Unity's game engine now incorporates
Unity's game engine now incorporates the Kin cryptocurrency.
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Unity game engine launches support for Kin cryptocurrency in indie games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Unity Technologies‘ game engine is used widely by independent game developers, and now it will be easy for Unity developers to incorporate the Kin cryptocurrency in their games.

Messaging app Kik and its Kin Ecosystem Foundation created the cryptocurrency in September 2017, raising nearly $100 million from a token sale. It has used that money to encourage developers to create apps that use the cryptocurrency.

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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.