When CryptoKitties, one of the very first non-fungible token (NFT) projects, brought the Ethereum blockchain to a halt in late 2017 due to immense congestion, developer Dapper Labs learned firsthand that current-gen blockchains weren’t built to handle such demand.
Rather than simply find another home for the decentralized app (dapp) or wait for Ethereum scaling solutions to mature, Dapper decided to build the kind of blockchain that it and other developers could rely on.
The result is Flow, a blockchain purpose-built to support things like NFT collectibles and large-scale crypto games.
On @flow_blockchain, CryptoKitties will demo the full power of composability, on-chain storage, and crypto for consumer apps – we can add new features, genes, breeding components, and extensibility for third party developers without affecting the core trust of the collector pic.twitter.com/Yohu0dTi8q
— Roham (@rohamg) January 26, 2021
CryptoKitties will soon migrate to Flow, and with the surgin
