SKALE Network has partnered with the PGA Tour, game studio Solis Interactive and the NODE Foundation to bring PGA TOUR Rise, a free-to-play mobile title that blends golf with empire-building strategy, to iOS and Android devices.
The game is positioned as a departure from arcade-style golf titles, emphasizing course construction, resource management and head-to-head competition in a “real-time global environment,” with players collecting equipment and cosmetics that can be bought, sold or traded through an in-game marketplace. The full game is slated for release in early 2026 and is currently pushing pre-registration and an early “starter box” incentive for sign-ups.
A key hook is that in-game items—clubs, balls, apparel and other assets—are intended to be minted as crypto-based digital assets on SKALE, a network that markets itself around gas-free user transactions. The game is also being framed as a Base ecosystem application, with the project’s materials describing it as “built on Base,” Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 network, while using SKALE for asset minting and marketplace functionality.
The collaboration lands as blockchain gaming continues to search for a breakout consumer title that can reach users without forcing them to manage wallets or pay transaction fees. In the case of PGA TOUR Rise, the teams say players can onboard using either credit cards or crypto deposits to purchase marketplace items, an approach designed to attract both traditional mobile gamers and crypto-native users.
Real-world rewards, later
Beyond digital collectibles, the partnership is also pitching “real-world rewards” tied to golf equipment and merchandise, such as discount codes and limited-edition items. Those benefits are described as planned rather than immediate, with Solis Interactive indicating the integrations would arrive after launch as additional partnerships are finalized.
The project’s website also markets a limited pre-sale tied to “loot boxes,” stating that early boxes are capped to the first 5,000 people who sign up before Feb. 28, 2026—an attempt to create scarcity around early digital inventory in advance of the wider release.
Why SKALE, why Base
SKALE’s role in the deal is anchored in its “zero gas” pitch—removing per-transaction fees that have historically made frequent in-game actions expensive on many blockchains. That matters for a strategy title built around continual upgrading and trading, where a fee on each small interaction can discourage routine gameplay.
The partnership also comes shortly after SKALE expanded into the Base ecosystem through what it calls “SKALE on Base,” a deployment that places SKALE’s chain-management contracts onto Base to support applications that want SKALE-style execution while staying close to Base’s user base and liquidity.
In the announcement, a Base executive described the game as an on-ramp for SKALE into the Base community, while Solis Interactive said it evaluated multiple blockchain options before selecting SKALE, citing the importance of keeping transactions seamless in a trading-heavy game loop.
A project with a longer history
PGA TOUR Rise has been in development for several years and has previously been described publicly as a Web3 golf game for mobile devices. In 2024, a press release described the project under Stratton Studios—an earlier name associated with the studio—alongside other Web3 partners.
Solis Interactive’s own portfolio page lists PGA TOUR Rise as a mobile golf project and dates it to June 2025, underscoring that the title has been in production and marketing cycles well ahead of the early-2026 release window now highlighted on the game’s website.
The organizations involved
Solis Interactive is a Chicago-based game developer and publisher, according to its corporate site. The NODE Foundation, meanwhile, is a Liechtenstein-based nonprofit established to support the open-source SKALE project, as described by Consensys in documentation around SKALE’s token launch.
SKALE has positioned itself as a high-throughput, EVM-compatible network aimed at making blockchain interactions “invisible” to end users by subsidizing or eliminating transaction fees, a model that has made it popular among game and consumer-app developers that are sensitive to friction.
The PGA Tour’s participation reflects the continued interest by major sports rights-holders in experimenting with digital extensions of their brands, after earlier waves of collectibles and fan tokens yielded mixed results across the industry. In this case, the partners are attempting to tie licensed golf branding to a live-ops mobile game economy, with blockchain ownership presented as an enhancement rather than the core premise.
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