Launched by Playnance, PlayBlocka new Layer-3 from Orbit, is ready to welcome more than ten thousand daily active users to its growing ecosystem of web3 games ranging from decentralized trading, sports and arcades. The chain will provide game developers with extensive white labeling opportunities and seamless platform integrations, while eliminating previously existing drawbacks of blockchains, such as requiring users to pay for gas. The official launch of PlayBlock on the mainnet is scheduled for early April.
PlayBlock’s forward-looking design allows game developers to freely exercise their design choices while remaining connected to the platform, greatly simplifying the sign-up process for players by providing a universal profile that allows them to carry their identity, achievements and digital assets seamlessly across various games in the ecosystem. The new Layer-3 is poised to lead the next wave of mass web3 adoption, with a rapidly expanding portfolio of over a hundred games in development.
“Launching our dedicated channel is a natural evolution of Playnance’s vision as one of the leading peer-to-peer web3 gaming platforms”, said Roman Levi, CTO of Playnance. “Our ambition is driven by the goal of combining the benefits of Web3 channel gaming with the fun and accessibility of traditional gaming, all without the complexity of web3.”
The PlayBlock channel, developed using Arbitrum Nitro’s rollup technology, will run on Gelato’s RaaS platform which natively leverages a suite of leading web3 services such as Relayers, VRF, Functions, and Account Abstraction, to meet the unique needs of the PlayBlock ecosystem. This allows developers to create more user-friendly gameplay directly on the blockchain, improving transparency, fairness, and ownership of in-game assets.
By leveraging Arbitrum’s Anytrust technology, the new PlayBlock chain achieves a 250ms block time and near-instant finality, capable of processing thousands of transactions per second. PlayBlock leverages Orbit’s native gas token functionality by introducing the PBG token intended to ensure a gas-free user experience. Additionally, PlayBlock Layer3 will have its own stablecoin, USDP, to eliminate volatility and improve the player experience by ensuring that fair reward payouts are always backed by a dollar.
PlayBlock’s Layer-3 chain is designed to eliminate the need for users to pay for gas, enabling persistent, session-based, gas-free gameplay supported by sponsored transactions thanks to Gelato’s natively integrated Relayer. The integration eliminates the need for frequent wallet confirmations and transaction approvals, ensuring uninterrupted and immersive gameplay. PlayBlock will have a dedicated self-custodial native wallet called PlayWall, based on ERC-4337. The PlayWall wallet aims to streamline onboarding processes by providing seamless social login and account creation.
“Playnance approached us with a request to build an end-to-end gaming platform supporting thousands of games and millions of users”, said Hilmar Orth, founder of Gelato. “We have developed a fully-served, self-scaling, gaming-focused rollup infrastructure, enabling Playnance to grow and expand at a rapid pace, while focusing on their core business.”
Over time, Playnance will move towards a multi-chain vision on Arbitrum Orbit. This transition, led by the Gelato RaaS team, will involve scaling to multiple horizontally interconnected PlayBlock Layer-3s chains with a mission to achieve unlimited scalability and increased bandwidth to accommodate a savings of hundreds of millions of players. The implementation will include a shared sequencer for smooth chain-to-chain interoperability.
About Playnance
The Playnance ecosystem bridges the traditional web2 iGaming experience, putting players first, transitioning them to a transparent and trustless world of Web3 GameFi, using cutting-edge blockchain technology for social connection, self-custody solutions and a one-click crypto bridging mechanism. Today, the Playnance ecosystem manages more than 200,000 transactions per day, for a total of more than $450 million paid out. Its flagship product, the plug-and-play P2P trading game UPVSDOWN, is the #1 Polygon iGaming app by trading volume.
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About Gelato
Gelato is a platform all-in-one Ethereum Rollup service built without limits. Built to be super fast, incredibly secure and infinitely scalable, Gelato Rollups allow anyone to build and deploy their fully-served Layer 2 channels natively integrated with industry-standard Web3 tools and services, launching a ready web3 development environment to production in one click.
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About the Arbitrum Foundation
The Arbitrum Foundation, founded in March 2023, supports and grows the Arbitrum network and community with secure scaling for Ethereum. Introduced in March 2023, Arbitrum Orbit is a permissionless path to launch dedicated, customizable Orbit L2 and L3 chains using Arbitrum technology. Arbitrum Orbit enables features such as custom gas tokens, dedicated throughput, customizable permissions, interoperability, and more by leveraging its secure, scalable, and cost-effective blockchain scaling technology. More than 25 Orbit channels have been officially announced, with more than 50 more in active development as of today.