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Axie Infinity: Here’s How You Can Earn S$33.70 Worth of Axie Crypto a Day as a Side Hustle!

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Growing up as a child in Singapore, I have fond memories of playing Maplestory with my friends after class after school.

I would spend endless hours playing the game and grinding away to level up and get better equipment.

Source: eg7eg77 | Basil Market | Feeling old yet?

As I was spending a bit too much time on the game, my dad would limit my playtime and ask me to focus on my studies as I could not earn money from it.

That’s very sound advice in hindsight. But, the immature 15-year version of myself would argue with my Dad by stating that there were people selling their accounts for thousands of dollars.

But my dad would just laugh and get me to hit the books.

Fast forward to today, we are seeing an exciting new development in the cryptocurrency space.

Turns out, you can actually earn cryptocurrency from playing games designed to do just that. What a world we are living in right now.

Axie Infinity is one such ‘play to earn game’ that has been hoggin the headlines recently.

Here is all you need to know about it!


TL;DR: Ultimate Guide to Axie Infinity

  • According to a survey from CoinGecko, the majority of Axie Infinity players (65%) reported that they earn 151 or more Smooth Love Potion (SLP) a day playing Axie Infinity. More specifically, 41% of earn about 151 – 200 Smooth Love Potion (SLP) per day playing the game.
    This is worth about S$33.70 to S$44.67 or S$1,027.90 – S$1362.40 a month (30.5 days). Most players (67%) also spend two to four hours a day playing the game.
  • The estimation above is based on the current price of the SLP cryptocurrency which is S$0.223 at the time of writing. But, do note that SLP has been trading between S$0.015 and S$0.57 in the past 52 weeks.
  • However, you will need to invest a minimum of 0.2064 ETH (worth about S$919.11 at the time of writing) to buy a starter team of three Axies to start playing.
  • Alternatively, you can play for free by leasing Axies from sponsors. but you will need to give up about 30% – 50% of your SLP earnings to them.
  • You can also become a sponsor and lease out Axies to scholars to farm SLP for you. But you will need to give them about 50% to 70% of your SLP earnings.
  • But, playing this game has its risks as well due to the volatility of the cryptocurrencies which puts player’s earning sustainability in question.

Disclaimer: The information provided by Seedly serves as an educational piece and is not intended to be personalised investment advice. Seedly does not recommend that any cryptocurrency should be bought, sold, or held by you.​ Readers should always do their own due diligence and consider their financial goals before investing in any investment product and consult your financial advisor before making any investment decisions.


What is Axie Infinity?

Axie Infinity is a Pokémon-inspired blockchain game made by Vietnamese developer Sky Mavis.

The game which was launched back in 2019 can be played on Android iOS, Windows and Mac.

But currently, you cannot play the iOS version as the beta test for it is full.

More specifically, the game is built on Ronin, an Ethereum based sidechain specially built and customised for Axie Infinity.

Sky Mavis claims that the game currently has about 1 million daily active players with about 40.5% of them based in the Philippines and the next biggest markets being Venezuela and the U.S.

Source: Axie Infinity | Twitter

In the past two months, the amount of players playing Axie Infinity has just skyrocketed.

Back in June 2021, the developer reported that had only about 108,000 daily active users. This number has since grown by ten times to about 1 million daily active users as of 6 Aug 2021.

But according to crypto analytics company Cryptoslam, there are only about 914,000 cryptocurrency wallets that hold Axie non-fungible tokens (NFTs)

The game is centred around Axies: furry creatures that players can breed, raise and collect to use in battle, complete challenges or even build a land-based kingdom for.

Source: Axie Infinity

Underneath the hood, Axies are actually non-fungible-tokens (NFTs) or ERC-721 tokens. This means that each Axie is a totally unique/non-fungible digital asset.

The game is actually a whole ecosystem with features like:

  • A Social network

  • Axie Marketplace

  • Progression of Axies (Leveling, achievements)

  • Breeding Game

  • Player vs Player (PvP) with ladder and tournaments

  • Player vs Enemy (PvE) / Adventure mode

  • Land Gameplay

    • Players expand their kingdom, harvest resources, attack Chimeras and other players.

