IntoTheVerse

IntoTheVerse Inc. is a mobile-first web3 gaming studio founded in 2021 by Elio Jordan Lopes and Ramesh Sachan, two computer science graduates from the Vellore Institute of Technology in India who incorporated the company in Delaware. The studio's guiding thesis is that on-chain gaming can be genuinely fun: every piece of player progression, every score, and every in-game asset should live on a public blockchain rather than on a centralized server that can be shut down or altered without consent. The tag line "Onchain gaming is real" is both a philosophy and a technical commitment.

Founding and Ecosystem Entry

Lopes (CEO and CTO) and Sachan (CFO and COO) entered the Solana ecosystem in earnest when they won the Solana Summer Camp Hackathon in 2022, building a pixel-art dungeon game on Solana using the Phaser engine and Metaplex for NFT ownership. That project demonstrated the founders' ability to ship a working game on-chain and attracted early backing from Flori Ventures as lead investor, with ecosystem support from the Solana Foundation, Aptos, Algorand, and Celo Foundation. The broader team grew to include Prasanta Bhattacharya, Neha Roy, Aimee Gilmore, and Arhit Das.

The studio's earliest public narrative framed IntoTheVerse as a blockchain-based parallel universe: a pixel-art metaverse city offering a DEX, liquidity pools, virtual land ownership and leasing, warrior breeding and upgrading, and a utility-driven NFT marketplace governed by two tokens. $DGN served as the in-game currency for transactions, while $VRS functioned as a governance token whose holders receive 2.5% of marketplace exchange fees. A marketplace launched in Q3 2022. This original metaverse concept has since evolved; the studio's current output centers on standalone games rather than a single persistent world.

Intrant Inferis: Solana-Native Mobile RPG

The first major game title IntoTheVerse announced publicly is Intrant Inferis, an on-chain rogue-like action dungeon RPG built in 3D for mobile and powered natively by Solana. Inspired by Diablo, Dungeon Hunter 5, and Crypto Raiders, Intrant Inferis is a story-driven exploration game in which players descend through an underworld collecting ancient artifacts, crafting items, and leveling characters across 25 weeks of season-based gameplay. The game reached pre-alpha stage with alpha tests originally planned for Q1 2024. The team showcased a pre-alpha build at Solana Breakpoint 2023 in Amsterdam, where it received attention from the Solana gaming community. GitHub repositories show C# development consistent with Unity-based 3D mobile work, though Intrant Inferis had not publicly launched at mainnet as of mid-2025.

Cryptara Conquest: Eclipse Mainnet, Live

IntoTheVerse's most publicly active title is Cryptara Conquest, a 2D survival RPG the studio describes as "the genesis block for IntoTheVerse's future games." The game is set in a desolate world where three factions compete for survival resources, and its mechanics draw from bullet-hell classics like Enter the Gungeon: players navigate procedurally challenging dungeons, collect resources, forge items, fight monsters, defeat bosses, and purchase in-game collectibles, all governed by on-chain smart contracts.

Cryptara Conquest launched on the Eclipse mainnet in January 2025 and accumulated over 100,000 transactions within its first three days live. Season 1 subsequently opened competitive leaderboard play, offering $BITZ and $LAIKA tokens as rewards for top-performing players who survive and escape dungeons. The game was featured in the Eclipse Foundation's own newsletter as a flagship application, and the team showcased it at the Solana Summit in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in June 2025, continuing to build visibility in the broader Solana-SVM ecosystem.

Why Eclipse, and How the Solana Stack Works

Rather than deploying Cryptara Conquest on Solana mainnet directly, IntoTheVerse chose Eclipse, an Ethereum Layer 2 that executes transactions using the Solana Virtual Machine and settles to Ethereum, using Celestia for data availability. The studio documented publicly that Eclipse's parallel transaction execution and isolated fee markets make a high-frequency game workload technically and economically viable: game state changes at the pace of player actions, and fees remain predictable even under load.

The game is built in Unity and uses the Magicblock Unity-Solana SDK, which IntoTheVerse also forked and contributed to on GitHub, for blockchain interaction. This SDK allows game code to call Solana programs, execute token swaps, and read and write on-chain state without leaving the Unity runtime. For leaderboards and achievement tracking, the game uses SOAR (Solana Onchain Achievements and Rewards), an open protocol that makes player scores and rankings publicly verifiable on-chain. A session-key system allows players to authorize a batch of transactions at once so that individual in-game actions do not each require a separate wallet signature, a significant quality-of-life improvement that brings the user experience closer to conventional mobile games.

An open-edition Cryptara Conquest Access Pass was minted on Ethereum mainnet in collaboration with Rarible ahead of the Eclipse launch, used to bootstrap a community of NFT collectors and early players before the game went live.

Web3 Gaming Toolkit

Beyond individual titles, IntoTheVerse has published development tooling for other web3 game studios. Their Web3 Gaming Toolkit packages three components: a Market API enabling in-game goods trading, an NFT API for creating and managing NFT assets programmatically, and a gaming-engine SDK that bridges popular game engines to blockchain networks. The toolkit reflects a broader ambition to function not just as a game studio but as infrastructure for mobile web3 games across Solana-adjacent ecosystems.

Ecosystem Partnerships and Positioning

IntoTheVerse has worked with Catheon Gaming, Protocol Labs, Flori Ventures, and the Solana Games division of the Solana Foundation. Their portfolio of ecosystems touched, spanning Solana, Aptos, Algorand, Celo, Ethereum, and Eclipse, positions the studio as multi-chain by design, though Solana and its SVM derivatives remain the primary technical home. The studio's open-source GitHub repositories, active Discord, and ongoing competitive seasons in Cryptara Conquest through mid-2025 indicate a team that remains engaged with shipping and iterating on live product.

Audit and Security Posture

No third-party smart contract audit reports for IntoTheVerse's on-chain programs have been identified in publicly available sources. Players and developers integrating with Cryptara Conquest's on-chain contracts should treat this as an open risk when evaluating assets earned or traded through the game.