In a shock transfer, Sky Mavis has introduced that it’s going to be migrating its Ronin blockchain to grow to be an Ethereum-backed L2.
At present describing Ronin as a “gaming-centric Ethereum sidechain” – successfully it’s personal Ethereum-compatible L1 – the transfer to be a “fully-fledged L2” that it hopes will grow to be the “gamification engine of Ethereum” combines each the more and more maturity of the Ethereum L1 itself, in addition to the failure of blockchain video games to onboard a mass market viewers.
On this method, Sky Mavis hopes to enhance a few of Ronin’s options together with safety, whereas additionally attracting extra non-gaming apps, each of which might enhance speculative sentiment across the RON token.
Certainly, Sky Mavis factors to the brand new dynamism of the Ethereum Basis and ETH’s value rise because it’s gained adoption from monetary establishments and severe infrastructure builders.
When it comes to the influence on the Ronin chain itself, the method of changing into a L2 would speed up transactions 12-fold. It should additionally change the RON staking protocol to a Proof of Distribution mannequin, which is able to higher reward initiatives actively constructing on Ronin, somewhat than rewarding passive validation nodes.
After all, this announcement is simply the beginning of a protracted course of that’s at present being mentioned with Ronin’s governing validators and which is able to lead to a proper whitepaper previous to the execution of the hardfork of the blockchain that will probably be required, maybe in Q2 2026.
Sky Mavis can also be speaking to major expertise companions together with Optimism, Arbitrum, zySync and Polygon about its plans. It should seemingly additionally speak to corporations when it comes to choices for offering information availability.
Lastly, this alteration of technique implies that the plans to launch a zkEVM model of Ronin have now been scrapped.
