Despite blockchain’s soaring popularity, there is a chronic “lack of infrastructure” for developers to build games on Solana, at least according to Mirror World CEO Chris Zhu.
Zhu told Cointelegraph that certain decentralized finance features taken for granted on other blockchains, such as cross-chain swaps and cryptocurrency on/off ramps, are not easily accessible to Solana game developers. “For example, we find it difficult for applications like games to internalize the value of a shared Solana layer that is not designed with just one application in mind,” Zhu said. Specific applications may require custom features such as privacy, instant payments, and asset transfer rules. “Unsupported compliance.”
To address this issue, a few days ago Solana gaming studio Mirror World Labs raised $12 million in its first Series A funding led by Bitkraft, Galaxy Interactive, Big Brain Holdings, and others to further advance development of its game roll-up Sonic. Again in March.
Zhu said that so far, developers have been embracing Sonic’s technical capabilities. “But some of their feedback was that there is major token liquidity on the Solana mainnet,” he said. “This is why we enabled atomic interoperability. By leveraging the HyperGrid Framework (a rollup deployment kit that allows developers to deploy new game engines and virtual machines within the Solana environment), games can leverage atomic interoperability to provide liquidity to the mainnet while Sonic handles the game logic. “You can keep it.”
Currently, Mirror World aims to control and aggregate 12,000,000 transactions per second across Sonic and HyperGrid, supporting a variety of multiplayer real-time game transactions such as inventory purchases, quest drops, and more.
“To achieve this, we had to work directly with Solana validators to prioritize and submit transactions, where our investor Galaxy Interactive has played a big role as Solana’s largest validator,” Zhu said.
Currently, Sonic remains Solana’s only software development kit (SDK). Its closest competitor, Eclipse, seeks to build its Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) layer 2 on Ethereum rather than a Solana-based SDK on its own blockchain. “There are also top gaming chains Ronin (Web3 Games) and Redstone (FOCG) on top of Ethereum, but we aim to bring gaming assets and developers who want to build on Solana Virtual Machine,” Zhu said.
Mirror World previously told Cointelegraph that while Solana has benefited from the memecoin boom and the growing decentralized application market, it “has not achieved a similar level of success” on the gaming side. We believe that the new Sonic protocol can help other developers deploy SVM chains to support their GameFi projects.
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