Hello hello Lunacians,
How have you been this week? A lot to report about today because the week was absolutely crazy with the crypto crash and breeding updates from Axie. Is the bear winter upon us? Who knows. One thing is certain, it will be a long and dark winter, diamond hands are needed!
🕹 Axie Infinity Updates
Lots of things happened this week. The breeding update that was a huge announcement will be covered more extensively in the Economy section. Let's mention here the Developer Insights. The community was loud, and Sky Mavis hears them - is what I get from this Insights. Crypto crash and SLP going to oblivion, moved so many people to talk about the sustainability of Axie Infinity and their voice was loud. This paper was mostly aimed at new community members that found themselves in the tsunami of the Axie economy. It also reminds us all that Axie is a long-term project. It’s not even close to being done. We have to be patient and believe in the Sky Mavis team and our strength as a community. I couldn’t agree more!
Then we had a December Development Update. It goes hand in hand with the developer's insights in a way that it amplifies the message of long-term. With all the amazing things being developed at Sky Mavis that we cant wait to get our hands on, we have nothing else to do but to wait and be bullish on the team and the game. It was good to see that they almost tripled the team numbers which means they are serious about delivering the products. Especially I love the tease from the new design lead of the Land project. It looks amazing.
But to me, the most important information was the one about the community and Arena. I just love the initiative to form:
a game balancing council, made up of top-ranked, reputable players alongside members of the Sky Mavis team to get broader input from players.
On top of that, they plan to do all balancing and adjustments and testing to take place in the offseason so no more changes during the season. This is FINALLY the step in the right direction. Make sure you read the whole update, it contains a lot of great things.
The last thing this week was the announcement of the AxieChat Community Node. This caught me by surprise, so I will just share the discord announcement.
We’re excited to announce the launch of our first Axie community-run Ronin validator node by AxieChat! This is the first step in ensuring that Ronin is owned, operated, and validated by the community that loves it. Recently, the AxieChat team submitted an impressively comprehensive proposal to the existing validators to host a community-sponsored node. It's becoming clear that in groups like AxieChat, and others, that our community has reached a stage of maturity where we can continue this process of empowering the community to provide and maintain core infrastructure for our ecosystem. We anticipate further demand from our community to help validate Ronin. Today signifies a step closer to a more open and community-led future for the network. We’re working on building out a structured process for reviewing and onboarding more validators from the community. This will be a multi-step process and we're beyond excited to travel this road with you!
Very interesting! I was wondering how to become a node validator, and AxieChat started to lead the way. Well done everyone! - Mr.Kepolas
💰 State of the Economy
As the crypto market experienced a large crash of up to 30% across almost all coins, Axie Infinity tokens could not escape the same fate.
The breeding fees were updated. This change will definitely impact Axie prices on a marketplace, but we might see only a minor change to $SLP and $AXS prices.
👨🏽🤝👨🏽 Community Spotlight
This week in the community spotlight we will introduce an amazing initiative from Sky Mavis to start hosting Axie Infinity Fireside Chat. Zyori and Brycent were amazing hosts with top skills in facilitating great conversation. A lot of famous community members participated. If you haven’t already make sure you check the vid over at Twitch. I can’t wait to watch and listen to the second edition! - Mr.Kepolas
🎨 Lunacian Art Scene
I love Japan, I love Axie Infinity and I love ramen. This image has it all. Kudos @shann for creating such an amazing artwork! - Sewon
⚔ eSports Overview
We have A LOT of eSports action this weekend! Happening right now the one and only Axie E1337 Open hosted by Brycent. Indes playing! Don’t miss it!
We also have another tournament with Brycent but this time as a player. Metaguild is hosting a tournament on December 11. Amazing!
Besides the 300 $AXS prize pool, 16 players will fight for exclusive trophies: NFTs created by Metaguild Studio in @TheSandboxGame. Two 1/1 editions for the 1st and 2nd places, and one 2/2 edition for both 3rd places!
Tune in for some amazing eSports action! - Mr.Kepolas
❓Question of the week
What will Axie Infinity look like in 2022?
2022 is going to be a very important year for the game. We will see a lot of new updates, V2, Land gameplay and so on. On the other hand, I believe the next year is going to be super challenging as new games and projects will be released. Some of them look really promising and might end up becoming a real competition for Axie Infinity. - Sewon
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