McGarry: Delayed asset settlement removes high TPS requirements in metaverse games
Steve McGarry · Builders Are the Ticket Before Interoperability Ever Gets Solved · Dec 22, 2022 · at 41:26
Steve McGarry, founder and CEO of Sandstorm, discusses technical scaling bottlenecks and hybrid Web2/Web3 architectures for metaverse gaming with host Sean Weisbrot.
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“And I would say that if settlement of these different in-game assets happened at a later time, you don't really need a high throughput of transactions per second.”
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