which will be released on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S this year.
Gunzilla’s SDK and white-label components will be available to other AAA game developers looking to launch their own gaming projects on GUNZ.
Omer Amsel, Head of Web3 at Fireblocks, commented, “We are delighted to be working with Gunzilla Games to create a seamless Web3 onboarding experience for Web2 users and provide a secure environment for gamers’ assets. By integrating Fireblocks’ non-custodial wallets into the GUNZ platform, players have complete ownership of their in-game assets, providing them with full autonomy to easily buy, sell, or trade in-game items, and enhancing the overall gaming experience.”
The news follows Gunzilla Games’ integration with OpenSea and a recent $30M funding round co-led by CoinFund and Avalanche Foundation’s Blizzard Fund, with participation by Republic Capital and Morningstar Ventures.
About Gunzilla
Founded in 2020, Gunzilla Games is the independent AAA video game developer and publisher behind the revolutionary new battle royale game Off The Grid, and its underlying gamer-first ecosystem and blockchain GUNZ; in three metropolitan locations: Frankfurt, Germany (HQ); Kyiv, Ukraine; and London, UK. The company is helmed by CEO Vlad Korolov and CSO Alexander Zoll. Gunzilla is built on the desire to innovate and push the limits of the games industry.
Gunzilla’s formidable team of talent comes from a variety of industry-leading studios and publishers (Ubisoft, Electronic Arts (EA), THQ, etc.) as well as Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and producer Neill Blomkamp, Chief Visionary Officer, and the author of the Altered Carbon series, which has been adapted into a popular Netflix show, Richard K. Morgan, Script Writer.
The Gunzilla Leadership team includes well-known industry professionals like Timur Davidenko, Chief Technology Officer (Far Cry, Warface, and Crysis), David Nicholson, Executive Producer (Halo Wars 2), Dmitriy Markov, Technical Director (Metro Exodus, ARKTIKA.1), Volodymyr Savin, Audio Director (Cut the Rope, Metro Exodus, HBO’s Chernobyl series), Petr Cherkes, Design Director (The Last of Us, Uncharted 3, Star Wars: The Old Republic), Krasimir Nechevski, Animation Director (Adam, Book of the Dead), Nikolas Gekko, Lead Art Director, (Call of Duty: WWII, Halo Infinite, Destiny) and Kiran Pulicheri, Technical Art Director (Control, Far Cry 6).
About Fireblocks
Fireblocks is an enterprise-grade platform delivering a secure infrastructure for moving, storing, and issuing digital assets. Fireblocks enables exchanges, lending desks, custodians, banks, trading desks, and hedge funds to securely scale digital asset operations through the Fireblocks Network and MPC-based Wallet Infrastructure. Fireblocks serves thousands of financial institutions, has secured the transfer of over $4 trillion in digital assets, and has a unique insurance policy that covers assets in storage and transit. Some of the biggest trading desks have switched to Fireblocks because it’s the only solution that CISOs and Ops Teams both love. For more information, please visit www.fireblocks.com