Axie Infinity Price: Bounty Board 7000 bAXS Prize Pool

On September 7, 2026, Axie Infinity announced a new Bounty Board. The Bounty Board offers a 7,000 bAXS weekly reward pool and additional bAXS bonuses for the top 3,000 players based on their leaderboard placement ^[1]. Of course, this Bounty Board follows the studio’s earlier decision to switch Classic mode rewards from AXS to bAXS, effective April 7 ^[2]. The Bounty Board targets competitive play, further expanding bAXS as a reward token. The studio also noted that players can earn rank bonuses on top of the base pool. It’s worth remembering that bAXS is a separate token not the main one and the studio has a track record of shifting reward structures, so it’s reasonable to view this as a controlled experiment rather than a generous giveaway.

Axie Infinity’s Whimsical Art Style

Beyond the rank bonuses, the game’s visual identity is defined by Axie Infinity’s art style. In my opinion, Axie Infinity uses stylized 2D art with hand-painted backdrops and a slightly raised battlefield view, which keeps the whole board readable. The round-bodied fighters with oversized eyes bounce around the desert arena while a giant stone statue towers over the sand. This bright, playful world shares Slay the Spire’s clean card-battle staging, where bold icon-driven cues tell you exactly what matters. That combination of whimsy and readability is a solid piece of art direction nothing groundbreaking, but it works.

Round-bodied creatures bounce before a looming stone statue.

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Player Sentiment on Axie Infinity Bounty Board

The community has shared various reactions to the update. Despite all the love for the art, players say Axie Infinity is a blast with cool character designs and a tough challenge that makes you plan each move ^[3]. But not everything’s going smoothly on the tech side. Other folks complain about glitches like cards freezing mid-game or the app asking for an update that never shows up ^[3]. The community is totally split: some still enjoy the game, while others say it crashed after its peak and never came back ^[3].

Our shill detection shows that a cluster of generic 5-star reviews with no gameplay details and hype language, particularly around March 2023, indicates likely shilling. ^[4]

… or u can sell your pet? ^[3]

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AXS Price Response to Axie Infinity Bounty Board

Alongside the mixed sentiment around the update, here’s how AXS has been moving lately. So Axie Infinity’s token, AXS, was just chilling with all the other gaming tokens. They were all pretty flat. Then, around some big news, AXS barely budged. No cap the price action has been underwhelming.

• 30-day range: $0.8372 to $1.12
• Past 90 days: +2.9% (vs. other gaming tokens: +0.5%)
• Our wash-trading model finds some indicators, the second of its four risk bands for this token as of the 7th of September 2026, after we flagged it on 20 of the 29 days it scored ^[9]

AXS vs. Gaming Index: data table

Window	AXS	Gaming Index
1 year	-58.85%	-76.87%
6 months	-12.35%	+3.54%
3 months	+2.95%	+0.52%
1 month	+5.97%	+5.22%
1 day	+0.81%	+1.00%

Axie Infinity 7000 bAXS Prize Pool

Given that shuffle in the token, keep those numbers handy, because here is what just got posted. The new Bounty Board is live, and it comes with a 7,000 bAXS prize pool. That sounds big, but bAXS isn’t AXS it’s a separate token with its own liquidity and history of value fluctuations. The leading 3,000 players on the leaderboard get extra bAXS based on their rank. The image shows a table with rewards from 160 bAXS all the way down to 3 bAXS for ranks 1001 to 3000. It’s a decent prize pool on paper, but the real question is whether players actually find it worthwhile after gas fees and time investment. The announcement feels a bit mid when you consider how many players are competing for slices of that pie.

People in the replies to the announcement are feeling all sorts of ways. Some are happy, like Desc_269 who got 8.5 bAXS in the top 900 ^[5]. Others are a bit bummed. adi124m4 thinks the Bounty Board is only for certain people now and regular players can’t get rewards ^[6]. Rojankhzxr missed last week because they weren’t home ^[7]. And 24_L_20 is not impressed, calling the rewards “karampot” (tiny) ^[8]. Mixed vibes for sure!

The debate over the Bounty Board’s accessibility plays out against Axie Infinity’s still sizable community, with 640,061 members in its Discord server.

References

1. ↑ “Original announcement on X” X
2. ↑ “X post by @AxieInfinity” (English) X Post
3. ↑ “Google Play review(s) of Axie Infinity” (English) Google Play Page
4. ↑ “What shill detection is and how we identify it” (English) What is Shill Detection
5. ↑ “X reply by @Desc_269” (English) X Reply
6. ↑ “X reply by @adi124m4” (English) X Reply
7. ↑ “X reply by @Rojankhzxr” (English) X Reply
8. ↑ “X reply by @AzuajexKIND” (English) X Reply
9. ↑ “What wash trading is and how we detect it” (English) What is Wash-Trading

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