Axie Infinity is a blockchain-based trading and battling game developed by Vietnamese studio Sky Mavis and influenced by classics such as Pokemon and Tamagotchi.
Players can collect, raise, battle and trade digital pets, called Axies. Axies are ERC-721 non-fungible token (NFT) and each Axie comes with different features influence the Axie’s capabilities in battle.
There are two tokens used in the Axie Infinity ecosystem: Axie Infinity Shards (AXS) and Smooth Love Potions (SLP). AXS is the governance token and SLP is earned by playing the game and can be used to breed new Axies.
The game primarily operates on the Ethereum blockchain, but the team behind the game built a side-chain solution known as Ronin with the aim to improve to increase speed and eliminate gas fees.