AMA with RIVES – a fully verifiable onchain gaming console powered by Cartesi

Hello, r/cryptocurrency, happy to be here and thanks for having Cartesi for another AMA! This time, we are excited to introduce you to one of the dApps developed with Cartesi Rollups: RIVES, an onchain fantasy console that runs retro games and programs entirely onchain, enabling every element—from gameplay to interactions—to be fully verifiable.

RIVES started by bringing verifiable DOOM onchain, and since then, the team has developed an entire game console with a custom emulator that is verifiable onchain. It enables the creation, verification and distribution of small expressive games called cartridges. By verifying gameplays, the platform creates tapes (replayable gameplay logs) and adds players to immutable leaderboards. The platform has launched on mainnet this week with a gaming competition, the first of its kind – The DOOM Olympics: a 7-day event with 7 unique contests (or disciplines) using the Freedoom build. This contest takes place between September 12 and 19, with $15,000 in prizes.

We’ll be here answering your questions on tomorrow, September 14th, from 1 pm UTC until around 3 pm UTC.

About Cartesi Cartesi is a powerful modular blockchain protocol that supercharges the web3 space. It equips developers with access to a full Linux environment through its native virtual machine, and high performance rollups designed to support next-generation dApps.

Cartesi’s mission is to expand what is possible in Web3 and unlock the power of decentralization by allowing developers access to existing tools and libraries to build more efficiently, as well as a dedicated CPU for their dApp, avoiding competition for blockspace while maintaining the security guarantees of the base layer. Cartesi Rollups can be deployed as L2, L3 (on top of Optimism, Arbitrum, Base etc.), or sovereign rollups. Learn more and explore use cases enabled by Cartesi here: https://cartesi.io/usecases/

Introducing RIVES built with Cartesi Rollups

RIVES (which stands for RISC-V Verifiable Entertainment System) is an onchain fantasy console that allows creating, distributing and playing of cartridges (small programs), and tapes (verified interactions).

Unlike many Web3 games, RIVES leverages blockchain capabilities to the fullest. Not only are the assets onchain, but also the game logic and state, which unlocks entirely new possibilities. RIVES can run complex games like DOOM fully verifiably. Gameplays/scores (e.g., speedruns) can be verified and proven without intermediaries and stored in history forever. On top of this, it enables new forms of modding and composability.

DOOM Olympics

The DOOM Olympics is a 7-day DOOM competition on RIVES where players partake in 7 different DOOM contests/disciplines. The 7 contests are: Lightning Run, Knuckle Crusher, Infallible Aim, Secret Master, Treasure Seeker, The Completionist, Enemy Eradicator.

These contests each have a unique scoring system and objectives. Each gameplay runs locally in the browser within the same Cartesi VM and is verifiable on-chain. Players generate tapes, which are verified gameplay/interaction logs, with cartridges (built by builders), in this case, the DOOM cartridge. After the player submits their logs to the RIVES rollup for verification, the nodes execute the same deterministic Cartesi VM, thereby securing them a spot on the leaderboard in a verifiable, transparent, and cheat-resistant manner.

Start playing DOOM Olympics, for a chance to win a share of the total $15,000 prize pool. Sign up here to receive notifications and earn rewards for bringing in friends to the tournament: https://signup.rives.io/olympics

We have RIVES contributors eager to answer your questions:

u/Max_Cartesi (Max) – RIVES Co-founder u/SkyCertain3348 (Carlo) – RIVES Co-founder

AMA Giveaway!

After the AMA, one question will be chosen to receive a Cartesi swag pack. It’s time to bring out your best questions, whether they’re thought-provoking, creative, or funny. We’d love to hear from you! The winner will be contacted via our official Reddit account, u/cartesi, with instructions for claiming.

Keep up to date with Cartesi and RIVES news and developments:

Website: https://cartesi.io/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ cartesiproject Discord: https://discord.gg/hbBGRDGgh5

Website: https://rives.io/ Twitter: https://x.com/rives_io Discord: https://discord.gg/99vGvvTkzU Start playing the DOOM olympics on Base: https://app.rives.io/

Previous AMAs:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/16ujhlh/ama_with_cartesi_verifiable_linux_on_ethereum/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/zktdq2/ama_with_cartesi_we_are_developing_riscvbased/