Blockchain: Cardano

Why use blockchain in the first place ?

From the very beginning and as it will always be, the heart of the project is to reward those who devote their valuable time and energy to it.

At first, we had a great idea for a video game and needed to finance it. What we were looking for were not only investors but also future players, hence naturally legitimate actors of the decision making process.

With this incentivising logic, we wanted to value time spent experiencing the character, collecting items and efforts upgrading them. Players should be able to sell and buy assets from our game according to their desirability and accessibility, through a secondary marketplace. This process had to be both transparent - to avoid situations like CSGO skins gambling scandal or any kind of fraud - and decentralised. Indeed, nobody should be able to forbid you from selling your hard earned assets.

Those are the reasons why we chose to tokenize game assets and to rely on the blockchain technology for hosting those tokens.

Why Cardano ?

For those reasons, we needed to choose a blockchain supporting tokens and smart contracts. As we are extremely precautious with negative externalities of the project, and as - by nature - the game needs to reach a high amount of players, the choice of a blockchain using Proof of Stake as its consensus protocol was logical. It offers higher transactions per second, lower transaction fees while consuming less energy than Proof of Work.

In this quest for the most fitting blockchain, we found Cardano. This blockchain is based on academic research, using the pear review approach, with all development publicly published online. It has entirely been written in Haskell, a functional language, which while being compelling for developers, allows to test and audit code quite naturally.

We think Cardano is smartly designed, secured and are confident that it has a stable enough infrastructure to host our game on the long run. It is also highly decentralised with its 3000+ validators and we agree with the direction where it is going during this Voltaire era. And while it is usable as of today, it also has for the future a very promising layer 2 solution - Hydra - which will enable even more scalability.

As an ecosystem it also provides positive externalities, hosting impactful projects like Cardashift or Cardano Africa solving "real" world problems. We are proud to be a part of this environment.