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The NFT-based gaming agency Vulcan Cast raised $8 million in a Collection A funding spherical.
The spherical was led by the crypto change big FTX and funding agency SkyBridge Capital, in keeping with an organization launch. Each firms have the choice to take a position an extra $33 million in Vulcan Cast.
Vulcan Cast will use the contemporary funding to construct out its multiplayer on-line recreation VulcanVerse, increase its providing past its present 13 NFT gaming platforms and proceed rising its workforce of 130 people. After two years, the agency has 200,000 common gamers and constructed 15 video games.
SkyBridge introduced its curiosity in funding web3 startups in July of this 12 months by way of a brand new funding fund, sustaining the agency’s imaginative and prescient to be the vanguard of decentralized finance.
Nonetheless, SkyBridge’s pursuits are FTX’s pursuits, as FTX’s funding arm FTX Ventures took a 30% stake in SkyBridge Capital earlier this September.
Enterprise curiosity in blockchain-based gaming stays excessive — even seeing a 66% leap in month-over-month funding from July and August, The Block beforehand reported.