Polygon enlists Xternity to migrate multiplayer Web3 game from Solana

Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Polygon, joined hands with Xternity, a Web3 gaming improvement platform, to migrate and onboard a multiplayer Web3 crippled — Synergy Land — to the Polygon network from Solana.

As blockchain platforms, Solana focuses chiefly connected scalability and cost-cutting, portion Polygon allows for seamless enactment with the Ethereum ecosystem. To assistance transportation Synergy Land’s resources onto the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) chain, Xternity projected a process — via its web migration instrumentality — that tin beryllium utilized to migrate games oregon projects crossed chains.

Speaking astir Xternity’s extremity to accelerate Web3 crippled development, co-founder and CEO Sagi Maman, stated that some players and developers should person the enactment to take their ain blockchain ecosystems.

For users, the migration process involves linking their Solana-compatible wallets, specified arsenic Phantom and MetaMask, burning their assets connected Solana and recreating them connected Polygon. With its migration to Polygon, Synergy Land aims to onboard Web2 users into Web3 without compromising the assemblage hosted implicit the older blockchain.

Web3 projects that opt for EVM migration often question a much extended idiosyncratic base, greater functionality and credibility of the Ethereum blockchain.

Related: Mastercard partners with Polygon to motorboat Web3 instrumentalist accelerator program

On Jan. 17, the Polygon proof-of-stake chain was scheduled for a hard fork. Speaking to Cointelegraph, a Polygon spokesperson shared infinitesimal details astir the upgrade:

“The hard fork is coded for the Block >= 38,189,056. No centralized, azygous histrion is going to initiate it. Validators of the web person to update their nodes anterior to the indicated artifact and they are already doing so.”

The upgrade, approved by 87% of the 15 voters of the Polygon Governance Team, aims to trim state interest spikes and hole the concatenation reorganization problem.