Throughput: A Ledger as a Service Infrastructure for the Web3 Games

Abstract

Blockchain technology holds great potential for the gaming industry, but its inherent complexity can create significant barriers for game developers. Throughput's "Ledger as a Service" (LaaS) solution addresses this challenge, making blockchain technology and its benefits accessible to the gaming sector. By minimizing costs and technical overheads, it allows developers to prioritize building innovative and immersive game experiences. This research presents Throughput, a blockchain platform designed to excel in the gaming environment. Its groundbreaking approach employs a single process to manage multiple ledgers from different blockchains. This maximizes efficiency, reduces complexity, and significantly lowers the costs associated with running a layer 1 blockchain – critical advantages for supporting the resource-intensive nature of games. Throughput's consensus algorithm is carefully engineered to handle the demands of real-time gameplay, ensuring high throughput, minimal latency, and fast transaction confirmations. The ability for a single node to maintain multiple ledgers can be a significant breakthrough and can enable a validator to run multiple blockchains on single node with unified consensus. This efficiency boost not only saves resources but promotes exciting possibilities for interoperability, cross-game collaboration, and seamless asset exchange across different gaming blockchains. Furthermore, Throughput's validators benefit from increased block rewards by validating blocks across multiple ledgers. This unique incentive model encourages the maintenance of a robust and secure network, benefiting the entire gaming ecosystem. In conclusion, Throughput simplifies the integration of blockchain technology for game developers and offers features tailored explicitly to the needs of the gaming industry. By offloading complex node management, Throughput empowers developers to focus on their core strengths – ultimately accelerating the adoption of blockchain in gaming and driving innovation throughout the sector.