Why We’ve Built Playerchains

Playmint's author argues that decentralisation should be chosen to fit a game's needs rather than inherited from public blockchains, which the author says are unfit for most games. After Downstream, a fully onchain autonomous world released in summer 2024, proved too slow in character movement, lead engineer suggested turning participating players into nodes of a peer-to-peer network, which the company calls a playerchain. To test the approach, the team built a space shooter tech demo that the article says runs quickly, uses no centralised services and reaches consensus among players.