Game studio Lucid Sight and Major League Baseball are joining forces to create a game called MLB Crypto Baseball. Similar in concept to CryptoKitties the game will allow users to exchange Ethereum’s cryptocurrency, Ether, for officially licensed digital collectables. It is the first blockchain game linked to a global sports league.
“We talked a long time ago about bitcoin and whether we should accept it as payment for MLB.tv and some of our other products, and we opted not to,” explained MLB’s executive VP of gaming and new business ventures, Kenny Gersh, in a statement. “At the end of the day we decided that isn’t our business, we’re not in the speculation business.