Airtree is a venture capital firm backing Aussie and Kiwi founders, building the iconic technology companies of tomorrow. We’re powered by our network, dedicating extraordinary resources to help founders shortcut company-building firsts and accelerate their journey from idea to global household name. As one of the largest and most active early-stage investors in Australia and New Zealand, Airtree’s 100+ portfolio features the region’s breakout tech companies, including Canva, Go1, Employment Hero, Pet Circle, Immutable and Linktree.

Airtree Ventures

Established in 2014, Outlier Ventures is one of the first VC firms dedicated to investing in the emerging crypto ecosystem. Since launching its Base Camp accelerator in 2019, Outlier Ventures has received over 5,000 applications for its highly sought after virtual accelerator and has helped raise over $350 million in seed funding for its growing portfolio of 220+ high-profile projects from across the world, such as Crucible and Biconomy. In addition, Outlier Ventures has supported the launch and growth of several billion-dollar crypto economies including Fetch.ai, Boson Protocol, Secret Network, Blox Move, Swash and DIA Data. Their portfolio includes notable projects across DeFi, NFTs and blockchain infrastructure with a focus on emergent Metaverse use cases such as NFT-based digital couture fashion brands, avatar marketplaces, decentralized music publishing platforms, play-to-earn games, augmented reality social positioning protocols, and more. Outlier Ventures has expanded its Base Camp program to partner with leading protocols such as Aptos, Filecoin / IPFS, Polygon, and Polkadot along with FARFETCH, to host dedicated accelerator programs for these Web3 ecosystems along with Ascent, Outlier Ventures’ advisory offering targeted at later stage teams. Through its blockchain agnostic approach, Outlier Ventures has achieved record growth, doubled its cohort intake year after year, and is on target to accelerate well over 100 startups in 2022, making it one of the most active investors in the space by deal volume and the most active Web3 accelerator globally and top 3 crypto investor globally by volume of investment. Since its inception, Outlier Ventures has always viewed its portfolio as an open stack of technologies that contribute to a new web paradigm, referred to as Web3, based on principles that prioritize the sovereignty of the user, their data and digital wealth, over platform and shareholder supremacy. In January of 2021, Outlier Ventures published its thesis on the imminent arrival of the Metaverse, outlining how Web3 would serve as an operating system for an Open Metaverse.

Outlier Ventures

10T Holdings is a growth equity fund that invests in private companies operating in the digital asset ecosystem. It specializes in the fields of financial services, venture capital, and investment management. The firm was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

10T Holdings

Ripple provides one frictionless experience to send money globally using the power of blockchain. It offers a global real-time payment system that enables banks and financial institutions around the world to directly transact with each other without the need for a central correspondent. The company also offers FX Market Making, a solution enabling enterprises to gain access to cross-currency liquidity through a distributed network that allows foreign exchange to be externally sourced from a competitive FX marketplace or an internal FX trading desk. This minimizes FX exposure thereby lowering the volatility and counter-party risk of trades. Ripple Insights features industry updates, insider perspectives, and in-depth market analysis.

Ripple

Blockchain Founders Fund (BFF) is a Singapore based early-stage Venture Capital Fund which invests in top-tier Blockchain startups globally. Their industry leading go-to-market focused Venture Program aids seasoned and first-time entrepreneurs across key business functions to fast-track growth. BFF has scaled many of the leading Blockchain startups and is always looking to connect with exceptional founders across the industry including Web3, metaverse, gamefi, DeFi, and NFT.

