Sky Mavis partners with CyberKongz on NFT collection

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Sky Mavis, the creator of the popular blockchain game Axie Infinity, has partnered with CyberKongz on its Ethereum-based non-fungible token (NFT) collection.

The partnership will launch the Genkai NFT mint on Mavis Marketplace, the migration of the Play & Kollect game to Sky Mavis‘ Ronin platform, and the development of a game featuring Genkai.

The Genkai mint is an anime-inspired art collection and the next edition of CyberKongz intellectual property. The mint will take place on July 27, 2023, at 9 a.m. Pacific time, with 4,000 Genkais made available on Ronin platform via the Mavis Market and 16,000 NFTs made available on Ethereum Mainnet.

As part of the homecoming celebration, Sky Mavis will reward each Mystic Axie holder with a Genkai NFT per Mystic Axie owned. All Ethereum Genkai holders will have the option to migrate to Ronin in the future. For Sky Mavis, this helps it become more than a PFP project and this will help the company add utility for NFTs.

This partnership builds on Sky Mavis’ ambition to making Ronin the industry standard for blockchain gaming. By collaborating with one of Web3’s big NFT projects, Sky Mavis aims to create a gaming ecosystem that shares a big user base, community-owned protocols, applications, and deep asset liquidity.

Sky Mavis is also expanding its strategy to create intellectual property that transcends gaming culture by amplifying CyberKongz’s latest expansion of IP through the Genkai mint.

“By partnering with Sky Mavis we are embarking on a unique opportunity to accelerate our already established gaming ecosystem, while also enabling an expansion of our holder base,”