Saga wants to push the limits of blockchain interoperability to better the metaverse
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Saga is making the interoperable blockchain middleware of the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One.
And Saga has hit some interesting milestones in its journey. Last week, the company announced that its AlphaNet Andromeda has arrived. This is the first version of the company’s blockchain network and it will first be released to 55 projects in the Saga Innovator Program, which are its blockchain partners.
“We are Web3 natives and so we come from the crypto world,” said Rebecca Liao, CEO of Saga, in an interview with GamesBeat. “And our thesis has always been that blockchain infrastructure, as it currently stands, is not sufficient to really allow applications to scale. And so we wanted to find a way to make that optimal infrastructure a lot more readily available and democratic. And that is to get people onto their own dedicated chains.”
Liao said that Saga’s foundation is with the Cosmos protocol, which calls itself the “internet of blockchains” and allows users to create their own blockchains. But doing that can be painful.
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The Cosmos network consists of many independent, parallel blockchains, called “zones,” each powered by classical consensus protocols like Tendermint. The zones serve as hubs for other zones, enabling interoperability. Other blockchains don’t do so well with interoperability. With Cosmos and
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