Enjin is one of the main projects involved in the currently booming game-winning and metaverse space.
In Layman’s terms, Enjin helps teams tokenize all aspects of their digital journey. In essence, the project provides an ecosystem of blockchain-based gaming products that are interconnected. Its flagship offering is the Enjin Network.
That said, the whole project is getting a lot of attention and importance lately due to the play space to gain boom, as well as all the hype surrounding the concept of the metaverse.
In this interview, we sit with Witek Radomski, the CTO of Enjin – a long-term cryptocurrency proponent, an early adopter, the author of Ethereum Improvement Proposal 1155. We discussed many exciting topics, including Enjin’s focus, the current hype behind the P2E space, and what’s the metaverse all about.
From Bitcoin to Ethereum and Enjin
Radomski revealed that he first heard about Bitcoin in 2011-2012 from a friend who “is kind of a futurist.” Ironically, he explained how excited his friend got about his white paper and how “one day he will be on par with the dollar.”
The price back then was a lot less. It’s funny how things progressed in retrospect. At this point, he checked it out but wasn’t really impressed with the overall UX.
“I went on and installed the Bitcoin QT and it was this really crappy experience. I thought – who’s going to use? It looked like another one of those digital coins.
Radomski admits that back then, he didn’t really read the whitepaper – admittedly, a mistake. However, even at that time, he noticed that many people were buying graphic cards to mine Bitcoin, which is when he started learning more about it and becoming a part of the community.
Even then, however, he expressed interest in capabilities that are truly similar to what Ethereum smart contracts are currently. It wasn’t until 2013 that he got really involved, and he revealed that the concept of Ethereum was particularly mind blowing to him.
“Ethereum’s concept was pretty mind-blowing when I first heard about it. I still didn’t understand ICOs.”
Enjin’s CTO has said he is considering drafting smart contracts and what Ethereum has done is groundbreaking. This seems to be the reason why the transition to the smart contract community has gone seamlessly. However, he also told us that Enjin at the time was a company trying to interconnect gaming guilds and online clans, providing server solutions, etc., and was among the first to introduce BTC payments.
Enjin and Efinity: A Foray into Blockchain Gaming
As explained earlier, Enjin’s goal is to enable anyone to tokenize every part of their digital journey without hiring an entire team to do so.
“Our end goal is that when people enter a virtual universe or the metaverse or a game, they can send and receive tokens, they have a digital identity that will have their strengths and they can persist for thousands of years because the blockchain is not going to shut it down, according to Radomski.
He also gave a very clear and painful (for many gamers) reference where a lot of the games that he played back in the days are already shut down.
“All that time I’ve spent in games – whatever gets removed, go. I wish I had, even just for the value of nostalgia, but all of my digital history lingering with me … […] Blockchain allows you to have that sort of thing and it gives you full control over your assets. All that time, effort, and money that you put into the game stays with you.
As CryptoPotato reported earlier in November, Enjin launched a $100M fund to tap into the Metaverse realm and support teams building in it.
Speaking on this, Witek said:
“We want game developers who are experimenting with great ideas, anyone who wants to get into the metaverse, to have a little bit of support.” According to Radomski. “A lot of times if someone has an interesting and experimental idea for a metaverse, it can be difficult to get funding through traditional channels. “
The Trending Metaverse and P2E
Regarding the current state of play to earn (P2E), while it is undoubtedly one of the hottest current trends, it also can’t go without saying that the UX and overall gameplay of existing games are just… scuffed, to say the least.
Among the many things Radomski said about this in our interview was the fact that current games are still rather experimental and in no way are able to compete with the gameplay of games inherited from the triple-A developers: ” It’s like an e-mail on the Internet, ”he said.
However, he also added that “it’s all about inspiring game developers on how they can use blockchain in their current games. I’ve been speaking to the larger game developers across the space for the last few years, wondering how this could fit into their games… […] Now they are actually really starting to take this seriously.”
