February Axie Infinity Ecosystem Update
GamerSpeak’s Monthly Newsletter Covering Key Details and Observations about the Axie Infinity Economy and Community
This newsletter will be a form for our team to talk to our community while sharing key details in the Axie ecosystem that are important for our future as a guild. This is our way of giving back and helping everyone in our ecosystem stay up to date.
RON Is Live!
$RON Token Hopes To Further Decentralization
The Ronin $RON token has launched in the Axie Infinity Ecosystem. Ronin is the blockchain that powers and runs Axie Infinity. It is the second blockchain with the most NFT Sales volume, behind Ethereum and ahead of Solana. Read the RON lite paper here.
The $RON token is used as gas fees for any transaction that takes place. Most users currently have 20 free TXS but the team is looking to decrease this with time.
The team also launched a new application called Scatter. Scatter can be used to send $RON and tokens to multiple addresses at once! This can be helpful with anything from scholarship payouts, tournament payouts, and giveaways! Furthermore, this could be the first step towards creating an automated system for scholar management from Axie Infinity.
$RON is currently sitting at $2.14 with a market cap of just over $300M.
Upcoming Season 20 & Economic Balancing Adjustments
Listening To the Community, Making Hard Decisions
Key points from the article:
Adventure mode SLP will be sunset (reduced to 0). This includes rewards for first-time completion.
Daily quest SLP will be sunset (reduced to 0).
Arena reward structure will be changed dramatically (reduced SLP rewards and AXS leaderboard massively expanded).
Sub 800 MMR players will now earn 1 SLP per win. We want to be considerate for players with weaker Axies so we’re adding this back in (for now).
The changes come with a long discussion from the community. Within the game, roughly 40% of SLP is created from adventure mode, roughly ~44% of SLP is created from PVP, and the remainder (~14%) is minted from players claiming the daily quest. The new measures implemented will reduce the $SLP mint by around 55%!
In the long term, this helps Axie Infinity play around more with $SLP sinks and control the supply of $SLP. The price of $SLP has been decreasing steadily, even with the new measures in place. The team is betting on figuring out how to steadily increase and stabilize the price through new gameplay.
Sky Mavis is starting to take action within its ecosystem. They will continue to experiment with this with the launch of Origin in the coming months.
Axie Infinity: Origin is Coming!
Huge Updates on New Gameplay and Land Leaks
The next step in Axie Infinities' future lies with Origin. The new gameplay boasts of being different from the current version with new upgrades to all aspects of the Axie Infinity future. Origin is set to launch in late March, early April.
Origin will be used as the next growth phase in Axie’s roadmap. Lots of their discussion revolves around how to onboard mass amounts of people into the community through free-to-play Axies, tutorials, and an interesting narrative surrounding new characters.
The new gameplay will change all the current Axies utility. The only real statistic in the current game that will transfer over will be HP (hit points). This means that all current METAs will change as well as breeding strategies. The release of the new game will spawn a new era of fun in the Infinity universe.
The team additionally created ways for $SLP to gain utility. It will be used as burn mechanisms for in-game utility through Runes & Charms. These will have to be reset every season and provide additional value to competitive players.
The changes will roll out in different phases to ensure a steady transition to this new version of the game. The community is very excited to see these new games and hopes it spurs a new era of fun, engagement, and expansion in Axie Infinity.
[Axie] February Dev Update!
A Quick Summary of A Packed Month
They quickly discuss the RONIN launch, new economic changes, and set the stage for the Origin launch we talked about in the article above.
The land team is making huge progress with the art and gameplay in the Axie Infinity realm. The land development team is making huge strides but is still a long time away from its public launch.
The Sky Mavis team has grown to over 100 employees. In July, the team was made up of 38 people. As they continue to expand, they will be able to release new updates faster and build better. Their time focused on hiring has slowed down the team but not for long. Around 48% of their workforce is comprised of engineers!
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