Decentralization and the Blockchain

The Retro-Zone Arcade was launched on the Ethereum blockchain. Ethereum was chosen due to the sheer number of developers building on the platform, and its innate ability to recruit initial community members. However, as the vision for the project began to take shape, it became clear that building a blockchain game solely on Ethereum would not be feasible from a scalability standpoint.

The Retro-Zone Team believes that, while users do care about blockchain technology, they are generally more interested in the benefits it can bring. The mechanics of Play to Earn do not require a fully decentralized public blockchain. Part of the web3 ethos is the idea of users being rewarded for the value that they bring to applications.

Rather than decentralizing too many features, The Retro-Zone provides its users with tamper-evident distributed ledger technology that ensures scarcity, while providing them with the functionality to own and trade their own assets.