How 0G Can Power Better Web3 Gaming

Picture a plain with dozens of troops fighting in a massively multiplayer online game (MMORPG. Thousands of complex interactions are happening at once – spells, blocks, critical strikes, deaths, revivals. Each character is controlled by a gamer, plus there are non-playable characters. Now, zoom out to the whole world of battles, quests, loot, chats, and everything else happening in that game’s universe. Fully on-chain gaming must capture each of these movements at a sub-second level, which is currently infeasible.

How could a blockchain possibly manage Web3 gaming fully on-chain?

The answer: 0G. 

Blockchain games require:

• High throughput

• Massive scalability

• Low fees

• Large databases

• Interoperability, and

• AI integrations

0G is the only solution capable of delivering on all of the above fronts, providing the technical foundation that Web3 gaming needs. 

Existing DA Solutions Cannot Serve Web3 Gaming

Web3 gaming currently exists primarily off-chain as the infrastructure available to support on-chain gaming does not exist. 

Existing data availability (DA) solutions are inadequate in terms of speed and throughput, unable to support next-gen gaming that require thousands of players and AI agents simultaneously interacting in complex digital worlds. Not only must they store vast amounts of data (game information, user positions, items, etc), but this data must be quickly queried and updated as the game evolves.

Doing this on-chain is not realistic given throughput and latency constraints.

For example, Celestia (considered a DA pioneer) has throughput limited to 6.67 mb/second. In contrast, based on testnet testing, 0G can reach the unprecedented DA throughput of 50 GB/second at any given moment in time (~7,600x greater).

How so? 0G has completely rearchitectured DA to support smooth gameplay, providing a much faster and cheaper solution.

Scalability, Throughput, and Storage

Think about an open-world game, strategy game, or even a turn-based battle card game. Bringing these games on-chain at scale means thousands of transactions per second (each!), at a minimum.

This is why Web3 games require fast, scalable blockchain infrastructure. 

0G gives blockchains and the Web3 games built on them fast, scalable infrastructure. To support this, 0G has a massively scalable storage network (“0G Storage”) that can be quickly queried for data retrieval or data verification. This means that everything related to a game is quickly retrievable (assets, positions, gameplay history, etc) and with high throughput. As mentioned above, throughput is estimated at ~7,600x greater than a leading DA solution.

Meanwhile, the system verifying this data (“0G DA”) is infinitely scalable and can therefore quickly query or verify data regardless of network demand.

This means that gaming with 0G is:

• Highly scalable

• Extremely fast throughput

• Deep interconnected data storage

On a small scale these might be deemed irrelevant, but it’s the technology truly necessary to bring gaming on-chain.

Blockchain Gaming With Low Fees

Open-world games have a massive amount of possible scenarios that could unfold, with each action resulting in a unique outcome that must be recorded. If transaction fees are high, Web3 games become too expensive. In fact, if fees are anything but microscopic, Web3 games become unplayable. 

Even Layer 2 transaction fees are too high to support on-chain gaming, instead requiring reliance upon Layer 3 architectures such as Arbitrum’’s Xai Games (with Arbitrum being a partner than can use 0G for DA).

While high-throughput networks can be valid options for Web3 gaming, it’s around storage where 0G really differentiates itself. Its storage system is already built-in and massively scalable, meaning greater storage capacity and faster throughput. This provides a far superior architecture to networks relying upon data availability systems with no built-in data storage.

Web3 Gaming Interoperability

Interoperability is one of Web3’s key advantages, referring to the ability to move items, characters, and other tokenized elements between games and networks.

Without 0G, there is a challenge in communicating between various EVM and non-EVM networks, as well as general latency issues around fast communication between networks.

0G is built for interoperability, with its modular architecture capable of being seamlessly integrated into a wide array of legacy and upcoming blockchain networks. This means that any building with 0G can communicate with other projects built using 0G, as well as various external networks (using 0G’s interoperability partners such as Axelar).

Artificial Intelligence in On-Chain Games

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making games more complex, interoperable, and endless. AI can continually design lush landscapes and dungeons, making games more varied and extending them beyond the point they would end if made by only human designers. AI agents can even exist as NPCs within games, and these AI agents could be ownable by players. 

0G supports on-chain AI models. This allows Web3 games to harness AI features. 

Further, with its ultra-high throughput, scaling, low fees, and interoperability, 0G can power blockchain games with AI far much more smoothly than any other DA layer. 

The Future of Web3 Games

Web3 games need infrastructure that can support countless players battling in lush spaces across vast digital worlds. Especially for fully on-chain games and games with intensive AI features, performant infrastructure is a basic requirement. 

That’s exactly what 0G is doing for Blade Games, an on-chain gaming infrastructure provider using zero-knowledge proofs to store game state on-chain. Blade does this in real-time, letting players verify their game process and settle results – marking a huge step in the growth toward fully on-chain gaming.

0G is designed to smoothly power the most intensive Web3 games. It has been meticulously built for speed and efficient data retrieval, thriving even in the most data-heavy use cases.

Games we can hardly imagine today can be built on blockchains that use 0G. 

Want to start building on 0G? 

Visit 0G’s website to learn more.