Gaming On NEAR Protocol

This article created to give you an idea that what are the gaming platforms that are leveraging NEAR protocol.

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4 min readMar 31, 2021

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Blockchain is a disruptive technology that proved cryptocurrency isn’t the only use case, but blockchain can play a decisive role in the gaming sector. blockchain technology has many unique advantages like transparency, security, tamper-proof, automatic, trustworthy, decentralized, etc, which makes it very suitable for gaming {Reference}.

But the problem is every blockchain isn’t suitable for gaming because each blockchain has a separate set of goals and limited resources for gaming that eventually realized by the creators of gaming platforms, for instance: Most of the gaming platforms created over Ethereum blockchain but, after facing scalability and gas fee issue, they are leaving Ethereum {Reference}.

Here NEAR is a next-generation proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that playing a decisive role for all gaming platform by offering scalability and low costs of operations that leads many gaming platforms to switch their platform into NEAR, and in this article, we will discuss some of these platforms that are now leveraging NEAR protocol.

HASH RUSH

It is a real-time strategy game where you can play to earn cryptocurrency and other rewards, and inside this game, players can trade valuable items and resources thus, HASH RUSH uses blockchain{Reference}. HASH RUSH created on Ethereum before, but cumbersome operation and costly transactions led the creators to reconsider the underlying blockchain by switching into NEAR{Reference}.

ZED

ZED is a stable and thoroughbred manager based on blockchain where anyone can buy, breed, sell and race digital thoroughbreds. Each racehorse is uniquely created with a smart contract on the Ethereum network that links performance data using cryptography. The more your thoroughbred races and the more it breeds, the more superior your racehorse’s legacy becomes{Reference}.

ZED created over Ethereum blockchain but with time when the number of users grows ZED platform face scalability, and high gas fee problems and users of this platform complained about these problems, and finally creators of ZED switch into NEAR{Reference}.

ZEST

It is the first gaming DApp on the NEAR protocol, which is a Virtually Human Studio (VHS) startup created by the creator of ZED. NEAR protocol found to be the best place to develop VHS like ZEST because NEAR has dynamically sharded blockchain design, 10000x time lower gas fee than Ethereum, works similar to AWS and other cloud service providers, NEAR allows developers to cover gas costs for its users, making the onboarding experience for new blockchain users significantly easier{Reference}.

OPGames

It is a game monetization platform where small and medium-sized game developers who unable to catch market share can participate to revamp their single-player game of skills into a multiplayer tournament to earn some crypto payout {Reference}.

Stake.gg

It a decentralized application powered by NEAR and Flux Protocol, where any user can create and take part in decentralized and permissionless prediction markets, tournaments, and community events within the gaming ecosystem. Stake.gg basically created for fantasy game lovers where you don’t give control of your funds to a third-party company to bet on any tournament, eSports match, or streamer without the high gas cost, bookies, or house fees.{Reference}.

Somnium Space

It is an open, social & persistent VR world where you can buy, build, and import any objects to monetize within the Somnium Space. NEAR protocol created a permanent VR presence inside Somnium Space by doing partnership with them{Reference}.

About NEAR protocol

NEAR is an open-source decentralized application platform that accelerates the development of decentralized applications by providing limitless scalability, strong security, and negligible gas fee.

Conclusion:

This article targets both creator and users of blockchain gaming who are still using non-scalable blockchain for their gaming platform and struggling with gas fees and scalability issue can consider NEAR blockchain to switch their platform and if a gamer reading this article can request their favorite game creator to create their next game on the NEAR blockchain which can give a more versatile experience of gaming.

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Hey guys! this is Jiten, I'm a true blockchain lover who love to spread awarness of blockchain technology among world