Ronin is an EVM-compatible blockchain designed expressly for gaming. Sky Mavis, the developer behind the Web3 hit Axie Infinity which has earned more than $1.3B in revenue, launched the network. Ronin stands as the sole blockchain demonstrated to support a single game with millions of daily active users, having handled over $4B in NFT trading volume. The chain prioritizes almost immediate transaction speeds and minimal costs, facilitating smooth in-game activity for millions of users and positioning it as a top pick for Web3 titles.

Within its initial nine months, Ronin achieved 250,000 unique daily active addresses, $5 billion in total value locked (TVL), more than 2 million wallet downloads, and accounted for 15% of all market NFT transactions. Its decentralized exchange, Katana, ranks as the second-most used DEX by weekly active users and enables token swaps inside the Axie Infinity ecosystem.

Sky Mavis, the developers of Axie Infinity, built Ronin. The project has received support from prominent investors such as Accel, a16z, Binance Labs, Animoca Brands, Paradigm, Libertus, and Mark Cuban. Among its co-founders are Jeffrey Zirlin and Alexander Leonard Larsen.

Ronin is a scalable network that has been battle-tested. In 2021, it handled 15% of all NFT trading volume and serves as the home for Axie Infinity assets, including Axies, Land, SLP, and AXS. Regarding NFT sales by volume, Ronin ranks second only to Ethereum. Although many other chains exist, Ronin is the sole platform proven to scale a single game to support millions of daily users.

The chain is hyper-optimized for gaming, removing the bloat present in other permissionless blockchains. The team works to curate high-quality applications, ensuring games experience minimal spam and high uptime.

Ronin is environmentally friendly relative to other chains. For instance, one Bitcoin transaction consumes as much energy as 695,505,316.31 Ronin transactions.

Sky Mavis, the creator of Axie Infinity (the #1 NFT project by adoption and all-time volume), backs Ronin. Their experience in building and scaling Axie Infinity provides unique insights into community building, product development, and go-to-market strategies that partners on the network can leverage. Sky Mavis also provides grants and advisory support to help games launching on the platform reduce risk and improve their odds of success.

Ronin is secure. As pioneers with massive traction, Sky Mavis faced security threats and scaling roadblocks before the rest of the market. In March 2022, the Ronin Validator Breach occurred, where an elite group of hackers drained 173,600 ETH and 25.5M USDC from the Ronin bridge via social engineering, not a technical flaw. This event led Sky Mavis to become a zero-trust, fully antifragile organization. They have implemented rigorous internal security measures, and security experts have audited the entire architecture while fully reviewing and optimizing all code. Audit information and details on security upgrades are available.

The RON token debuted via a pool on the native Katana DEX, avoiding any private sales, and is being allocated through an incentivized liquidity program. The total supply is limited to 1 billion coins, a cap that will be hit 108 months after issuance starts, with quarterly reductions in issuance.

The distribution breakdown is:

• Rewards (25%): incentives for staking and bridging
• Community (30%): grants, hackathons, rewards programs, content creation, and liquidity mining
• Team (30%): Sky Mavis
• Ecosystem fund (15%): investments, grants, and hackathons aimed at introducing innovative tooling, applications, and content to Ronin

Consult the Whitepaper for additional details.

You can purchase RON through Katana DEX, OKX, and various other platforms. For more details, consult the Guide on Buying RON.