The AXS token from gaming project Axie Infinity jumped 209% this month, going past $2.70 for the first time since July 2025.<\/p>\n
The move has put Axie back on traders\u2019 radar at a time when most of the crypto market remains under pressure, with investors focusing on whether structural token changes can support longer-term demand.<\/p>\n
The rally followed a statement from Axie Infinity co-founder Jeffrey \u201cJihoz\u201d Zirlin, posted on X last week, outlining<\/a> plans to transition AXS rewards into a bonded version called bAXS. He stated that AXS will back bAXS one-to-one and utilize it directly in Axie\u2019s core applications, such as staking and in-game spending.<\/p>\n A key change is the introduction of a reputation-based selling fee. Holders who choose to sell bAXS will pay a variable fee to the Axie treasury, with lower fees reserved for users who hold higher Axie scores. Zirlin said the focus is not short-term price action but \u201cstructural changes to supply\u201d planned for 2026.<\/p>\n Axie Infinity\u2019s official account echoed that message in a subsequent post, describing<\/a> bAXS as a way to keep value circulating inside the ecosystem rather than flowing straight to exchanges.<\/p>\n The community response has been broadly positive, interpreting the change as a fundamental shift.<\/p>\n Influencer Adrian wrote<\/a>,<\/p>\n \u201cThis sounds really solid for the Axie ecosystem. I am looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, analyst Kevihaiceth called it<\/a> an \u201cinteresting move to integrate reputation into selling mechanics.\u201d However, some, like user Laxo, expressed cautious optimism, commenting,<\/p>\n \u201cfelt like axie was fading but theyre cooking now. lets see if rep based selling brings real activity or just new farm meta.\u201d<\/p>\n AXS price action has sharply diverged from the wider market. At the time of writing, CoinGecko data showed the token had dropped back to around $2.40 after briefly touching $2.71. The current price still puts it up more than 116% in the last seven days and nearly 195% over the past month.<\/p>\n Trading volume has also jumped, with more than $700 million changing hands in a day, a level that suggests speculative interest alongside renewed attention from long-term players. By comparison, the broader market has moved in the opposite direction. For example, Bitcoin (BTC) fell below $90,000 earlier this week, dragging<\/a> the total crypto market into losses of over $250 billion, while Ethereum (ETH) slipped<\/a> under $3,000 amid rising sell pressure.<\/p>\n Despite the recent uptick, AXS is still down nearly 60% over the past year and is trading more than 98% below its $165 peak from November 2021. Still, the latest rally shows how project-specific changes can temporarily break correlation with BTC when market conditions are otherwise weak.<\/p>\n Whether that strength holds will likely depend on how quickly bAXS rolls out and whether reputation-linked incentives change user behavior inside the Axie economy.<\/p>\n The post Axie Infinity\u2019s bAXS Overhaul Sparks 200% AXS Rally<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The AXS token from gaming project Axie Infinity jumped 209% this month, going past $2.70 for the first time since July 2025. The move has put Axie back on traders\u2019 radar at a time when most of the crypto market remains under pressure, with investors focusing on whether structural token changes can support longer-term demand. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":129130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Price Action Stands out as the Broader Market Struggles<\/h2>\n