CyberKongz to Mint Genkai NFTs on Ronin, Migrate Game to ‘Axie’ Chain

CyberKongz has grown into a major NFT franchise, with $210 million in complete quantity traded throughout simply the most important of its 4 collections. Now, the creators plan emigrate the CyberKongz NFT minting recreation, known as Play and Kollect, from one Ethereum sidechain to a different—from Polygon to Ronin, the community created by Axie Infinity developer Sky Mavis.

The Kongz workforce can be launching Genkai, a brand new anime-inspired NFT assortment, throughout each Ronin and the Ethereum mainnet this week—with plans for a second recreation on the horizon. A Sky Mavis consultant confirmed to Decrypt that there isn’t a “concrete timeline but” for the deliberate migration from Polygon to Ronin.

“Genkai is the primary non-pixel art work I’ve created for CyberKongz, and can symbolize our development as a mission to broaden our IP into the Southeast Asian and Japanese markets,” stated pseudonymous CyberKongz founder and artist Myoo in a press release. “Moreover, CyberKongz will likely be working with Ronin to develop a recreation that includes Genkai.”

As a result of Ronin is at the moment a personal (or permissioned) blockchain, the Genkai mint is the primary non-Axie Infinity NFT drop to happen through the blockchain. The transfer comes simply months after Sky Mavis introduced that it’s working with 4 recreation studios, together with the makers of The Machines Enviornment, to construct out Ronin’s gaming ecosystem. 

“CyberKongz is, we consider, one of many best IPs in Web3,” Sky Mavis Director of Enterprise Improvement Kathleen Osgood informed Decrypt in an interview. She added that Sky Mavis works intently with each gaming accomplice it brings onto the Ronin community.

However why did the creators of the pixelated apes select Axie’s chain?

There’s at all times been a group connection between Axie followers and CyberKongz holders, a pseudonymous Kongz council member generally known as Henry the Grape informed Decrypt in an interview.

“We had been actually born out of the Axie group,” Henry stated. “So when the chance got here with Ronin to have the ability to proceed constructing our ecosystem on Ronin, it was form of a no brainer.”

The Genkai mint will span 20,000 complete NFTs, with 16,000 to be minted on the Ethereum mainnet and 4,000 on Ronin. In the end, the Ethereum NFT holders may have the choice emigrate their Genkai NFTs to Ronin sooner or later, in the event that they select. The Ethereum public mint will likely be priced at 0.25 ETH (about $460) per Genkai NFT, beginning July 27.

Moreover, as a part of the collaboration with Sky Mavis, the Axie Infinity creator will reward all Mystic Axie NFT holders with a free Genkai NFT.

When requested concerning the Kongz’ future plans, Henry stated that an animated collection and comedian books are additionally part of the imaginative and prescient, however didn’t wish to share an excessive amount of simply but.

“One of many issues we’ve realized in Web3 is once we say an excessive amount of to start with, folks both are inclined to lose curiosity or they begin to choose you by that,” Henry added. “And so much can change.”