Animoca Brands and LightLink have teamed up on no gas fees.
Animoca Brands and LightLink have teamed up on no gas fees.
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Animoca Brands and LightLink partner on Web3 games with no gas fees

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Animoca Brands and LightLink have partnered to enhance Web3 games with no gas fees for blockchain transactions.

Gas fees are a common scourge for Web3 games when there are heavy transactions on a blockchain network. But Animoca Brands, which has numerous investments in blockchain games, has partnered with LightLink, an Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain that enables decentralized apps (dApps) and enterprises to offer users instant, gasless transactions. Gas fees have been a significant access barrier for Web3 gaming, which doesn’t have enough support from mainstream consumers.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.