{"id":50211,"date":"2021-09-27T13:15:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T10:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=50211"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:49:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:49:02","slug":"axie-infinity-founder-says-gamefi-is-the-key-to-crypto-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/axie-infinity-founder-says-gamefi-is-the-key-to-crypto-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"Axie Infinity founder says GameFi is the key to crypto adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrencies have yet to achieve broad adoption, but the GameFi (<span data-descr=\"gaming finance\" class=\"old_tooltip\">Game Finance<\/span>) segment could be its catalyst. At the <a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/81952\/axie-infinity-co-founder-gaming-is-the-key-to-crypto-adoption\">Mainnet<\/a> conference, Jeff Zirlin, co-founder of Sky Mavis, the developer of the popular blockchain game Axie Infinity, said.<\/p>\n<p>Within the interview, the executive outlined his vision for the project&#8217;s further development, whose daily audience surpassed <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/axie-infinitys-daily-active-audience-surpasses-1-million\">1 million users<\/a>, and sales volume stood at <a href=\"https:\/\/dappradar.com\/ethereum\/games\/axie-infinity\">$2.1 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u00abIn the next six months we will upgrade the combat system. We are preparing a <span data-descr=\"decentralized exchange\" class=\"old_tooltip\">DEX<\/span>. After that we aim to move Axie into a community-owned and governed game\u00bb<\/em>, \u2014 Zirlin said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Decrypting Mainnet: Jeff Zirlin of Sky Mavis\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1Ur7r4eE24o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>According to him, thanks to a <span data-descr=\"decentralized autonomous organization\" class=\"old_tooltip\">DAO<\/span>, players will be able to determine the developers and features to be implemented. The project&#8217;s roadmap envisions delegating authority to AXS governance token holders.<\/p>\n<p>The co-founder of Sky Mavis also announced Axieland, a mobile version of the popular strategy game <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clash_of_Clans\"> Clash of Clans<\/a> for mobile devices. In it, players will also gather resources, build cities and fight for territories.<\/p>\n<p>Zirlin expects increased competition in the space with the emergence of new indie-studio developers. In his words, they will have an edge in speed of execution.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in September, the Huobi Group&#8217;s investment arm <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/huobi-ventures-launches-10-million-fund-for-gamefi-investments\">announced<\/a> the launch of a new fund with a budget of $10 million for investments in promising Game Finance projects.<\/p>\n<p>According to DappRadar, the share of <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-decentralised-finance-defi\">DeFi<\/a>-protocols in the traffic of tracked <span data-descr=\"decentralized applications\" class=\"old_tooltip\">dapps<\/span> from May to August <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/report-dapp-users-shift-from-defi-to-nft-and-gamefi\">decreased<\/a> from 45% to 18%, conceding ground to projects in the GameFi and <span data-descr=\"non-fungible tokens\" class=\"old_tooltip\">NFT<\/span> segments (45% and 41% respectively).<\/p>\n<p> Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VK<\/a>! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrencies have yet to achieve broad adoption, but the GameFi segment (gaming finance) could be its catalyst. Jeff Zirlin, co-founder of Sky Mavis, the developer of the popular blockchain game Axie Infinity, said this at the Mainnet conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1581,1155],"class_list":["post-50211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-axie-infinity","tag-games-and-gamefi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50213,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50211\/revisions\/50213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}