Imagine walking up to a table at the Hard Rock, entering your digital horse in a race, and taking home a huge purse. While present-day users are already gambling in a sense when they pay an entry fee for races, actual gambling - possibly even at casinos - seems almost inevitable. We have stable owners who have traded their racehorse telling us they still keep an eye on how the racehorse is doing because of the connection they have with it." "Each racehorse is unique and will behave slightly differently, and each racehorse will take you on a different journey. "It's about bridging the real with the virtual and developing an NFT you can emotionally connect with," Wellman says. Like the handheld digital pet from the '90s, users are becoming attached to their horses, almost as if they were real. The process, on its face, seems very Tamagotchi. Users are able to name bred horses themselves, but the rest - including the color of the horse and how badass it is on the track - is left up to breeding algorithms that take into account bloodlines and how removed a horse is from its ancestors. Zed Run users are able to acquire horses via the platform's limited-edition drops or from existing stable owners, such as the local group behind Zed Racing Miami, which has bred (yup!) their horses to create a new colt that is instantly racetrack-ready. Wait - we got #zedheads in Miami? - Jo/sephine Dayco June 1, 2021 "We follow some rules to create familiarity with traditional horseracing however, we break other rules, like having our horses run without jockeys." "Zed Run is set in a parallel world where things behave a bit differently to give us some creative freedom in the way we approach horseracing," Wellman says. Which, in 2021, is really saying something. While Bitcoin Miami was much about the future of cryptocurrency, with that inherently comes the future of NFTs, something Zed Run has been at the forefront of.Īccording to Zed Run co-founder Geoff Wellman, the crew behind the skyrocketing gaming platform is a collection of sci-fi-lovin' '80s kids who have taken the blank canvas of real-life horseracing and painted on it some of the wildest digital art anyone has ever seen. This past weekend, Zed Run representatives were in town along with thousands of others for the Bitcoin Miami convention. ZED Racing Miami - The 1-2 Punch Finish from John Wild on Vimeo. Now, horses have sold on the secondary market for upwards of $150,000, with complete stables full of horses topping $225,000. The platform launched in early 2019 with horses selling for as little as $30. Zed Run, built by the Australia-based Virtually Human Studio, consists of what the creators refer to as "breathing NFTs," non-fungible tokens that actually take on a life of their own. Unlike the real Kentucky Derby, which saw this year's race tainted by steroid use, the only drugs involved in Zed Run are the ones you feel like you're on while watching the adrenaline-inducing digital entertainment unfold. No, this isn't the plot to a new movie starring Matt Damon - it's the world of Zed Run, a digital horseracing game built on blockchain technology.īut, to be honest, that does also sound like an amazing plot to a movie starring Matt Damon. Imagine the Kentucky Derby taking place 30,000 feet in the clouds above a Tron-like digital world, where purse prizes are paid in a futuristic currency called Ethereum.
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