The vision of Web3 games is not just collectibles but live worlds that will be persistent and evolving, with thousands of individuals playing each other in real-world, real-time. However, it is already too notable in terms of demand due to blockchain activity.
Currently, blockchain games account for approximately 28 percent of Web3 dApp users, with approximately 2.8 million daily unique active wallets (dUAW), and the most popular gaming chains now have millions of daily users. Ronin had an average of dUAW of about 1.9M in Q2, Polygon at 1.5M, and NEAR at 1.0M. These are Web3 metrics, but they reflect the same concurrency limit that mainstream gaming has achieved.
Then what does that mean to infrastructure? The Web3 worlds of the future need to focus on latency, concurrency, and data distribution, and on-chain functionality should not drag the gameplay loop. This is where the heavy lifting is done by single-tenant machines deployed in the right areas, called dedicated servers.
Numerous Web3 infrastructures use high-performance blockchain servers to support node infrastructure, efficient transactions, and decentralized applications and services at scale.
Concurrency at event scale. Live metaverse events, concerts, tournaments, and open-world festivals can spike thousands to tens of thousands of people into one space. Simulation and networking must scale to a large number of cores and machines without compromising the authoritative consistency of the world. The prototype signal is the Otherside demo: the team had shown 7,200+ users in a single world.
Ultra-low latency: Every millisecond of life and death is in immersive play (VR, in particular). Milliseconds are important in immersive play (particularly VR). At latencies around 50 ms, players will start to notice them, and performance will begin to decline in the 50-100 ms window; in XR, a 20 ms motion-to-photon latency is a comfort band, and step-changes in quality in streamed VR can be made with latencies of sub-15ms. These budgets will be achieved worldwide by locating servers near players and reducing network hops.
International coverage and competitive advantage: One instance of a metaverse may bring bidders or players in Los Angeles, London, Lagos, and Singapore, at the same time. It should have local ingress, intelligent routing (anycast/DNS), and edge caching whereby each one of them refers to a local origin, and regions are synchronized.
Throughput & content gravity: These worlds transfer large data 3D assets, voice, and real-time state updates, and hence origin bandwidth must absorb bursts (5-10x normal load) as the CDN stores assets close to users.
Less frictional on-chain implementation: Users need to experience NFT mints, trades, and in-game ownership updates in real-time, and the backend must decouple gameplay from settlement and be built on a reliable full-node/RPC implementation to reduce request latency.
Secondarily, most Web3 startups are drawn to infrastructure providers that handle crypto payments, allowing them to use a dedicated Server with Crypto without relying on traditional banking infrastructure. This strategy is in line with the decentralization of blockchain projects and simplifies the implementation of global infrastructure.
Since the single tenant machines can provide reliable performance in the best moments, i.e., in the moments when the performance needs to be the most, i.e., in the live performances, opening up of the regions, and market bursts, and since the single tenant machines also provide you with complete control of the ops interface.
Differentiated services, no tick differentiation. As it has its own CPUs, RAM and NVMe, it no longer has a loud neighbor to steal simulation and blockchain indexing operations. This minimizes jitter and keeps the authoritative servers' ticks constant across thousands of connections.
Peering and high-throughput networking. The current infrastructure providers can provide ports of 200 Gbps per server and a backbone with connections to 20+ transit providers and 25+ IXPs.
Endpoints stability and network control. BGP sessions allow teams to implement BYOIP and anycast/failover to ensure that RPC, matchmaking, and ingress IPs do not change when performing maintenance and scaling.
24/7 support when minutes matter. Hardware replacement, rack and stack, and 24/7 troubleshooting.
Dedicated servers allow Web3 studios low latency, high concurrency, and close on-chain integration with full operational control.
Latency is the first metric to make. Target mainstream play of <50 ms and XR of about 20 ms; locate servers as close to players as possible and minimize cross-ocean network paths.
Design at event levels of concurrency. Single space scale with load-shedding and back-pressure; architecture horizontal scale with single spaces (millions overall) and architect horizontal scale with single spaces (thousands overall).
Separate settlement and gameplay. Operate your own nodes to maintain RPC latency flat and resilient and queue/reconcile on-chain actions.
Exploit bandwidth + CDN. Provide 10-200 Gbps headroom and allow asset gravity to be managed by a 55+ PoP CDN.
Control the network. BGP/BYOIP Endpoints scaling and maintenance, a viable, plausible tool of accountability and reliability.
Infrastructure will be a key point of interaction as Web3 gaming ecosystems expand and can be used to create persistent virtual worlds, large-scale events, and seamless blockchain integration. High-performance dedicated servers provide the reliability, latency control, and scalability needed to serve these next-generation digital environments.
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