Lattice Chain's dedicated L2 Redstone for gaming: a new spark generated by the collision of OP Stack and Plasma.

2023-11-16 17:51

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Yesterday, the team behind the full-chain open source engine MUD, Lattice, announced the launch of L2 Redstone, which is suitable for on-chain games and self-made worlds. Currently, it has been launched on the Redstone Holesky test network.

Redstone is an Alt-DA chain inspired by Plasma, built on the OP Stack. The blockchain scaling solution Plasma allows all data and computations, except for deposits, withdrawals, and Merkle roots, to be kept off-chain.

It is worth mentioning that before the official announcement of Redstone, Vitalik Buterin published a long article "EVM Validiums Exit Game: The Return of Plasma", believing that Plasma is still an underestimated design space that can completely bypass data availability issues and greatly reduce transaction costs.

Redstone is what? How does it work?

Redstone is the first Plasma implementation of OP Stack, built by Lattice and Optimism in collaboration specifically for developers of on-chain games and autonomous worlds.

The main difference between Redstone and other OP Stack Rollups is data availability (DA). Redstone does not use L1 Ethereum to achieve DA, but instead uses alternative DA providers and only publishes input commitments to L1.

And in order to ensure the availability of this data, Redstone has set up a separate Data Availability (DA) challenge, which allows anyone (node) to challenge the availability of data corresponding to a given commitment on L1, and can check the commitment data on the Rollup input dashboard and question the commitment.

The challenge of input commitment in the

node results in an increase in cost when the DA provider publishes the input to L1. Therefore, Redstone requires nodes to pay a deposit that can cover the cost of the challenge when submitting a DA challenge. If the DA provider successfully solves the challenge, the deposit will be destroyed. If the challenge fails, the deposit will be returned to the challenging node. The purpose of this is to reduce spam challenges.

In this way, it can significantly reduce transaction costs (usually mainly L1 data costs), while also inheriting the complete security of Ethereum.

Redstone's current release, Redstone Bridge, enables ETH transfers between Holesky Testnet and Redstone Holesky Testnet, and will expand to the mainnet and other asset types (ERC20, ERC721, etc.) in the future.

Lattice: heavyweight player in the entire chain game

Lattice product development covers chain, execution layer, L2, on-chain operating system, EVM framework, tools, and applications. Among them, the complex Ethereum application framework MUD developed by Lattice is relatively mature, and in the field of the entire chain, it compresses the complexity of building EVM applications through a tightly integrated software stack.

The success of Lattice is inseparable from the efforts and support of team members and contributors. The Lattice website lists 13 team members and up to 58 contributors.

The main sponsor and incubator of Lattice is 0xPARC, a research organization founded by Gubsheep, the creator of Dark Forest. Projects that 0xPARC sponsors, provides operational support for, or otherwise participates in include Dark Forest, Lattice, ZKonduit, Index Supply, Zupass, ZFT, Hack Lodge, EthUniversity, and more. 0xPARC's funding comes from donations from organizations such as the Ethereum Foundation, Gitcoin, and ETHGlobal.

In the summer of 2022, Lattice founder Ludens and Alvarius collaborated to develop zkDungeon, a blockchain game that combines chessboard games and battle royale games. Later, they realized that the construction priority of the operating system was higher, and gradually explored the ECS (Entity, Component, and System) pattern, and based on this, they released MUD V1.

According to the Github record, MUD has added some conventions for organizing data and logic, and abstracted away low-level complexity so that developers can focus on the functionality of their applications. In other words, MUD standardizes the way data is stored on the chain. With this standardized data model, MUD can provide all network code to synchronize contract and client states.

In 2022, Lattice also collaborated with Optimism to release OPCraft, a Minecraft clone on the blockchain, using MUD within a month and a half.

Currently, the Lattice team is developing MUD V2, which will provide greater flexibility for developers in reading and writing to the blockchain. In addition to MUD V2, Lattice is also developing the all-chain real-time strategy game Sky Strife (official testnet launched on November 27) and other infrastructure products related to MUD. Projects supported by MUD also include the all-chain city-building game Primodium and the on-chain spelling game Word3.

On-chain gaming is definitely one of the potential areas driving the widespread adoption of Web3. As an important infrastructure and promoter of full-chain gaming, Lattice is creating new gaming experiences through game engines, L2, and gaming applications.