Openfort is a technology-enabled service provider meant to help blockchain and web3 game developers create better experiences for themselves and their users. It provides tech support to L1 and L2 blockchains and onboard players.
It allows developers to monetize APIs and SDKs allowing game studios and web3 ecosystems to save time and efforts they otherwise have to put in gathering dedicated resources for all aspects related to game development, marketing, and management.
Who Should Know About Openfort?
Infrastructure provider Openfort has recently raised $3 million in their seed funding round for building “Wallet-as-a-Service (WaaS) software product. It’s relevant for gaming studios and lone game developers, who wish to use a host of products for forwarding their product to the community. Openfort provides them with all the relevant products and solutions under a single roof.
Openfort was earlier available to the community in the open-beta phase at zero setup fees and lets the users manage everything from a single place. From addressing developer’s requirements to embedded accounts and ensuring better user experience, Openfort is building a mobile SDK system to empower next-gen gaming.
Why There’s a Need for an Openfort-like Platform?
Openfort enables gaming studios and developers to build a management account for all backend operations. By doing so, they will gain access to the following features;
- Headless Smart Account: It’s a platform-based backend wallet solution that gives users the freedom to choose their preferred technology stack for developing the game. As a result, the game developers can use their skills to build a solution of their choice.
- Non-Custodial Accounts: Unlike custodial accounts, the web3 gaming solutions provider allows users to have full control over the wallet and the assets within. This streamlines the transfer of account ownership on the blockchain.
- Plug-in Authentication: Openfort users have the option to integrate their custom-built authentication system or use the one available in the platform. This is going to make the game secure and improve user experience with quick authentication.
- Gasless Transactions: The platform eliminates the burden of paying gas fees for in-game native and ERC-20 transactions, which enhances user experience and helps onboard more users through a benefit-driven system.
- Transfer of Accounts: Openfort offers a single-click transfer of a user’s existing gaming accounts and wallets to any other wallet of their choice.
What Products and Solutions Can Be Built with Openfort?
Openfort offers the required resources and technology to build games and gamified experiences for the target audience. Compatible with Unreal Engine 5, it can also be used to build AAA games to a minigame with Unity WebGL, which only shows the range of games Openfort can help build. Here are some of the most popular gaming solutions to build with Openfort;
- Games or Gamified Applications: After building games, users can leverage Openfort’s Smart Headless accounts to simplify the registration process, ensuring new players can go from account creation to playing the game as quickly as possible. This is ensured without having players navigate through the complex wallet setup process.
- Build a Gaming Ecosystem: Using SDK components, API management, Webhooks, and accessing the Developer’s dashboard, Openfort serves as the foundation to build an ecosystem. Offering interoperability with various blockchain networks and standards, Openfort ensures the game’s ecosystem wallet integrates seamlessly with the gaming application and its services.
- Build an Aggregator Platform: It’s easier to integrate Openfort’s technology to build an aggregator platform, leading to a robust and customizable wallet solution. As the platform offers centralized management, it’s easier to manage and maintain the wallet infrastructure.
- Build a Gaming Wallet: With Openfort’s smart accounts and management capabilities, users can build stand-alone wallets where they can also add bespoke features and set security parameters while facilitating a good user experience. Wallet creation gets even better with a customizable interface design that aligns with the user’s preferences.
Considering its capabilities, Openfort creates an accessible platform for game developers to streamline their work and ensure their efforts pay off. While offering granular development capabilities, Openfort also improves game management, updates, and modifications.
To this end, Joan Alavedra, cofounder of Openfort, adds, “By offering programmable player management, we provide the power needed for the next hit games in web3.”
Openfort Development Architecture Expanded
Openfort’s architecture allows for play-and-play tools available to developers in the form of modules. The infrastructure ensures the developers can manage everything from a single platform.
- Smart Accounts: Openfort has in-built support for a diverse set of smart accounts to fit the game development needs.
- Signers: Signers represent an entity responsible for authorizing and executing transactions on behalf of a user’s account. They are responsible for defining the ownership (custodian) of a user’s account. The users can either use Openfort’s own signer solution or use a compatible external signer service.
- Bundler/RPCs: Bundlers collect and merge multiple transactions into a single block to reduce transaction costs and improve network efficiency. Openfort uses a Meta Builder Network, which makes the results even better as it provides reliable access to the blockchain. So, if one bundler fails, the network switches to the next one.
- Paymasters: Openfort provides access to customizable paymasters offering granular rate limits and policies. Using these liberties, developers can make customer-centric gas policies using Openfort’s API.
Through these features and tools, Openfort ensures a gaming studio of any size and scale, can build an architecture. The platform then provides the required tools around that architecture to ensure the architecture is easy to use for game development teams and individuals.
