Snippets from the Latest Axie Dev Talk

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The developers of Axie Infinity, arguably, the most popular and advanced crypto card game out there, are very open about how they approach the development of their game. So, just a few days ago, they have released a video podcast where they discussed many aspects of AI and shared their short-term and long-term plans for it. The points that we will cover today are:

The first topic the devs have talked about was Ronin, the RON token, which is different from the game NFT token and its importance to the game. First of all, Ronin is the side chain that is responsible for processing the gameplay and allows more games to join the Axie universe, helping it scale. This all connects to the Proof of Authority concept. There are a lot of users that want to use Axie’s blockchain, but so far, not everyone’s allowed to create smart contracts, add third-party games, and so on. Therefore there’s a handful of validators in place that checks the validity of data. As the blockchain scales up, more users will have these permissions. In terms of tokens, the AXS is the governance token, whereas the RON token is the governance token for the blockchain! It exists as a reward for the security that it needs. Those who are validating the blocks get rewarded with those tokens. In the future, the developers are planning to add more different types of tokens as rewards for playing the game. This means that perhaps players will be able to earn RON tokens by playing anything from the Axie ecosystem. And by ecosystem, we mean the abundance of games in the Axie universe.

Continuing the topic of rewards, one of the core principles used for designing the