Key Facts: Darewise’s plan includes creating games, providing real-world experiences, and more. Animoca Brands raised $20 million to take metaverses to the next level. The free-to-play video game investment giant, Animoca Brands, is no longer thinking about the disinterest surrounding metaverses. Now, rather, it is focused on re-boosting them by leveraging Bitcoin’s Ordinals non-fungible tokens (NFT). Animoca, which acquired The Sandbox metaverse based on NFTs on the Ethereum network in 2018, was excited by its success just two years ago. However, now (when interest in virtual worlds has faded), the firm seems determined to revive the euphoria it unleashed in the past. And as it moves forward in that direction, it revealed some of its plans this week, such as the fact that through one of its subsidiaries, the video game studio Darewise Entertainmentwill create a metaverse based on the NFT Ordinals de Bitcoin. Ordinals is a system for creating non-fungible tokens that stores various file types (e.g. jpg images) directly on the Bitcoin blockchain. The use of this protocol has generated debates as some believe that it contributes to “unnecessary garbage” being stored in the peer-to-peer electronic cash network. However, these types of discussions do not seem to worry Animoca Brands and its allies too much. On the contrary they focus on developing a Bitcoin-based metaverse where users can experiment with games, brand launches, real-world experiences and more.
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Darewise, has called his project Life Beyond. which aims to be the first virtual world created with Bitcoin NFT Ordinals.
To achieve this, the video game studio partnered with Horizen Labs, which was the firm that offered technical service and advice for the creation of the Bored Ape Yacht Club metaverse, based on the Ethereum network. “We are joining forces to contribute to the fundamental infrastructure that the Bitcoin ecosystem needs to truly flourish,” said Benjamin Charbit, co-founder of Darewise Entertainment. The association will launch its project next year and anticipates that Life Beyond is a journey in which Players enter the metaverse to build a new civilization on the planet Dolos. “In this science fiction world driven by a tokenized economy, player-citizens can decide who they want to become and the role they want to play in the complex and multifaceted society of Life Beyond,” details the statement published on the Animoca website. . On the other hand, Animoca closed a financing round of 20 million dollars last week, especially for the development of its Mocaverse project. This is a collection of 8,888 NFTs with which the firm will bring together its shareholders, investment companies, team members and business partners, among others, in the same ecosystem.
