Hello, Cartesi Rollups Alpha 0.4.0

How we’re welcoming game developers to The Blockchain OS with Lua.

Cartesi Foundation
Cartesi
2 min readJul 11, 2022

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Hello, Lua developers. Welcome to The Blockchain OS. Start creating your wonderfully complex games with the benefits of blockchain technology today. With this new Cartesi Rollups release, take a look at a working code built with Lua and see how a DApp with Cartesi looks, works, and feels. Then, make the decentralized game of your dreams come alive on The Blockchain OS.

With a new Cartesi Rollups example using Lua, we’re welcoming another developer community to make their home on The Blockchain OS. Roblox. Angry Birds. World of Warcraft. Think of what’s been built using Lua and imagine all that, elevated with the advantages of blockchain. As one of the most widely used languages in video game development, start looking forward to a new ecosystem of diverse and vibrant games built on The Blockchain OS.

What else is new in Cartesi Rollups Alpha 0.4.0.?

  1. Rollups examples 0.7.0.
  • A first example showing how to code a Cartesi Rollups DApp using the Lua programming language, which is a very popular programming language in the game industry.
  • A new variation of our C++ example. This time we will show how to code a C++ DApp using ioctl (input/output control) to make HTTP calls at the device level of the Linux OS.
  • Our “ERC20 Deposit” example was enlarged to show how to encode vouchers, although it is not possible to execute them yet.

2. We improved our exception handling mechanism and, with this change, if the application dies, the exit code will be captured and an exception will be raised. No more tainted sessions!

Want to explore the updates for yourself?

Head over to the Cartesi Github to dive right in:

About Cartesi

The Blockchain OS is a decentralized layer-2 infrastructure that supports Linux and mainstream software components. For the first time, developers can code scalable smart contracts with rich software tools, libraries, and the services they’re used to, bridging the gap between mainstream software and blockchain.

Cartesi is enabling millions of new startups and their developers to use The Blockchain OS and bring Linux applications on board. With a groundbreaking virtual machine, optimistic rollups, and side-chains, Cartesi paves the way for developers of all kinds, to build the next generation of blockchain apps.

Welcome to The Blockchain OS, home to what’s next.

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