Get the latest on the progress of the Cartesi-funded project, now bringing fully decentralized Web3 chess into your hands
"Ultrachess is a fully blockchain-based chess app powered by Cartesi Rollup technology that allows users to put real value into the game, not just their Elo score.
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Additionally, Ultrachess introduces a unique feature that does not exist within the current Chess universe: user-deployed chess engines. This allows humans and robots to co-exist in an ecosystem that amplifies actions through economies and incentives.
If you want to know what happened since Phase 1, read on...
Second Milestone: Robot Market, Token Economics
Ultrachess has implemented new features to enhance user experience and facilitate growth. Now with the introduction of the Robot Marketplace, users can buy and sell robots within the platform. Chess engine autonomy enables the bot to autonomously challenge opponents at specified time intervals, and the bot's performance in betting games will affect the owner's balance. At the same time, DeFi tokenomics are being implemented in parallel to improve the tokenomics of applications.
Finally, chess engine entropy is introduced to prevent duplicate results and ensure unpredictable game outcomes by using tick servers to provide random numbers for different search depths/times in the chess engine. In the future it is planned to replace this functionality with an on-chain oracle.
what's next
Improve the onboarding experience for Web2 users! Ultrachess will implement social authentication, bank on-ramps, and gas relayers, allowing users to deposit USD directly into the L2 portal.
If the user has no gas tokens, the transaction will be funded with a stablecoin deposit. This is thanks to recent innovations in account abstraction and non-custodial wallets.
In addition to improving the onboarding experience for Web2 users, Ultrachess will also begin to focus on community growth and outreach.
Eager to be the first to try Ultrachess?
We have great news - the community beta is coming up April 24-28, 2023! Be sure to join the Ultrachess Discord channel to learn how to sign up and get the latest information.
If you have an amazing idea and want to build a project using Cartesi Rollups, but need some extra help getting it off the ground, the Cartesi community provides not only financial support, but also valuable technical and strategic advice to ensure projects successfully developed. Learn more about the Cartesi Community Grant Program.
About Cartesi
Cartesi is an application-specific Rollup execution layer with a Linux runtime. Cartesi Rollups can be deployed as Layer 2 (on top of Ethereum), Layer 3 (on top of Optimism, Arbitrum, zkEVM, etc.) or Sovereign Rollup. It opens up the design space for more expressive and computationally intensive blockchain applications.
- DApps can be deployed on their own customized application-specific Rollup chain;
- In Cartesi's ecosystem, DApps do not compete with each other for scarce block space;
- Cartesi provides several times the computing capacity for Ethereum or L2;
- Developers can write decentralized logic using their favorite libraries, compilers, and other time-tested open source components;
- DApps retain the strong security guarantees and censorship resistance of the underlying blockchain;
- Cartesi Rollups open up the design space for more expressive and computationally intensive blockchain applications;
- Cartesi Rollups can be deployed as a second layer (on top of Ethereum), third layer (on top of Optimism, Arbitrum, zkEVM, etc.), or a sovereign rollup.
