Welcome to Origins Postseason 16! Congratulations to every Lunacian who battled it out during S16.
Elite 4 Details: Watch top players compete during the livestream on March 22nd @ 7PM PH / 6AM EST!
Collectible axie ticket distribution: Keep an eye out for your rewards! The total reward pool was over 10,000 AXS in S16.
Welcome to Origins Postseason 16! Congratulations to every Lunacian who battled through S16 and pushed their limits over the past weeks. Who will seize the championship crown at the Elite 4 on March 22nd? There’s only one way to find out:
Elite 4 Tournament Details
Four of the fiercest Lunacians will battle it out for the season crown.
Stream Begins: March 22nd @ 7PM PH / 6AM EST
Total Reward Pool: 1,200 AXS + Origin Axie for Champion
Contest Rules
Players must register three teams each made up of three axies.
If collectible axies are submitted then morph parts need to be also submitted along with the axie.
Teams cannot overlap by more than 9 out of 18 axie parts.
We will provide players with a tool to check team eligibility.
Each individual axie can only belong to one team.
Players may not swap axies between teams after the registration.
Morph parts for collectible axies should also not be changed once axie pools are released.
Double Elimination
Standard Double Elimination bracket.
The player who makes it to the Grand Finals without any match losses has a twice-to-beat advantage.
First to 3
To secure victory in a match, a player must win one game with each of their teams.
Players cannot reuse a team that has already won a game in the current match.
Remember: Your total reward depends on the tier of Collectible Chest you received. More tickets means moar rewards. Collectible tickets also determine your AXS distribution from the 10,000 AXS prize pool.
Here’s an overview of Season 16 collectible tickets rewards:
Total Reward Pool: 10,000 AXS
Total Collectible Tickets issued: 15,838,917
Value of 1 Collectible Ticket: 0.63135629 mAXS
Note: We’ll convert Collectible Tickets to mAXS based on the value mentioned above. AXS will be sent to players directly to their respective Ronin address within the next few weeks.
bAXS is LIVE! You can now use Bonded AXS to evolve axies, mint Runes and Charms, stake to earn AXS, and more. Remember: bAXS is an ERC20-C token with the same utility as AXS.
First bAXS airdrop is coming soon: Eligible wallets will receive bAXS from the 100,000 bAXS airdrop pool over the coming days. Check your allocation later this week at app.axieinfinity.com/profile/claim-tokens/.
One Home for AXS Staking: We’re sunsetting the legacy stake.axieinfinity.com page. Going forward, all AXS and bAXS staking activity will happen on App.Axie.
Lunacia, a new token has arisen: bAXS is LIVE! Bonded AXS is now usable across the Axie ecosystem. Use it to breed, ascend, evolve, forge, stake, and even mint Runes and Charms. If you can do it with AXS, you can do it with bAXS. Here’s what’s happening:
What is bAXS?
The bAXS token (Bonded AXS) is a variation of the AXS token. 1 bAXS = 1 AXS. However, you can only spend bAXS on things within Axie. That means no trading or transferring. This keeps more economic activity within the borders of our digital nation.
What can you do with bAXS?
Remember: If you can do it with AXS, you can do it with bAXS. Here’s what that looks like:
Stake bAXS to earn AXS
Pay for axie breeding fees with bAXS
Pay for axie ascensions and evolutions with bAXS
Forge new materials with bAXS
Restore Atia’s Blessing streaks with bAXS
Mint Runes and Charms with bAXS
Buy a Codex Pass with bAXS
App.Axie will spend bAXS before AXS by default. For example, let’s say you want to ascend your axie for 10 bAXS/AXS. If you have 10 bAXS or more in your wallet, you’ll pay 10 bAXS. If you only have 1 bAXS, you’ll pay 10 AXS. However, if you have 5 bAXS and 5 AXS, you won’t be able to complete the transaction! In that case, we recommend converting your AXS to bAXS.
Note: You won’t be able to purchase axies with bAXS yet. We’ll launch that feature soon. For now, to buy assets on the marketplace, you’ll need to convert bAXS to AXS using your exchange rate on App.Axie before completing a purchase.
bAXS Exchange Rates
The bAXS exchange rate rewards devotion and encourages contribution to our digital nation. This is based on your Axie Score: The higher your score, the better your exchange rate when converting bAXS to AXS. Here’s how Axie Scores work:
Pro-tip: You can increase your Axie Score by holding collectible assets, participating in Axie Core and marketplace activity, playing games, and engaging in community events.
pos2.ron wants to convert 100 bAXS to AXS. He’s a Mythkeeper. When he exchanges 100 bAXS, he will receive 82.5 AXS in return. The 17.5 AXS difference will go to the Axie Treasury. This encourages pos2.ron to use bAXS rather than trade it. It also strengthens the multimillion AXS Axie Treasury.
