Decentraland (MANA) has seen some nice price action in the last few days - up from $0.50 to over $1.00 in the last week....
This recent price surge is on the back of the news that Decentraland is partnering with Atari and DG Games to build an in world casino on their VR platform.
The Atari Casino will be built on a 20 parcel plot of land, and users will able to play casino games using Mana, DG, ATRI (Atari's token) or DAI. Most of the games are going to be chance games, but at least one will be skill based.
The future could be bright....
I'm not so excited about the Casino - that's really nothing new in the Crypto space - there's plenty of gambling dapps and chains out there, but the fact that this is being combined with VR and that there will be at least one 'skill based game' is what's much more interesting.
I'm guessing this is like a test-case in which Atari probes the functionality of the platform. IF it works, we could well see a whole variety more more innovative VR games going forwards, beyond the mere gambling games.
There's also the fact that they're building on 20 parcels of land, which is a pretty large chunk of the overall Decentraland space - there's only 90K parcels available, which isn't very much if you consider all of the various things which could be built in this VR Space.
This means the potential upside for MANA's future could be bright too, as this is the governance token of the platform, and the more people buy in and build, the more price is likely to go up!
Of course it could all flop too, but for someone whose had his MANA bags since 2017, I'm going to hold off selling for now, at least until the launch of the Casino, or just before - sell the rumour as they say, but I'm guessing the hype is just going to buidl from here until the release!