To support the growth of its popular browser RPG Pirate Nation, US-based developer Proof of Play has announced the launch of a second blockchain – Boss Chain.
Players of fully onchain game Pirate Nation are reportedly generating more than 2 million transactions a day, which are currently processed by Proof of Play’s initial Arbitrum L3 chain Apex. As a result, it’s reached max capacity.
With the number of players and transactions continuing to increase, Proof of Play has revealed what it calls its multichain approach, which will see the launch of Boss Chain, the first of what it’s calling “a constellation of interconnected chains”.
In regards to players, they will be able to trade assets across these chains with no bridging required thanks to marketplace interoperability.
And to mark the launch, Proof of Play encouraged players to migrate to the new chain by gifting them Boss Skins for their ships, with the allocation of 20,000 migrating players quickly filled earlier this week.
Proof of Play’s blockchain vision has always reached beyond Pirate Nation.
In a previous interview with BlockchainGamer, CEO Amitt Mahajan explained that the game is more of an experiment as part of a deeper web3 ecosystem. Indeed, through a network of chains, the developer hopes to accommodate the exponential growth to millions of players of fully onchain games.
“To scale to any significant number of users, transactions need to be distributed across multiple chains using the blockchain as an advanced database. During my time developing Farmville, we had to manage around 64 databases to support 30 million daily active users and prevent the game from crashing. This is why Proof of Play is building the multichain – to store data and ensure seamless scalability,” he said.
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