Announcing our next chapter: @Immutable’s cross-rollup liquidity solution across multiple L2/L3 zk-rollups, bringing to the next billion players of web3 games, with StarkNet.
Scalable. Composable. Secure. Welcome to #L222 and #L323. 🧵👇
2/ Every world-class web3 game should be built on an Ethereum rollup. But every additional rollup fragments assets and orders.
To solve this, Vitalik proposed a theoretical design in 2021 for allowing NFTs to move freely between rollups. Today, we make that vision concrete.
3/ Immutable will deploy the first cross-rollup liquidity protocol connecting NFT trades across multiple L2/L3s - without compromising Ethereum security.
4/ Our first additional rollup: StarkNet. Immutable X will expand to include composable smart contracts and EVM/Solidity support. Mainstream games can have dedicated L3 instances with over 9,000 TPS each - with no bridges. 🤝 @StarkWareLtd
5/ Our open orderbook paved the road to solving a fundamental problem in NFT trading: connecting traders everywhere - NFT aggregator, boutique marketplace, or in-game.
Now, we’re upgrading to a superhighway so games can support hundreds of millions of daily users and trades.
1/ Immutable X is powering GameStop’s NFT marketplace as their preferred partner - together we are sourcing, building and investing in a world-class pipeline of gaming content to deploy on to the GameStop marketplace using the Immutable X protocol. This is in their 8K (image)🖐️🎤
2/ Immutable and GameStop already have worked together to build:
- Enquiries from 1000s of games and NFT projects which have applied to the $100M GameStop / Immutable fund, including homebrands you would know.
- Promotions for flagship and upcoming games building on Immutable
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- A fully scoped integration targeting a Q2 launch
- A preferred partnership between Immutable and Gamestop for getting the best gaming content in the world to be on the Gamestop marketplace, powered by Immutable X
2/ The round was led by Temasek ($300B AUM), with strategic investments from @animocabrands and Tencent - in one of their first-ever NFT investments.
3/ Our ultimate vision is to bring digital ownership to the world via NFTs.
The raise will allow us to focus on:
- Global expansion w/ 200+ new hires in 22’
- Meet the increasing demand for @Immutable X & partners
- Expand our studio content, @GodsUnchained@GuildofGuardian
1/ Immutable and GameStop are fully committed to making the GameStop Marketplace, built on Immutable X, a leading marketplace for gaming NFTs. Both companies are making large, upfront, capital-intensive investments to build a juggernaut in NFT gaming.
2/ We are building world-class product, marketing and sales teams, including full-time teams at both Immutable and GameStop. The response to our announcement from developers and players has been overwhelmingly positive...
3/ and we are scaling dedicated teams to onboard as much content as possible to this platform. We have already received inbound interest from literally *thousands* of developers.
We’re thrilled to announce that @Immutable is taking another leap forward in the gaming & blockchain industry by partnering w/ @GameStop to power their NFT Marketplace: bit.ly/3ghd1D0 🎮
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2/ The @Immutable X L2 protocol will be powering @GameStop’s upcoming NFT marketplace w/ security, speed, 100% carbon neutrality & zero gas fee.
Our integration will allow current & future NFT projects/ economies to access more liquidity & gaming content w/ mainstream users.
3/ Together, we will launch a $100M $IMX pool, which we intend to use for grants to creators of NFT content and technology, enabling creators to leverage all the benefits the leading L2 Ethereum brings at @Immutable X.
Today we’re announcing that Immutable X, our ZK rollup engine for minting and exchanging NFTs on Ethereum, will be available to all developers worldwide. This is the most significant announcement in our company’s history, as we run with this industry into a new era.
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Costs for creating and exchanging NFTs are too damn high, and we realized a while ago that if we were serious about taking @GodsUnchained mainstream we needed a solution. Sidechains suck, and switching away from Ethereum to another blockchain was (and still is) laughable.
In May we announced our solution for GU, Immutable X: technology developed in partnership with @StarkWareLtd, the pioneers of STARK zero-knowledge proof systems. Since then, it’s become more and more clear we bet on the right horse. This is how Ethereum wins.