What is Axie Infinity?

TheLuWizz
Geek Culture
Published in
8 min readAug 27, 2021

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Behind the video game Axie Infinity, which was launched in 2018, is a blockchain browser game that is one of the largest representatives of its kind and has seen a rapid increase in players since May 2021. More than one million users are already active every day, and the Axie Infinity Shards (AXS) — the native tokens of Axie Infinity — are also enjoying strong popularity. Here, the developer studio “Sky Mavis” relies on the popular trend of Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and enables the collection, buying, and selling of so-called Axies — small fantasy animals that fight each other.

However, the game can really impress with the market capitalization of the in-house AXS token, as it amounted to just $7 million in 2020. In 2021, on the other hand, the limit of four billion US dollars was broken.

Who are the founders of Axie Infinity?

Axie Infinity was founded in 2018 by Sky Mavis — a technology-focused game developer with a team-based mostly in Vietnam. Trung Nguyen and Aleksander Larsen launched it. Trung Nguyen is currently the platform’s CEO, holds a bachelor’s degree in computer software engineering, and worked as a software engineer at U.S.-based Anduin Transactions before founding Axie Infinity.

Aleksander Larsen is also a co-founder and also COO of the platform. Larsen has been involved in blockchain…

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TheLuWizz
Geek Culture

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