Roblox CEO Envisions In-Game NFTs as Part of Open Ecosystem 'Dream'
Roblox founder and CEO David Baszucki sees a future in which NFTs come to the popular metaverse gaming platform—and he shared how that sort of significant move could happen. In an interview with CNBC, Baszucki was asked about whether the billion-dollar platform’s synthetic Robux currency might become a currency usable outside of Roblox—and whether NFTs could exist on Roblox and then be able to move off-platform. “There’s a bit of a dream here about objects and NFTs moving from platform to platform,” Baszucki said.
Why would NFTs on Roblox matter? Roblox is a massive platform with a wide reach, especially among younger audiences. Roblox’s daily active user count is up 20% compared to November of last year, per CNBC. And in Q3 this year, Roblox saw over 70 million people spend an average of 2.5 hours on its platform, according to Roblox’s 2023 iteration of its Digital Expression, Fashion & Beauty Trends Report published Thursday. “What we do expect is the creators—whether it’s Elton John or Nike, or someone else making a digital item—that they would play a key role and have a fair amount of control in that process,” the CEO added. “We would imagine someday that those would go off-platform, as an NFT, possibly get sold off-platform, and then come back on-platform,” Baszucki said of the theoretical capes.
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