Inside Asian Gaming

INSIDE ASIAN GAMING NOVEMBER 2018 58 TECH TALK I F innovation is the key to expanding the global gaming player base, then Hong Kong-based blockchain start-up Alphaslot could well be about to initiate something big. The brainchild of Chief Executive Officer Raymond Chan – who is also the co-founder of open-source gaming machines network TGG Interactive – Alphaslot takes TGG’s basic concept of diversifying the games options available to players to the next level. Using tokenization as a means of linking multiple gaming verticals, Alphaslot is a distributed blockchain-based computing platform and ecosystem that supports industrial-scale gaming applications by connecting multiple blockchains synergistically. “One of the main problems operators are always talking about is how to attract new players,” says Chan. “Then when they are there, how to have those players stay longer on the Hong Kong-based gaming innovator Alphaslot wants to use tokenization to expand casinos’ customer segments and bring the social, eSports and land-based gaming worlds together. TOKEN ECONOMY By Ben Blaschke