A practical guide on how Plasma helps scale games like Zombie Battlegrounds. We also dive into the internals of Plasma

1. Practical Plasma: Gaming

4. Why Games on Blockchain
• Real Ownership of Assets
• Forkability
• Open Data
• Play run servers

5. New way to monetize
applications

6. History
CounterParty - XCP

7. Ethereum
• ERC721
• Smart contracts

8. Before ....

10. Non fungible tokens

11. Proof of Work chains

12. DPoS: Highly Scalable, but Less
Decentralized

13. Sidechains:
The Best of Both Worlds?

14. Now ....

17. 2 Million cards minted

19. Problem
Securing Assets

20. Enter Plasma

21. 30 seconds about me
• Founder Loom Network
• DigitalOcean
• Go Developer 5 years
• Spoken all over the world
• Rode an elephant at my wedding
• ชอบพูดไทยเวลาเมา

22. What Was Plasma

23. What is plasma now
• Scalability solution for Ethereum via sidechains
• Multiple off-chain state updates which can be realized on-
chain
• Plasma Chain → Sidechain that interacts with a “Plasma
Contract”
• Plasma Contract → Notifies the Plasma Chain of actions

24. Plasma Variants
• Plasma Cash
• Plasma Debit
• Plasma MVP

25. Vitalik reached out

26. Plasma cash is the real plasma

27. What is Loom SDK
• Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum via sidechains
• DPoS for speed & scalability
• Plasma Cash for security
• “EOS on Ethereum”

28. How Plasma Fits in

31. Deposits

37. Withdraws

38. Challenges

42. Withdraws

44. Merkle Trees

45. Sparse Merkle Trees

46. What does this look like?

51. Liquidity providers

52. Getting Started

53. CryptoZombies

55. github.com/loomnetwork/plasma-cash

56. Cool things to build with this
• Transaction Networks
• Liquidity Networks
• Distributed Exchanges
• Blockchain Gaming
• Cross Blockchain communication

57. Take Aways
• Plasma Cash is here now
• It helps scale payment networks
• You can use it for non-fungible tokens

58. Questions?
• Loom Network
• Loom SDK - https://loomx.io/
developers
• Yes we're hiring