Blockchain Founders Fund

Futureverse

Metaverse Platforms

Animoca Brands acquired Pixowl (August 2018), the independent mobile game company behind the social metaverse platform "The Sandbox" built on Ethereum, which is one of the largest independent user-generated content platforms and gaming ecosystems. Users can explore as avatars, buy land, host experiences, interact with others, and earn cryptocurrency through gameplay. Its tools include the no-code “Game Maker” for 3D assets and “VoxEdit” for voxel-based NFT creation. The platform uses the SAND token for digital asset transactions. As of&nbsp;<a href="https://medium.com/sandbox-game/can-ai-empower-creators-in-the-sandbox-928fdc6124e8">January 2024</a>, The Sandbox was integrating GenAI tools to enhance content creation.In 2024, Animoca Brands announced&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/30906">plans</a> for a 2025 IPO in crypto-friendly regions like Hong Kong or the Middle East. Its subsidiary Eden Games launched the beta of Web3 kart racer Cosmic Royale in&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/31623">July</a> as part of the Motorverse, Animoca’s digital vehicle and motorsport ecosystem. In&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/33777">September</a>, the SEC expanded its lawsuit against Binance to include Animoca-backed The Sandbox (SAND) as a security.Animoca Brands also operates OMA3 (Open Metaverse Alliance for Web3), a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) focused on creating an open, borderless metaverse with members like Alien Worlds, Decentraland, and The Sandbox. It also runs Mocaverse, offering immersive experiences like games, NFTs, and VR, enabling users to create digital identities, build reputations, and earn/spend Realm Points.For&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sandbox.game/en/blog/the-sandbox-announces-open-publishing-and-new-100m-sand-game-maker-fund-at-its-first-global-creators-day-held-in-hong-kong/3381/">2024</a>, the company had a goal of adding 2,000 user generated content (UGC) experiences on its platform. To support this, the company fully opened up its platform to UGC in November 2023, by removing the initial application process for publishing experiences. The company also acquired&nbsp;game development studio Sviper (<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16738">February 2023</a>).Animoca Brands reported bookings of USD 280 million in FY2023, a 30% YoY drop attributed to the slowdown of the overall Web3 market following the ‘crypto winter’. The Sandbox platform generated USD 64 million of bookings in FY2023 from the sale of its SAND token, and USD 5 million from the sale of NFTs.Key customers and partnershipsAs of December 2023, The Sandbox had over 5.8 million users and 280,000+ creators.In&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/31064">June 2024</a>, the company partnered with Futureverse to improve the latter's metaverse technology stack. Previously, in October 2023, the company partnered with engagement platform Agora to incorporate its 3D spatial audio, persistent text chat, and interactive live-streaming functionalities into The Sandbox.&nbsp;Other partnerships with notable brands to launch virtual experiences on the platform included that with Warner Music Group (December 2023) and Gucci and Lacoste (November 2023).&nbsp;

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Based in Hong-Kong, Animoca Brands is a developer and publisher of blockchain-based games and traditional games based on both in-house and licensed intellectual property. It also operates as a venture capital company. Animoca’s blockchain games include REVV Motorsport, Phantom Galaxies, and Benji Bananas, which incorporate NFTs and other blockchain technologies.Other platforms operated by the company include Mocaverse, which provides users with immersive experiences like games, NFTs, virtual reality, and social media and allows them to create digital identities, build reputation, and earn and spend Realm Points within its ecosystem.Animoca has also acquired multiple companies in the Web3 space. Key acquisitions include companies such as Pixowl (developer of The Sandbox metaverse) in August 2018 for USD 4.9 million, Quidd (NFT marketplace) in December 2020 for USD 8 million, Lympo (blockchain-based fitness company) in December 2020 for USD 1.4 million, and Grease Monkey Games (game studio) in February 2022, among others. Animoca Brands has also invested in more than 340 companies, including those developing Web3 applications such as blockchain game developer <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/816035">Sky Mavis</a> and NFT marketplace <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/613285">OpenSea</a>.Moreover, the company had plans to go <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/30905">public</a> in 2025 in a crypto-friendly region such as Hong Kong or the Middle East.Key customers and partnershipsThe company entered into a strategic partnership with Saudi’s NEOM Investment Fund in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23240">October 2023</a>. Through the partnership, it was to leverage its expertise, subsidiaries, partners, and investment portfolio and work closely with the NEOM Investment Fund to establish a Web3 hub inside NEOM to drive Web3 initiatives and innovation in the region and shape the future of digital property rights and the open metaverse.Moreover, Animoca Brands formed partnerships to boost its Mocaverse project, including with Ubisoft’s <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24288">Strategic Innovation Lab</a>. It also partnered with AWS and Polygon Labs partner to launch <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24059">MoonRealm Express Accelerator</a>, to accelerate progress in fields such as decentralized identity, social finance, and gaming finance, by offering support for growth, including Web3 masterclasses, builder-centric hackathons, and incubation of projects. Animoca also collaborated with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26122">Lightlink</a>, an Ethereum-focused layer-2 protocol, to provide gasless transactions for Web3 games, and <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/32144">LayerZero Labs</a> to utilize its protocol as its default interoperability solution across its projects and over 540 portfolio companies.

