Immutable Teams Up with Polygon to Launch a New Ethereum Gaming Network

Immutable zkEVM, a new chain powered by the soon-to-be-released Polygon zkEVM tech, will emerge as a result of the collaboration.

Mar 20, 2023
by Akira Ming
Immutable Teams Up with Polygon to Launch a New Ethereum Gaming Network
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Here's all about the strategic alliance between Immutable and Polygon

Immutable, a leading blockchain gaming platform, has partnered with Polygon Labs to launch Immutable zkEVM, a new Ethereum gaming chain powered by Polygon. 

Announced at the start of the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC), Immutable zkEVM is a chain for games that offers EVM compatibility, low cost, massive scale, and Ethereum security. It will pair the soon-to-be-released Polygon zkEVM tech with the Immutable platform. However, the existing Immutable X scaling network, based on StarkEx's engine, will continue alongside the new network.

As part of the collaboration, Immutable will power their best-in-class platform products with Polygon's zero-knowledge technology to accelerate digital ownership for gamers worldwide. This will allow established game studios and indie devs to create blockchain games quickly, easily, and safely.

According to Deus Ex DAO counsel 0xKepler, there are many reasons to opt for Immutable zkEVM over Immutable X. One of them is that StarkEx has limited smart contract functionality, whereas the new zkEVM network offers a full blockchain tech stack for developers to build games easily. Games could also launch their own customized zkEVM chain (L3) while taking advantage of cross-rollup interoperability.

"All ZK-rollups make different tradeoffs," wrote 0xKepler. "Comparing Polygon's zkEVM and StarkNet, the former is bytecode level = more developer friendly. On the other hand, StarkNet avoids ZK-proving all the different parts of each EVM execution step, leading to higher performance."

"By combining the #1 Web3 gaming platform – currently serving hundreds of game studios and millions of players – with Polygon's best-in-class zkEVM technology, we are building an Ethereum-centric gaming ecosystem that is poised to take Web3 mainstream and bring digital ownership to millions of people around the world," said Robbie Ferguson, President and Co-Founder of Immutable. "Billions of dollars of skins are sold each year with no rights for players - we're changing that so players are in control, and ownership is the expectation."

The Immutable zkEVM is expected to be released near the end of Q2 2023. Developers can now build on Polygon zkEVM in Beta to experiment with the tech. Immutable will also upgrade the utility of its native token, $IMX, making it the native gas token of Immutable zkEVM and expanding its current fee utility to new zkEVMs on Polygon. 

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