In the present incarnation of the web, all these separate users tables enforce a specific kind of interoperability architecture even on apps that want to be fairly open with their own user data. Specifically, everyone's proprietary user data sits behind an API that any third-party app has to call if it wants access.
Axie needs to pay its development team. It also has to pay the players. It’s a business, it has expenses. To pay for all of this, Axie does what many tech companies do: they issue shares. Right now there are about 60 millions AXS tokens in existence. In about five years there will be 270 million tokens. The 210 million new tokens will be issued to... See more
While your friends may occasionally react to a Huff Post article about Big Tech encroaching on personal privacy with an angry emoji, most users are compelled by convenience, not privacy.