# EVE Frontier EVE FRONTIER DOCUMENTATION V0.7.5 Version 0.7.5 of the EVE Frontier whitepaper introduces a technical update to the initial EVE Frontier whitepaper released in 2023. These updated documents aim to explain the requirements of rebuilding a broken world over the coming decades and why it matters.
The scope and depth of this whitepaper will continue to evolve through each phase of development, with more information being added as required to ensure that our community can be part of the development journey. We welcome readers to actively engage with us and join the discourse through the [EVE Frontier Discord](http://www.discord.gg/evefrontier) and official channels. # Abstract With 22 years of learning and data from our pioneering space-based MMO, EVE Online, we are embarking on the journey to build a true “forever game” within a persistent virtual world. A world that will outlast some sovereign nations. A universe that is truly built and owned by its inhabitants. We present EVE Frontier, a crowd-built virtual world and player-driven sandbox designed with blockchain at its core. EVE Frontier builds upon and extends the success of various virtual worlds that have come before it, particularly EVE Online. It is a space survival simulation where inhabitants will find themselves awakened within a shattered region of space, warped by the presence of three supermassive black holes gravitationally bound in a macabre dance. It is a place where civilization has risen up and fallen. Rogue AI infests its depths, corrupting and consuming the remnants of what still stands.
To achieve this vision, EVE Frontier has embraced blockchain architecture to overcome many of the challenges that a more traditional tech stack posed. The universe of EVE Frontier is built upon technically robust foundations, rooted in immutable rules that govern its physics and behavior. Our vision is that EVE Frontier will be in players’ hands, allowing them to modify aspects of a single-shard server at runtime. In tandem with its open design, it will offer an evolved, co-created sandbox through open third-party development and tooling, giving participants recognition, ownership, and freedom over their creative efforts. As one part of this approach, EVE Frontier will deploy the $EVE token on Sui. The token will be used to purchase Crude Mining Lenses, a crucial item required to extract Crude Matter from Rifts. This raw material is refined into high-efficiency Crude-based Fuels that power advanced ships, keep stations online, or enable further resource mining. As players take a greater role in the evolution and growth of EVE Frontier, the amalgamation of this creativity will result in self-organizing societies and, ultimately, civilization. The keys to its universe will be handed over to its inhabitants, allowing them to shape, define, and expand this virtual world. The future of the Frontier depends on the players rebuilding and modding their way out of the relentless hellscape that is EVE Frontier to build a new civilization. # Game ### Vison The mantra “EVE Forever” lives strong in our community, continuing to resonate 22 years after CCP Games launched EVE Online. At its debut, EVE Online was groundbreaking as the world’s first-ever database game. However, a single decision that sits at the heart of EVE Online prevents it from truly embodying “EVE Forever” — the centralized nature of its technology and ownership. If CCP Games or Iceland ceases to exist, EVE Online would cease to exist. The vision for EVE Frontier is to build a single-shard, space survival MMO that can be continuously expanded through user-generated content in real time, in such a way that the universe can live forever, outlasting its creators and continuing to evolve regardless of outside forces. EVE Frontier represents the next generation of virtual worlds, underpinned by technology that enables players to contribute, build infrastructure, and maintain the world in a manner that ensures there is no single point of failure.
To truly create an online civilization that can last forever, to create an experience more meaningful than real life, the community needs to have real agency and real ownership of the world. They need to know that their efforts and their contributions are important and immutable. With EVE Frontier, we aim to push the boundaries of what a virtual world can be and what it can mean to its inhabitants. # Overview In EVE Frontier, players find themselves amid the aftermath of a collapse — a region of space ravaged by time, with entropy and gravitational chaos as its weapons, with remnants of a once-flourishing interstellar civilization haunting its empty spaces. Players awake as Riders, given the task of reigniting the last spark of civilization. They must carve their own path through this unforgiving and unpredictable corner of the universe. Survival on the Frontier depends on adaptability, creativity, and resilience. Riders are free to shape the fate of the Frontier, forge alliances, establish economies, or create trade empires. The stage is set for history to be made and for stories to be written. The astrophysicists working on EVE Frontier ran thousands of simulations to model the gravitational forces of three merging galaxies. Based on these models, the Frontier consists of three supermassive black holes expanding into enormous clusters of unique star systems. The Frontier currently has over 24,000 star systems, with exploration crucial for civilization’s survival. At its core, EVE Frontier revolves around mining Rifts for Crude Matter to power action and exploration. Players mine and gather resources from interstellar masses such as asteroid clusters and carbon fields. They can then use these materials to construct ships, bases, and infrastructure, all while managing energy restraints. This expansion provides the means to expand their reach on the Frontier. Tribes and Syndicates will be created to maximize resource potential, as well as to compete over territory, precious relic sites, and trade routes, shifting the galaxy's dynamic and creating diplomatic opportunities.
EVE Frontier’s focus on digital physics places the “Law of Conservation of Energy” at the core of strategic decision-making. Most actions use fuel, and therefore most actions will also generate heat. Heat, both ambient and generated, will impact ships’ ability to operate. A Rider’s heat signature may also reveal their position to lurking enemies waiting to relieve them of their resources. The $EVE token, once launched on the Sui network and available for trade, will be required to purchase the more advanced Crude Mining Lenses for Crude Matter that are at the core of advancing the Frontier game loop. These advanced mining lenses are used to extract Crude Matter from Rifts to refine Crude Fuel within the virtual world. All activity on the Frontier is underpinned by this crucial relationship between the $EVE token and the Crude Mining Lenses that unleash the trapped potential of the universe. What sets EVE Frontier apart is its extensibility and capacity for user-generated content. Every layer of the world can be built upon through open third-party development, enabling a level of creativity that is unseen in any virtual world. With its legacy of innovation and historic significance, EVE Online could be compared to the city of Rome, an enduring testament to what was possible in its time. In this analogy, EVE Frontier would be New York, designed with today’s knowledge and technology, underpinned by an economic engine that is the envy of the world, and shaped into a global cultural hub by its people. EVE Frontier is a forever game. EVE Frontier will never be complete; it is unsolvable by design, and the inhabitants are building and shaping the Frontier into the civilization that they want it to be. # Game Pillars ####
EXPERIENCES GROUNDED IN SCIENCEA CRUEL SURVIVAL EXPERIENCEA BROKEN WORLD TO REBUILD
REALISM | LOGICAL | IMMERSIVEHOSTILE | TENSION | ENDLESSEMPOWERED | PLAYER-DRIVEN | OWNERSHIP
PLAUSIBLE | INTUITIVE | PURPOSEFULUNFORGIVING | COMPETITIVE | HIGH-STAKESCOOPERATIVE | EMERGENT | SELF-SUSTAINING
A gritty sci-fi experience, built on naturalistic rules and consistent logic grounded in science. The world feels real because it behaves like a real place. Game mechanics reinforce survival through cause and consequence.Tension is constant. Survival is never guaranteed in a world of scarcity, danger, and pressure. Players must scavenge, steal, or cooperate to survive. The world expands over time, revealing new threats and opportunities.Players are the architects of the Frontier’s future. Through effort and collaboration, they shape the world around them. From in-game crafting to third-party development, the inhabitants are building the infrastructure of the Frontier.
