<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Justin Kan, the co-founder of the video game livestreaming service Twitch, and other gaming industry entrepreneurs are launching a Solana-based marketplace designed for gaming non-fungible tokens (NFTs) called Fractal.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fractal will act as a primary market, in which gaming companies can drop new products for fans, as well as a secondary market where users can sell their NFTs to each other. The Fractal team also hopes to develop new use cases for NFTs in gaming, Kan wrote in a </span><a href="https://fractal.medium.com/introducing-fractal-98a8162a0a6f"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Medium</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> post. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other Fractal founders include Robin Chan, who founded a mobile gaming company called XPD Media and the game development giant Zynga, and Mike Angell, who previously worked at the firms Fast and Shopify. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Investor interest in blockchain gaming has grown rapidly within the past few months with firms such as </span><a href="https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/110333/community-gaming-raises-2-3-million-seed-funding-coinfund-dapper-labs"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CoinFund and Multicoin Capital</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> funding blockchain-based gaming startups. Even the popular NFT project Bored Ape Yacht Club is expected to have a </span><a href="https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/127304/bored-ape-yacht-club-game-slated-to-launch-in-q2-via-animoca-brands-partnership"><span style="font-weight: 400;">blockchain-based</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> game in Q2 of next year through a partnership with </span><a href="https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/112621/popular-nft-game-splinterlands-raises-3-6-million-from-animoca-brands-and-others"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Animoca Brands</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>