On October 11th, At Devcon5 in Osaka Japan, MixMarvel held a lightning talk on its Layer-2 solution Rocket Protocol. Devcon has a highly-recognized standard in the blockchain industry. It is the most highly anticipated Ethereum conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers. Held once a year by the Ethereum foundation, Devcon selects its speakers by rigorous standards, and MixMarvel is fortunate to be the one among thousands of applied candidates.

Devcon5 gathered 3000+ Ethereum developers and enthusiasts to discuss the betterment of Ethereum based development. MixMarvel was one of the presenters and delivered a high-level speech on the Layer-2 solution. Considering the moderate progress of Plasma or State channels, MixMarvel, the industry problem solver, provides the blockchain games industry-specific Layer-2 solution: Rocket Protocol. Rocket Protocol has the attributes that strongly excite the Ethereum developers: (1) drastic reduction of learning cost for developers; (2) maintenance of high level of decentralization; (3) successful application in more than eight games and forthcoming support of more games.

According to the feedback from the audience, they came to learn about Rocket Protocol because it addresses specific development problems and targets the key pain points of the blockchain game industry, and has already proven its use scenarios in multiple games. HyperDragons and HyperSnakes gained high recognition in the industry as blockchain games that have proven to be successful with Rocket Protocol’s support. Rocket Protocol also supports large-scale FPS games like Ground Hunter, which indicates that we can anticipate games as massive as World of Warcraft to be realized on the blockchain. The possibility to have massive high-quality blockchain games comparable to mainstream games is what all blockchain developers are striving for.

The key points of the Rocket Protocol, presented in the speech, include:

(1) Existing solution analysis: Public Chains, State Channels, or Plasma cannot meet the needs of blockchain game developers.

(2) Rocket Protocol maintains a high level of decentralization through its BLS+VRF consensus mechanism. There are two nodes in the Rocket Protocol: proposal and validator. They are both generated by verifiable random functions, which is one of the key technological breakthroughs of Rocket Protocol.

(3) Rocket Protocol lowers the learning barrier for developers. The developers no longer need to learn the development languages of the public chains, such as Solidity for Ethereum, and can use languages they are familiar with, such as Java or C++. Furthermore, Rocket Protocol does not restrict developers to one single public chain. Instead, it provides a “Write once and run on any chain” solution to enable developers to launch their dApps on multiple blockchains.

(4) NFT Protocol: NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are widely used in blockchain gaming; a lot of the in-game items are NFTs. Rocket Protocol supports not only NFT generation, distribution, and trading, but also NFT reuse in different dApps. NFT Protocol addresses a wide variety of essential services for NFT use.

(5) Rocket Protocol has now successfully supported up to eight games, including the eminent products, such as HyperDragons, HyperSnakes, and Ground Hunter, as well as Marvel Clans — on which MixMarvel partnered with Klaytn — , CryptoThrone — on which MixMarvel partnered with Ontology — , and the MixMarvel platform game HyperSpeed.

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Rocket Protocol targets the key pain points for blockchain game developers and helps them quickly come on board of blockchain gaming development. As more and more developers adopt Rocket Protocol and join the MixMarvel ecosystem, MixMarvel platform can provide more gaming content. Devcon is only the beginning for the Rocket Protocol; in the future, MixMarvel aims to construct Rocket Protocol as a necessary industry infrastructure for blockchain games.

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