# Tribes and Syndicates The Frontier cannot be conquered alone. Riders can team up with friends, forming Tribes of tens to hundreds of players. These Tribes are created via the in-game UI and formalized onchain. Tribes can unite to form larger Syndicates, consisting of hundreds to thousands of Tribes. Such alliances form as coordination and collaboration become vital to navigating the environment, maximizing efficiency, conquering rivals, and pursuing a range of other strategic goals. Tribes and Syndicates will adhere to principles of autonomy and collective decision-making, with control and access determined by a combination of governance structures and voting power. The flexibility of these organizational structures enables them to be designed as standalone, external applications that interact seamlessly with in-game mechanics. This highlights the technological potential of blockchain as the backbone for customizable, user-driven organizational frameworks. These groups will exist as onchain entities governed by the game's rules, with third-party developers able to extend their logic and capabilities. By empowering players to shape their own societies through emergent interactions with these onchain Tribes and Syndicates, EVE Frontier aims to create a dynamic, evolving universe driven by collective agency. The framework allows for infinite possibilities, limited only by the players’ creativity.
We have forged the fundamental tools of social organization; however, the nature of Tribes and Syndicates will be entirely shaped by the community itself, evolving in unique and unpredictable ways. No two organizations in the Frontier — much like their physical counterparts — will ever be identical. For example, Tribes and Syndicates may diverge along the following lines: ● Mandate: These groups may form to optimize for a specific mandate, such as trading, piracy, defense, and protection. In the realms of the Frontier, there always lurks a like-minded soul. ● Management Style: Tribes and Syndicates may range from peaceful democracies to deranged authoritarianism. The politics of leadership can lead to meta-drama in space. ● Organizational Structure: As groups expand, they may establish functional departments to optimize operational efficiency. Rebuilding civilization is fundamentally a coordination problem. Beyond the mere function and structure of organizations, individual Riders will unite into Tribes and Syndicates to collaborate, conspire, and go to war at scale in the quest to accelerate their organizations’ goals and build their reputation in the new Frontier. # Philosophy EVE Frontier ventures beyond the boundaries of virtual worlds as they are currently understood, embracing the possibility of games becoming living, breathing ecosystems that evolve through the efforts The design of *EVE Online* rests upon a single defining concept: > [***Death is a serious matter***](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/471131984?t=20m13s) This principle is how the world of EVE Online has sustained itself over decades and will continue to for decades to come. The concept permeates the entire material economy of EVE Online — where nothing ventured results in nothing gained. *EVE Frontier* builds on this concept and extends it to player agency, posing two questions: > ***Could you create a virtual world that was true only to itself?*** > ***What truth would that virtual world have for its inhabitants?*** EVE Frontier is a simulation of a universe where the rules — its digital physics — are fixed and immutable, beyond even the control of its developers. The incorporation of fundamental laws of energy brings the world closer to thermodynamic accuracy, enhancing its realism and fortifying the underlying foundations. With these laws at the core of the world, inhabitants of the Frontier are free to create novel emergent experiences, particularly through the groundbreaking mechanic of Smart Assemblies, which they can deploy into the universe. As both future development and community participation shape its evolution, the world will continue to grow and transform in ways currently unimaginable.
We have long recognized that virtual worlds, though shaped as much by their users as by their developers, rarely see these contributions formally acknowledged. Despite the pivotal role players have in building these worlds, their efforts often remain unrecognized in any explicit or meaningful way. In short, despite decades of creativity and effort being poured into virtual worlds by players, the ability of developers and operators to grant them digital property rights and access is a complicated cultural, technical, and legal undertaking. EVE Frontier will change this by building the world on a very different premise. Combining its permanence with open access, EVE Frontier can survive eternally: a self-sustaining and persistent digital reality, as true to players and their actions as our own physical world is to our own. A sovereign virtual world that will become self-governing and operating. You, the community, will hold the power in perpetuity for a world designed to last forever. EVE Frontier is thus built upon a legal and technical premise that affords a pragmatic path forward for an autonomous virtual world, where participants have rightful access and ownership over their creative efforts: > ***When the ontology of a virtual world is held by a distributed and consensus-based ledger,***\ > ***granting digital property rights to participants can become\*\*\*\* \*\*\*\*real*** > ***A virtual world true only to itself*** ***through digital physics*** By enabling users to program within an open environment and by open-sourcing our development platform, we empower the inhabitants of EVE Frontier with the tools and freedom to shape and rebuild the world according to their own vision. This creative layer rests upon the world's digital physics and spans the entire universe, continuously simulated and persisted. This openness not only empowers players but formally recognizes them as active co-creators of EVE Frontier, a role supported by the game's technological infrastructure, business model, and economic design. # Core Beliefs The whitepaper details this vision for EVE Frontier, a dynamic, emergent, and community-driven world where players hold the power and in which their actions have lasting consequences. The following sections outline its foundational components, starting with the core beliefs that drive its development and the design principles that shape it. ### **Human Growth from Shared Experiences:** The Frontier is a world defined by collective experience, conveyed through the necessity of banding together to survive its brutality in the quest to build anew. Through intense and unpredictable adversity, EVE Frontier will create meaningful human connections and personal growth among its inhabitants, driving the formation of culture and identity within the world itself. By sharing experiences with one another, we connect, learn, and grow. This is true across both the virtual and physical worlds. ### Open Third-Party Development**:** We envision a future for EVE Frontier that is both persistent and autonomous, independent of its creators and contributors. The efforts of players to bring civilization back to the Frontier, coupled with the game’s inherent design and technological foundations, are key to this evolution. Through a wealth of user-built utility, societies will rise and cultures will form, shaping the simulation. EVE Frontier will acknowledge and empower these community-driven developments through its framework, tools, and business model. Thus, having an open approach to third-party development is important. Through Smart Assemblies, programmable in-game objects, and additional constructs within the game world, the community will have open access to enhance and extend aspects of EVE Frontier’s server in real time, freely expressing their creativity. We will do this by using open-source tools wherever practical, even taking the step to open-source proprietary components, such as the Carbon engine.
# Designing an Enduring Virtual World Over the course of our 22-year history, we have identified three key areas for advancing the craft of virtual world creation. With EVE Frontier, we are committed to pushing these boundaries, striving to bridge the gap toward a world that can live and thrive solely through the passion of its players. In such a world, sovereignty will be enshrined over time from governance structures established within, resilient to external influence, and immune to any form of centralized whims. 1. Immutability. When a virtual world is managed centrally by a corporation (such as CCP Games), it will never be a genuinely autonomous digital world built by its participants. The owners of the codebase are ultimately god-like and, with a keystroke, can change all the underlying physics of the world. Its laws must be immutable for long-term stability. 2. Composability. Our natural world can combine random ingredients and produce completely unexpected results. In a coded world, this needs to be determined through a variety of coded rules or instructions. Ensuring these coded rules can easily interact with each other is paramount for future unexpected creativity. Everything must be composable to some degree. 3. Extensibility. A truly thriving virtual world must offer room for growth and adaptation. Extensibility enables players and developers to build atop existing systems, expanding the world in ways unforeseen by its original creators. The flexibility ensures the world can evolve alongside new technologies, ideas, and user-driven innovations. The framework must be designed to support continuous expansion without breaking its core structure. These challenges are daunting, yet they drive us to redefine the limits of realism and autonomy in a virtual world. With EVE Frontier, we aim to push these boundaries in a way never before attempted in history, just as EVE Online did two decades ago, setting a new standard for what’s possible in immersive digital experiences. 