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security, and new business models.

Nucanon exists to democratize game design and make the creative process of building expansive game worlds accessible to more people.

Intraverse is an Engagement Layer that brings engagement through gaming experience and quest system to NFT projects, metaverses and chains. It brings to life a cross-community, cross-chain and cross-platform by building gaming experiences where the protagonists are existing NFT Projects and IPs, integrated in-game as operable avatars Granted by  @0xPolygon @BAYC Council

MintPass is a travel companion app for collecting one-of-a-kind digital souvenirs to share experiences, inspire others, and get rewarded.

Plurality Network provides tools and platforms to help organizations incorporate and integrate blockchain technology into their operations. They create programs that run on decentralized networks, which improves reliability and reduces reliance on central systems. The company provides knowledge and advice services to assist organizations in understanding and efficiently implementing blockchain technology.

Any time you need the motivation and support of a fitness expert but can’t get to the gym, bring the gym vibe to you.

Spark integrates with products and services from crypto and tradfi, providing powerful workflow functionality through a unified interface.

A next-gen social platform for gamers and a differentiated gaming tech for game developers.

Futureverse is a technological and cultural foundation for the open metaverse where creators, companies, and communities can create their future.  seamless portal in and out of all apps in the metaverse, Futureverse allows users to travel with a passport, friends, communications, finances, and content. It was founded in 2022.

Futureverse, formed through the merger of 11 companies, provides tools for companies and developers to create content for the open metaverse. Its infrastructure consists of four core tools focusing on identity, artificial intelligence, communications, and payments, which are integrated via The Root Network, a layer-1 blockchain platform.

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Animoca Brands

Platforms that offer virtual worlds for multiplayer social gaming experiences enable users to create experiences and conduct transactions (e.g. buying virtual land)

Nucanon

Skalata

Antler

Paperclip Partners

Intraverse

Born Ready Ventures

MintPass

Plurality Network

GymVibe

Spark

Rekt Interactive

Futureverse, formed through the merger of 11 companies, provides tools for companies and developers to create content for the open metaverse. Its infrastructure consists of four core tools focusing on identity, artificial intelligence, communications, and payments, which are integrated via The Root Network, a layer-1 blockchain platform.The Root Network is a proof-of-stake, EVM-compatible protocol that supports asset interoperability across the open metaverse. The network uses a dual-token system: ROOT (native token) for security and governance and XRP for gas fees, ensuring optimal network efficiency and security.The company offers 1) Pass: a smart wallet SDK to allow companies onboard users to its Web3 apps and games; 2) Digital Object Transformer (DOT) Asset Pipeline: a platform to create 3D characters; and 3) AI Gaming Platform and SDK: a platform to develop AI powered casual strategy games. The gaming platform is powered by the Altered State Machine (ASM) Protocol, which allows developers to own, train, and trade unique AI avatars, games, worlds, and other metaverse applications. In addition, as of August 2023, the company was in the process of developing an asset registry, payment SDK, and NFT marketplace.Key customers and partnershipsApplications launched on its platform include AI League and Muhammad Ali - The Next Legends in partnership with FIFA and ABG (the IP Rights holders of the Muhammad Ali Enterprises), respectively.Moreover, the company partnered with best-selling author Ernest Cline to form <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25179">Readyverse Studios</a> in January 2024. Its shared goal is to create a definitive destination in the metaverse for fans to engage with their favorite stories and intellectual properties.Funding and financialsIn July 2023, Futureverse raised <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/20212">USD 54 million in Series A </a>funding. The round was led by 10T Holdings, and the company aimed to use the fresh funds to further develop its technology, including its Futureverse Platform and The Root Network.

