Pixelsa popular web-based farming and social game that uses Ethereum Ronin sidechain network, has announced that it will end its Play-to-Airdrop 2.0 campaign on Friday, setting the stage for the long-awaited launch and distribution of the PIXEL token to players.
The Play-to-Airdrop 2.0 initiative, which allows players to climb the game’s leaderboard for a chance to earn PIXEL tokens, will end tomorrow, January 19 at 3pm ET, developers announced Wednesday. In a live stream, Pixel founder Luke Barwikowski said that the competition will not be extended, as the token’s launch is finally near.
“We will not extend the Play-to-Airdrop – that’s all. This is the last chance to earn the PIXEL token before the token generation event,” he said. “We won’t do another season, I promise. The PIXEL token is very close. We’re really excited about the next steps.”
A total of 8,000 players will receive an allocation of tokens from the current campaign, including the top 7,000 ranked in the game’s leaderboard. An additional 1,000 players will be randomly selected for the airdrop, provided they have earned at least 3,000 in-game points during the initiative.
🚨 Play-to-Airdrop 2.0 ends FRIDAY 🚨
P2A 2.0 ends this Friday, January 19, at 12pm PT / 8pm UTC! Make sure you’ve harvested your grumps, harvested your wax, and trimmed your trees!
Tune in to today’s live for all the details and get energy at the Theater: https://t.co/f5lGYNvWm2
— Pixel (@pixels_online) January 17, 2024
Barwikowski said the team will eliminate any suspected “bots” that were attempting to cultivate the airdrop before finalizing the ranking results, but will allow time for appeals for any false positives during that process. Ultimately, the 8,000 winning players will join 20,000 other players from the first Play-to-Airdrop campaign to earn a share of PIXEL tokens.
Echo previous comments about social media scams regarding the upcoming airdrop, Barwikowski advised players to remain vigilant and stated that players will not have to sign any transactions with a wallet to claim airdrop tokens. The request will occur in game with the allocations determined off-chain, he added.
No allocation estimates have yet been provided, nor has Pixels announced a launch date for the PIXEL token. But Bawikowski said the launch is “very close.”
Until that happens, however, Pixels plans to run a “Pixmas” giveaway promotion, with potential prizes such as land and in-game items. However, this promotion will not be used to award additional PIXEL tokens after the end of the Play-to-Airdrop 2.0 campaign.
While this is your last chance to earn PIXEL tokens before launch, Barwikowski added something extra game mechanics to earn they will be added to the game over time, especially with the final launch of the game’s “Chapter 2” update.
Pixels migrated from the Ethereum scaling network Polygon to Ronin on October 31, stimulating a notable boom in users for the gaming sidechain created by the team behind Axie Infinity.
Ronin had nearly 180,000 daily active players as of early this week, for shared data Of Axie Infinite co-founder Jeff Zirlin: A huge increase from the approximately 20,000 daily players recorded before the Pixel migration.