Blockchain

Blockchain and distributed ledger technology plays an important role in the implementation of the project. The financial architecture built on the blockchain enables the required level of interaction between tokens, economic processes and an exchange of value.

It also plays an important role in the exchange and storage of NFT. With blockchain technology, gamers can be the actual owners of in-game assets.

In-game processes, the voting system, asset storage and synchronization with the user's wallet, these would not have been possible without the building of a blockchain-based architecture.

The NFT’s will live on the Ethereum Blockchain as will many of the static assets as this provides the best store of value and appreciation potential for the NFT owners. However, in order to minimize gas and transaction fees sidechain technologies will be utilized in addition to several other methodologies.

The MECH.GAME Mechaverse uses a combination of Ethereum and a sidechain to increase speed and reduce transaction fees. We chose Ethereum as it is the most widely used and supported blockchain as it pertains to NFT's and it has the largest NFT user/fan base. This is important because we want to preserve and increase the value of the player owned NFT's and give the the best opportunity to sell should they so choose. The best way to do that is with the Ethereum blockchain. However, as awesome as Ethereum is, at least until ETH2 comes out building a game solely on the Ethereum blockchain would not be feasible from a scalability standpoint. Which is why we are utilizing a side chain for the key game elements to reduce fees and increase speed. Currently we are working with Polygon as the side chain, but are also testing several other promising technologies.

We have learned that while our users care about blockchain technology they are focused on the benefits it can bring, rather than the pure focus on decentralizing every aspect. As long as we provide a tamper-evident distributed ledger that ensures scarcity and allows our players to own and trade their assets it will be enough, for now and we will scale to full decentralization when the technology advances support it.

The mechanics of Play to Earn do not require a fully decentralized public blockchain. We believe that part of the ethos of web 3 is the idea of users being rewarded for the value that they bring to applications and this is what we choose to focus on with MECH.GAME.