{"id":246371,"date":"2024-02-13T11:13:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T05:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=246371"},"modified":"2024-02-13T11:13:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T05:43:11","slug":"why-crypto-game-pixels-is-launching-a-token-now-the-fun-starts-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/why-crypto-game-pixels-is-launching-a-token-now-the-fun-starts-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Crypto Game Pixels Is Launching a Token: ‘Now the Fun Starts’ – Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s been a busy\u2014and buzzy\u2014few months for the crypto game Pixels, which saw surging interest after migrating from <\/span>Polygon<\/span><\/a> to the <\/span>Ronin<\/span><\/a> blockchain in October.<\/span><\/p>\n

But while the game has been in development since 2021, founder Luke Barwikowski said that next week\u2019s <\/span>launch of the long-awaited PIXEL token<\/span><\/a> makes it feel like \u201cday one\u201d for the team as they fully implement the social farming game\u2019s crypto vision.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that we’re launching on Binance\u2026 the fact that all of this stuff is happening and we’re reaching the full expression of launching a token is pretty amazing,\u201d he told <\/span>Decrypt<\/span><\/i>\u2019s GG. \u201cNow the fun starts, right? I just view this as literally day one of everything that we’re working on. We have stuff that’s releasing, but now it’s a long road ahead of us too.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As announced last week, the PIXEL token will be listed on crypto exchange Binance on February 19 following a 10-day Launchpool campaign, in which Binance customers can earn a share of PIXEL token rewards for staking certain other cryptocurrencies.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the same time, Pixels is <\/span>doling out PIXEL airdrop reward allocations<\/span><\/a> to tens of thousands of unique wallets, including users who qualified through previous \u201cplay-to-airdrop\u201d campaigns in the game, as well as Pixels <\/span>NFT<\/span><\/a> land owners.<\/span><\/p>\n

Decrypt<\/span><\/i>\u2019s GG caught up with Barwikowski on Monday to discuss everything around the token launch and upcoming plans for the ever-evolving game.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the video clip above, the Pixels founder details the current vibe around the project, as well as the long road that led to this moment\u2014including pivoting from a business-centric online events focus. Ultimately, it was 2021\u2019s rise of NFT gaming smash <\/span>Axie Infinity<\/span><\/a> that pushed him in that direction, and showed him the value of crypto to power applications and experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c[Axie] was one of the initial applications that finally clicked and made sense,\u201d he said, \u201cwhere it was like: Oh wow, cryptocurrency actually has some pretty interesting use cases when you start to integrate it into things that actually have value, or systems or economics that have real value behind them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up playing Runescape. The connection just was very obvious to me there, between Web3 currencies and in-game currencies,\u201d Barwikowski added. \u201cThose things together, combined, made me really, really interested in moving into Web3 gaming. We kind of made the whole company pivot into that direction, and things just clicked a lot more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

So while Pixels has seen a substantially brighter spotlight over the past few months, it\u2019s been a long and twisting journey to get to this point. But launching a token was always meant to be a key turning point for Pixels, and it\u2019s an event that the game will share with its community.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have been a huge believer in tokens and Web3 since the very beginning,\u201d Barwikowski said. \u201cTo me, this was kind of what the whole point of all of this was\u2014to get to here, exactly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Edited by <\/i>Ryan Ozawa<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s been a busy\u2014and buzzy\u2014few months for the crypto game Pixels, which saw surging interest after migrating from Polygon to the Ronin blockchain in October. But while the game has been in development since 2021, founder Luke Barwikowski said that next week\u2019s launch of the long-awaited PIXEL token makes it feel like \u201cday one\u201d for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[230,225,221,227,226,228,229,60,223,224,222],"class_list":["post-246371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-brave","tag-coinbase","tag-crypto","tag-decentralised","tag-decentralized","tag-decentralized-exchange","tag-erc-20","tag-featured","tag-meme-coin","tag-robinhood","tag-solana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246374,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246371\/revisions\/246374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}