Юлия Фирстова

Bank loans to farmers are difficult to issue. And if they do, it will be very expensive — for example, I will buy a goat, and the house will be taken away. And after the ICO, I pay with my products and am provided with customers—" Mikhail Shlyapnikov, a farmer, author of the Kolionovo Ecosystem ICO project, told Izvestia.

Russian entrepreneurs attracted more than $200 million worth of investments in cryptocurrencies from all over the world to their projects in 2017. And a year earlier it was $20 million. Startups from Russia have launched more than a hundred projects in cryptocurrency, and in 2016 there were about 20 of them.

Star Atlas is a space gaming metaverse running on the Solana blockchain. The full-scale release of this NFT game is scheduled for 2022.

Unlike most of the NFT games that exist today, the graphics of which leave much to be desired, the developers of Star Atlas paid special attention to this moment. Star Atlas is being developed on the basis of the Unreal Engine 5 game engine, which makes it probably the most advanced TAE game in terms of graphics. The developers also promise support for VR technology in Star Atlas.

Beautiful graphics make Star Atlas the next step in the development and popularization of TAE games among a wide audience of players who want not only to make money on TAE, but also to enjoy the gameplay itself.