Games on the blockchain move into a new era

Thanks to better network performance and excellent gameplay!

For two years gaming on the blockchain was nothing more than creating new tokens and trading them. Two years ago Cryptokitties was the most popular decentralized game in crypto. Ever since that time blockchain games have been stuck at breeding and trading collectible items. Two years later blockchain games have finally evolved. Games provide actual gameplay, network can handle serious amounts of player action and these new games just look so much better. Gods Unchained is one of the biggest blockchain games of the moment, and its leading blockchain games into a new era.

When developer Axiom Zen launched Cryptokitties in October 2017, it was just a fun experiment with early blockchain technology. The crypto industry was at the beginning of an enormous bull run and every day the value jumped up a few percent. Cryptokitties users breed and trade unique digital kittens. The game became way too popular for something that was meant as a fun experiment.

The game became a hype, and some kittens were sold for prices into six figures. A genesis kitten was sold for 117 thousand dollars, while many other cats were also sold at car values. This is the news that hit mainstream media, but at the same time the increased hype came with even more traffic.

By December there were so many transactions, that the game was clogging the entire Ethereum network. On December 4th Cryptokitties was responsible for almost 12 percent of all transactions on the Ethereum network. The amount of pending transactions on the network had multiplied almost ten times within just a few days. It caused a fear that the entire Ethereum blockchain would fail, even before it could fully live up to its promise.

The Cryptokitties team worked with Metamask and other Ethereum developers to come up with quick solutions for scaling the game. Miners had already increased their fees, and as a result the birthing fee for a kitten doubled to 0.002 ETH. At the same time the developers tried to communicate more clearly about waiting times…

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