FarmVille co-creator's crypto game Pirate Nation adds second chain to serve future growth

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  • Pirate Nation, a web3 game created by the developer Proof of Play, announced it is adding a second chain after the first apparently reached maximum capacity.
  • Last year, Proof of Play, which was co-founded by FarmVille co-creator Amitt Mahajan, raised $33 million in a seed round which included the participation of investors like a16z crypto, Greenoaks and Naval Ravikant. 

Proof of Play's web3 game Pirate Nation is adding a second chain after the first reached maximum capacity, the company said in a statement.

The gaming startup, which FarmVille co-creator Amitt Mahajan co-founded, said that its free-to-play game Pirate Nation has become so popular that it has maxed out the capacity of the title's first network, called Apex, built as an Arbitrum L3 chain. Now Proof of Play is adding a second chain dubbed Boss Chain, the company said.

"To continue scaling the game and accommodate the growing number of users and transactions, Proof of Play is launching additional chains, starting with Boss Chain," the game developer said. Pirate Nation, a pirate-themed roleplaying game, launched nearly three months ago. It then quickly secured a token listing on Coinbase.

Last year, a16z crypto and Greenoaks co-led a $33 million seed round in Proof of Play. Naval Ravikant also participated.

In Wednesday's statement, Mahajan described the benefits of relying on more than one blockchain. “To scale to any significant number of users, transactions need to be distributed across multiple chains," he said. "During my time developing Farmville, we had to manage around 64 databases to support 30 million daily active users and prevent the game from crashing."

The company said Apex is currently processing about 2.5 million transactions per day.


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