Introducing Geist: the members-only blockchain

Geist Mainnet, the first members-only blockchain built for gaming, is finally here!

Geist, an L3, powered by Arbitrum Orbit and built on Alchemy Rollups will offer the best building experience for gamers: sub-second latency with minimal fees. 

On Day 1, Geist’s partnership with Alchemy will provide reliable building infrastructure, as well as instant access to the all-in-one platform with 100+ unique API endpoints, extensive read and write APIs and the developer tools to reduce complexity as you build. 

So, are you ready to go? 

Start deploying on Geist, the chain built to enable seamless onchain experiences for gamers and builders. 

A new onchain space for Web3 gaming

Web3 gaming has recently experienced explosive growth, delivering playable games and innovative new economic models for user acquisition.

But growth has meant some growing pains, too, including things like rampant botting, sybil attacks, inefficient reward campaigns and high player churn. The work to police bad actors and bots is a huge waste of development resources and often ends up penalizing real gamers. This is why the definition and identification of “users” becomes crucial. 

Geist answers this challenge through three defining parameters:

• Exclusive. While anyone can transact on the Geist chain, reward programs are reserved for invited members. Invites are limited by design, and will encourage Inviters to choose their Invitees wisely.
• Curated. Only games and dApps approved by Pixelcraft Studios or AavegotchiDAO can deploy on Geist. Quality over quantity.
• Rewarding. Members have exclusive access to reward programs such as airdrops, giveaways, and other content. 

Geist chain is a place where Aavegotchis (and their friends!) can play, explore, and earn, and the novel chain-based Invite system is a powerful engine for growth.

It’s migration season 

Throughout the month of November, Aavegotchi’s tokens and NFTs will be migrating from Polygon to Geist, their own chain, built to be the onchain home of Aavegotchis.

Geist is powered by Arbitrum Orbit, the leading rollup chain stack for web3 gaming. Renowned benefits of the Arbitrum stack such as <250ms block time, custom gas token (GHST), and permissionless transacting all apply. 

Geist chose to build on Alchemy Rollups because of the battle-tested, world-class infrastructure and extensive developer community. As part of this partnership, we will integrate the comprehensive Alchemy platform into Geist, including core Node APIs, Data Indexing and APIs, and key Developer Experience Tools.

Ready to get started?

Head to the Documentation to start building on Geist today.