What is the innovation of the Dark Forest team's new project, Argus Labs, which raised $10 million?

Originally written by Karen, Foresight News

Originally written by Karen, Foresight News

Last week, Argus Labs, a Web3 game studio, completed a $10 million seed round led by Haun Ventures, and simultaneously announced the Layer 2 blockchain "World Engine" designed for blockchain games.

What was the original intention of the original Dark Forest team members to create Argus Labs? What's new at Argus Labs?

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Argus Labs Team Background

Argus Labs is a game developer and publisher consisting of a group of hackers and designers. Argus can be traced back to Dark Forest, a decentralized real-time strategy game based on zkSNARKS, a zero-knowledge proof technology launched in 2020. Argus Labs founder Scott Sunarto is the co-founder of Dark Forest.Argus Labs founder Scott Sunarto alsoserve as

Christopher Wilhelm The studio's CEO is also currently a consultant to the blockchain security company Veridise, and also worked at Uniswap as an intern software engineer for 3 months in 2021.yes

The art director of Argus Labs, joined Argus Labs in March this year, and worked as the character art director at N 3 TWORK Studios, a blockchain game developer and publisher before that, N 3 TWORK Studios completed a $46 million A round of financing in May last year .

In Argus Labs' newly announced $10 million seed round of financing, Haun Ventures invested as the lead investor, and other investors included Robot Ventures, Anagram, Dispersion Capital, Web3 development company Alchemy, and former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan, among others.

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The original design of World EngineAccording to Argus Labs, its World Engineyes

A Layer 2 blockchain specially designed for blockchain games to help game developers build and customize their own open and interoperable game worlds. Through World Engine's Layer 2 sharding architecture, each game can have its own horizontally scalable blockchain.

To address this pain point, Argus Labs plans to design a game-only blockchain from the bottom up, while retaining the advantages of interoperability and composability. This is what World Engine was designed to do. World Engine is a sharded Layer 2 blockchain SDK designed specifically to meet the needs of game developers and players. It can not only inherit the security and decentralization features of the underlying Layer 1, but also allow game developers to focus on Create gaming experiences.

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World Engine Design and Innovation

The sharding design is a major World Engine innovation that enables game developers to distribute their game load across different shards, inspired by the server architecture of compute-intensive massively multiplayer online (MMO) games. A World Engine chain can adjust its throughput according to demand, growing in tandem with developers or publishers.

In addition, World Engine's sharding architecture can avoid interoperability and platform fragmentation issues, and allows game execution (game sharding) to be separated from smart contract execution (EVM sharding), while maintaining high-throughput game server performance, Maintain blockchain interoperability capabilities.

Argus Labs has launched Cardinal, its first game sharding implementation. Cardinal can handle the workload of performance-intensive games. The game logic is written in Go, and developers do not need to learn new programming languages. Cardinal also seamlessly integrates with existing game engines such as Unity and Unreal through client libraries.

The World Engine EVM base shard provides players and developers with a central venue to build user-generated content and platforms that seamlessly interoperate with game shards via the Argus Labs shard router system. EVM sharding functions similarly to EVM Rollup, allowing all developer tools, wallets, and libraries to be used like Ethereum, and also customized through its state precompilation and plugin system with the help of Polaris, a high-performance modular EVM framework developed by Berachain.