Back to collectionA Three-Hour First Call Opens the Technical Conversation
The studio had decided to research a game-focused chain, and A-Zhen was leading the comparison of technical approaches. A-Zhen began with frictionless wallets, no gas fees for players, and vast numbers of small transactions, then explained why existing options struggled to meet those needs together. Until then, the team had only its internal comparison and an introductory email; now both sides could discuss the same requirements in depth.
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The studio had decided to research a game-focused chain, and A-Zhen was leading the comparison of technical approaches. An introductory email to Offchain Labs had led to a first video meeting. Her team now had to turn player experience problems into engineering requirements the other side could discuss.
A-Zhen began with frictionless wallets, no gas fees for players, and vast numbers of small transactions, then explained why existing options struggled to meet those needs together. An engineer on the other side said, “This is exactly the kind of use case we want to see.” A meeting scheduled for two hours ran to three as both sides probed implementation limits. Nobody mentioned a contract when they left, but the team felt they were halfway there.
Until then, the team had only its internal comparison and an introductory email; now both sides could discuss the same requirements in depth. The encouraging response gave A-Zhen reason to keep testing Nitro, but it was neither a technical verdict nor a commitment to work together. She would collect the unresolved questions for the next discussion.