Playdex and Mantle Partner to Supercharge Web3 Gaming

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5 min readMay 9, 2023

We’re excited to announce that Playdex, your favourite social gaming platform, is joining forces with Mantle, the world’s first Ethereum L2 network that’s led and built by BitDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). This partnership aims to connect a multitude of web3 projects, building a wider and more vibrant ecosystem for blockchain gaming and unlocking new possibilities for gamers around the globe.

What is Mantle?

Mantle is a high-performance Ethereum layer-2 network built with modular architecture delivering high security at low fees. Builders can leverage Mantle’s unique design to build dApps with exceptional UX, all while relying on Ethereum’s unrivaled security. It combines roll-up technology with a decentralized data availability layer, driving supercharged performance with low fees and faster finality.

Mantle brings hyperscale easily to the fingertips of game developers, allowing them to bring more of their game ecosystems on-chain without incurring major gas fees and in a way that doesn’t compromise on security. As a DAO-led network, Mantle is guided by a decentralized community of stakeholders, making it truly community-driven.

What is Playdex?

Playdex is a social gaming platform founded by Filipino gamers with a mission to empower the next generation of gamers to play better together and get rewarded for their passion for gaming. The all-in-one platform provides everything you need as a gamer, including access to over 500 web3 games and an NFT rental marketplace where players can easily rent assets from NFT owners and start playing their favorite games.

In addition, Playdex offers tournaments and leaderboards where gamers can compete against each other and win exciting rewards. The prize pool disbursements are also seamlessly integrated into the Playdex platform, making it even easier for gamers to receive their hard-earned rewards.

How are Playdex and Mantle partnering together?

Through this partnership, Playdex gains access to Mantle’s wide ecosystem of projects that are revolutionizing web3 like BitDAO, one of the largest DAOs in the world. As a BitDAO incubated project, Mantle has inherited strong connections and experience in the gaming sector from fellow BitDAO initiatives Game7 and HyperPlay, which are developing essential tools for game developers and pushing web3 gaming closer to realizing the vision of interoperability and true ownership for players.

Mantle is also well connected with the Bybit ecosystem, working together to develop new technologies that let people work, engage, and transact together in new ways. As the 3rd largest crypto exchange in the world, Bybit has 11 million total users who are welcome to revolutionize their web3 gaming journey with Playdex.

What does this partnership mean for gamers?

In return, Playdex will enable NFT rentals on the Mantle Network as their rental solution partner. NFT rentals allow gamers to rent in-game items and start playing the latest games for a fraction of the cost. Several gaming dApps have been launched on the Mantle Network so far, such as Bullieverse, one of the fastest growing web3 gaming metaverses powered by Unreal Engine; Angelic, a turn-based strategy combat with narrative RPG; and Roboworld, a free-to-play, reality-verse immersive trading card game with true ownership.

In the future, Playdex might just be bringing some of these hottest gaming dApps to our platform, increasing the reach of the Mantle Network. With the possibility of hosting these games on Playdex’s NFT marketplace and powering them with our cutting-edge rental technology, gamers will have easier access to the most immersive and engaging experiences in the web3 gaming world. Gamers can thus discover the newest games built on Mantle and stay up to date in the latest developments in the gaming world.

What does this mean for the rest of web3?

The partnership is not only beneficial to gamers but also to developers and other stakeholders in the ecosystem. With Mantle’s extensive network and resources, developers can leverage the blockchain-based infrastructure to build and deploy their dApps, as well as tap into an even larger target market through Playdex’s social gaming platform.

This partnership also has positive implications for stakeholders as it enables more people to onboard onto web3. By combining Playdex’s platform with Mantle’s DeFi services, a more robust and inclusive ecosystem that rewards innovation and creativity is created. Thus, the stakeholders of Playdex and Mantle can look forward to a more diverse and thriving community that benefits everyone involved.

Conclusion

The partnership between Playdex and Mantle is a game-changing move towards accelerating the mass adoption of web3 gaming. By combining Playdex’s rental solutions with Mantle’s high-performance Ethereum layer-2 network, gamers can enjoy exceptional user experiences and new possibilities. The partnership will also provide more opportunities for innovation, progress, and building a more sustainable ecosystem for blockchain gaming.

Excited about the future of gaming? Stay up-to-date with the latest developments and upcoming updates by following the online communities of both Playdex and Mantle. Check out the official links below and join us in being a part of the exciting advancements in web3 gaming!

About Mantle

Mantle is a high-performance Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) modular L2 network built by BitDAO and governed by the $BIT community. Mantle’s modular rollup architecture separates transaction execution, data availability, and transaction finality. As the first L2 network partner for restaking protocol EigenLayer, Mantle directly inherits security from Ethereum while offering high performance at low fees.

As the world’s first DAO-led L2 network, Mantle is pioneering a vision for a more collaborative decentralized economy to showcase the potential of tokenized governance. To support the next-generation of innovators, builders, and developers, Mantle is growing its ecosystem via its EcoFund, which helps to manage a catalyzed capital pool of $200M. Mantle also offers a Grants Program that provides milestone-based funding to promising projects that help expand, secure, and decentralize the Mantle Network.

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About Playdex

Playdex is a social gaming platform with the mission of enabling and empowering the next generation of gamers to play better together and get rewarded for their passion for gaming.

Sign up on www.playdex.io today to start playing 500+ web3 games, renting your own gaming NFTs, winning leaderboards, and so much more!

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