Why Mythical Games built a blockchain gaming infrastructure on CockroachDB

Mythical Games, a leading blockchain gaming startup valued at $1.25 billion, built its gaming infrastructure on CockroachDB to ensure high availability and scalability for their platform. The company's mission is to bring players, developers, and content creators closer to the games they love while giving them ownership of in-game assets through non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Mythical Games chose CockroachDB over Cloud SQL for Postgres due to its ability to eliminate downtime during maintenance, support global scaling across multiple regions and clouds, and provide a managed offering that frees up resources for player-facing features. The company's first game, Blankos Block Party, has attracted over one million accounts since its release in December 2020.