By Yijia at Curio Research. Co-authored by 0x992 at Smrti Lab. There has been a lot of excitement as well as skepticism over on-chain games. Such a level of attention is almost always beneficial. Similar to how Axie was born from the depth of the bear market following CryptoKitties fame in 2017, we could see on-chain games rise to unforeseen heights in the next bull market. Here I wish to examine 5 key paradigms of on-chain games and how each could be over/underrated. Many experiments will be...