02/24/23

Unique Rabbids Avatars Now Available as NFTs!

• Ubisoft and The Sandbox have partnered to develop 2,066 unique Rabbids avatars.
• These avatars will cost 100 SAND (about $78 USD), and the designs will be available Friday.
• This is a major step forward for the NFT gaming industry as a whole.

Ubisoft Partners With The Sandbox

Ubisoft has partnered with Animoca Brands‘ The Sandbox to release 2,066 unique Rabbids avatars, each with its own abilities and customization options. These avatars can be purchased for 100 SAND (around $78 USD). As 2023 is the Year of the Rabbit, these characters are dressed in Chinese New Year style.

Rabbids Avatars As „Key To Future Utility“

The Sandbox has made these Rabbids avatars a „key to future utility“, allowing users to access upcoming drops in-game. Furthermore, The Sandbox expanded its NFT Institute over the summer to include Rabbids characters, NFTs, and accessories.

Ubisoft’s Web3 Efforts

This isn’t Ubisoft’s first foray into web3 technology; in 2018 it developed a prototype called HashCraft which was heavily influenced by Minecraft but was ultimately scrapped. It later invested in gaming studio Horizon and metaverse investment firm Animoca Brands, as well as investing in NFT video game development such as Axie Infinity and Nine Chronicles.

NFTs In Ghost Recon Breakpoint

Finally, Ubisoft also included Tezos-based NFTs in the PC edition of Ghost Recon Breakpoint – another way they have been pushing their Web3 efforts forward with NFTs.

Conclusion

Overall this partnership between Ubisoft and The Sandbox shows that major video game companies are taking note of Web3 technology and acting accordingly with regards to NFTs – offering an exciting new way for players to enjoy their games!

02/15/23

Aura Network Raises $4M from Hashed and Coin98: NFTs Here to Stay!

• Aura Network has closed a $4M fundraising round, co-led by Hashed and Coin98 Ventures.
• The investment of Hashed, South Korea’s highest-profile crypto investment firm, is one of the most significant fundraises for Aura Network.
• Strategic relationships with investors and partners will provide advice on operations, product and business development, marketing efforts and more.

Aura Network Raised $4M in Pre-Series A Funding Round

Aura Network recently closed a $4 million fundraising round led by Hashed and Coin98 Ventures. This is one of the most significant fundraises for Aura Network with the investment from Hashed, South Korea’s highest-profile crypto investment firm. In addition to their funding, strategic relationships with these investors and partners will offer advice on its operations, product and business development, marketing efforts and more.

Hashed Co-Leads Fundraising Round

Hashed was delighted to back Aura in its pre-mainnet round. They are impressed with Aura’s technical track record which has allowed them to become one of the biggest open source contributors to Cosmos. Hashed believes in Aura’s vision in building a comprehensive layer one that supports NFTs gaming, DeFi protocols like MakerDAO and sustainable DeFi projects.

Coin98 Leads Investment Round

Coin98 was also thrilled to support Giang and his team at Aura from the start as they have developed daily towards their goal of providing a trustworthy lightning fast network that supports NFTs gaming . Thanh Le Founder of Coin98 stated “By providing…NFT widely accepted” Coin98 is committed to helping facilitate this worldwide adoption .

Other Investors Engaged

In addition to Hashed & Coin 98 , other notable Blockchain projects including GuildFi , Istari Ventures , Republic Crypto & angel investors were engaged during this fundraising round . These strategic partnerships will help provide further insight into operations , products & business developments as well as marketing efforts .

What’s Next For Aura?

The team at Aura are looking forward to continuing their mission towards Web3 & NFT adoption while standing on the shoulders of giants such as Cosmos & other leading blockchain networks . With this new funds raised it looks like 2023 could be an exciting year for both Auranetwork & its users!

02/7/23

Uniswap V3 Deployed to Boba Network: Faster, Cheaper Transactions Now Available!

  • The Boba Foundation and FranklinDAO proposal to deploy Uniswap v3 on the Boba Network L2 on Ethereum was successful, with a majority of the community voting in favor.
  • Boba Network is the only multichain layer-2 blockchain scaling solution and smart contract platform that enables Web3-Web2 interoperability.
  • Enya Labs is the primary contributor to Boba Network, helping customers and organizations create hybrid on-chain/off-chain DeFi applications atop of Uniswap.

Uniswap Community Votes to Deploy on Boba Network’s Ethereum Layer-2

Proposal Approved by Majority Vote

The Boba Foundation on behalf of the Boba network community is pleased to announce that the governance vote to deploy Uniswap v3 on the Boba Network L2 on Ethereum was successful. Reputable groups like FranklinDAO (formerly Penn Blockchain), GFX Labs, Blockchain at Michigan, Gauntlet, and ConsenSys supported this proposition. A majority of 51.01 million out of 40 million voted in favor of it.

About Boba Network

Boba Network is a multichain layer-2 blockchain scaling solution based on optimism which allows lightning fast transactions with fees significantly lower than layer-1. It supports smart contracts which allow developers to make use off-chain computation and real world data for improved experiences. It has already released multichain support for Avalanche, BNB, Moonbeam, and Fantom.

Enya Labs – Primary Contributor To Boba Network

Enya Labs is a pioneer software framework with focus distributed systems engineering and application development founded by Stanford academics and alumni. Its goal is to maximize potentials of rollup technology for more open communication between web 2 & 3 platforms as well as enabling interoperability between them.

Hybrid Computing Technology For Improved Experiences

With help from better smart contracts enabled by hybrid computing technology brought by Enya labs , developers will be able to provide improved experiences for decentralized apps while allowing users access power of web 2 interfaces within web 3 protocols via interoperability enabled by Boba network .

Uniswap V3 Deployment On The Horizon