PolyCrypt and Ajuna break down gaming barriers with app channel design
- Web3 Foundation grant application proposes to extend Perun feature set with programmable “app channels”.
- App channels go beyond existing state channels to solve latency problems.
- Innovation will meet the growing demand from Web3 game developers.
Zurich, June 2022 — A joint Web3 Foundation grant proposal from gaming pioneer Ajuna Network and decentralized software specialist PolyCrypt seeks to solve latency issues in blockchain games.
The Ajuna platform offers developers a way to build decentralized games using the powerful engines Unity and Unreal. This bridges the gap between blockchain and mainstream gaming, but to compete with AAA titles, latency must be addressed. Only by eliminating the blockchain processing lag will developers be free to create truly sophisticated, exciting games that are not limited to turn-based actions.
Ajuna already uses PolyCrypt’s Perun state channels to pursue this goal; processing gameplay off-chain offers a big improvement in scalability. The new proposal goes even further. The programmable “app channels” can support more complex activity, with a transaction logic defined at channel opening.
Hendrik Amler, CEO of PolyCrypt said: “Ajuna’s infrastructure is a perfect use case for our app channels, showing the great benefit this innovation can offer the gaming community. We have seen growing demand for Web3 gaming applications and are excited to help Ajuna solve the latency problem that has till now been holding back the evolution of this sector.”
Cedric Decoster, CEO of Ajuna, said: “We rely on Perun state channels for the fast, cheap transactions that let us create really exciting, varied games on the blockchain. The development of app channels will enable even greater scaling and even more responsive gameplay, taking our platform further in meeting the needs of ambitious developers to escape blockchain’s traditional limitations.”
About Ajuna Network
Ajuna Network is a Swiss-based decentralized gaming platform bringing blockchain gaming into the mainstream by integrating GameFi functionality with the world’s leading development engines, Unreal and Unity. Built on Substrate, Ajuna leverages the full potential of the Polkadot ecosystem to provide developers with a modular toolbox to easily add fully-featured GameFi functionalities to their games. Ajuna’s ultimate goal is to create real value for both gamers and developers by providing a fully interoperable decentralized ecosystem for games and virtual goods.
About PolyCrypt
PolyCrypt addresses the inherent scalability and privacy challenges of current blockchain systems. We develop secure decentralized software by applying security- and privacy-by-design principles and by using cutting-edge technologies such as blockchain / off-chain and secure multi-party computation. Perun is a state-channel framework designed for machine-to-machine (M2M) and IoT payments.
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