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When South Korean studio Red Lab Games‘ online title ROM: Golden Age launched nearly two years ago, it showed promise but struggled to scale globally.
But then it teamed up with WeMade, which introduced its own WeMix blockchain ecosystem to the game to give players rewards and ownership. Then the massively multiplayer online role-playing game saw a remarkable revival with 5X growth in revenue versus the launch.

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