Stake bAXS —> Earn AXS —> Vote with both
Get AXS rewards when you stake bAXS
Get full voting power when you stake bAXS
bAXS can be staked to earn AXS, with rewards calculated on a 1:1 basis with AXS. It also carries full governance weight, meaning staked bAXS provides the same voting power as staked AXS at a 1:1 ratio.
The first bAXS airdrop will happen in the next few days. After the airdrop is completed, you can visit app.axieinfinity.com/profile/claim-tokens/ to see your allocation.
As a reminder, wallets with at least 10 AXS staked were eligible for the 100,000 bAXS airdrop pool. Allocation was based on your Axie Score and staked AXS amount, using the snapshot taken on February 5. More details on the second bAXS airdrop will be shared at a later date.
Pro-tip: If you want to receive more bAXS in Airdrop 2, keep growing your Axie Score and stake AXS or the bAXS you receive from Airdrop 1. Your staked AXS/bAXS directly increases your total staking weight for the next snapshot.
This is not a new system, just a consolidation. By bringing staking into a single location, we reduce confusion, improve clarity, and make it easier to manage your assets in one place.
What Comes Next
bAXS going live is not the finish line. It’s the foundation. Following this update, ecosystem rewards will soon shift to bAXS including:
Bounty Board rewards
Classic and Origins rewards
Homeland rewards
Codex rewards
Campaigns and community rewards
This system unlocks new ways to reward participation, align incentives, and reinvest value back into the Axie ecosystem. As more features come online, including purchase support and future airdrops, bAXS will continue to expand in utility and impact.
For now, bAXS is live. The first airdrop is coming soon. The next phase of Axie’s token economy has officially begun.
Are you ready to get closer to game and ecosystem development?
Feb 09, 2026
Welcome to Atia's Lab Log 2026 #1!
Before we dive in, a quick note on the nature of these updates:
The status updates mentioned below represent our current internal development. Some are being prepped for production, while others are in a "prototype state," meaning we are still evaluating their feasibility. These are by no means a commitment to a specific release schedule (or a release at all). Our priority is ensuring that only the most stable and impactful ideas make it into the final product.
Exploration Note — Atia’s Legacy
Deep inside the dungeon, a massive lunid has begun to move… We’ve successfully integrated its core logic and animations into the current build. We want to provide a formidable new challenge to battle. But… this isn't just a new fight. It’s part of our push to connect the gameplay directly to the lore and to Axie Core.
WIP: New character you'll face in the next Atia's Legacy release,
To help you conquer this returning threat (yes, that’s a small leek), we’ve been updating our existing arsenal of weapons. All original weapons now have new basic attacks and improved ultimates.
One specific ninja-like weapon looks incredibly cool but is currently causing some... creative problems. Our testers keep accidentally teleporting off the map, so it’s staying in the containment area until we can keep everyone’s feet on solid ground.
One of our biggest structural experiments is the shift to Solo Combat.
While the squad system had its fans, 34.3% of Lunacians from Playtest 1 requested more depth to combat. By focusing on a single axie, we can open up much more competitive and skill-based experiences, just as players requested. This also allows us to add new mechanics like ‘Dash,’ which lets you evade or reposition easily (a new feature for all Axies).
These ideas don’t solely come from the team; they come from fellow Lunacians:
“My concern is: with this squad style, it may deter players from cooperating with each other to accomplish things in game. My ideal MMO is where players are kinda forced to work together to pass a hard boss or a dungeon, not a 1-player-can-do-it-all game.” - Ken Sensei
“Very good system but hard to control all axies from getting hit which could be a problem if you have a harder difficulty boss that 1hit kos and you need to be able to dodge. I think the combat system should be revised to have a single axie out instead and building equipment around that axie.” - Moogeta
In this new system, any axie can be your leader, no more forcing users to use Tripp. This also ties directly into our new mode testing.
Testing Mode #1: PvP Combat It’s still in early development, but we’ve got a version ready to be tested internally with the goal of adding it to the next public release.
Testing Mode #2: We are experimenting with a mode where losing items (and your Axie) on death is a real possibility. It’s a “Risk-to-Earn” experiment designed to see how higher stakes can create a more meaningful and healthy economy. We’ve hit some backend blockers there, but with some fresh eyes on the dev team, the path forward is finally clear—it just needs more time in the lab.
Exploration Note — App.axie
The heartbeat of the new system is the Bonded AXS (bAXS) smart contract. We are currently in the stages of a rigorous security audit and deep-dive testing to ensure everything is airtight. Behind the scenes, the token logic is being codified into a comprehensive technical master doc.
