How is No Man's Sky's Player-built Blockchain Economy Working? | MMONFT

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My No Man’s Sky journey, like that of so many others, started in disappointment. The game’s 2016 release was shrouded in game-breaking bugs, uninteresting core gameplay, and a myriad of missing features (including a lack of multiplayer). But those days are over. Today, No Man’s Sky is awesome. 

The game has been transformed from a lonely, desolate, and annoyingly repetitive galaxy to an open-world masterpiece that regularly exceeds 10,000 concurrent players on the Steam platform alone. The game is a sci-fi epic that offers hundreds of hours of engaging solo gameplay, but has also been emerging as a great multiplayer experience. No Man’s Sky first became a multiplayer title in 2018 with the release of the NEXT update, and the multiplayer community has been growing ever since as updates made playing with friends easier and more scalable.

This rollout of multiplayer was great news to players, not least of all the Galactic Hub Project. This coalition of players, founded in late 2016 a few months after No Man’s Sky’s release, with a clear goal: establish a hub somewhere in the galaxy where players can exist in a shared space. Even though they couldn’t see each other, they still wanted to make exploring space a collaborative effort. The Galactic Hub, NMS’ oldest civilization, was born.

The Galactic Hub (or simply the Hub) has grown in scope over the years. With the advent of multiplayer in NMS, the population of players living in the Hub has soared well over 100. The Hub has received attention in VICE, Polygon, Kotaku, and many other publications as it expanded in scope and launched new projects, annexed new worlds, and created new government services. 

One such new service launched in 2021: HubCoin, the Galactic Hub’s official