Serving as a tool for creators and companies to publish their NFTs online and sell them to its customers, Rarible and Animoca Brands have partnered up to launch the Animoca Brands Mocaverse NFT collection on Rarible’s NFT marketplace.

Featuring 8,888 Moca NFT Profile Picture (PFPs), this gives people access to the Mocaverse community that serves as a membership pass for Animoca Brands team members, certain token holders, partners, and investors where Mocaverse holders can connect, learn, play games together, and more as they help build the future of Web3. 

To improve the safety and authenticity of Mocaverse NFTs, Animoca Brands has chosen to launch their Mocaverse NFT collection on Rarible’s NFT marketplace as part of their partnership. The Mocaverse Marketplace in Rarible will offer its customers 0% platform fees on native Mocaverse collection listings. The Mocaverse Marketplace experience offers unique features that include filtering with Moca XP points and support for five other ERC-20 Tokens.

In addressing the Moca XP rewards system and how it will impact the value of Mocaverse NFTs saying: Alan Lau, Chief Business Officer of Animoca Brands said: “With the integration of our Moca XP rewards system, the value of a Mocaverse NFT cannot be defined by traits or rarity alone, nor could that value be accurately reflected in generic marketplace settings.” “By offering Mocaverse holders various custom marketplace features developed in partnership with Rarible, we can effectively integrate trading activities into our broader ecosystem while facilitating a seamless Mocaverse experience.”

To address the need for innovative brands and their NFTs to provide communities with a safe way of NFT that is not dependent on third parties and third party policies, this is what Rarible’s Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Alex Salnikov had to say: “The future of Web3 is with innovative brands that create the next level of community engagement. We believe that in order to grow and thrive in the long term, every community needs its own home that is unique, safe, and not dependent on third party policies. And we’re excited to create one with and for Mocaverse.” 

With this partnership between Animoca Brands and Rarible, Animoca Brands Mocaverse NFT collection on Rarible’s NFT Marketplace will allow Mocaverse holders to purchase its NFTs on one marketplace in what is said to be a safe and authentic way to address the safety concerns associated with trading on third-party platforms. 

In a chairman’s letter to all of its shareholders, Animoca Brands CEO and Founder Yat Siu talked about the positioning of his company. The letter first addresses the challenges Animoca Brands has faced in 2020 in response to the Covid-19 Pandemic and other global market challenges saying: “We want to thank all of our shareholders for their patience. This report has suffered significant delays owing to many factors including in particular the COVID-19 pandemic, which severely impacted our capacity to integrate acquisitions into our blockchain/NFT strategy and locked down many of our employees across several countries around the world.” After addressing the challenges Animoca Brands has faced in the past, the chairman’s letter to its shareholders went on to talk about how the company has grown over the past 3 years from 2020 to 2023.

In fact, Animoca Brands had less than 200 people working in the company during its first year of the Covid-19 pandemic and over the past 3 years, Animoca Brands has grown exponentially and now has around 1000 employees working around the globe.  

Animoca Brands year 2020 deferred revenue according to the chairman’s letter is said to have increased from $6.947 million to $27.890 million, which marked a substantial increase of 401.5%. 

Animoca Brands also addressed in its Chairman’s letter to shareholders about the company’s relation to Artificial Intelligence stating that through their AI accelerator they have invested in over 60 AI-related startups and that some of these AI startups products are being integrated with Animoca Brands as well as across its portfolio companies. 

Investing in the AI industry is great for Animoca Brands as the company continues to advance its technology and utilize Artificial Intelligence in ways that will allow Animoca Brands to expand their brand by creating new game softwares/games and Possibly to create new NFTs. 

For links and more information on the Animoca Brands FY2020 Annual Report and Chairman’s Letter To Shareholders, check out the Animoca Brands Twitter page.

Metaverse platform The Sandbox and media company 11:11 Media have teamed up to launch the Paris Hilton avatar NFT collection featuring the popular Hilton Hotel heiress. NFT holders will receive a free VIP ticket to the upcoming ‘Paris: Live in Concert’.

This collaboration expands Hilton’s previous partnership with The Sandbox after launching Malibu Mansion in August last year, 2022. Followed by a Valentine’s-themed metaverse experience this February, 2023 where players got to participate in an in-game dating reality show. Cynthia Miller leads web3 and metaverse strategy at 11:11 Media.

Sebastien Borget is the COO and Co-Founder of The Sandbox – the well-known subsidiary of Animoca Brands. The Sandbox recently acquired Sviper GmbH, the German game development studio founded in 2016 and led by CEO Ole Schaper and CPO Mark Buchholz.

Open Campus is a community-led protocol for educators, content creators, parents, and students. Its launch partners include Animoca Brands, TinyTap, GEMS Education, Liberty City Ventures, Dalton Learning Lab, and others. The vision of Open Campus is to leverage Web3 to create a modern, global, and inclusive educational space where teachers, parents, students, and content creators can collaborate.

Yat Siu, the co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, states:

 “Teachers are among the most prolific and important content creators, but they often lack the funding to advance and innovate in the classroom and in their learning programs. By supporting the Open Campus Global Educators Fund, which we believe is the first of its kind, we want to use Web3 to allow educators around the world to produce new educational content that is relevant and innovative and that can adequately prepare students for the challenges and opportunities of the future.”