NEAR Protocol is an open-source layer-1 blockchain launched in October 2020. The blockchain uses a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism to validate transactions. Its native token is NEAR, which can be used to pay for transactions and storage on the blockchain, while also allowing token holders to participate in the platform’s governance process. In August 2024, NEAR launched a significant upgrade called "<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/32890">Nightshade 2.0</a>" to enhance scalability and usability. This update is a major step in integrating sharding into NEAR's core architecture, which divides the blockchain into smaller segments, allowing the network to process more transactions at a lower cost. Validators no longer need to store shard states locally; instead, they retrieve "state witnesses" from the network to validate changes. This improves shard performance and boosts the network’s ability to support more shards.NEAR allows users to sign up for a wallet (account) using unique human-readable names (e.g., johndoe.near, in comparison to cryptographic and randomly generated private keys, which is a characteristic of chains such as Ethereum), which in turn enables easy sign-ins for dApps for users and improves the overall usability of the blockchain. The platform also allows developers to prepay gas fees for first-time users, allowing the latter to interact with a dApp for free. NEAR also offers the Rainbow Bridge, which allows users to transfer ERC-20 and NEAR tokens or any other digital asset between the Ethereum and NEAR blockchain. In addition, the platform provides tools such as SDKs, CLIs, and APIs for developers to create dApps on its blockchain. In addition, NEAR allocates 30% of the transaction fees to developers to encourage them to build applications on its platform, with the remainder being burnt.The protocol also incorporates <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/32771">Chain Signatures</a>, a technology that allows smart contracts to sign transactions across multiple blockchains without relying on cross-chain bridges. This aims to simplify multichain dApp development by reducing the need for multiple wallets and manual bridging, as well as enhancing user experience and increasing asset liquidity and utility across blockchains.As of July 2022, NEAR had 100 validators on its blockchain, which it expected to increase in proportion to the number of transactions. The platform uses an auction system to select and determine the seat price for its validators every epoch (time interval of 12 hours). The platform claims to be able to scale infinitely by adding more validators owing to its underlying architecture.Key customers and partnershipsIn June 2021, NEAR joined ICON’s Blockchain Transmission Protocol (BTP), which seeks to improve cross-chain communication. The partnership allowed data to be transferred between the NEAR blockchain and other BTP partners such as Polkadot and Harmon. Moreover, NEAR partnered with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23393">Nym Technologies </a>to integrate end-to-end encryption and privacy safeguards into the NEAR blockchain ecosystem.In addition, NEAR partnered with Ardana, a stablecoin and decentralized exchange (DEX) liquidity pool built on the Cardano blockchain in November 2021, to build a bridge to support integrations and token transfers between the NEAR and Cardano blockchains. It had also planned to enable cross-chain smart contract functionality and allow the NEAR token to be used as collateral on Ardana to mint stablecoins in the future.

NEAR

Ava Labs develops the open-source layer-1 blockchain, Avalanche. The Avalanche network architecture contains three separate blockchains in order to address the decentralization, security, and scalability limitations of blockchains. These include 1) the Exchange Chain (X-Chain), which is the default blockchain on which assets are created and exchanged and also includes Avalanche’s native token–AVAX; 2) the Contract Chain (C-Chain)—which is based on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)—allows for the creation and execution of smart contracts with cross-chain interoperability; and 3) the Platform Chain (P-Chain), which coordinates validators and enables the creation and management of subnets (a sovereign network that defines its own rules for membership and tokenomic). Avalanche uses a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism and is able to execute 4,500 transactions per second. As of December 2022, ~1,000 projects were built on Avalanche, including DeFi projects like Tether, SushiSwap, Chainlink, and Circle. As of the same date, the network processed on average two million daily transactions and was secured by more than 1,200 validators.Ava Labs launched Core, a dedicated non-custodial crypto wallet for AVAX as a browser extension, through which users are able to browse dApps on the Avalanche blockchain. In April 2023, the company announced plans to launch “ <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17583">Evergreen Subnets </a>,” a suite of blockchain deployments, tooling, and customization services specifically designed for financial institutions to run their own private, permissioned chains with approved parties. In addition, financial institutions will be able to communicate and transfer data with other subnets through Avalanche’s native communication protocol Avalanche Warp Messaging (AWM) without relying on any third parties. It also launched <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/18842">AvaCloud </a>in May 2023, a no-code Web3 launchpad that assists businesses in building fully managed blockchain ecosystems. AvaCloud consists of four main components: an automated blockchain builder, managed validators, comprehensive data tools, and chain interoperability within Avalanche subnets.Key customers and partnershipAvalanche has partnered with several cloud services providers to improve its network such as <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/15079">Alibaba Cloud </a>(December 2022) to improve its infrastructure and support for its validators. Users of the Avalanche blockchain can launch new validator nodes using Alibaba Cloud’s plug-and-play infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), while dApp developers can use the latter’s storage and computing resources for the efficient running of their dApps. It also collaborated with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/15640?industryIds=144">AWS </a>(January 2022) to scale and improve blockchain adoption and support its dApp ecosystem, while also enabling one-click node deployments through the AWS marketplace.

