In the past two days, I reopened PIXELS and my biggest feeling is not 'can it mine again,' but rather that it is forcing itself to shift from a 'reward-driven mining field' to a 'payment + consumption-driven in-game economy.' On the blockchain side, I checked Binance's price page; PIXEL was around 0.0078 in mid-April, with a market cap of just over twenty million dollars, and market expectations have actually been driven down very low—this makes every subsequent mechanism adjustment for the project feel more like a 'survival transformation' rather than just empty promises.
Now, the position of PIXEL resembles a 'ticket for high-value behaviors': VIP, certain NFT/asset actions, and higher participation thresholds will push demand towards this. The problem is very real: if the core loop doesn't become more 'sticky,' players will only buy a little when needed, and leave once it's used up; moreover, the higher the VIP/threshold is raised, the easier it is to keep casual players out, and once daily active users and trading activity turn around, the token will become purely sentiment-driven.
What I care more about is whether it has controlled the 'speed of coin issuance' and made the 'scenes where coins must be spent' tangible. There are currently claims that the staking reward has a monthly cap of 28 million tokens, which at least indicates that the team understands inflation is a fatal injury; however, on the other hand, if the consumption points that can truly absorb PIXEL in the long term (upgrades, decorations, social assets, event tickets, etc.) are not compelling enough, the economic contradiction will revert to the old path: players only calculate ROI without discussing the experience. @Pixels #pixel $PIXEL
Now, the position of PIXEL resembles a 'ticket for high-value behaviors': VIP, certain NFT/asset actions, and higher participation thresholds will push demand towards this. The problem is very real: if the core loop doesn't become more 'sticky,' players will only buy a little when needed, and leave once it's used up; moreover, the higher the VIP/threshold is raised, the easier it is to keep casual players out, and once daily active users and trading activity turn around, the token will become purely sentiment-driven.
What I care more about is whether it has controlled the 'speed of coin issuance' and made the 'scenes where coins must be spent' tangible. There are currently claims that the staking reward has a monthly cap of 28 million tokens, which at least indicates that the team understands inflation is a fatal injury; however, on the other hand, if the consumption points that can truly absorb PIXEL in the long term (upgrades, decorations, social assets, event tickets, etc.) are not compelling enough, the economic contradiction will revert to the old path: players only calculate ROI without discussing the experience. @Pixels #pixel $PIXEL