Animoca Brands

The Sandbox and Brinc announce $50M Open Metaverse Accelerator Program funding for 100 startups

The Sandbox, a decentralized gaming metaverse and a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, has committed $50 million to Brinc, a global venture accelerator, for The Sandbox Metaverse Accelerator Program, which will target 100 startups to enhance the open metaverse.

Hong Kong gaming firm Animoca Brands raises $358.89M at $5B valuation to grow the open metaverse

Animoca Brands has completed a capital raise of $358.89 million at a pre-money valuation of $5 billion. The round was led by Liberty City Ventures, with other investors including 10T Holdings, C Ventures, Delta Fund, Gemini Frontier Fund, Gobi Partners Greater Bay Area, Kingsway, L2 Capital, Mirae Asset, Pacific Century Group, ParaFi Capital, Provident,…

Hong Kong billionaire Adrian Cheng enters metaverse via investment in Animoca Brands’ The Sandbox

The Sandbox offers virtual real estate, called LAND NFTs, in the open metaverse. Cheng's LAND will be one of the biggest plots in The Sandbox, and form part of the ‘Mega City’ virtual world, which will include his Innovation Hub. The landmark of the Innovation Hub will be the GBA Pavilion, a vibrant center propagating creativity and futuristic vision to…

Binance Smart Chain and Animoca Brands set up $200M investment program for blockchain gaming projects

Binance Smart Chain (BSC) and Animoca Brands are launching a $200 million investment program to accelerate and incubate early crypto gaming startups that are building on BSC.

Gamers are making a living from play-to-earn: Here’s how to get started [Podcast]]

Compared to traditional video games, NFT games offer more to players by allowing them to truly own their game assets. This is the opposite in traditional games, where the game makers in fact own the player’s items. The play-to-earn model is flipping that around, where players now truly own their NFT game assets. 

Out with the old, in with the new: Redefining the gaming ecosystem with NFTs [Podcast]

NFTs are unique tokens that can represent just about anything digital--characters, power-ups, virtual land, weapons, a cherished video clip, and your favorite music soundtrack. They are built with the aid of blockchain technology that enables the uniqueness of each NFT.

Animoca Brands’ subsidiary Quidd token raises $5M from Binance Smart Chain Growth Fund and others

Quidd, the digital collectibles company and a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, announced that the QUIDD token has raised a total of $5 million via private sale, pre-sale, and initial DEX offering (IDO), and is now available on PancakeSwap.

Hong Kong’s Animoca Brands and South Korea’s Cube Entertainment form joint venture for K-pop music metaverse and NFTs

Animoca Brands and Cube Entertainment (Cube Ent) announced a joint venture for the purposes of building a music metaverse, and issue non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and ecosystem tokens based on the intellectual property rights of Cube Ent’s globally popular K-pop music artists and actors.

Animoca Brands raises $65M at $2.2B valuation from Ubisoft, Sequoia China, Dragonfly Capital, others

Animoca Brands has closed a capital raise for $65 million conducted at a pre-money valuation of $2.2 billion.

Animoca Brands acquires indie game developer Blowfish Studios

The current management of Blowfish will continue to operate the company after the acquisition.