Thread by @m2e_chris

1/ I know what @Stepnofficial's 3rd realm is 👀

Well...I have a theory.

Take a look at this picture.

#STEPN #MoveToEarn

2/ It was published by @Stepnofficial at the end of their Medium blog: Part 3: NFTs — A Non-Fungible Renaissance.

It doesn't look at all relevant to the article, which makes it seem like a hint.

But what does it mean...

3/ Let's start with the Ethereum logo.

There's a lot of debate right now over whether the 3rd realm is going to be built on Ethereum or not.

In the last Townhall, Yawn said that the 3rd realm would be 'more expensive'.

Only BTC, ETH, and MKR are more expensive than BNB.

4/ Since the logo in the image is Ethereum, it's the only one that makes sense.

And if that's not enough evidence, Jerry said this on March 7:

5/ Ok, so the 3rd realm is Ethereum. What about the logo to the right?

That's Chainlink.

In November of 2020, Axie Infinity integrated with Chainlink Oracles to show their NFT prices in both ETH and USD.

Why is that important?

6/ Well, lately the StepN team has been saying that their primary goal right now is to onboard Web 2 users.

Web 2 users are people like everyone in my family and 80% of my friends. They don't know anything about crypto.

7/ Being able to show prices in USD instead of just BNB and ETH is going to make the game a lot more approachable to your average person.

They'll see it as 'real' money.

8/ Another thing Chainlink has is their Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) and Programmable Token Bridge.

I'm not technical, but it sounds like this would enable token transfers between chains.

9/ If, for example, they were going to implement a feature where you could burn 2 shoes on one realm to mint a shoe on another realm, this is probably what they would need to enable that.

Here's a description from their website:

10/ In the last Townhall, Yawn said that GST was going to be much more stable in the 3rd realm.

He also said that it would affect the price of GST in the other realms as well.

So it 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑠 like there will be cross-realm functionality.

11/ And if that's true, the Chainlink integration is going to launch with the 3rd realm.

And if THAT's true, that means this entire image represents the launch of the 3rd realm.

Which leaves us with one more logo...

12/ Axie Infinity is going to be the partner for the 3rd realm.

If you've been listening to the AMAs over the past couple months, you'll have noticed that Yawn references Axie Infinity A LOT.

He talks about the mistakes they made and how StepN has learned from them.

13/ At first, I figured wow, they really did their research on Axie.

But what makes more sense is that the Axie team has been in the room the whole time as a realm partner!

So that's my theory. What do you think?