More than 249 BTC ($172,000) worth of Breakout Coin was sold at the cryptocurrency exchange during the first hour of trade. Gold-linked Digix tokens to follow this evening.

A total of 6.63 million of Breakout Coins is offered for sale for at least 0.00022222 BTC or ¢14.4 apiece. The Breakout Coin is a cryptotoken used by the Breakout Gaming platform. 

During the crowdsales, a number of discounts are being offered to the buyers of Breakout Coin: 25% for all purchases made in the first hour, 15% for the first week, then respectively 10% and 5% for the second and third week of the sale. It will bring the total number of cryptotokens to 19.5 million.

According to Paul Kim, co-founder of Breakout Gaming, the token was issued with the aim of attracting new users to gaming platforms of the company. He reminded that “the online gambling industry generates over $42 billion in worldwide revenue annually, with another $96 billion in the video gaming space.”

He also said that a new platform to be launched soon where Breakout Coin will also be accepted.

The trade in DigixDAO created on the base of the Ethereum blockchain and linked to the price of 1 g of gold will start at 5 pm UTC, according to the International Business Times.

In April, Digix Global, the platform of digital gold assets, made roughly $5.5 million in a crowdsale. A total of two million DigixDAO tokens were sold in twelve hours.

DigixDAO tokens are created using a smart contract based on Ethereum and are shown on the Asset Cards, which include the information about the number of the gold bar and cash memo. An owner of these tokens can redeem physical gold once every three months.

Bittrex cryptocurrency exchange was created in February 2014. At the moment, it has more than 130,000 customers.

Elena Platonova, Alexey Tereshchenko