Forbes: GTA will have the opportunity to earn cryptocurrency

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May appear in a future GTA VI gamethe opportunity to earn and withdraw cryptocurrency, several publications write at once, including Forbes magazine hints. There have been no official comments from the developers yet.

Rewarding players for completing certainmissions will not take place in the form of in-game money, but using some kind of “analogue of Bitcoin”. According to some reports, a certain cryptocurrency will completely replace in-game dollars. The new part of the Grand Theft Auto series should be based on the Play-to-Earn model, where game coins can eventually be exchanged for real monetary assets. A broker will appear inside the game, dealing with cryptocurrency in the stock market.

It is not yet known when the officialannouncement and especially the release of GTA VI. In August 2022, representatives of Rockstar, the developer of GTA, reported that work on the new part of the series was proceeding at an active pace. The game's budget, the creators assure, will exceed the most expensive projects: Cyberpunk 2077 ($330 million), Destiny 2 ($500 million) and Star Citizen ($550 million). 

Last year news came out that RockstarGames, following Mojang, the creators of Minecraft, has banned the introduction of non-fungible tokens into mods created by third-party developers and fans of their games. 

In early February, the Undeads metaverse teamproposed a new approach to adapt traditional gamers to the Web3 ecosystem, which allows them to start playing a P2E game without the use of cryptocurrencies and NFTs.