Ah yes, just what the space needed—another high-performance, low-cost, ultra-mega-super-duper optimized blockchain for gaming. Game7 has finally launched the G7 Network mainnet, adding to the growing pile of chains promising to revolutionize onchain gaming. Because, obviously, the problem with Web3 gaming isn’t the games themselves—it’s that we don’t have enough chains. Originally, G7 Network was just a humble little zkSync-powered portal, but after millions of transactions and skyrocketing gas fees (shocking, I know), the team decided, why not build our own chain? So they grabbed Arbitrum Orbit, slapped on some gamer branding, and here we are. The testnet apparently cranked out 6M transactions and 1,400 contracts, so now they’re rolling out mainnet in stages. First up, migrating 600,000 users (probably half of them inactive wallets, but we move). Then they’ll onboard partners like Arbitrum, Conduit, Forte, and Thirdweb to make sure the pipes don’t burst. And finally, they’ll flip the switch to make G7 a permissionless gaming network—because we all know how well that usually goes. Oh, and of course, there’s a G7 token coming in 2025. It’ll be used for governance (translation: whale wars), marketplace transactions (because we all love paying fees in new tokens), and as the backbone of their ecosystem. So if you’re looking to add another token to your “probably undervalued” bag, mark your calendars. At this point, I’m just waiting for someone to launch “Ultra-Gamer-Layer3-420” and tell us it’s really the final missing piece to Web3 gaming adoption. But hey, if G7 can actually get devs to build something fun (a wild concept, I know), then maybe this won’t just be another chain added to the graveyard. Maybe.