HONG KONG & SYDNEY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Catheon Gaming (“Catheon”), the world’s fastest growing integrated blockchain gaming and entertainment platform, and Polygon Studios, the leading Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution, today announce a preferred blockchain gaming partnership. The partnership combines Catheon’s world-class blockchain gaming and metaverse expertise with Polygon’s revolutionary blockchain technology to enable developers to build scalable user-friendly dApps with low transaction fees without sacrificing security.
Through this partnership, Polygon will support the launch of Catheon Gaming game titles, Onigiri and Cosmic Break, on their network. Both Cosmic Break and Onigiri are successful anime series in their own right in their native Japan. However, anime’s popularity with an international audience has grown, especially with the gaming community. By leveraging this, Catheon Gaming is able to bring millions of players onto Polygon’s Web3 ecosystem.
“This partnership embodies the shared vision of bringing quality entertainment and gaming to the blockchain and putting user experience at the center,” said William Wu, founder and co-CEO, Catheon Gaming. “We are excited to partner with Polygon Studios to launch Onigiri and Cosmic Break on the Polygon network. With its focus on speed, scalability and cost, we believe Polygon is the ideal partner for Catheon Gaming to further advance its multi-chain strategy.”
“Catheon Gaming has emerged as one of the most promising and comprehensive game development hubs in the Web3 space, and its focus on bringing mainstream standard games to the blockchain excites all of us here at Polygon. We look forward to seeing the hard work that Catheon Gaming has laid down to begin to materialize in the coming months and years at Polygon” so Urvit Goel, Head of Global Games Business Development, Polygon Studios.
Onigiri is a beloved MMORPG that explores the beauty of ancient Japan, with fast-paced action, player versus environment. Launched in 2013, Onigiri has over 5 million downloads worldwide. Backed by Catheon Gaming, Onigiri will be one of the first Japanese P2E MMORPGs on the blockchain.
Amassing over 40 million players over the franchise’s 14-year lifespan, CosmicBreak takes the leap into the world of Web 3.0 by reintroducing exclusive NFT playable characters with in-game tools, including enhanced play-and-earn mechanics. Cosmic Break is a 3D MMO third-person shooter, anime style, and is a free-to-play MMO with high-speed and exciting combat gameplay.
“Catheon Gaming is focused on developing gaming experiences into a Web3 format from Web2, which promotes a player-first economy. At the heart of this is development quality, where success in blockchain gaming really lies, says Mark Aubrey, Co-CEO, Catheon Gaming.
About Catheon Gaming
Named by KPMG-HSBC as one of the 10 leading emerging giants in Asia Pacific, Catheon Gaming is the world’s fastest growing integrated blockchain gaming and entertainment company. Catheon Gaming is the only end-to-end platform that offers world-class technical, publishing and partnership capabilities for the world’s leading game studios, companies and brands looking to navigate the web3. By being the partner of choice, Catheon Gaming has built the industry’s largest portfolio of blockchain games underpinning our vision to revolutionize the way we play, live and earn.
About polygon
Polygon is the leading blockchain development platform, offering scalable, affordable, secure and sustainable blockchains for Web3. The growing suite of products gives developers easy access to large scale solutions, including L2 (ZK Rollups and Optimistic Rollups), sidechains, hybrid, standalone and enterprise chains, and data availability. Polygon’s scaling solutions have seen widespread adoption with 19,000+ decentralized applications hosted, 1.6B+ total transactions processed, 142M+ unique user addresses, and $5B+ in assets secured. Polygon is carbon neutral with the goal of leading the Web3 ecosystem in becoming carbon negative.
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About Polygon Studios
Polygon Studios aims to be the home of the most popular blockchain projects in the world. The Polygon Studios team is focused on supporting developers building decentralized apps on Polygon by providing Web2 and Web3 teams with a range of services such as developer support, partnerships, strategy, go-to-market and technical integrations. Polygon Studios supports projects from OpenSea to Prada, from Adidas to Draft Kings and Decentral Games to Ubisoft.
