Could JUMP.trade Reach the Levels of Axie Infinity?
As the first-ever wave of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) went up amidst one of the waves of the global pandemic, it has given the world more options to survive with these blockchain-based digital tokens. Some prominent avenues through which people made riches include artworks (digital/physical/pixelated), music, video clips, memes, in-game assets, and even physical assets. Subsequently, blockchain-based games became popular during this period, although they existed a lot earlier like NFTs. These games, apart from functioning on blockchains, gave gamers an opportunity to earn a passive income due to the non-fungible nature of the in-game assets, and the guaranteed scarcity enabled for a healthy in-game economy.
The in-game economy has been a vital policy of the metaverse concept, and most gamers wanted an ecosystem that could yield them something outside in-game assets and monetize their playing time. With these NFT-based games, play-to-earn (P2E) has become an in-built principle, and gamers now earn enough to lead decent livelihoods. This blog compares two of such blockchain-based NFT games — Axie Infinity, a popular game in the NFT P2E gaming world, and JUMP.trade, an upcoming NFT game based on cricket that holds great promise.
Axie Infinity — A Small Summary
Axie Infinity is a play-to-earn blockchain game developed by Sky Mavis, a Vietnamese game studio hosted on the Ethereum blockchain. The game is battle-based, where a player can fight battles with the environment and other players using a team of three Axies, which are small monsters. A salient point to be noted here is that the in-game economy flourishes so much currently such that the native token of the game $AXS has been considered by NFT pundits as a wise long-term investment option to HODL (crypto jargon for hold).
This extensive flourishing is due to people in some of the biggest developing countries such as Indonesia, Brazil, and the Philippines spending their whole time playing the game and even gaining enough to run their lives amidst the uncertain situation that the world is undergoing. There has also been a popular unofficial ecosystem outside of gameplay that has been functioning impressively. Known as scholarships, someone who could not play Axie Infinity for some reason can rent out their Axies to newcomers called scholars and divide the earnings in a predecided proportion. Axie Infinity’s marketplace is one of the top NFT marketplace platforms, according to DappRadar rankings time and time again.
JUMP.trade — What Does It HODL for Crypto Gamers?
JUMP.trade is an upcoming play-to-earn game, which is the world’s first NFT cricket game, developed by GuardianLink, a Singaporean NFT application development firm. As of now, the game has its official website, social media handles, and a drop event scheduled for mid-April 2022. The drop, called Super Loot, has been a point of focus among cricket fans, crypto gamers, and NFT enthusiasts alike as the masterminds behind the game had earlier announced that the drop would be the first step towards realizing an entire metaverse for cricket.
The Super Loot NFT drop holds the key to the nature of the gameplay and how collectors could benefit from these tokens. If rumors are to be believed, then the upcoming drop could be instrumental for gamers, who would be playing matches with other players. The NFT cricket game already has the attention of the cricket, gaming, and NFT enthusiasts, with a lot of them signing up on the waitlist for the Super Loot NFT drop.
How Could JUMP.trade Get As Prominent as Axie Infinity?
Although the genre of Axie Infinity and JUMP.trade differ vastly, it is imperative that the upcoming game could possibly bring about a storm in the NFT gaming industry. The main feature expected in the metaverse NFT cricket game is an impressive marketplace that could shape the flow of the game’s ecosystem and economy. Also, the gameplay of the upcoming NFT cricket game might yield an additional player base, given that it would be accessible across platforms (Personal computers and smartphones), and JUMP.trade could continue the legacy of being an easily accessible cricket video game after Cricket 07 from the popular game studio Electronic Arts (EA).
Adding blockchain technology to the legacy, people could be up for a big treat when the drop releases as it aims toward the cricket frenzy fanatics. Conducting it amidst a time when the world’s cricketing calendar is the busiest with a multitude of tournaments around the world adds to the hype that could make this drop shatter long-standing records, and no one would miss being a part of such history. Thus, the sheer craze and the promising roadmap given by the developer for the game make one believe that JUMP.trade NFT cricket game could soon touch the level of prominence Axie Infinity has achieved in the crypto sphere.
