Gunzilla is launching its $GUN token on Binance as a way for its Off the Grid battle royale game community to trade their gaming items.The move is part of Gunzilla‘s dream of making Off the Grid, a hybrid Web2 and Web3 game, into the first mainstream success for Web3 gaming. (Gunzilla made headlines last week by buying Game Informer and reviving the game journalism site that was shut down last year by GameStop). Theo Agranat, director of Web3 at Gunzilla, said in an interview with GamesBeat that the $GUN token will be used to access the GUNZ platform, which offers offers blockchain-native infrastructure for game developers. The $GUN token has other utility as well, such as purchasing in-game items from the in-game marketplace, paying for customization items and expendables, and covering Hex decoding fees (which we’ll describe below). Players can earn the $GUN tokens in the game or buy them. Gunzilla’s Off the Grid game has generated more than 14.5 million wallets to date on Avalanche and it has an estimated 500,000 daily active users

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