The online Squid Game, which is "coming soon", is a crypto play-to-earn platform inspired by the Korean series about a high-stakes tournament of children's games. Unlike the TV show, there are no "deadly consequences" and no limits to the number of people who can play, bu to participate in each game players need to put up a stake in the form of Squid tokens or related NFTs from the maker's marketplace.
The tokens launched on Tuesday and have since seen a dizzying price rise, from $0.012 to $6.27 by 9:00am EST on Friday, according to CoinMarketCap. However, anyone looking to make a killing by trading the token could lose out, with CoinMarketCap warning that it has received multiple reports that people are not able to sell Squid on
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