Ronin to migrate L2

Ronin, the blockchain behind Axie Infinity, said it will switch to an Ethereum layer-2 network on May 12. (roninchain.com) (decrypt.co) The change is scheduled to trigger at block 55,577,490, and Sky Mavis said the mainnet could be offline for about 10 hours during the hard fork. Ronin has run as an Ethereum sidechain for about four years. (phemex.com) (decrypt.co) A layer-2 is a network that batches activity and settles it back to Ethereum, instead of running as a more separate chain with its own security model. Ronin said it will use the OP Stack, the software framework behind several Ethereum scaling networks. (roninchain.com) (phemex.com) Sky Mavis tied the move to Ronin’s economics as much as its infrastructure. The company said RON inflation will fall from more than 20% to less than 1%, while treasury fee capture will rise from 0.5% to 1.25%. (phemex.com) (gncrypto.news) Ronin’s staking system had allocated 180 million RON for rewards, and the network’s docs say validators also earn transaction fees. Reports on the new plan say 90 million RON will move to the treasury and a new builder-reward system will automate payouts. (docs.roninchain.com) (phemex.com) (funjible.games) Ronin was built for Axie Infinity when Ethereum was too slow and expensive for a mass-market game. Ronin later added other titles, including Pixels, which migrated onto the network in 2023. (roninchain.com 1) (roninchain.com 2) The network has spent the past two years pushing a broader security and infrastructure reset after the March 2022 Ronin bridge hack, which drained 173,600 Ether and 25.5 million USD Coin, worth about $625 million at the time. Sky Mavis later reimbursed users and added more validators. (blockworks.com) (coindesk.com) (cointelegraph.com) Ronin has also been trying to look less like a one-game chain and more like a broader app network. Its August 2025 roadmap said the goal was to become “the gamification engine of Ethereum,” with gaming, finance, social apps and consumer tools on the same stack. (roninchain.com) The May 12 cutover will show whether that pitch can hold up in practice: lower token emissions, more revenue to the treasury, and Ethereum settlement under the hood instead of a standalone sidechain. (roninchain.com) (phemex.com)