PANews reported on May 11th that, according to CoinDesk , Ronin, the gaming public chain behind Axie Infinity , will undergo a hard fork on May 12th , migrating from an independent sidechain to the Ethereum Layer 2 network. This is expected to cause approximately 10 hours of network downtime, during which all transfers, swaps , contract interactions, and on-chain gaming activities will be suspended. This upgrade will introduce an OP Stack architecture and a " Proof of Distribution " model, rewarding builders based on their actual network contributions. It will also significantly reduce the RON inflation rate from over 20% to less than 1% , and transfer 90 million RON tokens originally used for staking rewards to the Treasury Fund. Market fees will be increased from 0.5% to 1.25% to improve security, scalability, and reshape the token economy.