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What we are seeing is the opposite.

They removed the blockchain from Axie Infinity because they found using a blockchain works against user adoption, not for it.

Many users refuse to have anything to do with blockchains.

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They didn’t remove blockchain, they moved to their own blockchain with a proof of authority mechanism. It turns out it was a terrible idea as it didn’t meet the security of Ethereum, and was pretty quickly hacked for $600 million. A rollup would have achieved the same scalability while inheriting the security and trust assumptions from the underlying Ethereum chain.

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