On January 18, chain game development and investment company Animoca Brands announced the completion of US$358.8 million in financing, led by Liberty City Ventures, with participation from 10T Holdings, Gemini Frontier Fund, ParaFi Capital, Provident, Sequoia China, and Winklevoss Capital. Post-money valuation of $5 billion.
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Animoca Investment Map
Holding $358.8 million in new financing, Animoca said it will provide funds for strategic acquisitions and investments, product development, and intellectual property licensing. The vision is to create a metaverse that enhances users digital property rights through NFT. In one sentence: Animoca will continue to increase its position in the Metaverse.
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1. DOGAMÍ
Item Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
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DOGAMÍ is a pet raising NFT game based on the Tezos chain. It combines AAA-quality NFT games with investment and pet ownership 3.0, aiming to build its pet metaverse Petaverse, where players can adopt and raise their unique pet companions and earn DOGA Tokens in the process.
Headquartered in Paris, France, DOGAMÍ was established in 2021 by Maximilian Stoeckl (CEO, former BCG), Bilal El Alamy (CTO, serial blockchain entrepreneur), Kristofer Dayne Penseyres (former Sony Pictures, brand partner) Co-founded in the middle of the year, and was recently selected as one of the 15 gaming startups to watch by the European startup media platform Sifteds venture capital analysis section.
In December last year, DOGAMÍ announced the completion of US$6 million in financing. This round of financing was participated by Ubisoft, Animoca Brands, Blockchain Founder Fund, XAnge, Ghaf Capital, and Draper Goren Holm. Angel investors include The Sandbox co-founder Sebastien Borget, etc. .
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Official website:https://dogami.com/
Twitter (30,000+):https://twitter.com/dogami
secondary titlehttps://discord.gg/dogami
2. Treeverse
Item Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
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Treeverse is an open-world social game developed for NFT collectors. Players can build their own houses arbitrarily and display their NFT works here. At the same time, they can view the NFTs collected by others and visit their home.
According to the founder Loopify, Treeverse is committed to becoming an NFT chat place that replaces social platforms such as Discord, Clubhouse, and Twitter, and at the same time gamifies the social experience, integrating social and games.
In October last year, Treeverse completed a round of financing at a valuation of US$25 million. IdeoCo Labs, Animoca Brands, SkyVision Capital, Stani Kulechov and others participated in the investment. Currently, the project is being tested and is expected to be officially launched by the end of the year.
The Treeverse game adopts a dual-token model, which is expected to be released after the game is officially launched. Currently, three types of NFTs have been officially released: Treeverse PLOT (land, floor price 1.32 ETH), NFTrees (trees, floor price 11.9 ETH), Timeless Characters (avatar, floor price 0.3 ETH).
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Official website:https://treeverse.net/
Twitter (63,000+):https://twitter.com/TheTreeverse
secondary titlehttps://discord.gg/DdNM95hX4P
3. Moonray PBC
Item Rating: ☆☆☆☆
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Moonray PBC is a Bitcoin-based metaverse game built through Stacks. By establishing an NFT game market, it supports players to buy, sell, and trade collectibles, weapons, and skins in the game, and players can benefit from it.
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Source: Steam
Currently, Moonray PBC has entered Steam. According to Steam public information, the game is expected to be released on March 1 this year. It is worth noting that the official Discord of the project was recently hacked, and the identities of the whitelist users disappeared.
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Official website:https://moonray.game/
Twitter (33,000+):https://twitter.com/moonraygame
secondary titlehttps://discord.gg/J7q9QFhCa2
4. SPACE Metaverse
Item Rating: ☆☆☆☆
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SPACE Metaverse is an art and business virtual world that allows users to design their own virtual business space for games, art, fashion, music, etc., and experience social commerce in the virtual world.
In December last year, SPACE Metaverse completed $7 million in financing, with participation from Dapper Labs, CoinFund, Animoca Brands, Hof Capital, and Digital Currency Group (DCG). The funds will be used to build and connect the various metaverses into a parallel society and build the economic backbone of the metaverse.
Interestingly, Binance Labs also announced on January 18 to participate in the SPACE Metaverse private placement round of financing. The head of Binance Labs Fund said: Spaces growth and product delivery trajectory are impressive. In addition, the team has the ability to quickly bring products to market. We believe that Space is building one of the key parts of the Metaverse infrastructure, bringing online The lower commerce brings it into the Metaverse.”
It is reported that SPACE Metaverse has accumulated more than 100 brand partners. Additionally, the team launched an early access alpha to 15,000 users and attracted key talent from top gaming, e-commerce, and crypto projects. The team plans to launch iOS and Oculus apps in 2022.
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Official website:https://space-metaverse.com/
secondary titlehttps://twitter.com/spacemetaverse
Discord（6400+）：https://discord.gg/TrbADYkYGZ
5. PIXELYNX
Item Rating: ☆☆☆
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PIXELYNX is a music metaverse platform created by senior musicians and technical experts, aiming to create an exciting new physical and digital music ecosystem for artists, enabling music artists to launch their own interactive environment, and through NFT, accessible Monetize play experiences and virtual performances.
The PIXELYNX gaming platform will launch in 2022 and is being developed by former Blizzard, EA Sports, Epic Games, Ubisoft and Microsoft employees. At that time, fans will be able to collect new songs, prizes and in-game assets through the game, as well as explore the real world, attend concerts and visit physical locations to collect NFTs that can be used in the game to unlock rewards and new music.
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Official website:https://pixelynx.io/
secondary titlehttps://twitter.com/pixelynx_io
6. nCore Games
Item Rating: ☆☆☆
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nCore Games is an Indian mobile game developer with multiple game studios including Studio nCore, Dot9 Games and IceSpice. Its product portfolio includes multiplayer action games Fau-G and Pro Cricket Mobile, which have been downloaded tens of millions of times.
On January 17, nCore Games announced the completion of $10 million in financing, led by Animoca Brands and Galaxy Interactive, with participation from Polygon and Hyperedge Capital. The new funds will be used to take the lead in promoting the development of Web 3 games.
nCore Games co-founder Vishal Gondal said in an interview with the media that the greater focus of the new funds is to expand into the metaverse, and is currently evaluating launching its own NFT and tokens, and may do so in the next few months.
Official website:
Official website:https://www.ncoregames.com/
Twitter (49,000+):https://twitter.com/nCore_games