Ava Labs

Based in Australia, Immutable is a developer of blockchain-based video games and a provider of a Web3 game development platform. The company develops and publishes its games through Immutable Game Studio, and released its first game, Gods Unchained, in March 2021. The game is a NFT strategy card game, and had ~80,000 active players as of January 2022. It also claimed that over USD 25 million of Gods Unchained digital assets have been traded as of the same date. In February 2024, the company launched the mobile version of Gods Unchained, available on Google Play and Apple App Store. Immutable launched its second game, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/29491">Guild of Guardians </a>, in May 2024 to over 1 million pre-registered users. It is a mobile role-playing game set in a fantasy world on the brink of destruction, where players must form teams to battle against evil Dreads.Its Web3 game development platform, Immutable X, provides a SDK that offers APIs and smart contracts to allow developers to leverage ready-made Web3 infrastructure to quickly build and deploy blockchain-based games. These include an onboarding solution (non-custodial wallet) called <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16041">Passport </a>, transaction infrastructure, and NFT minting tools. The platform also consists of a developer hub which allows developers to launch and manage their projects in one-place and obtain related performance analytics.In addition, Immutable X also acts as a layer-2 scaling solution on the Ethereum blockchain. It uses <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/607497">StarkWare's </a>StarkEx roll-up technology and can process 9,000 transactions per second, with zero gas fees, while claiming to be carbon-neutral. Its native token IMX can be used to pay for transactions as well as stake and govern the network. Notable companies building on Immutable X include GameStop, TikTok, OpenSea, Ember Sword, Illuvium, GreenPark Sports, and Vee Friends (Gary Vee).Key customers and partnershipsImmutable partnered with Mineloader to develop Guild of Guardians, and it has also collaborated with several game developers, including Turner Sports and Kongregate, to build Web3 games on the Immutable X platform. Furthermore, Immutable partnered with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22566">Amazon Web Services (AWS)</a> to develop infrastructure solutions to assist companies in developing and scaling blockchain-based games, and <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24637">Amazon Prime Gaming</a> to list in-game content for Gods Unchained in the latter’s platform. This partnership also aimed to introduce the game to a broader audience circle through Amazon's platform, which boasts over 200 million Prime Gaming members. It also collaborated with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25892">Axelar</a> to integrate games built on Immutable's zkEVM into the Axelar network to enhance user onboarding across blockchain.The company collaborated with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/786111">Polygon</a> to launch its <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24881">zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine</a> (zkEVM) scaling solution to bypass the scaling limitations of the Ethereum blockchain and promote Web3 gaming. This network allows developers to completely abstract transaction fees, allowing a frictionless player onboarding and improved user experience.

Immutable

Mythical Games is a video game studio building games based on blockchain technology, playable NFTs, and play-to-earn game economies. The company developed two games—NFL Rivals and Blankos Block Party. The latter was discontinued in December 2023 after its launch in June 2022.In May 2022, NFL and the NFL Players Association partnered with Mythical Games to develop an NFT-based video game NFL Rivals. The game was launched in 2023, with players taking part in arcade-style gameplay, assuming the role of NLF general manager. They can collect and trade players represented as NFTs on the secondary market via the iOS and Android apps, as well as Mythical’s web-based marketplace. In addition, a unique feature of the game is the “squad system,” which enables players to team up with fellow players to compete with others.Mythical Games also enables other game developers and publishers to build or integrate blockchain-based play-to-earn economies into their games through The Mythical Platform. The platform also includes built-in regulatory KYC/AML compliance and indemnity as well as a verified wallet for transacting both real and cryptocurrencies. Further, the company also offers a marketplace that enables users to sell and trade their digital assets.The Mythical Platform is built on an EVM-compatible sidechain Mythical Chain, which uses a proof-of-authority consensus mechanism to validate transactions. The chain also offers interoperability features, allowing players to transfer and trade NFTs across multiple blockchains. It also claims the minting of NFTs and integrating the marketplace over its platform does not require mining.It acquired <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/15966">DMarket </a>–a digital gaming asset marketplace–in January 2023, and utilized its technology to launch an improved version of its own marketplace (Mythical Marketplace 2.0), with features such as a blended payment gateway and AML and fraud protection systems.Key customers and partnershipsAs of June 2023, the company reported to have achieved daily gross sales exceeding USD 1 million and gained more than 2.5 million new users over the past year. Moreover, it expects to reach over 20 million player accounts across its entire game portfolio by the end of 2023, primarily propelled by NFL Rivals and the upcoming release of Nitro Nation World Tour.The Mythical Platform’s first developer partners were announced by the company in November 2021, which includes 1) CCG Games to create Epic Spell Wars: Magic Fight, a trading card game; 2) Creative Mobile to create Nitro Nation – World Tour, a racing game; and 3) Abstraction Games to create a new action strategy title. These were slated to be released in 2023.Funding and financialsIn November 2021, Mythical Games raised USD 150 million in a Series C round led by Andreessen Horowitz at a valuation of ~USD 1.3 billion. Additionally, it raised <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19719">USD 37 million in a Series C1 </a>funding round led by Scytale Digital in June 2023, at a similar valuation. This funding round is expected to close later in 2023 and reach USD 57 million-67 million. It had planned to utilize the fresh funds toward initiatives that will drive profitability within the next year and expand its games and infrastructure to reach a larger audience.