1. We begin with the natural laws of physics, with the intention to bring about emergent behavior through a simple base model. Everything in the Frontier requires Energy to activate. Creating energy requires Fuel. As such, Fuel consumption is effectively a proxy measure for all activity in the universe. 2. We are enshrining the most basic rules of the universe on the blockchain, making them immutable, forever. Natural laws cannot be changed, giving confidence to anyone wishing to build on the universe. As blockchain technology progresses, our entire game engine will be open-sourced over time. This ecosystem will be shepherded by a democratized governance system that prioritizes the wishes of its participants. 3. We will curate an initial environment to ensure EVE Frontier has activity and missions to explore and engage with. Over time, players will be able to create entirely new experiences and missions through the use of Smart Assemblies for other inhabitants of the Frontier to enjoy. As players contribute their own creations, they will fundamentally shape the experience for all inhabitants. # Physics For a world to outlive its creators, it must be built on immutable laws that apply to everyone. It should reflect our physical universe, where we are governed by consistent, natural principles, while still able to build, shape, create, and find meaning within those constraints.
### **Conservation of Energy** Virtual worlds have long explored how various forms of matter, such as minerals, can be transformed into other forms of matter, like spaceships. This process, observed in games ranging from EVE Online to Minecraft, is typically governed by blueprints or recipes, sometimes influenced by factors such as time, waste, or probabilistic outcomes. In EVE Frontier, we take this further by introducing energy as a core concept, bringing the world closer to the idea of E = mc² by embedding the laws of thermodynamics, where energy is conserved, heat flows, and entropy inevitably increases. Thermodynamics becomes a more impactful element of gameplay as the Frontier is explored and conquered. Energy manifests on the Frontier primarily in the form of fuel. The highly performant Crude Fuels required for advanced ships and structures are extracted from Crude Matter, which are mined from Rifts in space and time. Most actions that a player or object takes in the world expend energy through the use of fuel. This, in part, begins to equalize the agency that players and objects have in the world. Because of how embedded the laws of thermodynamics are in EVE Frontier’s immutable digital physics, energy becomes a constant factor in every decision. Choosing to fly a ship through a high-risk system at maximum thrust can reduce the chance of direct encounters, but it may increase its susceptibility to detection due to the higher heat generated. In another scenario, a player may invest heavily in heat resistance and carefully manage energy throughout their mining operations to achieve greater efficiency and higher yields. Entropy introduces a dimension of base upkeep and efficiency losses, which forces players to adapt. This application of realism never comes at the expense of gameplay. Enjoyment remains a primary driver in designing each element on the Frontier. For example, ships traveling at light speed may take an impractically long time to slow down, even accounting for physics, which would only frustrate the player base. Instead, the game is grounded in science, with deliberate design choices that preserve immersion without sacrificing pace. In that way, the universe feels consistent and believable while also remaining exciting and dynamic. ### Probabilistic Outcomes The deeper we explore our universe, the more we encounter probability distributions rather than deterministic outcomes. This complexity adds richness to our world, reflecting the uncertainty that humanity has long sought to understand and control, building predictive systems to navigate this inherent unpredictability. Yet, despite our achievements, we still struggle to accurately predict the weather! In EVE Frontier, all actions, from players and autonomous agents alike, are fundamentally subject to probabilistic outcomes. Players have varying degrees of influence — direct, indirect, or none at all — over these outcomes. Probabilistic outcomes underpin all circumstances in the game, including manufacturing, combat, object degradation, and travel. How one adapts to these changing circumstances is a key point of superiority for human players over single-minded autonomous bots. We anticipate that players will, at times, create new control mechanisms that transcend logic and evolve into cultural phenomena, much like what has occurred in EVE Online. As user-created structures are codified and more advanced tools are developed, increased pressure is placed on the system’s probabilistic outcomes and its inherent impermanence. This tension preserves the chaotic nature of the environment, even as human efforts to impose stability and order aim to facilitate patterned and predictable results. Despite these attempts, the unpredictability of the world will endure, ensuring that the dynamic and volatile essence of the Frontier remains intact. To keep the universe engaging, its resource sources are designed to be dynamic. This ebb and flow of uncertainty in resource availability naturally leads to fluctuations in supply and demand, shifting the game's meta over time, much like the changing tides of an ocean. The movement of these raw resources is governed by probabilistic distributions rooted in digital physics, making them impossible to predict. This unpredictability is a key driver of persistent market volatility, ensuring that the economy remains in constant flux. However, the market acts on its own — we do not impose external conditions with the goal of changing market operations. Generating randomness for these probabilistic outcomes within the deterministic nature of blockchain is a known challenge; in fact, it is a challenge for all of computer science. Despite this challenge, we will provide a verifiable and transparent source of randomness that maintains integrity in all game outcomes. We do not exert control over how players exert their ability to influence the probabilistic outcomes, and we do not operate the randomization engine. This will increase transparency (and importantly, independent auditability) in how players interact with the randomized environment through the use of privacy-preserving protocols. ### Rational Resource Distribution The Frontier was designed with the vision of achieving 100,000 star systems. At that scale, the distribution of resources becomes a serious matter, as the future of civilization relies on it. The Hierarchical Resource Distribution (HRD) framework was designed to distribute resources throughout a game's galactic hierarchy, from broad sectors down to specific locations within a star system. The HRD distributes resources based on the following stages: 1. Global Resource Budget and Proportions: The total resource mass for the game world is set, as is the proportional distribution of other resources. These proportions may vary over time based on galaxy-wide economic conditions, geological processes, or major in-game events. This stage determines the overall quantity of each resource type available in the universe. 2. Spatial Distribution: Resources are then distributed down through the spatial hierarchy: Sector → Region → Constellation → System. This is done using independent weighting for each resource type at each layer. The framework ensures that the total quantity of a resource is conserved as it's distributed throughout all of the star systems in the universe. 3. Local Placement by Architecture: Resources within a star system are based on the system's physical architecture, such as the presence of asteroid belts, Trojan points, or Near-Earth Object regions, and the specific placement weights associated with each asteroid type. The weighting applied to resource distribution is calculated using various factors, including the physical characteristics of the region (e.g., system metallicity, age, stellar properties, temperature zones) as well as dynamic game factors such as player activity and the prevailing economic conditions. The dynamics of resource distribution on the Frontier are non-deterministic, yet are governed by time and state-dependent distribution, resulting in a system that is neither uniformly random nor entirely predictable. The objective is to allow for the potential of resource speculation, placing greater value on exploration. As more data becomes available through exploration, players can use this to improve their models with the hope of improving their mining efficiency. # Economy The Frontier is a vast expanse of space with resources to be exploited and civilizations to be established. Yet, the fate of civilization is driven by the goals and ambitions of those using these materials. A player does not mine a rock because of its value, but because they want to construct a home or upgrade their ship for hunting. The true worth of resources comes from how materials are transformed into the expressions of one's intent.
