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Star atlas is built on Solana, a cryptocurrency computing platform that aims to achieve high transaction speeds without sacrificing decentralization or high transaction fees. So why is this important? Well, the first platform to be really heavily built on was Ethereum, but Ethereum has insanely high gas fees and can only handle 15-45 transactions per second. Solana can handle 50,000.
And, To complement this speed, Solana additionally delivers a huge development toolset, which the Star Atlas development team will leverage to build the metaverse. With this as their foundation, the Star ATlas team aims to deliver a purely blockchain-driven universe that will
change the gaming industry forever.
Okay, so the blockchain transactions are handled on Solana, but what about peer-to-peer trading like we heard about last episode? This is handled by Serum. You see, An active in-game economy and a high volume of trading means users will need a feature-rich exchange to manage all of their asset sales. Serum’s decentralized exchange (DEX) fulfills the needs to support the Star Atlas economy. With nearly instant settlement and virtually zero operating costs, there isn’t a better fit for scaling the economy.
The next tool utilized by the team is Stardust, which operates at a very important layer. They introduce optimized ways to deal with NFT in-game assets securely and in a user-friendly manner. By utilizing their API, the Star Atlas team can seamlessly integrate Solana-based NFTs for usage in their initial game client. Also, Stardust has a very prominent item on their roadmap to support Serum DEX trading, which is exactly what the team needs for this game.
Lastly, and most importantly depending on who you ask, the game is built on Unreal Engine 5. Most notably of course, this gaming engine supports insanely popular titles such as Fortnite. But it’s not all about popularity, some of the newer games coming out on Unreal Engine 5 look insane, like Black Myth, Wukong based on the league of legends character.
So what is the Unreal Engine made of? This Next-generation real-time graphics technology includes: Nanite for cinema quality models, Lumen for real-time global illumination, the Chaos physics engine, and the Niagara particles system.