How This Blockchain-Based ’Minecraft’ Clone Is Revolutionizing Gaming by Recording Every Action On-Chain
A new blockchain-powered game inspired by ’Minecraft’ is making waves by recording every in-game action directly on-chain. This innovative approach ensures full transparency, immutability, and player ownership of digital assets. By leveraging decentralized technology, the game offers a unique play-to-earn model where users can truly own their creations and in-game progress. Developers highlight how this system combats fraud and enables verifiable scarcity of digital items—a breakthrough for the gaming industry. The project also explores the potential of smart contracts to automate in-game economies, creating new opportunities for decentralized governance and community-driven development.
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This isn’t anything new, he added, pointing to the autonomous worlds movement that has attempted to put gaming worlds on-chain for these exact reasons. Dark Forest is a primary example of this in play, as a space exploration game that puts everything on-chain and takes advantage of zero-knowledge proofs to maintain mystery.
CCP Games’ upcoming Eve Frontier—a survival-centric spinoff from Eve Online—will do much the same with Ethereum-based architecture.
“The challenges right now have been chains (especially layer-1s) just haven’t had the raw performance to handle large-scale real time games like this, with most projects being much simpler games with limited appeal,” Whitehead said.
Recently, a Crossy Road clone on the MegaETH public testnet went viral as every in-game action was recorded on-chain. As with Chunked, it could only be pulled off because of a new era of extremely high-performance networks emerging; the Ethereum mainnet certainly would not have been up for the task.
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— MegaETH (@megaeth_labs) April 17, 2025
“Right now we’re running on testnet, learning what new kinds of on-chain games are possible,” Whitehead said. “We’d love to see this evolve into a persistent on-chain voxel world in mainnet, which is owned and evolved by a community of co-creators.”
Somnia is expected to hit mainnet sometime this year. On this path, MSquared plans to roll out a series of other on-chain experiments, with the most successful tests due to become “full commercial projects” once Somnia fully launches onto mainnet.
Edited by Andrew Hayward
