Here's the full tech stack including ethereum rollups deployment platform we use to run our blockchain game with 10k players

saw some questions about production web3 gaming setups so figured i'd share our full stack, we run a multiplayer game with about 10k active players.

frontend: unity for game client, react for web dashboard

smart contracts: solidity, hardhat for development, foundry for testing

infrastructure: caldera for rollup deployment, alchemy for backup rpc calls, the graph for indexing

monitoring: tenderly for transaction monitoring, sentry for error tracking

deployment: github actions for ci/cd, vercel for web hosting

analytics: mixpanel for user analytics, dune for on chain analytics

The infrastructure piece was the biggest decision, we initially tried deploying our own rollup but it was a nightmare, switched to managed solution and shipped way faster. deployment was straightforward and support has been solid when we needed it.

The biggest cost is actually alchemy for backup rpc even though we have our own nodes, turns out redundancy is worth it when you have paying users. whole stack runs about $800-1000 per month.

We use both hardhat and foundry because hardhat for deployment scripts and foundry for testing since its way faster. mostly standard ethereum tools, game specific stuff is all in unity not on chain.

Im happy to answer questions about any of these choices or tradeoffs we made.