Fuel, metal ores, and other resources become the building blocks of the new Frontier, similar to how materials are refined and compounded to build functional tools and products in the physical world. Players have the choice at each stage and generate value from their actions as they see fit, whether they sell after mining or build something more complex out of it. The economy of the Frontier is a living organism that moves with human motivation. All these intentions shape supply and demand. These collective preferences lead to civilizations, alliances, conflicts, and stories that could never have been envisioned beforehand. This community-driven economy will be the cornerstone of EVE Frontier’s evolving world. Much like the digital physics that underpin the economy, it will evolve at different speeds as the world develops. Progress begins with the mining of resources and refining them into fuel or materials that can be used to build with. As players accrue more resources, they can choose to sell resources to buy more items or upgrade their equipment to mine more efficiently. These refined materials become the building blocks of the new Frontier. The value of resources is amplified through refinement and multiplied when used to build functional tools, products, or infrastructure. At each stage of value development, participants can choose to sell on the open market or continue to create more value for themselves. Over time, as in-game capitalism creates free markets, players will find more enterprising ways to generate value. We believe that participants and contributors to a persistent virtual universe should have rightful ownership over the digital properties they create or that emerge from their collective achievements. The vision is to transfer full control of the economy to the community, allowing them to govern everything from taxation rates to the appearances of raw materials throughout the universe. # Pillars of the Frontier Economy * The core of the EVE Frontier economy is the emergent behavior of its players. Every market movement and resource imbalance arises from human interaction. The result is a dynamic and complex economy that not even its creators can predict, defined by four pillars:
CONNECTEDCHAOTICCOMPOSABLECONSEQUENTIAL
EVE Frontier is a fully integrated participant in the global economy, meaning it is open and free to interact with virtual or real economies.Actions, resources, and results will be largely unpredictable. Probabilistic distributions based on digital physics will be used where possible.The vision for the economy is to be as composable and as interoperable as possible to allow entrepreneurial players to create new business models.Every action on the Frontier requires energy, and nothing feels risk-free. Every decision carries the weight of potential consequence.
# Economic Planning When it comes to the framework for any economy, managing expectations is the most important task. Expectations are inseparable from trust, and people naturally price their beliefs about the future into their decisions. The same is true for EVE Frontier. Suppose players believe that CCP Games can arbitrarily change the rules. In that case, they will adapt their behavior to hedge against risk, undermining the game’s economic stability and the long-term value of its token. In the process of developing the economic framework for EVE Frontier, it was crucial to examine both how the framework would affect relevant objects and actions within the game and how that would influence the behavior of both player and non-player stakeholders. The importance of this framework becomes more significant when considering that EVE Frontier will be one of the largest and most complex virtual world economies.
The proposed EVE Frontier model aims to: ● Ensure token demand scales naturally as the number of active players grows over time ● Facilitate resource pricing mechanisms that keep market dynamics smooth and predictable, avoiding sudden spikes or crashes ● Account for different kinds of participants, including those motivated primarily by financial gain, and design safeguards to prevent these behaviors from causing destabilization ● Reduce the impact of market volatility by building self-corrective mechanisms ● Encourage balancing strategies that mitigate price swings unrelated to in-game activity ● Protect gameplay from the negative effects of unexpected external changes. The token’s primary source of demand is the potential that it unlocks within the virtual world. Regardless of market activity, the token will be required by those who look to build, explore, or battle to survive on the Frontier. The demand for the token increases as more players join the game and as existing players increase their activity. This utility within the game makes the entire system more resilient to external shocks. Market volatility is inevitable, but downturns can lead to increased activity in the game, which can, in turn, lead to more demand for the token. # Crude Lenses, Premium Fuel, and their network effects Lenses are a core consumable item for mining any resource in EVE Frontier. Crude Mining Lenses are a special class of Mining Lenses that are required for extracting Crude Matter from Rifts in time and space to refine the Crude-based Fuels that are the lifeblood of galactic civilization. Starting out on their own in the harsh reaches of deep space, players mine for low-quality fuels and resources before they can even start thinking about their first goals in EVE Frontier. When it comes to base building and powering bigger and better ships, Crude-based Fuels present substantial benefits. Crude Mining Lenses are a reflection of high-value economic activity on the Frontier. Without new Crude Mining Lenses entering the Frontier, production of premium Crude-based Fuels will grind to a halt, large ships and stations may become vulnerable, and all matters of civilization and industrialization that have been rebuilt will slow to a grind. The Lens-Crude-Fuel loop reflects the core utility of the $EVE token in the Frontier ecosystem. Fuel is consumed when flying ships and operating bases in the virtual world, so demand is intrinsically tied to player activity. The more active the player base, the more Fuel that is inevitably consumed. Since the quantity and quality of premium Fuels in the ecosystem are tied to extracting Crude Matter, which relies on the purchase and use of the Crude Mining Lenses, the demand for the $EVE token is tied to in-gam e activity through fuel consumption.
This Lens-Crude-Fuel loop structure is important because it aligns monetization with the growth of EVE Frontier. As more players actively engage with the game, they will need to acquire more lenses to extract Crude Matter to power their in-game progression. This network effect becomes more and more apparent as Tribes and Syndicates form, and their aspirations to grow power and control on the Frontier are inherently underpinned by the Lens-Crude-Fuel loop. # Hybrid Pricing for Crude Mining Lenses With the price of Crude Mining Lenses quoted in $EVE, it is necessary to consider how any potential volatility of the $EVE token would impact gameplay. A hybrid pricing approach to the sale of Crude Mining Lenses is proposed, where each lens is priced in $EVE, so the price of the lenses rises and falls in correlation with the price of the $EVE token. The hybrid aspect of this pricing model refers to the fact that it maintains a fiat-based price threshold. Once the $EVE token exceeds the threshold, the pricing of the lens in fiat terms remains capped, and the number of $EVE tokens required for payment does not increase further. The hybrid-pricing of new Crude Mining Lenses can be expressed by the following formula: $$ P =min(p\_Eq, kp\_Eq^*) = p\_Emin(q, kq^*) $$ Where: $$P$$ = the price of the Crude Mining Lens expressed in dollars $$P\_E$$ = the price of the Crude Mining Lens in $EVE tokens $$min(p\_Eq, kp\_Eq^*)$$ = the lower of the two values, $$p\_Eq$$ and $$kp\_Eq*$$ (explained below) $$p\_Eq$$ = the floating price of the lens based on the price of $EVE,\ calculated as the lens price in $EVE multiplied by the\ price of the $EVE token $$kp\_Eq^\*$$ = the fixed-price cap, calculated as the lens price in $EVE multiplied\ by the estimated stable value of $EVE (![](data:image/png;base64,R0lGODlhDQARAHcAMSH+GlNvZnR3YXJlOiBNaWNyb3NvZnQgT2ZmaWNlACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAwAMAA0AhQAAAAAAAAAAOgA6ZgA6kABmtjo6Ojo6kDqQ22YAOmYAZmY6AGY6ZmZmOmaQkGaQ22a2tpA6AJA6OpCQZpCQ25C2/5Db/7ZmALZmOrbb/7b//9uQOtu2kNv///+2Zv+2kP/bkP//tv//2wECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwECAwZDQIBwOAxRiMiPwfFADkENBsJZPAJEmMBgUnFeCJ1QwoIUk0GHDtIDBmwKTnaHs5giRREBREKmAkIKGn4AcoMbAxlOQQA7)) and then multiplied by a\ policy factor $$K$$ set to establish a reasonable maximum market price To illustrate, if we assume the following: Crude Mining Lens in $EVE = 5 $EVE $EVE token price = $2 USD Estimated stable $EVE value = $0.667 USD Factor $$k$$ = 1.5 Then, using those values:\ Floating price $$p\_Eq$$ = 5 $EVE ✕ $2USD \= $10 USD price of a Crude Mining Lens in fiat dollar terms Fixed-price cap $$kp\_Eq^\*$$ = 1.5 ✕ (5 $EVE ✕ 0.667) \= $5 USD capped price of a Crude Mining Lens in fiat dollar Fiat pricing $$P$$ = min($10, $5) \= $5 USD price of a Crude Mining Lens in fiat dollar terms If the current token valuation of $EVE exceeds the reference value, scaled with the policy constant, the formula will set the dollar price of a lens to the capped maximum. In the example, the lens would be priced at $5.00. At a token price of $2.00, this corresponds to an actual cost of 2.5 $EVE, instead of 5 $EVE. # Emergent Economic Behaviors The core economic loop in EVE Frontier is clearly defined and deliberately easy to navigate; however, as the history of EVE Online has shown, unexpected complex economic behaviors will almost certainly emerge directly from the player base. Emergent behavior begins when players start experimenting with rules and boundaries, transforming straightforward frameworks into complex profitability networks. In EVE Frontier, players may take inspiration from what they see in the world around them, from risk modeling to complex business organizations. What starts as a simple framework can become a complex web of different economic interactions, depending on how players build and innovate. Smart contracts add another dimension of reliability that enables sophisticated products, removing a barrier that has limited economic innovation in games like EVE Online by providing automated, enforceable agreements.
