Mysten Labs is Grand Cross: the blockchain partner of Metaworld

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Netmarble F&C Subsidiary Metaverse World Selects Mysten Labs as Blockchain Partner for Grand Cross: Metaworld. Mysten Labs is the creator of Sui, a layer 1 blockchain. The founding members of the company are former Meta developers who worked on the Libra project.

Sui is a Layer 1 blockchain designed from the ground up to allow developers to create experiences that speak directly to users. It supports a wide range of high-speed, low-cost development. Sui offers high throughput, instant settlement speeds and rich on-chain assets.

Most importantly, it delivers user-friendly Web3 experiences.

"Great metaverses require great infrastructure," Netmarble's Woowon Seo said in a statement to GamesBeat. "We're thrilled to partner with Mysten to create our metaverse on Sui, which is purpose-built to support fun, high-performance games and experiences at scale."

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Grand Cross: Metaworld allows thousands of concurrent users to spend time together in different cities and neighborhoods in a huge open world. It rocks a distinct anime style, which covers both characters and settings.

Like any hopeful metaverse, Grand Cross: Metaworld lets players design their own spaces, from creating a place to decorating it. Players will be able to use webcams and mobile cameras to customize their individual avatars. The same technology can create user-generated content to share on the Internet.

One of the main selling points of Grand Cross: Metaworld is that the entire project uses Unreal for 4k graphics. The team behind Metaworld built their own cartoon rendering shader for use with Unreal 5 to make it all fit together.

I will say one thing about Grand Cross: Metaworld. He looks gorgeous. Whoever created the trailer for the upcoming closed beta test deserves a bonus or a raise or something.

What interests me, however, is that Metaworld is trying to tap into the V-Tuber market. He cites built-in tools for creating v-tube models. He specifically recognizes the