Why did we choose The Wax Blockchain?
Blockchain game developers are faced with a crucial question early in the game development process: Which blockchain to use? This single decision can have long-term consequences. While every blockchain has its pros and cons, some are just a cut above the rest. The WAX blockchain is a gaming-first blockchain that eases the burden on developers and players alike and offers the fastest onboarding experience in the industry.
Today, we’ll be demystifying the WAX blockchain, going over its history, how it got so popular, and why we chose the WAX blockchain for our fully on-chain play-to-earn game Pinupwarlords.
What Is The WAX Blockchain?
The WAX (Worldwide Asset eXchange) blockchain is the most proven and eco-friendly blockchain for blockchain gaming, NFTs, and collectibles. It processes more than 25M transactions daily, and no other chain comes close to it. Other numbers put it way above the rest of the pack, as it already has 12 million WAX accounts and thousands of Dapps.
WAX uses Delegated Proof of Stake as its consensus algorithm, which helps it maintain its lightning speed With 500ms block time
Whereas other Blockchains implement gas fees and resource-inhibiting models, WAX only has a 2% fee on NFT secondary market transactions within the blockchain. However, all of these fees are aggregated and distributed to the stakeholders.
WAX supplies its developers with a variety of blockchain-based tools such as its WAX Cloud Wallet, OAUTH, SSO, dev portal, and a native RNG service.
History
The WAX blockchain was co-founded in 2017 by William E. Quigley, its current CEO, and its COO Jonathan Yantis. Currently, Malcolm CasSelle is the president of WAX, who is best known for creating OPSkins, the largest marketplace for the sale and purchase of digital goods, focusing on in-game skins.
Initially, WAX sprouted from the team’s belief that centralized solutions for buying, selling, and trading items like game currencies or skins were intrinsically flawed. They cited a lack of trust and reliance on traditional payment systems as the biggest issue of systems available at the time, and they set out to solve them.
WAX sought to eliminate the middleman in the sale of digital items and to offer a decentralized transaction settlement service for everyone involved, all while relying on smart contracts to ensure a secure and transparent user experience.
What Makes The WAX Blockchain So Game-changing?
Onboarding Is Simple
The biggest advantage of the WAX blockchain compared to its competition is just how easy it is to create a WAX wallet. You can create an account with a single click by linking it with Google, Steam, Facebook and dozens more social logins.
This solves the biggest issue blockchain games face — onboarding. When a player has to go through a confusing and difficult wallet creation process, they’re less likely to be willing to invest their time in your game. The WAX cloud wallet lets anyone, no matter how little they know about crypto, jump in and enjoy games built on it. Recently, it has implemented a 5 WAX fee to limit bot abuses.
Free Transactions
Another major issue games built on other chains like Ethereum have faced is the gas costs, making playing expensive if not impossible. This is especially apparent with fully on-chain games which take advantage of the blockchain for all parts of the game. WAX’s minimal fee transactions ensure that the game can run without any substantial costs to the player.
WAX Is Eco-Friendly
With many experts posing questions about how blockchain is affecting the environment, some environmentally conscious players want to avoid using certain chains like Ethereum due to their environmental impact. WAX is eco-friendly — it is the first carbon-neutral blockchain.
Growing Community
WAX blockchain has a very engaged community. WAX has been on a steady growth path ever since its inception. The team behind it has been extremely communicative and has put real effort into bolstering the community. This is clearly evident as several major IP providers have joined the WAX community last year.
Embedded Decentralized RNG
RNG is a crucial component of many games. However, on traditional blockchains, developers are forced to create their own random number generators. Since most developers aren’t RNG experts, their RNGs often have weaknesses, putting them at risk of exploitation in the worst cases. WAX has a native RNG service that is completely open-source and easily integrated into DApps. It uses the well-renowned Signidice algorithm with RSA verification. This ensures that results cannot be changed, and its self-verifying nature clearly shows that the RNG is fair, which is crucial to building player trust.
Programming Language Support
While many blockchains only support their own native programming language, WAX supports many popular languages that developers already know. Being able to create smart contracts in languages like C++ helps open doors for developers who may not be familiar with blockchain-exclusive languages but can still make great games.
WAX supplies its developers with a variety of blockchain-based tools such as its WAX Cloud Wallet, OAUTH, SSO, dev portal, and a native RNG service.
Atomic NFT Standard
The WAX blockchain supports a variety of open-source NFT standards. One of them has proven to be highly effective: The AtomicAsset Standart — one of the best NFT standards for gaming. These standards help developers create and deploy assets much faster. Furthermore, the marketplace services that WAX offers to developers provide direct access to both the primary and secondary markets. This makes development more efficient and helps games push out more content faster.
It Is The Best Blockchain For Fully On-Chain Games
Finally, WAX is the ideal blockchain for fully on-chain games like the one we are developing. In games like these, where every interaction is handled exclusively on the blockchain, you might need to make a lot of calls to the blockchain, which will need to handle many transactions. With a blockchain that has a high gas fee and low transaction volumes, this would be impossible.
WAX eliminates processing fees and is fully capable of handling a high number of transactions at any given moment, making fully on-chain games possible.
The WAX blockchain has forever changed the blockchain gaming world. It has single-handedly enabled thousands of Dapps to exist and allows for games that simply wouldn’t be possible under slower blockchains like Ethereum to exist. This is likely one of the reasons why big IP providers (Topps, Funko, etc.) have recently launched NFTs on WAX.
WAX has revolutionized onboarding, allowing newcomers to create a wallet with a single click. Its growing community has already spawned many popular games which are enjoyed by millions of players worldwide… and we hope to make Pinupwarlords one of them!
