In 2021, Axie Infinity took the world by storm as the world’s most popular Play-to-Earn game with 2.7 million concurrent users at its peak.   It also shocked the world a 2nd time in March 2022, albeit for a negative reason as its Ronin bridge suffered the largest bridge exploit of all time with $600M lost, Though users were made whole, confidence levels are inadvertently impacted   Despite everything and the current lull period for crypto-gaming, Sky Mavis has been diligently building behind the scenes and recently launched a few critical updates that could kickstart the next wave of crypto-games.    Today on Blockcrunch, Aleksander, Co-Founder of Sky Mavis shares with us Making users whole after the $600M exploit Decentralization of Ronin  Future of Ronin & crypto gaming   Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.     Timestamps: (00:00:00) – Introduction to Ronin (00:03:32) – Recent Games Developer Conference (00:05:18) – $600 million Ronin bridge exploit (00:10:48) – Making users whole (00:13:41) – Partnership with 5 new game studios (00:17:39) – Onboarding millions of users into GameFi (00:21:29) – Ronin’s strategy for the 1st cohort (00:31:08) – Structure of Ronin & game studio partnership (00:35:41) – Allocating resources across Axie Infinity, Ronin & partners (00:38:31) – Ronin vs other gaming chains (00:44:23) – The future of crypto gaming     Sponsor message: Filecoin is enabling open services for data, built on top of IPFS.   Today, Filecoin focuses primarily on storage as an open service, but looks to build the infrastructure to store, distribute and transform data.   Join the Space Warp program (Live until March 2023) to be among the first to build on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) https://spacewarp.fvm.dev/     More Resources: Guest Aleksander’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Psycheout86 Sky Mavis' Twitter: https://twitter.com/SkyMavisHQ Axie Infinity's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AxieInfinity Ronin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ronin_Network     Blockcrunch Blockcrunch VIP: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/ Blockcrunch Twitter: https://twitter.com/theBlockcrunch Jason Choi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi     Disclaimer: The Blockcrunch Podcast (“Blockcrunch”) is an educational resource intended for informational purposes only. Blockcrunch produces a weekly podcast and newsletter that routinely covers projects in Web 3 and may discuss assets that the host or its guests have financial exposure to. Views held by Blockcrunch’s guests are their own. None of Blockcrunch, its registered entity or any of its affiliated personnel are licensed to provide any type of financial advice, and nothing on Blockcrunch’s podcast, newsletter, website and social media should be construed as financial advice. Blockcrunch also receives compensation from its sponsor; sponsorship messages do not constitute financial advice or endorsement.   Full disclaimer: https://blockcrunch.substack.com/about