Blockchain Not Yet Ready to Run Biggest Games: Brevan Howard (1)

Public blockchain technology isn’t close to being compatible with the demands of fully powering the biggest video games, despite pushes by game studios to engage in the space.

That’s according to Colleen Sullivan, co-head of ventures at hedge fund Brevan Howard Asset Management’s crypto-focused division. She said that major public blockchains like Solana can only complete around 2,000 user-generated transactions per second — a far cry from what’s needed to get a popular mobile game running on-chain, let alone an AAA-rated title.

“That’s still a fraction of what it would take to put a game like Monopoly GO, ...