NFT game creator flips Axie Infinity virtual land for 9,200% gain in one year

NFT game creator flips Axie Infinity virtual land for 9,200% gain in one year

Illuvium co-founder Kieran Warwick has sold a virtual land plot in Axie Infinity for $28,000 after purchasing it last year for $300. Kieran Warwick, the co-founder of forthcoming NFT-powered gaming metaverse Illuvium, has revealed he made a gain of more than 9,000% from flipping a virtual plot of land purchased from the Axie Infinity metaverse.Warwick, the brother of Synthetix founder Kain, recounts purchasing the plots during mid-2020, noting there “weren’t too many use cases” for digital land at the time, with in-metaverse advertising and  mining having yet to become common as utilities....


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