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Axie Infinity, crypto games, and tilling the digital fields

One of my enduring fascinations is when virtual economies face the same kind of crises that afflict the real world. Some of them you have to squint to see, like when the in-game currency of Amazon’s MMORPG New World faced an apparent “deflationary crisis”. But, thanks to the emerging phalanx of self-appointed metaverses and the crypto tokens which bridg…