Mythical Games

Storj Labs developed the Storj Decentralized Cloud Storage (DCS) network that works by compressing, encrypting, and splitting files into more than 80 smaller pieces to distribute and store them across a global network of individual storage nodes, which are excess hardware space rented out by individuals in return for a fee. Storj audits its network through random file verification every hour, which ensures its files are consistently being hosted by its nodes; it automatically reconstitutes the data when it is required by the user. The company claims to have more than 10,000 active nodes with over 6 petabytes of available storage capacity spread across the world, as of August 2022. It uses its native token STORJ, which is used by customers to pay for providers of decentralized storage.Key customers and partnershipsStorj partnered with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/792614">Matter Lab’s </a>zkSync Era ( <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/18986">in May 2023 </a>) to integrate the latter's zero-knowledge roll-up technology into its cloud storage platform to optimize transaction speed, reduce gas fees, and improve the overall efficiency of the payment process. Additionally, the partnership enables EVM-compatible composability for decentralized storage payments, providing customers with increased flexibility and a wider range of customization possibilities. As part of the development, Storj also had plans to develop and maintain two open-source libraries, Crypto-Batch-Payment and Storjscan, which will focus on creating a seamless onboarding experience for its customers on the zkSync Era network.

Storj

Developers of video games that use elements of blockchain technology, allowing gamers to earn cryptocurrency by playing games. They can either convert it into real money or purchase in-game assets.

A decentralized alternative to traditional social networks that operate on independently run servers on the blockchain. These are community-owned and reward user participation.

An alternative storage system in which data is encrypted, segmented, and stored on multiple nodes across the blockchain rather than a single server.

Developers of dApps for use in industries such as travel, health, and fitness, which are yet to reach wider adoption.

Providers of wallets that allow users to purchase and store the cryptocurrencies/tokens required to interact with web3 apps, along with app browsers for users to browse and access dApps.

Also known as layer-1 networks, these include developers of the base blockchain network.

Also known as layer-2 solutions, this includes providers of scaling solutions, such as sidechains, state channels, and rollups, which improve the speed and throughput of transactions occurring in layer-1 blockchain networks.

Platforms that provide tools such as SDKs, blockchain node infrastructure, and bridges for developers to create, host, debug, and add extra functionality to dApps on one or many blockchains.

Includes companies that form the Web3 ecosystem

Web3 is based on blockchain tech, a key enabler of the industry

GenAI tools help develop smart contracts and query the blockchain for data

Providers of node-as-a-service and SDKs to build dApps operate under this model

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 Web3 company Animoca Brands has entered a partnership with Futureverse, planning to fortify the latter's metaverse technology stack. The goal of this collaboration is for Futureverse to benefit from Animoca Brands' large ecosystem of blockchain-driven entities, like games and digital entertainment. The partnership will also bolster Futureverse's token ecosystem, which is currently comprised of ROOT, ASTO, and SYLO tokens.
 In accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the two companies intend to swap equity. This exchange will see each company, or their affiliated groups, trading shares to the value of USD 5 million.
 
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