The market capitalization of Axie Infinity is at an astounding $6.4B right now.

For comparison, Ubisoft has a market capitalization of merely $5.85B.

Let’s take a look at a bit of a little thought experiment for this thread, shall we? 🥐
Ubisoft is one of the largest video games companies in the world boasting top-selling game titles such as:

-Assassins Creed
-Far Cry
-Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege
-Watch Dogs
-Just Dance 2
-Riders Republic
-Star Wars

So… why is there such a discrepancy between the two?
Is Axie Infinity more fun to play than ALL of the titles mentioned above?

No.

𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘥.
With Ubisoft, every item in the game is owned and controlled by a single entity.

There are no means of ownership, rarity, or uniqueness inside of this ecosystem.

As video game technology grows this will become an even bigger problem for players.
Could you imagine virtual realities where items as close to tangible as possible are at the whim of a single larger company?

Believe it or not we’ve actually seen this before, and it didn’t end well.

For those of you who played WoW, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about
World of Warcraft, a popular MMORPG had over 12M users at its peak.

It actually became so popular that gold used in the game became worth real money

Users all across the globe started to “farm gold,” growing it to a $900M+ industry while employing millions of players… Image
Gold farming became so massive and widespread that it was banned in China (ironically)

Thanks to this, the developers of the game were forced to make changes to game mechanisms and make the virtual currency less valuable…

As I’m sure you’d expect, people were not happy. Image
According to Vitalik, this was one of his reasons for wanting to create Ethereum.

From his bio:

“Blizzard removed the damage component from my beloved warlock's Siphon Life spell. I cried myself to sleep, and on that day I realized what horrors centralized services can bring.” Image
This is exactly where the blockchain comes into play.

Crypto-economics combined with digital ownership creates powerful network effects.

As said best by .@SquishChaos, “a bet against crypto becomes a bet against the customer.”
In the case of $AXS, both the customer and the developers of the game have an active incentive to keep the game running as good as possible

Players of Assassin’s Creed or Far Cry didn’t get rich, the shareholders did

Meanwhile, Axie Infinity players 𝘢𝘳𝘦 the shareholders
Are you willing to bet against a growing community of individuals across the globe playing video games with an economic incentive to contribute?

The entire gaming industry is changing as we know it, so position yourself accordingly.

Anyways, I hope you all enjoy this thread! 🥐

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ETH is well on its way to becoming one of the most productive assets in the world.

Don’t believe me? Just have a look at this thread… 🥐
The Ethereum blockchain began in 2015, offering 72M $ETH to over 10,000 #Bitcoin addresses who participated in the ICO.

Fast forward to today, there is now 118M $ETH from block rewards across 135,734,686 recorded wallet addresses.
Of the initial ICO participants:

-81% of these wallets have only 1% of their initial balances or less

-9.5% have an unchanged balance (lost?)

-only 64 have actually increased their ETH holdings

h/t .@ASvanevik

So… where are all of the tokens now?
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This would be the largest Ethereum wallet, with over 10,000,000 monthly users on their platform to drop a token

I believe it will be huge… Let’s discuss! 🦊
Consensys, the parent company behind the popular Ethereum wallet Metamask, reported growth over 1,800% for all of 2021

Metamask had just 545,080 users last year, but they now have an astounding 10,354,279+ monthly active users.

So… why would they need or want a token?
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Ads also required questionable data surveilling to work.
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There are zero limits with these digital tokens, & I’ll show you exactly what I mean…

(I was too excited to not share this a tad bit early) 🥐
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As a content creator, I was left with quite the predicament here:

I wanted a way to monetize some work, without sacrificing my core values
I didn’t want to sacrifice any income, interoperability, decentralization, or the fundamental values of 𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 to centralized platforms

I needed to do it in a “web 3.0” native way.

So, what did I do?
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𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘴…
What are stablecoins?

These are digital assets represented as tokens on a blockchain, usually Ethereum, that are made to minimize volatility.

They are often pegged to other fiat currencies, and backed by reserve assets.

However there are now many more iterations of this…
You may be familiar with the term thanks to Gary Gensler, who recently compared them to “poker chips” at the casino

but what he failed to acknowledge were the undeniable, strong use cases for these digital tokens on the blockchain

(this isn’t the first time he’s been confused)
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It moves so extraordinarily fast… it’s almost scary.

Here is some food for thought below… 💭🥐
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We were hit with headline after headline, each one bashing the entire industry.

Combine this with the #Bitcoin mining ban in China, and you’d think this would line up to be the perfect “black swan,” right?

but it wasn’t.
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Because cryptocurrency was silently transitioning from being a “fringe asset class”, straight to being a part of mainstream finance

Big companies, celebrities, and even entire countries are now taking part in this revolution

The cat is out of the bag.
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Are you ready for these next few months in crypto?

There have been so many things leading up to exactly this point in time that it’s very hard for me to not be extremely bullish

Let’s take a deeper look… 🥐
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Lightning network adoption is going parabolic with El Salvador’s recent initiatives

This trend will only continue as more nation states join in and the game theory ensues
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#Bitcoin doesn’t have upgrades a lot, so when it does, you’ll probably want to pay attention

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