Ember Sword Makes the Move: Forming Strategic Alliance with Mantle, Promising to Enhance Blockchain Gaming Experience

August 15, 2024 – We are excited to announce a strategic alliance with Mantle, a burgeoning on-chain ecosystem built around Ethereum layer 2 (L2) Mantle Network and Ether liquid staking protocol Mantle LSP. This collaboration aims to bring easy access to and player ownership of in-game experiences and assets to the gaming industry, while integrating blockchain elements for a more transparent and dynamic ecosystem between developers and players.

Ember Sword: Setting New Standards in Gaming

Ember Sword strives for immersive gameplay, competitive combat, and innovative proprietary engine, which provides a highly accessible, unparalleled player experience. With the alliance, Ember Sword is poised to offer a more engaging and rewarding environment for its global player base, promising the top-tier experience of a high quality web3 game.

Mark Laursen, Founder and CEO of Bright Star Studios, emphasized:

"Our alliance with Mantle is a significant milestone as we begin to release the game to users regionally. By integrating Mantle's advanced blockchain capabilities, we are enhancing how players control their in-game assets and delivering an unprecedented onboarding experience for all gamers who love MMORPGs, regardless if they are web3 natives or not. This collaboration represents a giant leap forward for both Ember Sword and the gaming industry."

Enhancing the Player Experience With Blockchain

Mantle's cutting-edge modular Ethereum rollup technology will be leveraged to ensure secure, scalable, and low-fee transactions within Ember Sword. This integration will facilitate a seamless and enjoyable gaming experience, allowing players to fully engage with the game's dynamic, player-driven economy.

Joris Huijbregts, Founder and Chief Development Officer of Bright Star Studios, added:

"Partnering with Mantle allows us to create a more fruitful and engaging player economy. We are excited to integrate with the best tools and partners within Mantle Ecosystem to create a scalable and sustainable user journey for our players. This is the future of gaming, where player involvement and control of their items in-game are at the forefront."

Making Web3 Accessible

Mantle's expertise in web3 gaming will simplify the onboarding process for players choosing to interact with the blockchain economy. This ensures that even players new to blockchain can easily participate in and benefit from Ember Sword's innovative features.

Geezee, Head of Gaming at Mantle, shared:

"We are thrilled to collaborate with Bright Star Studios on Ember Sword. Their vision to enable highly accessible, player-centric, blockchain-enabled games aligns perfectly with our mission to enable more gamers to enjoy experiences enhanced with blockchain technology. . Together, we are setting new standards for what is possible in the gaming industry."

A Bright Future for Gamers

This alliance promises to enhance the overall player experience in Ember Sword by combining high-quality gaming with the benefits of blockchain technology. Players can look forward to transparent transactions, true player control of in-game assets, and a vibrant, player-driven marketplace.

About Bright Star Studios

Bright Star Studios is a pioneering game development company focused on creating groundbreaking MMORPG experiences. The studio’s mission is to change the way games are developed, accessed and played. Their flagship title, Ember Sword is set to redefine the gaming landscape with its high quality gameplay and platform agnostic technology, and has celebrated significant traction of over 100k play sessions with an average of 1hr 21min per player in its most recent Beta Test release.

About Mantle

Mantle Ecosystem comprises an Ethereum layer 2 (L2) — Mantle Network, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) — Mantle Governance, one of the largest on-chain treasuries — Mantle Treasury, and an Ether (ETH) liquid staking protocol — Mantle LSP: all built on Ethereum. Mantle token ($MNT) is the unified product and governance token of the ecosystem. Mantle’s first core product is Mantle Network, an Ethereum L2. Mantle Network strives to be compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Mantle Network’s modular architecture separates transaction execution, data availability, and transaction finality into modules — which can be individually upgraded and adopt the latest innovations. Mantle Network is the first L2 to partner with ETH restaking protocol EigenLayer for the data availability module. By adopting a rollup architecture, Mantle Network is secured by Ethereum. As the world’s first DAO-spawned L2, Mantle Network is pioneering a vision for the mass adoption of token-governed technologies. The current mainnet version, Mantle Network Mainnet v2 Tectonic (Mantle v2 Tectonic), went live on March 15, 2024.

$MNT powers Mantle Network as its native gas token and ecosystem growth token, and serves as the governance token of Mantle Governance. All future Mantle products will likewise be initiated by the $MNT holder community through vote and powered by $MNT.

Mantle’s second core product is Mantle LSP, a permissionless and non-custodial ETH liquid staking protocol deployed on Ethereum L1 and governed by Mantle. Mantle LSP combines simple and modern design with robust risk management, and leverages extensive existing Mantle Ecosystem resources to deliver a highly rewarding experience and supercharges Mantle’s status as a yield powerhouse. Mantle Staked Ether ($mETH) serves as the value-accumulating receipt token of Mantle LSP.

To support the next-generation of innovators, builders, and developers, Mantle is growing its ecosystem via Mantle Grants Program and Mantle EcoFund, a catalyzed capital pool of $200M. Mantle’s Showcase Apps program lends additional support and publicity to ecosystem projects in categories such as real world assets (RWA).

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