This covers the entire lifecycle of the token:
How we handle swaps, staking, and spending.
New contracts to interact directly with these assets.
Finalizing transaction flows to ensure the economy remains circular and robust.
We have been putting the system through its paces for weeks, simulating the use of bAXS for evolution, ascending, breeding, and restoring Atia’s Blessing streaks. One of our most intensive internal tests currently involves the logic for Minting Runes and Charms using bAXS.
Beyond the Axie Core and gameplay tests, we are also validating the dynamic exchange rates for bAXS → AXS swaps. We are verifying that the system accurately calculates the transition between designations, also important to highlight if you spend your bAXS you get a straight 1:1 ratio meaning you’ll get maximum value from your bAXS!
While testing continues, we are also looking at the broader user experience—
With bAXS live, our next challenge is creating a clear path for users to scale their designations. We have already blueprinted a visual progression bar to track your journey toward the next tier. However, our priority is ensuring the core staking systems are flawless and high-performing from day one. Since staking is the pillar that supports everything else, we’ve moved the visual bar to the backlog to focus resources on the foundation first.
Now with the core bAXS → AXS exchange rates established, our focus has turned to calibrating the specific benefits for each tier. We are shaping the experience to ensure that the climb from a Lunacian to a Mythkeeper feels impactful and rewarding.
As these systems come online, they will begin to ripple through the various experiences in Axie Infinity at different speeds.
Axie Infinity is evolving and we are glad every Lunacian is on this journey with us!
Episode 3 of the Lunacian Lounge was a marathon session, featuring Jihoz, Jase, Shade, Cruise, and Pos2. The team unveiled a massive 2026 teaser video and deep-dived into the radical evolution of the Axie economy, the first-ever look at PvP, and the “sunsetting” of Homeland in favor of the new Terrariums system.
1. 2026: The Year of Big Swings
Jihoz set the tone for the year, acknowledging that 2025 was “too quiet.” In 2026, Sky Mavis is shifting to an aggressive, risk-taking stance to restore the economy and excitement around the brand.
Information Sharing: The team is returning to a model of more frequent updates and transparency.
Economic Restoration: The focus is on aligning human nature with system incentives.
Market Momentum: AXS recently saw a huge “short squeeze” in Korea, signaling renewed interest in the token’s upcoming utility.
2. Bonded AXS (bAXS) and the Airdrop
The team revealed the specific Exchange Rate for bAXS → AXS, tied directly to a player’s Axie Score Designations.
The bAXS Philosophy:
bAXS is non-tradable but can be spent 1:1 for all Axie Core related activity such as breeding, evolving, Codex purchases, and more.
Conversion: Players can convert bAXS to liquid AXS, but the Exchange Rate depends on their Axie Score designation.
The Airdrop: A snapshot will be taken on February 5th at 00:01 UTC. Wallets with at least 10 AXS stakedwill receive a portion of a 100,000 bAXS pool, distributed based on staking amount and Axie Score.
3. Atia’s Legacy: First Look at PvP
In a historic moment for the community, Jase and Jihoz faced off in the first-ever live PvP in Atia’s Legacy.
Controls: Desktop play uses a “mouse-to-turn, keyboard-for-abilities” style reminiscent of classic MMOs like World of Warcraft.
Combat Depth: The demo featured various abilities per player while controlling only one axie, instead of a squad axie.
Playtest 2: Targeted for mid-March, featuring a “Hardcore Mode” where failure means losing equipment and potentially risking Axies (tested internally first).
4. Terrariums: Bringing Land Home
In a major pivot, Jihoz and Shade announced that Axie Homeland will be sunset and replaced by Terrariums.
“Homeland ended up being not what we wanted it to be... we’re going to rip off the band-aid and replace it with the new Terrarium system.” — Jihoz
What are Terrariums?
Terrariums will be this new experience that is basically the long term foundation of axie core. It will be a persistent land based gameplay layer where axie lives, grow, generate vallue, and more importantly it’s where future system like mini games, risk-to-earn, expeditions, territory, accessories, land items, Atia’s legacy… all plugged into this foundational Terrarium’s layer.” — Shade
Yield Mechanics: Owners place Axies on their plots. The Axie’s quality (level, evolution, collectibles) determines the yield of bAXS and EXP.
Land Items: Decorative items will now have functional utility, augmenting the rewards of the plot.
Sunset Plan: Homeland rewards will roll over to Terrariums. The team is targeting the first half of 2026 for the MVP launch.
5. Codex Season 1: Songs of the Soil
The next stage of the Codex will launch alongside Playtest 2 of Atia’s Legacy to create a unified lore arc.
