Chief Executive Officer | Board Member and Advisor | Transformative Brand & eCommerce Visionary
Sony has filed a patent for a new ‘Super-Fungible Token’ (SFT) that could alter how gamers own and trade in-game assets. Two basic questions: ⁉️ What’s an SFT? Basically, it would allow gamers to own a bundle of NFTs (in-game assets). ⁉️ Why SFTs? Good question—since it’s such early days, it isn’t entirely clear how it could be used, but it seems to simplify owning, purchasing and selling of NFTs as you can bundle multiple into one SFT. To me, it seems to be a bet by Sony that NFTs will be a big part of future gaming and they’re preparing the way for them to be more functional.
John W. Park
3mo
Interesting. Storage remains one of the challenges holding this technology back from improving digital ownership, so it's a good direction to explore. I'm intrigued about the name, however? Reading it, it might not be clear if these super-assets would be fungible or not.
Jason Bell
3mo
Zoe Scaman - I think you've called it right again 👍
Kassi Burns
3mo
Well thanks to you, I learned something new today! Had not heard about SFTs yet! Thanks!
Game Executive & Innovation Leader
3moThere may be prior art on Etherium that functions this way, i.e.a way for one NFT or contain others... Will have to look at the patent to see what they are doing differently from this open source standard. https://erc998.org/