The French gaming giant Ubisoft joins the Aleph.im network as a “Core Channel Node”. Together they want to establish a decentralized cloud service.
The French game giant Ubisoft (Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Rainbow Six) dives further and further into the crypto space. After joining the Belgian football league and Sorare Having launched its own blockchain game, Aleph.im is now a channel node operator. The crypto start-up announced this on Thursday by Press release known. More precisely, the company is a distributed cloud platform that provides its users with serverless trusted computing services, file storage and database hosting. The big goal is to establish a decentralized cloud service.
To ensure the power supply and security of the network, “Core Channel Nodes” are used. Ubisoft is now one of them with its UbiStrat Lab. In the future, the company will take over parts of the validation and management process. This will expand the capacity of the Aleph network and bring it closer to a higher degree of decentralization, the press release said. Aleph CEO Jonathan Schemoul also says about Ubisoft’s entry:
It is really encouraging that such a successful company is behind our vision to create the next generation of cloud services that will be open source, unstoppable and trustworthy.
Aleph CEO Jonathan Schemoul
The joy of joining the network is also on the part of Ubisoft. For example, Blockchain Tech Director Didier Genevois says:
We are excited to join the Aleph.im ecosystem as a core channel node operator. At Ubisoft, we believe that blockchain holds a key to the future of the video game industry and opens up new opportunities for gamers and developers alike. (…) In this regard, research into the services offered by the decentralized network Aleph.im is particularly promising.
Ubisoft Blockchain Tech Director Didier Genevois
Ubisoft collects donations for UNICEF via token sales
Just under a year ago, the French gaming company first came into the focus of the crypto space when it offered a range of digital trading cards for its popular video game franchise Rabbids. The income from the sale of the blockchain-based tokens benefited the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
The Rabbids tokens follow an “always for sale” model. So they can be purchased by someone else at any time, as long as that person only pays the current price. The previous owner then only has a special token certificate that identifies him as the former owner of the respective Rabbids token. But that’s not all. Because every time a token changes hands, it also changes its visual appearance.