Theme: “Songs of the Soil,” focusing on the history of Pot Golems.
Lore-Driven: Lore will no longer be a background element but a “main lever” for ecosystem engagement.
Bounty Board: Rewards will fully switch to bAXS once Season 1 begins.
Community Q&A Highlights
Q: Can we buy Axies on the marketplace using bAXS?
Shade: Not initially. Early on, you’ll spend bAXS on Core features (Breed/Evolve/Stake). However, we are working on a solution to allow bAXS to be used as “money” on the marketplace later this year so players can convert gameplay efforts directly into collectibles.
Q: Will there be a gap between Homeland shutting down and Terrariums launching?
Shade: We are still figuring out the nitty-gritty. It’s possible there will be a small gap, but the rewards are guaranteed to transition. We are targeting the first half of this year for the Terrarium launch.
Q: What about scholars and guilds?
Jihoz: The “scholarship” system needs to evolve. Scholars will need to “graduate” into collectors to get the best bAXS exchange rates. We have to evolve or die, and that means moving toward a system that rewards long-term contribution over industrial farming.
Final Thoughts
The episode concluded with a look at the final frame of the teaser—a foreshadowing of the dark lore narrative to come. Jihoz praised the “bravery” of the community in facing these big changes and promised that more Atia’s Legacy Devlogs are on the way.
Next Step: Join the discussion in Discord! We’ll be releasing a full bAXS and Terrarium FAQ shortly to answer the technical questions raised during today’s session.
bAXS is coming to Lunacia! Axie is evolving. Again. The AXS token will soon become the reserve currency for a new apptoken: Bonded AXS (bAXS). bAXS is an ERC20-C token with the same utility as AXS.
Airdrop Coming Soon: There will be TWO bAXS airdrops based on Axie Score and Staked AXS amounts. You’ll need at least 10 AXS staked before February 5th @ 00:01 UTC to qualify for Airdrop 1, which features a 100,000 bAXS pool! Stay tuned for more details on Airdrop 2.
Introducing Terrariums: With bAXS powering future rewards, Homeland will be sunset and replaced by Terrariums, the next evolution of land gameplay. Terrariums represent a return to our original vision for Lunacian Land. More details below.
Axie is evolving. Again. The AXS token has powered in-game rewards, secondary marketplace transactions, axie evolutions, and more for years. Soon, it will also become a reserve currency for a new app token: Bonded AXS (bAXS). Here’s what that means, and how YOU can get a bAXS airdrop:
What is bAXS and what can you do with it?
bAXS will do the same things as AXS: Use it to ascend, evolve, breed axies, forge new items on App.axie, staking, and more. Over time, we’ll also distribute most rewards in bAXS. However, the difference between both tokens is how they circulate through the Axie economy: bAXS will have features that encourage Lunacians to spend it within our ecosystem.
Over time, you’ll be able to earn bAXS through rewards in Axie experiences. In the meantime, here’s how you can get some during the upcoming airdrop:
bAXS Airdrop 1 Details
Snapshot Date: February 5th @ 00:01 UTC
Total Airdrop Pool: 100,000 bAXS
Eligibility: Wallets with at least 10 AXS staked
Allocation Details: Based on Axie Score and Staked AXS Amount
Airdrop Date: At bAXS Launch (TBD)
Coming Soon: Earn bAXS via Land
During our recent Lunacian Lounge, we shared our plans to transition Homeland to a new kind of land-based gameplay called Terrariums. Think of Terrariums as the foundation of Axie Core: A place where axies live, grow, and earn through mini-games, expeditions, guilds, terrotories, accessories, collectibles, and even Atia’s Legacy. Our vision is to create a unified hub where future experiences come together. They’ll also become a key place to earn bAXS.
We’re targeting Q2 2026 as a launch timeline for a Terrarium MVP. Around that time, bAXS will be LIVE, the bAXS airdrops should be complete, and Terrariums will emit bAXS rewards for players. This is a big moment for Axie: We’re going back to our roots by bringing our community’s original dream for land to life. bAXS is only the first step.
Coming Soon: bAXS Airdrop 2
bAXS will soon power most of the Axie economy. That’s why we’re looking into the best ways to distribute it. How do we make sure our most-devoted Lunacians get the allocation they deserve? Here’s what we know: Axie Score and Staked AXS amounts will light the way. The 2nd bAXS Airdrop will make it possible to get more bAXS in more Lunacian wallets.
Pro-tip: If you want to receive more bAXS during Airdrop 2, keep growing your Axie Score and stake the bAXS you receive from Airdrop 1. Your staked bAXS directly increases your total staking weight for the next snapshot.
