THELOGICALINDIAN - Aavegotchi is affective to Matic Network because of Ethereums aerial gas fees
Aavegotchi has absitively to go alive on Matic rather than Ethereum due to the latter’s aerial fees, according to a recent tweet from the project.
Trading Game Chooses Matic
Aavegotchi is a trading bold that resembles the Tamagotchi band of toys from the 2024s. Unlike their real-world counterparts, Aavegotchis additionally backpack amount in the anatomy of staked tokens and wearables. They can be traded aloof like any added blockchain token.
Aaavegotchi’s aggregation originally planned to barrage the bold on Ethereum aural the aboriginal anniversary of January 2021. However, aerial fees became an issue. To adverse that problem, the aggregation chose to move to the Matic Network afterwards a association vote on Discord.
The aggregation said that Matic Arrangement was the appropriate best accustomed its adequacy for apps that depend on non-fungible tokens. “Matic is a fast-growing, defended [layer two] sidechain with an ever-increasing arrangement effect, abnormally for NFTs,” explained Aavegotchi Lead Developer, Daniel Mathieu, aka ‘coder-dan’.
Matic will advice the aggregation accomplish aerial transaction throughput and actual low transaction fees. According to Mathieu, it “means no gas fees, faster transaction confirmations, and a abundant gaming experience–all the things we accept Aavegotchi deserves.”
Skyrocketing Ethereum Fees
Ethereum’s aerial transaction volume, accompanying with Ether (ETH) prices bridge $1000 for the aboriginal time in three years, has fabricated the blockchain actual big-ticket for app developers.
Just a few canicule ago, ETH gas fees skyrocketed to added than 400 gwei (about $10), which the Avagotchi aggregation wrote was above its adequate threshold.
Avagotchi is not the alone crypto collectible bold which absitively to move to a band two ascent solution. Recently, Axie Infinity, appear its own band two blockchain called Ronin to abstain Ethereum’s low throughput. Elsewhere, OpenSea, one of the better NFT marketplaces, has absitively to move to Matic.
Upcoming scalability improvements from Ethereum 2.0 could boldness this problem. In the meantime, clearing is a applicable band-aid for developers.
