Axie Infinity

Axie Infinity describes itself as a Pokémon-inspired universe where anyone can earn tokens through skilled gameplay and contributions to the ecosystem. In the game, players can battle, collect, raise,

Axie Infinity is a pioneer in the play-to-earn ecosystem, seeing the growth of players across the world. Axie players can battle, collect, raise, and build a land-based kingdom for their pets.

Within two years after its first release, Axie Infinity grew to become the number one decentralized application on the Ethereum blockchain with 1.8 million daily active users and a total transaction volume of more than $2 billion, higher than any NFT project in existence.

Game Economics

Axie Infinity is 100% player-owned with a real money economy. The developers of the game focus on growing the player-to-player economy and take small fees to monetize (as opposed to the traditional way of selling games with copies). Axies are created by players using in-game resources and sold to other players in the marketplace.

With two in-game tokens:

• AXS (Axie Infinity Shards) - an ERC-20 governance token for the Axie Universe

• SLP (Smooth Love Potion) - an ERC-20 utility token that can be earned by playing the game. SLP can be used to breed new Axies.

Three in-game activities:

• Battle: Axies battle against each other to level up and evolve, earning SLP after winning battles.

• Breeding: Players use SLP to breed new Axies that can used for Battle or yield profit on the marketplace.

• Land: Homes and bases for all Axies, which can be upgraded over time using a variety of resources and crafting ingredients. Landowners can create their own games on these land plots.

Niners Guild x Axie Infinity

Scholarships

With each player needing to own a team consisting of 3 Axies and with the cost of Axies rising, the entry barrier has become too high for many gamers. Niners Guild is building up a massive gaming community within the Axie Ecosystem through the scholarship program.

Onboarding

With numerous scholarship applications every day and thousands on the waitlist, we have a People & Culture team working through the list, conducting short interviews to ensure a certain level of skill before onboarding them to the program.

Post interviews, our captains will curate their own competitive team to help with the initial steps in the game and manage all the logistics.

Upskilling

After onboarding, our captains provide coaching sessions to learn new strategies and tactics to gain an edge over their competitors. This is also done through constantly adapting teams to current battle conditions by sending new Axies.

We use tools from our Niners Clash to track scholar activity and further optimize performance. We conduct monthly reviews if there's a downfall in performance where we can discuss challenges and how we can help them get better in-game.

Rewards Our scholars are rewarded with a bi-weekly payout in SLP according to a standard profit split of 70/20/10 - 70% of earnings go to the scholar, 20% go to the captain, 10% go to the treasury.

Excellent performance is rewarded with additional Axies to increase the energy required to play the game.

Breeding

Axies can be bred to create new offspring, similar to real-world pets. Breeding an Axie costs AXS and some SLP depending on how many times Axies have been bred, this ratio is variable and subject to change based on several economic factors.

To prevent hyperinflation of Axies there is a maximum amount of times an Axie can be bred before it is sterile, this is set at 7 times. Each Axie has 6 body parts and one body shape. For each part, an Axie possesses 3 genes. Combining these different Axies will create new types of offspring.

Land

Lunacia is the Axie homeland. The homeland is divided into tokenized plots of land that function as the homes and bases of operation for the Axies that live on these land plots. There are several benefits to holding land plots:

• Land-owners might find AXS tokens on their land plots

• Land-owners can use the Axies that occupy the land plot to explore resource nodes on the map to find AXS and other resources.

• Land-owners will eventually be able to create games using the Lunacia SDK and place these games on land they own

Since this is still in the preparation phase, we're actively discussing within the DAO our preferred position once landplay becomes available in Axie Infinity.