It’s an absolutely brutal day today across crypto.

We, as an industry, have a long way to go and a lot to build.

It’s days like today that I reflect on the Origin story…

My journey in crypto, like many of yours, started during a hype cycle: December 2017. It was the peak of the ICO era and everything was mooning.
I saw a Wired article and got sucked into breeding digital cats called CryptoKitties. It was a way to potentially earn some crypto and the collecting and breeding brought out the collector and gamer in me.

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There’s been some interesting discussion and feedback around raising the Marketplace fee to 5.25%. This is an important decision that will affect everyone in the ecosystem.

Why is this happening and what are the pros and cons?

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First, it’s important to state that our creators are a key pillar of our community. They create so much value by making educational and cultural content that makes the game more fun and rewarding for the entire community.

1/ 🛠️ Axie February Dev Update🛠️

From more Axie Infinity: Origin leeks, to clarifying Land gameplay questions, this dev update explains why there’s an enthusiastic energy within the Axie ecosystem

-New Origin info🌋
-Community Land questions answered🌾
-RON discussion
👇 2/ Axie Infinity: Origin (End of March target release)

The response to our recently released Origin sneak preview has been tremendous, and everyone seems to be in love with the green, handsomely mustached plant Axie…so, we’d like to take a moment to introduce you to Olek

1/ ✨ Collecting Axies

Rare Axies are some of the most collectible NFTs but are often overshadowed by our invention of Play-To-Earn.

A secret hidden in plain sight.

🧵 2/ There are a variety of types of collectible Axies within our ecosystem. Like anything, the intricacies can be bit hard to grasp and opaque.

These Axies are aesthetically distinct, have parts or genetics with capped supplies and get rarer over time as our player-base grows.

1/🧵✨ SLP & Play-To-Earn

SLP has been live for 614 days now. This means Play to earn is almost 2 years old!

It's been an amazing journey and there's been a lot to learn. 2/ SLP is a utility token/potion in the Axie ecosystem. It's used to breed Axies.

Ideally, the daily amount of SLP created through play and burned through breeding would be close to balanced.

⚖️Harmony between the supply and demand side of the economy.

1/ So my friend who's into political lobbying just schooled me and told me that for the amount of Money crypto has, we really suck at it.

Apparently, buying political power can be done systematically through a few steps 👇 2/

First, We need to create many different entities (PACs) and raise money for them.

Then we max out contributions to each senator and congressman.

There are 100 Senators and 435 Congressman.

Max contribution is 5,000 USD per candidate per election. Not too expensive.