The Axie Infinity Game (AXS):

Axie Infinity is a video game that involves fighting battles and winning games by fighting against other Pokemon-like monsters in order to earn Ethereum based crypto in the form of Axie Infinity Shards (AXS). it is a blockchain based trading and battling game that is partially owned and operated by the players. The game contains of creatures called “Axies”. These creatures love to battle, build and hunt for treasure. The game is mostly run and owned by the players.

The game was created by a Vietnamese studio called Sky Mavis. Axie has over 2,50,000 users currently playing and winning ETH rewards. The X-factor of Axie Infinity Game is it’s cryptocurrency nature. Each Axie in the game is a Non Fungible Token (NFT) which has its own market value and is priced based on its skills, breed and aesthetic character. These NFT’s are digital assets as well, which makes AXIE a Crypto based on NFT and running on Ethereum.

How does Axie Infinity work?

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Axie Infinity is a venturesome game that has numerous stages of plot and strategic sport. Adding to just playing games, Axie also allows its users to earn while playing. Gamers and analysts have related the working of the game with that of Pokemon, considering that the user has to their pet, i.e. Axies which have special power and skills to perform well in the game. In order to start playing the NFT- based game, the user needs to have a team consisting of 3 Axies. The Axie pet, which is empowered with skills, can cost anywhere between 0.1 ETH ($260.49 USD) to 0.2 ETH ($520.98 USD). These Axies form the base of your entire game. One cannot get started without these.

The gamers have the option to level up or upgrade the skills of their axies through the Adventure mode. It requires the users to climb ladders, face challenges and go through different levels. With each completed level, the axies skills will be updated and the levels will start getting complex. The Axie owners can also test their Axies ability by going through the Arena mode where all the gamers can battle with different users of the same platform and hence check their ability to survive or win the game. Each win in the Arena mode will improve the users matchmaking rating, and earn them a reward of SLP (Smooth Love Portion). These Axies can take different forms as there are more than 500 different body parts available, including aquatic, beast, bird, bug, plant and reptile parts. Axies can have any combination of body parts, making them highly variable and often rare and unique.

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Axie Infinity Team:

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Who built the Axie Game?Vincent was laid off in July, the Manila IT analyst found an unusual financial lifeline: an online game that rewards players in cryptocurrency. In his first two weeks of Pokemon-like questing and battling, Gallarte earned more than 37,000 pesos ($732), three times what he would have made at his “real job”. The 25-year-old Garllarte hadn’t had any particular interest in the world of Bitcoin, Ether and other cryptocurrencies. Now he imagines a lucrative side-hustle. According to him, he said “I started playing Axie the same day my employer terminated my contract”. I am so grateful. Axie Infinity is currently rated as one of the best and biggest blockchain based NFT gaming sectors. The hype around this new crypto-based gaming sector has left some users baffled about its origin. Axie Infinity is built by a well-known company,  Sky Mavis. Sky Mavis is a technology-focused game developer with a team primarily based in Vietnam. Axie Infinity was co-founded by Trung Nguyen and Aleksander Larsen. Trung Nguyen is the current CEO of the gaming platform who holds a BS degree in computer software engineering and has previously worked as a software engineer at Anduin Transactions.Aleksander Larsen is the COO of Axie Infinity. He’s been working on Blockchain gaming since 2017 and worked as the executive security officer for the Norwegian Government Security Organization prior to co-founding Axie. he still works as The Secretary of the Board of Directors at the Blockchain Game Alliance. Axie Infinity has 40 employees in total and all of them are extensively experienced in the field. Tu Doan runs the art team in Vietnam and designed the original Axies. Andy Ho, the CTO of Axie Infinity leads the engineering team and is responsible for the technical strategy. Jeffrey Zirlin is responsible for growth and development.

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How to Play Axie Infinity:

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Download the game from the official website, you will need to create a Ronin wallet and have a digital wallet like Metamask. Once you have a Ronin wallet setup, you can use the Ronin bridge to transfer ETH over to Ronin, where it becomes WETH (Wrapped ETH). You can then use it to purchase Axies. You will need to pair your Ronin wallet to your account, and then sync your Axies from the wallet to the game to start playing. Players use cards to command what action their Axie will be doing for that turn. Each Axie has four cards which randomize for every battle and in order to play those cards, energy must be exploded. If you have four energies, you can play any cards as long as it fits within your four energy capacity. Axie infinity battle system usually attacks random targets hitting the target closest to that axie. Players earn through the game Smoth Love potion (SLP) crypto tokens which are given through daily quests and can be exchanged for money.

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Is Axie Infinity Secured and a safe game to play?

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The new NFT-BASED gaming platform has been constantly questioned about its legitimacy, security and safety.  The AXS tokens are based on the Ethereum blockchain. The ERC-20 is hence secured by Ethereum’s Proof-of-work consensus.Sky Mavis is currently creating Ronin, an Ethereum-linked sidechain made specifically for Axie Infinity. It is designed to support almost instant transaction confirmations, reduced gas fees and be capable of helping Axie Infinity scale. Axie is ranked the #1 Ethereum game by daily, weekly, and monthly active users. It is a game that partners with huge technology companies such as Samsung, Ubisoft, HTC, Binance, Kyber network, Maker and Klayton. The partnership of Axie with such legit companies proves that it is not a scam. AXS can be traded on Binance and Uniswap, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange platform. It is listed with four trading pairs: AXS/USDT, AXS/BTC, AXS/BUSD and AXS/BNB.

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