No token effort: Blockchain can make esports more transparent

Over the last few years, both esports and blockchain-powered applications have gone a long way toward entering the mainstream. Esports has moved from being publicly ridiculed as “not being a sport” by the head of ESPN to being aired regularly on the “Worldwide Leader” and accepted as a medal sport for the Asian games in 2022.

Blockchains —  decentralized digital ledgers on which information is saved publicly — and their most popular application, cryptocurrencies, have moved from a seeming fad to a potentially disruptive alternative form of storing and transferring funds or information.