Picture yourself playing Mario Kart’s Rainbow Road race using the traditional Nintendo console. But you’re not on your living room couch, you’re in a futuristic city at night. The sky is lit up in neon lights: not from fireworks or tall buildings, but from bubblegum-colored drones whizzing around above you. Basically, you’re Harrison Ford in the 1982 Blade Runner blockbuster.

For the 12 professional drone pilots who competed in the Drone Racing League’s Christmas Day 2021 competition, that was their real-life experience. The 12 competitors, all male, mostly between 18 and 30 years old, raced their drones at the FedExForum in Memphis, Tennessee. The event was live-streamed by 20 million fans over Twitter, and watched by many more on NBC, the TV rights holders for DRL, currently in its sixth annual season.

In the case of DRL’s drone racing game on the Algorand blockchain, the crypto-based, play-to-earn assets could, theoretically at least, be transported out-game through the metaverse, or traded for cryptocurrencies, including Algorand’s own ALGO token, on secondary marketplaces.

Just like other competitors like Solana or Cardano, Algorand intends to displace Ethereum as the primary blockchain home for the decentralized apps (dApps), DeFi projects, and crypto-native games of the future.

In recent months, environmentally friendlier cryptos that use a POS model have fared better than their POW rivals.

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