‘Crypto Unicorns’ Game Ditching Polygon for Arbitrum’s Xai Network
One week after launching its huge XAI token airdrop, Arbitrum’s Xai gaming community has one other massive piece of reports: Blockchain sport developer Laguna Video games is migrating Crypto Unicorns and associated NFT video games over from Ethereum sidechain community Polygon.
Based in 2021, the increasing Crypto Unicorns ecosystem consists of the core land-based constructing and battling expertise, spinoff jousting, and celebration video games. The mission’s NFTs have generated about $35 million price of buying and selling quantity to this point.
Laguna Video games co-founder and CEO Aron Beierschmitt informed Decrypt that the staff had run into “challenges” working a sport on Polygon, notably with community gasoline spikes that made it costlier to function the sport and created friction for gamers.
He stated that Laguna Video games started subsidizing gamers’ community gasoline charges to the tune of some $5,000 to $10,000 a month however that it was unsustainable. Xai, described as a layer-3 gaming community constructed on prime of Arbitrum (itself an Ethereum layer-2 scaling community), lets gamers keep away from such charges totally because of a gasoline subsidy.
“You simply have to obfuscate a few of that friction whereas not eliminating the issues that really matter, just like the safety of the particular property themselves,” Beierschmitt defined. “It actually is a gigantic variety of issues which can be going to enhance as we transfer all of our contracts over.”
No official timeline has been set for the migration, however stated that Laguna Video games is working on “an ASAP foundation” to finalize the plans and dealing carefully with Ex Populus, the sport studio that works alongside the Xai Basis and Arbitrum developer Offchain Labs on the Xai community. Ex Populus will even present advertising assist for Laguna, performing akin to a writer.
Attributable to having greater than 25 sensible contracts that not solely collectively energy Crypto Unicorns NFTs but additionally gameplay logic, Beierschmitt claimed that it is going to be the “largest migration within the historical past” of blockchain video games as a result of sheer quantity of code that shall be ported over to Xai.
He stated to anticipate a “staged rollout” that features a number of migrations alongside the way in which, together with “in all probability some airdrop bulletins and enjoyable stuff too.”
Tobias Batton, co-founder and CEO of Ex Populus, informed Decrypt that it’s “large validation” to have a longtime crypto sport studio like Laguna Video games transfer over to Xai. He added that there’s been a “huge inflow” of initiatives that wish to construct on and/or migrate to Xai, and that there shall be many extra bulletins forward.
“We’re actually excited that proper out of the gate, we’ve some proof that that is really going to work,” Batton stated, “and that massive gamers are transferring to our ecosystem.”
Simply final week, the Xai Basis launched the XAI token, providing an airdrop to reward customers that function Sentry Nodes to assist the community, sure NFT house owners, and customers who interacted with a Binance launchpool marketing campaign. XAI hit a brand new excessive worth of $1.21 on Wednesday, pushing the worth of the full airdrop (125 million XAI) to over $151 million.
Edited by Ryan Ozawa.
