Thread by @MakerGrowth

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🎮 We are keeping an eye on blockchain gaming since its early days

It's time to explain what it is, what is Maker doing in this emerging ecosystem and what are our vision of the future 🌌

A thread about MakerDAO 🤝 Blockchain gaming is here 🧵👇

2/21

🔄 Open finance and NFTs always had a potential and powerful relationship.

🔭 This is what @MakerDAO saw in projects like @AxieInfinity.

🙌 For that potential a partnership was announced from its first big steps in 2019.

3/21

🧪 Back then it was perceived as an experiment.

🏞️ Now it's more than a reality. It's incredibly tangible.

🌎 The vision of finding new people acquiring their first cryptocurrencies through this games became a fact that represents a social-economic revolution.

4/21

🤔 So, after this success, let's talk about blockchain gaming principles. How it works?

🕹️ Blockchain gaming emerged from the birth of "play-to-earn", a modality in which the rewards of video games, instead of being ephemeral, were cryptocurrencies with real market value.

5/21

The model included mainly 3 participants.

👽 Non-fungible tokens. Collectibles that live on Ethereum.
🪙 A fungible token system, responsible for players rewards.
🎲 A game, the core system that makes sure everything works.

6/21

💡 We can say that @AxieInfinity designed a standard for this system, and that is how it did it:

👾 First of all, the non-fungible tokens. Inspired by Pokémon, they created a creatures known as "Axies"

🐟 Axies are unique tokens on Ethereum (NFTs) with different traits

7/21

🦎 These traits define the race, aesthetics, and skills of each Axie

🐣 Axies can be reproduced to create new Axies whose traits will be inherited from their parents

🐈 This is a system inspired by @CryptoKitties, one of the first NFT and traits-based videogame

8/21

⚔️ Axies are battle creatures that fight vs game's intelligence (PVE) and vs another player's Axies (PVP).

🌟 For each battle won, the player wins $SLP, an ERC20 token.

📈 The $SLP is a token like any other that can be traded. This means there will be a price.

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💰 Where does that price come from?

💎 $SLP is necessary to run certain functionalities of the game, such as creating new Axies. If you want to reproduce axies to have more or better axies, you must burn $SLP

⚒️ Besides being a reward token, the $SLP is a utility token.

10/21

📊 On top of that, if $SLP is needed to create new Axies, the Axies will have a price that is influenced by the $SLP price.

🌠 And that's how an entire economic system that is retroactive is created.

11/21

💵 If you want to play Axie Infinity and earn $SLP you must get a team of minimum 3 Axies, but the only way to get them from scratch is to buy them from a seller.

12/21

👨‍🌾 Sellers know that there are demand for Axies, so they can dedicate to the reproduction and selling of Axies.

💳 But, what do you need to reproduce them? $SLP, and how do you get it in large quantities? Buying from the open market.

13/21

🎮 Who are the $SLP producers and sellers? Players that win battles, but those players at some point had to bought their first Axies from an Axies seller

💳 In addition to that, if a player wants to have more or better axies to increase their earnings, they could buy them

14/21

🧬 And this is how the economic retroactive system comes to life.

🌌 Game, NFTs and tokens creating a living ecosystem. All in the blockchain space.

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✍️ It should be noted that @AxieInfinity has more participating tokens and elements, such as the $AXS token which is also needed to produce new Axies, the items, lands, and more other elements that will participate in the evolution of this game.

16/21

The standard created by @AxieInfinity was replied and modified by other games, but the principle is the same

👽 NFTs as unique elements needed to play

🪙 A token that works as a reward for players and utility for sustain the game itself

🎲 A game, for fun

17/21

✊ But there's another big important ingredient: fun.

🎮 Your are playing a game! So you want to have fun! If you want to engage with this game, the mechanics must be designed to entertain the player beyond making him generate money.

🤩 Gaming is about fun, not money!

18/21

☄️ This new revolution is not ending here.

💥 There's a huge more potential from e-sports, a possible demand driver for new gamers, sponsors and a lot of spreading for this ecosystem to mainstream.

19/21

💣 On the other hand, the proven power of NFTs inside gaming cannot go unnoticed

🎮 The possibility of infecting the entire video game scene with transferable, transparent and decentralized collectibles is closer than ever

⛓️ Cryptocurrencies can play a big role here too

20/21

⚔️ Imagine a scene where you can trade a skin of a game for a weapon of another one.

💲 Imagine a scene where you can buy anything in a game with a universal gaming cryptocurrency that you can trade in a decentralized way.

The future foresees an infinite evolution

Wanna be part of it?

🎮 Let's make crypto and gaming dreams come true with us.