The play-to-earn version of Axie Infinity is officially closed

In a latest announcement from Sky Mavis – The owner company of the game NFT Axie Infinity famous – has said that the company will focus more human resources on developing a free to play game segment called Axie: Origin in the future.

Also part of Sky Mavis’s plan, the Axie Infinity Classic (Axie Infinity V2) after season 21 of this game officially ends, ie on June 24, this version will officially be closed. More specifically Axie Infinity V2 will officially close to make way for the development of the Origin version.

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The purpose of this action is also Sky Mavis relatively clear sharing, that is, to continue to unleash the full potential of Axie Infinity Origin through giving gamers a completely free game experience.

Version Axie Infinity Classic officially closed at a time when the number of players of this game is plummeting. Specific figures also show that players of Axie Infinity play to earn version are only at 10,000 people per day, much lower than the number of 1 million people in mid-2021, also the peak period. by Axie Infinity.

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Also in another development, Sky Mavis also said that they will reopen bridge Ronin next June 28. Accordingly, the bridge Ronin is what helps Axie Infinity can link to the Ethereum mainnet, which has been hacked and stolen a total of $622 million in assets (at the time of the attack) including 173,600 ETH and 25.5 million USDC.

This bridge has been down since that hack, and Sky Mavis has used the Binance infrastructure to be able to process transactions within this game temporarily. A representative of Sky Mavis also confirmed that after the Ronin bridge is restored, all user accounts on this platform will also be restored.

In response to Bloomberg, Sky Mavis also added that: “If in March users owned 1 ETH, then after the Ronin bridge is reopened they will be able to withdraw 1 ETH from the network.”