Bryce “Brycent” Johnson was one of the first influencers of the NFT game ‘Axie Infinity,’ encouraging his followers to buy in. Now he’s leaving it behind. When Bryce Johnson first discovered Axie Infinity, in spring 2021, he was four years out of college at Virginia Commonwealth University and had just started his fourth job as a software engineer, working deep in the bureaucratic morass of the government-facing IT firms around Washington, D.C.