Markets will naturally develop as participants seek mechanisms for trade, speculation, and risk management. The introduction of smart contracts into EVE Frontier allows users to develop additional instruments with the knowledge that the contract will be executed as expected. This contract enforcement overcomes one of the major drawbacks of this type of innovation in traditional games like EVE Online, where contract enforcement was not possible. For two parties to enter into a contract, there must be trust that both sides will uphold their commitments. In a traditional lending scenario, this trust is reflected in the borrower’s ability to repay and the lender’s confidence that the return is worth the risk. Without a foundation of trust, the risk rises sharply, making these interactions unsustainable. EVE Frontier addresses these limitations by anchoring transactions onchain, allowing players, Tribes, and Syndicates to enter into such arrangements with verifiable terms. Players could pool resources to fund short-term raids or longer-term building projects. Putting gaming wallets on the blockchain creates accountability and persistence. This onchain information can form the basis of risk profiling and reputation scores, which can then be utilized to underwrite decision-making for developers looking to form financial relationships with other inhabitants of the Frontier. # Governance In alignment with our core principles, governance within the Frontier will be shaped by multiple entities, each designed to offer distinct modes of checks and balances. This structure mirrors the separation of powers found in institutions, such as the Judicial and Legislative branches or the House of Commons and the Senate. These representative bodies will deliberate on specific sets of issues, each with unique membership, yet with some minimal overlap to ensure coherence. The primary aim of this governance model is to give voice to all key stakeholders within the Frontier ecosystem. This includes players, developers, $EVE token holders, and contributors to the EVE Frontier ecosystem, ensuring their diverse perspectives are well-represented in the decision-making processes​​​.
The Frontier governance model will oversee setting the agenda, resolving disputes, and making decisions on many critical aspects of the ecosystem, including but not limited to: 1. Decentralization: Facilitating full community stewardship of the Frontier. 2. Development and Maintenance of the Frontier: Coordinating and administering upgrades to decentralized elements of the Frontier, in accordance with the community’s needs (such as bugfixes and feature additions). 3. Governance Facilitation: Establishing governance structures and processes — including voting mechanisms, stakeholder engagement, and delegation systems. 4. Funding and Resource Allocation: Administering the $EVE token treasury — including grants and token liquidity, supporting with strategic partnerships and collaborators, and managing developer relations. 5. Security and Risk Management: Monitoring network security, conducting regular audits, and running security assessments. 6. Transparency & Accountability: Reporting the Frontier governing bodies’ activities and plans, and engaging the wider community in a transparent and consistent manner. # Technology For players to become deeply invested in the journey of reigniting civilization in the cosmos, they must be able to trust that their decisions have a lasting impact. This requires balancing two opposing forces of certainty and possibility: 1. A level of certainty and predictability on the foundations of the world through transparent and enforceable rules. 2. A belief in the unconstrained potential and possibility of player actions to meaningfully shape the Frontier.
# Digital Physics Our world sets a high standard for the immutable laws of physics, which allow for spectacular composability and emergence. In just a few billion years, we've seen particles emerging from excitations in quantum fields to form atoms. These atoms then combine in supernovas to create the elements necessary for the molecules of life to assemble into complex living organisms. Life has evolved to the point where we now create virtual worlds, which have the potential to repeat this process within a new, exciting digital substrate. Over two decades of watching virtual worlds evolve, we have seen our community’s creativity and inventiveness as they push each world to its limits, testing its boundaries. The blockchain’s public, distributed, and immutable properties make it inherently aligned with the vision for EVE Frontier. Blockchain technology not only ensures a stable and transparent foundation for a truly autonomous world but also fosters an open environment for composability, allowing for continuous iteration and improvement upon existing structures through community-driven creation. All entities on the Frontier are beholden to its Digital Physics. All game activity operates within these immutable digital laws. The physics are not merely theoretical; they are provably and consistently enforced upon all entities and interactions within the world, forever, as they are enshrined on the blockchain. This ensures that every interaction on the Frontier in the present and the future adheres to the consistent core rules of the universe, while providing the foundation for more creativity to be contributed to the world. It gives potential creators the confidence to plan long-term strategies around the design and growth of their creations.
Although it is currently impractical to replicate the full complexity of our physical universe as revealed by modern science, we have selected a few key areas that will greatly enhance the verisimilitude of the world of EVE Frontier. The purpose of a video game is not to perfectly simulate reality; even so, we will endeavor to underpin the Frontier with immutable natural laws, such that they can give rise to composability and emergence in the hands of players who choose to live on the Frontier. Ultimately, this is still a game designed to be engaging and compelling to play, and we aim to ensure that each player’s experience in this world is fully supported. While the uses of blockchain technology bring the affordances listed above, there remain some key considerations: ● Scalability: Currently, blockchain consensus and finality have yet to match the efficiency of traditional databases in maintaining the state of the world and recording its transitions. ● Privacy: The inherent transparency of current blockchain implementations poses challenges in maintaining information asymmetry, which is critical for experiences such as territorial conquest. ● Longevity: Even the most successful virtual worlds are at risk of shutting down when they lose technical and corporate support. For EVE Frontier to endure across generations, it must decentralize elements of the technology, moving them away from itself and toward its player community. With everything anchored onchain, EVE Frontier will have the chance to evolve independently from CCP Games, for as long as players choose to inhabit it. Coincidentally, it is these same technologies that allow for secure and verifiable data guarantees. In all aspects of technical direction, we remain pragmatic in our approach, prioritizing the best available solutions and adapting as the technology evolves. Above all, our mission is to create a living world that delivers fresh, emergent gameplay experiences that truly belong to players. # Blockchain Alignment Choosing a blockchain for EVE Frontier required an assessment of our long-term vision, where the Frontier persists through a foundation in player sovereignty, adaptability, and permanence. Evolving from Project Awakening, which was conceived in 2021, EVE Frontier was initially developed in the Ethereum ecosystem, given the maturation of its technology at the time and its ethos of decentralization and security. Much has been learned from this process, and the experience has helped inform our future direction.
For the next stage of development, EVE Frontier will be moving to Sui, a Layer-1 blockchain that was built from the ground up for low latency and scalability. Its object-centric model and extensible architecture would unlock the responsiveness and persistence needed for a living and evolving virtual world that is EVE Frontier. Moving to Sui opened vast opportunities, but it also required careful consideration of validator decentralization and ecosystem maturity. Developing a project on the scale of EVE Frontier today puts us in a unique position, where the challenge lies not in a scarcity of options, but in discerning which blockchain is best aligned with our goals.
PROTOCOL CONSIDERATIONS

