Introduction A image from the community piqued my interest. One of the Validators on our Endurance network is running a set of Clients, including Beacon, Execution, and Validator Nodes, on a NAS with just 4GB of RAM. Moreover, the actual memory usage doesn’t even reach 1GB (738+181+25=944 MB), as seen in the image. This is significantly below our expectations. Initially, to simplify deployment complexity, we did not tailor the official Validator server hardware configuration of Endurance2.

When the Endurance network launched in late January, it started as just an application chain. Our team, experienced in traditional gaming, soon realized we had more to offer in the Web3 domain. Being just an application chain wasn’t maximizing our potential, so we shifted towards becoming a public chain to support more games. As a public chain, Endurance’s value extends beyond a single Dapp/GameFi to future developers. For example, its technical specs should meet mainstream developers’ needs over the next decade.

If you’ve read our previous articles, you should have a general idea of what our team has accomplished since its inception: We are developing the company’s first AAA Gamefi, named Fusionist1. Next, we established our own L1 chain called Endurance. We also gradually released our native currency, ACE, on our website through gamified methods, attracting early users. With the proliferation of L2 technology, we believe that the time is becoming ripe for a closer integration between the blockchain and games.

This article primarily introduces a specific technical branch in the evolutionary trajectory of Endurance 2.01: OP Endurance, which is based on the OP Stack (code-named Bedrock). OP Endurance We believe that Rollup, emerging as a de facto standard for Layer1 Scaling, will mature in the upcoming years. Nonetheless, with various solutions still undergoing rapid iterative development, there’s a long road ahead before they reach full maturity. At this juncture, we cannot predict which method will dominate the competition, and we’re not inclined to introduce “yet another Rollup” ourselves.

This is a memo-style article that outlines our decision-making logic behind creating Endurance in its historical context. Due to its length, there aren’t many technical details described. Endurance officially launched on January 31, 2023, as an EVM-compatible Layer1. Before this, we were making cool stuff like NFTs. In 2022, we made three big NFT Collections for our game Fusionist and put them on Ethereum and BNB Chain. We also made a website so people could join in easily.

At present, our tech team consists of 7 full-time members. Most of them have known our Co-founder & CTO, Charles, for a long time and have a deep background in the video game industry. A few are skilled blockchain developers who joined after Fusionist was founded. Charles believes that the “big bang” in computer hardware performance over the past twenty years is almost maxed out. The long-standing video game industry paradigm, where technological innovation drives rendering or gameplay breakthroughs, will gradually fade.

This is a niche space set up and maintained by the tech team of Fusionist. Its primary purpose is to provide a window for rapidly and transparently conveying the tech team’s development progress and achievements. If you happen to stumble upon this website without knowing Fusionist, you can also consider it a regular tech blog for game & blockchain development.