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What do you think about Trump entering the blockchain gaming space?
Trump is teaming up with his longtime business partner Bill Zanker to launch a crypto-based real estate game, expected to go live by the end of April. It’s a blockchain twist on “MONOPOLY GO!”, where players move pieces around a virtual board and build digital cities to earn tokens.
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Zanker is the driving force behind the blockchain game project, and originally planned to launch the project before the inauguration of the 47th president. Zanker can be regarded as Trump's leader in the cryptocurrency industry, and Trump's NFT project was promoted by his repeated suggestions.
Zanker also plays an important role in Trump's memecoin project TRUMP. According to the memecoin's website, the remaining tokens after the TRUMP token ICO are held by CICDigitalLLC and FightFightFightLLC, accounting for 80% of the total supply. In the registration documents of "FightFightFightLLC", Zanker is listed as the main contact person.
Zanker spokesman Kevin Mercuri only revealed that they are developing a game. Mercuri denied that the game would have any similarities with Monopoly Go, saying that the relevant news was just rumors. Previously, DTTM Operations, the entity responsible for Trump's trademark, applied to expand Trump's name to various virtual products and NFT-related services. But Mercuri refused to disclose whether these trademark applications were directly related to the project and how blockchain functions would be integrated into the gameplay.
Last May, Zanker approached Hasbro to buy back the IP for Trump: The Game. But Hasbro informed Zanker that it no longer owned the rights to the more than 30-year-old game. However, according to Fortune, a spokesperson for Hasbro, the original developer of the Monopoly board game, said the company did not license the Monopoly IP to Trump's organization for cryptocurrency investment.
For this veteran enthusiast who launched a board game similar to Monopoly thirty years ago, the release of a digital version of Monopoly with the support of blockchain and cryptocurrency was both unexpected and seemingly expected. However, it did bring a stir to the long-dormant blockchain game track.
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