ARCHITECTURAL APPROACH
A key factor in choosing Sui was its protocol design, which focuses on delivering a highly secure, object-centric blockchain as opposed to the more traditional smart contract-centric approach.

At its core, EVE Frontier is targeting 100,000 unique star systems, each with a varying number of planetary objects, asteroids, and NPCs. In this world, we allow players and third-party developers to build ships, bases, and other infrastructure.

Sui’s approach allows each object on the Frontier to have its own identity, ownership, and lineage. The protocol allows the core rules of the universe to be enshrined in each object, rather than stored within a monolithic contract.

These concepts become even more interesting as the game proceeds down the path of crafting dynamic, unique digital items, as well as enabling players to deploy their own in-game currencies with defined rulesets.

PERFORMANCE
Using EVE Online as a baseline for transaction volume, it was essential to select a blockchain that prioritizes performance — even if that tradeoff is for some centralization initially.

Speed and precision are crucial during battle, so throughput and finality must be considered at a premium within the gaming space. Sui’s high requirements for its validators ensure this level of performance, in that both transactions per second (TPS) and time-to-finality (TTF) are maintained.

Further to this, Sui has the ability to provide horizontal scaling, facilitated by its parallel processing of transactions rather than handling each transaction sequentially. In the battle for survival, war is not a sequential turn-by-turn affair. As more and more of the game is recorded onchain, the ability to parallel-process transactions will become a core requirement for the game to operate at scale.


One of the other advantages of Sui in this regard is that predictable, low gas costs—a must during times of war. Players will battle against each other and the environment in times of conflict, but they should not have to battle against transaction confirmations.

SECURITY

Security becomes increasingly important as more of the community and third-party developers create in-game assets, mods, and digital collectibles. Strict enforcement of rules, even before deployments, acts as a major failsafe to avoid introducing vulnerabilities and attack vectors into the game.

Move, the programming language used by Sui, enforces strict security measures at the compiler during the development phase. This can provide a much higher level of security for third-party development by removing many of the attack vectors that can be accidentally deployed in a smart contract, such as re-entrancy errors, before the code is deployed into the shared environment.

This type of security becomes increasingly important as we invite the community and third-party developers to deploy new objects into the game that others on the Frontier can interact with. This approach greatly reduces the threat of malicious code having a negative impact on the inhabitants of the Frontier.

DEVELOPER ECOSYSTEM

With the Frontier being a blank canvas in which the entire world is to be created and crafted by inhabitants, it was important to partner with a future-focused developer community deeply aligned with the EVE way of thinking.


Move is likely to appeal to developers who love the data-rich complexity of building in the EVE Frontier universe. Move gives developers the tools to safely model ownership, scarcity, and permanence, just like in the physical world, making it a natural fit for tackling the rich data and complexities of building in the EVE Frontier universe.

Comprehensive developer tooling that promotes user experience, easing in new users while being versatile for advanced developers. Move is a typed programming language with syntax inspired by Rust. Sui offers an increasingly comprehensive set of developer tooling to help onboard new users.

# Bringing Web3 into Gameplay The entire EVE Frontier economy is designed from the ground up to leverage what is possible using blockchain as its ledger. This, in and of itself, creates new gameplay loops. The following is an overview of some gameplay elements that leverage specific features that are unlocked or enhanced through the implementation of blockchain.
FEATUREDESCRIPTION

EVE VAULT

ACCOUNT ABSTRACTION

Account abstraction is a key factor in improving player onboarding, allowing users to enjoy the features and benefits of Web3 functionality without direct exposure to its infrastructure until they choose otherwise.

In EVE Frontier, account abstraction takes the form of the EVE Vault, a flexible and user-friendly account management system that is actually a Web3 wallet. Under the surface, the EVE Vault is a non-custodial crypto wallet, inventory management tool, and mobile companion application. This decouples the complexity of interacting with blockchain accounts from the end user.

The EVE Vault will facilitate simple onboarding of users who can create an account via traditional Web2 methods, such as email/password or social login, such as Google, Twitch, or Facebook. A fully functional Web3 wallet can be created on the user’s behalf in the background. Players can batch transactions, automate tasks, recover accounts, and use social logins without compromising security.

Importantly, it is a non-custodial wallet, meaning that while the wallet is created on behalf of the user, nobody other than the user can access funds stored in the wallet, and the user can access and control their wallet using their EVE Frontier, or via other suitable wallets using their Google, Twitch or Facebook credentials.

SINGLETONS

DYNAMIC DIGITAL ITEMS

Within the ever-evolving universe that is EVE Frontier, Riders and Tribes will continue to mine and craft new objects as they build their future on the Frontier. EVE Frontier has the necessary tooling for players to deploy new objects into the game, each with its own functions and rules. These objects can also function as dynamic digital items that can perform other actions, such as own or collect other items.

Players will organically explore and innovate what is possible on this front. A basic example of a dynamic digital item would be a ship that owns its own unique engines, mining lasers, and more. The nature of dynamic digital items within the Sui ecosystem would allow the user to sell the ship, with all its associated fittings, as a single item called a Singleton.

Additionally, each Singleton is unique and its existence is recorded onchain. So, while two ships may look the same, it will be possible to prove that one ship was newly crafted while the other was owned by a famous fleet commander, or fought in a battle, or was obtained in a treacherous way.

Inhabitants of virtual worlds often place a high value on digital items, especially those obtained through effort or tied to personal memories. Singletons, as uniquely identifiable items on the blockchain, make that value more tangible. Their individuality allows others to recognize and appreciate items that carry emotional or historical significance on the Frontier.

Their transferable property enables Singletons to be traded, carrying forward the prestige of owning a piece of the Frontier’s legacy. In this way, each Singleton becomes a means to preserve meaning and pass on provenance through verifiable ownership.

SMART ASSEMBLIES

MODDING & UGC

Smart Assemblies are objects that exist in the virtual world that users can augment with their own code to create new functionality and behaviors.

Players are introduced to Smart Assemblies through base building. These structures serve a basic purpose, such as storage. Users can link to an external smart contract, and the structure will operate as instructed by the smart contract within the bounds of limitations enshrined in that object.

