It's been a busy few months for cryptocurrency game Pixels, which has seen increased interest following its migration from… ribbed to Ronin blockchain in october.
But while the game has been in development since 2021, founder Luke Barwikowski said next week The long-awaited PIXEL token launch It makes it feel like “day one” for the team as they fully implement the crypto vision for the social farming game.
“The fact that we launched on Binance…the fact that all of these things happened and that we got to the full expression of launching a token is pretty amazing,” he said. DecryptionGG. “Now the fun begins, right? I just consider this the first day of everything we're working on. We have stuff coming out, but now there's a long road ahead of us as well.”
As announced last week, the PIXEL token will be listed on cryptocurrency exchange Binance on February 19 after a 10-day Launchpool campaign, where Binance customers can receive a share of the PIXEL token rewards for staking certain other cryptocurrencies.
Meanwhile, pixel is Distribution of PIXEL airdrop reward allocations To tens of thousands of unique wallets, including users qualified through previous in-game “Play & Drop” campaigns, as well as pixels She denied Landowners.
DecryptionGG caught up with Barwikowski on Monday to discuss everything about the token launch and upcoming plans for the ever-evolving game.
In the video above, the Pixels founder details the current vibe surrounding the project, as well as the long road leading up to this moment, including a shift away from focusing on business-focused online events. Ultimately, that was the rise of NFT gaming in 2021 Axi Infinity This pushed him in this direction, and showed him the value of cryptocurrencies in powering applications and experiments.
“[Axie] It was one of the initial applications that finally clicked and made sense, where it was like: Oh wow, cryptocurrency actually has some interesting use cases when you start integrating it into things that actually have value, or systems or economies that have real value behind them .
“I grew up playing Runescape. The connection was very clear to me there, between Web3 currencies and in-game currencies,” Barfikowski added. “Those things combined made me really interested in moving into Web3 games. We got the whole company pivoting in that direction, and things got a lot better.”
So, while Pixels have seen brighter lights over the past few months, it's been a long and winding journey to get to this point. But the token launch was always going to be a major turning point for Pixels, an event the game would share with its community.
“I've been a big believer in tokens and Web3 from the beginning,” Barfikowski said. “For me, that was the point of all of this, to get exactly here.”
Edited by Ryan Ozawa.