  • Lunacia SDK – Allowing developers and creators to make games using existing Axie Infinity assets and hosting them on land.

According to Axie, players can earn by: 

  • Competing in PVP battles to win leaderboard prizes.

  • Breeding Axies and selling them on the marketplace.

  • Collecting and speculating on rare Axies such as Mystics and Origins.

  • Farming for the Smooth Love Potion (SLP) ERC-20 (Ethereum-based) tokens which are needed to breed Axies. These can be traded on exchanges such as Uniswap, Binance.com and Crypto.com.
    In terms of tokenomics, there is an unlimited circulating supply of SLPs which fluctuates according to t on the number of players.

  • Starting in 2021 players can earn a governance ERC-20 token, Axie Infinity (AXS) with a maximum supply of 270 million. This represents a real slice of the game universe as it has governance rights and fee-sharing built into it. Since players can earn this token by playing, a Ready Player one type quest emerges where players can actually earn part of the universe. However, these quests are not winner takes all and rewards each player based on their effort and skill.

On top of the huge player base, Axie Infinity’s revenue has skyrocketed.

Source: Token Terminal

According to data from cryptocurrency data provider Token Terminal, the Axie Infinity protocol is the second highest-grossing decentralized applications (apps)/blockchain platform since launch. What’s remarkable is that the protocol has cumulatively generated two times more revenue than Ethereum.

This can be attributed to Axie moving to the Ronin sidechain which currently charges $0 in gas fees.

Axie earns its revenue from in-game purchases like virtual land, fees charged from breeding and more. In addition, Axie takes a 4.25% cut from all Axie NFT transactions.

More importantly, about, 95% of this revenue goes back to the players of the game.

How Much Can You Earn From Axie Infinity?

To start playing Axie Infinity, you will need a cryptocurrency wallet like Metamask with some Ether (ETH) and a Ronin wallet to deposit ETH via Sky Mavis’ Ronin bridge.

You will also have to buy a minimum of three Axies from the Axie Infinity Marketplace to form a starter team.

This will set you back around 0.2064 ETH (worth about S$919.11 at the time of writing) as the cheapest Axie you can find now is worth about 0.0688 ETH (worth about S$306.37).

Do note that this floor price is volatile as it is dependent on the demand for Axies and the price of ETH.

Depending on these factors, new players will need to pump in more initial capital to play. This team is also not the best so you might have to invest more than this to start.

But, if you don’t want to buy any Axies, you can actually lease them from managers for a cut of their earnings.

But before you get too excited.

A couple of caveats.

This game is not the easiest to play as you have to commit a ton of time to learn the intricacies of the game, the Axie marketplace, breeding system and more.

Here’s a comprehensive guide by LevelDash you might want to check out.

If you are undeterred, here is an estimation of how much you can earn from Axie Infinity according to an Axie Infinity CoinGecko survey conducted on Twitter from 17 – 19 July 2021.

Source: CoinGecko

CoinGecko surveyed 768 – 1,841 respondents based on questions asked and found that the majority of players (41%) earn between 151 – 200 SLP (S$33.70 to S$44.67) per day or S$1,027.90 to S$1362.40 a month (30.5 days). This is based on SLP’s current price of about S$0.223 at the time of writing.

This means that 65% of players reported earning 151 or more SLP a day playing Axie Infinity.

In addition, CoinGecko added that the average player could earn up to 185 SLP a day with four hours of playing time.

The survey also found that the majority (80%) of Axie players play the game every day and spend less than two hours a day playing the game.

Source: CoinGecko

Thus, it would be safe to say that on average, you can earn about S$33.70 a day playing Axie infinity for two to four hours a day.

But a caveat, judging from the many guides I’ve read, you will initially need to start playing a few hours a day with playing time decreasing drastically the stronger your Axies get.

There are four main ways you can start earning cryptocurrency from Axie Infinity.

Do it Yourself

First, you can do everything by yourself and farm SLP to sell them on cryptocurrency exchanges like Binance.com and Crypto.com

But you will have to buy three Axies that cost about 0.2064 ETH (3X0.0688 ETH) which is worth about S$919.11 at the time of writing.

