Play to earn economies as base layer protocols for games

The core vision behind play to earn (P2E) is to address these issues by offering real player ownership of in-game assets and their surrounding world, ultimately creating greater stickiness and retention of communities.

We believe getting worldbuilding, culture, and incentive design right is mission-critical for building a thriving P2E economy.

(eg. SLP burned through Axie breeding fees; breeding is incentivized in general to build stronger teams and obtain higher rewards)

-Monetization: eg. value accrual mechanisms, transaction fees

Economic sustainability and growth occur when the value flowing into a system is greater than the value leaving it. In game design, the mechanisms influencing value flows in an economy are sinks and faucets:

Culture building — “Come for the culture, stay for the ownership.”

For economies to be sustainable, the sinks need to take more of the token supply out of the economy than the faucets that bring the token into the system, otherwise, there will be natural downward price pressure as supply increases over time.

(eg. SLP earned by completing quests or battles)

These economies are not only just places where community members play, but also worlds in which they have financial upside, ownership over revenue generating businesses & valuable digital assets, and defined jobs & responsibilities.