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Game of Silks, a digital horse-racing simulator within the metaverse, introduced in the present day that it’ll run races that mirrors the real-world Keeneland Spring Meet. Digital twins of actual racehorses will race within the metaverse alongside their counterparts, with the homeowners of the digital horses incomes rewards for his or her performances.
Silks, which is the blockchain companion of the New York Racing Association, created NFTs modeled after the crop of then-one-year-old horses in 2022. All advised, it created greater than 17,500 digital twins of the younger racehorses, who at the moment are of their first racing season. It labored with the Jockey Club, the official group for registering Thoroughbreds to recreate the horses’ date precisely. According to Silks, it is going to public sale any digital racehorses operating on the Meet not already owned earlier than it begins.
Keeneland Race Track holds the Spring Meet in April. The occasion options a number of races, together with the Blue Grass Stakes — a race generally used as a prep occasion for horses deliberate to compete within the upcoming Kentucky Derby. Silks didn’t specify whether or not it could solely mirror races for the aforementioned two-year-old horses, which doesn’t embody the Blue Grass or the Ashland Stakes, each of that are run by three-year-old horses.
Silks hosts the digital horses on one-acre parcels of in-metaverse land. Users can interact with a bigger financial system that features constructing stables for different gamers to make use of. Players can purchase and promote the equine NFTs in addition to race them.
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Troy Levy, co-founder of Game of Silks, stated in a press release, “Part of Silks’ mission is to expand the thrill of racehorse ownership to new audiences and demographics beyond the upper class. Since launching last year, we’ve built an engaged online community of more than 25,000 fans and have become a Top 10 sports-themed NFT platform on the OpenSea marketplace, which we see as the tip of a very large iceberg. Hosting the first professional horse race in our metaverse is a significant milestone in the history of the sport.”
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