CCP Games, the creator of Eve Online, has appointed Stefán Þórarinsson, a former economist at the Central Bank of Iceland, as its new Head of Economy. Þórarinsson will be conducting experiments to tinker with the virtual economy of Eve Frontier, a blockchain-based survival game, in order to create a player-driven financial system. The initial experiment will focus on recording and observing how the game's economy works. Once the game's economy opens up to tokens that can be exchanged for real-world currencies, the game will enter a series of cycles to add new gameplay and economic features. The goal is to build a simple and flexible player-driven economy. The game will allow players to create custom missions and bounties using Ethereum's Solidity language, potentially creating new economies within the game. CCP Games hopes that the economy will eventually become fully self-sustaining and autonomous. The company's CEO believes that Eve Frontier's use of smart contracts could be a game-changer for not only games but for the world overall.



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