Kritizen

Listen carefully, here’s what’s going to happen. Next week we will launch the @ProofOfPlay multichain: an important new piece of technology that proves a fully onchain game can be invisibly sharded and then scaled to mass-consumer levels. Our first chain, Apex, has been live for many months, and is home to tens of thousands of players. When we launch our second chain, Boss, we will enable seamless trading between our players across each chain - they’ll all use the same marketplace to trade with one another, with neither side ever needing to bridge to complete a transaction. Our first two chains will probably clock over 100 Mgas/s together. This is a significant milestone for scaling onchain compute. We’ll then launch more chains (C-chain, D-chain, etc — rest assured the names will be bangers) and we will ship more infra features over time enabling a completely homogenous experience for our players across these invisible shards. We’ll do all of this on EVM and be the first team to pull it off. It will of huge interest to ambitious web3 game devs (and devs building other large scale applications) who want to build on the mother chain (ETH) but don’t want to be held back by any theoretical or practical limitations in terms of scale. What our engineers are doing is nothing short of outstanding. It’s also important to call out that we stand alongside excellent partners in Arbitrum & Conduit who we’re excited to enter this next chapter with. What about after the multichain’s launch? We’ll ship some killer game features over the months ahead, making @PirateNation more social than ever before & giving players something they’ve wanted for a long time — the ability to flex on each other (kek), in terms of what they’ve collected, but also in terms of skill and mastery of the game. We’ll continue to double down on the fun, ensuring Pirate Nation is a game people want to play because it’s an engaging experience, and not just for rewards. Signups will reopen but likely in a different way than before. New dynamics, new network effects, new fun. More $PIRATE / gems sinks will be added to the game, including some that’ve been directly proposed from our community. While Pirate Nation will attract new players throughout all of this, a huge catalyst for UA growth will be the later launch of our mobile app. We’ve been quietly laying the ground work for this already — from Unity optimizations to the launch of our new, mobile-friendly auth system (Privy), and other things being worked on in the background. We’ll scale Pirate Nation on the multichain and continue building our (yet to be announced) proprietary onchain game engine. When we open it up for other devs to use, it’ll be part of a trifecta of differentiated value propositions the Proof of Play ecosystem will offer that simply aren’t available anywhere else. There’s quite literally never been a better time to be a Pirate, especially one who enjoys novel onchain infrastructure. See you on the multichain.

For 14 of the last 14 days, @ProofOfPlay's Apex chain (home to @PirateNation) has processed >1m transactions per day. We process more transactions per second than the entirity of the Blast ecosystem. We only have 1 app running on our chain. Interesting interesting.