CCP Games, the studio behind EVE Online, has announced that its next-generation space survival MMO, EVE Frontier, will be built on the Sui blockchain. The studio says this move is central to its vision for a truly player-defined and enduring universe. By leveraging Sui’s object-centric architecture, CCP aims to model tens of thousands of star systems, countless player-built ships, and evolving infrastructure in a way that keeps every player action verifiable and persistent.
For CCPs, choosing Sui is not just about putting assets on-chain. It’s scale and fidelity. Built to achieve sub-second finality and high throughput, Sui’s design is presented as a way to support billions of player interactions in the living world without sacrificing performance. CCP says its architecture aligns neatly with the studio’s long-standing item-centric design philosophy and opens the door to a far more configurable MMO experience where player creations meaningfully reshape the universe.
This partnership goes beyond basic blockchain. CCP will also use Mysten Labs’ full stack of decentralized tools, including Walrus, a developer platform for trusted data, and Seal, which provides native data access controls. “Much of Sui’s initial design was shaped by the need for high-performance gaming that was fully programmable for players,” said Sam Blackshear, co-founder and CTO of Mysten Labs, an original Sui contributor. “EVE Frontier is the first game to take advantage of all the innovative features Sui, Walrus and Seal have to offer. We are inspired by CCP Games’ vision of building truly player-defined games that outlive their creators, which aligns perfectly with Sui’s technical ambitions.”
The main feature of EVE Frontier is “Smart Assemblies”. It is a system that allows players and third-party developers to build and deploy programmable structures and systems at scale. CCP emphasizes that Sui’s security model is important here. These programmable creations exist safely in a shared universe, with their origins preserved as part of gaming history. The promise of safe, moddable content aims to extend the new player-driven narratives that made EVE Online famous into a new era where creations are permanent and verifiable.
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CCP has already ported the Founder Access build of EVE Frontier to Sui, integrating features such as zkLogin for native account abstraction and sponsored transactions to streamline on-chain interactions. These integrations are designed to ease player onboarding and seamlessly record billions of player-driven interactions on-chain.
“Since our founding, our mission has been to create virtual worlds that are more meaningful than the real world, and with EVE Frontier we are taking that ambition further than ever before: building a player-modifiable universe that is bound by unique digital physics and can outlive us all,” said Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, CEO of CCP Games. “As we dug deeper into how Sui is built, we found a number of familiar concepts, such as how the object-centric approach aligns well with our historical item-centric approach, enabling billions of objects/items placed by players to shape a living world. For us, Sui has provided unique adjustments to architecture, security, and user experience. Together, we are building a world that truly stands the test of time.”
This announcement suggests that there will be broader experimentation with how large-scale, player-driven worlds can operate on-chain. By making ships, buildings, and systems verifiable and truly owned, CCP and Sui are betting that on-chain infrastructure built for speed, composability, and secure data access can support emerging economies and social systems at MMO scale. If successful, EVE Frontier could become a test case for how mainstream games can incorporate distributed primitives without compromising the scale and performance that players expect.
As CCP continues to develop, the coming months will reveal how the technical promise translates into the player experience: how smoothly onboarding works, how programmable player content proves to be secure and practical, and whether a living universe running at blockchain scale can sustain the kinds of new stories that have defined EVE Online. For now, the partnership is a clear statement of intent, with major studios betting on the blockchain technology stack to pursue the future of player-powered MMOs.
