Mirror World, a web3 application development platform, is releasing the first game rollup on Solana.The innovative Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) computing engine, called “Sonic,” would enable developers to install virtual machines or gaming engines of their choosing on Solana through its software development kit (SDK) and power in-app purchases, according to the announcement made on March 29.Simultaneously, gaming platforms can build their own on-ramp and cross-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregators for Solana in-game activities thanks to Mirror World’s HyperGrid, the underlying technology of the Sonic SVM.
As initial distribution nodes, 50 gaming clients have received the Mirror World SDK.After integrating the Mirror World SDK, three games—Mahjong Meta, Matr1x Fire, and Seraph/ActozSoft—that collectively funded over $30 million in series rounds have generated over 200,000 visitor and transaction engagements during gameplay.“Mirror World stated that Sonic offers natively integrated payment and settlement infrastructure tools along with user engagement tools required to develop a successful Web3 game.”
According to Mirror World’s CEO Chris Zhu, the company has assisted hundreds of games in the Web3 ecosystem with their monetization and listing.According to Zhu, Sonic wants to build on the current Solana Gaming Ecosystem by processing millions of requests per second for each game and relocating them to Solana L1.With a $299 monthly fee and a $1 million monthly transaction volume cap, developers can integrate a corresponding nonfungible token marketplace into their decentralized application using the Smart Marketplace SDK, another product from Mirror World.
Solana has gained 824% in the last year and is now among the top five blockchains by market capitalization.But compared to Ethereum, Solana’s gaming scene hasn’t developed as quickly; MomoAI, the most popular game, now has just 80,680 unique active wallets.Nevertheless, other projects are seeing success using blockchain technology.Sales of nonfungible tokens on Solana reached an all-time high of $5 billion in February.