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Cambria has confirmed that Genesis, its persistent world MMORPG, will run on the Ethereum mainnet. The team described it as MMORPG “with huge stakes on the blockchain” and opened a closed invite list for the first players.
Interested players can apply via this link. At this stage, open registration is not available.
The Move to the Ethereum Mainnet
The choice of blockchain stands out. Cambria’s Dungeons mode ran on Abstract, an Ethereum layer 2 built for consumer applications, where players bought keys for USDC to participate in runs. Genesis, however, will move directly to the Ethereum mainnet.
For a world built on a permanent economy, this choice places Genesis on Ethereum’s base layer, with its inherent security and long-term development. It also signals that the team sees Genesis as a durable world rather than just another seasonal server.
Players who succeed receive a Royal Charter. The example provided by Cambria shows the fields each charter records. “Voyage” indicates which wave the player joined, with the first wave listed as “Founding (I)”. Each charter also assigns a House, a home city, and Affinities.
In the example given, the player belongs to the house of Warwick, lives in Tharin’s Peak, and has an affinity for blacksmithing and fencing, each with its own rating. This points to a world where players begin the game already tied to a faction and a city, and where crafting- and combat-related roles are part of a character’s identity from day one.
The charter design fits the colonial theme the team has used to describe Genesis. Founder Ben.zzz presented the launch as the settling of a new land, where the first arrivals take on greater risk in exchange for an early advantage.
Why Access Starts Small
Genesis will not open to everyone at once. A group of initial users with a limited amount of resources will be launched on the mainnet first, with access restricted to the core resource cycles. A broader player base will join later, in subsequent waves.
In previous seasons, between 3000 and 4000 people played Cambria simultaneously, but Genesis deliberately starts with fewer players. A gradual rollout allows the team to track the state of the economy and plan expansion based on real demand.
Benn.zzz made it clear that early access does not guarantee success.
“None of this will be a free lunch where you can simply make a profit. The initial group will also take on the risks of the early stage,” he said.
He also called developing a permanent game economy on a blockchain one of the hardest problems he has ever had to solve.
A Permanent Economy
Unlike previous seasons, Genesis has no reset. Assets persist, guilds store their treasures, and players compete for resources over the long term.
The game world is built around five major cities. Players can buy individual buildings in these cities and collect taxes when other players use them. Island barons can pool resources to reduce transport costs and challenge city monopolies, adding a political and economic layer to the core gameplay.
Genesis combines three existing modes. Dungeons is a high-stakes dungeon-style game where keys cost $0.10 each, and players choose for themselves how much to put on the line. Islands adds storage, social spaces, and guild buildings that owners can earn from. Gold Rush covers resource gathering, group competitions, raids, and crafting, with scarce materials from raids used to create valuable gear. Together they form a closed loop in which producers and fighters depend on one another.
The RSGP Token and the Road to Launch
The whitelist appeared shortly after the creation of the Cambria Foundation, which is intended to govern the protocol and its ecosystem. The Foundation introduced RSGP, short for Real Stakes Game Play, which will underpin the consensus mechanisms of the Genesis economy. Cambria players who played before 29 September 2026 were required to accept the Genesis Event Opt In Agreement through the game lobby. Information on the total supply, distribution, and launch date of RSGP has not been disclosed yet.
On the technical side, patch 0.6 was released on 28 September as the final update before the Genesis testnet launch. It moved Cambria to a 120 GB server designed for 10 000 concurrent players, and reworked the game client to reduce CPU and memory usage by 80 percent.
What Is Cambria?
Cambria is a pixel MMO game where players put their resources at risk, which has been developed over three years and has gone through many seasons. Its modes reward players for putting resources to use: from key-based dungeon runs to resource-gathering-focused “Gold Rush” seasons and guild-created islands.
The numbers are impressive for a game on Web3. In the third season, players spent $1.7 million over 10 days, and by August 2026, Dungeons players had put $5 million on the line in keys. More than 1 million duels have been played in Duel Arena.
Genesis is the next step, a unified, persistent world where these modes come together. Whitelist applications are open, and the first citizens will receive their royal charters.
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