Solana Labs and Google Cloud have launched Gameshift, a new Web3 API service serving as a Web2-to-Web3 bridge for developers. The new development API was announced at the 2024 Solana Breakpoint conference during the “Gamer Village” side-stage events.
According to a Google Cloud blog post, Gameshift provides a full suite of Web3 services to projects hosted within the cloud ecosystem. The Gameshift service is now available exclusively through the Google Cloud Marketplace.
“As a leading blockchain, Solana brings top transaction throughput, 99.95% uptime, and billions in transactions daily,” the blog post reads. “This integration connects games to millions of users in a unified ecosystem of wallets, assets, and activity. Solana is consistently a top-3 performer in terms of NFT, decentralized exchange trading, and stablecoin volume, as well as transactions-per-second in production, and active wallets.”
“These results make Solana a great option for games seeking to leverage Web3 to create new player experiences and new revenue channels,” the post adds.
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Solana Labs’ Gameshift aims at developers working on traditional games who want to add Web3 components. These include NFTs or other digital assets. Gameshift does most of the heavy lifting in integrating blockchain-based services from one platform to the other securely. This in turn easily bridges traditional Web2 experiences with Web3 services.
“Game studios have recently been considering Web3 for new approaches to growth and development, but are often discouraged by the seeming complexity of the technology and the Web3 community,” said Jack Buser, director for Games at Google Cloud. “Game studios are already overburdened, and need solutions like GameShift that provide simplified technical and cultural interfaces to Web3.”