Chinese Baidu search engine promulgated on Friday that it is launching a block chain gaming app, just days after it revealed a proprietary platform called Super Chain.
"The Macrocosm" in literal translation – the game depicts a block chain-powered space journey where users, by participating in the blockchain, would receive "elements" to build their own planet.
The elements – much akin to token rewards engendered by a blockchain – will initially be available through airdrops, according to the game's official website. As users accumulate more elements, they will be able to develop their own planet that, as it grows, will increment its gravity to absorb yet more elements sanctioning adscititious features to be unlocked.
In essence, the goal of the game is sanction users to experience features that could arise from cryptocurrency-like assets, besides simply being traded, a representative from Baidu told CoinDesk.
"Du Yuzhou is not to launch another cryptocurrency, but a digital society experiment," the company verbalized. However it declined to apportion more details about the game, such as which blockchain is being utilized, only saying the app is expected to go live next week.
On Monday this week, Xiao Wei, chief scientist at Baidu's blockchain arm, revealed the company's SuperChain platform, which it claims is compatible with the bitcoin and ethereum networks and can scale to sanction 100,000 transactions per second.
Last month, the search giant additionally commenced storing the revision histories of ingresses on Baidu Baike – its Wikipedia-like encyclopedia accommodation – on a blockchain.