Mystery of the whale wallet holding 50% of Axie Infinity’s SLP supply

For nearly a year now, a mysterious Axie Infinity wallet has been quietly amassing billions of Smooth Love Potion (SLP), the in-game cryptocurrency powering one of the industry’s most popular play-to-earn (P2E) crypto games.  Today, the anonymous whale wallet now holds a little over 22 billion SLP — more than 50% the total circulating supply […]

Philippine regulator tells Axie Infinity players they must pay tax on income from game

Amid the enormous success of crypto-powered game Axie Infinity in the Philippines, the local Department of Finance has made clear that it wants a cut of profits generated by playing Axie and other play-to-earn games. An August 23 report from Inquirer cites Philippine Finance Undersecretary Antonette Tionko as clarifying that any profits gleaned through play-to-earn […]