Yogev Shelly, the CEO of TinyTap and a member of the EDU Foundation Council, commented: 

“We want to touch upon core values for education and reach underserved communities around the world. Open Campus exists to support knowledge seekers and providers in an interdependent ecosystem. The Open Campus Global Educators Fund will allow teachers to claim upfront funding for the development of material that will have a real impact on the world.”

Last year, Phantom Galaxies closed their Planet Private Sale, 7,734 Planets & Asteroids were sold for a total of $19.3M, led by Animoca Brands with the participation of Sequoia China, Liberty City Ventures, GameFi Ventures, Everest Ventures Group, Terrace Tower Group, Polygon Ventures, Dapper Labs, Kingsway, 3Commas Capital, Double Peak, Mind Fund, Defi Cap, and others. A number of gaming guilds also participated, including Avocado DAO, YGG, and YGG SEA.

Phantom Galaxies is being developed by a veteran team from Blowfish Studios, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands. Blowfish Studios is an award-winning Sydney-based developer and publisher of high-quality multi-platform games, including Qbism, Siegecraft, Morphite, Projection: First Light, and Storm Boy.

Yat Siu, the co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, commented: 

“Partnering with stc play is a significant advancement of our expansion strategy in the Middle East. As one of the largest telecom companies in the region, stc provides access to several million business and retail users across its expansive service offerings.”

Bader Almarshoud, the head of stc play, replied: 

“Following our strategy and as an extension of our venture into the gaming industry, we are glad to announce our collaboration with Animoca Brands to expand the gaming sector in Saudi Arabia by publishing video games in the MENA region using different distribution channels. This collaboration bridges the gap between the global and local games developing studios and its audience.”

Grapes is the newest franchise from VIKER Games. The London-based studio is known for its mobile Play-and-Earn titles such as Solitaire and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. These titles integrate crypto rewards for players in a ‘friendly manner” that makes it easy for players to start earning Bitcoin with no previous knowledge of blockchain and without a stressful sign-up process.

VIKER successfully closed its latest round of investments in November 2022. Bringing the total raised to $4.1 million. Investments were led by Animoca Brands and saw participation from Initial Capital and IVC.

VIKER Games has had more than 500m+ downloads between their games – with more than 500,000 monthly active users and 2 million new wallet connections in 2022.

 The founding team includes Dan Beasley and Ben Cusack – 

Ben has worked on:

→ Lara Croft

→ Final Fantasy

→ Space Invaders

→ Mini Ninjas

Dan has worked on:

→ who Wants To Be a Millionaire

→ Championship Manager

→ Mr Bean

→ KSI

Lympo is a subsidiary of Animoca Brands. They are building a GameFi product ecosystem based on the officially licensed athlete’s non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Lympo’s products include NFT Minting and NFT Staking Platforms – as well as the upcoming sports-themed play-to-earn games like basketball manager and chess.

The new partnership and project “Build Your Own Fighter with Thug Rose” is a Digisport collectible NFT that offers an “engaging collect-and-earn experience for sports fans”. 

Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, said: 

“The partnership with Rose Namajunas is a significant opportunity to introduce blockchain and NFTs to a global audience of sports enthusiasts. This collaboration showcases the fan engagement of Web3 and fosters a greater understanding of these emerging technologies among fans.”

Tadas Maurukas, the CEO and co-founder of Lympo, said: 

“By combining the excitement of sports with Web3 technology, the collaboration with Thug Rose will revolutionize the way we engage with sports. We’re thrilled to provide a platform that enables fans to connect with their favorite athletes in a new and exciting way while also exploring the possibilities of blockchain.”

The London-based studio, VIKER Games, is known for its mobile Play-and-Earn titles such as Solitaire and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. 

These titles integrate crypto rewards for players in a “friendly manner, ” making it easy for players to start earning Bitcoin with no previous knowledge of blockchain and without a stressful sign-up process. 

VIKER successfully closed its latest round of investments in November 2022. Bringing the total raised to $4.1 million. Investments were led by Animoca Brands and saw participation from Initial Capital and IVC. VIKER Games has had more than 500m+ downloads between their games – with more than 500,000 monthly active users and 2 million new wallet connections in 2022.

 The founding team includes Dan Beasley and Ben Cusack:

Ben has worked on:

→ Lara Croft

→ Final Fantasy

→ Space Invaders

→ Mini Ninjas

Dan has worked on:

→ who Wants To Be a Millionaire

→ Championship Manager

→ Mr Bean

→ KSI

Animoca Brands backed PolkaPets is described as a digital collectible card game that features Polkadot projects in an interactive and immersive game. $PETS is the utility token for the Pets ecosystem. It can be used for Staking, Governance, and in Play-to-Earn.

Legends of Elumia (Elumia for short) is a next-generation Massively Multiplayer Online RPG (MMORPG) where players can “immerse themselves in gameplay zones, engage in multiplayer adventures, quests, and player battles with in-game enemies and against other real-time players.” 

Strategic Partners & Player Guilds –  Animoca Brands, Spartan Group, Crypto.com Capital, Guildfi, Cryptology AG, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Kyros Ventures, Spark Digital, Solar Eco Fund, Maven Capital, Forward Analytics, Master Ventures. Momentum 6, Metavest, MM Ventures, YGG SEA, Ancient 8, Good Games Guild, Unix Gaming, PathDao.

Yat Siu, executive chairman, and co-founder of Animoca Brands:

“We are excited to support the experienced team at Elumia, which is developing an MMORPG that aims for best-in-class game quality in the open metaverse. We look forward to seeing Elumia provide a fun and immersive playground that delivers true digital ownership and control of game assets to its players.”