Whitelisted builders and people buildng on sensible contract templates can deploy to the community.
Immutable zkEVM, the Polygon-powered Layer 2 rollup from Immutable, accomplished its early entry mainnet launch.
With its early entry launch introduced on Jan. 29, Immutable zkEVM includes a gaming-focused chain boasting compatibility with Ethereum Digital Machine (EVM) sensible sensible contracts secured by zero-knowledge proofs.
“The chain combines the advantages of zk-rollup expertise with the facility of the Ethereum ecosystem, all whereas providing entry to the complete suite of Immutable gaming merchandise,” Immutable mentioned. “Immutable zkEVM… provid[es] a devoted chain for video games that gives EVM compatibility, low prices, large scaling capabilities, and enterprise-grade safety.”
Robbie Ferguson, Immutable’s co-founder and president, mentioned that greater than 200 video games have already dedicated to launching on the community, together with Guild of Guardians, Metalcore, Cool Cats, and Shardbound. Fergson estimated Immutable would boast a 70% dominance over the web3 gaming sector as soon as the titles are stay.
GameFi tokens rally
The progressive mainnet rollout of Immutable zkEVM comes after GameFi tokens mounted a formidable comeback over the previous three months.
The market cap of GameFi tokens is up 120% since Oct. 30, presently sitting at $20.5B. For comparability, the mixed cryptocurrency capitalization is up 33% over the identical interval.
Immutable’s IMX is the second-largest GameFi taken with a $2.7B market cap after gaining 11% over the previous seven days, in line with CoinGecko. The present Immutable X validium is the Tenth-largest Layer 2 community with a complete worth locked of $190M, in line with L2beat.
Immutable zkEVM
Immutable zkEVM helps gasless transactions, lowering friction for avid gamers by stopping transaction confirmations from interrupting gameplay. Immutable additionally affords sensible contract templates to streamline improvement for sport designers.
Throughout the early entry section, Immutable zkEVM will preserve a mainnet deployer allowlist permitting choose sport studios and ecosystem companions to progressively onboard to the community.
Builders can be a part of the waitlist by signing up through the Immutable Developer Hub. Good contracts constructed utilizing Immutable’s templates will be deployed to mainnet with out going by the waitlist.
The chain helps all of Immutable’s current merchandise, together with its web3 pockets and authentication service, Passport, NFT market aggregator, Orderbook, and funds infrastructure, Checkout.