Axie Infinity is structured as an open-ended digital pet universe. The Axie core team will build functionality for the game assets associated with the Axie brand in concurrence with the community. The Axie universe must be fun above all else; only by having an immersive gaming experience can the ecosystem attract enough participants to accrue value to the network.
Sky Mavis is currently creating Axie Infinity Wallet — an Ethereum-linked sidechain made specifically for our game.
Use Axie Infinity Wallet to:
- Manage your digital identity and experience 100% true ownership of your assets.
- Send transactions without paying expensive gas fees
-Trade your NFTs from other platforms
- Axie is a new type of game that rewards players for the time and effort they spend both playing the game and growing the ecosystem.
- Axie has a 100% player-owned, real money economy. Rather than selling game items or copies, the developers of the game focus on growing the player to player economy and take small fees to monetize. Axies are created by players using in-game resources (SLP & AXS) and sold to new/other players. You can think of Axie as a nation with a real economy. The holders of the - - AXS token are the government that receives tax revenues. The inventors/builders of the game, Sky Mavis, hold ~20% of all AXS tokens.
- Game resources and items are tokenized, meaning they can be sold to anyone, anywhere on open peer-to-peer markets.
We have learned that while our users care about blockchain technology they are focused on the benefits it can bring, rather than decentralizing too many features. As long as we provide a tamper-evident distributed ledger that ensures scarcity and allows our players to own and trade their assets it will be enough, for now.
The mechanics of Play to Earn do not require a fully decentralized public blockchain. We believe that part of the ethos of web 3 is the idea of users being rewarded for the value that they bring to applications and this is what we choose to focus on with Axie.
Security & Consensus
To help secure Axie Infinity, we have recruited an all-star cast of partners from the traditional gaming, crypto, and nonfungible token space to serve as validators of our network.