Pentagon Games
Gaming, XR Metaverse, AI Social, NFTs
Zeeve Rollups-as-a-Service + Polygon CDK Stack
As Pentagon’s games scaled, they became victims of their own success. On public chains, even moderate spikes in activity would cause transaction fees to soar, making in-game microtransactions completely unviable. This crippled gameplay loops and reward mechanisms that relied on affordable, frequent actions.
Shared blockchains exposed Pentagon’s users to instability from applications that had nothing to do with gaming. Peak times caused latency, failed transactions, and frustrating user experiences — especially damaging in real-time, immersive gameplay environments where responsiveness is critical.
To move value across ecosystems, Pentagon Games had to rely on third-party bridges — the single most exploited point in Web3. These not only carried high security risks, but also charged hidden fees ranging from 1–5% per transaction, undermining user trust and value transfer efficiency.
Key building blocks — like NFT marketplaces with batch bidding, DeFi-style AMMs, or contract-level access control — simply didn’t exist in a composable, scalable way. Pentagon Games was forced to either compromise on product quality or reinvent the wheel in fragmented environments.
Without sovereignty over block production, contract permissions, or on-chain gas dynamics, Pentagon Games couldn’t enforce rules tailored to gaming. Anyone could deploy spam contracts, congest the network, or undercut user experience — and the team had no way to stop it.
The core innovation of PenXR — AI-generated avatars, 3D spatial rendering, immersive identity layers — required fast, low-latency infrastructure with predictable costs and settlement integrity. No existing chain offered the performance or design flexibility required to run AI agents and spatial social interactions natively on-chain.
Zeeve provisioned, deployed, and optimized the full Polygon CDK rollup stack for Pentagon Chain. This enables sovereign control over gas dynamics, contract curation, and governance. This gave Pentagon Games a secure and modular foundation to run its multi-product ecosystem without compromise.
To preserve the curated nature of their ecosystem, Pentagon Games wanted to restrict who could deploy contracts on the chain. Zeeve integrated a third-party proxy (Verse Proxy) at the RPC level to whitelist deployer wallets — ensuring that only authorized apps and developers can launch smart contracts on Pentagon Chain.
Zeeve modified the standard faucet implementation to align with Pentagon Games' GetPC onboarding campaign, which offers gas token incentives to new users. This involved customizing the flow to handle user eligibility and reward tiers as per Pentagon’s native incentive logic.
Pentagon Games' real-time products — from XR streaming to AI-powered social feeds — demand high availability and monitoring. Zeeve delivered a 99.97% uptime-backed infrastructure setup, with dashboards, alerts, and DevOps tooling to support live operations across continents and time zones.
To future-proof their chain, Zeeve ensured zero deviation from the upstream CDK stack. This lets Pentagon seamlessly adopt new Polygon updates, tooling, and features — critical for maintaining long-term compatibility across the evolving CDK ecosystem.
Pentagon Games is an entire stack of spatial, gaming, DeFi, and social products. Zeeve provisioned infrastructure not just for chain uptime, but to support concurrent, high-frequency workloads across multiple verticals. Zeeve has fine-tuned their zkProver infrastructure to optimize costs and deliver maximum value for money as usage scales.
The system was tuned to meet the demands of XR rendering, avatar interactions, NFT swaps, and AMM liquidity all happening simultaneously.
Zeeve's integration of the Verse Proxy created a practical governance layer — allowing Pentagon to approve who can deploy contracts and maintain ecosystem quality. This access model was critical to preventing spam deployments and ensuring only vetted applications become part of the spatial network.
By leveraging Zeeve’s managed RaaS platform, Pentagon offloaded the burden of rollup DevOps entirely. From upgrades and health checks to alerting and observability, Zeeve handled infrastructure operations end-to-end — allowing Pentagon Games' developers to stay focused on game mechanics, AI agents, and ecosystem UX.
Zeeve configured the infra to be future-proof and horizontally scalable. As Pentagon Games expands to onboard more games, creators, and users, the chain infra — including monitoring, proxy logic, and modular integrations — can scale with minimal rework or downtime.
Zeeve ensured that Pentagon Chain remained 100% aligned with upstream CDK releases — with no custom forks or off-stack modules. This guarantees Pentagon will receive future improvements in performance, security, and tooling from the broader Polygon ecosystem, without the risk of breaking changes or manual patching.
Through Zeeve’s dashboards and real-time logs, Pentagon Games’ team has full visibility into chain performance, usage patterns, and potential bottlenecks. This observability helps the team react quickly during high traffic — whether from a new game launch or a social event — and maintain SLA-grade user experience.
