EVE Frontier selects Sui for blockchain integration, ditching Ethereum L2

CCP Games, the studio behind EVE Online, announced on October 8, 2025 that its upcoming space survival MMO, EVE Frontier, would migrate its on-chain infrastructure to the Sui Layer-1 blockchain. The move marks a significant departure from the game’s previous Ethereum Layer-2 setup, which ran on Redstone and MUD. Why Sui won the pitch The core appeal comes down to architecture. Sui’s object-centric model and its use of the Move programming language map naturally onto EVE Frontier’s design philosophy, where every ship, outpost, and Smart Assembly is a discrete, owned object with its own state and history. Transaction finality on Sui clocks in as low as 400 milliseconds, and the network processes transactions in parallel rather than sequentially. Sponsored transactions are the other major draw. EVE Frontier players won’t pay gas fees, because the game’s infrastructure absorbs those costs. Sui’s zkLogin feature also figures into the onboarding calculus. It allows players to authenticate using existing social accounts rather than managing seed phrases. From Ethereum L2 to L1: what changed and why it matters EVE Frontier’s prior stack, built on Ethereum’s Redstone L2 with the MUD framewo...