What is Galxe?

Galxe is a decentralized super app designed to empower developers, brands, and communities to build in Web3. Its comprehensive product suite leverages modular AI, digital identity, and blockchain technology and creates secure, advanced, user-friendly applications that enable self-sovereign digital identity management. 

What is Gravity Alpha Mainnet?

Gravity Alpha Mainnet is the first phase of the Gravity blockchain, specifically designed to test and validate its performance within Galxe’s ecosystem. Built on Arbitrum’s Nitro stack as a Layer 2 solution, Gravity Alpha Mainnet allows Galxe to trial advanced multi-chain capabilities and cost-efficient infrastructure where Galxe's core products—such as Galxe Quest, Compass, Passport, and Identity Protocol—can seamlessly interact with blockchain technology. Together, they support Web3 applications by offering tools for omnichain capabilities, digital identity, and loyalty programs. For instance, loyalty points earned through Galxe Quest have migrated onto Gravity, enabling users to trade, manage permissions, and engage seamlessly across chains.

The insights from Alpha Mainnet will help inform the development of Gravity’s eventual transition to a fully independent Layer 1 blockchain designed for mass adoption, combining gigagas-level throughput with sub-second finality to enable seamless Web3 experiences at scale. It integrates advanced features like zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), parallel execution, and restaking-powered proof-of-stake consensus to offer high performance, cost efficiency and security.

Case Study

Opportunity

Born into the Galxe ecosystem, Gravity was created as a tool to streamline and efficiently transfer data transactions from Galxe’s ecosystem to the blockchain. 

Galxe’s existing architecture had difficulty managing complex, high-volume transactions across multiple chains, as well as offering a seamless user experience without exposing users to the complexities of blockchain operations. For this reason, there was a need to make the platform’s backend processes more efficient and transparent by moving these interactions onchain. 

This became especially apparent as Galxe’s user base and transaction volumes grew. Due to fragmentation across chains, users had limited visibility of their transaction information. As the need for a more robust and scalable blockchain infrastructure became evident, Galxe sought a technology stack to help them address their growing scalability challenges. 

Solution 

Galxe turned to Arbitrum Orbit’s technology stack, Arbitrum Nitro, to address its scalability challenges — officially launching Gravity Alpha Mainnet in August 2024. According to Zach Meltzer, the Director of Business Development at Galxe, the team had decided on Arbitrum for the following reasons:

• Scalability with High TPS: Arbitrum Orbit provided Gravity with the transaction processing speed and efficiency required to manage Galxe’s vast user base. This has allowed Gravity to sustain its volume of millions of daily active users without delays or transaction backlogs.
• Streamlined Deployment and Support: With dedicated support from Arbitrum’s business and technical teams, Galxe launched Gravity without obstacles, avoiding the challenges often associated with setting up a new blockchain. This enabled Gravity to efficiently bring loyalty points, quest data, and other transaction records onchain, enhancing usability and transparency.
• Enhanced Ecosystem Integration: Choosing Arbitrum Orbit facilitated easier integrations and partnerships with other leading infrastructure and DeFi providers. For instance, Gravity collaborated with major partners like LayerZero, Stargate, and The Graph by being part of the Orbit ecosystem. Arbitrum’s established reputation and community also significantly fostered trust and interest from other protocols, making it easier for Galxe to secure support from key ecosystem players.
• Future Expansion Capabilities: Leveraging Arbitrum’s technology addressed Galxe’s immediate scalability and efficiency needs and laid the groundwork for Gravity’s future growth. Galxe’s long-term plan to transition to a standalone Layer 1 will benefit from the strong foundation set by its Orbit-based Gravity system, ensuring continuity as the platform scales further.

In the first two months after launching mainnet, Galxe processed over 200 million transactions, significantly reducing transaction fees and increasing throughput. Through its partnership with Arbitrum, Galxe has laid the groundwork for future growth and expansion in transaction volume and user engagement.