$63,922.00
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1.54%$560.01
0.26%$142.96
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-0.07%$3,054.32
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2.79%$0.153597
1.05%$6.28
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6.80%$0.00002305
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2.04%$63,897.00
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0.68%$476.59
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2.46%$14.78
11.94%$0.684815
2.03%$82.85
2.53%$5.77
0.43%$7.56
0.18%$5.75
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2.69%$26.33
1.12%$1.15
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0.58%$2.46
0.70%$6.24
2.05%$0.124655
1.09%$0.113458
1.27%$54.62
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2.29%$3,084.25
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1.02%$2.04
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4.30%$3,023.43
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1.04%$0.271148
4.56%$28.30
0.42%$2.28
1.64%$2.28
9.35%$1.00
0.06%$3,167.81
-1.09%$0.00000514
-0.52%$118.00
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1.65%$11.60
2.91%$0.708634
0.06%$29.14
11.96%$2.05
4.30%$5.31
4.03%$1.98
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0.44%$3,372.91
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5.62%$0.04519552
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4.70%$105.90
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1.60%$0.178242
1.23%$1.059
1.30%$0.989064
4.69%$9.75
2.76%$0.00014194
0.10%$0.890102
0.74%$0.03435858
8.06%$66.41
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-0.95%$0.00000126
0.05%$0.922963
7.14%$3,045.06
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1.85%$0.02174568
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0.13%$0.454234
2.47%$7.14
0.74%$0.00005133
0.96%$3.20
0.93%$0.00001507
1.72%$0.111873
3.85%$1.014
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3.46%$5.10
4.04%$2.97
1.39%$45.86
5.96%$0.242908
5.60%$0.633566
3.53%$6.94
2.45%$3.93
0.92%$16.05
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1.99%$345.49
0.07%$0.01848123
0.03%$0.814488
1.98%$168.71
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5.99%$0.442982
0.51%$1.25
0.15%$1.21
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3.11%$0.683253
1.59%$0.228515
0.78%$19.55
5.40%$2.28
-1.65%$0.974604
-0.56%$2.81
-0.47%$0.189265
0.51%$1.66
0.26%$1.21
0.72%$3,047.14
-1.15%$0.100022
1.79%$0.618069
-2.64%$4.02
7.25%$168.07
-1.03%$3.97
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1.24%$0.399871
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1.38%$95.47
1.55%$0.926595
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3.75%$0.00000029
7.17%$0.00010159
0.36%$2,393.04
0.40%$5.95
0.49%$3,250.93
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1.27%$0.92538
6.26%$0.053061
0.06%$0.01001875
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0.49%$0.03924424
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0.05%$0.055818
2.65%$5.30
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0.42%$0.401961
4.74%$0.050193
9.83%$64.17
16.01%$0.721835
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3.28%$0.449156
1.40%$0.24065
1.22%$1.86
1.02%$22.80
6.91%$1.11
0.40%$0.02506177
0.75%$0.535449
3.03%$0.00000046
2.55%$0.00505397
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6.16%$2,389.78
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1.39%$0.817981
1.63%$0.02631712
0.11%$3.70
3.50%$0.03429984
9.70%$4.05
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1.07%$3.92
0.45%$13.25
1.17%$0.6106
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2.55%$0.00736262
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0.96%$1,283.16
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9.09%$0.558724
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1.57%$5.01
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19.25%$0.515105
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2.95%$1.81
6.74%$0.826879
0.22%$0.381296
3.05%$55.25
0.18%$4.51
12.14%$0.76358
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0.56%$0.03100826
0.22%$0.835951
14.34%$63.46
1.74%$5.42
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1.01%$0.03602055
6.37%$0.378508
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7.84%$0.437081
5.72%$21.05
1.48%$22.48
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1.75%$3.48
0.69%$61.41
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0.00%$0.256992
0.21%$30.84
1.99%$0.917112
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0.93%$28.52
14.95%$1.26
2.11%$0.03261396
1.12%$31.39
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7.17%$0.762482
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1.94%$2.40
2.62%$0.00364555
4.40%$26.10
6.13%$28.50
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0.03%$37.92
1.49%$40.68
1.77%$3.66
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1.91%$63.18
1.70%$0.258276
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0.89%$1.78
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1.60%$14.31
1.48%$0.02070278
0.34%$1.52
53.99%
Ethereum-based NFT game Axie Infinity has crossed $1 billion in sales, data from CryptoSlam! shows.
As of this writing, $1,055,735 worth of tokens from the Pokémon-inspired NFT game have traded hands through 2.4 million transactions. There are 324,850 buyers, 936,065 owners, and more than a million daily active users.
The milestone is the latest piece of evidence to show that the blockchain game, launched in 2018, has truly gone viral this summer. Almost a fifth of Axie Infinity's sales took place in the past week and three quarters concluded in the past month.
Axie Infinity is the first NFT game to surpass $1 billion in sales. The next best-selling game is NBA Top Shot—the basketball trading card game, which runs on the Flow blockchain, has racked up $675 million in all-time sales—and Ethereum-based CryptoPunks, with $657 million.
Shed the blockchain from Axie Infinity, and the game plays like a simple monster-battler. Axies have various stats that determine their fate in battles with other players, just like Pokémon.
The inclusion of cryptocurrencies makes the game a lot more lucrative than Pokémon, incentivizing players to spend and, with any luck, earn.
Crypto also makes Axie Infinity incredibly expensive. While a new Pokémon game costs well under $60 for a 100+ hour experience, a single Axie Infinity monster costs a couple of hundred dollars. Even this green shrub costs $60.
However, unlike Pokémon monsters, players are free to sell their Axie Infinity tokens on secondary markets—and, given today's high milestone of $1 billion, they clearly are. Developer Sky Mavis calls the model "play to earn."
In November 2020, the Vietnamese developer launched Axie Infinity Shards (AXS), a governance token that lets players vote on the future of the game. The token has boomed in the past month. On July 20, AXS had a market cap of $900 million; now, it has a market cap of $2.6 billion.
Sky Mavis has also launched a decentralized market for 90,601 plots of virtual land, from which players can develop their bases of operation, gather resources and craft items. Plots frequently sell for well over $10,000—even though most gameplay features for land haven't been implemented yet.
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