Tokenization platform

A method for integrating real-world items into video games, comprising:

• accessing, by a video game instance of a video game being executed by a user device, an application programming (API) interface of a video game integration system;
• receiving, by the video game instance, a digital token corresponding to a real-world item from the video game integration system, the digital token having a set of digital attributes that correspond to a set of real-world item attributes of the real-world item and being cryptographically linked with a digital representation of the real-world item, wherein the digital token corresponds to an in-game benefit that is unlocked for owners of the token in the video game;
• presenting, by the video game instance, a visual indicium representing the digital token to the user within a digital environment of the video game;
• facilitating, by the video game instance, a transaction by the user for the item within the digital environment of the video game, wherein in response to the user successfully transacting for the item, ownership data of the digital token is updated on a cryptographic ledger to assign ownership of the digital token to the user;
• in response to verifying that ownership of the digital token is assigned to the user, conferring, by the video game instance, the in-game benefit to the user in the video game instance, wherein the in-game benefit corresponds to the digital token;
• and
• revoking, via the video game instance, the in-game benefit of the user in response to the digital token no longer being owned by the user.