Also, here are the transfer fees you have to take note of as well:

Source: Axie.live

To recover your initial investment, you will need to farm SLP daily for one month.

But if you are bored of the game, you can always sell your Axies on Sky Mavis’ Axie NFT marketplace. But, this is also dependent on the desirability of the Axies.

Become an Axie Infinity Scholar

Alternatively, you can play for free without having to buy Axies by looking for a sponsor via Axie’s scholarship programme.

Basically, you look for someone who is willing to lease out the Axies for you to farm SLPs.

In return, you split the earnings with your Axie scholarship sponsor.

Typically, the terms of the agreement are that the scholars will get a 50% 70% cut of the SLP earnings.

Here is a guide to how this works.

Sponsor Axie Infinity Scholars

There is one other way.

If you find that you are pressed for time, you can instead buy some Axies and sponsor scholars to play and farm SLPs for you.

However, you will have to factor in the cost of buying a starter team of Axies that will set you back 0.2064 ETH (3X0.0688 ETH) which is worth about S$919.11 at the time of writing.

You will also have to hand over anywhere between 30%50% of your SLP earnings to your scholar.

Our Seedly student ambassador Yun Heng has written a guide based on his experiences launching an Axie Infinity scholarship programme.

Do check it out if you are interested.

Breed Axies

Last but not least, you can choose to breed Axies and sell them.

But this is for the really advanced players and requires quite a sum of initial investment and a decent knowledge of the game to do well.

Axie Infinity Risk

However, there are a few risk factors to consider.

Axie’s explosive growth has caused some challenges for Sky Mavis as the developers have to contend with the burden of increasing user demand, with the game not functioning well in the past few weeks.

In terms of the day to day operations, Sky Mavis has recently encountered distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks, as well as some server hosting problems. Hacks are also a concern as there is little to no consumer protection if something happens.

Not to mention that this ‘Play-to-Earn’ business model is rather new which puts into question the future sustainability of player earnings.

The earnings are still heavily affected by the volatility of SLP: the main cryptocurrency that is dished out as a reward for playing Axie Infinity.

According to CoinMarketCap, SLP has been trading between S$0.015 and S$0.57 in the past 52 weeks.

In addition, you will have to consider the volatility of ETH as well as it will affect the initial investment amount you need to invest.

This means that this income source is not stable which is something you need to consider if you are looking to invest in playing Axie Infinity.

Future Competitors

Not to mention that in the future, we might see other blockchain-based games arising to replace Axie.

But on balance, Axie had time to build a moat for its product with its strong efforts in building a community that started all the way in 2017. This will not be easy to replicate.


Can’t Get Enough of Cryptocurrencies?

Fret not!

We have partnered with SingSaver and American Express to launch this super exclusive Bitcoin campaign for the first time ever in Singapore.

You will receive up to S$365 worth of Bitcoin when you successfully apply for a credit card. This offer is ONLY available on Seedly & SingSaver. You will not find it anywhere else.

These rewards will be given out from now until 7 November 2021 OR until S$1 million worth of Bitcoin has been claimed, whichever is earlier.

Also, the first 2,000 eligible applicants will receive an additional S$100 worth of Bitcoin so get to it!

If you were wondering, these rewards will also be given out to your Gemini account as they are our exclusive cryptocurrency wallet partner for this campaign.

How to Apply:

  1. Apply for your favourite credit card.
  2. Receive up to S$265 (S$265 for new customers and S$50 for existing customers) worth of Bitcoin after you fulfil the eligibility requirements.)
  3. Spend S$500 on the card within the first 30 days of card approval.
  4. Be one of the first 2,000 eligible applicants to receive up to an additional S$100 worth of Bitcoin.

Eligible Cards: American Express in Singapore

Here are the cards you can apply for with this campaign:

More details about the cards can be found on the landing page. And of course, terms and conditions apply.

Disclaimer: Seedly and Singsaver will never ask you for your crypto wallet address nor instruct you to transfer any crypto to us throughout any of the campaigns.

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About Joel Koh
History student turned writer at Seedly. Before you ask, not a teacher. I hope to help people make better financial decisions and not let money control them.
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