Sorare partners with Starkware to drive scale
Sorare, the most popular fantasy football NFT trading game, has announced a major improvement for its users. In order to drive scalability and improve the user experience, Sorare partnered with Starkware to introduce zk-rollups to their platform. When moving to a Layer-2 solution, the platform aims to significantly increase the productivity of its services, enabling users to benefit from instant transaction confirmations.
Sorare released the step-by-step escalation response on Wednesday. Over time, increase the number of auctions and open all trading functions. On the official Discord, the team noted that their original release schedule was too ambitious. Despite this, everything is working as planned. For now, the transfer market, where players trade cards with each other, still closed.
Why is climbing essential in Sorare?
Sorare has enjoyed growing popularity among sports fans and NFT enthusiasts.. During the last thirty days, the fantasy football game attracted a 12% more players, increasing the number of transactions to more than 76.700.
Since the platform constantly increases its user base, it is essential to keep its functionalities optimized. Taking this into account, Going to a Layer-2 and introducing zk-rollups was a necessary move for Sorare.
This scaling optimization will bring several important improvements for Sorare users.. First, transaction processing will be optimized to the maximum, which will allow instant confirmation of the transaction. Through this important update, the platform also focuses on achieving another important goal: incorporate mainstream into blockchain-based fantasy football. Now, transactions happen instantly and gas fees are completely eliminated. With this, Sorare aims to get as close as possible to traditional style fantasy football games. Of course, the platform is still employing the powers of blockchain technology, despite this, user experience becomes more polished.
What does the future hold?
Currently, rumors are circulating that Sorare has gotten an investment of $ 532 million from SoftBank. For the moment, neither party has confirmed the rumor. Despite this, if this really happens, fantasy football game will have garnered one of the largest cash inflows in the blockchain gaming industry. Not only that, with the elimination of gas fees in your scaling efforts, Sorare will save a ton of money. Taking into account the fact that the platform always covered gas rates in transactions, this will be a big improvement for income.
With the end of the Copa América and the Eurocup 2020, Sorare saw a steady increase in the number of users trading on the platform. There was also an increase in the valuation of fantasy football NFTs. It will be interesting to see how much the platform progresses in time for next year's World Cup.. Featuring bold scale upgrades like the one released this week, Sorare is visibly on a mission to bring all soccer fans to the blockchain.
