The Axie Marketplace is the official place to buy and sell Axie Infinity assets: Axies, land, land items and in-game items such as charms and runes. It is run by the game's developer, Sky Mavis, at app.axieinfinity.com. Trades settle on the Ronin network, and the seller pays a 4.25% fee on each completed sale. Ronin became an Ethereum Layer 2 on 12 May 2026, and the marketplace keeps working the same way for users after that change.
What changed in 2026
- 12 May 2026: Ronin became an Ethereum Layer 2. Ronin was an independent Ethereum sidechain from 2021. On 12 May it hard-forked into a Layer 2 built on the OP Stack, with about 10 hours of planned downtime. On-chain game actions for Axie Infinity stopped during that window, as reported by The Block on 11 May 2026. The network said annual RON inflation would fall from above 20% to below 1%.
- 7 January 2026: SLP rewards stopped in Origins. BitPinas reported on 6 January 2026 that Sky Mavis would stop issuing SLP through Axie Origins Ranked Mode. The studio blamed bot farming as player numbers fell. SLP can still be used in-game for crafting and morphing.
- January 2026: bAXS announced. Co-founder Jeffrey "Jihoz" Zirlin said AXS rewards would move to a bonded token, bAXS, backed one-to-one by AXS. Selling bAXS carries a variable fee paid to the Axie treasury, and holders with higher Axie Scores pay less.
- Atia's Legacy. Sky Mavis is moving resources to Atia's Legacy, an MMO set in Lunacia that it first showed in March 2025. A second playtest started on 8 April 2026. There is no confirmed release date.
How the marketplace works
The marketplace only lists assets from the Axie Infinity ecosystem. It does not trade NFTs from other games. You connect a Ronin Wallet, a self-custodial wallet: you hold your own keys, and Sky Mavis does not hold your assets for you. Every purchase, sale and offer is a transaction on the Ronin chain. When a sale completes, the asset moves to the buyer and the fee goes to the treasury in the same transaction.
Buying
- Open app.axieinfinity.com from a bookmark you saved yourself, then connect your Ronin Wallet.
- Filter listings by class, body parts, breed count or price.
- Buy at the listed price, or make an offer below it.
- Approve the transaction in your wallet.
Selling
- Choose the asset in your inventory and set a price.
- When it sells, the 4.25% fee comes out of what you receive.
Fees
| Who pays | What | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|
| Seller | 4.25% of each completed sale | Axie Community Treasury, governed by AXS holders |
| Buyer | Network gas only | Ronin network |
The Axie whitepaper describes the 4.25% fee as charged on "successful sales of Axie NFT assets: Axies, land, and land items" and sent to the Community Treasury. When a buyer uses a Lunacian Code, Axie's support documentation says 1% of the 4.25% goes to the code's owner and the rest goes to the treasury.
Sky Mavis also runs a separate marketplace for the whole Ronin network. Its documentation now calls it Ronin Market, and it was earlier branded Mavis Market. The documentation lists a 2.5% service fee there: 2% to Sky Mavis and 0.5% to the Ronin Treasury. Each creator also sets its own royalty, which the documentation says ranges from 0% to 10% on average.
What do you keep after the 4.25% seller fee?
Enter your listing price and what you paid for the asset to see your payout after the marketplace fee and the gain or loss that leaves you.
| Price the asset sells for (in the token you list in) | What you paid for the asset (same token) | Payout after the 4.25% fee, minus what you paid |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | 80 | 15.75 |
| 100 | 0 | 95.75 |
| 50 | 60 | -12.12 |
- Sale price and cost are your own inputs, not figures from any source; the 4.25% seller fee is the one the Axie whitepaper describes.
- A Lunacian Code changes only where part of the 4.25% goes, not how much the seller pays.
- A positive result is a gain on the values entered; a negative result is a loss on them.
This is arithmetic on your inputs only: it leaves out gas, the variable AXS breeding cost, token price moves and tax, and cannot tell you whether the asset will sell at your price.
Breeding and the marketplace
Breeding creates new Axies, and new Axies end up for sale on the marketplace. That makes breeding the main source of new supply. According to the official whitepaper:
- An Axie can breed at most 7 times. After that it is sterile.
- Each breed costs SLP plus AXS. The AXS part is "variable and subject to adjustment."
- Axies cannot breed with their children or their siblings, and offspring take 5 days to mature.
| Breed number | SLP cost per parent |
|---|---|
| 1 | 900 |
| 2 | 1,350 |
| 3 | 2,250 |
| 4 | 3,600 |
| 5 | 5,850 |
| 6 | 9,450 |
| 7 | 15,300 |
To work out the SLP for one breeding, add the costs for both parents at their current breed counts. The breeding screen in the game shows the exact SLP and AXS cost before you confirm. Origins no longer pays out new SLP (see above), so breeders now have to buy SLP on the market or use SLP they already hold.
Risks
- Bridge and contract risk. In March 2022, attackers took about 173,600 ETH and 25.5 million USDC from the Ronin bridge, roughly $600 million at the time. They used compromised validator keys to forge withdrawals: they controlled five of the nine validators, which was enough to approve them. Sky Mavis disclosed the breach on 29 March 2022. In April 2022 the FBI attributed it to North Korea's Lazarus Group and APT38. Sky Mavis raised $150 million to reimburse affected users.
- Phishing. Copycat domains and "free Axie" messages try to get you to approve a malicious transaction or hand over your seed phrase. Check the URL every time, and never share your seed phrase.
- Price and liquidity. AXS, SLP and Axie prices have fallen sharply from their 2021 highs. With fewer players, it can be hard to sell an asset quickly at the price you want.
- Changing economics. Recent changes have moved costs for players and breeders: SLP issuance in Origins has stopped, and AXS rewards are moving to bAXS.
Alternatives
Sky Mavis's Ronin-wide marketplace lists assets from other Ronin games as well as Axie items, with the fee structure described above. For Axie assets, the official Axie Marketplace is where the game's own tools, filters and inventory are built in.
