Actress Sonam Kapoor Ahuja Backs Blockchain Game

May 2024 · 4 minute read
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Bollywood star Sonam Kapoor Ahuja has become the latest celebrity to show interest in the blockchain. She used her Twitter account to confirm to her followers that she’s backing the MechaFightClub (MFC) game that uses non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to reward players.

Bollywood star Sonam Kapoor Ahuja has become the latest celebrity to show interest in the blockchain. She used her Twitter account to confirm to her followers that she’s backing the MechaFightClub (MFC) game that uses non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to reward players.

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Who Is Sonam Kapoor Ahuja?

Described as one of the biggest movie stars around, Sonam is 36 years old and has been listed in the top 100 celebrities in India by Forbes. Her father is actor and producer Anil Kapoor, but her profile was further boosted when she married businessman Anand Ahuja in a spectacular, traditional Indian wedding. She and her partner run the VegNonVeg footwear store, and she also owns the fashion brand Rheson, which she created with her sister Rhea.

The actress has appeared in some of the most successful movies in Bollywood history, such as Sanju and Prem Ratan Dhan Payo. Her net worth is currently estimated at $13 million, and she owns homes in both London and Delhi. In her recent tweets, Sonam said that she’d grown up playing video games and that she loves every aspect of them. She mentioned the art, the creativity, and the storytelling involved in games, as well as the fact that they stand the test of time so well. The actress continued by saying that she was drawn to MFC because it’s helping to bring gaming to Web3.

What Is MechaFightClub

This is one of the new breeds of play-to-earn games that rewards its players with NFTs. These are unique virtual tokens, and since they’re issued on the blockchain, they provide proof of ownership. Irreverent Labs is the developer behind MFC, which follows on from successful NFT games such as Axie Infinity, The Sandbox, and Ember Sword. This genre is expected to carry on growing as more players look to earn NFTs as they play.

As for the gameplay itself, MFC is based on fights between on-screen roosters, with players building up their own animals to try and win more fights and become more valuable. The blockchain is used to confirm that every single rooster in the game is unique, as well as to verify the ownership of each one. Each rooster develops its own fighting style and personality over time, as it battles through a world that’s filled with abandoned alien technology. Humanity was taken over by evil corporations but a resistance movement has sprung up and turned their robots into fighting machines for entertainment.

The exact amount of investment made by Sonam hasn’t been confirmed to date. However, the actress said that she’s “elated” to be part of the family. Her investment was made during the Series A funding round where venture capital firms like a16z and Solana Ventures joined the company and a total of $40 million was raised, as reported by VentureBeat.

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How the Games Market Is Changing

This is just one of the signs that the games market is changing, and that some of our favorite celebrities are keen to be part of it. In fact, the love the celebrities have for NFTs has helped to push up the value of these tokens to incredible levels in the last couple of years. While not all tokens are part of games in the way that MFC offers them, huge names like Paris Hilton, Snoop Dogg, Justin Bieber, and Gwyneth Paltrow have all shown a lot of interest in the different uses of this technology. For example, Snoop Dogg is said to have more than $17 million worth of NFTs in his digital wallet, and he famously built an online mansion in The Sandbox.

It’s also expected that the blockchain will continue to drive the gaming market forward, as more gamers discover something that appeals to them such as freebies, as a result of more pay-to-play titles. Players want the option to explore these titles without being priced out of them. For example, interesting developments are taking place in online casinos, as evidenced by casinoreviews sites, where we can see sites such as Casumo, Vegas Lounge, and Genesis offering welcome bonuses. This is done with the goal of making it easier to sample their range of slots and live-streamed games with human dealers.

The latter option brings us to other major developments in the industry; virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence. We can access a whole range of environments from our homes thanks to this technology, from casinos to virtual homes. We can hope to see all of these technologies used in the much-hyped metaverse where we can become fully immersed in an online world in a much bigger way.

Celebrity endorsements like this are sure to increase the appeal of blockchain-based games even more and should cause some curious fans to take a look for themselves to see what games such as MFC are all about.

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