Sky Mavis Slashes 21% of Workforce Amid Strategic Shift
Sky Mavis, the web3 gaming company behind Axie Infinity, has announced a 21% reduction in its workforce, a move co-founder and CEO Trung Nguyen described as “tough but necessary.”
Axie Infinity & the play to earn revolution
We’re revisiting the best Crypto Conversation podcast episodes of 2021. In this episode, we talk to Jeff Zirlin, co-founder Axie Infinity, a Pokémon-inspired blockchain-based digital pet universe where players can earn tokens through gaming. Players can battle, collect, breed, and build a kingdom for their pets. Like CryptoKitties, Axies are non-fungible tokens (NFTs) represented as cryptographically unique characters that can’t be replicated. And like Pokémon, they are born to battle. While Axie can be just a game, it has built a strong social network, passionate community, and emerging jobs platform due to the play to earn opportunities it is generating.
