# The Simplest Back-End  in Web3 Gaming

All the developer tools you'll ever need to bring blockchain into your game — marketplaces, token rewards, and item minting in one API layer.

## Player Trading Post

### Live

`GET /v4/data/collections`

List and trade in-game items between players — inventory synced from chain in one API call.

### Weapons

- **Ember Blade**  
  Epic · PWR 142 · 262 gold

- **Frost Axe**  
  Rare · PWR 98 · 255 gold

- **Storm Bow**  
  Legendary · PWR 210 · 404 gold

- **Void Dagger**  
  Rare · PWR 87 · 318 gold

## Build an in-Game  Marketplace

Simple code handles all the essentials for an NFT marketplace within your game environment.

## Mint Items as NFTs

1. Pick an item from the trading post above
2. It takes a few simple steps to mint collectible items into NFTs.
3. This demo previews the mint flow without sending a real transaction.

`POST /v3/nft/mint · GET /v4/data/metadata`

### Item type

- Weapon  
- Armor  
- Character skin  
- Consumable

### Rarity

- Common  
- Rare  
- Epic  
- Legendary

## Award Players  With Tokens

With Tatum launching tokens is ridiculously easy. Launch, distribute, and handle all token transactions from your game backend.

`POST /v3/blockchain/token/transaction`

Reward players with fungible quest tokens — pick a recipient, choose the reason, and send from your game treasury.

### Quest Gold Rewards

- QGLD
- Payout **100 QGLD** → Nova

## Why Developers Build With Tatum

> “Tatum helps us build robust product solutions in a fraction of the time.”  
> **Zac Barron**, Product Lead at Binance

> “Building a product in the crypto space is hard. Making it work reliably across chains — even harder. Tatum helped us meet our deadline.”  
> **David Spitzer-Dulagan**, CTO at Limewire

> “Tatum accelerates our web3 development.”  
> **Hitoshi Harada**, Co-founder & CPO at Alpaca

## Blockchains

- [Arbitrum One](/content/chain/arbitrum-one/index.html)  
- [Base](/content/chain/base/index.html)  
- [Bitcoin](/content/chain/bitcoin/index.html)  
- [BNB Smart Chain](/content/chain/bsc/index.html)  
- [Ethereum](/content/chain/ethereum/index.html)  
- [Polkadot](/content/chain/polkadot/index.html)  
- [Polygon](/content/chain/polygon/index.html)

## Use Cases

- [Banking](/content/use-case/banking/index.html)  
- [Wallets](/content/products/wallets/index.html)  
- [Gaming](/content/use-case/gaming/index.html)  
- [Compliance](/content/use-case/compliance-and-accounting/index.html)  
- [Token Minting](/content/use-case/token-minter/index.html)  
- [NFTs](/content/nfts/index.html)

## Resources

- [Documentation](https://docs.tatum.io/)  
- [Community](/content/community/index.html)  
- [Support](https://support.tatum.io/support/home)