Sandkassen, a blockchain-based metaverse game, has scored an investment of $93 million to keep expanding its metaverse proposal. The funding round was led by Softbank’s Vision Fund 2, an investment vehicle that puts funds on early tech-based companies. Other investors in the round included Animoca Brands, True Global Ventures, Liberty City Ventures, and Galaxy Interactive, blandt andre.
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The Sandbox Gets $93 Blockchain-baseret socialt netværk Viblos lancerer betaversion i marts
Sandkassen, one of the leading blockchain-based metaverse games, har closed its Series B funding round raising $93 million to further expand its virtual world. The funding round was led by Softbank’s Vision Fund 2, which specializes in investing in tech startups. The round also had the participation of Animoca Brands, True Global Ventures, Liberty City Ventures, and Galaxy Interactive, blandt andre.
The funds raised in this round will help the game to keep expanding its reach. Sebastien Borget, COO and co-founder of The Sandbox, anført:
This investment round led by Softbank Vision Fund 2 will help scale up our growth strategy, operations, and player acquisition in The Sandbox ecosystem while sending a clear statement that the world’s most innovative fund believes in Web3 and decentralization as the next major trend
Sandkassen, which is owned by Animoca mærker, has experienced explosive growth since its creation, with more than 500K users having an in-game wallet now. The game lets players and companies own virtual lots of land, and monetize these interactions. Celebrities like Snoop Dogg, have also made deals to allow digital alter egos to be represented in the game. Other IPs like The Walking Dead, Smølferne, Care Bears have also made arrangements to be present in the virtual world.
Metaverse Tokens Getting a Boost
While virtual worlds and the metaverse concepts are not new, they have been picking up steam recently due to the pivot that Facebook, one of the pioneers in the social network world, is doing to also power its own version of the metaverse. This seems to have raised awareness about the validity of the metaverse proposal and has propped up interest and prices of metaverse related tokens, like sand, The Sandbox native token, and mana, the token of another metaverse based project called Decentraland.
Facebook announced its name change to “Meta” den oktober 28. Mana was trading at less at 0.77$ for that date, and sand had a price of 0.81$. In the days following the announcement, these two experienced a big jump, with mana now hovering on top of the $3 mærke, and sand reaching a price af $2.83.
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