Polygon, the Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution, has teamed up with Xternity, a Web3 game development platform, to migrate and bring a multiplayer Web3 game, Synergy Land, to the Polygon network from Solana.

As blockchain platforms, Solana focuses primarily on scalability and cost reduction, while Polygon allows for seamless interaction with the Ethereum ecosystem. To help transfer resources from Synergy Land to the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) chain, Xternity proposed a process, via its network migration tool, that can be used to migrate games or projects across chains.

Speaking about Xternity’s goal of accelerating Web3 game development, co-founder and CEO Sagi Maman stated that both gamers and developers should have the option to choose their own blockchain ecosystems.

For users, the migration process involves linking their Solana-compatible wallets, such as Phantom and MetaMask, saving their assets to Solana, and recreating them in Polygon. With its migration to Polygon, Synergy Land aims to bring Web2 users to Web3 without compromising the community hosted on the old blockchain.

Web3 projects that opt ​​for the EVM migration are often looking for a broader user base, increased functionality and credibility of the Ethereum blockchain.

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On January 17, Polygon’s proof-of-stake chain was scheduled for a hard fork. Speaking to Cointelegraph, a Polygon spokesperson shared minute details about the update:

“The hard fork is coded for Block >= 38,189,056. No single, centralized actor is going to initiate it. The network validators have to update their nodes before the indicated block and they are already doing it”.

The update, approved by 87% of the 15 voters of the Polygon Governance Team, aims to reduce spikes in gas rates and solve the problem of reorganization of the chain.