On March 2nd, Enthusiast Gaming Holdings Inc. announced it had agreed to a multi-year strategic partnership with the digital asset mining company Hut 8. As a result of this deal, Hut 8 will become a title sponsor for Enthusiast’s first-person shooter game EV.IO as well as its esports arm, Luminosity Gaming.
Hut 8’s content will now be integrated into all Enthusiast Gaming communities as the company aims to provide infrastructure support for Enthusiast Gaming Centers. These parties will also collaborate on a number of new experiences in the mobile, blockchain, web 3.0, NFT, and crypto gaming sectors.
“As we consider new opportunities in Web 3.0, the Metaverse, NFTs, and cryptocurrency, we’re proud to join a partnership that will really deliver for our creators, communities, and fans, and to kick things off with Hut 8 by bringing our flywheel of opportunities to them, through our latest launch from Addicting Games, and as a partner on Luminosity Gaming,” said Adrian Montgomery, the CEO of Enthusiast Gaming. “With one of the highest inventories of self-mined Bitcoin of any publicly-traded company globally, Hut 8 has established itself as an innovative leader by bridging digital asset mining with the traditional data center industry, and is now serving both traditional high-performance applications and applications in the gaming and blockchain space.”
Hut 8 Mining Corp. is based in Toronto, Canada. Founded in 2017, this organization is one of the largest digital asset mining companies in North America
(All information was provided by Esports Insider, LinkedIn, and PR Newswire)
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