🎂 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.
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!
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!
