These tokens can represent one-of-a-kind collectibles, such as digital artwork, music, files, among others.
We have a clear idea of these tokens thanks to the professor @levycore, and currently there are many new projects that are using this type of token. In this opportunity I want to talk about one of them Axie Infinity.
Axie Infinity
This game is still in its early stages, but despite that it has been ranked as the number 1 game on Ethereum for its large number of daily, weekly and monthly active users.
Axie Infinity adopts a new game model called "Play to Win" as it rewards its players for their contributions to the ecosystem through Blockchain economic design, thus allowing people from all over the world and all walks of life to get into Blockchain technology, even if they have never done so before. Because of the possibility of profit, it has attracted thousands of people from developing countries looking for a new income stream during these pandemic times.
Mission and Vision
Axies, everyone is unique
These Tokens can be saved, transferred to other Ethereum addresses or also traded with other players through the Blockchain-based Marketplace.
Axies are divided into 9 classes (Beast, Aquatic, Plant, Bird, Bug, Reptile, Mech, Dawn, Dusk), these in turn are divided to correspond to three roles Axies play in a battle (tank to absorb hits, fighter to inflict large amounts of damage and Agile for fast attacks). Also each Axie has six body parts that can be of each of the classes, when combined they determine the general statistics of the Axie and the skill cards available in the battles. The class, body parts and cards are determined at the moment of the Axie's birth and can never be changed. Each one also has a unique identifier that represents it, which can never be replaced or modified.
How to play
•••• Fighting ••••
PvE - player versus environment, the battle system is the same as PvP with the difference that it basically consists of leveling up while facing increasingly difficult AI opponents.
PvP - player against player, at the beginning each player has a team of three Axies, some energy points and some cards, during each turn you are allowed to use the cards spending energy points, each card has an energy cost although some are free, so you must play wisely because each turn you can only get two additional energy points. Each card has an attack and defense score, plus some additional effects such as healing, enhancement and energy, these generally need certain conditions to be enabled. The order of the turns is determined by the speed stats of the Axies.
By winning battles you can obtain love potions, called SLP, which are needed for the following gameplay.
•••• Breeding ••••
To breed an Axie you need an amount of love potions which increases as the Axie has more and more offspring, it also has a cost of 0.005 ETH.
As already mentioned, each Axie has six body parts in addition to its body shape. Each part has three genes, a dominant (D), a recessive (R1) and a minor recessive (R2), these have the possibility of being transmitted to the offspring, but since there are two Axies that reproduce there are multiple variations possible.
It is important to mention that these offspring can be sold on the Marketplace for a cost in ETH.
•••• Land ••••
You can also encounter monsters called chimeras, which you can face, alone or in groups, in real time battles. These monsters will generate resources, elements and blueprints that can be used to improve lands and axes.
Play to Earn
In addition, the game has recently released its own cryptocurrency called ASX (Axie Infinity Shard), which it plans to use in the future.