Sanko Docs v1
  • About SankoChain
    • Overview
    • AnyTrust
      • Keysets
      • Data Availability Certificates​
      • Data Availability Servers​
      • Sequencer-Committee Interaction
    • $DMT
    • The Dream Machine
  • Getting Started
    • Add Sanko Testnet to Metamask
    • Receive Faucet Funds
    • Deploy on Sanko Testnet
      • Foundry
      • Hardhat
      • Remix
  • User Tools
    • Block Explorer
    • Bridge UI
    • Info Page
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Overview

What is SankoChain?

SankoChain is an Arbitrum Orbit L3 designed to bring the internet of value to the golden days of gaming experiences that shaped the childhoods of crypto natives and web2 gamers. In its final form, SankoChain will evolve into a console on which diverse projects host games that can interoperate in ways not possible in traditional video game publishing platforms.

Sanko GameCorp is an on-chain game studio that has released the “Dream Machine”, a game console and arcade built natively on Arbitrum, for NFT and token-based gaming.

The Sanko team also has multiple games in development slated to release on this Orbit Chain, including Sakura Park, Streets of Milady, and additional games of skill. In addition to games deployed by the Sanko team, independent web3 game developers will also be incentivized to deploy their titles on The Dream Machine.

As a custom fork of Arbitrum AnyTrust, SankoChain features a 10-100x decrease in transaction cost and increase in TPS compared to standard optimistic rollups. SankoChain’s fundamental improvement over existing rollups lay within improved computation and memory, significantly more efficient data availability, and enhanced developer tooling via Stylus.

In addition to an EVM, SankoChain will feature a co-equal virtual machine that uses WebAssembly (WASM), a modern binary format used in major browsers and web standards to speed up computation. This design decision has three major effects on its functionality:

  1. It allows for Geth’s EVM implementation to be used directly, enabling SankoChain to maintain full EVM equivalence and low transaction fees simultaneously.

  2. Any programming language that can compile down to WASM, including Rust, C, and C++, will eventually be able to be used to write smart contracts on SankoChain. Smart contracts written in different programming languages will also be composable, allowing, for example, Rust developers to call programs or rely on dependencies written in Solidity or vice versa.

  3. Faster execution and reduced transaction fees due to WASM’s significantly greater efficiency compared to EVM. WASM’s increased efficiency also makes memory over 100x less costly, making consuming RAM viable for dApps.

SankoChain's testnet is currently deployed and live. Mainnet is slated for deployment end of March 2024.

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