Just One Game on Solana Is Doing More Daily Transactions Than All of Polygon
SAGE Labs, the browser-based sci-fi sport expertise on Solana from the Star Atlas workforce, noticed over 2.29 million transactions on Sunday—surpassing the whole for your complete Polygon community by about 256,000 transactions.
In accordance with information from analytics platform Flipside Crypto, Star Atlas’ SAGE Labs expertise has seen over 16 million whole transactions because it launched final month. The browser sport is a totally on-chain expertise, with almost each interplay requiring the consumer to signal with their pockets on the Solana blockchain, triggering a small gasoline charge to confirm every transaction.
SAGE Labs is a 2D house administration simulation expertise that’s heavy on menus, simulated useful resource administration duties, and information—versus being a 3D immersive gaming expertise just like the core Star Atlas MMORPG in improvement.
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🔹 16,000,000+ Solana transactions
🔹 15% of each day @solana transactions 🤯
🔹 2,000,000+ DAILY transactions
🔹 8,577 profiles created
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— Star Atlas (@staratlas) October 9, 2023
On Sunday, SAGE Labs recorded 2,293,210 transactions, per Flipside. By comparability, your complete Polygon community noticed 2,037,330 transactions, in accordance with information from blockchain explorer Polygonscan. Polygon is an Ethereum scaling community.
Finally, SAGE Labs transactions alone made up about 15% of all exercise on the Solana community on October 8. However whereas SAGE Labs’ transaction tally might point out a large participant pool, digging into the information suggests in any other case.
SAGE Labs noticed 1,442 energetic gamers on Sunday, every making roughly 1,590 transactions apiece. That’s a staggeringly excessive variety of transactions for one participant—nevertheless it’s due to how the sport was designed.
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The spike in SAGE Labs exercise has generated some social media consideration, with Twitter customers debating how precisely a single sport is dwarfing a whole blockchain ecosystem.
It’s unclear, nonetheless, what number of of those transactions is likely to be from bots or automated accounts. Star Atlas developer ATMTA didn’t instantly reply to Decrypt’s request for remark relating to whether or not it is ready to decide if any, or what number of, of SAGE’s customers is likely to be bots or in any other case automating the expertise.
A Star Atlas consultant beforehand instructed Decrypt by way of e mail that SAGE Labs is “not like another ‘Web3’ sport on the market” as a result of “completely every part is finished on-chain.” When extra (or all) sport components require a participant to signal a transaction with their pockets, it might probably add up—even with a comparatively small participant base.
A sport like SAGE Labs is totally different from different video games that deploy NFTs as a result of many blockchain video games provide an elective crypto expertise—which means that gamers aren’t pressured to attach a pockets or spend crypto to play.
However SAGE Labs requires a Solana-compatible pockets to play, in addition to some SOL or Star Atlas’ ATLAS tokens in mentioned pockets so as to create a personality and progress by way of the expertise.
Star Atlas CEO Michael Wagner beforehand instructed Decrypt that builders can use SAGE Labs to construct their very own UI or modify the sport’s mechanics to create their very own expertise.
Whereas SAGE Labs is seeing substantial visitors, Star Atlas has confronted financial challenges this yr. Again in July, it laid off 73% of its employees. On the time, Wagner instructed Decrypt that the layoffs had been wanted to adapt to the market situations and to cut back overhead to “accommodate an extended runway” for Star Atlas’ continued improvement.
