There are also NFTs that improve the characteristics of the mining gear, as well as warm clothes and NFT weapons that are needed to fight off wild animals and bandits. Players can go on quests to discover the open world of Alaska Gold Rush, trade NFTs in-game, and much else.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the game is the interaction in various metaverse spaces that imitate the reality of a gold-digging town. There’s a saloon where you can chat with other miners; a store to sell NFTs, etc.

The metaverse is built using Unity, the most popular gaming engine, so the project plans to deliver a very detailed, carefully designed world. The main characters, George and his father Martin, even have detailed backstories.

The partnership: a frictionless multichain experience for players who trade NFTs

Alaska Gold Rush is currently preparing for a virtual land sale and exploring ways to attract more users to the game. A great way to do this is to make the NFTs multichain – in the case of this game, it would mean primarily the NFT skins for weapons, clothes, and gear.

The whole NFT ecosystem is at something of a crossroads right now, with many chains offering low minting costs and high speeds. Last year we saw a boom of NFTs on Solana and P2E games on Avalanche, while this year quite a few games are exploring Elrond and other ‘exotic’ chains.

BNB Chain and Polygon remain popular wth P2E projects, but now there is also the unknown variable of the Ethereum merge, planned for this fall. If NFT minting on Ethereum suddenly becomes cheap again, will NFT projects move from other blockchains back to Ethereum?

Under these conditions, it’s worth having a strong multichain strategy and being ready to pivot if a certain chain starts to gain dominance. The future of Web3 gaming is not just blockchain but multichain, and the process of transferring assets from one network to another should be frictionless. This, in turn, requires solutions like the XP.NETWORK bridge, which supports over 15 chains – more than any other NFT interoperability solution.

It’s not yet decided which chains Alaska Gold Rush NFTs will migrate from and to. We are looking into various possibilities together with the game’s team, which includes founders and executives from Germany, Poland, South Africa, UK, Brazil, and other countries.

A big advantage of the XP.NETWORK bridge is that it makes it easy to transfer a whole NFT collection to any supported chain – or several of them – very quickly. The procedure also preserves the smart contract logic, so if an NFT weapon skin features royalties, for example, they will also be generated with every sale on the new chain. Moreover, you can track the history of every bridged NFT back to its root, so you end up with a unified multichain structure rather than several isolated silos of blockchain data.

On top of all this, XP.NETWORK and Alaska Gold Rush will engage in cross-marketing to bring on the awareness of the advantages of cross-chain NFT ecosystems. Few people know that it’s possible to bridge NFTs safely and quickly, but we are working to make this practice mainstream.