As an example, a Smart Storage Unit (SSU) can be linked to a decentralized application (dapp) to serve as a virtual marketplace where any user can pay to take items in storage, or it can act as a shared storage unit that can only be accessed by members of the same Tribe. SSUs can also serve as quest givers that release items upon proof of completing a task.

The programmable interface can be coded to produce any output relevant to each piece of infrastructure, resulting in an in-game effect. Having object-oriented rule sets allows for greater control of how a Smart Assembly interacts with players, the universe, and the economy.

Players and third-party developers have the ability to deploy any number of functional applications into the game for their own personal enjoyment or to create new revenue streams for themselves. Development is underway to create user-friendly UIs and app libraries so that non-developers can also unlock the potential of this functionality.

The third-party modding and user-generated content in EVE Frontier are built on this foundational concept of the community being able to safely deploy new functionality into the game without breaking the laws of physics that exist in the universe.

What developers can create and extend from these basic structures is bound solely by their vision, drive, and technical knowledge.

KILL MAIL

ONCHAIN ORACLE

In many ways, Kill Mail forms the backbone of the EVE franchise. On the surface level, the Kill Mail system serves as the scoreboard for bragging rights and honor. On a deeper level, Kill Mail serves as an oracle of the data that can feed military intelligence, urban planning, or underpin emerging in-game financial instruments.

While not unique to EVE Frontier and not a complex problem to solve, putting Kill Mail on an immutable blockchain provides the opportunity to increase the value of the data revealed via the Kill Mail system.

Block explorers with high finality output allow near-real-time intelligence to inform strategic decisions and drive third-party software solutions.

PROVABLE OBJECT DATA (POD)

INFORMATION ASYMMETRY

Success in battle often relies heavily on information asymmetry. Through the use of Provable Object Data (POD), players will be empowered to choose when (and with whom) to reveal their in-game activities.

The privacy protocol enables a full tapestry of private data use cases, which, in conjunction with the digital primitives for locality, observational range, and rules, provides a rich canvas for gameplay, all verifiable and provable on blockchain:

● Plan an attack and move forces in secret

● Hold hard-earned assets in private vaults

● Engage in Syndicate espionage and counter-espionage

● Waylay shipping lanes in the far reaches of space while remaining hidden

● Strategically place observation structures to mine valuable tradable data

For example, Explorers can use PODs to chart star systems and sell exclusive data to other players. PODs are part of the backbone of EVE Frontier’s extensibility, opening the universe beyond what is available in-game.

# Co-Creating EVE Frontier The world of EVE Frontier is designed to give participants the power to create new content and build on top of existing works. User-generated content (UGC) has consistently proven to be a powerful feature that ensures longevity and widens the cultural impact of virtual worlds, from the community mods of games like Minecraft and Skyrim, to the massive success of Fortnite Creative and Roblox’s creator marketplace. Many of the most enduring virtual worlds have risen on the back of modding and UGC. The ingenuity of players created genres like MOBAs and battle royales. Passionate creators have created new game mechanics, characters, lore, and entirely new virtual worlds out of existing ones. Mods create a sense of ownership and collaboration, which encourages players to keep coming back and connect as a community. As players figure out the puzzle of navigating their way out of an uninhabitable and harsh galaxy, UGC and mods allow them to expand their creativity. This creates a tabula rasa, allowing them to direct the story along the path they see fit, interacting with other creations as they progress. EVE Frontier embraces this culture. Users will be able to create new structures, economic loops, and game modes. For them to have this capability, the game engine should be accessible. ### Open Sourcing the Carbon Development Platform In 2024, we began open-sourcing the Carbon Development Platform (CDP) after 20 years of continuous development. Integrating composability and extensibility further drives our vision of community-driven virtual worlds. Developers can innovate on the game’s foundations, moving beyond the boundaries of a single team’s design. Open sourcing brings tangible advantages: ● Accountability is raised across the entire ecosystem ● Open review can detect vulnerabilities, improving security ● A broader developer base can fill knowledge gaps ### Enabling UGC and Mods on the Blockchain UGC in EVE Frontier is programmable through Sui’s open-source language, Move. Knowledge of using the programming language is not required, as CCP Games and Sui continue to collaborate to make tooling accessible to all. The goal is to allow players to intuitively create and bring their imagination to life through easy-to-use interfaces, where program scripts are generated in the background. They can modify how Smart Assemblies behave and interact with decentralized applications (dapps), enabling automation and customization via smart contracts. As players’ technical fluency grows, Move allows them to unlock more advanced interactions and optimization. Such mechanisms promote incentive alignment by lowering barriers to experimentation. It is this safe experimentation that will fuel the evolution of the Frontier. The EVE community has traditionally been interested in exploring ways to elevate its own gameplay experience. Building on blockchain provides a perfect platform for that, but requires a partner who has proven a willingness to commit the time and energy required to onboard new developers. In the lead-up to launching EVE Frontier on the Sui Mainnet, the Sui and EVE Frontier teams have committed to a range of dedicated developers onboarding programs and hackathons to bootstrap the EVE Frontier modding community. Central to this will be programs aimed at supporting any Solidity developers who have already deployed Smart Assemblies for EVE Frontier to port their code over to Sui. # Development Update and Roadmap #### FROM PROJECT AWAKENING TO NEW ERA The Founder Access is an all-access pass to the pre-launch version of EVE Frontier, opening the doors of the earliest phases of live development to our most committed community members. With this, they are co-developers of the game’s core systems, shaping the balance of the world while laying the foundations for the future civilizations of the Frontier. To date, there have been seven phases of EVE Frontier:
DATEPROGRAMNOTES
Dec 2022Project Awakening LaunchFirst external playtest
Dec 2023Project Awakening Phase IIIntroduction of survival mechanics
May 2024Project Awakening Phase IIIImplementation of Smart Assemblies
Sep 2024EVE Frontier Phase IVRebranding with major technical upgrades
Oct 2024EVE Frontier Phase VMajor stability improvements
Dec 2024EVE Frontier Founder AccessAlways-on gameplay access, under NDA
Jun 2025EVE Frontier Founder Access: New EraNDA lifted, Grace system introduced
### Cycles Introduced with Founder Access, Cycles are time-bound phases allowing the developers and players to explore and test new features. Each Cycle culminates in complete destruction before the world starts anew. This system, launched in December 2024, has already provided many insights into player motivation, economic behavior, and technical limitations. Each Cycle focuses on a specific area of the economy, which allows the developers to: ● Receive direct feedback from users on the UI and gameplay through observation and real data that would not be possible otherwise ● Iterate faster through experimental economic mechanics so that the economy team can test various hypotheses under varying conditions ● Identify vulnerabilities or weak aspects of the gameplay loops through repeated resets and observation of how the community respawns ● Engage with a dedicated community that will help bootstrap the game’s economy and infrastructure when the game goes live In each cycle, players can complete tasks and quests to earn Grace. Grace is used to compete on leaderboards. At the end of the cycle, Grace is converted to EVE Points, which can be viewed as a proxy for someone's effort and commitment in the earliest stages of rebuilding the Frontier. # EVE Frontier Roadmap The following outlines the phased approach to take EVE Frontier from its current state through its migration to Sui Testnet (Phase 1), deployment of the $EVE token on Sui Mainnet (Phase 2) and then the full public launch of EVE Frontier (Phase 3). These plans may evolve in line with the game’s development and market readiness.
CURRENTPHASE 1PHASE 2PHASE 3
GAME

Founder Access to gain feedback from the community and test various features and economic hypotheses.

