Mirror World, a web3 application development platform, is set to launch the first gaming rollup on the Solana blockchain. The company recently announced the introduction of the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) computation engine, known as “Sonic,” which will allow developers to deploy game engines or virtual machines of their choice on Solana using the platform’s software development kit (SDK). This will also enable in-app transactions. Mirror World’s core technology, HyperGrid, will enable gaming platforms to create their own on-ramp and cross-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregators for Solana in-game interactions.
The Mirror World SDK has already been deployed to 50 gaming clients as initial distribution nodes. Three games, Mahjong Meta, Matr1x Fire, and Seraph/ActozSoft, have incorporated the Mirror World SDK and have collectively raised over $30 million in their series rounds. These games have seen significant traffic and transaction engagements, with more than 200,000 generated during gaming sessions. Mirror World stated that Sonic provides integrated tools for payment and settlement infrastructure, as well as user engagement tools necessary for building successful web3 games.
Mirror World CEO, Chris Zhu, mentioned that the company has collaborated with numerous games within the web3 ecosystem to assist with their monetization and listing. The vision for Sonic is to expand the existing Solana Gaming Ecosystem and process millions of requests per second per game, settling them back onto Solana L1. Mirror World also offers the Smart Marketplace SDK, which allows developers to deploy a nonfungible token marketplace within their decentralized application for a monthly fee of $299, with a transaction volume limit of $1 million per month.
Solana has emerged as one of the top five blockchains by market cap, experiencing a gain of 824% over the past year. However, gaming activities on Solana have been slower to develop compared to Ethereum. The most popular game on Solana, MomoAI, has only had 80,680 unique active wallets. Despite this, Solana is gaining traction in other areas. In February, the blockchain reached an all-time high of $5 billion in nonfungible token sales.