51�Թ�

“My point is that even if Aaron had managed to get an article published, it isn’t as though it’d earn him points with the SLP. I tried to tell him this, but he wouldn’t listen. Anyway, a few days before Aaron disappeared, he kept telling me that he was following a story. Something that would really earn the editors’ respect.”

“From what I heard through my friends at the Stockyards and the SLP, the police think he left town. With everything that’s going on, if he is found, it’ll probably be spun as a political assassination. I imagine the police will be visiting the Arbeiter-Zeitung in good time.”

Around the end of 2021, the game suffered a dramatic decline in its token prices and sales volumes, with the SLP token crashing from an all-time high of 39 cents to a single penny.

By contrast, Axie Infinity players had two main options: they could sell their SLP — which pumped it back into the ecosystem — or use it to breed axies whose main function is producing even more SLP.

The system was only sustainable with a huge demand for more SLP and axies, and maintaining that would require a functionally infinite number of new signups.