What Is ‘Eve Frontier’? How to Start Playing CCP’s Survival Game on Ethereum

The legendary game developer CCP Games has lifted the lid on Eve Frontier this week, a Space Survival Game that takes place in the EVE Online Universe with blockchain integration.

Initially referred to as Project Awakening, Eve Frontier seems to have many similarities with the Massive Eve Online game, but with more a survival focus -and the possibility to use crypto -tokens and blockchain code to influence and reform the game in new ways.

With such a prestigious development studio behind it, the hope is high that Eve Frontier could be one of the first real triple-a blockchain games. And you can start playing within a few days if you buy one of the founder -access packages.

If the sound has aroused your interest, this is all you need to know about the game.

What is Eve Frontier?

Eve Frontier is an upcoming video game made by the Icelandic developer CCP games, the studio behind the deep hardcore and long-running online space sim, Eve Online.

It is recommended as a space -surviving simulation, where you wake up from Stasis as the last remnant of humanity and is immersed in a world where drone swarms search the landscape – and the remaining survivors fight for limited resources. What that means for players, it seems that they have to work together and even create resources in the world to survive.

“In the beginning the world is like a huge beast to be tamed. It’s angry, it’s oer, it’s bad – and it’s out to get you out” told Decrypt in March 2024. ‘The world of [Eve Frontier] Do you want to literally kill. “

So far, no gameplay has been shown and we have very limited information about what you will actually do in the world. But it is a safe gamble that you can drive a spaceship at some point, or perhaps for the entire game.

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Is it the same as Eve Online?

If you have heard of Eva before, this is probably because of Eve Online, the Gargantuan Space MMO that has been currently for more than 20 years.

It is notoir one of the most difficult games to enter, with layers of complexity of both the game itself and the extreme die-hard community that still occupies in the world. There are many things to do with, from politics to space, capitalism and even accounting if you are so inclined.

However, Eve Frontier is not the same game as Eve Online. It is a completely different game that will not be linked to the main MMO in any way, except sharing a franchise name and probably the tradition of the universe in which it is located.

There has been some speculation that Frontier has been designed to be the game that ultimately replaces Eve Online, but until we get the game better, there is no way to say if that will happen.

How is Crypto involved?

CCP would like to emphasize in the interviews that it did around Eva Frontier that this is a game that functions Blockchain technology, but is not invoiced as a ‘blockchain game’. That means hopefully that CCP makes a game in the first place, and not just a ship to sell tokens to you.

Some crypto -tokens will be made for use in Eve Frontier. The EVE -Token will be a utility token that can be changed as a means for external value, where CCP already says that it will not limit transactions outside the game itself.

In March 2025, CCP announced that the Stefán þórarinsson, a former economist from the Central Bank of Iceland, hired to be the head of the economy. Þórarinsson told Decrypt That he will perform “experiments” during early access and pre-launch test periods to help develop the financial ecosystem of the game.

However, the real interesting technology comes from the options for making community creation. Eve Frontier will use blockchain technology to give members of the community the opportunity to develop new experiences and functions within the game, including their own crypto tokens if they want.

The goal seems to be that CCP will create a toolset with which the community can continue to develop the game in the coming years, whereby the original developers usually remain hands-off. This may mean that the game shifts considerably over time on the basis of the creations of the community.

CCP calls on its blockchain -technical approach ‘Smart Assemblies’, in which they are described as functions that players can make through smart contracts – which contains the code that contains the decentralized applications – or other integrations within EVE border.

“Players can build infrastructure, such as storage facilities, trading posts, defenses and more. See it as an improved basic structure,” explains an official FAQ. “Thanks to every structure with a programmable layer, Eve Frontier provides more mode and player expression on top of each ‘basic item’. Building infrastructure and the implementation of the border does not require that it is programmed.”

“For example, a smart storage unit (SSU) is a structure that is anchored in space that acts as smart storage, which has any form of inventory players to load it with (currencies, items, etc.),” ​​it goes further. “With smart assemblies, this structure can be coded to serve as a marketplace, a Quest Giver, a jar system, an arcade machine, etc.”

What is Eve Frontier built on?

All this technology takes place on Ethereum, which is logical for a game of this scale given the abundance of scale networks and the fact that many prominent crypto tokens have been built on it.

The Crypto-Tokens in the game will be published with the ERC-20-Token Standard, in which the game itself is developed on Redstone, an Ethereum Layer-2 network that is built on optimism technology and specifically designed for autonomous game worlds.

When it comes to the actual game creation, all of this takes place on the carbon engine of CCP, which is planning to eventually open source. There is also Mud, an on-chain motor from the grid that is built parallel to Redstone.

When will Eve Frontier be released?

On December 5, CCP games started the sale of founder -access packages, which will unlock access to a closed Alpha version of the game from December 10.

The packs vary in price between $ 30 and $ 90 and include other benefits, such as monthly live streams from the developers, a “founder” title in the official Discord server of the game and premium playing time in the final full version of the game.

Eve Frontier will eventually be a free game to play that will be opened for everyone, but this early access will start to play buyers while it is still developing and apparently gets a boost as soon as the game is broadly launched to the public.

CCP Games is launching a free 10-day trial period for the game of 11-21 April called Remnant Access, so that all players can be the chance to try out the game without buying a founder access package. Trial users do not have access to benefits the founder.

Published by Andrew Hayward

Note of the editors: This story was originally published on September 15, 2024 and last updated with new details on 10 April 2025.