Great news from our partners, Petaverse Network has partnered with Polygon to create it one of the first chains of Petaverse Network pets, plus Polygon Studio has become a big supporter of the cross-chain digital pet vision! Concept Art House is also delighted with the breakthrough achievements of its partners. Let's learn more about the event below!

Petaverse Network, a non-fungible token (NFT) game company started by the founders of Tiny Rebel Games, will use the Polygon blockchain to mint its cute digital cats. It’s taking the gameplay of virtual pets — like the old Nintendogs game — and modernizing them based on blockchain and metaverse ideas. Susan Cummings and Lee Cummings, who have two decades of experience making games, started the Petaverse Network, which aims to combine games, XR, and web 3 to define an open standard for digital pets in the metaverse.

This is the first blockchain partnership for Petaverse Network, but it may not be the only one. Petaverse said the deal marks the first of many platforms Petaverse Network will partner with, powering its mission to become the first cross-chain platform for digital pets — beginning with the first drop of Petaverse Network cats this summer.

While NFTs have run into lots of resistance among hardcore gamers, Susan Cummings believes that NFT titles with more gameplay and emotional connections will fare better, especially with broader mainstream audiences that include women players as well as men. 

Petaverse Network will also be supported by Polygon Studios, an organization for onboarding developers, brands, artists, and content creators to web 3 through investment, marketing, developer, and community support.

“Polygon and Polygon Studios are committed to building a decentralized future so that everyone can have access to Web3 applications,” Brian Trunzo, metaverse lead at Polygon Studios, in a statement. “Through this partnership with Petaverse Network, we look forward to fostering growth amongst the Web3 community who are entering the metaverse through decentralized apps and taking their digital companions along too.”

“We are incredibly excited to see this partnership come to fruition as we begin the Petaverse Network journey,” said Susan Cummings, CEO of Petaverse Network, in a statement. “As we continue to expand cross-chain support for multiple blockchains, it’s important that we focus on creating meaningful partnerships that support utility. Launching first on Polygon is a significant milestone as we deploy multi-chain support and we can’t wait to see what the future holds.”

“We see this as a fundamental shift in how we think about pets, both physical and virtual. A pet that you can take with you in all variety of experiences and on all variety of devices and platforms, wherever you are in your lives,” she said. “A pet unconstrained by the laws of the physical world – one day a child allergic to dogs will put on AR glasses and have a pet ownership experience close to, but in some ways so much better, than owning a real pet.”

Cummings added, “Some day an older person will leave their home and pets to go into long-term care, and while their favorite cat has to be left behind, a digital twin can be at their side until the end. The idea of a persistent, resilient, re-interpretable pet, running behind you in a 3rd person shooter, sitting on your desk in AR, running around the bottom of your browser like a feline Clippy, just hanging out wherever you are, facilitated by a web 3 tech stack network, is the promise and the value to the user. How much a user cares about this will vary massively; but we’re betting those millions of Nintendogs owners, Tamagotchi owners, and Petz franchise owners will be excited by the idea of a persistent, breedable, provably ”theirs”, digital pet, with an ecosystem of games and experiences to take that pet into.”

For pet lovers, the company of pets must be hoped for a lifetime, and now thanks to blockchain, pets can really exist forever, no matter what form is chosen. After listening to Petaverse Network founder's description of digital pets, Concept Art House is also proud of what our partners have done, and looks forward to bringing you more surprises in future cooperation!