GuShiio.com Abandoning the high-quality boutique route, will the “Open Ronin” strategy allow the ecosystem to bloom in bloom?
Author: Zen, PANews
The dull chain travel track finally ushered in some noise. Recently, Ethereum gaming network Ronin has attracted attention-the ecosystem with the largest Web3 gaming community has announced the “Open Ronin” plan, opening the door to all developers, allowing them to build new games and decentralize in the ecosystem. application or other project. “Ronin’s golden age has begun.” Ronin has high hopes for this major change.
Against the backdrop of a long-term downturn in the Web3 game track, Ronin has performed well in recent years. From Pixels, the farm game that became a hit at the beginning of last year, to Apeiron, the first God simulation game on Web3, to Pirate Nation, the popular full-chain game disclosed in the “Open Ronin” plan announcement, Ronin has become a new home for many chain tour teams with its “growth effect”.
Full opening up, Open Ronin is a new engine for accelerating growth?
In the past, Ronin has always chosen to follow the “high-quality route”, only screening out project developers who they believe are of high quality and high quality, and carefully planning and empowering them with ecology and resources.
Ronin co-founder Jeff “Jihoz” Zirlin once said that there are “too many” games in the crypto field and insufficient demand from players. He also said: “This strategy emphasizes quality rather than quantity, allowing us to work closely with fewer teams and ensure their long-term success in the growing field of Web3 games.” According to Dune, four games, Pixel, The Machines Arena, Axie Infinity and Apeiron, currently support the entire ecosystem, accounting for at least 90% of the player share.
The just-released “Open Ronin” plan clearly shows that Ronin has given up his original strategy. “Now that the ecosystem is more mature and market demand is growing, it makes sense to move to a more self-service model, which will allow more developers and creators to build, experiment and expand on Ronin while maintaining its original appeal. Quality and success.”Sky Mavis CEO and co-founder Trung Nguyen said in a statement.
Sky Mavis, the developer of the popular game Axie Infinity, is also the designer of the Ronin blockchain. Sky Mavis has released the Ronin Developer Console as a toolkit to help those building on the web. The toolkit will help developers create simple NFT lists, sponsored transactions (allowing players to avoid paying gas fees) and in-game marketplaces, and will provide smart contract templates. “With Open Ronin, we are accelerating growth-unlocking more games, DeFi and dApps than ever before,” Nguyen said.
Zirlin claims that through licensing exemptions, the number of games deployed on the Ronin Games Network will accelerate growth. He hopes to prevent Ronin from missing the next hit, replicate the success of Axie Infinity and Pixels in the past, and promote the further development of the ecosystem.
According to Token Terminal data, as of February 17, Ronin’s daily active users were 570,000, ranking sixth among all blockchains. Since the beginning of this year, its daily activity has fluctuated roughly between 500,000 and 700,000. In addition, in the past year, Ronin’s daily and weekly users have continued to decline after reaching a peak of 1.7 million and 2.6 million in August 2024, and have returned to the level at the beginning of last year. However, judging from indicators, Ronin is still one of the ten most used blockchains in the world.
Top supporter “1kx bet heavily on Ronin
Earlier this month, well-known investment institution 1kx network announced that in the past year and a half, it has become one of the largest holders of Ronin’s RON tokens through a series of open market liquidity purchases. 1kx said that Ronin is leading Play-to-Earn’s transformation of the game industry and is expected to become the core platform in the next generation of games, competing with top game platforms such as Steam and Epic.
Unlike projects that often claim to launch tens of millions of ecological funds, as of now, the Ronin Ecological Fund has invested less than US$10 million in the entire ecological construction, mainly for investing in games rather than providing subsidies.
1kx believes that Ronin’s core strengths are its distribution capabilities and the most sticky early community. Even during the most difficult times, Axie’s core player community remained active, which became the cornerstone of the Ronin ecosystem. It is based on this distribution advantage that Ronin attracted Pixels to migrate from Polygon and quickly rose, reaching the milestone of exceeding one million daily live in May 2024. Pixels’s success in “moving trees to life” has formed a demonstration effect. Chain tours such as Fableborne and The Forgotten Runiverse began to leave their original ecology and move into Ronin.
In addition, Ronin is also the only chain built by the application product team. It has an in-depth understanding of the actual operation of the game economy and can provide the team with precise guidance on the implementation of the real-time token economy.
1kx also pointed out that users of the Ronin ecosystem are the most valuable online trading users in the entire crypto industry, and their NFT market transaction volume ranked fourth in the past year, second only to ETH, Solana and Base; ecosystem users have invested more than US$10 million in game casting and crowdfunding in the past year; the 30-day new address Retention rate is three times higher than Base and 17.5 times higher than Solana. 1kx believes that the above data not only shows the quality of Ronin users, but also reflects the core culture of the Ronin ecosystem:
- Gao chengxin: A deep relationship of trust has been established between users and developers;
- long-term doctrine: After experiencing the bull-bear cycle, it still maintains sustainable development;
- Zhenghe Thinking: All parties in the ecology grow together, rather than zero-sum competition;
- Community first: Strong community cohesion is the key to Ronin’s ability to survive the market cycle
“This spirit not only helps the community survive the bear market, but also re-emerge in 2025 and become one of the most valuable communities in the field of crypto consumption.”
