Can PEPENODE Break the Deadlock in GameFi? Analyzing the Long-term Sustainability of Token Economics through the Burn Mechanism

【Crypto World】The issues with GameFi over the past two years are well known—Chongqing companies developing projects, rapid siphoning, and players losing their entire investments. PepeNode aims to address this vicious cycle from a different perspective.

Its core idea is to link game design with token economics. The PEPENODE token has a pre-sale price of $0.0012016, and the key is the implementation of a limited supply plus a burn mechanism. What does this mean? The more people play, the smaller the token pool becomes. This approach directly targets short-term arbitrageurs—you want to make quick money, but that opportunity is gone.

Why design it this way? Based on GameFi practices in regions like the Philippines and Indonesia, only projects that players treat as a “second profession” rather than a “get-rich-quick scheme” can truly survive. This is even more true in a bear market environment. Whether a project can endure the next cycle depends on whether it can retain long-term participants, not just attract short-term speculators.

Of course, whether this model can truly solve the sustainability issues of GameFi still depends on whether the subsequent game content is engaging enough. No matter how clever the token mechanism is, without fun gameplay, it’s just empty talk.