XAYA is an open source project maintained by Autonomous Worlds Ltd. The history of XAYA starts back when team members became involved in the Namecoin project in 2011, and became voluntary leads in the project in 2013. Later on the team would fork Namecoin and build the world’s first blockchain game, Huntercoin. Released in February 2014 as an experimental 1-year project, Huntercoin was met with great enthusiasm and is still running today. Huntercoin is a fully decentralised autonomous game world. Several research papers have been written on the topic of decentralised blockchain games by the team. In October 2016 the founders started the “Chimaera project”, which was rebranded in early 2018 as “XAYA”. In Q2 2018 the XAYA blockchain went live and its first MVP game launched, Treat Fighter by Tricky Fast studios. In 2020 the team is aiming to release the world’s most complex blockchain game, Taurion.