Yield Guild Gaming’s southeast Asia subDAO – YGG SEA – has announced it’s closed $15 million in seed funding. Seven Seven Six (Sky Mavis, OpenSea, Sorare).Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) (OpenSea, Dapper Labs, Yield Guild, Sky Mavis, Mythical, Forte).Coinbase (Animoca Brands, Dapper, Immutable).Hashed (Animoca Brands, Axie Infinity, Mythical Games, Enjin).Animoca Brands(Dapper Labs, Lucid Sight, Axie Infinity).Galaxy Digital (Immutable, Lucid Sight, Mythical Games).Virtually Human Studio (Zed Run): $20 million.Significant companies (by investment raised)
Total blockchain investments (ICOs/token sales etc): $881 million.Total traditional investments (VCs, shares etc): $4.6 billion.If you think there’s a deal we’ve missed, please email Total investments to-date during 2021: $4.0 billion Total investments in 2020: $88 million Total investments to-date: $5.4 billion Additionally, a clarification was made that Giphy is a partner with a custom integration, not an SDK partner.Welcome to our master list of investments in blockchain games. Regularly updated, this is a list of every investment into blockchain game companies. “At this pace, within two months, I think we’ll be in a really great shape and ready for Genies to stress out our servers.”Įditor’s note: The article was corrected to reflect Dapper Labs’ most recent valuation as well as Genies’ valuation and investors. “We used to have pretty significant downtime, so we're just pretty much down to scheduled maintenance now,” says Gharegozlou. However, it is now facing the pressure of declining sales and trading volume, which could be attributed to the overall cooling of the NFT boom and technical issues related to platform congestion and testing, as the platform is still technically operating in beta mode despite its widespread adoption. The marketplace, largely responsible for the boom of NFTs has set a high bar, scoring more than $500 million in sales in less than a year. “I fell in love with this concept of visual identity because I really did feel like I could be myself and harness emotions, thoughts and feelings through an avatar not limited by my physical self or intimidations of being in the real world,” says Nigam.ĭapper Labs’ CEO Roham Gharegozlou says he feels as confident about the undertaking as with the NBA Top Shot. We want to be the go-to identity.”Ī long-time developer, Nigam shares he has suffered from depression and anxiety, but the idea of avatars has helped him to overcome it, at least partially.
“We think that going into the metaverse, everybody's going to need a digital identity. We talk about the metaverse being a mindset where you're fully consumed by the Internet, and you care about what people think about you and who you are on the Internet, even sometimes more than your physical self,” says Nigam. “I think most people talk about the metaverse being the destination. He sees avatars as an opportunity to express and showcase different aspects of personality within the immersive virtual world of the internet called the metaverse.
Many Gen Z and millennial followers want “to be able to accessorise their online reputation”, says Genies CEO and co-founder Akash Nigam.
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Additionally, later this year, Genies plans to have hundreds of partnerships through its Avatar and NFT software development kit (SDK), which will enable people to use their Genie avatar as a virtual portable identity across the internet. Facebook-owned Giphy has more than 700 million users using animated GIFs on social media platforms including Instagram, WhatsApp and TikTok daily. While this may seem like a niche use case, the market opportunity is substantial.
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