News Summary

• Assassin’s Creed and Rainbow Six: Siege publisher Ubisoft is joining Korean game publisher WeMade’s Wemix’s blockchain node council as a partner, Wemix announced late last week.Ubisoft is now one of Wemix’s 40 partners running validator nodes for its new “Wemix 3.0” network, which is an Ethereum-compatible EVM blockchain..
• It saw millions of dollars in volume traded in just a few hours.Ubisoft is casting its blockchain net far and wide with its latest commitment to Wemix—though it has also made fresh commitments to exploring AI-generated video game dialogue, as well.Edited by Andrew Hayward.
• Last year, Ubisoft also teased its first blockchain game, the upcoming Champions Tactics, and launched the game’s first free NFT mint..
• Ubisoft continued to explore crypto, however, becoming a node operator for the Hedera blockchain in 2022 and for the Cronos blockchain in 2023..
• A blockchain node is a computer that runs a copy of the blockchain’s software and confirms transactions..
• Now, WeMade has renamed the older chain and corresponding token “Wemix Classic.”The new Wemix blockchain operates on a proof-of-stake authority consensus algorithm—which is a mix of a proof-of-stake structure and proof-of-authority model..