Blockchain gaming startup makes round on the heels of rising play-to-earr demand

Blockchain gaming startup makes round on the heels of rising play-to-earr demand

Blockchain-based gaming platform OpenBlox has increased its seed round, since the company is trying to ride on a wave of interest on play-to-ear games while to launch his first game later this year.

OpenBlox collected $ 3 million with an assessment of $ 30 million and plans to provide funds for product and business development, game design and additional employees. The round was led by the risk capital company Shima Capital, a company recently founded in San Francisco under the direction of the experienced risk capital Yida Gao.

Venture companies such as 3Commas Capital, 100 × 100 venture capital, digital strategies and MC ventures also took part in the Seed round.

OpenBlox, which the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) technology uses to beat a bridge between blockchains, also has an NFT marketplace in the works-and in the meantime it has been received with a number of prominent gaming guilds.

The team plans to introduce three games-players can use blockchain applications, including NFT (not fungible tokens), over the trio of metavers. The gaming platform intends to create a web3-operated community instead of shaping digital collectibles on a one-time basis-an approach that can bring immediate profits, but one who rarely promotes sustainable user engagement.

its digital universe is based on a collection of 7,998 Genesis blox nfts that can be bred via in-game mechanics, similar to the blockbuster-play-to-earn-giant axie infinity.

The fundraising campaign comes from the fact that more and more top-class traditional game manufacturers-including Ubisoft-want to use blockchain elements.

These Blue-Chip developers, so-called AAA developers, are at the front of the game design and gameplay, say industry participants, but were faced with a hard sale of players who distrust NFTs due to environmental concerns.

After the team only started with Ethereum, it switched to the Arbitrum blockchain, a side chain, because it is working on expanding its decentralized financial transactions (Defi).

The startup plans to introduce an in-game token that could perhaps convey governance functions across the board. The long -term plan is the creation of a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that is controlled by players.

GAO, who previously supported other play-to-earn web3 startups, said that the team has "deep experience" with both traditional video games and as crypto napts. OpenBlox also works with a number of high -ranking developers and graphic designers, which is helpful, he said.

The challenge is to combine enthusiastic traditional video players-who are used to breathtaking graphics and captivating gameplay-with legions of crypto native who may be less select at the gameplay front, but especially when it comes to blockchain technology in the game and the potential to make money as a consumer in exchange for their time and loyalty.

"You basically want to have these new types of play options in which ownership is in the hands of the players, not the developer, and you are able to include other users and other counterparts in the room." Said Gao. "So instead of all graphic designers and the people who play the games in the studios to have everything controlled, they can consult others."

Elle Sia, a web3-focused investment director at the OpenBlox supporter digital strategies, said that the game of the game is significantly sharper than that of an average crypto-native game.

And according to SIA, the team has been trying to ensure that the gameplay is fun and captivating.

"It has to be fun," said Sia. "Otherwise nobody will play. Otherwise it will be a bit like a ponzi, insofar as you need new players to get in."

The startup will also rely heavily on its partnerships with gaming guilds-including Real Deal Guilds (RDG), Ancient8, Good Games Guild and Breederdao-to arouse interest in the meta personation project and to win players worldwide.

dr. X, the pseudonymous openblox founder, said in a statement that the new investors of the startup "a large network of stakeholders" bring into the company.

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