The video game store chain GameStop, announced in a brief statement that it is looking for personnel, for what could be the project of a platform for non-fungible tokens (NFT), based on Ethereum.
«We are building a team. We welcome exceptional engineers (solidity, react, python), designers, gamers, marketers and community leaders ”, reported the company on a website called nft.gamestop.com .
Apart from the message, an address is published that directs to the GameStop smart contract, located on the Ethereum blockchain, Etherscan. This contract is compatible with the ERC-20 and ERC-721 standards, used in the NFTs.
GameStop also carried out two transactions, on May 25 . The first was for the acquisition of a Cryptokittie , famous game based on NFT and the second is the purchase of a card from the game Gods Unchained .
The new search for professionals by GameStop, occurs days after the announcement published by the company, on May 8, in where requested security analysts with knowledge in blockchain, cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens.
This reaffirms the possibility that GameStop, may have projects related to non-fungible tokens or even some cryptocurrency.
The hidden game
As a curious fact, in the new page of GameStop for NFT , there is also a hidden game. At the top right there is a white dot, which when clicked, leads to a game similar to Chrome Dino Run .
This is the famous Chrome browser game, which can be entered when there is no internet connection. The difference is that in the GameStop game the dinosaur seems to have a cat’s head.
The new GameStop opportunity
After being a chain of video game stores in full decline , GameStop suddenly emerged, after the confrontation between large Wall Street financial companies and a group of investors retailers, put it again in the headlines of the media, as reported by CriptoNoticias.
For the company everything changed in January of this year, when members of WallStreetBets produced a rally for GameStop shares.
GameStop’s share, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, went from being, in July 2020, at USD 4.50 to being valued at USD 242.56, today.
