Animoca Brands
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Bondex, which seeks to gamify recruiting, announced a $10 million raise across rounds
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Web3 development shop Hashcode Studio is tasked with building out the gaming giant’s magical spin on chess
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As ZK proof development continues apace, two startups focused on creating tools for building with zero knowledge announced funding rounds
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A new Ethereum layer-2 and an Avalanche-based blockchain also hit the ground running this week
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Web3 gaming and social media development brought home a few raises of their own this week
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ONE Championship teams up with Animoca to bring an NFT-powered mobile game to mixed martial art fans
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The separate investment vehicle will target mid- to late-stage metaverse startups
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Venture capitalists awarded $500 million in funding to crypto startups last week — more than half went to metaverse and Web3 gaming firms
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Asia’s largest blockchain investment firm has just secured another $100 million to fund its metaverse ambitions
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As Japanese intellectual property gains international popularity, local crypto community continues to grow
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Google’s parent firm is the largest participant in blockchain investing on a list of 100 public companies, Blockdata found
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Venture capital firms Multicoin Capital and Lightspeed are funneling more money into blockchain projects and crypto startups
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Yuga Labs, the creator behind blue-chip NFT collection BAYC, notched a $4 billion post-money valuation on its latest raise
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Lots of fresh capital entered the crypto space this week, up 36% from last week’s $1.34 billion
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The partnership extends the pair’s K-pop music metaverse AniCube joint venture
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The move comes as Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov urged cryptocurrency exchanges to block addresses belonging to Russian users
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The announcement comes exactly two months after Brinc closed a $130 million funding raise led by Animoca
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The Sandbox Metaverse Accelerator Program will target 100 startups developing on the Open Metaverse, gifting them up to $250,000 each
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The new funding round increases Animoca’s valuation to $5.4 billion, the company said
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