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Why did Axie Infinity make a separate ethereum side chain?

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Adapting to the habits of mainstream Internet users and providing better user experience, the application chain development paradigm will become a trend.

原文标题：《 Introducing Ronin: Axie Infinity Axie Infinity's Ethereum Sidechain 》

原文作者： lester

Original compilation: Web3 Explorer

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Different types of applications have different requirements when decentralized applications seek capacity expansion solutions. Current scaling solutions have focused on designing a generic Layer1 high-speed public chain, or a Layer2 Rollup for the Defi application, but a more appropriate solution is to develop a dedicated blockchain for the specific needs of the application, which we call the application chain. Adapting to the habits of mainstream Internet users and providing better user experience, the application chain development paradigm will become a trend. We believe the app chain will explode in the future.

Axie Infinity developed its own Ethereum side chain Ronin for its blockchain games based on this concept. By shifting the primary operations from Ethereum to the app chain, user usage costs have been reduced by several orders of magnitude; The response speed is faster; And the Ronin wallet has an integrated payment gateway, which significantly lowers the entry threshold. Through the deployment of the app chain, Axie Infinity has seen explosive growth over the past two months, with 252,000 daily active users (DAU) up from 38,000 at the end of April. We see Axie Infinity as a successful example of the app chain. Therefore, translate this article for readers.

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Since the early days of Axie Infinity, we have been obsessed with bringing fun gameplay and sound economic design to the blockchain gaming world. Our community has grown tremendously, and we've started some really novel experiments around real ownership and the idea of making money from games. Along with this growth, we observed major pain points in our community when playing Axie.

One issue that has been a constant thorn in our side is congestion on the Ethereum network. Internet congestion is a thorny beast -- Gas rates have been low for months, then risen again, bringing our economy to a standstill.

Scale Axie with Ronin

In order for Axie Infinity to reach our second, third and fourth level relationships (our friends, friends of family, family), Axie needed a long-term solution where players could play Axie games economically, quickly, cheaply, and seamlessly. We need it to be fun and easy.

That's why today we're announcing our work on Ronin -- an Ethereum side chain developed specifically for Axie Infinity. Ronin was a master less warrior in feudal Japan, Ronin represents our desire to take the fate of our products into our own hands.

Benefits for Axie-players & NBSP;

Ronin will allow us to take AXIE's availability to a new level, enabling us to welcome the next generation of trainers, thinkers and explorers to Lunacia.

Ronin will bring:

● Fast and seamless transactions, almost instant confirmation.

● Significantly reduce Gas bills. In addition, compared to paying Ethereum miners, Gas fees can be retained by the community and used for things like tournaments and bounties.

● The ability to return Axie assets to the Ethereum mainnet (eventually).

● Simplifies the boot process for new users with a customized wallet solution.

● A block browser for transparency and data accessibility.

Why did we build this

We believe that an all-inclusive expansion plan is not desirable. Each product and each community has different needs when it comes to expansion solutions. Also, while current scaling solutions are often designed for Defi use cases or simple asset exchanges, the Axie community has more complex (and interesting!) requirements. .

We believe it is worth the extra effort to build solutions to our community's most difficult problems. A good example of this is the internal Axie market. Although Axies is traded on various other NFT exchanges, 97% of the volume is through our market. While we believe strongly in the open and collaborative ideals of Web3.0, we also believe that no one else will put as much attention, thought and intuition into the products that serve our community as we do.

Security and consensus

To help keep Ronin safe, we have recruited all-star partners from traditional gaming, cryptocurrency, and NFT tokens to act as validators for our network.

We will announce Ronin Verifier closer to launch.

The future of the Ronin

The following information comes directly from Trung, CEO of Sky Mavis:

"We are very excited about the possibilities that Ronin brings. While it is still in its early stages, Ronin will evolve over the next few years to serve the spirit and ethos of blockchain gaming. On the technology side, we are also working on various solutions to further strengthen and scale up Ronin. For example, ZKSyncs looks very promising, but it may take time until it can be used in production environments -- especially for NFT and games."

As Vitalik himself just mentioned today, the current implementation of Layer 2. Mainly limited to payments and DEX". We are interested in contributing to the sustainable expansion of NFTs on Ethereum -- an area that has not received enough attention. Loom Network's shift away from NFTS also accelerated our plans to control our long-term expansion strategy.

For those interested in learning more about The exciting state of The Ethereum expansion, we recommend this excellent overview by Anthony Sassano: Ready Layer Two - The Daily GWEI #11.

This is great for your Axies & What does Land mean?

Our plan for the current Axie Infinity assets (Axies, Land, Land items) is to move them to Ronin this year. The Sky Mavis team will handle the migration for the user, but users can choose to do it themselves if they wish. We will redeploy all important Axie-related smart contracts on Ronin. It will also be an opportunity to upgrade our existing contracts and make the Axie user experience more intuitive.

By depositing Axies in a smart contract on Ethereum. When Axies is in the contract, they will be available on Ronin.