Aavegotchi – Earlybirds Invest https://earlybirdsinvest.com Latest Crypto News Wed, 09 Apr 2025 22:30:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.7 https://i0.wp.com/earlybirdsinvest.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/cropped-New-Project-2024-12-17T235703.455.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Aavegotchi – Earlybirds Invest https://earlybirdsinvest.com 32 32 240146708 Game Over for Polygon? Aavegotchi Moves to Base with 93% Support https://earlybirdsinvest.com/game-over-for-polygon-aavegotchi-moves-to-base-with-93-support/ https://earlybirdsinvest.com/game-over-for-polygon-aavegotchi-moves-to-base-with-93-support/#respond Wed, 09 Apr 2025 22:30:21 +0000 https://earlybirdsinvest.com/game-over-for-polygon-aavegotchi-moves-to-base-with-93-support/

Aavegotchi, a project that combines non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and Web3 gaming, has chosen to stop using Polygon
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$0.1868

and move to Base, an Ethereum
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$1,675.45

 Layer-2 network.

This decision came after an on-chain vote where more than 93% of community members supported the switch. The proposal, titled “Make Aavegotchi Based Again”, will see the project’s smart contracts removed from Polygon and re-launched on Base.

Base was chosen partly because of Aavegotchi’s working relationship with its team, and because of how the Base network is growing. In a February 13 post on X, Aavegotchi’s founder said the decision was about making the best long-term choice.

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He stated that staying with Polygon no longer made sense, especially with the pace of development slowing there.

Aavegotchi’s team also said Polygon has not made improvements to help projects focused on gaming. In contrast, they believe Base—and another network, Arbitrum
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$0.2971

—are more reliable and better suited for the future.

The founder also noted that Base makes it easier for new users to join, which is important for reaching more people.

A drop in digital asset prices, made worse by US trade policy changes under President Donald Trump, has hit areas like NFTs and meme tokens especially hard. In response, Pixelcraft Studios, the team behind Aavegotchi, has reduced staff to lower spending and keep the project going.

The team behind Infected, a crypto game set in a pandemic scenario, has decided to leave Base for Solana
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. What happened? Read the full story.

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]]> https://earlybirdsinvest.com/game-over-for-polygon-aavegotchi-moves-to-base-with-93-support/feed/ 0 29947 DeFi Game Aavegotchi to Abandon Polygon, Migrate to Coinbase’s Base https://earlybirdsinvest.com/defi-game-aavegotchi-to-abandon-polygon-migrate-to-coinbases-base/ https://earlybirdsinvest.com/defi-game-aavegotchi-to-abandon-polygon-migrate-to-coinbases-base/#respond Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:40:15 +0000 https://earlybirdsinvest.com/defi-game-aavegotchi-to-abandon-polygon-migrate-to-coinbases-base/

The DAO running Aavegotchi, a niche non-fungible token (NFT) game, voted overwhelmingly to migrate the entire ecosystem to Base from Polygon, a move reflecting shifting developer and user sentiment in the broader Ethereum layer-2 landscape.

With 93.25% of the vote in favor, the proposal — titled “Make Aavegotchi Based Again” — lays out plans for a full deployment on Base, the Coinbase layer-2 blockchain that has gained traction among decentralized applications.

All Aavegotchi NFTs, wearables, game assets and smart contracts will be cloned and relaunched on Base, according to the proposal, with legacy assets on Polygon set to remain viewable but frozen to prevent transfers or updates.

The migration comes amid a steep decline in Polygon usage. According to data from DeFiLlama, total value locked (TVL) on the chain has dropped from a near $10 billion peak in 2021 to just $737 million today. In early 2024, TVL stood at $892 million.

Base, meanwhile, has seen TVL surge to $2.9 billion from $430 million since the beginning of last year. Artemis data further shows Polygon’s daily active addresses fell from 1.3 million to 550,000 over the past year, while Base more than doubled to nearly 900,000.

Pixelcraft Studios, the developer behind Aavegotchi, cited improved onboarding, faster transactions and better marketplace support as key reasons for the move. A wrapper contract will also be introduced to protect assets listed on marketplaces like MagicEden and OpenSea.

The migration is expected to be completed within four to six weeks.

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