The Importance of Being Permanent: What are fully on-chain games

Fully onchain games, which run their entire game state and logic on a blockchain, are presented as the truest expression of web3 principles in gaming, with permissionless composability, transparency and trustlessness, and permanence as their main advantages. Anyone can build on existing components without approval, whereas Axie Infinity, which uses NFTs and an ERC-20 token, still runs on centralized servers, and its developer Sky Mavis can ban players. Chris Dixon's "strong vs. weak technologies" framework is cited to describe fully onchain games as the strong form, which draws less short-term consumer attention than minimally onchain games.