From GameFi to Wall Street: How Web3 Gaming Pioneered Asset Tokenization Before TradFi Caught Up

Once dismissed as pixelated distractions or speculative hype, blockchain-based games like Upland and collectibles like OK COMPUTERs have quietly pioneered some of the most profound financial innovations of the past decade. Behind the avatars and animated buildings, these platforms created multi-layered, tokenized economies long before Wall Street caught on.

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