Axie Delegation
App.axie
Overview
🎯 Goal: To create a feature that allows users to rent axies from other users securely and efficiently.
🔧 Feature: A system that helps users delegate axies to other players, and encourages the scholarship model.
👤 Role: Product Designer / Product Owner
Year
2024
Disciplines
Research
Product Strategy
Product Design
What user problem were we solving?
Axie owners were sitting on valuable digital assets they wanted to monetize through lending, while newcomers eagerly sought access to the game without the steep entry costs.
With no official solution from Sky Mavis, this created a frustrating disconnect—owners risked their valuable Axies in unofficial arrangements, and potential players remained locked out of an experience they were ready to embrace.
The community desperately needed a secure bridge between these two groups.
Direct Delegation
Managers initiate this process through Direct Delegation on App.axie by selecting an axie, choosing a duration, providing the scholar's address, and confirming the delegation. While the manager retains ownership, the scholar gains the ability to use the delegated axie in supported games.
Recent updates have expanded delegation capabilities, allowing managers to grant scholars specific permissions to perform actions like Axie Ascension and Origins Metamorph on delegated axies, with scholars covering associated fees and gaining visibility into AXP progression.
This delegation system is being integrated across various Axie games like Homeland, Origins, and Classic.
Delegation Center
The Delegation Center serves as a central hub for both managers and scholars to track and manage delegated axies, supporting actions like bulk delegation and revocation.
This provide an overview of current asset statuses that being delegated or delegating to you.
Successful Metric
Within 7 days of launching the delegation feature, we observed a 22% increase in Axie utilization, based on Axies gaining AXP from gameplay.
39.1K
Axies have been delegated!
2.42K
Total delegators!
1.29K
Total delegatees
7.84K
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Open up opportunity
The introduction of Axie delegation presents a significant opportunity for Sky Mavis to expand our daily active user base. Previously, many potential players were excluded from the Axie ecosystem due to high entry costs and barriers to access.
The delegation system provides an official, secure solution to eliminate these barriers through an Axie Adoption Center. This platform would allow new users to create accounts and receive Axies at no cost, enabling them to explore and experience the Axie ecosystem without initial investment.
This approach transforms accessibility by removing financial gatekeeping while maintaining security through our official delegation framework
Reflection
Strategic Impact
Market Expansion: Delegation fundamentally shifts Axie Infinity from a "pay-to-play" to a more accessible model, potentially expanding the player base exponentially. This addresses one of the biggest criticisms of blockchain gaming - high entry barriers.
Network Effects: More players create stronger network effects, increasing the value of the entire ecosystem. Each new scholar becomes a potential future Axie owner, creating a natural progression path.
Economic Considerations
Revenue Redistribution: Delegation creates a new economic layer where earnings flow between owners and scholars. This could lead to more stable income streams for both parties compared to the volatility of pure gameplay rewards. However, this issue of reward sharing is not addressed in the first release, and it is more related to the game rather than app.axie.
Asset Utilization: Idle Axies become productive assets, increasing overall ecosystem efficiency. Owners can monetize Axies they're not actively using.
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