Aethir & Grampus: Enhancing Gaming With Decentralized Cloud Computing

The global gaming market is rapidly growing and evolving, with more and more gaming studios moving from traditional Web2 gaming models toward Web3 and blockchain-based solutions. Millions of users worldwide demand Web3 functionalities, including NFT mechanics, crypto tokenomics, and blockchain connectivity. Today, we are proud to announce our partnership with Grampus, a seasoned Web2 gaming veteran and a key player in the mobile gaming market with a growing presence in Web3 gaming. Grampus is known for various mobile gaming hits and has a vast user base around the world, along with their GRAM Ecosystem, which specializes in Web3 gaming ventures. Our collaboration will merge Aethir's cloud gaming infrastructure resources and the Web3 gaming creativity of Grampus’ titles like Norma in Metaland and their upcoming Juicy Adventure.

Grampus made huge waves in the mobile gaming industry with their iconic title, Cooking Adventure back in 2016. This casual cooking simulation game allows gamers worldwide to manage various restaurants with Norma, the game's protagonist. As of 2023, Cooking Adventure amassed a user base of over 33 million players globally during the seven years since its launch, with 500K monthly active users. 

Following up on the title's success, in July 2023, Grampus launched Norma in Metaland as a modern, blockchain-powered reboot of Cooking Adventure, adapted and improved for the Web3 era. Grampus introduced Web3 features such as World Chef Championship (ranking system), Cake Festival (jackpot lottery system), and Chocolate Pop-up Store (quest farming system) to their new game. The game includes NFT and Play-to-Earn (P2E) mechanics, popularly known as Cook-to-Earn in the world of Norma. Furthermore, Grampus launched GRAM Ecosystem, the company's Web3 division geared toward blockchain gaming and promoting community activations such as quests and special competitions.

By partnering with Aethir, Grampus and GRAM Ecosystem are gaining access to the world's fastest-growing decentralized GPU cloud infrastructure, which can deliver premium cloud gaming experiences to players worldwide. With Aethir's help, Grampus can reach a broader audience and deliver diverse gaming content across various channels. Aethir's cloud computing network has over 80,000 top-shelf GPUs capable of simultaneously providing flawless, ultra-low latency cloud gaming services to millions of gamers.

Instead of burdening the players' devices with GPU-heavy workloads, Aethir empowers gaming studios like Grampus to make their games easily accessible on all devices, regardless of hardware requirements, thanks to our decentralized GPU cloud. Players just need to have a stable internet connection. This user-centric approach ensures that players can enjoy a smooth cloud gaming experience on any device while Aethir's DePIN stack handles the hardware processing, putting the player experience at the forefront of our partnership. 

Moreover, Aethir and Grampus can tackle the key challenges in Web3 gaming, such as creating a seamless user experience for on-chain activities and user assets. Aethir, as a specialist in the cloud sector, can guarantee a frictionless cloud gaming experience for GRAM Ecosystem users with our globally distributed GPU network, which can efficiently reach users at the network's edge. That's because Aethir always provides cloud computing resources to end-users from the physically closest available GPU Container in our network. 

Unlike centralized cloud providers, our GPU cloud is distributed across a multitude of locations, thus ensuring efficient global network coverage for anyone using Aethir as a cloud computing provider. On the other hand, Grampus has the know-how to create mind-bending gaming experiences and Web3 mechanics, such as tokenizing in-game assets and P2E features that let players earn valuable rewards and climb leaderboards while having fun.

The combination of Aethir and Grampus is a winning mix of industry-leading cloud computing expertise and gaming knowledge, which can jointly bring superior-quality Web3 gaming to the cloud.