pudgy penguins shut down their mobile game after 1m downloads and app store leaderboard placement. 2m toys sold at walmart, manchester city partnership, 100b GIF impressions, NHL sponsorship. the strongest brand distribution in crypto history and they still couldn't monetize a game. mythical games sunsetted pudgy party development. uncharted killed fishing frenzy and gangster arena on ronin and blast. three studios, three failures, same quarter. if pudgy can't make gamefi work with that level of brand penetration and capital, the model is dead. the only projects surviving in the space are TCG collectibles. collector crypt is pulling $8.6m in monthly fees ($103m annualized) because collectors buy cards the same way they've bought pokemon and magic for decades. the business model predates crypto and works without it. gamefi tried to replace "fun" with "token emissions" and it turns out when prices fall, mercenary users leave and never come back. crypto's value accrues to financial infrastructure, not entertainment wrappers
As a young socialist, Hayek read Ludwig von Mises’ 1920 paper “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth.”
Mises showed that socialist central planning isn’t merely inefficient, it’s impossible.
Without private property and genuine market prices, planners lack any rational way to allocate scarce resources or determine real costs and needs.
Even Oskar Lange, a leading socialist in the calculation debate, effectively conceded the point.
While he promoted “market socialism” with trial-and-error pricing by a central board, real-world socialist planners in Eastern Europe quietly relied on world capitalist market prices as a guide.
Without external free-market price signals, pure socialism would be economically blind and coordination would collapse.
Mises went further, arguing that interventionism, the “middle way” of government meddling, is inherently unstable.
Each intervention creates problems that invite more interventions, eventually leading to full socialization.
Price controls cause shortages, subsidies distort production, and the cycle continues until the economy is fully planned.
The lesson is clear.
Rational economics requires genuine market prices emerging from voluntary exchange and private property.
Half-measures don’t stabilize the system. They accelerate the drift into central planning.
The Austrian School understood this decades before the collapse of the Soviet bloc proved it in practice.
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Ronin. Is. Home.
Migration to Ethereum complete ⚔
Five years ago, Ronin was a new Ethereum sidechain with a single game aboard: Axie Infinity.
Over the years, Ronin emerged as THE gaming chain, onboarding millions of players through more games like Pixels, Cambria, Angry Dynomites, and many others.
Today, we plugged our engine into the mothership: Ethereum.
Here’s what that means 🧵👇
🛠️ Ronin L2 Migration - Scheduled Network Downtime
As part of the upcoming Ronin L2 migration, the network will experience approximately 10 hours of scheduled downtime.
During this downtime window, all network transactions [including transfers, swaps, and smart contract interactions] will be paused.
For games using the Ronin Network, this also includes any game-related actions with on-chain interactions.
To avoid any inconvenience, please complete all necessary transactions/on-chain game actions on the Ronin Network before the downtime begins.
All transactions will resume normally once the migration is complete. You can track the approximate start time here: https://t.co/U8iyZEEpY8
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