CCP Games, creators of the iconic sci-fi MMO EVE Online, today announced that EVE Frontier, its space survival MMO currently in early development, will be built on Sui, the Layer-1 blockchain originally developed by Mysten Labs. With more than tens of thousands of star systems and countless player-built ships, factories, and infrastructure set to populate EVE Frontier’s cosmos, Sui’s object-centric architecture offers a natural fit for modeling a virtual world of this scale and complexity. Additionally, Sui enables near-instant transaction finality, parallel execution of transactions, and more expressive smart contracts — all essential for bringing more aspects of EVE Frontier’s gameplay on-chain.
This announcement marks a significant step in CCP Games long-standing commitment to creating virtual worlds that are shaped entirely by its players. Building EVE Frontier on Sui represents the next evolution of that vision, marrying CCP Games expertise in large-scale sandbox design with a blockchain built for object ownership, composability, and scalability. This technical and ideological alignment ensures that as EVE Frontier grows, its universe can support deep economic interactions, sophisticated governance, and a truly persistent on-chain record of player history.
“Since inception, our mission has been to create virtual worlds more meaningful than real life. With EVE Frontier, we are pushing that ambition further than ever before: building a player moddable universe, bound by its own digital physics, that can outlive us all,” said Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, CEO of CCP Games. “As we dug into how Sui is architected, we came across so many familiar concepts, such as how their object-centric approach neatly matches our historic item-centric approach, enabling billions of objects/items, all placed by players, shaping a living universe. For us, Sui offered the unique alignment of architecture, security, and user experience. Together, we’re building a world that can truly stand the test of time.”
CCP Games is designing EVE Frontier to be massively moddable, empowering players and third-party developers to create new objects, structures, and systems called “Smart Assemblies”. This vision demands an environment where player-built content can be deployed safely at scale, without introducing vulnerabilities into the game world. Sui’s robust security model is crucial in allowing the community to build and deploy via Sui tooling in such a way that the compiled code does not compromise the integrity of the universe. In addition to Sui’s powerful combination of speed and scalability, CCP Games will also utilize Mysten Labs’ full stack of decentralized technology solutions, including Walrus, the developer platform for trustworthy data, and Seal, which provides native data access controls. Together, these enable new opportunities for players to leverage information asymmetry and exploit intelligence in their pursuit to thrive in the Frontier.
“Much of Sui’s early design was shaped by the needs of high-performance games with full programmability for players,” said Sam Blackshear, co-founder and CTO of Mysten Labs, the original contributors to Sui. “EVE Frontier is the first game to leverage all of the novel features that Sui, Walrus, and Seal offer. We’re inspired by CCP Games vision to build a truly player-defined game that outlasts its creators. It’s a perfect match for the technical ambition of Sui.”
EVE Frontier is in the process of porting the current Founder Access build of the game over to Sui. This initial port will also aim to implement many of Sui’s features to enhance the user experience, such as zkLogin for native account abstraction, allowing users to sign in with their email addresses, and sponsored gas fees for users, enabling onboarding without barriers and seamlessly bringing billions of player-driven interactions on-chain.
For more information about EVE Frontier, visit www.evefrontier.com. An FAQ can be found at www.evefrontier.com/faq.
