Zed Run – an online game based on digital horse ownership, racing, trading, and breeding – is the latest surprisingly lucrative crypto trend to emerge off the back of NFT (Non-Fungible Token) hype.
And it’s from an Australian studio, Virtually Human, who launched Zed in early 2019.
Two years later and humble beginnings – selling 4,450 digital horses for $30 each – has turned into a wildly profitable Second Life-style rally.
Rare horses like the golden polygon textured ‘Floyd Mayweather Jr’ are now selling for US$15,000 (AU$19,335).
Zed Run works on NFT technology, relying on the ridiculously high-paying concept to establish proof of ownership and allow for secondary transactions on online art and collectible peer-to-peer marketplaces like OpenSea.
Ebeling, who obviously reads a lot of sci-fi novels, describes this as “teleporting them from a parallel timeline.” “In my world, Zed is real… it exists on a parallel timeline to ours; its quantum physics.