Planet Nine is providing a cryptocurrency platform for monetizing games.
Planet Nine is providing a cryptocurrency platform for monetizing games.
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Planet Nine launches alternative to in-game advertising and digital currencies

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Planet Nine is launching a Ethereum-based alternative for monetizing games that emphasizes rewards for gamers, rather than microtransactions, in-app purchases, or advertising.

The Portland, Oregon-based company wants to create a new digital economy with its “fungilbe and non-fungible tokens as a way to make publishers and game developers more profitable.

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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.