Demonstrating that change continues to brush via the blockchain gaming sector, OG sports activities ecosystem Sorare has introduced it’s shifting to the Solana blockchain.
Launched again in 2018, Sorare had at all times been an Ethereum-based undertaking, initially launching on the Loom Community earlier than shifting to Starknet.
On this method, the transfer from the EVM ecosystem to the non-EVM Solana community is a giant change when it comes to expertise.
Nonetheless, Sorare has clearly been engaged on the transition for a while and says that gamers won’t have to vary something, with the change occurring routinely for shoppers.
As for the explanations for the change, Sorare states that the transfer will unlock extra options together with
broader pockets assist,
new cost choices (ETH, SOL, and shortly stablecoins),
exterior marketplaces, and upcoming options like particular promos, gameplay improvements and extra.
After all, most of those might have been dealt with by remaining throughout the EVM world. Solana’s fame as a blockchain for degens and memecoins, in addition to its quickest transaction instances, seemingly additionally performed an element within the determination.
By way of the timeline, Sorare says that every one gamers’ present ETH balances will probably be migrated to Coinbase’s Base blockchain in “early October”.
By the top of October, all Sorare playing cards will probably be bridged as Solana NFTs whereas preserving their attributes—shortage, serial quantity, season, XP, and metadata.
You may learn extra in regards to the adjustments on Sorare’s weblog.
