🎂 Can you believe it’s already been two years of GalaChain!? 🎂
Happy Birthday GalaChain!
It was Autumn 2022. We were fresh out of the second Galaverse in Malta and there was A LOT going on around Gala Games. Gala Music was still young and Gala Film was totally new on the scene.Â
As tons of titles in Gala Games barrelled towards launch, it was clear we needed a better solution than Ethereum. Luckily we had a secret weapon about to launch in our pockets… GalaChain! Well, not exactly. At the time we were still calling it ‘Project GYRI’, but it was evolving fast. It wouldn’t be long before GalaChain was released to the world!
The first channels had been set up and tested, but the chain wasn’t live and actually supporting apps. That was all about to change though.
We did have some things running on a test chain before the launch. We first announced Project GYRI in early 2022 with the test game Town Crush. Eventually though, we’d head back to our roots and the finished chain became GalaChain
October 31st, 2022. Spider Tanks launch day. More than that, Spider Tanks is set to be the first game fully supported by GalaChain transactions. The asset bridge was opened before the game was launched and blocks started ticking through smoothly with transfers, bridges and token lock allowances.
At 3:58pm PT, it finally happened. Block 1586… a create match transaction! GalaChain was fully open and operational!
Behold! The first interactive, public, multi-party transaction on GalaChain!!!
Racing Forward
From those early blocks it wouldn’t be long before GalaChain grew bigger faster than we ever guessed it would.
Champions Arena soon leveraged GalaChain’s power. Common Ground World was revamped and redesigned to take full advantage of the chain. Within 6 months, nearly a dozen different apps were running on GalaChain!
It didn’t take long from there to see people outside the Gala Games community utilizing GalaChain to interact with the ecosystem. Even before the release of the GalaChain SDK in early 2024, NFT Harbor was already facilitating secure item exchanges on GalaChain. After the release of the SDK, however, things really took off!
GalaChain Into the Future
Today it’s hard to believe that GalaChain only released two years ago. Gala Games, Gala Music and Gala Film are of course still using the chain to create exciting experiences for users, but now we’re seeing development come from all over the world!
An attempt to list all the projects developing on GalaChain here would be folly. We talk about the new and exciting applications of GalaChain all the time, but we’re sometimes even surprised to see all the cool stuff being built on chain!
GalaChain growth is accelerating every day. More and more developers are coming to GalaChain for its capabilities, versatility and ability to scale. The chain has come a long way… and we’re nowhere near finished growing!
Come build with us — the next year is going to be even better!
Decentralization has always been a guiding principle for GalaChain, and we are now prepared to fully embrace this vision with the release of our Decentralization White Paper.
This marks a pivotal moment in GalaChain’s evolution—a shift from the necessary centralization we’ve relied on to scale our Layer 1 blockchain, toward a more decentralized and open ecosystem that invites developers and innovators from all industries to join us.
The Journey to Decentralization
When we embarked on the creation of GalaChain, centralization was essential. It allowed us to build a robust, scalable infrastructure capable of supporting a wide range of external developers from gaming, music and film, while also ensuring the chain could handle immense transaction volumes without compromising performance. However, we have always viewed centralization as a temporary phase.
Now, having achieved the scalability and efficiency needed to support not just Gala Games but a vast array of industries, we are ready to embark on our decentralization roadmap.
With the help of the Hyperledger Fabric upon which the chain was built, GalaChain is moving decisively into the next phase of its development. The Decentralization White Paper lays out a four-phase roadmap that will shift GalaChain’s consensus from Raft to Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT), integrate our vast Founder’s Node network into the core of the blockchain, and implement a GalaChain Improvement Proposal (GIP) system for a greater degree of community-driven governance​​​.
Why Decentralization Matters
Decentralization is not just about technology; it is about empowerment and freedom. In its fully decentralized form, GalaChain will no longer rely on a centralized authority to validate transactions, ensuring greater security, fault tolerance and global distribution of decision-making power. This shift allows us to create a trustless system, where participants from any region or industry can contribute to the governance and growth of the network without the need for middlemen.
By decentralizing, we are also enabling a future where developers and creators have more control over their projects, from smart contracts to operational governance, and ultimately, the value they create. This creates a developer-first universe on GalaChain, opening doors to countless industries beyond entertainment—whether that’s finance, healthcare, supply chain management or beyond. The possibilities are endless​​.
The Four-Phase Plan
Our roadmap outlines a deliberate, four-phase plan to decentralize GalaChain:
Phase 1: Migration to Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT), ensuring better security, fault tolerance, and decentralization without sacrificing GalaChain’s transaction throughput of up to 1500 TPS.
Phase 2: Global distribution of nodes and orderers, optimizing the network for speed, security, and fault tolerance through a geographically diverse network of peers.
Phase 3: Integration with Gala Founder’s Nodes, which will take on a more central role in transaction validation and consensus participation.
Phase 4: Implementation of a GalaChain Improvement Proposal (GIP) system to enable decentralized governance, giving stakeholders the power to submit and vote on network changes​.
What This Means for the Future
For GalaChain, this evolution signifies much more than a technical upgrade—it’s a declaration of our commitment to open innovation. No longer confined by the traditional bounds of centralized brands and interests, GalaChain’s decentralized infrastructure will foster an ecosystem that is truly borderless, inclusive and industry-agnostic.
The decentralized universe of GalaChain is ready to welcome industries and developers from across the globe. As GalaChain evolves, so too does our community, and together we are building the future of decentralized innovation.
