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Web3 development shop Hashcode Studio is tasked with building out the gaming giant’s magical spin on chess

As ZK proof development continues apace, two startups focused on creating tools for building with zero knowledge announced funding rounds

A new Ethereum layer-2 and an Avalanche-based blockchain also hit the ground running this week

Web3 gaming and social media development brought home a few raises of their own this week

ONE Championship teams up with Animoca to bring an NFT-powered mobile game to mixed martial art fans

The separate investment vehicle will target mid- to late-stage metaverse startups

Venture capitalists awarded $500 million in funding to crypto startups last week — more than half went to metaverse and Web3 gaming firms

Rockstar Games’ co-founder adds to team’s war chest for Web3 game development

Asia’s largest blockchain investment firm has just secured another $100 million to fund its metaverse ambitions

Around the world, over $200 million has been invested in crypto this past week

As Japanese intellectual property gains international popularity, local crypto community continues to grow

Google’s parent firm is the largest participant in blockchain investing on a list of 100 public companies, Blockdata found

Venture capital firms Multicoin Capital and Lightspeed are funneling more money into blockchain projects and crypto startups

Animoca Brands and Andreessen Horowitz are leading crypto gaming investments

Yuga Labs, the creator behind blue-chip NFT collection BAYC, notched a $4 billion post-money valuation on its latest raise

Lots of fresh capital entered the crypto space this week, up 36% from last week’s $1.34 billion

The NFT startup announced a $200 million financing round on Monday

The partnership extends the pair’s K-pop music metaverse AniCube joint venture

The move comes as Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov urged cryptocurrency exchanges to block addresses belonging to Russian users

Over $1.3 billion in investments poured into the crypto sector this week

The announcement comes exactly two months after Brinc closed a $130 million funding raise led by Animoca

The Sandbox Metaverse Accelerator Program will target 100 startups developing on the Open Metaverse, gifting them up to $250,000 each

The new funding round increases Animoca’s valuation to $5.4 billion, the company said

The decentralized NFT auction protocol built on Solana’s blockchain aims to scale its team with the latest capital raise, the founder of Burnt Finance told Blockworks