what's The Ninth?

The Ninth is the first player-made, real-time evolving on-chain metaverse game powered by Starknet. It features a sci-fi dystopian world where players own land as the core scarce asset, serving as customizable hubs for competitions, trade, DAOs, guilds, and multi-epoch iterations. Gameplay includes commanding ships and crews for exploration, PVP arenas across nine modes, and fully on-chain mechanics like staking for NFT equipment, item repurposing via reminting/combination, and community-driven smart contract customization. Built on Starknet's ZK-rollup for scalability and low costs, the game enables seamless real-time interactions, high transaction throughput (targeting 10k+/min), and true ownership of assets like land NFTs and characters. Players shape the game's evolution through participation, fostering an open, decentralized PlayFi economy without centralized servers.