“Blockchain game Medieval Empires completed a new round of financing of $2 million at a valuation of $30 million.
Aether Games completed $4.5 million in token and equity financing, with Mysten Labs and others participating in the investment.
Blockchain game PlaceWar completes $3 million in strategic financing. ”
From the recent information on blockchain game financing released in May, it can be seen that games occupy an important proportion in various blockchain applications. Blockchain games are regarded as one of the "applications most likely to become mainstream", and major public chains in the market have also made layouts in this area.
Although it is currently in a bear market, the total daily active wallets of blockchain games still reached 800,000 in the fourth quarter of 2022, accounting for 43% of the total daily active wallets of the entire blockchain.
Currently, there are three main types of blockchains for building games: general public chains, game public chains, and game-specific chains. In addition, Layer2 is not a real public chain because it needs to cooperate with the Layer1 main chain. These three blockchains have certain advantages and disadvantages for building games. The performance of these public chains determines the development of blockchain games. However, blockchain games face two biggest bottlenecks in technology:
Scalability: The scalability of blockchain networks is one of the main challenges for blockchain games. For example, Ethereum, the current king of public blockchains, faces problems with slow transaction processing speeds and limited throughput. This causes blockchain games to face delays and congestion when processing large-scale game data and user interactions.
Transaction costs: Since transactions and asset transfers in blockchain games are conducted through blockchain, certain transaction fees need to be paid. This is a high gas fee that is the basic threshold, and ordinary users simply cannot afford the high gas fee to participate in it. In some cases, especially for small transactions or high-frequency transactions, transaction costs may become a burden for players and developers, limiting the development of blockchain games.
It can be seen that all the current large-scale blockchain games have not formed large-scale development, but are slowly groping forward at various technical bottlenecks. Therefore, the public game chain that can be widely adopted in the future must have high TPS and high performance, be compatible with EVM, and more importantly, have low gas fees, extremely low costs such as multi-frequency transaction interactions, and at the same time be able to meet the special needs of games and have strong data storage capabilities.
Some people may ask, the throne of ETH cannot be shaken, and the gas fee is too expensive for us to afford. However, with the development and progress of blockchain technology, more and more public chain projects have emerged, such as Binance Smart Chain (BSC), Avalanche, Solana, etc., and some ETH layer2 second layers, such as zkSync, Arbitum, Optimism, etc., all of which migrate the execution of smart contracts to the second layer chain to reduce the load and transaction costs on the main chain. Therefore, the Ethereum second layer network is not a unique public chain. These are all second-layer expansion solutions based on Ethereum, which aim to improve the scalability and transaction throughput of Ethereum. These public chains all try to solve the challenges of scalability and transaction fees. We will compare the TPS and Gas of several major public chains or Layer2 to help readers understand their differences in performance and cost.
See the picture below: (some commonly used public chains are used as examples for comparison)
Category ETH BSC SOL Optimism Arbitum DMC TPS/per second 15-30 Between 100-300 Between tens of thousands-60,000 Between 2000-3000 More than 4000 More than 10000 Gas/per transaction (ETH) 0.000815 0.0000631 0.000005 0.000000231 0.0000616 Approximately equal to 0 Converted to USD 1.48 0.0198 0.0001 0.00004 0.11 Approximately equal to 0
It should be noted that the TPS and Gas fees of each public chain vary according to the current network status and load. Under high load, TPS may decrease, while gas fees may increase. The TPS and Gas fees of each public chain vary according to factors such as network design, consensus mechanism, number of nodes and usage. In addition, as technology develops and updates, the performance of the public chain may also improve.
In summary, there are significant differences in TPS and Gas fees between public chains. When choosing a public chain, developers and users should comprehensively consider factors such as TPS, Gas fees, security, ecosystem, development tools, and user experience. Different application scenarios may have different requirements for TPS or Gas fees, so it is crucial to choose a public chain that suits your needs.
Well, given the current competition among many public chain wars, the competition and competition for market share among various blockchain projects, each project has its own technical characteristics, consensus algorithms and economic models. Let's think from another perspective. Chain games are one of the important components of building the metaverse. The metaverse is a virtual, multi-dimensional world based on blockchain and other technologies, which contains various virtual scenes, digital assets and user interactions. Chain games provide users with an immersive virtual experience by integrating elements such as games, virtual reality, and social networks, and connect users' digital assets with scenes and interactions in the metaverse. The public chain is the most basic bottom layer. At the same time, in the public chain, storage is an important component, which is used to store information such as data, transaction records and smart contract codes on the chain.
It is worth noting here that in addition to solving the main problems of TPS for interaction and low Gas fees for playability, storage space is also very important and urgently needed in building large-scale games. Everyone also knows that most NFTs on the market are stored off-chain, so there are even fewer real chain games that can be stored on-chain. From the above table, we can see a public chain DMC that we don’t usually see. The numbers are very eye-catching, TPS is 10000+, and Gas fee is 0, which is simply a big rarity! This is a major positive! Let’s first understand what DMC is!
Datamall Chain (DMC) is an open-source blockchain underlying platform for global users, aiming to promote the construction of the next-generation Internet infrastructure and the development of blockchain technology. The future ecology of Datamall Chain mainly includes decentralized storage mining, DeFi, NFT, cross-chain bridging, cloud storage and other products, and is committed to building a decentralized public chain.
The impact of the underlying construction of the Datamall Chain (DMC) storage public chain on the development of chain games.
Let’s get back to the most important topic. Blockchain games have specific requirements for storage bottom layers, as well as urgent needs for scalability of the public chain bottom layer and low-cost high-frequency interactions. Then DMC is a rising star public chain that urgently solves various current problems. It is also a storage public chain for underlying infrastructure - Datamall Chain (DMC), an open source blockchain bottom layer platform for global users, aims to promote the construction of the next generation of Internet infrastructure and promote the development of blockchain technology.
Datamall Chain is a decentralized storage network based on the Nash-Consensus storage contract, providing stable, reliable, and decentralized storage services, allowing users to set different reliability and performance for different types of data, pay different fees, and improve the overall efficiency of decentralized storage. Due to the use of the mature PoSS (Proof of Storage Service) consensus mechanism, DMC's TPS has reached more than 100,000, the transfer speed is seconds, and the GAS fee is close to zero. In addition, DMC's own dynamic underlying game data storage mechanism is very conducive to reducing the cost of participating in the game and promoting the development of the game ecosystem, making its performance far superior to other game public chains. So impressive, DMC is truly born for chain games.
Blockchain: The future of blockchain games
Putting aside the founding myth of Ethereum, games have always been a great testing ground for new technologies throughout history. The development of blockchain games, from encryption to games, and from games to encryption, DMC, as the bottom layer of the new generation of blockchain development, has an important impact and role in the development of blockchain games. It eliminates the risks of centralized servers in traditional games, making game data safer. This method prevents data tampering, loss and hacker attacks, and provides players with a more reliable gaming environment; at the same time, digital assets such as virtual props and virtual currencies in blockchain games are stored in a decentralized manner, ensuring the real ownership of players, thereby realizing true digital asset ownership. Therefore, from the underlying logic, DMC first solves the biggest and most inevitable bottlenecks and obstacles in the current development of blockchain games, and at the same time provides the necessary basic and complete facilities for the development of huge application storage for blockchain games. We are optimistic about the historical process of DMC's promotion of the development of blockchain games!
