“New ideas pass through three periods:

1) It can’t be done.

2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing.

3) I knew it was a good idea all along!” — Arthur C. Clarke

I believe that every great invention started with a version of a single question:

“How do I solve this problem?”

We had to find a way to stay warm and scare predators away, so we learned how to use fire. We needed to figure out a way to immortalize information— and we invented writing, more than once. Unfolding the secret of electricity and learning to use it to power our machines was a tricky one, solved by countless philosophers, scientists, and engineers spanning over several millennia.

These inventions revolutionized the world on their own — but their emergent features are what really benefited humanity as a whole.

Besides enabling us to move from tropical and subtropical regions and conquer places with colder climates, the fact that we used fire to cook food literally made us smarter.

Forty thousand years of writing down numbers were followed by the true writing of language, which dragged us, kicking and screaming, from the lost pages of prehistory into the dawn of first civilizations. Written words (not numbers) enabled us to pass our knowledge to future generations, resulting in a snowball effect that improved our technology, bit by bit, over the centuries.

Electrical power is what fueled the Second Industrial Revolution, ushered in a new era of globalization and enabled the modern world — everything from light bulbs, refrigerators and TVs to computers, maglev trains, and robots.

The invention of ENJ also started with a question about a problem:

“How to make games fair for both game developers and gamers?”

Here’s the problem with the gaming industry as a whole: Competition has grown fierce over the years, and the costs of development have risen dramatically— forcing developers to employ more and more aggressive monetization methods at the expense of the gamers.

This problem is extremely hard to solve, and it threatened to taint the art form our company has deeply cared for, for almost a decade.

We saw deficiencies in the system, and we decided we need to fix them.

Our solution came in the form of a usable, scalable, secure blockchain gaming ecosystem built for mainstream games — with true ownership of digital assets at its very core.

Done. Solved. If you truly own your gaming assets and can freely trade them or melt them back into ENJ, then even the most predatory monetization methods are inherently fair. If gamers can truly own their items, then they are more likely to purchase them — increasing the developer’s revenue, even if they choose not to implement blockchain-powered trading fees.

True ownership, the most basic feature of our platform, is enough on its own.

Everybody wins.

While true ownership is at the core of what ENJ is, it quickly became apparent that the emergent properties of our platform can not only fix the problems faced by both gamers and developers — but they can also result in groundbreaking game mechanics.

What if you can use your shield in more than one game…

It’s a simple enough idea, really—and impossible to accomplish without blockchain technology.

Don’t get me wrong, eliminating gray market trading, getting rid of botters, hackers & scammers, regulating in-game economies, user base growth, and player-driven value creation are bloody freaking amazing features that immensely benefit both gamers and game developers…

…but the very concept of a Gaming Multiverse is what is truly EPIC.