MapleStory to Enhance Gaming Experience with Avalanche Blockchain Integration
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South Korean gaming company Nexon's popular online game, MapleStory, is set to adopt Avalanche blockchain technology to enhance its gaming experience. The game's future version, titled "MapleStory N", will use Avalanche's cloud network for support and provide new content development opportunities. The game, expected to launch later in 2024, has already made use of Polygon, an Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution, for its Web3 project, MapleStory Universe. High-profile financial institutions such as JPMorgan and Citi have recently partnered with Avalanche Foundation, contributing to the growing traction of Avalanche network in 2024.
The widely-played online game, MapleStory, created by Nexon, a prominent South Korean gaming firm, will embrace the blockchain technology of Avalanche to further enhance its gaming experience. As per a declaration on March 11, named "MapleStory N", the cloud network of the Avalanche blockchain will offer the necessary support for the game's operation, eliminating the need for an extra implementation collaborator. The new system will streamline time to market, provide increased support options, and deliver new possibilities for content creation. As per an Avalanche representative, players can conceptualize captivating additions to the MapleStory universe. The upcoming launch of the game has been penned in for later this year.
Ava Labs will team up with the game creators to form a robust and entire blockchain network, which will boost our competitiveness by safely servicing various decentralized applications (dApps), said Angela Son, the partnership lead of MapleStory Universe. Since its launch in 2003, MapleStory has been a sensation in the Asia-Pacific region, with its registered player base exceeding 180 million. In its Web3 project, MapleStory Universe, gamers use nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to enrich their gaming experience. Likewise, on March 22, 2023, the parent company Nexon utilized Ethereum's layer-2 scaling platform, Polygon, for bolstering its blockchain ecosystem.
Avalanche network has been garnering significant attention in 2024 and financial giants like JPMorgan and Citi have forged partnerships with Avalanche Foundation, with the aim of deploying new technologies on its blockchain as well as tokenizing real-world assets. In January, Cointelegraph disclosed that an unprecedented user interest was seen in Avalanche inscriptions, along with a surge in Bitcoin BRC-20 inscription tokens. Since their introduction in 2023, Avalanche inscriptions have been minted over 100 million times.
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3/11/2024 4:14:44 PM
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