According to a number of insiders, Amazon has been courting major players in the market with its digital collectibles push. Layer-1 blockchains, blockchain-based game businesses and developers, and digital asset exchanges are reportedly included among those entities. According to two sources, there is an emphasis on blockchain-based gaming and associated NFT applications.
One example in the works: getting Amazon customers to play crypto games and claim free NFTs in the process.
AWS recently inked a partnership with Ava Labs, the company behind the Avalanche blockchain, which Emin Gün Sirer of Ava described as “a huge boon for both individual and enterprise developers to be able to spin up nodes and test networks on the fly with AWS in whatever legal jurisdiction makes the most sense for them.“
Could this be an inflection point in the Web3 sector?