In the past two years, as the concept of the "metaverse" has grown in popularity and popularity, many players who did not care about these things have inevitably been exposed to NFT games, and Axie Infinity is one of their most successful works.
Launched in 2018, the game, riding on the east wind of blockchain games and the concept of "meta-universe", has soared from 20,000 to 2.8 million users in just three years. About 105,000 UAW connect to the game every day, which is enough to illustrate the popularity of Axie Infinity.
Security, decentralization, transparency, anti-inflation... When it comes to the advantages of NFTs and cryptocurrencies, insiders can always give you a variety of advantages, and I hope you can join in. But it is such a representative NFT game that has recently spread a big deal. A few days ago, the development company of "Axie Infinity" announced a blockbuster news:
"Earlier today, we discovered a security flaw in the Ronin Network. On March 23, Sky Mavis' Ronin and Axie DAO authentication nodes were compromised, resulting in 173,600 Ethereum and 25.5 million USDCs being lost from the Ronin Bridge in two transactions. ”
There are a lot of jargon involved, but it can be summed up in one sentence: "Axie Infinity was hacked and $625 million worth of cryptocurrency was lost." ”
In fact, the hacker's attack was completed as early as March 23, but the game's development company did not find the problem until the last two days, after some users reported that some functions could not be implemented.
Some time ago, seven hackers who attacked well-known companies such as Samsung, Microsoft, and Ubisoft were arrested not long ago. By stealing cryptocurrencies, hackers seem to have found a less risky and more profitable option.
For a long time, well-known game companies and players in the industry have different views on the concept of "meta-universe" and NFTs, but at least Ubisoft is open to it. As early as last December, Ubisoft announced the launch of its own game blockchain platform "Ubisoft Quartz". ”
Ghost Recon: Breakpoint became Ubisoft's first AAA game to include an NFT.
Of course, there are opponents; In addition to many players will boycott NFT games, G Fat, the president of V Society, is not cold to this and does not want NFT elements to appear on the Steam platform. In an interview last month, G Fat once said something like this: "Most people who talk about metaverses don't know what they're talking about, and they obviously never play MMO." ”
In the case of WOW and Final Fantasy XIV, G Fat believes that the concept of a "metaverse" is not a new invention at all. In his opinion, some things will be discussed now, and some are too early.
Previous NFT games like Axie Infinity are known for security, because they are built on the public chain, the distributed structure of the blockchain can effectively resist hacker intrusion, and the more active the public chain, the less likely it is to be tampered with by hackers, so many people think that the security of virtual assets is very high.
But after this incident, the situation was not the same. People may start to re-evaluate the properties of NFT games.