Amber Group: Blockchain of choice for crypto games
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Since Axie Infinity's Big Success, Gaming Has Been the Crypto Industryinvest the mostone of the vertical fields. Many believe that blockchain games are the most likely to push cryptocurrencies into the mainstream, given the low barriers to entry and the games' broad appeal. Amber has invested in several encrypted game companies. When we communicate with the team in the early stages of development, we are often asked,"Which chain should I build my game on?"first level title
Axie Infinity: From Ethereum to Ronin Chain
Axie Infinity on February 18, 2018Open pre-sale, players can claim elves by paying ether"Axie"image description
Wisps shown in the Axie pre-sale announcement
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AnnounceAnnounceLaunch the Ronin chain, an EVM-compatible Ethereum sidechain designed for Axie Infinity and future games built on Sky Mavis. The side chain aims to create a faster, cheaper and easier experience for users. In addition, this sidechain does not require players to pay gas fees to Ethereum miners, but instead accrues value from transaction fee payments.
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Stepn: From Solana to BNB chain
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Stepn is a GameFi track"exercise to make money"An application of a mode that allows players to earn rewards by running or walking. Players need to buy a pair of shoes in their marketplace before starting the game. When players walk or run in their shoes, they are rewarded with GST tokens, which can be sold on the open market or used in games. The game encourages players to use GST tokens to upgrade shoes, and players can earn faster GST tokens through upgrading. The price of upgrades will gradually increase, up to level 30. And for some higher-level upgrades or shoe casting, players also need to use the governance token GMT. This complex but interesting in-game economic model has attracted many players to design their own optimal strategies to maximize their profits.
Transaction costs on Solana are significantly lower compared to Ethereum and other blockchains, which may be why Stepn decided to launch on Solana. Stepn won the Solana IGNITION Hackathon chain game sectionfourth place. However, the Solana network has been plagued by occasional network outages and performance degradations for several hours at a time. This caused the Stepn team to fail to communicate correctly with Solana nodes, resulting inasset transfer delay. It is not difficult to understand that most users who do not understand the Solana mechanism blame Stepn for the failure. Even though Stepn tried to explain to users that these issues were not caused by them, this still prevented negative impact on the player experience.
In order to reduce the risk of running on a single chain, the Stepn team decided to expand the deployment to the BNB chain. Although the transaction cost on the BNB chain is not as low as that of Solana, it is still relatively cheap compared with other Layer 1 blockchains. In addition, the huge community of the BNB chain has expanded the user base for Stepn. At the time of writing, the number of daily active addresses on the BNB chain reached 970,218. April 2022,Binance Labs Announces Strategic Investment in StepnSource: CoinMarketCap
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Although Stepn is technically "multi-chain", the game is relatively isolated between the two blockchain networks. At the time of writing, there is a large spread between GST ($0.14) on Solana and GST ($0.32) on the BNB chain due to the lack of a cross-chain bridge for GST tokens between the two chains.
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DeFi Kingdoms: From Harmony to the Avalanche Subnet
DeFi Kingdoms is a role-playing (RPG) mythology game originally launched on Harmony. It “gamifies” DeFi (hence the name) by wrapping DeFi activity into a fun gaming experience. Users earn Defi Kingdoms’ native token JEWEL by completing tasks and selling in-game items. Users can also pledge JEWEL in virtual banks, similar to single asset pledges in DeFi.
It is worth noting that DeFi KingdomsannouncedA new domain called Crystalvale is scheduled to be constructed on the Avalanche subnet in December 2021. The core of DeFi Kingdoms remains unchanged in Crystalvale, while a new token, CRYSTAL, is introduced to power the new realm. Users can transfer their JEWEL tokens from Harmony to Avalanche's DFK subnet through the cross-chain bridge, and earn CRYSTAL tokens by staking JEWEL tokens. JEWEL tokens are used to pay gas fees on the subnet, while CRYSTAL tokens are the main currency in the game. A compromise between different stakeholders led to the dual-token design—new players wanting to explore new territory without the old baggage, while existing JEWEL holders fear value dilution from the introduction of new tokens.
The team chose to partner with Synapse as the official cross-chain bridge for sending tokens between Harmony and Avalanche. However, the existence of a unified currency JEWEL across the two chains also brings potential problems of arbitrage, liquidity, and cross-chain bridge vulnerabilities (for more details on cross-chain bridge risks, please refer to ourimage description）。
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Although DeFi Kingdoms found market fit on Harmony, the team decided to migrate to Avalanche, possibly in pursuit of better scalability, higher security, and greater community influence. If DeFi Kingdoms is the only game on this subnet, its users will be able to fully enjoy up to 4,500 TPS. At the same time, because the Avalanche subnet is also verified by the main network nodes, there is no compromise on security and decentralization. In addition to Avalanche's technical capabilities, the Avalanche Foundation also launchedMultiverseplan, which is "an incentive program of up to $290 million to accelerate the development of a brand new subnet Internet." DeFi Kingdoms became the first subnet project to receive funding from the program, with funding amounting tofirst level title。
Illuvium: Immutable X protocol
Illuvium is a fighting game that collects NFTs. Players can hunt and capture hundreds of different beasts in the game"Illuvial"fight together, each"Illuvial"All are NFTs. Players can complete evolution by synthesizing multiple Illuvials to generate more powerful beasts. There is also land available for purchase. Illuvium is similar to Pokémon-style games, except for the land-buying mechanics, with added features including player-to-player battles and betting on the outcome of battles. Illuvium co-founder Kieran Warwick recently announced on Illuvium's Discord server that the game will be released onAugust 30, 2022。
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Sandbox: From Ethereum Layer 1 to Polygon Layer 2
AnnounceAnnounceUsers can transfer their funds to Polygon's PoS chain, thereby alleviating high transaction fees.
Polygon's PoS chain is the main public chain of the Polygon network. However, Polygon is also launching a variety of other scaling solutions, including Edge, which allows developers to build and run their custom blockchains. Developers can customize gas costs and validator groups just like with Avalanche subnets.
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Drawing on the above examples, we summarize the key characteristics of several major blockchains in terms of scalability, transaction fees, chain reliability, user base, and representative games.
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