Cycles Program to engage and recognize the early participants in the EVE Frontier ecosystem.

Feature parity with the latest build of EVE Frontier on the Sui network.

Continued development sees new content and features added to the game, building out the survival MMO experience.

Public Launch of EVE Frontier with a dedicated marketing campaign, including specific programs to incentivize active engagement from launch.

BLOCKCHAIN
Planning stage for blockchain migration from Ethereum to Sui.Sui Hackathons as a way to engage both the existing EVE Frontier developer community and the Move developer community.

Sui Mainnet launched with the game writing directly to the Sui blockchain.

Increased transaction volumes as more players enter the Frontier, participate in the economy, and deploy infrastructure.

TOKENOMICS
Whitepaper v0.7.5 updated to reflect the most up-to-date information.Whitepaper v1.0 released to reflect the technical plans for the Sui integration ahead of its move to mainnet.

Launch the $EVE token on mainnet with in-game emissions so that the in-game economy can start to grow.

$EVE token economy matures, with increasing utility driven by the third-party developer ecosystem.
# Glossary
TERMDESCRIPTION
$EVEEVE Frontier's onchain currency, bridging virtual and tangible value.
Account abstractionAllows user accounts to act like smart contracts, making them customizable for logins, transactions, recovery, etc.
Asteroid clustersA dense group of asteroids that serve as key sources for mining.
Autonomous agentAn entity that can decide and act independently without the need for direct player control.
Autonomous worldA self-sustaining virtual environment that can operate and evolve without its creators.
Blockchain technologyA decentralized, tamper-resistant ledger system that records transactions transparently.
Block explorerA tool for viewing and verifying blockchain activity in real time, including transactions and smart contracts.
CDPCarbon Development Platform. The game engine and toolkit powering EVE Online and EVE Frontier.
Carbon fieldsHigh-risk, high-reward interstellar zones rich in resources.
CCP GamesThe developer of EVE Frontier, renowned for its 20+ years of work on EVE Online.
ComposableThe ability to build from existing components, whether combining, extending, or remixing.
Crude MatterRaw, unrefined resources that can be processed into advanced Crude-based Fuels that
Crude-based Fuels

The group of fuels that are extracted from the Crude Matter mined from Rifts.

Crude Mining LensThe advanced in-game mining lenses that are used to extract the Crude-based Fuels from the Crude Matter mined from Rifts.
Cycles ProgramA seasonal reset system where progress is periodically wiped for players to claim rewards and start fresh.
Data guaranteesAssurances that blockchain-recorded information is secure, tamper-proof, and verifiable.
Database gameA game built around a persistent database, recording actions, effects, and progression.
Digital physicsThe immutable principles that govern EVE Frontier.
EntropyA measure of energy loss and disorder on the Frontier, ensuring decay and unpredictability over time.
EthereumOne of the earliest decentralized blockchain infrastructures for applications.
EVE OnlineA long-running MMO developed by CCP Games, known for its single-shard universe and player-driven economy.
EVE PointsAct as a proxy for a player's effort and commitment that persists through cycles.
EVE VaultA non-custodial crypto wallet, inventory management tool, and companion app bridging in-game and real economy.
ExtensibilityThe capacity of a system to expand and evolve without disrupting its core structure.
Founder AccessA program for EVE Frontier that grants players early involvement in the game's development.
FuelThe main energy source powering all actions in EVE Frontier.
Gas costsTransaction fees required to perform operations on a blockchain.
GovernanceA system of decision-making and rule-setting, often involving community participation.
GraceA seasonal progression currency awarded during missions in Cycles, which later converts into EVE Points.
HeatThe buildup of energy and stress in systems that requires management to prevent equipment failure.
Horizontal scalingGrowing a system's capacity through adding nodes and servers to handle larger data without bottlenecks.
HRDThe Hierarchical Resource Distribution (HRD) is a structured allocation of resources, tackling broad sectors down to specific locations.
ImmutabilityA permanence property in blockchains that ensures data is unchangeable once recorded.
InteroperableThe ability to work seamlessly across different environments.
Kill MailA notification generated when a ship is destroyed, detailing vital information such as location, damage sources, and cargo lost.
Layer-1The base blockchain protocol responsible for execution, validation, and finalizing transactions,
Lens-Crude-FuelThe interconnected cycle of Crude Mining Lenses used to extract Crude-based Fuels from Crude Matter mined from Rifts in space.
Mining LensesSpecialized equipment required to extract raw resources such as metal ores from planetary bodies within the Frontier’s star systems.
MMOStands for Massively Multiplayer Online, a distinction for online games with multiple players interacting in real time.
ModderA player or developer who creates customizations, enhancements, and tools for a game.
MoveThe programming language used by the Sui blockchain, designed for efficient asset management.
Naturalistic rulesMechanics designed to mirror the principles of the natural world.
Non-custodial crypto walletA digital wallet where its owners hold full control over their assets.
Non-Player Characters (NPC)Computer-controlled entities within the game world.
OnchainActions and processes that occur on the blockchain, typically for transparency and immutability.
PartnersExternal collaborators, stakeholders, and organizations that support EVE Frontier.
PODsA privacy protocol that empowers players to choose when or when not to reveal in-game activities.
Precious relic sitesRare in-game locations containing valuable resources such as artifacts and ancient technology.
Probabilistic outcomesResults determined by probability distributions rather than fixed outcomes.
Project AwakeningThe original name and early development phase of EVE Frontier.
RidersPlayer characters in EVE Frontier, awakened clones who must survive and reform civilization on the Frontier.
RiftsSpatial anomalies that contain resources for players to mine.
RustA programming language often used for blockchain and systems development.
Single-shard serverA server architecture wherein all players exist within a shared universe instead of separate instances.
SingletonsUnique digital objects within a system.
Smart AssembliesConstructs that can operate on defined rulesets set by players.
Smart contractsCode-enforced self-executing agreements on the blockchain.
Smart objectsInteractive digital entities that carry their own rules, behavior, and data.
Star systemA collection of celestial bodies, including stars, planets, and asteroids.
Spatial distributionThe arrangement of objects across the universe.
SuiA layer-1 blockchain designed for speed, scalability, and low cost, using an object-centric data model and the Move programming language to power modern dapps.
Sui MainnetThe live blockchain network of Sui where transactions are done and applications are deployed.
Supermassive black holesExtremely dense cosmic entities found at the center of the galaxy in EVE Frontier.
SyndicatesLarge player-run factions or alliances consisting of multiple Tribes organized for economy, politics, and military.
System metallicityA measure of the abundance of heavier elements within the star system, which can influence resource distribution.
The FrontierThe galaxy setting of EVE Frontier, a region of space ravaged by time, entropy, and gravitational chaos.
ThermodynamicsThe laws governing energy transfer and entropy.
Third-party developmentContributions from external developers, often towards increasing gameplay options.
Time-to-finalityThe time it takes for a blockchain to fully confirm a transaction.
TribesSmall organizational units on the Frontier, consisting of players with a shared identity or goal.